The Individuals and Societies Department honoured an invitation to celebrate this year’s World Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day. The program was organised by AccuGeospatial, an Esri Business Partner and hosted by SOSHGIC in Tema on Wednesday, 13 November 2019. The day was celebrated with the theme, GIS: An Essential Tool for Critical Thinking. As part…
Spatial Thinking (SpaT) Campaign is a program that has been instituted by AccuGeospatial, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility. This program targets students in second-cycle institutions with the aim of equipping them with spatial thinking skills, as well as creating awareness of the use of geospatial tools and platforms. This can be achieved by…
Cultural practices are mostly ancient customs started from the old days and developed over time and have been kept up to today. Cultural practices are very much sacred in some regions of the world, because they were probably taught to its participants since they were little. These people have grown up with it and have…
Parent’s information day last Friday at TIS hosted record numbers of parents and guardians who took time out of their busy schedules to come into school and find out more about the completion of MYP, its assessments and requirements and the IB MYP Certificate. Parents were given a chance to try the MYP onscreen assessments…
The Individuals and Societies department is excited to host a Spatial Thinking Project with MYP Geography students. This project aims to equip students with analytical and reasoning skills using place specific data. As part of the project students will have the practical and hands-on exposure to field data collection using smart forms on smart devices,…
The initiators of Educate them Young Community Project had a fulfilled day on 11 September. They were all smiles when they visited their beneficiary of their project at Calvary Presby to cater for her textbooks, uniform, feeding fee and tuition fee. The goal of the group is to convince or lobby people in high places…
One of the importance of experiential learning is it gives students the opportunity to link the theory learnt in class to real world application. It is on this basis that Grade 9 Chemistry and Biology students from Tema International School embarked on a trip to Ada Songhor Salt Project site. Students had first-hand information of…
‘We stop being creative the moment we stop playing’ The world of young adults can be messy, unruly and playful. However, within these lie an unlimited range of creativity. As rightly noted by Pablo Picasso, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” It is against…
Following their last location visit into the community, the Grade 8 class of Tema International School have been organizing their thoughts through critical thinking to come up with projects that will ensure mutual benefits. After much deliberation within their specific teams, different project ideas have been realized and approved. In order to kick start the…
On Monday and Tuesday of this week, TIS went through the authorization process to complete our bid to become an MYP school. What is the authorization process? This is a process where by the International Baccalaureate visits a candidate school to monitor the progress which has been made since its application to become a full…
