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Cultural Convention

Dear Parents,

We welcomed back students and teachers after the February break to a jam-packed week filled with the first week of training for our Varsity and Junior Varsity Season 2 athletes and also to the IASAS Cultural Convention (CC) Showcases.

Thank you to the parents who joined our teaching faculty and fellow students in enjoying the skills and talents of our CC delegates this week at the Showcase events on campus. Fantastic performances, debates, and presentations were shared by our Dance, Drama, Music, Forensics, and Debate teams with great support from our IASAS CC Tech team. We wish all of our delegates and their coaches all the best for their trips next week to JIS (Music), ISKL (Dance, Drama, and Tech), and TAS (Forensics and Debate).

Friday, March 3rd will also see our second-semester Student-Parent-Teacher conferences take place in the Rajendra. Registration and sign-up details were sent to all parents prior to the break with registration closing on Wednesday, March 1st in the morning. In order to ensure balanced numbers in each session, parents must register and sign up for a slot if they wish to attend. If you have any questions about signing up for the conferences, please refer to the earlier email about conferences or contact Khun Arisa at arisap@isb.ac.th. This a reminder that there are no HS classes on Friday Mach 3rd and that students are required to attend the conferences with their parents (unless the student is attending the CCs).

Have a great weekend and I hope to see you at the IFF on Saturday afternoon.

Regards
Justin Alexander
High School Principal

Have a question and don’t know who to ask? You can email me at justina@isb.ac.th or click on HS QUESTION LINK and we will get you the answer you need.

HS Parent Meetings – Semester 2 – includes new meetings (4th Friday Chat with Justin)

ISB Panther page for Varsity and Junior Varsity game schedules etc

Tardies and Absences
Andy Vaughan
andyv@isb.ac.th

This week concludes the end of the first six weeks of semester two. Tardies are counted throughout the semester via six week intervals, at the end of each six week interval, the tardy counts are checked and tallied. If a student has 1-2 tardies there is no consequence, tardies that are excessive of this amount receive a tiered response.

Students and their parents who have had excessive tardies will be receiving an email today outlining the consequences that will take place next week.

We will also be sending out an update on Monday for any student who has 5 or more absences in one or more of their classes. Students who exceed 7 absences in a single class during a semester will lose credit, therefore it is important that parents regularly check PowerSchool and have conversations with their child to ensure that their attendance is within the boundaries of receiving credit.

Temporary Guardianship Form
Andy Vaughan
andyv@isb.ac.th

ISB requires all students to be in full-time residence with at least one of their parents while attending ISB.

ISB understands that parents may need to leave town on a short term basis for a variety of reasons. In these situations parents must appoint a temporary guardian to supervise their child. Please note that household help (i.e. maebann or driver) and school aged siblings are not suitable guardians.

Parents need to inform the divisional office if they will be leaving their child with a guardian. In order to create a common, streamlined approach, this has now moved into an Operoo form. If you are ever away from home, please complete the form in your Operoo account through the Form Library or via these links:

Temporary Guardianship Form

PowerSchool Info Update
Andy Vaughan
andyv@isb.ac.th

Every few months we ask that parents please take a few minutes to login to the Powerschool Parent Portal to update your information so that we can ensure we have your latest contact information correct.

Instructions:

Sep 1. Login to Powerschool

If you are new, you should have received an email with your login details, if not please contact help@isb.ac.th
If you have forgotten your password, please contact arisap@isb.ac.th,

Step 2. Please click “Personal Information Update” on the left hand side.

Review your information that ISB has on record and please update if necessary. It is really important this information is accurate, as we use this in emergency situations. This information will then take a day or two to be updated.

If you have any questions or queries, contact arisap@isb.ac.th

Andy Vaughan
HS Dean of Students

Grade Update and HAL progress available on PowerSchool from Monday

Justyna McMillan
justynam@isb.ac.th

The next Grade update and HAL progress will be available on Monday 27th on PowerSchool. To view current grade and HAL progress:

Log to PowerSchool Parent Portal.
Select ‘Grades and Attendance’
To view current grades, select ‘Grades and Attendance’ tab
To view current HAL performance, select ‘Standards Grades’

If you have any questions about your child’s academic performance, please reach out to the subject teacher or the student’s counselor. The admin team can also help, if you have any overall questions.

News from College University

Debbie McDowell
debbiem@isb.ac.th

Thank you to the parents who joined us for Parent Coffees this week. We reviewed the Study in the Netherlands on Tuesday and Study in Hong Kong and Singapore on Thursday. Those presentations are available on the university counseling website. Next week on Tuesday, 28 February, at 9:00 AM in MPB 1, we will be presenting Study in Australia. Please join us for this if your child is interested in applying to university in Australia.

One of the university counselors, Mr. Nichols, will be out of the office next week while he is participating in a Korean university tour. He will be visiting ten universities with counselors from other schools in Asia. We look forward to his return and the information he will be sharing with families in the future.

