Annual Language Fair – A Success!
Alva S., Editor
February 23, 2018
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This week Wednesday, the 21st, the annual Language Fair took place! The exciting fair is an event highlighting the progress of grades 6 to 8 in language learning. The classes that perform and take part in the fair are the language B Swedish, French, Spanish and EAL students. The fair started in the An...
Nature Shots Take the Prize
February 19, 2018
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Thank you to all the people who entered and voted in our winter holiday shots competition. We have a tie for first place with the 'snow collage' and 'rope' shots getting exactly the same amount of votes. Great work to Perla in grade 7 and Elias in grade 9. Your prizes will be delivered to you this...
Successful End to MUN Day
Alva S., Editor
February 2, 2018
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After a long day of debate and discussion, we have finally come to one of concluding points of the SISMUN conference; the creation and submission of resolutions. This is the reason for the debates in the first place. At the conference today there were two separate World Trade Organisation forums. ...
MUN : Crisises Introduced
Milou V., Editor
February 2, 2018
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There seem to be multiple crisis introduced by the undersecretary Sugar S. to the committees. These are being introduced to keep the debates going and interesting. These crises keep the tension, and resemble the usefulness of having encyclopaedic knowledge. It simulates that in the UN everyone needs...
Last minute changes: the speaker emergency
Zuzanna O. and Milou V.
February 2, 2018
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There has been a lot going on today. After handling the tricky situation this morning, the MUN team had even more on their plates with a speaker cancelling his visit. ‘When the second speaker cancelled we were stressed, to say the least’ said Julia V. who is the secretary general. The guest that was set...
6th Graders in the Zombie Apocalypse
Alva S. and Maya M., Editors
February 2, 2018
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Getting starting in MUN can be very difficult, but our 6th graders in Mini SISMUN seem to be coming along very well. The Quirky Quibbler got the chance to talk to some of the 6th graders about their first experience in the conference today. Is this your first time doing MUN and how are you findi...
Zombie Apocalypse at Mini SISMUN!
Maya M., Editor
February 2, 2018
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Mini SISMUN is up and running for the second year in a row here at SIS. Mini MUN is an opportunity for the 6th and 7th graders to get involved with SISMUN in a comfortable and fun environment. This year the students are debating the topic of a Zombie Apocalypse! This is an exciting and fitting to...
WHO – Crisis
February 2, 2018
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There is currently an ongoing crisis in the WHO. The committee has to solve the problem of aids being discovered at the International Space Station. The QQ spoke to Undersecretary General Sugar S, the crisis was introduced after one of the WHO committees finished. Chair Erik L, responded to th...
Human Rights Council takes on human trafficking
Zuzanna O., Editors
February 2, 2018
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Organised crime, such as human trafficking is a very important issue around the world and that is what the United Nations Human Rights Council is focusing on today. The QQ talked to the students chairing in the committee to find out more about the purpose and the role of the organisation. There ...
SISMUN – International Delegates
Milou V., Editor
February 2, 2018
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SISMUN is not only for the students of SIS. There are a total of 75 delegates from other Schools. We spoke to delegates from a school in France and a school in London. The students did not have previous MUN experience, delegates from London said that " we only have a MUN club in our...
Crossing Borders for MUN – London to Stockholm
Milou V., Editor
February 2, 2018
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At this years SISMUN our school was able to welcome 17 students from an IB School in London. We spoke to their accompanying teacher about their experiences. The school, located west of London only has only a small MUN Club. Although this years Grade Elevens were very keen on going to co...
World Trade Organization
February 2, 2018
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The World Trade Organisation is one of the many committees of the United Nations. At today’s SISMUN conference the WTO is discussing the problems of unregulated sharing of economy. To find out more about it we talked to Thabang R. who is chairing today and asked him some questions. The WTO regu...