LIFE (Love Is For Everyone), AN ERASMUS+ PROJECT TO MAKE US MORE HUMAN Dr Athi Demosthenous and Ms Stephanie Robb report from Madrid: In the present climate of cultural division and mistrust one thing remains obvious, the only way forward is with LOVE. There is no avenue available to us, if we wish to continue as a united continent that embraces and celebrates our similarities and our differences that go beyond cultural, social, religious and gender boundaries. Romania, the coordinating country, Croatia, Spain, FYROM and our school, Cyprus, are all undertaking the extraordinary two year journey, working methodically and continuously to build and strengthen tolerance and promote Love for Everyone. We all go through this world eagerly searching for acceptance and a place to call home, a place where we belong. With globalisation, along with the economic and social climate of our time, many families search for new roots, new homes; they cross translational boundaries for a better future. However, many teenagers are met with resistance and intolerance, or are resistant and intolerant to the changing ‘faces’ of their society. Starting with a tolerance questionnaire, the project will attempt to quantifiably assess the level of tolerance that is permeated in each school and attempt to inform and educate our students, in order to have a quantifiably lower level of intolerance. The surprising to some, but great addition to the project, is the participation of a FYROM primary school, thus lending another layer of intricacy to the project. With them, we can also monitor how tolerance is experienced in different age groups, but also how each group reacts to the project stimulus of educating and promoting love, and tolerance. Through the use of multiple platforms: video, brochures, magazines, virtual lessons, performances and student transnational meetings all countries will attempt to build the bridges that divide us, to create a better, brighter future of understanding and tolerance to those who have participated, and pay that knowledge forward to all.

RAISING STEAM IN EDUCATION Our students are raising steam for Europe through Erasmus+. First stop: Poland, with Ivy Liu, Aristotelis Loucaides, George Constantinou, Vladimir Nezvanov and accompanying teacher Kyriakos Plalazis. Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Maths seen in a holistic way is the subject of this Erasmus+ project. The development of multidisciplinary education and innovative methodology that benefits from the latest advances of technology, coupling art with the sciences, is the main activity axis of the ERASMUS+ project ‘Raising STEAM in Education’. Through a series of innovative activities, STEAM will facilitate learning of difficult subjects and contribute to the development of creativity and unconventional thinking in the project's beneficiaries: VII Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Juliusza Slowackiego, Poland, EPAL Kalamarias, Greece, IMS Private School, Gymnázium, Slovakia, IIS Gobetti Marchesini-Casale – Arduino, Italy. Students of the partner countries will get involved in experimental workshops, often in collaboration with external academic or scientific institutions, thus combining formal education with non-formal ways. In addition, they will be given the opportunity to participate in activities in different parts of Europe, contributing to the design of new innovative syllabuses and more challenging forms of STEAM education by learning and creating together and sharing good practices. Young participants will participate in transnational meetings in Warsaw Poland, Kosice, Slovakia, Turin, Italy and Limassol, Cyprus and they will develop activity through workshops, experiments, seminars, tasks, games, flipped classroom and peer teaching, artistic events or academic training.

FROM TODAY'S SCHOOL EXCURSION AT SAYIOUS ADVENTURE PARK A lot of fun and a pleasant break from lessons.

1st DAY OF PROJECT MEETING 3 IN CZECH REPUPLIC The vice principal of IMS Private School Dr Athi Demosthenous and teacher Mrs Marlen Nicolaidou are in Rychnov nad Kněžnou, Czech Republic, for the third meeting of the project "Motivation^2 + Talent = Success" at Gymnazium Frantiska Martina Pelcla. Today they visited the school and investigated ideas on how to make the school environment more motivational. In the next few days, together with teachers from Poland, Belgium and the Czech Republic they will present their recent work and their findings from their project research.

Motivation2 + Talent = Success, ERASMUS + 3rd Project meeting. Dr Athi Demosthenous and Mrs Marlen Nicolaidou meet the partners from Belgium, Poland and Czech Republic for the third project meeting in Rychnov nad Kněžnou.

IELTS AT IMS IELTS is officially the most popular language test in the world and is a basic criterion for admission in most English speaking Universities. Do not leave taking the exam for the last minute and join our 5 month preparation course for the IELTS exam. Lessons begin on the 3rd of October. For further information contact IMS at 25333003.

ACADEMICS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF BATH VISIT IMS Dr Marianne Ellis will give a presentation at IMS Private School on Tuesday 12 September at 7:00 pm. She will talk about the courses at Bath, provide UCAS information and top-tips for writing personal statements, will provide specific advice to parents and students and will answer their questions. Dr Ellis is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Biochemical Engineering and Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath. She is a Chartered Engineer with expertise in bioprocessing for tissue engineering. Everybody is welcome.

KYRIACOS THEOFANOUS GOES FROM IMS TO UCL An excellent examination record takes Kyriacos Theofanous straight to University College London, one of the leading academic institutions in the world. A Level Mathematics with grade A*, A Level Further Mathematics with A* and Statistics with grade A were more than enough to secure him a place to study Statistics, Economics and Finance at UCL from this September. We wish you the best Kyriaco!

TOP MARK BY 12-YEAR OLD KYRIAKOS TSIANNIS IN IGCSE MATHS Completing ICCSE Mathematics in one year at the age of 12 requires a lot of talent and intellectual capacity. In addition, scoring 97 out of 100 is an almost impossible task! Kyriakos Tsiannis achieved all these and has to be warmly congratulated for this success. We are looking forward to more feats Kyriako!