December Newsletter

Dear Parents, We are nearly at the end of a very eventful term. As you can see from the Governors’ announcement, the burning issue of a new Head Teacher has been resolved! I am sure that we are all excited at the prospect of the school moving into yet another successful era, under the leadership of Mr. McGuire. His letters to everyone in our school community indicate a personality who is very much aware of the importance of partnership in a school’s success. I would like to extend my own personal congratulations to him on his appointment and look forward to working alongside him. On more mundane matters, please take the time to read this newsletter and make a note of any important dates. I would like to thank the staff and pupils for all their hard work throughout the term and especially at this very busy time of year. Also I would like to give a big thank you to parents, staff and pupils for the generous responses to charity appeals and for support given towards all the events which have taken place this term. I wish you all a happy, joyful and restful holiday. Kind Regards Mrs Sam Durham Acting Head Teacher

Important Calendar Dates Friday 15th December – school finishes 12:00 midday. Internal Exams KS4 January 29th to 2nd February. Carnival Parade  Thursday 16thFebruary 2007 Carnival Week 19h - 26th February 2007 KS1 Nativity: Wednesday 13th December KS2 & KS3 Concerts: Thurs 14th December 19h Carnival I know it is a little early to be thinking of Carnival but Key Stage One and Year 3 are already preparing for the parade on February 16th. The theme will be “Knights and Princesses, Horses and Unicorns” (and maybe a dragon!). They need your boxes - rectangular and big enough for a child’s body to fit inside! Please keep any suitable boxes opened at Christmas and bring them to D. Lesley in January. Uniforms From January, Mrs Redpath is available for the sale of new uniforms every day from 8:30am until 9:30am.

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Football On Monday 4th December EISL football team played Vale Verde International School, of which our ex-colleague Roger Foreman is the Head Teacher. It was a very close game, with Vale Verde scoring first, but our team finally won the match 6:3. We hope to have more matches in the future with Vale Verde and other schools. Boys' Basketball tournament “Varsity” On the 27th & 28th of November, the boys ‘Varsity’ team went to Lisbon. They played very well and won several games although they were the youngest team playing. Alexander Holmström Forster received an MVP (most valued player) award and trophy which made the team and manager Sr Paulo very proud.