For A Greater Tomorrow! Sun, 09 Apr 2023 19:17:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 /wp-content/uploads/2021/06/favicon.jpg 32 32 /welcome-back/ /welcome-back/#respond Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:10:00 +0000 /?p=3994 It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 2022-23 school year! I hope your summer vacation has been relaxing, filled with adventures, good health and quality time with family and friends.
We look forward to welcoming you all on Monday 5th September at 8.00 am in the Hall for our brief School Opening Ceremony.

I have always found the start of the school year to generate much enthusiasm and energy. As I reflect on this past year, I am reminded of the BIJS’s vision and mission – to lay the foundation for quality learning to enable pupils to succeed in the ever-changing global context. With that said, I am incredibly thankful for the teachers’ commitment – they’ve been in all week, buzzing with excitement about getting their classrooms ready for their new students. I am grateful to the PTA and thank them in advance for their engagement this coming year. Only through strong community partnerships can we provide our students with real-world nurturing and innovative experiences.
We remain committed to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of all students, staff and community members. Thus, we look forward to your support in ensuring children/household members who show symptoms of COVID are tested before entering school.
Looking ahead to the 2022-23 school year, my goals include increasing engagement opportunities with students, staff and parents. I will be working closely with the Student Council to hear directly from them about their school experiences and ways we can improve. I will also liaise with our PTA Committee about the upcoming events.

I would like to encourage you to read through our Parents Welcome Pack enclosed and ensure you have submitted all the required documentation to Mrs Nana-Aisha, our Registrar. Please feel free to contact your student’s classteacher if you have any questions or concerns.

In closing, I would like again to welcome everyone to the 2022-23 school year and share that we are all excited and looking forward to seeing our students.

Thank you for your continued support!

Yours sincerely,
Ms Manda
Head of School

]]> /welcome-back/feed/ 0 /back-to-school/ /back-to-school/#respond Fri, 07 Jan 2022 17:48:05 +0000 /?p=3951 Happy New Year! We hope that you found time for fun and relaxation over the holidays.

As we prepare for the start of the spring term during the ongoing global pandemic, we are writing now regarding the resumption date – Monday 10th January 2022.
We remain committed to our plans for in-person teaching and learning and do not anticipate significant changes to School operations or activities in the coming term, given the mitigations already in place.
However, the risk level has been raised to ‘high’ due to the COVID-19 outbreak among students and staff members at the BIS campus before the holidays. Therefore, we must remain vigilant and follow the policies and protocols shown to limit the impacts of the virus.
The best way to lessen the effects of COVID-19 on our School and our community is to protect yourself, your family, and your friends every day by following the recommended precautions, including wearing masks, testing when necessary, and getting fully vaccinated, including a booster, if you are able to do so.
To keep our community as safe as possible, we are reintroducing several protective measures. I ask all parents to understand the reasons for these and support them wherever possible. These will be as follows:
– All staff will wear protective face coverings throughout the school day.
– Children to undertake a PCR test within 72 hours before returning to school. More details in the previous letters.
– Parents and guardians to wear face masks when they drop off and collect their children from outside the Reception area (please avoid going inside the school building, unless necessary).
– Parents retain reasonable distance between themselves and other parents and leave the site promptly once they have collected their child.
– Classrooms are set out in ‘face forward’ seating arrangements.
– No after school clubs during the first week of a new term.

With everyone’s steadfast commitment, we are confident we will have a successful spring term, with our pupils continuing to receive the high-quality education they both expect and deserve.
This feels like a letter filled with messages of doom and gloom, but please be reassured that we plan to return to school with a positive mindset, full of exciting learning and social opportunities for the children, and we are very much looking forward to seeing them all again next week. If we all continue to work together as effectively as we have been so far, we will get through this.

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