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[quote=Anonymous]WIS is an academically rigorous school, particularly in the middle school and upper school years.

Perhaps more importantly, the PYP and IB program, combined with the School's participation in a Harvard-structured teaching program, promotes an atmosphere in which students are taught to consider and mull what they learn, to discuss their ideas with others, to dissect the information, and to retain it.

This teaching and learning style is more rare than you think in other schools.  I have had children at both WIS and other excellent schools over the years, and at their other schools there was a lot of regurgitation of knowledge, or "pumping" of the children with facts which they subsequently "dumped" after an exam.

My DCs had more fun learning at WIS.  Just yesterday, one of my older children commented -- as a younger DC and I drilled multiplication tables for their current school -- that at WIS s/he used to play a game with dice, where the students had to roll the dice and multiply the numbers that came up, keeping an ongoing calculation, until they reached 1000.

l feel that the information and ideas my DC learned early on at WIS are building blocks used again and again by them, enjoyed and retained as knowledge.

One last point, when we had to move away to another metropolitan, world city, my DC were admitted to the best schools in their new home -- and are at the very top of the class at their new schools.

I hope to move back one day so that my younger DCs can resume their educations at WIS.[/quote]

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