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Tuition Assistance 2018-2019

March 7, 2018, 10:43 am
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Dear Parents,

In order to help you make financial plans for the academic year 2018-2019, applications for tuition assistance are available online and at the Business Office starting Wednesday, March 7th, 2018.

Tuition Assistance Circular https://www.ic.edu.lb/uploaded/Finance_Services/Student_Services/FAcircular.pdf
Tuition Assistance Application https://www.ic.edu.lb/uploaded/Finance_Services/Student_Services/FAappl-En.pdf

The deadline for submission is Wednesday, March 28, 2018.

Sincerely,

The Administration

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Founder's Day

March 2, 2018, 1:00 pm
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Founder’s Day

The fifth Founder’s Day reunion - otherwise known as the “cousins” reunion - was held in Tarsus on March 1-3 and brought together, once again, administrators and students from six different schools from Turkey, Lebanon, Greece and Bulgaria.

Eight students from IC travelled with IC President, Dr. Don Bergman, and Newsletter writer, Reem Haddad, to the Tarsus American College. Students from the schools participated in various workshops and community service projects. More importantly, students made lifelong friends.

The founding father of the schools was the American Board Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), Protestant missionaries who established schools and universities throughout the region in the 1800s.

But the Ottoman Empire’s demise led for a struggle for Turkish self-determination and schools were subjected to heavy restrictions. The role of ABCFM and its missionaries dwindled considerably. With the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923 and the US depression in 1929, some of the Board’s schools eventually either shut down permanently or relocated to other countries. Some, however, remained. As the years passed and as they adapted to their new environments, the schools lost touch with one another. It took 76 years for IC’s sister school, the American Collegiate Institute, to locate IC. In 2012, IC received a surprise letter asking for a reunion in Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey – IC’s original birthplace. IC and its sister schools had apparently had many joint activities together. But, out of the 15 schools that were originally established by the Board, only seven schools survive today: International College (Beirut), American Collegiate Institute (Izmir), Anatolia College (Greece), Pierce (The American College of Greece), Tarsus American College, Uskudar American Academy (Turkey) and the American College of Sofia.

It was six of those schools which met at Tarsus this year. The reunion was held in Beirut last May but didn’t include students because of security reasons.

 

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Ateliers d'écriture créative au Musée National de Beyrouth

March 5, 2018, 4:00 am
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Ateliers d’écriture créative au Musée National de Beyrouth: Quand l’Histoire fourmille de petites histoires qui font écrire…

Les classes de 5e de IC Ain Aar ont redécouvert le Musée National de Beyrouth en écoutant les petites histoires des grands chefs-d’œuvre : mythes et légendes de Phénicie, symboles divers, stèles funéraires, talismans et amulettes ont pris vie grâce à la voix du guide conteur qui a suscité l’intérêt des jeunes et les a invités à écrire et inventer leurs propres histoires à partir des récits écoutés. 

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Future Champions and the IC Spirit

March 10, 2018, 3:00 am
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On Saturday, March 10 more than 20 IC students received their diplomas from the Ecole de Ski Faraya Mzar. 
 
The way they were cheering and supporting each other was wonderful; a true reflection of the IC Spirit!
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Sports Champions!

March 10, 2018, 1:00 pm
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Recent Sport News Success from Ras Beirut

The first weekend in March saw three of IC’s teams crowned champions in their respective tournaments. For the first time in IC's long and proud history, the school's JJV boys’ basketball team won the Beirut Championship. In the Beirut Futsal Championship, the JV girls won in the final against Rawda High School with a score of 4-2. Then, to top all this off, the Varsity girls beat College Sacré Coeur 6-1 in the final of their Beirut Futsal Championship. Mabrouk to all the players and coaches!

The school has also organized and enjoyed another fine edition of the Alton Reynolds football tournament, hosted on IC’s Ras Beirut campus. A high level of sportsmanship was upheld throughout the games, the competition was fierce and most importantly, our athletes had fun. The finals are set for Friday, March 16. Good luck to all!

The annual Remy Rebeiz Memorial Football game was scheduled for Thursday, 8th March at Ras Beirut. IC Varsity vs AUB JV teams ended tied at one-all. The match saw some great action and the atmosphere was a real pleasure.

Finally, Saturday, 10th March saw two more IC teams winning their respective championships! The JJV and Midgets girls’ football team won the Beirut Schools’ Championship for mini-football at Bir Hassan, Jnah. This was followed by the Varsity boys basketball team winning the Beirut Championship for the third year in a row, after a tough game vs Collège Louise Wegmann, winning 55-53 at Wehdie Riyadiyeh.

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Ain Aar Athletics Programs 2017-2018

March 14, 2018, 7:10 am
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Ain Aar Emergency Team Briefing Session

March 14, 2018, 11:56 am
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An Ain Aar School Emergency Team briefing session was held yesterday (Tuesday, 13th March) on the campus. Mr Imad Raad, IC’s Chief Security Officer, led the briefing. 

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New Writing Centre

March 15, 2018, 4:56 am
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This school year IC has taken the initiative to add another support system for the school's learners. Nichole Swink has been appointed to establish and lead the writing center in which she is available for ninth-grade students Mondays and Fridays during lunch, as well as after school on Monday afternoons. While the school is piloting it with only this Grade 9 cohort for now, it is hoped to expand it next year. Students come to ask questions, seek advice and work through the writing process with the help of a qualified writing teacher. The writing center has been a success in helping students with assignments, revising essays and even practicing writing activities to enhance pupil’s understanding of structure, content and vocabulary.

