As part of our promise to catch up the 7 days that we lost at the beginning of the school year, we will NOT be taking Thursday 31OCT2024 and Friday 01NOV2024 off. They will be normal school days.

Dear Parents and Students that are still online

I apologise for not writing this message earlier.

We have realised, after a significant amount of feedback from parents and students, that the Livestream (streaming a live class for all 6 hours) might not be the way to go at the moment. I should emphasize that it is my goal that this will happen eventually.

We have decided to VIDEO the live class on an hour by hour basis. We will attempt to post videos of the class as soon as it is finished on Google Classroom in the Topic “DailyVideos”. This will have the format of a link to the video for each lesson of the day. You will therefore hopefully be able to follow during the day as soon as the class finished. This means that by 08:50 am you might have a video to watch if everything goes well.

Within the near future we will arrange Zoom afternoon meetings with teachers at which you can ask questions you had about a certain lesson. Be sure to write them down as you move through the videos.

We will be keeping to the SIX hours per day timetable for the week Monday 21OCT – Friday 25OCT2024.

The timetable will change. It will be posted tomorrow, BUT it will be 6 hours per day : 07:40 am until 01:30 pm.

Tomorrow afternoon we will open bus routes to the following locations :

Loueizeh – Hazmieh – Fiyadiyeh – Dekwaneh – Mkalles – Qoubeh – Hammana – Chbaniyeh – Ras El Matn – Fallougha

If you have registered your child/ren on a bus to any of these locations, bring your child to school in the morning and in the afternoon the bus will return them home.

Please be ready for late arrival at home for the first 10 days as we sort out these bus routes.

Please note that no students will be able to ride on the bus unless they have signed the Bus Waiver Form. If you have already signed the School Waiver Form, a second signature is all that is needed. This form will be available outside the Senior Administration office tomorrow morning when you bring your children to school.

Dear Parents

You will be aware by this time, if your child is following online, that the livestreaming yesterday moved to recording/uploading videos. You will also be aware that not all videos were uploaded. We do NOT upload videos that we feel are technically substandard, and therefore many were not uploaded at all. Do not worry, your children will not have missed anything, we will be repeating all content that was taught on Wednesday 16OCT2024.

As a summary, we have been going 5 days so far this academic year :

Thursday 10OCT2024 : Revision of last year, no online
Friday 11OCT2024 : Revision of last year, no online
Monday 14OCT2024 : Revision of last year, no online
Tuesday 15OCT2024 : Revision of last year, no online
Wednesday 16OCT2024 : New material, some online

Today and tomorrow, Friday 18OCT2024, we will be teaching new material.

Today we will NOT be going live, and it is probable that we will not be recording. It is highly improbable that we will be going live tomorrow, Friday 18OCT2024, though that might change for a number of classes. We will inform you of that later.

Tomorrow, school will finish at 12:40 pm NOT at 1:30 pm. The day will consist of 5 teaching hours, not 6.

Tomorrow afternoon, teachers will prepare videos for online students that will cover all the NEW material that has been taught on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week. These videos will be posted in Google Classrooms.

We will probably be moving to a FIVE-hour timetable starting next week. Details and timetable to follow tomorrow. That means that school will finish at 12:40 pm starting from Monday 21OCT2024.