Secondary SCHOOL news

It has been a challenging year, but great challenges often bring great rewards. I will reflect on these past several months as a year of challenges overcome through dedication, flexibility, and teamwork, not just as a year of challenges. Thank you to the entire GJS community for your commitment and dedication to learning this school year. I say it all the time, but I say it all the time because I mean it: I am honored to be your principal. This week we celebrated learning through the Global Jaya Awards, achievement and progress through Year 12 Graduation, and community through Hawks’ Fest. It has been a wonderful week and reminder of how fortunate I am to be a part of this community.

Final reports will be published at 12:00 on 10 June, which we hope will be cause for more celebration as you head into the holiday. As a school, we will celebrate academic achievement for the 2021-2022 school year in Year Level Meetings (YLM) at the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year. We shifted the focus of academic awards from a whole school assembly to YLMs for a number of reasons, among them:

• a recognized need for assemblies with a greater focus on all aspects of an IB education,

• honoring academic achievement in a more intimate and familiar setting than the theatre,

• a need to revamp the academic awards structure.