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Dear ISH Middle School Parents and Students,
Welcome to the 2025-2026 Academic Year at ISH! We look forward to a new academic year of learning and growth with your middle schooler. At ISH, we acknowledge that the middle years are some of the most challenging years in a young person's life. With this in mind, we provide a safe and nurturing environment where learners thrive. We strive to maintain a community of highly effective teachers, deeply motivated students and fully engaged parents. Our goal is to wrap around our students with inspirational teaching and opportunities to develop as human beings. We hope that through their experience in the middle years programme, students will build a sense of purpose, direction and hope for a future that they can take part in shaping.
This is our ISH Family Guide. Reading the family guide is essential to understanding and knowing the different procedures and policies at ISH. Here you will find several documents to look through and refer to.
To keep you regularly informed, we send out an ISH family newsletter every Friday which provides key updates as well as shares activities driven by parents, teachers and students to highlight our vibrant and engaged learning community.
See you soon!
Monica Coburn
Middle School Principal
First day of school, 11th August 2025, 9:00-12:00
All students should arrive by 9:00 AM. Class advisors will usher students to their advisory classrooms, where they will introduce the day. Students should bring their computers and a lock for their lockers. This is necessary for setting up school email, Toddle (our school management system), and receiving a locker. Further details of the day will be shared with students at the beginning of August.
Family Picnic Saturday, 23rd August (School Day), 10:00-14:00
This is an official school day and attendance will be registered. More information will be shared at the beginning of August.
Parent Welcome Evening, 28th August, 16:00-18:30
Parents are warmly invited to attend our parent information meeting on 28th August from 16:00-18:30.
16:00 Welcome Message
16:10-16:55 Subject Gallery Walk - Meet our subject teachers and learn our curriculum
17:00-17:30 Assembly with MS Principal
17:30-18:30 Advisory meeting and Class Parent Invitation
Accessing Toddle:
In the middle school, we use a digital portfolio and communications tool called Toddle. You can read more about the Toddle platform here. To access Toddle, please follow these steps:
For Returning Families: You can log in using your usual credentials.
For New Families:
Download and open the Toddle Family app or webpage (https://www.toddleapp.com/).
Sign in with the email address you registered with on Open Apply.
Click on "Sign In."
You will receive a One-Time Password (OTP) in your registered email.
Use this OTP to log into the Toddle Family app or webpage.
Class Lists:
You will be able to see your child's class (A or B) on Toddle starting Thursday, August 7th, when we open the 2025-2026 school year. You will receive your child's class list via email through Toddle on Friday, August 8th.
Please note: All students will temporarily show as "Class A" on your August invoice. This is because our billing system needs a class assigned before we finalise placements. Please disregard this—your child's actual class will be announced on Toddle on August 7th.
Nut-free policy at school:
The Hellerup Campus is nut-free (details on the Wellbeing page).
Lunch:
The school lunch service for Middle School students will begin on Tuesday, 12th August, which is the first full day of school.
IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS TO REVIEW
Please make sure you read the following documents :
Regular School Timings 2025-2026 apply from 12th August 2024
Regular school timings are from 8:30 till 15:10, except on Mondays, when school starts at 9:00 for extended advisory and on Wednesdays, when school closes at 13:40. Students need to enter the middle school floor from 8:10-8:20, when there will be supervision. Students must leave the school building at the end of the school day, unless they are registered for an activity or under the supervision of a member of staff.
Meet the Middle School Team
Visit the Faculty & Staff page on the school website to read more about our teachers!
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