Dear Parents,
We have enjoyed a great week of Showcase events (for our IASAS Cultural Convention) and the HS also celebrated Intercultural and Inclusive week. The showcase events were an opportunity for our CC delegates to get some last-minute practices/performances under their belt and also a chance to showcase and highlight their talents to their parents, teachers, and classmates. It was fantastic to see our students shine across all of these important disciplines and in many cases see parents there as well.
Speaking of seeing parents on campus, you will notice that we are continuing to open up our campus and have parents visit and return to being an integral part of school life. Along with upcoming sporting and CC events, we will be able to have parents come on campus for the Student Parent-Teacher conferences on Friday, March 11th. There are details about how to sign up etc later in the bulletin, but I do want to highlight that in order to run safe conferences on that day, we can only allow ONE parent to attend the conferences with their child on that day. Seniors students will be doing their mock exams on that day, so parents of grade 12 students are not required to attend either.
I mentioned intercultural and inclusive week in my opening sentence and indeed our lunchtimes were exciting and full of energy this week. We had bands playing, community service groups running a variety of booths celebrating diversity and recognizing the cultural diversity that we have at ISB. Students at ISB are accepting and very respectful of cultural and other differences, which is particularly important at a time when Ukraine and surrounding countries in Eastern Europe are in the midst of conflict and upheaval. Our thoughts are with our community members at ISB who have family in friends in these affected areas and we hope for peace and a quick and peaceful resolution to the current situation.
Stay safe, stay well
Justin Alexander
High School Principal