TES British Secondary & High School Section

ESC Newsletter Issue 10 Coming up this month: Welcome from the BSHS Head  1 June: CAS Week Chrysta Garnett, Head of British Secondary and High School Section Dear Parents  6 June: Prom  11 June: Awards Assemblies  12 June: Leavers Assembly  13 June: Summer Holidays! Inside this issue: ESCPA 2 Model United Nations 5 University Counsellor 8 Graduation 14 Sports News 18 Sports Awards 22 And much more! May 2015 As another school year almost comes to a close, the British Secondary and High School celebrated the tremendous success of our departing H4 students last weekend in the 12th Annual High School Graduation Ceremony. Sixty five High School students graduated from TES this year – with fourteen of those students achieving the distinction of having studied with us for more than ten years; with one lucky young man having spent his entire schooling since the age of two with us. Each and every year group is special, but this group of students has made a particularly profound impact on the fabric and the culture of the school. They have demonstrated exceptional leadership, a collective innovative drive to make positive changes, as well as a remarkable capacity to keep smiling! We will miss them, but are excited about the adventures they will no doubt embark upon in the coming years of further study at some of the world’s top universities. This year, Kevin Wang and Janice Liu achieved the honour of being nominated by their fellow students to provide the valedictory speech on behalf of their friends and fellow students. Mr Latchford our IB Co -ordinator spoke as eloquently as usual about the sixty five students whom he has grown to know individually over the course of the two year IB programme. His comments a fitting testament to the absolute privilege it is to work with the remarkable young people we have at TES. Thank you to all students, parent volunteers and colleagues who made this event possible. With only three weeks to go until the summer break, the BSHS continues to deliver an action packed curriculum and other rich opportunities... even in the remaining fifteen days of term. Our H2 students still have another three weeks remaining of their IGCSE examinations; our H3 students will embark on their CAS projects supporting charitable causes on island and in Cambodia; our H1 Geographers will visit Hualien on an IGCSE field trip; and we will welcome next year’s new Year 7 parents and students to our school as part of our EPC/ESC transition process; but sadly say goodbye in our Leaver’s Assembly to those students and colleagues who will leave us for pastures new. I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all of them well in the next chapter of their academic and professional lives. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has contributed to another successful year in the British Secondary and High School.

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