2018-2019 16TH ISSUE (10 December 2018)
I often reflect on why I chose to work in an IB World School. Students often remind me of this through the conversations that I have with them. I wrote last week of my experience of speaking to parents in other IB schools that I am fortunate to visit. My own son's engagement with the Primary Years Programme has also given me new perspective.
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Kids4Kids has been an extremely successful service group working hard to serve kids locally and internationally by raising funds through bake sales, read-a-thons and craft activities.
Last week, over a thousand SSIS students from Kindergarten upwards participated in The Hour of Code. They joined over 100 million students in 180+ countries across 45 different languages in a worldwide effort to celebrate computer science.
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Since June 2017, grade 10 have been working on their personal project. This independent project will demonstrate their learning journey through the IB Middle Years Program (MYP) showing both subject and global citizenship.
On Friday 14th December, Grade 11 IB Diploma students will be undertaking their first preparations for their Theory of Knowledge presentations.
The Secondary School Peace assembly was held held last week and hosted by the Grade 9 Music class.
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From December 4th to 7th, Million Tree Project hosted their first basketball tournament that took place at lunch time.
As Semester 1 draws to a close, we are now issuing the School Fee Payment Notice for the second semester of the 2018/2019 school year. Please note that the deadline for the payment of fees is Monday, 7 January 2019.
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