From the Director

 What I am excited about this week…
 
A Smooth Start! The new school year got off to a smooth start last week. We welcomed more than one hundred new students and fifteen new teachers to the AISL community. It was fun to walk around the school and see the excitement that teachers, teaching assistants, admin staff, support staff, parents, AND students all brought to the day. The school was abuzz with everyone catching up with old friends and making new ones. It is such a joy to be a part of such a warm and caring community.

Open Day/Open House Events! The best way to learn about our programs is to attend our upcoming Primary School Open Day and Secondary School Open House. The Primary School event will be held on 5 September from 07:25-12:20. The Secondary event will take place TONIGHT (16 August) starting at 17:00 in the Tiyende Pamodzi Theater.  

The "New" Gym! The newly-renovated gym is now open for business. Although there is still some landscaping work being finished on the site of the former parking lot, the interior renovations of the gym have been completed. The students started using it this week. If you have not had the chance, please take a moment and pop your head inside. I think you will be amazed at our “new” gym. The small lot that was next to the gym is now a landscaped social space, so please plan to park elsewhere.

Tuesday Information Sessions! AISL is a very large organization with a lot of moving parts. The scale of our programs can be confusing to new – and even returning – parents. To help everyone get a better understanding of what we do, we host a weekly information session on some aspect of our programs all throughout the year. These sessions take place every Tuesday morning at 07:30 in the Protea Tree Conference Room (unless otherwise specified). Please get into the habit of coming by to have a coffee or tea and to learn something new about the school. We post the topics every week in the Leopard’s Tale. On the last Tuesday of each month we use this time slot for for PTA meetings, which I also hope you will attend. On 21 August, please join the Primary School Leadership team for our first information session: Introduction to the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP).