This week we celebrated Delphine’s 40+ year connection with ISY. Delphine has served our Elementary School community for 26 years. At the end of this school year, Delphine is retiring.

Delphine’s connection to ISY goes all the way back to our old campus where she held various administrative roles before pursuing other career opportunities. In 1995 she returned to ISY and joined the Elementary School on our current campus.

International Schools like ours always have people coming and going, joining and leaving. Schools like ours are also required to deal with more changes than most as we have seen this year. 

Through so many changes over her 26 years with ISY’s Elementary School, Delphine has provided us all with a sense of continuity and has kept us connected as a community. She has done this with professionalism and kindness and as the face of our school to so many of our families, she has played a very important role in promoting our compassionate Mission and Vision. 

I am personally very grateful for the support that Delphine continues to give me in my first year as Principal. I know that there are many others in our community who are also very grateful for the support that she has given them. 

Thank you, Delphine. We appreciate all that you have done for us and our school. 

QUARTER 3 PROGRESS REPORTS and PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES

SUMMER MAINTENANCE WORK

Elementary School Preferential Play Time

These times will continue after the break just as a reminder to families that they can get together on campus.

With students no longer being able to attend Transitional Day classes on campus, we have decided to set aside weekly times between 2:30pm and 3:30pm for each grade level to have preferential access to the facilities and playground. These times will provide opportunities for students in the same classes and grades to connect and play in person

Schedule:

• Monday: Pre-Kindergarten & Grade 1
• Tuesday: Kindergarten & Grade 2
• Wednesday: Pre-Kindergarten & Grade 3
• Thursday: Kindergarten & Grade 4
• Friday: Grade 5

You can use the ES Preferential Play Times Sign Up Form to book a time for you and your children to come on campus as per the schedule below. The same rules for facility use apply:

• We can only have up to 30 community members on campus at any one time (including adults and children)
• Every child must be actively supervised by a responsible adult at all times. There will be no ISY staff or faculty supervision.Students cannot be dropped off at school without adult supervision.
• Masks must be worn at all times by both adults and children. This is particularly important for us to be able to safely keep our campus open for our community.
• Siblings may come on campus with their brother or sister during their brother or sister’s play time (e.g. a Grade 1 student may come on to campus with their grade 2 sibling during the Grade 2 play time)

In addition to these allocated times, we have sent this Students in Yangon Over Thingyan form out to our families to join a list of families staying in Yangon over the Thingyan break. The purpose of the list is to let families know who is still in Yangon so ISY children can connect over the break if families wish. We will share the list with those people who have responded to this form next Wednesday, April 7 so they can contact each other as they wish.

PRIDE OF THE PRINCIPAL

If you have any student (or students) that you would like me to recognise for living the ISY Attributes send me an email with a sentence about why they are to be recognised and a time that I could come on Zoom and say hi. Any time or day is OK – If I have a meeting I’ll suggest another time until we get one that works. I will jump on your Zoom and then I’ll get you to put the student or student(s) into a break out room with me. I’ll have a chat with them and take a screenshot that I will send to their parents.