MS Student Life
There are many opportunities for Middle School students supports their emotional and social growth and enhance their school experience.
Service Learning & Cultural Trips form an essential core to the program with every student participating.
Service Learning
Learning about and helping those less fortunate than themselves is an important aspect student life at AAS. Students are encouraged and supported to be creative in developing ideas and driving them through to make a difference to others. From fundraising to helping out at animal shelters, visiting orphanages or making and distributing sandwiches for homeless shelters, Middle School students are active service learners.
Cultural Trips
Normally taking place around September, these trips usually span 3 days and 2 nights. Students engage in team-building and learn about themselves and each other, as well as their wonderful host country.
"My most memorable moments have been on the cultural trips. They were so much fun and the school picked some great places".
Caroline, Grade 7
Middle School Extra Curricular Activities
Numerous voluntary clubs and groups are organised internally by AAS staff, but many activities are linked to 'CEESA' (Central and Eastern European Schools Association). CEESA provides a competitive interscholastic athletic and activities program intended to enrich and enhance the educational experience of students. This program plays a large part in the life of both Middle & High School students.
From music and culture to sport, festivals to tournaments and competitions, there is something for everyone to enjoy.
- 'CEESA' sports TOURNAMENTS
- 'CEESA' ACTIVITY TOURNAMENTS
- STUDENT AMBASSADOR PROGRAM
- Lunch Time Activities
- TEDX Youth
- Livestream Team
- Cheerleading & Dance
'CEESA' sports TOURNAMENTS
- MS Soccer/Football
AAS MS teams play 7-aside games against other CEESA schools. Our girls are in Division 1 and boys in Division 2.
- Tennis
AS tennis runs in the spring for HS. We select 6 players to travel to the CEESA tournament; 2 students play singles and 4 students make up 2 doubles pairs.
- X-Country Running
The participants run 2 races over the 2 days at CEESA. HS students run a 3.5km race and a 5km race. The races are over varying terrain and may include; grass, trails through forests, water features, hills and flat ground. It is a combined MS/HS event and each school is allowed to have up to 6 runners in each age/gender.
- Basketball
AAS teams play in the CEESA Division 1 group for all teams; MS boys and girls.
- Swimming
AAS competes in CEESA swimming every year. It is a combined MS and HS team consisting of up to 32 swimmers, 8 in each age/gender. Swimmers can compete in both individual and team relay events.
- Volleyball
All AAS volleyball teams compete in the spring season. The travel team may consist of up to 10 students.
- Read More About CEESA at AAS
'CEESA' ACTIVITY TOURNAMENTS
- Speech and Debate
AAS competes in the MS Speech and Debate CEESA competition each year. The team consists of 10 students who are allowed to compete in a maximum of 2 events. The events are Impromptu, Debate, Original Oratory, Duet Acting and Oral Interpretation.
- MS Model United Nations (MUN)
This is a CEESA event and is only open to CEESA schools. It is an educational simulation and/or academic activity in which students can learn about diplomacy, international relations, and the United Nations.
- MS Choir
Choir students work hard to prepare themselves for this CEESA event. At the festival over 100 students come together to sing and to produce a concert at the end of the weekend.
- Knowledge Bowl
Students work together in groups of 4 and compete against other teams. This is a general knowledge competition. The first round of questions is based on one topic; which could be anything from biology, to poetry to capital cities to astronomy. The second round a quick fire general knowledge questions. There is also an individual and team written component to to CEESA competition.
- Cultural Arts
MS Students are invited to join the Cultural arts team. This is a CEESA event which has a visual art focus. The theme for each year is decided on by the host school. It is designed to show off the diverse culture of their city and country to the other CEESA schools. Students engage in 3 parts; inspiration, creation and exhibition
- MS Math Counts
This CEESA competition is governed by the MathCounts Foundation, which is based in the US. Schools are allowed to send 2 teams of 4 students each to compete in both team and individual events.
- MS Robotics
This CEESA event is a FIRST Lego League competition. Each year the teams are set a challenge and they take their robot to the competition to compete against the robots from the other schools.
Read More About CEESA at AAS
STUDENT AMBASSADOR PROGRAM
Lunch Time Activities
TEDX Youth
Organised under the global TED banner TEDxYouth are independently organised events encouraging young people to develop themes and topics and present them to a live audience all while being professionally filmed. AAS has had a TED-ED Club and TEDxYouth program since 2016. Helping students to believe that not only do they have a voice but people beyond the school want to listen, TED-ED have provided the platform for some phenomenal talks and presentations, a number of which have been posted on the official TEDx channel.
Livestream Team
Livestream is a popular activity at AAS with student volunteers forming the team that record and broadcast sports tournaments and events such as graduation. Under the guidance of the faculty and IT staff, student hone their artistic and technical skills while providing a service to those unable to attend the event in person.
Cheerleading & Dance