Justin Alexander
justina@isb.ac.th
Dear Parents,
Despite a number of HS students testing positive for Covid and quite a few close contacts being identified during the course of this week, we have nonetheless had a great week of school. It was of course the week of our IASAS Cultural Convention, which involved over 80 ISB students joining with their peers from our IASAS schools to perform, debate, sing, dance, and put on a show.
Congratulations to our Dance, Drama, Tech, Forensics, Debate, and Music teams for putting on such wonderful performances this week. We were also excited to welcome parents onto campus as audience members and today certainly started to feel more ‘normal’ and celebratory with IASAS taking place. As you will read elsewhere it is the 40th year of IASAS Cultural Conventions taking place with the first one being held here at ISB in 1983. Well done to everyone involved in this great week!
Parent conferences are coming up on Friday, March 11th and details for the sign-ups were emailed out on Tuesday. Please remember that due to COVID restrictions only ONE parent can accompany their child to the conferences on Friday. You must sign up for a session in advance (no walk-ins please).
Lastly, I wanted to give an update on the number of students in the High School that are currently out of school due to covid. As reported on Tuesday night, the majority of these cases are due to contact taking place outside of school at restaurants/bars/gyms or in homes where mask wearing was not taking place. I have listed the current numbers below to keep everyone informed and aware of the correct numbers. (We have 34 positive cases reported since Saturday 26th February)
Saturday and Sunday 26th and 27th Feb – 2 cases
Monday, Feb 28th – 8 cases
Tuesday, March 1st – 8 cases
Wednesday, March 2nd – 8 cases
Thursday, March 3rd – 6 cases
Friday, March 4th – 2 cases
(these numbers are slightly different from those reported on Tuesday night, due to some of the close contacts moving to positive cases)
Stay safe and stay well
Justin Alexander
HS Principal