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Report Card Holds
Peter Roback & Phil Rogers
peterro@isb.ac.th, philr@isb.ac.th
Please note that parents will be unable to access report cards through Powerschool if a report card hold has been placed on a student account. Report card holds occur if books are outstanding at the Library, fees are overdue or textbooks not returned. If a report card hold has occurred parents will be notified via email. (Roback & Rogers)
December Examinations
Phil Rogers
philr@isb.ac.th
All students should have received their individual exam schedules. If you have not seen it, please ask your son or daughter. A copy of the schedule is attached to this news article.
- December 2013 exams run from Wednesday 10th December to Wednesday 17th December.
- There are 3 exam sessions each day which have 7:20, 10:10 and 1:00 start times, except for students with accommodations, who have separate schedules. Students should arrive at their exam venues 15 minutes early. Students will not be permitted to leave an exam early.
. - Student are expected to bring pens, pencils, rulers, erasers, ISB ID card, calculator (if required) and a clear water bottle to each exam.
- Students who do not have an exam on a day may stay at home to study or use our Library for private study.
- Students can leave school early after an exam by completing an exam early departure form (attached). This form will be posted on the Parent and Student Portals or hard copies can be obtained from the HS Office. Students will need to have a parent-signed, completed form for each instance they wish to leave campus.
- Students are expected to take each exam as scheduled. Students who are sick for an exam must contact the HS office immediately. Medical certificates MUST be provided.
- Thursday 18th December and Friday 19th December are exam feedback days where normal attendance is expected. Teachers will look at group and individual feedback, review markschemes and success criteria, look at exemplary answers and develop future goals. School will still finish at 11:30am on the Friday following the HS end of year assembly.
PowerSchool will be closed to student and parent access from 7am on Wednesday 10th December until after the exam period.
Dec 2014 Exams Schedules – FINAL for Parents & Students
High School Counseling Newsletter
Kevin Davy
kevind@isb.ac.th
Dear Parents,
As always, if you are concerned about your son’s or daughter’s performance or experiences here at ISB or outside of school, do not hesitate to contact his or her counselor. We’re here to help.
This week students received their semester exam schedule. More details on the exams will be coming to you from our Dean of Academics.
Grade 12 – Thank you for encouraging your son/daughter to turn in their transcript requests this past Monday. On Monday, December 1 counselors will offer a University Interview Workshop for those students who may have a general university interview with an alumni.
The next few weeks will be quite busy in the counseling office as students prepare for exams and as a large percentage of Seniors will submit their university applications. As of today, 61% of Seniors have submitted at least one university application. Some students are completely finished. Please remind seniors to schedule an appointment as soon as possible with their counselor to submit all of their applications. It’s best to do this before exams begin on December 10 so that students can focus solely on a strong academic performance on those end of semester assessments.
Finally, please continue to offer support to your Senior through what can be a very stressful time. We hope you can assist in bringing some balance to the conversations at home about university. For most of you, these are the last few months you’ll be living together as a family so it’s important to protect that time together.
Seniors are reminded to make and keep appointments with their counselor for university application submissions. Please be on time.
Grade 11 –This past Monday during Flex, Grade 11 students attended Junior Seminar with their counselor. The topic of the seminar was “How to begin researching universities and the university application process.” Students were given a packet work to be completed by February 2.
If your son/daughter did not attend this week’s Junior Seminar and/or not receive his/her Junior Packet, please inform him/her to see their counselor.
Grade 10 – All the 10th graders will be meeting with their counselor next week to talk about school, exams, and anything else that might come up about life both in and out of ISB! It’s a chance for the counselors to get to know their 10th grade students a little better. We’ve spent time with the sophomores in sessions about personality traits and career possibilities; this is a great chance for us to hear from the students about how their year is going. We look forward to it.
