Dear Parents & Guardians,

Welcome to another action-packed week at GIS! There is so much to celebrate and be proud of this week.

I would like to start by congratulating Ms Alice for her amazing coordination and creativity with regard to this year’s Mother Tongue Day! On Tuesday, students had the opportunity to participate in learning different languages. There was a wide range of mother tongues - Afrikaans, Italian, Korean, Sinhala, Hindi and Serbian to name a few. The students had the opportunity to learn how to count to ten for example in another language as well as learn something about the culture of that country. Thank you so much to Ms Paola Farchi and Ms Marlies Klok, two of our wonderful mums, who also joined in to run workshops on Italian and Dutch. Days such as this are so important in an international school, where we can celebrate our international mindedness. Thank you all and well done!

One of GIS’s newest initiatives was launched on Monday evening – Future Skills Academy. Well done to Rohan, Nourhan and Jana, our senior students, for welcoming a select group of parents to this event. Those present were very excited to hear the plans for this group, who will share their expertise and knowledge, within distinct employment categories, in coming months. Watch this space for further details regarding this project.

One aspect of GIS that continues to move me is the level of student agency across the school. This week I was so impressed with Krishna and Suhani (Grade 10) from The Toolbox, who invited Mr Shamik Raja, CEO of Goldpesa onto campus to share in detail his knowledge of cryptocurrency. This talk was very well planned and therefore, well attended and students left with much clearer ideas about what Crypto currency is and how it will alter transactions in the future.

Wednesday was International Anti-Bullying Day and our younger MYP students had the pleasure to attend a talk from Mr Barry Cummings. Barry heads the Beat the Cyberbully movement and travels the world presenting to high school students. He provided our students with some extremely valuable tips regarding their digital footprint and how to keep themselves safe online. His overall message was STOP – THINK – POST. It is so important, in this technological age, for our students to be aware of hidden threats they may face in the cyber world. This very valuable guest speaker was arranged and planned by Mischa Sahgal from StuELT (Head of Student Life) in consultation with Ms Rose and Ms Daania. Mischa’s organization and professionalism in dealing with Mr Barry prior to his arrival, led him to believe that he was making arrangements with a member of staff! Such a wonderful reflection of an IB Learner.

I look forward to seeing many of you at tomorrow's International Day, it is going to be a wonderful community event.

Enjoy the week ahead

Regards

Ms Amanda

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Throughout the year, you will be able to review information about the week's sports results and scorers, in addition to action photos, match reports, sports news and much more on our Jaguar Sports website. 

You will also be able to read reviews of the latest GIS sporting action via the GIS PHE site.

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