Hospitality
Hospitality at International Sharing School is about showing generosity and companionship to fellow learners and the surrounding community. The focus on hospitality is supported by the design that creates a sense of belonging and enable the development of social and emotional skills. Learners can freely organize and reorganize playful furniture, co-create a shared learning environment with sofas and chairs of unconventional proportions and endless options for utilization. The interior motivates play and interaction and stimulate learners’ sense of wonder while activating and nurture curiosity. The explicit references to the seaside remind learners of the surrounding nature and connect them to local resources.
I am seeing students participate much more freely now. The kids are actually able to be themselves, relaxed and learn. It shouldn’t be a stressful experience to learn, and I think it creates a lot more opportunities for us to see kids’ potential here in these environments
Sara Bennett, IB MYP Teacher
Multiculturalism
50+ nationalities live and learn at International Sharing School. Respect, individuality and cultural differences is an inevitable part and strength of the school culture. Sharing in a multicultural community is about being inclusive and being enrichened by differences and diversity. Mountain tops invite learners to train communications skills, debate, present ideas, be heard and listen to peers. Sharing spaces, resources and knowledge learners build a new common identity. Workshop spaces for experiments, the creations of robotics, media, sound and prototypes enable hands-on experience and collaborative learning. Interdisciplinary collaboration spaces are placed in the heart of each wing on each floor which emphasize the importance of the connections to peers, the surrounding community and the world beyond the school.
Care
Sharing is caring at International Sharing School. It means caring for one-self, caring for others and caring about the environment. Care is activated through hands-on activities in labs, group encounters that enable learners to see and to be seen in a community of mutual trust, they help and look after each other. Upholstered caves provide room for immersion, reflection and tranquility, while learners can gather around the empathy tree and close the curtains, look each other in the eyes and share knowledge. Static bikes enable focused work while learners step the pedals to support the crucial need for movement to enhance the concentration, well-being and creativity of each learner. Students learn to connect to mind and body, to trust and to become aware of their individual needs in learning situations.
