Justin Alexander
justina@isb.ac.th
Dear Parents,
It has been a great week of school with more students returning to class each day. The majority of students that were missing school last week due to being a positive case or a close contact have now returned to school. All of the positive HS student cases were either mild cases or completely asymptomatic and we are glad to have them back in classes.
ISB has been releasing a regular covid update in the Thursday all-school Enews. This update has been sharing the numbers of positive cases at school (students and faculty) and also any new changes made to the covid risk matrix. Please do read this message written by Dr. Davies every Thursday as there are changes being made to our protocols regularly. A significant change made recently is the reduction of the quarantine period (from 7 days to 3 days) for close contacts who have contracted and recovered from Covid within the previous 90 days.
Last week we shared in our Enews article details as to how close contact and recovered covid positive students can stay connected with their teachers and their classmates when they are absent form school. We are committed to keeping the school open and having students in their classes (of course following the safety protocols etc in place) and have been able to do this even if the number of students absences is higher than usual.
As mentioned earlier, we have seen many students return to school and hope that this trend will continue. We have shared a graph of the absences below for your information.
Thank you again for your participation in the conferences last Friday, it was great to see parents back on campus again and we look forward to being able to continue to give more access to the campus in the weeks ahead.
Enjoy the weekend and we look forward to seeing you at the Principals Forum on Thursday (registration details are elsewhere in this ENews edition).
Regards
Justin Alexander
HS Principal