Middle School

The CAIS Class of 2025 is a juggernaut. At 48 students strong, the class is the largest eighth grade in CAIS history. Having amassed numerous team championships and academic awards, the…

Middle School students and CAIS faculty will enjoy a cherished tradiition as CAIS holds its annual Middle School Human Library on Wednesday, April 2. The event will start at 12:45pm…

This March, CAIS Theater Club continues a beloved middle school tradition by presenting an original production they call The Proxima Paradox and it will be performed in the CAIS Theater on…

We were thrilled to kick off the CAIS Firedragons Athletic 2024-25 Fall Season, featuring exciting competitions in both Volleyball and Cross-Country! This season, our student-athletes not only sharpened their physical…

Longtime readers of the Middle School Update know how much I enjoy the CAIS Lion Dance tradition. A feature of Mass Greeting and Graduation, it was wonderful to see the dancers incorporated…

When the Middle School moved from 150 Oak to 888 Turk nine years ago, we knew the campus was going to provide great community opportunities for the students. What was…

Continuing one of the oldest traditions at CAIS, the Class of 2024 attended Grad Dinner on the evening of June 10 in the 19th Avenue Dance Studio. This event, hosted…

In the seventh grade Chinese class, the capstone project in the Modern China unit is the Panel Discussion on Taiwan-China issues. Students posed thought-provoking questions to the panelists that consisted…

Our sixth graders recently completed a Talk Show performance-based assessment for this unit. The purpose of this Talk Show was to give students opportunities to apply Chinese philosophies to real…

The “Humans of Guilin Rap Project” was born from a simple yet powerful idea: ordinary people have extraordinary stories. Inspired by “Humans of New York,” during our trip to Guilin,…