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ALUMNI NEWSLETTER 2
de 8 ans et plus. La première année,
le site de Saconnex recevra des élèves
jusqu’à l’âge de 16 ans (classe de 11 e ),
que viendront rejoindre les deux
années terminales, successivement en
septembre 2006 et en septembre 2007.
Pregny subira des transformations au
cours de l’été pour offrir des lieux
mieux adaptés à des enfants en bas
âge. Au bout du compte, ce sont 960
élèves au total qui fréquenteront le
campus.
At the same time as the new campus
opens both Rigot and Mies will close.
Both schools have contributed
massively to the education provided
by the Foundation. Many alumni will
have begun their schooling at Rigot
and will have fond memories of it.
Mies is of course a much more recent
addition, but has been a huge success
and, in its short history, will also have
left behind many lasting memories.
We hope to mark the closing of both
schools with ceremonies at the end of
the school year.
One of the major issues facing us
in the new campus has been what
educational programmes it should
adopt. Given the diversity of practice
within the existing schools of the
Foundation we obviously had a choice.
The decision has been to adopt the
programmes of the International
Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO)
throughout. We will therefore be
following its Primary Years Progamme
(PYP), Middle Years Programme
(MYP) and, once the top two years have
been added, the IB Diploma. This is
highly appropriate, I think, in a school
that helped set up the IB Diploma
and the IBO, and in a new campus
that has as its immediate neighbour
the international headquarters of the
IBO. The programmes offered at the
school will be primarily anglophone,
as that is where the greatest demand
exists.
Pour perpétuer les traditions
de bilinguisme de la Fondation,
le français fera l’objet d’un
enseignement plus poussé qu’une
simple langue étrangère. Tous les
efforts seront déployés pour que les
élèves maîtrisent la langue française
à l’heure de quitter l’école. Nous
offrirons en plus à tous les élèves de
l’école secondaire la possibilité de
suivre certaines matières en français si
leurs parents le souhaitent.
The new campus has a small team
already in place planning every aspect
of its functioning, headed by the new
campus principal Mrs Lesley Stagg.
Staff and students are being recruited,
resources are being ordered, and a
myriad of decisions being made about
the timetable and the daily life of
the school. The new campus will be
different in some respects from any
other existing part of the Foundation.
Its creation, we hope, will make
for livelier debates and exchanges
across the whole Foundation. It will
be established very firmly, however,
within the Ecolint tradition and carry
forward all the values and emphases
that, over eighty years, have made our
school the very distinctive place that
it has become. I very much hope that
some of you may be able to visit it once
it is open and hard hats are no longer
de rigueur.
Meanwhile we continue to be active
on a whole variety of fronts on our
existing campuses, not least with plans
for a number of major improvement
projects. But that will have to be the
subject of another newsletter.
I wish you all the very best for the
remainder of 2005.
Nicholas Tate
Director-General
Elections au Conseil de
Fondation – 2005
Les membres souhaitant voter par
la poste pour les élections 2005 du
Conseil de Fondation doivent remplir
et renvoyer le formulaire d’inscription
au Bureau des Anciens. Le matériel
de vote vous sera envoyé afin que vous
puissiez le remplir.
L’Assemblée générale consultative
du Conseil de Fondation aura lieu
le mardi 24 mai 2005 à 20h00 à La
Châtaigneraie, Nouveau Bâtiment, 1 er
étage (Salle Polyvalente 1), chemin de
la Ferme, 1297 Founex.
Elections to the
Governing Board – 2005
Members wishing to vote by post in
the 2005 Elections to the Governing
Board should complete and return
the registration form to the Alumni
Office.
The voting documention will
then be forwarded to you for your
completion.
The Governing Board Consultative
General Assembly will be held on
Tuesday, 24 May 2005 at 20h00 at La
Châtaigneraie, New Building, 1st floor
(Salle Polyvalente 1), chemin de la
Ferme, 1297 Founex.
Venez nombreux nous
rejoindre !
Assemblée générale de
l’Association des Anciens
La prochaine Assemblée générale de
l’Association des Anciens de l’Ecole
Internationale de Genève aura lieu
à La Grande Boissière le samedi 28
mai 2005 – jour de la Kermesse – à 11
heures, dans l’ancienne bibliothèque
devenue l’actuel Salon des Professeurs
dans l’Orangerie.
A l’issue de cette réunion, vous êtes
tous attendus au stand des Anciens
pour le traditionnel ‘verre de l’amitié’
offert par le Comité central.