Secondary Principal’s Blog

March 18, 2022, Update

Christina Powers, Secondary School Principal

Hybrid Learning

It is important that we prepare students for the end of the hybrid program and with this in mind we are setting a goal to phase out the hybrid program during the remainder of this year.  After the Thingyan break, only students who are residing outside of Myanmar will be able to continue to learn virtually for the remainder of this school year.  Students in Myanmar who wish to continue to attend the hybrid program will only be able to do so with special permission from their principal and only for select periods of time.  If you think your child has a special reason to attend the hybrid program after this time, please email your principal to make an appointment to discuss this.

Moving forward, we are also setting a goal to eliminate the hybrid /virtual program for the 2022-23 school year.  The only exception to this would be interruptions due to directives from the Myanmar authorities, or short-term COVID spikes causing class, grade level, or full school return to virtual learning for short periods.

 Mock Exam Schedule 

Grade 12 mock exams will begin Monday, March 21, 2022. Please see the exam schedule for more details.

 Global Action Days 

Do you want to see Dr. Hedger, Mrs. Sheppard, and Mr. Davis have a bucket of water poured on their head?
As part of our Global Action Days, Students will be participating in a variety of activities. One of the activities is to make a global action commitment during the week of March 21st-26th. Each commitment will result in a point that will be accumulated in order to have a bucket of water poured over the following teachers. So make a commitment such as “I will have an all-vegetarian meal each day for a week” ” I will not use plastic bags when shopping” ” I will walk or ride my bike instead of taking a car” by March 26th.
You can enter the activity simply by posting the evidence of you doing an activity to help the environment in the form of a photo or video of you explaining your task with the hashtag #isyearthhour on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. Elementary students will have padlets to which they can post their evidence. The activity extends to the ISY community, so students of all grades, parents, the ISY staff, everyone part of the ISY community can participate in the activity. 
The following are the required number of commitments needed to get the ISY staff soaked with water.
 
100 Commitment posts = Mr. Davis
200  Commitment  posts = Mrs. Sheppard
400  Commitment posts = Dr. Hedger
 
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Grade 12 Timeline

  • Mocks will take place next week March 21st-March 30th
    • March 31st is a no class day for grade 12 students
  • Your final Day of required classes for seniors will be:
    • April 7th if we have IB exams (April 18-May 1 will be dedicated review time).
    • April 29, 2022, if we do not have IB exams.
  • Graduation: The date for graduation will be set based on whether we take the IB exams. Once this has been determined, we will look at scheduling graduation.
  • Students will be invited to participate in a graduation committee meeting. Those interested in discussing what graduation this year may look like and what we need to do moving forward.

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