On Saturday, July 24th, and Sunday, July 25th, 2021, Xi’an International School participated in the 8th International Interscholastic Model United Nations Conference (GMUN 2021) on the campus of Xi’an Gaoxin No. 1 Middle School. At the end of the event, XIS was named as the Outstanding Delegation of the conference! After week’s of preparation through…
In Elementary Music students have begun each lesson singing “I will sing hello around the world” and ending each lesson singing “I will sing goodbye around the world”.
One of my favorite classes to teach at XIS is the 7th grade World Geography. During the first quarter of the year, we learn about all the core concepts of geography, like geographical features, government, economics, population, culture, religion and climate.
On the morning of Saturday, May 22, 2021, the XIS Elementary Basketball Team arrived at the XLIS campus to begin their quest for the 2021 Xi’an Elementary Basketball Tournament Championship. XIS, seeded #3, would begin their journey in the semi-finals against the #2 seeded XLIS White team. The Warriors faced the same team a…
STEAM has just completed building their 3D printer and after several days of troubleshooting the setup and some small electrical issues they have completed their first print. The simple pawn was designed on the Tinkercad online. Great job Abraham and Joseph! http://video.xischool.com/3DPrint.mp4
Friday night Varsity Soccer action saw the XIS Warriors hosting the Hanova Heroes in the Warriors’ season finale. The stage was set for an exciting match as the neighboring schools were ready to face off on the soccer pitch. Hanova opened the scoring in the 5th minute of the 1st half with a second…
Everyone has heard of a Science Fair, but at Xi’an International School (XIS) there are more. The students at XIS have hosted many different academic endeavors: History Fair, English Fair, Culture Day, Marco Polo (Chinese) Fair, and this year…drum roll please…a Math Fair
Why does XIS attach so much importance to physical education (PE)? Is it because we want all of the students to become excellent athletes?
The mission of XIS After School Activities is to provide our school community with various opportunities to learn and grow in all facets of life: physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, and morally. For all XIS sport programs, healthy competition is a key component to maintaining a growth mindset with challenging students on realizing new personal…
On Friday, April 16, XIS high school students hosted the 2021 Warrior Games. The Warrior Games are an annual sport meeting that the XIS community hosts for local youth with disabilities, and is an important XIS tradition.
Homework. Studying. Projects. Tests. They’re all part of the high school experience, and our students do an amazing job at all of them. What these all have in common is helping your children prepare for their futures, which for our students, overwhelmingly includes attending university.
XIS’ Elementary Basketball Team won two games on Saturday, May 15, 2021 and clinched the #3 seed in the 2021 Xi’an Elementary Basketball Tournament. Both games featured terrific sportsmanship and quality competitiveness throughout! It was a great day of community, learning and fun! Game 1 In Game 1, XIS took the court against DeHong…
One exciting part about being a teacher is getting to collaborate with other teachers to help our students learn. This year our 2nd and 3rd grade students have gotten the opportunity to participate in each other’s projects and activities.
If you would like to reserve a space and/or rent a table for the XIS Warrior Sale, Carnival, or Food Court please submit your information in this form. Reserve a Space
Recently our principal Miss Brittainy Harris and our superintendent Mr. Paul Wendler were interviewed by William D. Parker of Principal Matters: The School Leader’s Podcast. Check out what they had to say!
“As an art teacher, I believe that each student is incredibly talented and capable of creating beautiful art pieces.” -Miss Destiny Lepard
Dear XIS community, We are excited to announce that Thursday, April 22nd, from 1:00-3:00pm XIS will be hosting our Math Fair in the XIS gymnasium! We will have math questions and challenges from all grade levels and a competition for staff, students, AND parents! Everyone is welcome to join us and compete to win prizes.…
As the woodshop teacher I am so excited to be able to offer this class to our students. It not only gives them an outlet for creativity and real world skills but contributes to and compliments the other subjects they are learning.
西安国际学校一年一度的汉语文化节活动计划于五月中下旬举办，全校各年级段同学积极踊跃的投身于各项准备工作当中。
When you think of lower elementary, you might think of classes full of fun games and silly songs, but our lower elementary has much more than that. Our lessons, while fun do more than just teach one subject, but branch out between subjects and life skills.
It is really hard to transport students back in time to learn from their ancestors and their predecessors without a time machine.
Celebrating 25 Years of Serving our Community
This autumn we’ve celebrated elementary soccer matches, Chinese Speech Contests, volleyball matches, as well as revisiting the Fall Festival XIS used to do years ago. We love forward to the first day of Winter 1 ASA’s, the XIS book fair, the secondary field trip, as well as the Christmas event coming in the next two months.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
XIS staff has already learned so much during our training! Every morning, our staff learns and develops their skills with the students in mind. Department meetings, lesson design, struggling students, substitute planning, child and school safety, Sycamore training, relational discipline, and so much more! Many of our expert teachers have also been the presenters!
Wonderful meeting today in preparation of beginning the 2020-21 school year!
This July has been filled with meetings. From meetings with both the Leadership and Administration team, incoming teachers, as well as returning teachers, we’ve been meeting and sending emails and WeChat messages to each other all summer long in order to be best prepared for high quality education for this upcoming semester.
Save the Date August 12-13th XIS Administration will host various discussions about the fall semester with parents, both online and live around Xi’an during August 12-13th. More details will be posted here when they become available. See the picture to the right for details about the online zoom meeting. These are unprecedented times, and you…
