Head’s Lines: Kindling recognition at home and abroad

Last week on Monday 20th January, our Head of Key Stage 2, Mr. Geoff Magee attended the prestigious International School Awards in London. Our school had been among the nominees in the Best Environmental Initiative category thanks to the exceptionally powerful environmental programme - ‘Eco Beasts’ – which aimed to achieve collective and sustainable change by inspiring students to create and carry out action plans to address a host of environmental challenges. The Eco Beasts initiative has been a success from the outset, and the school now employs two environmental sustainability coordinators who continue to support the expansion of the ‘Eco Beasts’ initiative to include the wider community.

ISC Research hosts the annual International School Awards to recognise and raise awareness of some of the very best initiatives in English-medium international schools around the world. This year there were over 250 eligible nominations for the awards from international schools across 40 different countries. The winners were chosen by an independent judging panel of 11 highly experienced international educators.

On top of winning the award for Best Environmental Initiative category, our school won the top accolade of the night as International School of the Year 2020. This award was earned as a result of our standout contribution to the Best Environmental Initiative category alongside the excellence we have achieved in other facets as an international school. This is a fantastic recognition of our school as a centre of excellence for international education.

I am delighted that the hard work and dedication of everyone at the school has been recognised by ISC Research through these two awards. Being named as International School of the Year is a huge achievement and a testament to our entire school community. More than anything, however, we take tremendous pride in the fact that all our students are encouraged to be global citizens and feel empowered to make meaningful change in their community and the world.

Recruitment

Last week we had a very busy but successful recruitment trip to London. Geoff and I participated in the NAE Recruitment Fair where we interacted with a large number of applicants for all the different teaching positions across our school. These positions were advertised in the UK Guardian website as well as on our own website recruitment page, and it was great to see so many high quality teachers wanting to come and work with us. Now back in school, we shall be consulting with the Senior Leadership Team members who also conducted a series of local and Skype interviews with many qualified candidates during last week. to choose the best candidates for each position available. Once we have selected from amongst the best candidates for each position, and these educators have, in turn, accepted our offers, we shall certainly inform our school community about who will be joining us for the start of next academic year.

School Calendar 2019/2020

The updated school calendars for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 are available here.

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