Activities Online Registration Will Open Next Week!
Welcome back to IST and a warm karibu to all of our new students and families. At IST we offer a wide range of activities to try and encourage your child to reach their full potential in whatever area they may choose. As part of the PYP philosophy we feel it is very important to make our learners as well-rounded as they can be. This will prepare them for lifelong activity and will support them when facing new challenges.
We base our program on a similar tenet to that of the secondary school in their CAS program, which stands for Creative, Action and Service. We loosely interpret these into Creativity (Arts, Music, Languages). Sports and Community Service and encourage students to choose a mix of these. This term we will be offering close to 50 different activities, which is extensive for any elementary school.
Students from grade 1-2 can choose a maximum of two activities while grade 3-5 can choose up to three. Grade 5 students, to prepare them for the CAS program at high school and to put back into the wider community, are required to do at least one term of a community service activity over the course of the year.
Letters are going out next week with your child’s individual username and password for making your activity application online. Please keep these details safe as they will be used again later in the year to make further selections. The selection window should be up and running by Monday the 29th of August and will be closed by the end of Friday the 2nd of September. New students will get instructions that will take them through the process step-by-step. We understand that not everyone has internet access so we will be offering the computer lab and classroom computers to those who need them on the mornings before school to register.
Term one activities will start on Monday the 5th of September and will run through until the 2nd of December. I look forward to an action-packed year full of fun and learning across the After-School Activities Program.
Sincerely,
Julie Strait
After School Activities Coordinator
