‘Welcome’ |

Welcome back everyone!

To our returning students and families, a big welcome back and of course for our new students (over 60 of them in the High School) I wish you and your families a warm and wonderful welcome to ISB and to Bangkok for those that have recently moved here. I am sure that your parent reps and student ambassadors will make you feel as welcome and as cared for as they did for me and our family when we arrived at ISB in July 2017.

I have come to appreciate and recognise that a real strength of ISB is the sense of community and ISB Panther Pride that is obvious and intentional from our teachers, students and families. I trust that our new families and students receive the same warm welcome that we did last year and I look forward to extending that same welcome to all of the new families at ISB.

I trust that you have all enjoyed a safe and relaxing break and have made the most of the summer to spend time with family and friends, be active, to read, travel and recharge those batteries. The school year fast approaches and our students will need all of their energy to make the most of the many opportunities that lie ahead of them in the High School.

Preparations have been underway at school for more than a week, with my colleagues working hard to ensure we are ready to welcome 600 High School students on Tuesday August 14th. We will open school with a HS assembly at 7.20am in the Chevron Theatre before moving into an advisory session. Mr. Vaughan will share details later in this newsletter about the full schedule for the first day of school. The new student and parent orientation Program takes place on Monday August 13^th with registration at 8.45am and an official welcome at 9.05am in the Cultural Centre Theatre.

Fortunately we only had a small number of teachers leave the High School last year and I am pleased to report that we have some wonderful teachers joining (or rejoining) the High School this year. Only one teacher is completely new to ISB as the rest have all worked at ISB either previously or are moving to us from the Middle School. Please join me in welcoming:

Peter Soule – Social Studies (returning to ISB after a 2 year absence)
Patience Soule – Science (returning to ISB after a 2 year absence)
Mike Rutherford – HS Library and Tech Coordinator (joining us from the Middle School)
Bruce Melhorn – Math (joining us from the Middle School)
Ryan Ruhl – MS/HS Psychologist (joining us from the Elementary school)
Ziyan Wang – HS and MS Chinese (joins ISB from Concordian International School in Bangkok)

All the best for a wonderful year and I look forward to meeting many of you in the coming weeks.

Sincerely,
Justin Alexander
High School Principal