Grade 11

Junior Seminar # 7 was on Friday. The counselors reviewed the type of essays that students will be expected to write for their university applications. Students were given the assignment of beginning to outline and write their first rough draft of university application essays. This is a major task and will need to be done and revised multiple times before they submit their applications in their senior year. It’s best to get started now!

SAT Registration for the March SAT

Today (Friday, February 24) is the last day to register for the next SAT test date on March 11. Students must download the app on their computer to be ready to take the test on that Saturday. We will have two more SAT test dates at ISB this semester, on May 6 (deadline to register is April 21) and June 3 (deadline to register is May 19). Moving forward, the SAT is digital. You can find more information about this change here: https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/digital. For any other questions, please be in touch with Ms. Shrestha, the SAT coordinator for the ISB test center: swatis@isb.ac.th

Junior Led Conferences are still ongoing. All grade 11 students should have already scheduled their appointment with their counselor and parents by now. These meetings are expected to be completed by 24 March. Please ask your child about your meeting if you have not already attended the session.

University Visits at ISB

Universities are making appointments to come to ISB to meet with students and parents. Please encourage your child to check the list on Maia Learning and the TV screen outside the counseling office for who will visit and when.

Upcoming University Visits:

Tuesday, 7 March: McGill University, 3:00-3:40, HS Conference Room

Thursday, 9 March: Warwick University, 3:00-3:50, HS Conference Room (Will discuss personal statements along with an overview of admissions at Warwick.)

Monday, 13 March: Canadian Mini Fair, 11:00-11:40, High School Breezeway

Monday, 13 March: Central Washington University, 3:00-3:30, HS Conference Room

Tuesday, 14 March: UK Mini Fair, 3:00-3:40, High School Breezeway

Thursday, 16 March: University of Calgary, 11:00-11:40, HS Conference Room

Thursday, 16 March: Fudan University, 11:00-11:40, HS Conference Room

Thursday, 16 March: Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen, 3:00-3:30, HS Conference Room

Monday, 20 March: Drew University, 3:00-3:30, HS Conference Room

Monday, 27 March: Yamanashi Gakuin University, 11:00-11:40 HS Conference Room 2

Monday, 27 March: American University, 11:00-11:40, HS Conference Room 1

Wednesday, 29 March: University of British Columbia, 3:00-3:40, TBD

Monday, 3 April, Loyola Marymount University, 11:00-11:40, HS Conference Room

Please encourage your child to consistently check the Virtual and Off Campus University Events spreadsheet to know what’s available. Please note that pre-registration is needed for some events.

Please check the ISB University/College Counseling website for useful information. You will find university research tools, transition resources for students and parents, recordings and slide shows from Parent Coffees and family presentations, virtual and off campus university visits, information about testing and how to sign up for the SAT at ISB, a list of summer programs about which the counselors have been informed, and the ISB School Profile.

Kindly,

Debbie

News from School Counselors
Jackie Valenzuela
jackiev@isb.ac.th

If there is ever a time that your family is in need of a referral to a mental health therapist or psychiatrist (either virtually or in person), we are happy to provide you with a list of providers. Please reach out to your student’s counselor (Ms. Leoni, Mr. Sambula or Ms. Valenzuela).

If your family is moving at the end of this school year and applying to other schools, please contact the HS registrar, Khun Fon (supanniy@isb.ac.th). She will send you the necessary forms to withdraw from ISB and can provide school documents (HS transcript) requested from your student’s new school.

News from HS Library

Christopher Bell
christob@isb.ac.th

Please click News from HS Library

HS DRAMA: SPRING SHOWCASE

Anthony Giles
anthonyg@isb.ac.th

Performers needed for the Spring Drama Showcase April 20-21!

Performance ideas include published plays, student written scripts, individual monologues, large group performances…anything! We want to show off ISB’s theatrical talent!!! Sign-ups on March 7 and 8 in the HS Drama Room from 3pm. Need more information? Email augustah@isb.ac.th.

Arts & Activities @ ISB

Anthony Giles
anthonyg@isb.ac.th

February

21-23 HS IASAS Showcases for DDT, FAD and Music
22-26 AMIS MS Honor Band @ American School of Bombay

March

1-31 ISB Arts in March (ISBAM)
1-31 ES Visual Art Exhibition @ Chevron Gallery
1-5 IASAS DDT, FAD & Music CC @ ISKL, SAS & JIS
4 VEX Robotics ‘Thai Nationals’ @ St. Andrew’s
7 IASAS DDT, FAD & Music CC Banquet
9-10 HS Drama Production Auditions
10 ES Visual Art Exhibition Opening @ Chevron Gallery
14-17 ES KG-G5 Music COL’s See Complete Schedule Here

16-18 AMIS MS Honor Orchestra @ ISB
24 PK-G12 Peace Day Assembly
25-27 THAI Model United Nations @ Brighton College
28 HS Jazz Night 2 @ CCT
31 Applications Due for Kinnari Music Festival

31-A1 MS Model United Nations @ ISB

April
4 IB Visual Art Exhibition Opening @ CC Theater Gallery