Primary News

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Welcome to our first Primary News of the 2022-23 Academic Year, I hope you are having a wonderful week and that your child has settled well into school life. I have thoroughly enjoyed saying hello to returning learners and welcoming over 150 new primary learners and their families. To be able to see smiling faces for the first time since 2020 has boosted everyone and contributed to everyone's wellbeing and sense of community.

Thank you for all the time and effort you as parents and caregivers have put into preparing your children for success in the new academic year, and for many a new country. Our learners continue to impress with the way they handle new situations and transitions, exhibiting many of our learner profile attributes. Our CARE MVMT will help us further by empowering learners to see the impact that caring for themselves, others and the world can have.

There are quite a few important announcements and different sections within this Primary News, please take the time to read them all. The different sections can be accessed from the menu across the top of the screen (on large screens such as laptops and iPads) or the 'triple bar/dot' icon on the top left (on small screens, e.g. phones).

This year we will continue to foster a shared understanding of the IB Primary Years Programme framework which underpins our curriculum here at Nexus. The framework is structured through six transdisciplinary themes. Click on News from the Year Groups to find out more about the transdisciplinary theme and subsequent Unit of Inquiry your child is currently investigating.

May I take a moment to remind our families to label all children's belongings... hats, water bottles, lunch boxes, bags, uniform and HPE/swim kits. With well over a thousand learners there are lots of children that have the same or similar items and it is easy for them to lose things. If everything is labelled, it makes it much easier for items to be returned to their owners. Please may I also ask families to regularly check at home to see if anything has been taken home in error. If so, please send the items back to school and we will get to return them to the rightful owners.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Best wishes

Fiona Lewis

Head of Primary