MESSAGE FROM THE HEAD OF SECONDARY – 26TH APRIL 2019

Dear Students, Parents and Colleagues,

Welcome back after what I hope was a very relaxing Songkran holiday. Although the air quality has greatly improved we are now entering the season of hot weather and have enacted our weather monitoring policy, issuing daily guidance to the community. We would very much like your support in encouraging students to drink lots of water and stay in the shade wherever possible. Some of our students also have the energy to run around at lunchtime and we would like to see them bring spare polo shirts to change into, once they become overly sweaty.

Y10 Exams are well underway, with students getting an excellent experience of managing their time and preparation under full exam conditions. These assessments will allow our teachers to give appropriate and developmental feedback to students so that they can continue to improve. All external examinations begin in earnest over the next weeks and finish in the last week of Term. Students have varying levels of study leave available to them as we continue to develop good study habits that will lead to complete independence once they leave for University.

Interesting Fact: We have 224 students taking I/GCSE, AS and A Level examinations in 57 different courses this Term, with 1,112 individual entries!

Starting on Tuesday 7th May we will begin holding our Parent Forums for all parents. This will allow us an opportunity to share developments within the school and reflect on the year. Of great importance are the activities we offer to gather parental feedback in our aim to continually improve. We will also be hosting Parent Workshops straight after these forums on career pathways and university guidance to build on our work last term. If you wish to attend any of these, please notify Khun Mod so that we can plan accordingly (secondary.sec@bkkprep.ac.th).

Finally, we have some really important celebration events over the term, so please add them to your diaries:

• Graduation: Friday 31st May
• Sports Awards: Friday 7th June
• KS3 Drama Production: Thursday/Friday 20th/21st June
• Prize Giving: Tuesday 25th June

Kind regards

Nigel Wilsonlock

Head of Secondary