THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL AZERBAIJAN Mid-term Roundup

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Director
TISA Times
Mid-term Roundup…continued
Baku gallery! We were proud to be
able to collaborate with Azerbaijan
National Artist Arif Hüseynov at his
Miniatures Gallery and hope very
much that this will lead to further
links between the TISA Art
Department and the local art
scene.
So far this term the Primary School
has held a number of very useful
workshops for parents, and I know
that a lot of parents have been
very positive about what they have
seen of students’ progress at Open
Houses as well. We have also had
the opportunity for community
collaboration with students,
parents and teachers working
together to improve the ELC,
inside and out, at the Working Bee
a couple of weekends ago. There
has been an enormous amount of
activity inside the classroom in
Primary, and a lot of superb work
is on display. In addition, P6 to P8
students were very focused on the
ISA tests earlier this month: the
results of these tests will give us
very helpful data against which to
benchmark our students’ progress.
In the Secondary School in the past
couple of weeks there has been a
wider range than ever of trips
abroad, with students travelling to
France, Russia, Spain, the UK and
Cambodia. These have given our
students a wonderful opportunity
to experience different cultures as
well as to develop language skills
in situ. In addition earlier in the
term there was an M1 trip to Alti
Agach, a Biology trip and M1-M3
trips to Gala, Jumeriah Beach and
Gobustan and elsewhere. We also
had a very successful Career Fair.
The Secondary School teams are
currently reviewing a number of
significant areas of school life,
from assessment and reporting to
dress code, and I am sure that this
will lead to significant future
improvements.
We have witnessed some
outstanding
sporting
entertainment and success
recently. The Colombian Women’s
Football Team visited TISA during
the opening week of the FIFA
Women’s Under-17 World Cup, and
we were also fortunate to have
had the enthralling National Danish
Performance Team at TISA for a
whole day. TISA athletes
performed very well indeed in the
SRAA Cross-country Championship
held last weekend in the Baku
Botanical Gardens: congratulations
to all!
Soon after the break we have a
number of events to which to look
forward. On the sporting side, we
will be concentrating on soccer
and volleyball. From Thursday 1 to
Saturday 3 November at TISA we
have a P7-IB2 TISA Football &
Volleyball Tournament against
Baku schools. This is preparation
for the SRAA International Football
& Volleyball Tournament to be
held at TISA two weeks later, from
Thursday 15 to Saturday 17
November. We hope that many
parents will be present to cheer on
our teams! In addition, please
reserve space in your diaries for
the P6-P8 production of Peter Pan
on the evenings of Wednesday 7
and Thursday 8 November.
Last but not least, you will be
interested to know that steady
progress is being made on the TISA
5 sports complex construction. At
present work is taking place on the
foundations, with 78 tons of
reinforced steel installed and
800m 3 of concrete poured so far!
I hope you will enjoy finding out
more about what has been
happening in all parts of the school
over the past few weeks in the
pages of this issue of the TISA
Times.
John Gillespie
Director
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