School Update
Dear Middle School, The Middle School Student Government (MSSG), would like to welcome you back to school this year. More specifically, we would like to welcome the 6th graders and our new friends and new faculty members who are entering their first year of Middle School at Concordian. We hope you will enjoy the environment and the friendly atmosphere. These are oddly challenging times. COVID-19 has changed our lives forcing us to wear masks and to respect social distancing. Nevertheless, the MSSG will continue to improve our level of transparency and approachability this year. The MSSG has also introduced committees dedicated to exercising, planning and carrying out specific duties including policy, house competitions and fundraising, to name just a few. Please feel free to contact any of our members, your representatives, to express your concerns and lend a voice to your ideas.
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To this year’s sixth graders: the Middle School is extremely different from the PYP. The rules, the lifestyle, the workload - it’s all different! To achieve success, self management and responsibility is the 7. Notify your teacher if you are absent or need help key. Here are a few tips to ensure that you succeed: with work. 8. Familiarise yourself with the criteria and grades. 1. Manage your time wisely. Prioritize well, make sure Remain calm if you get an unexpected grade, that you can handle work while keeping a delicate especially as many of you may experience a sharp balance of extracurriculars. drop in performance before you fully adapt. 2. Organize your work and resources extremely carefully (especially in math). Once again, we would like to welcome you back to 3. Complain as much as you want, just get the work the beginning of another amazing school year. Good done. Luck! 4. There is often no right or wrong, as long as you justify your thinking in the assignment. Warmly, 5. Advocate for oneself. The Middle School Student Government 6. Regularly check your emails, at least twice a day.