The families and staff at The British International School of New York are delighted to announce the visit of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra to their school this October. The Princess will be visiting the school in order to rededicate the Princess Alexandra Library, the academic heart of the school which directly overlooks Manhattan’s east river. The school is busy preparing for her visit. An evening celebration will follow for the families of The British International School of New York [...]

Please enjoy these videos from our annual Speech Day, which marks the end of term for our students and faculty. Nursery – Year 2 Year 3 – Year 8

Mr Phelps met and spoke with HRH Princess Alexandra at the annual COBIS conference in London. HRH Princess Alexandra is the patron of COBIS.  We hope one day to welcome the Princess to our wonderful school in New York City.

BBC journalist Matt Frei entertained and informed students from Years 5 to 8 with his anecdotes from across the world. Students were rapt by his thrilling stories that ranged from landing in disaster torn Haiti to interviewing his personal hero, Aung Sun Suu Kyi, whilst she was under house arrest in Burma. The seemingly perilous journeys, near death collisions and experiences with all manner of famous and infamous personalities kept everyone on the edge of their seats! Dominic thanked Mr. [...]

Via PR News Wire They may have a comparatively small middle school, but within its halls you’ll find plenty of individual talent. Christopher Volkovitsch, one of the students in Year 8 (Grade 7), has consistently demonstrated his outstanding mathematical ability through the New York Mathematics League. I really enjoy mathematics and taking part in the Mathematics League contests, as the questions are very challenging and this is a good way to compare students across the state and region. I am [...]

During the February break this year, Mr. Davies, Mr. Jenkins, Miss Shuttleworth and Miss Turner took fourteen students to Copper Mountain, Colorado. We flew from Newark to Denver and coached to the resort, through some fairly spectacular countryside, described to us on the way by, “Wild Bill”, our local driver. We stayed at the heart of the resort and the children skied and snowboarded, with their various instructors, for four days. Progress was impressive, particularly from the complete beginner group, [...]

Ms. Murphy’s Reception class put on their own performances of Hey Diddle Diddle, and here they are captured on film!

After a fantastic visit to the chocolate factory the students in 5AG have learned a lot about the process of chocolate from cocoa bean to chocolate bar.  We really enjoyed learning where the company’s beans came from, and were pleased to learn that it is fair trade and child labor free.  The samples we tasted were amazing! In our unit of inquiry we have learned that food production and distribution is a complex human system which involves various processes and [...]

As part of our Unit, ‘Digging into the past’, we uncovered exciting treasures from Ancient Egypt right here in our BISNY classrooms! It was great fun presenting our finds with labels just like the museum. We had a super time at The Metropolitan Museum of Art before the break and learned so much. Thank you to all of the parents who helped us on our trip. 

As part of the Unit of Inquiry 5AG took a trip to Whole Foods to find out a little bit about how food is distributed.  This unit looks at food production and distribution as a human system involving many different processes and types of employment.  While on the trip we learned about how food is displayed, the types of foods Whole Foods distributes, and what the company is doing to help the Fair Trade, Organic, and Locally Grown movements. The [...]