2016 -17
HEAD OF SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 14 March 2017
HEAD OF SCHOOL’S NEWSLETTER NO. 8 Dear Parents, Warm greetings to you all as we fast approach half-term and Spring Break. At this time, March is a very ‘free’ month as we are conducting examinations until the 17th March with our DP2, 10 MYP & IGCSE students and the Spring Break will take up the 3rd week of March 20 – 24 March included. The school offices will, however be open at that time and a number of teachers and exam students are making arrangements to meet during this period. Owing to the present security situation, we have had to seriously revise our security strategies at this time and have done our best under difficult situations, although we have realized the need to further streamline these emergency situations as they arise to ensure complete safety of your children and delivery of your children to you when that need does arise. So too, the present situation disrupted our normal school programme of weekly assemblies and field / sports trips and we have cleared March of all such happenings other than the exams and the 2 Urdu Mother Tongue Days on 30th March at DHA and 31st March at Gulberg. The first week of April 3 – 8 will see 4 French events happening at the 2 schools in a worldwide Francophonic Language and Culture week. I am sure you are all well-aware that TNS is Pakistan’s largest French language school where all students Nursery to Year 12 are taught French by a group of 8 teachers who are themselves, Pakistanis / French expatriates and / or have a French background. This situation has made for a great upsurge of competency in the language. To celebrate that competency our French Days on 3rd April at DHA and 4th April at Gulberg and a National Schools’ French event sponsored by the French Centre, in Lahore on Saturday, 8th April at our DHA Hall speaks volumes about our school’s commitment to the teaching of French. So too, during that week on Monday, 3rd April we will be holding a Parents’ Seminar to advertise our intention to stage another French Language and Cultural trip to Paris for 12 – 18 year olds in early August. This will be a wonderful opportunity to improve your child’s spoken and written French.