November 2025

General Info for All

• What's happening in the photos?

  • The new PreDP IB ambassadors.  More about them below.

  • Wharton global youth investment competition. This is one of the world’s most prestigious competitions and is backed by Wharton school of the University of Pennsylvania; and we have a small group of students taking part! The Wharton Global High School Investment Competition is a free, experiential investment challenge for high school students. We work in teams of four to six, guided by a teacher as our advisor, and have access to an online stock market simulator. Together, we learn about strategy-building, teamwork, communication, risk, diversification, company and industry analysis, and many other aspects of investing. 

The aim of the game is to craft a compelling pitch to a client that will convince him to invest his money with us instead of the other teams. To do this, we have to construct a portfolio that fits the client’s future goals the best and adhere to their needs. This year, the client is Connor Barwin, a former NFL player turned community activist. He founded the Make The World Better foundation, which emphasises strengthening the local community, public restoration projects, and sustainability.

Our goal is to get into the semifinals(top 50) and maybe even make it to the finals if we’re lucky. Sadly, anyone who wants to join us right now will be met with disappointment because the final team application deadline has already passed. However, if you’re interested for next year, here is the official website:

https://globalyouth.wharton.upenn.edu/competitions/investment-competition/case-study/

• • Creativity, Activity, and Service Clubs in Action. 

  • Alumni Visit to Biology.  IB Alumni Laura Johansson (Karolinska institutet)  and Robert Khashan (Göteborgs universitet), both final-year medical students, visited the DP2 Biology students to talk about stem cell donations and the Tobias registry. It was an interactive workshop that mixed lecture with Kahoot quiz and a donator-patient game. The students also had the opportunity to ask questions about anything from stem cell donations to how to survive the last year of IB and study for final exams!

  • Visual Arts Annual Field Trip.  Students went to the art museum, Louisiana, in Denmark and had a lovely day.

  • Study Tips! More on that is linked below.

• Welcome New IB Ambassadors:

  • The new ambassadors from PreDP are Charlotte Rutter, Kevin Eliasson, Yuhan (Momo) Zhang.

  • DP 1 ambassadors are: George Larsson, Rikshitha Antonyraj, and Shivangini Shankar

  • DP2 ambassadors are: Ruhan Marwah, Simisoluwa Dahunsi, and Sue Di.

• Gy-Mässa: The High School Fair was a success thanks for all of you you went and talked to our prospective students and parents.  Thanks to the IB Ambassadors who were there, and also other students who stepped up to help! And special thanks also to the teachers who re-arranged their work schedules to attend the fair and represent our program. We are very lucky to have such wonderful, helpful, service oriented students and teachers! 

• Study Tips! This time from one of our own students, thank you for sharing Aisha!  Click here to get the study tips.

• Creativity, Activity, and Service Clubs and Info

Ongoing Clubs: See the CAS bulletin board in South for more info.

• Medicine Society of Hvitfeldtska (Aadya)

• Craft and Upcycling (Svea)

• Drawing club (Nayeli)

• Medicine (Siddhi) - Why do we need two Medicine clubs? 

• Debate club (Bella, Primrose, Aarohi)

• Competition Level Math (Haolin, Linyun)

• Football (Alvin)

• The Principal is out visiting lessons: What I see

I see engaged students who are paying attention, taking notes, asking questions, answering questions and working together collaboratively with classmates to discuss the lesson.  In all classrooms I've been to, there is a friendly, peaceful, open climate with a good rapport between the teacher and students, and students with students. 

PreDP Happenings

• DEVELOPMENT TALKS Nov 13th.  These are run by the student's mentor. The instructions for signing up were sent to you in Vklass. The last newsletter gives in depth information about how the talks will go, the important thing to know, so you are not surprised: the mentor will not be giving a reporting of how it's going in every subject. Instead, you get that information from Vklass Appraisals collected in Vklass for you and the student to see yourselves ahead of time.  Link #2 below shows you how to find it.

The talks will instead focus on the student's wellbeing, study habits and approaches to learning skills.  Subject specific questions or    concerns are to be communicated with the subject teacher directly.

