Head of Primary School Message

by Alan Cornish, Head of Primary

Welcome to the Whiteboard, which is the Primary section of the TIV, exploring the events, trips, and learning going on in our Primary classes during Term 1, 2022.

As always, a huge thank you to all the contributors, including Ms Orla who helped to edit this year, and a huge thank you to you for reading on…

For us, the highlight of this term was inviting our community back into school after more than two years. We brought back class assemblies with parents invited, giving you the chance to watch and enjoy, but also giving the children a chance to perform. They got to experience the importance of rehearsals, the discipline of learning their lines, the excitement and butterflies just before they perform to an audience and then the satisfaction and warm glow they get when they take their bow and praise. It is really important and should not be underestimated. It is also lots of fun!

We also invited other international schools and parents, as we hosted Wordfest; you will see the article in this section

(spoiler alert – it was great and our pupils performed very well). We had Sports Day, with our parents, UN Day, with our parents, the back to school BBQ, with our parents, and the Halloween Party, with our parents. I think you get the idea. And we resurrected school trips too, taking learning outside the classroom (and I don’t mean in their bedroom, where the learning took place for many during periods of school closure).

So enjoy our Primary section and we look forward to inviting you into school for many more events this year.