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CAS Cocoa Farm Trip

CAS Cocoa Farm Trip

ARIS Year 10 and 11 students engaged in their first service learning project by supporting cocoa farmers in the village of Apono apono near Suhum, which is located two hours north of Accra – Kumasi route.Students s...

Teaching and Learning through Inquiry Workshop

Teaching and Learning through Inquiry Workshop

ARIS Primary Teachers enjoyed an exciting and engaging In-School Workshop on Teaching and Learning through Inquiry, by Lucy Elliott. The workshop focused on 21st Century Teaching and Learning through Inquiry. Inquiry-bas...

Inquiry and the School Librarian

Inquiry and the School Librarian

ARIS librarian Katie, recently had the opportunity to go participate in an IB Librarian training at the AISA Conference in early March of 2015. This was an incredible opportunity to meet and collaborate with other librar...

ARIS Wins Fun Run

ARIS Wins Fun Run

A few hundred people took part in the fifth edition of the Family Fun Run event organised by Happy Fm and Lakeside Marina, in Accra. The Family Fun Run is a family event held annually on Independence Day to encourage hea...

Pi Anyone?

Pi Anyone?

In what many consider the highlight of the year, ARIS Secondary school students celebrated international Pi Day with their teachers. If one day of the year screams “Party” in our school, that day is...

Ghana's Independence Day in ARIS

Ghana's Independence Day in ARIS

Independence Day Celebrations in ARIS saw an array of colourful activities. A day when the entire school rose above personal interests to put Ghana first and celebrate an achievement, which distinguished our motherland 5...

PYP Unit of Inquiry Goes to Silver Star Automotives

PYP Unit of Inquiry Goes to Silver Star Automotives

Year One pupils took several exciting trips in connection to their Unit of Inquiry; How We Organize Ourselves. The focus was on transportation, and how it relates to the needs of a community. The inquiry took them from l...

Accepting Disability: The School That Made All The Difference

Accepting Disability: The School That Made All The Difference

Modern Ghana reports:No institution worth its sort would turn a blind eye to a very compelling social responsibility which, hitherto, has been neglected or forgotten for the want of a softer statement to aptly put it. Ho...

Lincoln CAS trips with students from ARIS

Lincoln CAS trips with students from ARIS

The LCS CAS program has taken service learning to another level by engaging a fellow IB school in Ghana on their CAS trips. The new initiative connects students from the two schools in joint CAS trips and encourages them...

Black Holes, an ASG Research Project

Black Holes, an ASG Research Project

Al-Rayan students Mouayad Toutoungi (Year 11) and Bashhar Byrouthy (Year 10) produced a stirring video animation about the weird and wonderful topic of Black Holes! As members of the ASG (Astronomical Society of Ghana) t...

What are the beliefs and values that drive the PYP ?

What are the beliefs and values that drive the PYP ?

In the PYP, it is believed that learning takes place best when it is connected to what is genuinely a component of the world around the student, not merely what is all too often contrived and then imposed upon the studen...

Samsung Smart School in ARIS

Samsung Smart School in ARIS

A video report on ARIS being the first school in Ghana to implement the Samsung Smart School platformStudents and teachers in ARIS Secondary Campus, East Legon, will be the first in Ghana to begin Samsung’s Smart S...

Peace FM Report on ARIS Samsung Room

Peace FM Report on ARIS Samsung Room

Technology giant, Samsung Electronics West Africa (SEWA) has introduced its first Samsung School education solution to the Al Rayan International School, East-Legon.The solution integrates an array of Samsung devices wit...