From the Director
I would like to start by wishing everyone a Happy Independence Day tomorrow. Please remember we are also celebrating being independent as our ABC value this month so please use the opportunity of celebrating national independence alongside the virtues of all of us also being independent. In our school world being independent means thinking for yourself, not simply following a crowd or a trend and ensuring we are true to what we really believe in.
I would like to thank the Class of 2018 for doing a great job helping with the Independence Day assembly today.
We have Joe Terrasi from Positive Coaching Alliance in school next week and on Wednesday evening he is holding a session for parents with their children to explore how we can support and encourage our young athletes at home and at school. Please come along if you can with your son or daughter.
We will be celebrating Peace One Day next Thursday and hope you join in the celebrations.
I know the Admin Car Park has been difficult this week. We have been trying a new plan and we have been unlucky with the weather as it has rained every day this week at 2 pm making pick ups inevitably slower. We will be reviewing our changes after two weeks to try to improve the situation but I would like to make a couple of points
- Please do not arrive too early for your pick up as waiting cars block the access routes to school as well as the car parks
- Please try to use the whole pick up area and move forward into open spaces before stopping.
- Please ensure each morning that your child knows where and when you will be picking them up. Cars going round and round are blocking our entrances and pick ups
- Please consider sharing pick ups with a neighbour especially for older children to help reduce the number of cars around the campus
- Please note the PAC Car Park is only closed from 2 - 2.30 pm for Secondary parents. You can arrange to collect your Secondary students at 2.30 pm from the PAC car park when it is often quiet.
Thank you very much for your patience and I am sure if we work at this we will end up with a much improved pick up in the afternoons
Have a wonderful long weekend and see you all on Tuesday!
Primary News
Dear Parents and Carers,
The car park trial in the afternoon is throwing up some interesting situations but the trend is good. Monday the primary students all got away from the PAC car park area by 2.21pm, Tuesday 2.16pm and yesterday 2.12pm, unless they stayed for extras of course. We are trying to find out patterns of behaviour to keep improving the circumstances for everyone. We will keep you updated.
Please note that students are not allowed to bring birthday cakes into school. It gets too competitive and actually takes away a lot of teaching and learning time when you have 25 children in the class to manage.
Next week is Peace One Day when we ask our students to work hard to have a day without conflict. We think of children in war torn lands and the things they suffer and encourage a more positive attitude to resolving perceived wrongs than violence. On Thursday 21st September children can wear jeans and a white T-shirt to school (No slogans). They will be participating in class and school events to raise awareness of the need for peace, and that one day is a good start.
We are also organising the McLay Fun run on the 29th September for Grades Pre-K to 4th and October the 6th for Grade 5. Students are asked to bring in a dollar to buy sports equipment for a local school.
Both these events will be examples of our students fostering International Mindedness and thinking globally and acting locally.
The second criteria of the Bottom Line 9 for the accreditation is ‘A shared vision about the kinds of children we are helping to develop’. We all know we are trying to develop Responsible Outstanding Citizens or ROCs for short, but please ask yourselves what you are doing at home to support the school with this. Are you modeling the values yourselves? Are you encouraging your children ? Do you discuss the values when a situation crops up? I am sure you are. Please keep it up. Please also note that there is a lot of IPC information in the Upper Primary HCB or Lower Primary reading folder.
Best wishes for the long weekend. We look forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday.
Sharon Short
Head of Primary.
Dates for your diary
Lower Primary
September
Friday 15th - El Salvador National Day: School Closed
Monday 18th - INSET day: School Closed
Thursday 21st - Peace One Day
Friday 22nd - 1st Padilla Spanish assembly - 7:30am - PAC
Friday 29th - First Henriquez Assembly - 7:30am - PAC
Friday 29th - McLay Fun Run
Upper Primary
September
Friday 15th - El Salvador National Day: School Closed
Monday 18th - INSET day: School Closed
Wednesday 20th - 3rd Mena Assembly 9:20 am - 10:05 am PAC and 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Thursday 21st - Peace One Day
Wednesday 27th - 2nd Lourdes Hernández Assembly 9:20 am - 10:05 am PAC and 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Friday 29th - McLay Fun Run
Please note Ana Gloria Mena and Edda Padilla are Primary Safeguarding Officers
Secondary News
Dear parents and carers,
A short, a busy week this week. We have been focusing on our value of Independent and it is a very fitting value for our Civic month. It is a value we really want to keep promoting among our children, especially in terms of being independent when making a decision regarding their behaviour in and out of school. We encourage you to talk about this at home and consider how your children practise this value and are independent in their everyday lives.
Whilst we have been working around a national focus and local awareness, we continue to promote our International Mindedness as a part of our ABC school’s mission and I would like to share a very interesting article with you published by the IB board regarding this topic. In particular, it outlines some aspects for us to reflect upon our own international mindedness. Although the article is aimed at parents in the UK, it certainly offers food for thought. Please read it and discuss at home with your children. A phrase we use at school is “think globally, act locally.” How do we practise this at home?
Civic month:
Independence Day Assembly
Please visit this link to see more pictures of what the Secondary school has been doing to celebrate this month.
Thank you to our Grade 12 and our HNC and music teachers for organising a wonderful Independence day assembly. It was wonderful to see staff and students in the Role play on the Peasant uprising under General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez. The student speeches were inspirational and displayed pride in their country and people. Congratulations to our Grade 6 winners of our Art competition “Peace and Justice”
As you know next Monday is a professional development day for our staff and students have a long weekend ahead. We look forward to seeing you back on Tuesday 19th of September at 7.00am!
¡Feliz día de la independencia patria!
Warm regards,
Natalia Cáceres Escalón
Dates for your diary
September
Friday 15th - National holiday - Independence Day
Monday 18th - School closed for students - INSET day for teachers
Thursday 21st - Peace One Day celebration
Wednesday 27th to Saturday 30th - Geography Grade 11 IA Field Trip to Antigua Guatemala
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