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Dear Parents
As you read this I shall be attending the FOBISSEA Business meeting in
Singapore
. FOBISSEA has two meetings a year, this one and its full conference. The
purpose of the Business meeting is to plan events for the year ahead as well
as to have an AGM. FOBISSEA increasingly operates on two levels: its
programme for pupils, which includes the Games, music festivals etc, and its
programme for staff. The latter has reached a particularly exciting stage
with plans afoot to create a Centre for Professional Development in the
region. This would be a huge bonus for all FOBISSEA teachers. One of the
problems with working overseas for a protracted period of time is staying
up-to-date with professional developments in
England
. The establishment of a Centre for Professional Development would go some
considerable way towards remedying this and I am hopeful that real progress
will be made in its planning this weekend.
 Mrs
Wickham has just returned from a FOBISSEA Primary Conference on
“Excellence, Enjoyment and Assessment for Learning”. Teachers from
19 international schools from around the region attended the conference.
This was a very rewarding and worthwhile experience. Teachers
discussed recent developments on teaching and learning, focusing on
creativity in the Primary Curriculum and looked at current initiatives in
UK
education.
Environment
Week
Plans
for Environment Week in Term 3 are progressing. Dr Pilcher has kindly
offered to help devise and co-ordinate a programme. He will be meeting with
senior staff next Wednesday for a planning session. If you have ideas to
contribute, please see Mr Davies, Mrs Wickham or me before then.
As part of Environment Week, we are
considering a beach clean up. To make this effective, we will need rubber
gloves, sacks etc. Would anyone be willing to sponsor these? And does anyone
have any contacts with Nestle or
Milo
to provide us with a drinks wagon?
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 Badminton
Our
secondary students will be playing badminton at the Foo Chow Association
Hall on Friday mornings until the end of term. As the hall does not open
until 9.00am our usual schedule has been changed. The day starts with the
lessons that are normally timetabled for the third period. Then the pupils
will be taken by bus the short distance to the badminton hall for games. On
their return, they will have their break followed by assembly. Period four
sees the normal timetable return.
Best
wishes,
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