ISB Security Head Note, 20 May, 9:00am

Dear ISB Community,

Early this morning, the Royal Thai Army declared a state of martial law throughout Thailand (click here for BBC article).

We are checking now with our security and government contacts and will be in touch again when we have a better understanding of the implications of martial law.

Students have arrived safely to campus, school and IB exams are running as normal.

All buses and vans will depart at 2:15pm today – there will be no late buses running and all bus riders should leave campus at 2:15pm. We can expect checkpoints and traffic delays.

We hope to run CAO activities today for Nichada based students only (gymnastics, tennis, dance, swimming, NBBL. We will confirm by 12:00pm today.

We are in contact with the trip leaders on our Grade 5 and 8 schools trips and are monitoring the local situations. We will also be making decisions today with respect to class trips for grades 5, 6 and 7 scheduled to leave tomorrow.

ISB community members are advised to monitor events through the media. ISB will remain in touch with our various security advisors and communicate by email and SMS later today.

ISB Leadership Team contact details are provided below.

Sincerely,

Dr. Andrew Davies
Head of School