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Last week the THINK Global School Class of 2018 joined over 165,000 students worldwide in receiving their IB examination results, and for a fifth straight year, THINK Global School students outperformed the worldwide average and exceeded international benchmarks. Some figures: 100% of THINK Global School students who sat the exams received their IB Diploma, far surpassing the international pass rate in 2017 of 78%. 100% of THINK Global School students...

So, you’re coming to Spain… If you’re anything like I was as a student, the weeks leading up to your new journey will be spent scouring the internet for everything there is to know about your new home. After living here for two years, I can say without a doubt that my enthusiasm for living here hasn’t diminished in the slightest. If you want to know what makes me so...

When you Google the health benefits of being in the outdoors, the results are almost endless. Article after article from the Guardian, Huffpost, the BBC and even the Daily Mail will fill your screen, informing you that the great outdoors is the answer to happiness, weight loss and even reduces days spent in hospital. It is of no surprise then that my favourite TGS memories, the times I felt the...

Last week, the TGS Class of 2017 graduates joined over 160,000 students worldwide in receiving their IB examination results, and for a fourth straight year, THINK Global School students outperformed the world average and exceeded international benchmarks. 100% of THINK Global School students who sat the exams received their IB Diploma, far surpassing the international pass rate in 2016 of 79%. 92% of THINK Global School students met or exceeded...

With stories of famine, climate change, chemical attacks, and far-right resurgences dominating headlines across the globe, eleven of our students recently traveled to the Shawnigan Lake School in Vancouver Island, Canada, to address these very issues and many others at the 2017 Shawmun Model United Nations. Alongside 260 delegates from fourteen other schools, our Model United Nations team -the aptly named MUN Sharks- split into nine different committees to debate...

Every Thursday during our time in Urubamba, THINK Global School and five local schools participated in a series of sports competitions to help build relationships among our students and local youth, practice fitness, learn regional dances, and simply enjoy the fresh Sacred Valley air. The series of events were arranged by THINK Global School PE Teacher Adam Sturman, who also provided our students with a series of warm ups and...

Welcome to China, THINK Global School! This week, we welcomed back our Grade 9 students for the third term in Beijing. All of the young minds made it safely from their travels around the world and are super excited to start classes with our host school, Beijing BISS International School. Check out the video montage of the students' arrival, shown above. Music by Pogo.

AS OUR STAFF AND FACULTY wait for the arrival of the ninth graders to begin Term 3 in Beijing, it's sometimes easy to feel overwhelmed by the logistics of our endeavor. It's no simple task moving a school around the planet, and we owe a debt of gratitude to our administrative team - especially Ashley Silver and Mike Hourahine - for making our international transitions so seamless. A school built...

Proud. Positive. Special. Those are some of the words TGS students use to describe their emotional response to the THINK photographic exhibit that accompanies the school on its world travels. In Sydney, the freestanding outdoor exhibit is currently drawing attention in Martin Place in the downtown business district. It features stunning international images captured by TGS founder Joann McPike on globally relevant themes such as beauty, despair, wisdom, wealth, curiosity...

For TGS students, preparing to live in Beijing for three months means more than learning a few basic phrases in Mandarin. Under the guidance of teacher Sherry Zhang, these world travelers are learning as much vocabulary as possible, and are practicing their conversational skills and pronunciation on a regular basis. In addition to their language skills, they will travel to China armed with an understanding of the history and culture...