TES British Secondary & High School Section - NewsLetter
ESC Newsletter
Issue 1, August 2014
Coming up this
month:
Welcome from the BSHS Head
4 September:
Information
Evening
8 September:
Autumn
Festival
Chrysta Garnett, Head of British Secondary and High School Section
10 September:
H4 University
Info Evening
19 September:
ESCPA
Meeting
Inside this issue:
University
Counsellor
5
IB News
6
SARP Project
7
ESC PA
9
Sports News
12
New Staff
15
And much
more!
August 2014
In our first ESC Newsletter of
the year, we welcome new
staff members joining us across
key curriculum areas to the
TES family. Please enjoy their
introductions on pages 15-18.
We look forward to working
with them in the coming years
and seeing the fantastic work
they will do with our young
people. We also welcome back
Ms Papps and Ms Tsai after
their recent maternity leave
and congratulate them on the
births of their children. Also,
heart-felt congratulations to
Ms Drag (formerly Ms Brown)
on her summer wedding!
I would also like to take this
opportunity to congratulate
our ‘Class of 2014’ graduating
students on their phenomenal
IB achievements this year.
Their perseverance and commitment paid off with the best
IB results ever! Our average
IBDP grade now stands at 5.47,
which is well above the world
average and a significant im-
provement on previous years.
We maintained our average IB
Diploma score of 34 from last
year and in total 53 students
passed the Diploma.
Likewise, our H2 students
deserve a special mention for
their IGCSE results: 360 of the
grades achieved were A*/A,
which represents a very impressive collective academic
achievement, with 91.5% of
students this year gaining 5 or
more A*- C grades.
I am very excited to report
recent developments regarding
our new ESC Sports Facility in
Yangmingshan. Building work
started during the summer, in
preparation for what will be an
impressive new extension of
our current sports facilities.
The new venue will feature a
larger astro-turf soccer pitch,
tennis courts and fitness suite.
We hope to be able to have
students using the centre later
in Term 1.
An important upcoming date
for your diaries: on September
4th, 6:30 – 8:00 pm, we will be
hosting a KS3, IGCSE and IB
Information Evening. We welcome all parents to attend and
find out more information
about their child’s curriculum
pathway.
Our ESC Newsletter will now
be a little more interactive and
‘on the shelf’ in our usual website archive as well as at
http://tesconnectfour.org/