Our HS atudents, Rebeca and Isabella, share their experience at CAS project How did the idea for a creative writing workshop come about? “While interacting with the children at Escuela de Jurica during our community service, we noticed a great interest and creativity in many of them, but also a…
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JFK General Director Re-elected as ASOMEX President for Second Term
Last weekend our General Director, Adrian Leece, was elected to be ASOMEX President for a second consecutive term. This means he will carry on for another three years representing and sharing best practices, professional development and student events across all 20 member schools in Mexico, helping to keep the name…
Reunion and Nostalgia: K3B Class of 2018 Celebrates Milestone with a Touch of Sweet Reflection
The students of Miss Yuko’s K3B class of 2018, organized a mini reunion last week and recreated their class photo to celebrate their upcoming moving on to Middle School. It was very sweet to see them find the class chairs so small and the bathrooms so tiny. They had…
Congratulations Luis!!
It is a pleasure to share that our youngest high school students are motivated to participate in pre-university activities, as is the case of Luis Armando from 9th, who participated in 4 session “Pre-Engineering Camp” organized by Universidad Anáhuac and he had the opportunity to interact with students from MIT…
First Design Expo of the 9th grade of 2024!
For 3 months, our 9th grade students worked on the “The Storage Project”. This project tackled a real issue: the lack of space to store materials. They started by researching, developing ideas, and finally building full-scale cardboard prototypes. The students faced the challenge of turning ideas into drawings and then…
Bullying prevention, shared responsibility, home and school
Last week we had the privilege of hosting Rebecca Pelayo, a renowned expert in bullying prevention, who delivered an enlightening talk to the parents of our school community. The event provided a valuable opportunity to reflect on the critical issue of bullying and its impact on our children and youth.…
Flag football and soccer ASOMEX tournaments
Last week our flag football and soccer teams had a great participation in their respective ASOMEXtournaments. The American School of Tampico hosted the ASOMEX children’s category soccer tournament where more than 10 schools participated. Our girls team won the sportsmanship award, the only award given in this category. Congratulations to…
Readers and writers explore their world through stories
Prefirst students are growing as readers, writers, and illustrators. This week the grade 5 students joined them to help extend their writing skills. They all enjoyed reading and writing and growing together. Prefirst is so excited to invite their parents to see how much they have grown for their presentations…
MS MUN Spring Training Event
Our Middle School MUN Spring Training Event involves the topics of “Removing Tangible Barriers for Children to Escape Poverty” in the United Nations Childrens’ Fund and “Discussing the Accountability of the Soviet Union in the Chernobyl Disaster” in an historical General Assembly, in which our delegates will pretend it’s 1986. …
Congratulations athletes!!
We congratulate the students of TaeKwonDo, who competed last Saturday, April 20th, in the Student Cup, where more than 1,000 competitors from different states of the republic such as Hidalgo, Estado de México, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí, and Querétaro participated, obtaining the following medals: Seungah Baek (3C) 1st PLACE FORMS…