And what a week it was! Especially for our new students it must have felt like jumping on a rollercoaster and trying to hold on. There are so many new impressions, suddenly being a boarder, having to share a room, all the people at TIS who you need to get to know, and probably just…
Over the vacation a group of IB1 students embarked on two outreaches to two Health Centres within the Tema Metropolis. Members of Girls United visited the Adolescent Centres at Manhean Health Centre and Tema General Hospital to interact with a number of teenage pregnant ladies and also donated a number of aid items to them. Both outreaches enabled the students to…
Salim Roland and Nana Osei Mainoo, initiators of REFORMYOUGH, have been actively soliciting funds over the summer to complete their CAS Project – an instalment of a water filtration plant in the village of Kwanase, Nsawam, on the outskirts of the Greater Accra Region. To complete the project, they will need, PVC Pipes, Two Water Storage Tanks…
This semester the MYP Students embarked on a Service in Action project that has created the opportunity for the students to learn even more outside the classroom. They located a nearby local school, Calvary Presby and initiated a number of projects and grown with them. The MYP students were happy to know their environment and…
Our new friends from Calvary Presby School who are also our neighbors have been on vacation for a month and we missed them. While they were on vacation our MYP students were busy preparing learning material to be used in their next visit. During last week’s Service in Action period, the class decided to make…
For the past six years Tema International School through its IBDP CAS Programme has been engaging in community service in Akorlikope, a small village in the South Tongu District in the Volta Region of Ghana. The initial driving force was to construct a holistic school building: a six unit classroom block, a staff room, a…
As a growing, educated, and enlightened young woman, my advocacy for the empowerment of women is strengthening. I joined Girls United, a Tema International Shool CAS project initiated by Rachel Odartey-Wellington and Marie-Noelle Kpatakpa, in December last year because their core objective of empowering young girls was admirable. On Sunday, 7 May, 2017, the…
Courage is the ability to look at the challenges ahead and believe that you can conquer them. Two weeks ago, a group of Grade 11 students went out to the Legon Botanical Gardens with the hopes of teaching this virtue to children from the Handy *Vangelism Home in Haatso. The obstacle course set up before…
The IBDP Budding Directors in the making have been working hard on their directors’ notebook aspect of their assessment task for both HL and SL. Some benefits of this life changing experience is in the area of idea development, conceptualisation and team work in realising a vision. This is one fundamental life skill needed for…
To walk along the shore of the sea is to leave imprints. Your steps create a trail of the path you take. These imprints, is what you leave with the sea to be remembered with. The imprints are washed into the sea and become a part of it, so that in your absence, your legacies…