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Important Dates

Michaelmas Celebration - Internal for Primary - Friday, 30th September
First week of Extracurricular activities - Monday, October 3rd
Composition Workshop with composer Graham Waterhouse
Family Excursion - Sunday, 9th October
AIS presence at Alfas del Pi International Day - Sunday, October 16th
Harvest Celebration - Friday, October 28th

Introducing AIS Staff

These past ten years, AIS has been continuously growing from an enthusiastic small group of 8 Class 6 students to what we are today, a school that offers the full range of primary and secondary from Class 1 to Class 12 (A-Levels) with 230 students on roll. This enormous growth in students numbers is also reflected in our growing staff. Teachers, administration, kitchen and maintenance team members

We would love to introduce this amazing team of people: our staff members. You will find their names, position and contact information if you click here

AIS Staff Members

Extra Curricular Activities

The activities after school will start on Monday 3rd of October.. We have an incredible variety of activities for the students to choose from this year. Most of the classes run from 3.45 pm until 4.45 pm except on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays when we have classes running until 6.45 pm. We recommend that you book early as places are limited. Choose from our current selection:

Languages:
Spanish
English (Beginner/Intermediate)

Sports:
Basketball
Inline skating
Volleyball
Capoeira
Table Tennis
GCSE PE
Martial Arts

Art/Music/Dance:
Art
Piano
Breakdance

Physics/ Math Club (Support)
Science Club for primary (Class 2 to 5)
Python Programming and Start up for teenagers.

Please complete the After School activities REGISTRATION FORM , where you will find more details of the classes. We look forward to hearing from you!

Graham Waterhouse at AIS

We are delighted to have the highly respected British Composer and cellist Graham Waterhouse back at AIS. This time, he will be offering a composition workshop and he will be speaking as a special guest at our School Assembly next week.

The composition workshop will take place during school hours next week in three 45-minute sessions (still to be fixed) and will possibly include one after school session as well. This workshop is open to any musically interested student with basic knowledge of music notation, and more importantly, with curiosity and interest to explore music composition with a highly experienced and inspiring professional composer and musician.

During Graham's stay we will be preparing a special Chamber Music concert to celebrate our 10th Anniversary featuring Graham's compositions and a Trio by F. Mendelssohn for piano, violin and cello to be performed in December in the AIS Hall.

Family Excursion

We’re looking forward to run our first family excursion of this new school year, this time near Finestrat in the Sierra Aitana mountains on Sunday, 9th October. The meeting place and time will still be confirmed

The entire excursion takes around 4 hours including walking time and breaks for water and picnic. The walk is of medium difficulty.

More detailed information of the walk will be sent out next week before the hike. The excursion is an open community event for all school families, their relatives and friends! Please confirm participation by email or by phone / Whatsapp by Wednesday, 5th September.
We look forward to seeing you!

Community Corner

Welcome to our virtual Community Corner Board! We will be posting local information, events and any piece of information that is useful to our community.

If you want to share anything related to this, please send an email to info@altea-international-school.es -subject: community corner- to let us know.

Introducing Our New Class 1

At AIS, we make an effort to observe significant moments in childhood and to celebrate these with rituals that have meaning for children. Leaving kindergarten and entering first grade is one of these special moment we prepare with loving care.

The ceremony started with the first-grade teacher telling her new students and families a story.

After the story, when every first-grade child heard their name, they went to their teacher, carrying a flower in their hands. A special melody played by Anja`s violin accompanied the moving moment. The new first graders then put their flowers into a waiting vase. By the end of the class’s procession into the front, there was a whole bouquet of wildflowers that adorned the hall for the rest of the event