29 SHI JIE MAGAZINE – AUTUMN
Where Are They Now? Siarra and Kai Healy
2017 W here are they now ?
Where do you live now? We live near Zurich, Switzerland, in a small village called Egg.
Language (EAL) for our first three years here, and now teaches EAL and Language in Grades 4 and 5.
What brought you there?
Where do you go to school?
We had been in Asia for five years and we wanted to live somewhere where the climate was more like Canada, with four seasons, so our mom and dad (Tiffany Crook and Sean Healy) got jobs teaching in Zurich.
When we first moved here we went to the local elementary school in Egg. Everything was in German but we couldn’t speak German at all! After two years, we are now able to speak German and have made some friends in our local community.
schools because Siarra was going into Grade 6 (Year 7) and it was the start of MYP for her. Also, it was easier for our whole family to have the same school holidays.
In August 2016 we switched to the Inter Community School of Zurich (ICSZ) where our parents teach. ICSZ is an international school where the main language is English. We switched
Siarra is in Grade 7 this year (Year 8) & Kai is in Grade 5 (Year 6).
Just as when he was in DC, our dad teaches MYP Science as well as DP Biology and DP Environmental Systems and Societies (ESS). Our mom taught MYP English Language and Literature as well as English as an Additional