FOBISIA Battle of the Bands 2024

By Tiffany A (Year 10) - lead singer of SVARGA

Battle of the Bands was a phenomenal and remarkable experience for myself and for all of my band members, to say the least. Besides the Silver award, we left the competition with so much insight, motivation, and inspiration on how to improve our own band.

Sitting there, the passion that the other contestants displayed was..

KLASS Lions Sports Round-up

Last weekend saw the KLASS Lions Sports teams in action, competing in a range of sports as part of KLASS Series, FOBISIA and the very prestigious SEASAC competitions. Events took place across schools in Singapore, Thailand and KL as 83 of our boys and girls faced some of the toughest competition from around South East Asia. Enjoy the round up below.

U18 Girls’ Tennis

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Inspiring the Next Generation: CS JAWS Event Shines Spotlight on Building Diversity & Engagement in Computer Science

The Alice Smith Secondary Campus buzzed with excitement as twenty Computer Science educators from fifteen FOBISIA schools gathered for the recent CS JAWS event. This dynamic platform fostered collaboration and ignited new ideas for captivating young minds with the wonders of Computer Science.

Bridging the Gaps, Igniting Passions

The focus was clear - ensuring a smooth..

FOBISIA Senior Immersive Drama Festival: 'From Uneasy Dreams'

In this week's blog, Lauren in Year 11 is thrilled to share with you her wonderful experience at the recent FOBISIA Senior Drama Festival.

It all started weeks before when my friends and I were excited about what would come. This festival did not disappoint. The festival began on the night we arrived in Brunei, where we had time to bond with the students from JIS, ISB and BSM..

Unleash Your Imagination: Join the FOBISIA Short Story Competition!

Calling all young writers and creative minds! It's that time of the year again when the FOBISIA Short Story Competition is back, and we're thrilled to announce the 2023-2024 edition. This year promises to be even more exciting and inspiring as we invite students to showcase their storytelling talents. So, sharpen your pencils and fire up your imaginations because it's time to..

🎭FOBISIA Monologue Challenge - Modernising Shakespeare

This week the winners of the 2023 FOBISIA Monologue Challenge were announced and once again KLASS take home a prize! 

Now in its third year, since first organised by EP’s Drama Department during lockdown, the FOBISIA Monologue Challenge invites schools and students from across Asia to submit solo performances for judging. This year’s challenge brought a new twist to..

🎵 FOBISIA Choral Festival 2023 – Bangkok

🎵 On Wednesday 8th March 2023, ten very excited music students gathered in the music department to make their way to one of the first FOBISIA music events to be held since restrictions lifted from the Pandemic. And what a fantastic time they had!We made our way to Bangkok International Preparatory & Secondary School to meet with over 200 students from 9 other schools, all..

Secondary Weekly Highlight: Connected Through Learning

Last month, The PE and Sport faculty hosted the prestigious FOBISIA PE and Sport Conference. The event was a major success, bringing together over 150 PE and sport professionals from across South East Asia to share best practice and learn from some of the world's leading experts in the field. The conference provided a platform for attendees to network, exchange ideas and gain..

FOBISIA Short Story Competition: Results

In March, the school submitted our top short story entries into the annual FOBISIA Short Story Competition on the theme of ‘Memories’ and it is now our great pleasure to share the results!

The competition is a great opportunity for children to apply their writing skills for an authentic, engaging purpose and we have been bowled over with the exceptionally high standard of..

FOBISIA Film Fest review 2022🎞️🎬

Back in March we brought you details of the FOBISIA Online Student Film Festival 2022 which Alice Smith had the honour of hosting this year. There were a wonderful 82 entries from schools across Asia and we were delighted to see the students passions for storytelling, film and animations come through! Here's our Head of Media, Ms. Charlotte Moore to tell us more;

I love the..

FOBISIA Orchestral Project 2022 🎶

The FOBISIA music scene has been very quiet for the past two years, due to the impact of COVID-19. We were therefore very excited to get the opportunity to take part in the FOBISIA Orchestral Project 2022. As an orchestra, we have been working on more challenging repertoire, but mostly in the realm of film music. This opportunity posed an exciting challenge of performing two..

FOBISIA Short Story Competition: Winning Stories (Primary School)

In last week's blog we brought you news of the FOBISIA Short Story Competition and our two Primary School Key Stage winners:

• Miles from 6T for his story “Is it YOU?” and
• Finn in 4S for his story “The Magnificent Machine”,

The theme for the competition was ‘Memories’ and here are their winning entries for you to enjoy!

Is it You? By Miles in 6T

Every city had its own..

FOBISIA Short Story Competition: Memories

For the past twelve years we have participated in the FOBISIA Short Story Competition. The competition is a great opportunity for children to apply their writing skills for an authentic, engaging purpose and we have been bowled over with the exceptionally high standard of writing from our children.

The theme for this year’s competition was ‘Memories’, which gave the children a..

FOBISIA Online Student Film Festival 2022 🎞️🎥

Update May 2022: There were 82 entries from schools across Asia and we were delighted to see the students passions for storytelling, film and animations come through! Congratulations to all the winners including KLASS's own Sophie Lei won the Non-fiction KS4-5 category with her short film entitled Emergensea. 

Competition details

Calling all our budding film makers from 7..

Primary Weekly Highlights: Upcoming Academic Competitions 🥇🥈🥉

Alice Smith School is a member of many prestigious regional and international learning communities. These groups offer us opportunities to celebrate learning with other schools in Malaysia and around the world. This week in school, many of our students are preparing for competitions hosted by some of our linked organisations.

FOBISIA Virtual Dance and Gymnastics

Last week KLASS students watched in anticipation as their hard work creating gymnastic routines and dances during lockdown was shared with the FOBISIA community.

FOBISIA Virtual Dance

Back in distance learning, Ms Sullivan and Miss Curwood worked closely with our students, offering them the opportunity to enter the FOBISIA Invitational Dance, hosted by Bangkok Patana School...

FOBISIA Photography Festival

Students have recently been working on their entries for the FOBISIA Photography Festival, an online competition in which students have been asked to respond to the theme "Building Bridges'.

Conceptualised around Internationalism, Building Bridges is an online Art festival using Photography and digital manipulation media for students from Key Stage 2-5 to visually express..

FOBISIA Drama Online Monologue Challenge

Alice Smith's Drama Department is delighted to invite the FOBISIA community to join us virtually for this exciting new event in the FOBISIA Drama calendar. The Monologue Challenge is an opportunity for our school communities to share solo work and offer a platform for dramatic performance. We recognise how the recent lockdown and social distancing measures have afforded many..

FOBISIA Story Winners: Secondary

Congratulations to Soraya, from Jerudong International School, who is this year's overall winner of the Secondary category in theFOBISIA(the Federation of British International Schools in Asia) short story competition and also to our runners up Summer, from Taipei European School, and Gan from Help International, KL.

Our judge, Curtis Joblingthe designer of worldwide hit..