November 2025

What's happening next week?

PreDP:  Assembly, North Aula, 1310. Info about Economics and more subject info.

Note to students and mentors. How it will look in the schedule:  It is going to say "mentor", but, it will also say "Assembly".  So if you see "assembly" anywhere in that schedule box, you'll know it IS assembly. 

This is the only way we can make sure it shows on the Vklass schedule.

DP1: CAS interviews during mentor time.

DP 2: No Assembly or mentor time.

According to our timeline for internal assessments, I see that the following should already be done by now:

• EE final copy

• Chem IA Final Copy

• Vis Art HL F Criterion

• Bio IA draft

• Econ IA #2 Final

• Final EE

• Math AA HL or AA SL Exploration first draft

• Des Tech IA C Criterion Draft

• Psych IA Draft Exploration

• Eng Lang Lit HL Essay (for ZED)

• Physics IA first draft

And coming up is:

• Psych IA Draft Analysis-week 48

• Econ IA #3 First Draft-week 49

• TOK Essay Draft-week 51

• Psych IA Draft Evaluation-Week 50

• EE Viva Voce-week 50

• Math AI HL Draft Exploration

A quick word from your Principal

Most of the time, I hear about how respectful, creative, and caring our students are.  It makes me happy to hear when students are living up the IB Learner Profile in all the ways they do.  When we live up to those attributes, we are our best selves and we can do good things for ourselves, our friends, and our community.  

But I also hear other things that concern me and should concern all of us.  As soon as any one person "accepts" any kind of offensive treatment, even if very mild, it can get a grip to become normalized. By "accept" I mean behavior that is technically implicit support: like just letting something go that you know isn't right, not reporting it, not saying anything against it, etc. Acceptance can even be more explicit support if, for example, you laugh at a joke you know isn't OK. If any one of us let's something go, that we know really isn't OK, then that can eventually lead to much more offensive treatment or outright discrimination.  

Much of the information I hear comes in anonymously. That is to say, I do not know specifically who has said or done what to whom. I just know that something untoward has happened, thankfully, because someone said something to a trusted member of our IB community.  I am writing this to be absolutely clear that no form of offensive treatment will be tolerated.  I ask that if  you hear or see anything that you know is not quite OK, you should report it. (those of you who have, keep it up!) If you do this, you are doing your part to make sure that offensive treatment is not accepted and it will decrease the risk that it can gain a foothold towards anything worse. 

Many of you have taken part of the workshop our counselor has given where you have looked at our Plan Against Discrimination and different scenarios that can typically occure in a high school setting. Try to remember our Plan and reflect on how you will respond if and when you hear or see harassment, discrimination, or other offensive treatment.  Let the IB Learner Profile be your guide in those moments:

Inquirer, Knowledgeable, Thinker, Communicator, Principled, Open-Minded, Caring, Risk-Taker, Balanced, Reflective.

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.