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Hey , welcome to the first newsletter!
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The first of (hopefully) many newsletters, hoping to inform you a bit more about all that goes on in the school. I'm still figuring out the form and style of this newsletter, and am happy to take recommendations.
I get that in part this may feel like a useless solution, clearing out the email mess with yet another email, so I fully understand if you want to unsubscribe to this newsletter, which you can do here: unsubscribe.
This is not the final form, hopefully this gets added with the canteen menu every week (almost ready) and the latest notes from the LT meeting as soon as elections are over and meetings are in full swing. For now, enjoy your Sunday and don't forget to vote!
- Koen
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I don't want to make this email a way to confront you with my thoughts every week, and am still looking to give it some shape. I'll happily open up the stage, and thought it would be a fun idea to make it a place where every week a different member of the community can show us their favorite spots of Mostar, along with the important pieces of information.
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Upcoming Events
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Student Council Elections, check your email for voting forms!
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Happening online on the 26th
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Race for a Cure: Europe's biggest running / walking event to support women with breast cancer.
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Sunday, October 3rd More details soon!
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What's the weather going to be? ☔️
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Monday30 °C - 🌤 Tuesday29 °C - 🌤 Wednesday28 °C - ⛈ |
Thursday 🌗 23 °C - 🌧
Friday 23 °C - 🌧
Weekend 24 °C - 🌧
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Upcoming birthdays 🎁
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Ivana (Y1), Wednesday September 29
Ioanna (Y1), Sunday October 3
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Sign up now →
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Student Council notes: LT meeting (September 14)
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UWC day:
- It will be on a Tuesday, because that is the only time the open-city stage was available, meaning students get the day off and don’t have classes. As we’re already tight on school hours these will have to be made up => an extra school day has to be implemented. Not this weekend, but either around project week (so Saturday before or Sunday after) or on Sunday at the end of our study break in november. This is to be discussed with staff and official information will follow as soon as possible to make sure no-one makes any travel arrangements on this extra day.
- How to make sure students are hyped and know what the idea is? - Ljubica will send an email with videos of previous years.
- More information to be shared with student body in the meeting on Thursday
- Check the sign-up sheet already shared by ljubica for national performances for uwc day
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Students need to update their information on Managebac, it’s very important for the registration of our IB exams. (For address put your residence and no nickname is supposed to be by your official name)
=> This will be done in the tutor meetings
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Fridges in rooms: a lot of students have personal fridges that they would like to put in their room. It’s not being allowed because: they take a lot of electricity and in previous years they were unhygienic. Larger problem though is that students are getting these fridges because there is no space in common fridges.
=> LT will invest money in more and bigger fridges for residences. Team of students has to make a plan for each specific residence, where they will go, how many are needed. Also this group can maybe push for the personal fridges again with more arguments. If you would like to work on this, sign up here : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rmNMVrF21VdVHP1Bo7SQ5lxDdVr1NaOak-3NnBl89hU/edit#gid=0.
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Covid mitigation measure meetings: these are meetings that took place last year biweekly and students, LT staff & houseparents and all of the covid mitigation measures were reviewed. These are to happen again this year, Dipika will be in charge of them.
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Student council constitution:
- Final comments on the document were discussed and approved.
- The document and dates of application deadlines, debates/speeches, voting results will be shared.
- The vice chair of the election committee is to be appointed as soon as possible
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Novi Susac residence:
- Sonia will talk to the owner to see if sinks can be put in again
- The instalment of a fire alarm, security cameras & number padlock is to be done as soon as possible.
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Santic study room is being used by students to hang out and they disrupting others who want to study.
=> People need to be encouraged to go to the Velic attic, as it is not being used as much this year. If there are more problems with this the staff wants to stop allowing non-santic students from entering this room, or hand out warnings, etc. Please guys use santic kitchen and velic attic and be respectful to students wanting to actually use this room for its purpose.
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National committee of BiH is visiting our school
- They will have meetings about changes in the selection process
- To be checked with them, but hopefully our students that went through the BiH selection can give input as well on the process to make it better.
- Julie, Y2 rep
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On top of the notes from this last LT meeting (the one from before UWC Day), elections are also happening today. Make sure to vote for commission leaders and your preferential representatives!
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Bridge of Stories podcast
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This week we talk with Leilani about the new situation regarding abortion regulation in Mexico 🇲🇽.
The Bridge of Stories podcast is a weekly podcast presented by Angel and Koen that talks about global issues with members of our community.
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