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KOSOVO

QSI International School of Kosovo

We are having wonderful collaboration
here, thanks to our dedicated staff and
students.

School Facelift

QSI International School of Kosovo is in its
third year of existence. An uninviting area in emergency drills
the front of our school needed a facelift. It is now
finished, after six months of work by teachers and QSI International School of Kosovo takes
students. emergency drills seriously—as do all QSI schools.
Our students know how to behave, and follow the
The book design you see is a design from our rules of conduct when in an emergency. We have
first Secondary I student last year. She never got to a drill once a month. These include fire drills,
see the final results, but this looks fantastic. The lockdown drills, natural-disaster drills, and bomb
school design is from our art teacher. If you can’t threats.
read it, the school is emblazoned with “QSI,” and in
the sky it says, “The sky is the limit.” All the books Photo shows our students exiting the building
bear titles of real books, and also the first names during a drill. I’m so proud of how they all were
of students from the school last year and this year. quiet and orderly. QSI Kosovo has an amazing
They are so proud of this. group of students.

We are having wonderful collaboration here,
thanks to our dedicated staff and students.
middle Schoolers and
Secondary trip

After-School Activities This year, with fourteen 11-year-olds
through Secondary II students, we joined Tirana
After-school activities are alive and well. International School for a retreat with their students.
Since our third annual Science Fair will be held Last year with five students, we were able to attend
in November, Tuesdays host required Science Fair the Art Festival in Podgorica, Montenegro. This
after-school activities. event was great.

We also have an Aerodynamics after-school This year, being able to join with TIS was a first
activity. Students learn to build paper airplanes that for our students. It was a two-day event that was
fly, and are sound aerodynamically. As can be seen an excellent time for our students to see that there
in this picture, students are enjoying themselves. is a bigger QSI community out there. Totally an
amazing time.
We also have drama, and a multitude of other
offerings. The staff does an amazing job, coming Big thanks go to TIS for inviting our students.
up with different things for our students to do after Our school looks forward to joining them in other
school. events—there, and across the region.