June 2010
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"Once again we are rapidly approaching the final few weeks of a school year. Hopefully, you have felt it to
be a year of achievement, satisfaction, growth and challenge, filled with wonderful memories and happy
moments."
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April 2010
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"After a refreshing holiday the vast majority of our families and teachers made it back to start school on time despite
the best endeavours of Mother Nature and an Icelandic volcano! Please find following a reflection of life on our multi-cultural, multi-national, high-activity campus and enjoy!...."
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January 2010
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"As our students move into the second semester of our school year, their current work is built upon their
achievements of the last semester and their reflections and actions based on their various examination
results, reports and parent-teacher communications over the past few school weeks...."
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December 2009
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"Wow – what a hectic few weeks since I last wrote to you! We have had so many activities and events
involving our Primary and Secondary sports teams in cross-country, swimming, basketball, football and
netball, huge celebrations of the Deepavali festival and then our International Week..."
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October 2009
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"I am delighted to write this newsletter on what is a very special date for me – it is fifteen years to the day that I first
arrived at Singapore’s Changi Airport to begin working with our founder, Jenny Gay, on building our wonderful
group of schools..."
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June 2009
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"As I write, our Secondary students are deep in the throes of their internal school examinations or coming to the end
of the prolonged strain of completing their IGCSE and IB diploma examinations. Our thoughts are with our
excellent students as they strive to produce their best..."
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April 2009
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" ‘A nation that forgets its heroes is a nation destined to be forgotten’ (Calvin Coolidge).
The quotation from Calvin Coolidge above caused me to ponder to what degree we publicly
acknowledge the work of those past and present who have striven successfully to build our school..."
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March 2009
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"A regular criticism levelled at us by one of our greatest supporters is that we ‘don’t blow our own
trumpet enough!’ So, here goes... Congratulations to a team of often ‘unsung heroes’ – Mr Kee and the canteen staff. Following a
recent visit by the National Environmental Agency (NEA) inspectors..."
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February 2009
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"‘If you don’t like something, change it.
If you can’t change it, change your attitude to it.’
Maya Angelou.. How appropriate are the above words of Maya Angelou when, along with a huge portion of humanity, we, individually and collectively, feel the growing impact of the global financial situation..."
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November 2008
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"What a tremendous month October 2008 has been for seeing people helping others – sometimes
in fairly spectacular ways and often in the quiet, gentle acknowledgment of another person’s
needs, concerns or ambitions..."
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September 2008
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"I am delighted to write to you following, probably, our best-ever start to an academic year.
Accepting that there are always some things that can be done better, the return to school
and subsequent settling-in to the various academic and other activities has been
remarkably smooth..."
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June 2008
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"Oh, have we been running hard over the past few weeks!
My newsletter this month serves to give you a glimpse of
the incredible efforts that go into making the end of the school year such a
fulfilling and enjoyable time for all of us..."
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May 2008
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"Since my last newsletter I have been privileged to have
spent some considerable time with various parents,
teachers, students, colleagues and friends in what I term ‘dialogues of
constructive criticism.’ In asking the question, ‘What could we do better?’..."
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