Off-Campus Trips
The Elementary School is going on an adventure… or a few!
Field Trips
Kuala Lumpur and the surrounding areas provide wonderful opportunities for our students to enrich their learning beyond the traditional school boundaries. Whether exploring the rainforest, the national zoo, or other areas of interest, our students participate in field trips that are closely linked to the classroom units of study.
Field Days
Special days with activities are designed to build community and have fun. These activities are coordinated with the PE department to encourage showcasing track & field skills, swimming growth, or just wet and wild fun at the end of semesters!
Camps
Grade 4 Overnight Camp
The Grade 4 Overnight Camp is a highly anticipated highlight of the year, providing students with an engaging on-campus adventure. After a regular school day, students participate in a series of exciting events and activities designed to develop new skills, foster independence, build community, and promote teamwork. Through fun and challenging group tasks, students learn to collaborate, problem-solve, and support one another. Boys and girls spend the night in separate grade-level common areas on campus, reinforcing a sense of shared experience and camaraderie.
This camp aligns with The Melawati Way and ISKL’s School-wide Learning Results (SLRs), emphasizing personal growth, community values, and teamwork.
Special days with activities are designed to build community and have fun. These activities are coordinated with the PE department to encourage showcasing track & field skills, swimming growth, or just wet and wild fun at the end of semesters!
Grade 5 Overnight Trip
The Grade 5 Overnight Trip to Port Dickson offers students an unforgettable opportunity to develop leadership, teamwork, and a spirit of adventure. Building on their roles as Grade 5 Red Hat leaders, the experience challenges students to think creatively, push their boundaries, and grow in confidence.
With carefully designed activities led by trained guides, students are encouraged to set goals, take calculated risks, and thrive in new environments, fostering personal growth, resilience, and leadership skills.
Malaysia Week, the Ultimate Middle School Outdoor Experience
Malaysia Week is experiential learning at its best.
When you combine our program goals, our school-wide learning results, our behavioral expectations, our Middle School values and beliefs, our grade and subject level curricular focus, as well as adherence to our theme of awareness, engagement and action, you can't help but be assured that this program is well worth the time and effort.
The impact of an outdoor experience on a child's understanding of their role in preserving the environment is immeasurable. Research shows us that students do not undertake stewardship of the environment unless they have direct involvement in authentic outdoor settings. Nature becomes the teacher and provides them with a wealth of opportunities and experiences that will help them become responsible world citizens who will take an active role in the survival of the planet.
Perhaps no other area of the curriculum can address character development as much as Malaysia Week does. It is in this environment that students must learn to share, care for one another, and take responsibility for their belongings.
Some of the most challenging experiences for students are in dealing positively in a community setting. By taking students out of their comfort zone and putting them into new situations, we see a dramatic increase in problem solving skills.
Working with others in these situations helps develop mutual trust, understanding, and consideration for others. Recognizing their comfort zones is where personal growth is at its peak. It is essential that students find themselves in new situations with new people and new experiences of risk, high excitement, teamwork, personal growth, communication, physical and mental challenges, problem solving, creativity and fun.
Have a glimpse into ISKL Middle School:
High School Global Action Program
Philosophy:
People discover their abilities, values, passions, and responsibilities in situations that offer adventure and the unexpected. These leaps are bridges to highly successful, socially responsible global activists.
Kurt Hahn
Founder, student learning programs, Outward Bound & Round Square
The Global Action Program engages all grade 9, 10, and 11 students in action-based travel teams where students are challenged to deepen their understanding of the host country/region while discovering more about themselves and their individual strengths.
The program supports ISKL’s mission by providing a unique opportunity for students to develop as responsible global citizens, young adults motivated to be change-makers for the planet.
The Global Action Program creates a unique opportunity for students to authentically engage with, and fulfill ISKL’s Mission, Vision, and Values. Most specifically, our intent is for each student to engage meaningfully with a local or global issue during GAP Week.
To facilitate this exploration, we use the ISKL global citizen framework, which guides the students through a reflective process of investigation, consideration of various perspectives, communicating their thinking and ideas, and then taking action.
The experiential learning at the heart of GAP provides hands-on opportunities for students to immerse themselves in the physical, social, economic, and cultural landscapes of our remarkable region.
The pinnacle of this experience is the annual student travel, for which students select their travel destinations and focus areas, forming grade-level teams of 14-16 members. For many, this journey becomes a cornerstone of their ISKL experience, filled with unforgettable memories and growth.
Have a glimpse into the ISKL GAP Program:
The program’s goals are to:
Increase Awareness
In order for a student to be an effective global citizen, they must first develop a curiosity about their world and the varied and complex issues that are part of it.
The GAP experience includes engaging with perplexing obstacles and opposing viewpoints, inspiring students to cultivate confidence, and viewing these turning points as opportunities to learn and act.
Build Community
Since being a productive team member is an essential 21st-century skill, travel teams will strive to build supportive, inclusive, respectful relationships with all team members, giving particular attention to those with diverse perspectives.
Inspire Informed Action
In support of our mission to cultivate socially responsible global citizens, each Global Action travel team works to deepen their understanding of how economic, environmental, and political issues impact their partner GAP community while simultaneously investigating how to support communities in taking informed action in solving those needs.