Dear Parents, Good morning! What a wonderful week at XLIS last week, with the Mental Health Awareness activities, Digital Detox action, and finishing off with Sports Day. Each of these activities was important for our community in its own way, and I hope that you and your children had meaningful conversations and were able…
Dear Parents， Good morning! Although it will be cooler and wet this week, it looks like the temperatures will get higher again moving later into next week. This is a beautiful time in Xi’an when the cherry blossom and magnolia trees are in full bloom around the city. This past weekend, XLIS…
Dear Parents, Good morning and a very Happy Year of the Horse to you all! We are excited for what this year has in store for all of us at XLIS! I hope that you and your family had a lovely holiday and that your children are excited to come back to school! We…
Dear Parents , Good morning and welcome to Semester 2 of the 2025_2026 academic year! We are excited to begin this new semester as we also enter into the Year of the Horse! This is the year of the “Fire Horse” and is a rare occurrence in the Chinese calendar. From what I have read, it is…
Dear Parents , Happy New Year to you all! I hope that 2026 is a year full of joy and success for you and your child. It’s hard to believe that we are now officially halfway through the school year. We have six weeks between our Christmas break and the upcoming Chinese New Year holiday.…
Dear Parents, Good morning! I hope you are doing well! It was an absolute pleasure to see many of our parents at our “Journey of Love” Christmas Concert and Market on Saturday. I love how our school events bring our community together! It was wonderful to see participation from our teachers and parents as well!…
Dear XLIS Primary Community, Good morning! I hope this email finds you well as we begin a new month at XLIS! I was absent from school last week as I accompanied our M4 students on their Week Without Walls trip to Jeju Island in South Korea. I loved that I got to know…
Dear Parents, Since my last email in October, we have entered November, and the days are starting to get shorter and colder. I hope that today’s email finds you and your family in good health and that you are keeping warm on these chilly days. In today’s message, I would like to remind…
Dear Parents, I have just returned from a five-day trip to Bangkok for the EARCOS Leadership Conference that brings together school leaders from all over the East Asia Region. I learn so much every year that I attend this conference, and this year’s highlights include best practices for supporting multilingual learners and the application…
Dear Parents, Good morning, I hope this email finds you well and refreshed after our holiday to celebrate China’s National Holiday and Mid-Autumn Festival! Ahead of us, we have a solid 10 weeks of teaching and learning, as well as some fun school events. In today’s email, I would like to highlight what we…
