High School Upcoming events (Please click):
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Principal’s Forum
Philip Bradley
philipb@isb.ac.th
Our next High School Principal’s Forum meeting will be in the MPB at 9:00 AM on – Tuesday, December 9th. We hope you can attend – it is a full agenda with questions related to:
- Curriculum – language and challenge
- Coaching and IASAS
- Topics related to HS logistics
The Social for Mid Year Graduates, Tuesday 9 Dec. 10:20-11:00am @MPB1
Philip Bradley
philipb@isb.ac.th
Please come visit and sign autographs for our mid-year graduates on Tuesday, Dec. 9 at MPB1 from 10:20 to 11:10, during the HS lunch time. This year, we have 6 seniors graduating mid year and they will all miss the yearbook signing in April. The PTA in coordination with the HS Office, welcomes everyone to join this event.
Best Wishes to our 2015 Mid Year Graduates
Andres Alberto Green
Kaori Naoi
Rina Matsumoto
Hanna Matsuda
Mako Nagino
Ken Yoshimoto
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.
December Examinations
Phil Rogers
philr@isb.ac.th
December Examinations – 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 2014 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
Early departure_Examinations
High School Counseling Newsletter
Andrew Weiser
andreww@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.
Last Thursday or Friday (Nov. 27, 28) students received their semester exam schedule. December 8 and 9 will be review days and the exams are December 10, 11, 12, 15 and 16.
Grade 12 – 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, 64% 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. Applications should be complete when a student sees their counselor to submit.
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.
Grade 11 – Last week 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 last week’s Junior Seminar and/or not receive his/her Junior Packet, please inform him/her to see their counselor.
Parents- Don’t forget, there’s homework for the parents too!! (Parent Perspective)
Grade 10 – All the 10th graders should have met with their counselor this week to talk about school, exams, and anything else that might come up about life both in and out of ISB! We’ve spent time with the sophomores in sessions about personality traits and career possibilities; this was a chance for us to hear from the students about how their year is going.
Grade 9 – This week in Freshman Seminar our 9th graders focused on finalization of their personal learning plan. This will be a working document / website that can be updated throughout their 4 years in high school. It is also an excellent tool for students moving to new schools to share information about themselves as a learner and young person. In addition, we also had a session on healthy choices – where we discussed adolescent drug and alcohol use. Part of the session revisited some of the effects and consequences of its use. Students then reviewed and discussed refusal techniques / skills and how they might handle different scenarios.
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:
College Visits will resume in January
Please see Naviance for the extensive list of colleges/universities that will be visiting ISB.
Have a great weekend!
The HS Counseling Department
HS Visual Art Show
Marianne Derow
mariannd@isb.ac.th
The HS Visual Art Show will be on display in the CCT foyer until the 16th of December. It showcases visual arts from across the high school fine arts courses, including ceramics, photography and jewelry. Come along and see the installations of wonderful student work. It’s just not to be missed!
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.