ISF - Monthly Newsletter Nov 2022

Visit with Mr. Bistany by Dharini Harini Palanivetrivlan

SLO Head Prefect

On November 30^th, the SLO Leadership Team had the opportunity to have a meeting with Mr. Bistany (the president of SABIS^®), Ms. Wesley (the SABIS^® Executive Director of Operations), Ms. Rader (ISF School Director) and Ms. Hannon (ISF SLO Coordinator). We took some time to reflect on Term 1 and share our plans for Term 2. We shared our experiences of being leaders so far, covering both the positive changes that we created at our school and the challenges that we faced in the process. Mr. Bistany motivated us with some inspiring words and encouraged us to reach out to more people. It was a pleasure and honor for us as the leadership team to meet with him and his team.

Sinterclass!!

We started the month off with fun and anticipation with a visit on December 5 from Sinterklaas – the Dutch Counterpart of the German tradition of St Nikolaus (December 6). As is customary, children put their shoes outside the night before so that Sinterklaas can fill them with sweets and treats. In the olden days, people wore wooden shoes called clogs. Inspired by this, the primary children with their teachers' help, made and decorated their own clogs and shoes out of paper and left them on their school desks or windowsills so that Sinterklaas could fill them with bags of cinnamon cookies before the children arrived in school. Later on, during the day, Sinterklaas made a personal visit to the Primary Homerooms, which was widely appreciated by the children, especially after a 2-year pause during the pandemic. Thank you Sinterklaas and welcome back!

On Sunday, the four student teams gave their presentations in front of an audience of families and friends. Judges for the presentations were Dr. Vincent Docherty from Globe College, and ISF and Globe College graduates Steffen (ISF 2014) and Shivaansh (ISF 2018).

All four teams did an excellent job in their presentations, but only one team could be selected as the overall winner: Team 4 was selected by unanimous decision!

While business was the overall context, the weekend was really about character and skill development, with the focus being on the five skills of communication: empathetic exchange, bigger-picture thinking, grit/passion, and time management, as well as gaining an understanding of what is required in the real business world in terms of mindset.

I thank the participating students for taking this opportunity and for accepting the challenge, Globe Business College Munich for being such great partners and for offering our students this unique opportunity, the parents for coming to school on a Sunday to support their students during the presentations, and, of course, Steffen and Shivaansh for returning to ISF to support our current Grade 11 & 12 students!

I am certain that all participants will benefit from this experience for a long time. We will share more information about the workshop weekend once it is published by Globe College.

Dirk Lehmann

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