with MIT. Two of our students join forces
with students from seven of the other NAE
schools in Southeast Asia to fly to New
York to join a global group of Nord Anglia
Education students as they attend the UN
High Level meeting on the UN Global Goals.
All these opportunities, especially the latter
afford students a fantastic opportunity to
challenge themselves intellectually beyond
what they do in the classroom, as well as to
develope key skills such as leadership. To
be given the opportunity at the age of 15
to address a meeting at a UN conference is
truly an exceptional experience.
We are proud of the campus developments
that have taken place this year and we
look forward to unveiling our future
development plans during the next
academic year. Full details of our recent
developments can be found here: http://
bit.ly/dcisdevupdate. Over this summer we
will be making further enhancements.
• Decking to enlarge and enhance our
Early Years shared areas;
• Further outdoor play space for Early
Years;
• New rooftop garden area for Lower
Primary;
• Barriers at the main entrance, and
a gate on the side road to improve
security;
• Shading on the seating area of the
sports field;
• New Science laboratory;
• New equipment for Science and DT;
• New sound equipment and curtain
mechanism for the Cooper Hall to
enhance Performing Arts;
• General
school;
• Other classroom changes to create a
Counselling suite;
• Further classroom provision
maintenance
around
the
We are looking to build a new block (to
open at Christmas) which will include
further shared facilities for students and
extra specialist areas, as well as some new
classrooms. We will have some temporary
arrangements in place for two classrooms
for Term 1 but they will not affect our ability
to deliver the curriculum.
You may have noticed from the different
uniforms that we have changed our facility
suppliers: Sodexo started with us this week.
We are also changing our catering contractor
over the summer and will give more details
about this before term starts. Chartwells,
our outgoing catering contractor, has put
a process in place to refund any accounts
that have a credit left in them. Please email
[email protected] and they
will process the refund and issue you with a
cheque.
We have also made some changes in our
staffing to improve our provision at school.
Alison Ford has been appointed School
Counsellor and she will work closely with
staff on further developing our support for
students especially as we start to prepare
students for university entrance. Andrew
Marshall will continue as Deputy Head
after Kiara Gray returns. He will take over
responsibility for the DSE and EAL (English
as an Additional Language), as well as
further developing opportunities, such as
the ones highlighted above to ensure that
we challenge students both in and out of the
classroom.
2017-2018 Orientation information will be
launched on the Parent Essentials website
and sent out over the next few weeks.
Preparation for the next academic year
is well underway and our administrative
offices remain open over the holiday period,
although the working hours are slightly
reduced to 9am – 4pm.
I hope you and your children have a restful
break and, if you manage to get away, a
great holiday.
Best regards,
Christopher Short
Principal
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