Teaching and Learning at AISB: Growing Confident, Capable, and Connected Learners
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A Community Committed to Learning
At AISB, we believe every child’s learning journey is unique. Our commitment to high-quality teaching and learning ensures that students experience a rich, engaging, and supportive environment where they can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.
Across the school, teachers work intentionally to nurture curiosity, encourage critical thinking, and reinforce the values that guide our community: Personal Best, Respect, Integrity, Wellbeing, Community, and Global Outlook. These values anchor our daily routines, shape our expectations, and help students understand what it means to contribute positively to the world around them.
November is an extra busy month in our academic calendar, with assessment, reporting, and moderation occurring alongside our rigorous academic program and rehearsals for our exciting Winter Concert. All students, teachers and staff are working in partnership as we approach the final few weeks of the school term.
Student Led Conferences
Thank you to all families who joined us for our Student Led Conferences. Your support, encouragement and active involvement helped make them a meaningful celebration of learning. These conferences provide students with a powerful opportunity to take ownership of their progress; sharing their work, reflecting on their goals, and confidently communicating their strengths and next steps. This approach builds agency, accountability and strong home–school partnerships, while highlighting the pride students feel in their achievements. We appreciate the positive engagement from our community and look forward to continuing to support our students to thrive.
Strengthening Partnerships Through Parent Workshops
We are committed to building strong home-school partnerships, and our Parent Workshops continue to play an essential role in supporting families. Recently, our Reading Workshop provided insights into how reading is explicitly taught and supported at AISB, with a focus on comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, and reading strategies.
Parents explored Guided Reading practices and were provided with resources to reinforce literacy development at home. These sessions allow families to better understand how we nurture confident, independent readers, and how we can work together to foster a lifelong love of learning.
Thank you to all the families who attended, your engagement and the opportunity to continue strengthening home-school partnerships is appreciated. Various resources to explore at home, including local library listings and suggested websites for discovering new book titles have been provided. The workshop presentation can be accessed here:
Reading Workshop Presentation
193 Thanon Surawong, Bang Rak, Bangkok City 10500
39 Thanon Ratchadamnoen Klang, Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok City 10200
Samsen Road, achiraphaphayaban, Dusit, Bangkok 10300
Book Titles to Explore:
Understanding Attainment and Progress
Our reporting approach is designed to give families a clear and balanced picture of learning by highlighting both attainment, how a student is performing against year-level curriculum expectations, and progress, how much growth they have demonstrated over time. Teachers draw on a wide range of evidence including classwork, targeted assessments, observations, and student conferences to make thoughtful and consistent professional judgements.
We emphasise that a Working With (C grade) represents strong achievement and reflects that a student is meeting the learning expectations of their year level. This standards-referenced approach to attainment ensures fairness, consistency, and clarity for families.
Progress is equally important. Students develop at different rates, and recognising growth helps celebrate effort, resilience, and personal improvement. Whether a child is working towards, at, or beyond expectations, we value their unique learning pathway and use this understanding to support next steps in their development.
Learning Beyond the Classroom
Across the school, students engage in meaningful experiences designed to broaden their global perspectives and strengthen their social-emotional skills. Activities such as collaborative group work, class discussions, and problem-solving tasks promote communication, empathy, and community-mindedness.
Our School Counsellor also works closely with classes to support positive relationships and interpersonal skills, helping students reflect on their actions, emotions, and interactions with others. These opportunities reinforce that academic learning is deeply connected to wellbeing and social development.
Celebrating Community Achievement
Thank you to all students who participated in our What a Discovery! Writing Competition. We were delighted by the creativity demonstrated through poems, imaginative recounts, thoughtful messages about sustainability, and adventure stories bursting with excitement and unexpected plot twists. Your hard work and originality made the judging process wonderfully difficult, as selecting our final winners and Personal Best achievements from each year level was no easy task.
Well done to every writer who entered, you should be proud of your efforts and the discoveries you have made about yourselves as writers.
Writing Competition 2025/26 | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | Year 6 |
Winner | Nathaniel (Nate) Kookaburras | Niran Kangaroos | Caitlin Crocodiles | Nevis Bilbies | Milan Numbats | Halyn Curlews |
Personal Best | Jolene Cassowaries | Daniel Quokkas | Leyla Pademelons | Seoyun Bilbies | Ekham Ospreys | Katewadee (Gail) Currawongs |
Thinking outside the Box
Recently I was listening to an article that was about conceptual understanding of numbers and if we really know what that looks like. They were talking about 1 million vs. 1 billion.
Did you know 1 million seconds is approximately 12 days (11 days, 13 hours, 44 minutes)?
BUT 1 billion seconds is 31 years and 8 months!
This provides some fascinating conceptual realism when we hear these two amounts bounced around TV and the media so flippantly...but then to think of the staggering difference between their actual value.
Students in Year 5 and 6 were invited to explore this and develop their own understanding of the staggering difference between the value of these two place values. Has this changed your understanding?
Mr. Mark PearceDeputy
Head of Primary & Head of Teaching and Learning
