Dear Parents, I trust you and your family are doing well. We are reeling at the school after a fantastic weekend of sports. In this newsletter, I would like to highlight three items. Sports Season 1 Ended Sports in international schools are divided into three seasons. The reason for this is that international schools in…
Dear Parents, I am writing to wish you and your family a very happy Mid-Autumn Festival. Whether you are traveling or staying home, I hope it is a lovely time for you and your family. In my last message to you, I focused on my first goal, which is high achievement for all students.…
Dear Parents, It is an honor to be writing my first newsletter of the year. For those of you new to our community, my name is Brian Lalor and I am the deputy head. I come from Ireland and am here in Xi’an with my wife and three daughters. I have been working at the…
Dear Parents, As this will be my final newsletter of the year, I would like to keep it light. First of all, thank you for sharing this, my eleventh year at XLIS. I am striving to get to know the name of each and every one of your children and work to provide a…
Dear Parents, I hope you had a lovely long weekend. I spent the weekend with my family enjoying some quality time together. I need to treasure every moment with my children, as I only have about 7 years before they are out of the house. This time is precious. Benefits of Athletics This year has…
Dear parents, To all my friends in the community, I would like to share my annual yearbook article with you. I am blessed to be completing my eleventh year in this brilliant school. I do not take this great honor for granted and greatly appreciate each and every one of our students, staff and parents.…
Dear Parents, I hope you are having a lovely week. There has been so much fantastic learning taking place at XLIS over the past month. I have been observing lessons in our PYP classes and am delighted with the quality of instruction I am seeing across the program. In particular, the students’ understanding of key…
Dear Parents, I appreciate every member of our school community who is with us on our unique school mission. We come together to enable confident, open-minded, global citizens through life-long learning and a sense of community. Happy Spring Festival First and foremost, I want to wish all our community a very happy Spring Festival.…
Dear Parents, It is hard to believe that my family and I will be celebrating our eleventh holiday season at XLIS this year. We love this time of Christmas then leading into Spring Festival. These two holidays are celebrated throughout the world and focus on the family. In my newsletter this month I would…
Dear parents, I am delighted to be sharing a newsletter with you on what is perhaps one of the best aspects of our school, a culture of inclusion. One of the things the leadership at XLIS strives for is transparency. This is why we have provided our academic policies on our website here as well as…
