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The 2019-2020 ANNUAL REPORT - Full Report for all parents

Creativity and exploration at work! Read below to learn about an exploration of the Play Antigone between students at OSC here in Sri Lanka, and students in USA, and Colombia!

Congratulations to our students and Mrs. Duncan and Mrs. Jackson who were involved last year in an exploration of Sophocles' play Antigone. This project was in collaboration with students and teachers at the French American International School in San Francisco, and the Liceo Frances Louis Pasteur School in Bogota. Michelle Haner, the Theatre Director at the French American International School, has compiled a video of extracts of the work, discussions and rehearsals of the process, which we are sharing with you https://youtu.be/Ut-41K6AO2I Within this video you can hear extracts from a composition by our students and see our Theatre students talk about their involvement with directing scenes from the play. Incredibly proud that we were able to collaborate on such an amazing project within the boundaries of COVID!

An update on our staff DEIJ training!

Over the past two months our DEIJ Staff Training Team have focused on a variety of topics in our DEIJ training. We have been exploring concepts such as liberation, and the neocolonial nature of international schooling and what "Performative-Ally-ship" looks like in schools and society. We've grappled terms such as "linguicism, xenophobia, colorism, featurism, and anti-blackness." We are reflecting on what is new, divergent and difficult for us about the terms and concepts as community, and how white supremacy or anti-blackness benefit and harms us, and how do we challenge these concepts. Our work has been challenging, brave, and vulnerable. But we know that as we work hard we will better understand the systems that harm. We are asking ourselves, what is the dominate culture in our community, what is the dominate narrative in our community and how is the dominant culture and narrative harming our community. Lastly, we are asking ourselves, how can we be active traitors, active disrupters, and active revolutionaries to the status quo.
Over the next few months the training will take us deeper and deeper into these concepts. We will take our learnings to create a DEIJ statement for our school and work together with our parents, staff and alumni to strengthen DEIJ across our school through the Strategic Planning initiatives.

UPDATE!!

WHAT IS SAISA

SAISA or South Asia Inter-Scholastic Association has 10 member schools from 7 different countries. Over the next few weeks our goal is to exercise around the schools and learn a little bit about them.

For the past SIX WEEKS we have been traveling around South Asia to visit the 9 other schools in our SAISA Community. So far we have visited 5 schools and travelled a total of 5424 km. Below is a summary of our achievement so far.

SAISA SCHOOLS VISITED

UPDATE …… Yesterday we reached our FIFTH SAISA School Lahore BUFFALOS in Pakistan. We travelled 1143 km from Kathmandu in just 8 days. Well done GECKOS

Our Next Destination is Lahore American School in Pakistan or the BUFFALOS as we know them. We have already travelled 620km of the 1143km wests north west toward our destination. ONLY 522 TO GO.

Our next destination is the short hop onto the plains of Pakistan to the capital Islamabad to visit the International School of Islamabad or the COBRAS as we know them. We have already travelled 223 km of the 300 km North North West towards our destination. ONLY 77 km TO GO.

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