Message from the High School Principal
Justin Alexander
Dear Parents,
We look forward to welcoming back everyone after the winter break. We all hope that you and your family were able to spend some time together and that your children – our students are refreshed and ready to take on the challenge of second semester. We look forward to an uninterrupted semester of learning, fun, challenge and activities for our students and our teachers as well. We also welcome 6 new High School students and their families to ISB who are starting in January. Please keep a look out for them around school and do extend a friendly welcome to them. In the meantime enjoy the last weekend of the break and we will see you all on Monday!
Regards
Justin Alexander
High School Principal
Back to School Reminders
Andy Vaughan
andyv@isb.ac.th
I hope you have all had a wonderful vacation over the past few weeks and that your child is ready to return to the second semester re energised!
Students schedules are available on PowerSchool through the student and parent log in pages. Please note that we will be starting Monday as a normal day one schedule.
Uniforms and Dress Code
We ask that parents support the High School faculty and administration in ensuring your child leaves for school in the correct uniform. Our dress code policy can be found on page 40 of the online student handbook under ‘Uniform and Dress Code’.
For a quick summary please note the following:
- School pants can be purchased from the bookstore, but we do allow non-bookstore pants, so long as they are in the same design limitations as our bookstore pants (smart casual). Pants must be appropriate length (defined as 1/3 of the hip to knee, or no shorter than to the end of one’s thumb tips with arms extended). Tighter pants are allowed however, spandex and ‘yoga’ style sports pants are not allowed. Pants should also be free from larger branding (small discrete symbols are allowed).
- Hoodies and sweaters must be purchased from the Booster Hut.
- Every Friday students will have a specific focused alternative dress day in which they will be able to wear ISB Team-wear, class shirts, ISB club wear or themed dress as per the planned schedule for that week. Our Student Council will be sharing these dress days with students directly in the coming weeks
- Footwear should be comfortable, practical and safe. Shoes must be closed toe shoes and cannot be the traditional ‘croc’ sandal.
The High School faculty and administration will monitor students’ attire to ensure that it aligns to our expectations. Please help us in ensuring that your student(s) only wear dress code conforming clothing to school.
Bicycle and Motor Scooter Helmets
For personal safety considerations, appropriate bike helmets should be worn (and properly strapped) by both students and adults entering campus. Administrators and security guards may periodically monitor the front gate and offer reminders and encouragement. Thank you for helping to support and model a safe environment at ISB!
Driving to school
Only students with a valid Thai driver’s license may drive/park a car on campus. Students who are 15 years or older may drive/park a motor scooter on campus provided:
- The student has a Thai driver’s license for their age group
- The student obtains a parking permit sticker from the HS Office
- The motorbike is 110cc or under if the student is under 18 years of age
- An appropriately strapped motorcycle helmet is worn and the driver only carries passengers with helmets on and off campus
Golf carts must also be operated safely and be affixed with a parking pass from the security office. Only students with an approved drivers license will be permitted to park a golf cart on campus and such students must obtain an approval from the High School Office. Drivers licenses from other countries are applicable certification for students driving golf carts to school.
Excusing Absences
Andy Vaughan
andyv@isb.ac.th
Any absence that is necessary for a HS student should be excused by parents via email to our HS Attendance secretary, Khun Tukta 02 963 5883 (ext. 3305) or email: hsattendance@isb.ac.th. It is appreciated if this email can be received before 8.00am so that we can alert teachers early.
It is important that we receive this parental contact, because without it, your child is marked as absent (X) on PowerSchool. Unexcused absences may result in additional consequences, such as a discipline consequence or loss of credit if excessive absences take place within a subject. You can see whether your child has been marked absent (X) on any day using PowerSchool. If we receive confirmation from parents that the absence is excused/explained, then we adjust the code to reflect that. Please help us to ensure we best understand the reasons for your child missing school.
Please also note if a student misses a class during the day, they are not able to participate in co-curricular activities on that day without prior approval from the Dean of Students.
For extended absences, parents should email Andy Vaughan (andyv@isb.ac.th) and copy in their child’s counselor and Khun Tukta (hsattendance@isb.ac.th) for approval. Please note that in order to gain credit in a class, students must not exceed 7 absences (excused or unexcused).
Covid related absences
For any student that tests positive, please ensure that you record by emailing the ISB nurse and cc’ing in the HS Administration.
ISB Nurse: nurse@isb.ac.th
Justin Alexander: justina@isb.ac.th
Andy Vaughan: andyv@isb.ac.th
For students who are not able to attend school due to testing positive to COVID and the 5 day quarantine period, these students will have a code of NPVS (Not Present Virtual School) listed on PowerSchool for the 5 day period, or until they test negative (so long as a minimum of 5 days have passed)
Please note that the NPVS code does not count towards their accumulated absences. Students who are isolating due to covid need to log onto their Google Classroom to keep up with their classwork, no zoom is available for any absent students.
Permission to Leave Campus Early Form
Andy Vaughan
andyv@isb.ac.th
Standing Agreement to Leave Campus Early During a Free Last Block.
Students in High School may apply for the privilege of leaving school early on days that they have the last block free. Parents need to complete an online form this year through Operoo to approve this standing agreement. This permission may only be used in the last block of the school day where the student has a free block.
When exiting campus, students will still need to come and collect a temporary gate pass from the HS Attendance Secretary to indicate they have permission to leave campus.
Please note that students who leave campus are not covered by the school’s insurance policy since they are unsupervised during this time. While off campus, the Parent assumes responsibility for their child.
For information on how to access Operoo, please refer to this video.
To complete this form for your child, please follow this link.
Please note that ISB Bus travellers are not able to be issued this agreement as they are not travelling home on school sponsored transport
Andy Vaughan
HS Dean of Students