DELVE |

Dear Parents,

We have been closely monitoring the impact of our situation on our planned DELVE trips in December.

After much thought and investigating different options available, we have made an early decision to postpone our DELVE trips to the end of the school year. With the current restrictions in Thailand and the uncertainty of the next few weeks/months, we cannot start the work we intended for our DELVE trips. It is difficult to make any firm plans, confirm bookings or itineraries with any of our providers at this stage. Considering the lead-up time required to successfully plan DELVE and all the unknowns surrounding future restrictions and regulations, we are unsure when the work can properly start.

While we may be back in school face-to-face before the scheduled DELVE dates, the preparation time is too short to make commitments to our providers.

We hold hope that by May/June 2022 the reasons that have caused us to postpone DELVE in December will have changed, and we will be able to run the complete set of local Thailand DELVE courses for our students.

We have not yet finalised the exact dates for this postponement, but this will be firmed and communicated in the coming weeks as there may be some re-shuffling of the calendar required for this to occur.

Similar to last year, by moving to the end of the school year, it is unlikely that we will be able to offer the DELVE trips to our Senior Students based on the timing of IB examinations and graduation. However, this is still to be confirmed.

Although the postponement of DELVE may be disappointing for our students, we hope that we will be in a better position in May/June 2022 to host meaningful and purposeful DELVE options for our students.

The days that were to be DELVE at the end of semester one are now replaced with regular school days as follows:

13 December: Day 2
14 December: Day 3
15 December: Day 4
16 December: Day 5 & Mid-Year Graduation (Moved from 9 December)
17 December: Adjusted Day Schedule & Closing Assembly (Moved from 10 December)

Many thanks,
Peter Assimakopoulos
CAS & Service Learning Coordinator