Introduction from the Director General

THE FOUNDATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF GENEVA

Introduction from David Hawley, Director General

Dear parents of students enrolled at the International School of Geneva,

I hope that you are as excited as I am to be part of our school community and engaged in the pursuit of our ambitious mission:

To educate students to be global citizens with the capacity and courage to create a just and joyful tomorrow together.

What else could be more important for the future of humanity?

We are all learners together. Whether you are a family new to the school or a family with us for multiple generations, we all share things in common.

We want to provide the very best educational experience for each learner every day. We want to cultivate habits of mind and of action that can make a difference today and tomorrow. We recognise that we are interdependent on and interconnected with one another. We enshrine in our charter and ensure in all our activities equality and solidarity among all peoples and the equal value of all human beings. This is why our education is inclusive, international, multilingual and grounded in humanitarian values. This is also why the quality of our relationships matter so much and why we need to work so closely with each other. We are educators one and all.

In this time of unprecedented acceleration of change comes unlimited promise and peril alike. We want to do everything we can to prepare young people and ourselves to amplify the former and minimize the latter. The ultimate beneficiary of our work is humankind and the planet we share.

All parents are members of the Foundation of the International School of Geneva. Information about the Foundation, how it operates and the policies that the Foundation has created for the safe and effective operation of its three campuses can be found via this link: my.ecolint.ch/policies. I would like to draw your attention to one of these policies in particular, our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy, and I ask that you become familiar with this policy.

Let us all enjoy the joys and the challenges ahead in this, our 97^th school year since it all began with eight students constructing a home for a rabbit.

With best regards,

David Hawley

Director General