FOBISIA Strategic Plan Cover Design Competition 2021

from THE FOBISIAN June 2021 Term 3 Issue 36

Quiet on the Sidelines

Janine Minchin Student Events Executive, FOBISIA HQ & Siobhan Bland Executive Office Manager, FOBISIA HQ

With more than 30 years of shared history, FOBISIA has grown in strength from being a small group of Heads, to a network of over 80 British-style international schools throughout Asia. There have been many twists and turns in the conversation about how best to manage growth within the Federation, not just in terms of membership, but also the expectations of members, in particular around student enrichment and CPD. In June 2020, The FOBISIA Board made a firm commitment to working with its Member Schools to develop and articulate a strategic plan for the Federation. FOBISIA’s Strategic Plan remains faithful to the Federation’s values, and articulates its goals and provides guidance in achieving them with a two-year outlook to August 2023.

What better way to remind everyone that students are at the heart of FOBISIA, than to invite students to design the cover for the Federation’s first ever strategic plan! In February this year, FOBISIA HQ launched a student competition to find a winning design. The online competition was open to students from Years 5 to 13 who were given a broad design brief to create a pictorial representation of their interpretation of FOBISIA’s Vision, Mission and/or Values, using any medium they wished.

We were delighted to receive 72 entries for this competition from 10 Member Schools, with more than 700 students taking part within their own schools. Entries ranged from digital dioramas to whimsical watercolours to dazzling drawings, showcasing the huge range of artistic talent that resides within our Member Schools. Thank you to all of the students and Member Schools that participated: Bangkok Patana School, The British School Manila, Dulwich College Seoul, Haileybury Almaty, Kinabalu International School, Prince of Wales Island International School Penang, Taipei European School, The British International School of Kuala Lumpur, The British School in Tokyo, and The International School @ ParkCity.

FOBISIA HQ’s judges had their work cut out for them. The judging criteria included the degree to which the entries were ‘on brief’ and promoted FOBISIA, as well as their originality, accuracy, techniques used, visual appeal, and message clarity. FOBISIA’s CEO John Gwyn Jones MBE had the difficult task of reviewing the shortlist and picking a winner from the many designs that had scored highly. Still, a cover was needed and a winner there had to be! After much deliberation, the winning design was chosen.

**Congratulations to Isadora in year 6 at The International School @ ParkCity for this wonderful design.**

The judging team also chose four runnersup from the shortlist and we are sure our readers will agree that the field was strong. Congratulations to the following students for their fabulous designs:

“The top 10 entries were very impressive and hard to choose from. I felt that Isadora’s design was original, visually appealing and creative in the techniques it used and it clearly tells the FOBISIA story. We are delighted that Isadora’s design will feature on the FOBISIA Strategic Plan once it is published in August 2021.” - John Gwyn Jones MBE, FOBISIA CEO