Grade 9 – This week in Freshman Seminar our 9th graders focused on Semester Exam Preparation. They were given basic information on how the exams work in the high school along with tips and strategies to approach their preparation for the next couple of weeks. In addition, we spoke of ways to address and prevent anxiety leading into exams; different resources were shared on our Freshman Seminar Haiku page.
Freshman were also reminded that if there is a good chance that they will be relocating next school year then the second semester they should consider taking Chemistry 2. By doing so they will have a full credit of the same science. This can be more transferable for most schools that students will transfer to.
Every year we have a handful of students who may be applying to high schools / boarding schools in other countries for the following school year. Some of these deadlines are in January / February, especially for boarding schools in the United States. It is important that the student’s counselor and counseling office are informed of these January deadline applications by Friday December 5th so that applications can be prepared before the break and make required deadlines.
Upcoming College/University Visits
- Monday, December 1:@ lunch in the Art Room
NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano (Italy)
- Wednesday, December 3@ lunch in room #203
Cornell University (U.S.A)
Please see Naviance for the extensive list of colleges/universities that will be visiting ISB.
Have a great weekend!
The HS Counseling Department
Spirit Night and Basketball Friendship Tournaments
Andy Vaughan
andyv@isb.ac.th
Tonight is our Season Two Spirit Night, which for the first time ever will have competition for all our second season U17 and Varsity teams, thanks to the many BPS teams coming out for the evening as well as other teams joining our Basketball Friendship Tournament. There will be action all around the sports facilities from the 50m pool, the old and new tennis courts, fields and the AC gyms. For the Spirit Night schedule, please follow this link:
Spirit Night Schedule: https://t.co/hNGzeMJqFA
As per usual we’ll have lots of food options for spectators and athletes with Shoshana, Subway, Beef Jerky and Baan Kimchi as well as Twist selling drinks. Make a night of it and forget the cooking!
The night also kicks off our Basketball Friendship Tournament that will run Friday and all day Saturday. We are welcoming teams from around Bangkok, as well as Grace International School from Chiang Mai and Shanghai American School from China. For the Basketball Friendship Tournament Schedule please follow these links:
Basketball Friendship Tournament Schedule: https://t.co/lwDhtE3SQh
Please come on out and support your Panthers this weekend!
Holiday Band Concert/HS Art/Photography Show
Marianne Derow
mariannd@isb.ac.th
The annual Holiday Band Concert will take place on Tuesday, December 2nd beginning at 6:30 pm in the CCT. This concert will feature the bands of ISB HS, and will feature Holiday Classics and other fun tunes. The concert is free and all are welcome. In addition to the concert, the HS Art Show will be on display in the CCT foyer, so you can come early or stay late and enjoy the wonderful creativity of our HS artists/photographers.
eNewsletter Guidelines
Tony Arnold
anthonya@isb.ac.th
ISB eNewsletters provide a valuable avenue for communication within the ISB parent community. For your convenience we have provided you with our eNewsletter guidelines below.
Submitting an announcement for publication
ISB accepts announcements from ISB families for potential publication in our eNewsletters. The announcements are generally intended to highlight events that occur at ISB and/or highlight information about ISB.
What to include in the announcement
• A title for your announcement
• An email contact for further information
Where to submit your announcement
4publish@isb.ac.th is for announcements of interest to the entire ISB community.
tinaratr@isb.ac.th is for Elementary School (ES) announcements of interest to ES families.
maurilib@isb.ac.th is for Middle School (MS) announcements of interest to MS families.
vijitl@isb.ac.th is for High School (HS) announcements of interest to HS families.
Your announcement will be submitted to the appropriate Principal and/or to our Marketing Director for review. ISB reserves the right to determine which announcements will and will not be published, and to edit announcements that are approved for publication.
Frequency of eNewsletter mailings
The ISB eNewsletter that is for the entire community is sent out on Thursdays. Announcements for potential publication in this newsletter must be received by noon on Thursdays.
The ES, MS, and HS eNewsletters are sent out on Fridays. Announcements for potential publication in these newsletters must be received by noon on Fridays.