Resources:

1. Presentation for guardian for how to sign up for development talk and find and read “appraisal meetings” report. (Vklass)

2. Presentation for students for finding their scheduled development talk and “appraisal meetings” reports for each subject. (Vklass)

3. IB Approaches to Learning Skills. 

4. IB Learner Profile Attributes

• Subject Request Process has had a soft start with some information from the Study and Career Counselor Nov 6. I hope you have been researching University Programs IB25. Remember to visit the Google Classroom to access all of the links and info she has put up for you!  

The next steps are coming in the assemblies where you will meet the Psychology teacher and Principal Nov 20, the Economics Principal and Math teacher Nov 27.  Parents are welcome week 50 Tues at 1730, North Aula, for detailed information about subjects.  Students are welcome too! They will, however, get the same information Thurs week 50 at the assembly.

DP1 Happenings

• Nov 13: This is a study day at home for you because PreDP and DP 2 students have development talks. Your development talks are going to be held in Spring, specifically, March 17.  It's a great day to set up a study plan, perhaps using the Study Tips from Aisha posted above! (note: I see the schedule shows you in a classroom but that is not true: you should not come to school).

DP2 Happenings

• DEVELOPMENT TALKS Nov 13th.  These are run by the student's mentor. The instructions for signing up were sent to you in Vklass. The last newsletter gives in depth information about how the talks will go, the important thing to know, so you are not surprised: the mentor will not be giving a reporting of how it's going in every subject. Instead, you get that information from your latest report in Managebac and you can see it yourselves ahead of time.  Resource #1  below shows you how to find it.

The talks will instead focus on the student's wellbeing, study habits and approaches to learning skills. Subject specific questions or    concerns are to be communicated with the subject teacher directly.

     Resources:

1. Finding the Report in Managebac.  

Student  > Profile (usually top right corner with your initials). Scroll to very bottom.   

Parent > Student associated will show in upper right > Academic Profile (on left hand menu) > scroll to very bottom.

Questions about Managebac accounts should be directed to ingrid.white.ashammar@educ.goteborg.se 

Internal Assessment-Important Information about Academic Integrity

This information is found in the Assessment and Academic Integrity Policies. Here you find the most important points that can put your Diploma at risk. We have found that there are misconceptions about what constitutes plagiarism, which is cited as one of the most common issues in the IB. Did you know that even if you forgot to cite a source, that’s plagiarism?  We hope you find this information proactive, preventative and supportive.

• Definition of plagiarism:  “the representation, intentionally or unintentionally, of the ideas, words or work of another person without proper, clear and explicit acknowledgment” (Assessment principles and practices—Quality assessments in a digital age).

• Your teachers will teach you how to properly, clearly, and explicitly acknowledge sources.

• You must submit your draft on the deadline. If you have an extenuating circumstance, you must talk to your teacher as soon as possible. Your teacher may not ultimately grant an extension. 

• Your teacher may only give you feedback on one draft. After that, you may ask for guidance or ask questions during lesson time scheduled for this purpose. Be sure you ask questions of your teacher if you do not understand the feedback.

• Once the final is submitted, there are no further chances to make any changes, EVEN IF the teacher identifies plagiarism.  It is the student’s responsibility to complete their own work; to acknowledge sources properly, clearly, and explicitly; and to ask questions before the final submission when necessary. The school librarian is also a resource in this regard.

• The school cannot submit student work that is even suspected of plagiarism or any form of Academic dishonesty.  It would be Academic Maladministration if we did.

• If a student’s IA cannot be submitted to the IB due to a suspected violation of the Academic Integrity policy, the student will not get a grade in that subject and will not be able to earn the Diploma in that session.

• The school’s current Re-take policy does not permit the re-doing of an IA.  This jeopardizes a student’s ability to earn the Diploma in the long term as well.  The student would need to find a school that accepts them for Retakes, including a re-do of the IA. 

• This is to underscore the importance of reading and reacting to your teacher’s feedback especially when they point out issues with citations, plagiarism or other forms of academic dishonesty. It is also to highlight the important zone between the draft and the final submission, because after turning in the final version, there is no chance to make corrections. 

Tutoring Tips

#1 Agrima Dulloo-former IB student

Private lessons 250-300

Group lessons 150-200

Agrima Dulloo is now at Chalmers and will be studying engineering there. She wants to help out students who are struggling in Math and Chemistry.  

If interested, take contact:

Email: agrimadulloo@gmail.com 

WhatsApp: +46708323932

#2 Lanterna. Click here for more info.