Summit Magazine December 2005 - International School Moshi

Dear ParentsWelcome to the fourth edition of The Summitmagazine. We have added pages to this edition andwe are inviting parents with businesses to advertisein the magazine to help us afford to produce it. Thisis a great way to support your school. Term one ofthe 2005-06 school year has been another blur ofactivity on both campuses.Several OP Tripstook place in Termone, including thesouth circuit onKilimanjaro, a tripto the base ofMawenzi, a climbon Mount Meruand a camp crafttrip to Marangu.Mr. Wiggins andMs. Spears havecreated another excellent menu of activities for ourstudents. The IB Hard Labour trip to build aclassroom in the Kilimanjaro village of Materuni wasalso a great success. With the foundations dug andset, students plan to return to lay the more than200 bricks they made and see the new classroomslowly spring to life. We are working on ourcommunity service efforts at the school and SandraRiches is leading the way this year as CASCoordinator in Moshi.In Moshi, we opened the renovated Kijana boardinghouse and Richard Eaton, our new Head ofBoarding, has redesigned the boardingprogramme. ISM became the first internationalschool in Africa to join The Association of BoardingSchools (TABS) in the United States and we plan todraw on the collective expertise of TABS to steadilyimprove boarding at ISM. One very successful eventwas a sporting gala that saw 52 Arusha studentstravel to Moshi to compete in swimming, cricket,volleyball and netball. The competitors stayedovernight and enjoyed a Halloween disco in Moshi.As one school, we are making a big effort this yearto promote cross-campus events.Teachers have been very busy working on theAccreditation Self-Study report for the Council ofInternational Schools (CIS). ISM will receive avisiting team of inspectors from CIS in May who willevaluate our school. I want to thank all parents,teachers and students who have participated on themany committees required for this process duringthe past year. I especially want to thank everyonewho gave us comments on the Philosophy andObjectives of the school as we seek to ensure thatthey are relevant for ISM today. Our Primaryteachers have also been preparing for our PYP preauthorizationvisit from the IBO in January. Iappreciate all these efforts because they are allaimed at making ISM a better school.We finally installed our new playground equipmenton both campuses and I am pleased that thechildren have better structures to play on. We alsoinstalled a Public Address system on both campusesthat allows us to have a fire alarm and lock downsystem as well as the facility to makeannouncements through the campuses. We wereable to do this through a generous grant from theU.S. State Department.This space, of course, is not large enough to tell thewhole story of the school in Term one. For that youwill need to read further. This is ISM.Barry SutherlandChief Executive Officer1From the CEOISMc o n t e n t s4Boarding20Outdoor PursuitsSports14THE SUMMIT is produced for ISM by SILICON VENTURES. Theta Lane Court, Theta Lane, Off Lenana Road, KilimaniP.O. Box 6936-00300 Nairobi, Kenya. Tel: 254 (20) 2 712 943, (254) 722 258614 Fax: 254 (20) 249 363 Email: silvenken@swiftkenya.com