School Update
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elcome back to the 20/21 school year. After not having any students on campus since last March, it has been a real pleasure to see our students back at school. Although to keep them safe and meet the requirements from the Ministry of Education to open the school back up, we’ve had to institute some new procedures this school year. While Mr. Laurent has already sent out the new procedures to the entire community, I’d like to highlight a few. First, students and parents must wear masks while on campus with two notable exceptions for students. They don’t wear masks while eating, but they must eat in the canteen where we have clear dividers between each student built into the tables. For safety concerns, they also won’t wear masks for PHE, however, the activities are set up to limit personal contact. Second, field trips for the first semester and possibly into the second semester will be severely limited so we will not have our usual Week Without Walls trips in November. Lastly, while we are fortunate to still participate in sports this year, it will all be tournament based. This means students will practice their sport on campus with only Concordian students and then compete against other schools in a tournament at the end of each season.
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Even with these new procedures, our students have been very active. If you have visited the fields and gyms after school, you would have seen that we have a record number of students participating in the various first season sports. Also, we have a number of new student clubs ranging from cooking to assisting the elderly to saving the environment to reading for pleasure that started up this year and both the new and established clubs running at full capacity. I’ve been very impressed with how enthusiastic our students have been to be a part of extracurricular activities competitions and planning activities to boost this school year. student morale. @SAs have also started up, as well as preparations for our various service As with last year, there are no changes to the activities. Please read the articles from our Secondary School’s administrative structure. Secondary students to get an idea of what’s Dr. James is the Principal of the Secondary already been happening in the Secondary School School and the DP Coordinator, Ms. Sally and from a student’s perspective. Ms. Min are the Vice Principals of Teaching and Learning for the MYP, and I am the Vice Principal for Again, I’d like to welcome all of you back and the Secondary School. Ms. Yatima and Mr. Jaren I look forward to working with the entire remain as the counselors for the MYP and Concordian community to make this a successful Dr. Tresa is the Career & College Counseling and exciting school year for our students. If you Director and DP Counselor. Please feel free to have any questions or concerns about anything contact any of us with any questions or concerns going on with the Secondary School, please do you may have throughout the school year. not hesitate to contact me. Both the Middle School and High School Sincerely, Student Governments are actively advocating for the students and busily coordinating the house Mr. Bill Berry Secondary School Vice Principal