Collecting your books : Important points

ONE
If you are in Classes 10A 11A 12A 12M 12E, please bring all the books back that you were given during EarlyStart. We will process them and then put them in a complete book bag and give them back to you. This process will take about 2 hours. You can wait OR you can give your books in and then come and collect the bag when you come to school on Monday. NOTE all these classes have already taken their Stationary Bags I believe. I might be wrong.

TWO
Class 12SE do NOT need to attend today as they have already been given both their book bags

THREE
All books are on the Chapel / Library floor level. As we expect a HUGE number of people to come today, please be very patient. This will NOT be quick. You will be given TWO bags, one with stationary (copybooks etc) and one with textbooks. In BOTH these bags there are pieces of paper that indicate what WE think are in the bags. PLEASE check that we have it right, make any changes that you think need to be made, put your username on the paper, sign the paper, give it back to the teacher and then leave with your two bags. The checking and signing is the VITAL thing this morning.

FOUR
All stationary bags are in the Library, you can access them via the WINDOWS of the Library. Take your bag, check the paper, sign it and return it to the teacher with your USERNAME on it.

FIVE
SSG students do NOT need to collect their bags today. We will inform you of when that will happen.

SIX
Students of all Small Group classes will NOT be given any books today. We will inform you of when that will happen.

SEVEN
As we go Hybrid on Monday 07OCT2024, we will slowly but surely put all books online in PDF format in Google Classroom. If you are thinking of travelling, PLEASE do NOT take your books with you as you have no idea when you will be back and the books are very, very expensive. Rather, use the PDF versions that we provide in Google Classroom.

EIGHT
We will only be giving out books to SENIOR students today.

NINE : Book Locations
All Class 6A 6B 6C 6E textbook bags are in Class 6A
All Class 7A 7B 7C 7E textbook bags are in Class 6B
All Class 8A 8B 8C 8E textbook bags are in Class 6C
All Class 9A 9B 9C 9E textbook bags are in Class 6E

All Class 10B 10C 10E textbook bags are in the Chapel
All Class 11S 11SE textbooks bags are in the Chapel

All Class 10A 11A 12A RETURNS are in the Library
All Class 12M 12E RETURNS are in the Library

TEN
Every single person in Lebanon is under stress at the moment, some more than others. We appreciate your patience as we attempt to do this mammoth job in 4 hours.

ELEVEN
I might post further later this morning if there are any clarifications that need to be made.

As previously promised, we will be opening the school tomorrow for the collection of stationary and books by all SENIOR students that are able to make it. At the moment, we will not be giving books to the Junior and Infant Department students. We will communicate further on that during the next two weeks.

The school will be open from 08:00 until 12:00 noon.

If your FamilyCode starts with any letter between A and K inclusive, please try to attend between 08:00 am and 10:00 am. If your FamilyCode starts with any letter between L and Z inclusive, please try to attend between 10:00 am and 12:00 noon.

We will not be able to give books out after 12:00 noon tomorrow because we will all be in a meeting about the Hybrid start on Monday 07OCT2024. If you cannot collect the books tomorrow, you can collect them when the school is open, starting next Monday. You will not be able to collect them on Friday 04OCT2024, unfortunately.

On the afternoon of Saturday 05OCT2024 there will be a video posted about how the Hybrid will work in detail. If you have any questions that you particularly want answered, please send them now to 71 183 559, and they will collect and give them to me, so I can address them in my video.

Further to the request of the Minister of Education that all schools remain completely closed until Monday 07OCT2024 and the declared three days of mourning, we are delaying the start of ALL our Hybrid classes until Monday 07OCT2024, even the A Level classes. It might be that we will ask some students to test out our system with an online presence on Thursday or Friday of this week. Watch this space for details.

We will probably be giving books out to all students that can get to school to take them on Thursday and Friday this week. Details to follow.

Unless otherwise posted, the Senior Administration and Accounting Department will be here every day with a skeleton staff.

Due to the increasing deterioration of the security situation in the area and to ensure the safety of all concerned, I am going to postpone the exams that were due to take place today, Saturday 28SEP2024. I am sorry for the late notice.

May the Great King have mercy.

Here is a LONG video (11 minutes!) about the next two weeks and what we are going to do and how we are going to do it.

Most important things to keep in mind :

• SAFETY is the highest priority
• Not everyone will be happy with my decisions.