On Friday morning, Secondary School students had the opportunity to sit in on a presentation on ‘balancing life and elite-level training with academic responsibilities’ with Matthew Lawrence.  Matthew is an AISM Alumnus and Olympian who understands exactly what it means to represent your school and compete in ISSEA. During his school career, he won over 12 ISSEA gold medals and still holds 6 ISSEA individual records that stand today.

On the international stage, Matthew has secured multiple medals at CANA Zone 4 and a Silver medal at the Junior African Championships. Most notably, he competed at the recent Paris Olympics. He is currently studying a BSC in Management at Nova SB in Portugal. Matthew is a Buffalo for life and has a wealth of knowledge who understands the demands on our student athletes and how to best balance those competing demands. AISM is certainly proud of all that Matthew has accomplished and students thoroughly enjoyed his presentation!

We are delighted to announce that AISM’s IB Diploma Programme students achieved a 100% pass rate in the May 2025 IB Diploma examination session, including seven Portuguese/English Bilingual Diplomas. They earned a 100% subject pass rate across a broad mix of disciplines, including Studies A Language and Literature, Language Acquisition, History, Psychology, Economics, Environmental Systems and Societies, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Visual Arts, and the IB Core.

Their achievement surpasses the world average, indicating the unwavering dedication of our students, the passion and expertise of our faculty, and the support of our entire school community. We celebrate not only the results but also the journey, marked by resilience, perseverance, integrity, and global-mindedness, especially in a school year as challenging as 2024-2025, shaped by numerous political and economic disruptions in Mozambique and around the world.

Congratulations to the students, parents, and the whole AISM community. A huge shout-out to our dedicated teachers for the guidance and care they provided. Here’s to many more milestones ahead!

Here at AISM, we realise that preparing for a new school and/or a new school year is challenging enough so we try to minimise the stress by providing all supplies & books where possible. See below for more information

• AISM will provide all stationery for Primary School learners. 
• For Secondary School learners, you will be happy to note that notebooks and other classroom materials will be provided by the school, however learners are welcome to purchase their own individualised notebooks if they would like.
  • Secondary learners are also encouraged to bring a pencil case with basic stationery supplies such as pens, pencils etc. For PE, students would need appropriate clothing and footwear. If your child wants to use a locker, please provide a combination lock.
  • Additionally, for our G9-12 students, it is necessary to bring a Geometry set and a TI-84 (all Models) OR TI-Nspire (non-CAS models) graphing calculator.  

We had a decent turn-out at the DigCit Parent Session on Tuesday morning with 21 primary and secondary parents attending - some great initial discussions! 

This was the first of several sessions where our focus was to share tech challenges and successes, AISM's approach to Digital Citizenship, the importance of home/school partnerships especially in this area & sharing parent-friendly practical suggestions and resources. One of the main aims was to involve parents in deciding other possible foci for future sessions.

This truly is an area where community involvement - students, teachers and parents -  is needed in order for us to navigate successfully! Here are the resources, presentation and handouts that we included - looking forward to sharing further in future sessions - more information to come!

We are excited to launch a new journalism initiative at the school, where a team of student journalists are creating and curating news stories from around our community, both inside and outside the school gates.  We have titled our online magazine 'The Buffalo Blog' and our first AISM core journalism team is made up of this exceptional group of students from grades 7-10: 

• Tendai
• Alexandre 
• Atharv 
• Shailee 
• Danae 
• Gaia 
• Cora 
• Felix 

I am heading up the project on the teacher’s side, meeting with the student journalists on Mondays and liaising with them throughout the week. As we move forward, we are also excited about other students using this opportunity to express themselves and develop valuable communication skills, be it a focus on journalistic writing, photography, or video editing to name a few.  Estelle and Ryan from Grade 6 will be adding a music story soon, whilst Grade 9 students Laia and Polly are also planning on getting involved to bring in travel tales and health warnings! 

In the meantime, check out the latest stories about our new MUN leadership (Felix), our volleyball teams (Alex), a unique Grade 8 Shakespeare project (Ashton and Connie), and a Grade 6 creative ATL project (Mr Rui). 

Heating up on the press are further exciting articles on our scuba diving ASA (Cora), the effects of music on the brain while studying (Atharv), Mozambique’s first professional surfer (Tendai), and bullying in school environments (Gaia). 

Do you have any ideas for other exciting content for the site? If so, please get in touch with me at [email protected] or the PTA representatives. 

Rui da Silva

RULER Approach
At AISM, we employ the RULER Approach, developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, to guide our teaching and learning in Advisory classes. Additionally, we adhere to the SHAPE standards to guide instruction on essential topics such as Puberty and Adolescent Sexual Development, Gender Identity & Expression, Sexual Orientation & Identity, Sexual Health, Consent & Healthy Relationships, and Interpersonal Violence. Click here for the Middle School and High School RULER Unit Overviews.

Advisory
Advisory is a regularly scheduled class within our Secondary School, aimed at facilitating regular meetings for small groups of students. These sessions foster relationships beyond the academic realm and provide a platform for learning directly related to their well-being. Advisors, who are responsible for planning and facilitating these classes, collaborate with the Social Emotional Counselor to offer targeted workshops on health and well-being topics. Advisory is a weekly fixture in all Secondary School grades, spanning from Grades 6 to 12.