Principals Update – 1 Sep 2017

A big congratulations to Year 12 students who received their IGCSE results, this week. The students’ exam results improve year-on year and 2017 was no exception! All the hard work paid-off.  Some other highlights of the week include,

• Quest week meetings were held to help students start to prepare for what will be an amazing experience again this year.
• Sports, music and drama practices got under way this week and students optimism for what lies ahead was very clear.
• The student decant committee met for the first time as a full group and commenced working through the issues identified by peers.
• We posted updates on the website with additional information on the decant.
• Many Year 12 parents attended an information evening which covered a range of topics.
• The CAS fair was conducted with well over 40 organisations on site to explain to students the opportunities that exist for them to get involved with them.
• No school days were lost due to safety inspections.

Next Monday night the first PTA meeting will be held at 5.30pm in the library. The topics I will be discussing include:-

• An overview of how we will manage the decant and the opportunities for parents to be involved in decision making.
• The next layer of activity to improve communications between school / home.

It would be great to see you there.

I must admit to someone new to Hong Kong the weather at this time of year is taking a lot of getting used to. Monday was chaotic to say the least but it doesn’t matter what you throw at Island School wonderful things happen here!

Stephen Loggie
Island School
Principal