Kindergarten prep and first grade students will be accepted to our school via lottery as of the academic year 2021-2022. Kindly follow the application details to be posted on our school web site and social media accounts.
All Irmak Kindergarten students met with their classroom teachers individually today. Our students played with the materials and did some fun activities in our garden.
This week Coral Class enjoyed several mathematic activities in both English and Turkish Class. They practised symmetry, making 3D geometric shapes and dividing playdoh cookies to share with a set number of people.
During our lesson in the science laboratory the Dolphin class explored how metal wires conduct electricity. The students learned how to twist the wires for a connection, disconnect them and problem solve when the connections did not work. This interactive learning experience helped students
During "Pi Week", we conducted various math activities in our class. We reviewed the concepts of a quarter, a half, and the whole. We put numbers together to create bigger numbers. Finally, We designed 3D shapes with playdough and toothpicks.
Under the Sharing the Planet transdisciplinary theme, Starfish class began to inquire into the central idea 'We have a responsibility towards the living things in our immediate environment' by observing seeds. We aim to support students in discovering more about seeds, and to identify and name
On March Thursday, our kindergarten 4, 5 and 6 year old classes celebrated World Book Day. Our students had the opportunity to introduce their favorite book and book character to their friends on this special day. All of our students and teachers came to school with a costume and acted out
Last Thursday, our Jellyfish kindergarten class sanded pieces of wood left over from the construction work on our playground. Jellyfish class has been working on the theme of stories and fairy tales within the 'How we express ourselves' unit. They decided to create a fairy tale castle in class with
Our Dolphin class enjoyed a relay race where the objective was to not allow water to drip or spill while carrying it. Each team started with 20 cups of water. At the end of the race we measured again to say that one team had lost 2 cups and the other team had lost 3 cups during the relay.
Irmak Schools hosted Turkey's IB Schools' Committee Meeting On Friday, February 21st. The administrators, programme coordinators and teachers of candidate and authorized schools that implement different kinds of IB programs (PYP, MYP, DP) from all over Turkey came together and held productive
Our kindergarten English teachers use different techniques in language teaching. Story sacks are one of them. The story sacks contain three-dimensional materials with the main characters of the story. Story sacks are a great opportunity to help students improve their social communication
The natural and sensory materials we have brought to the kindergarten playground promote the students' academic skills, such as concentration, learning and planning, while playing fun games.
Our Penguin kindergarten class took advantage of the pleasant weather last Thursday to have a relay race in the schoolyard. In this fun activity, which was planned by our English teacher, the students spontaneously used English to express colors and numbers.
The age 5 group has had its first activity in the science lab today. During the activity, they did a "'Float or Sink'" experiment using natural and man made materials.
The open-ended games played with natural materials promote problem-solving and curiosity in children. Loose parts are materials which can be moved, combined with other parts, redesigned, arranged in line or set up in various forms. In these games,