International Day is a fun and educational day to celebrate ISB’s diversity. We have 53 countries represented in our Elementary School. For those new to ISB, we will transform many of our ES classrooms into countries to celebrate different cultures, food, dress, language, music, geography, etc. Students are invited to wear a costume representative of their home country to school that day. Throughout the week (November 26-29), students are invited to wear country t-shirts instead of their uniform or P.E. uniform shirts. A country t-shirt represents a country or place you have visited with your family.
The day begins with an international parade down “main street”, or in our case the hallway from the track to the Chevron Theater, where we will have our International Assembly. (Due to fire codes and limited space, this is a students only assembly). From there, our children will return to their grade level classrooms where parents have prepared wonderful country celebrations.
All parents are encouraged to take part in creating this amazing learning experience for our students. We are looking for people who either want to host a room, co-host a room but need to find someone to partner with, or just help out in a country room. You don’t need to be from the country to help out. Hosting a room can be as simple as putting up pictures and decorations from the host country and a game, song or dance. To volunteer as a helper in a room you would be offering support for the setup/clean up and helping the host run different activities on International Day. Please contact the ES PTA Coordinators at escoord@isb.ac.th .