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IC Alumni and Friends' Dinners in the Gulf, March 2018

March 12, 2018, 9:00 am
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In addition to seven USA dinner events organized by Katherine Murphy McClintic In Aid of Scholarships, three IC Alumni and Friends’ Dinners were held in the Gulf, March 2018

March: Three dinners took place, with the IC Advancement team reconnecting with Alumni and friends in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jeddah.  The Bahrain event on 12th March, kindly hosted by Mr Akram Miknas ’63 at his Camelot restaurant, saw 20 people join the school’s Interim Director of Advancement, Katherine Murphy McClintic, and Richard Bampfylde, IC’s Communications and Sustainability Coordinator.  Discussed were IC facility upgrades underway, the plan in Ain Aar, scholarship needs and the impact of the new Lebanese Teachers’ Salary Law and the urgent need to update the database. Explained was the shortfall in the budget due to IC having absorbed $1m of the cost.

Don Selinger, Chairman of IC Board of Trustees, joined Katherine Murphy McClintic and Moufid Beydoun ’64 for a dinner held in Kuwait on 13th March.

The Teachers’ Salary Law was discussed as well as the necessary tuition fee rise of 11.5%.  The fact that IC absorbed $1 million of the 15% cost was explained and the need for alumni support to the Annual Fund.

Katherine Murphy McClintic attended a third dinner held in Jeddah on 20th March, organized and generously hosted by Mohamed ’81 and Dina Zameli. Katherine Murphy McClintic updated the Alumni on IC facility upgrade plans, scholarship needs, deficit in the operating budget and the impact of the Teachers’ Salary Law.  Alumni attending included Fadi Abbas’81 visiting from Riyadh, and Karim Ghandour ’89, visiting from Dubai.

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Passion Hour at the Ras Beirut Elementary

March 23, 2018, 6:00 am
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This year, the Grade 4 in the Ras Beirut Elementary have been incorporating time during the week to work on developing their skills by connecting with their passions. This initiative started in Grade 4C then found its way to include all sections of Grade 4. We now have a collaborative team of teachers and parents who join 'passion hour' to support students in their groups. Through this initiative, we are giving students more opportunities to be able to apply the 4C's while being involved in activities or engagements that connect with their passion/s. The 4C's are

1. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving 

2. Communication 

3. Collaboration 

4. Creativity and Innovation

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IC School Calendar

March 26, 2018, 9:57 am
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Dear IC Community,

For the past several years, the Directors and senior administration have discussed the benefits of revising the annual school calendar to begin all classes in early September rather than mid-September, and ending the school year the corresponding number of days earlier in June. The reasons include, but are not limited to:

1. An earlier September start date provides more time to prepare for official exams, some of which like IB exams, begin the first week of May, putting IC students at a disadvantage compared to many international schools that begin as early as mid- August. This represents the strongest and most important rationale for the change
2. All official exams take place well before the traditional end of classes in late June. Beginning the school year earlier in September and finishing a corresponding number of days earlier in June translates into much more productive school days for learning for students at all grade levels. Whereas most students are rested and ready to return in September, interest has waned and concentration is more difficult and less productive in June.
3. By the end of June, the hot weather adds to the disengagement of students
4. Many summer professional development conferences, workshops and teacher training institutes begin before the end of IC’s school year, prohibiting IC teacher’s participation (IC teacher responsibilities have traditionally finished around the end of the first week of July)
5. There would be no impact on the number of school days. We simply replace less productive school days in June with school days in September.

This proposal was shared with the President of both the Ain Aar and Ras Beirut parent committees and approved by the Ministry of Education. I also checked with the Teachers Association leadership that support the change, as they experience first-hand the distraction and lack of student concentration in June, as well as, the pressure to cover content before official exams commence. To comply with the two-month summer break for teachers, the last day of classes for students for this June will be on the 22nd instead of June 27. Teachers last day will be June 29 instead of July 5.

Next September’s start date will be September 3 for teachers and September 10 for all students.

Regards,

Don Bergman, President
International College

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CIS / NEASC Accreditation

March 26, 2018, 12:00 pm
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The Self-Study: Getting Ready for the Visit                                                       Feb 28, 2018

Since the CIS/NEASC Preliminary Visit in November of 2016, IC has undergone a year-long, comprehensive self-study, looking at all aspects of the school – our educational beliefs; how we view and deliver teaching and learning; all the services provided for the health, safety, wellbeing, and security of the school community; the governing and financing of the school; and the physical campus in all its aspects. Guided by the ERC, the Self-Study has been led by committee chairpersons with the help of administrators, staff and teachers from every area of the school. During In-Service days last year and then in September and October as well as working days designated by individual school directors this year, the committees have looked critically at the school and its practices, answering probing questions, and gathering evidence to support those answers. Long hours have been spent in the discussion of key elements and areas of the self-study questionnaire and in writing the various components of the report. Our self-evaluation has led to a number of changes, additions and plans for improvement that will continue to make IC an educational leader. The journey has been intense, frustrating at times, yet informative, culminating in a total of 23 separate reports with accompanying evidence and action plans all combined into the final Self-Study document. At the beginning of February, the report was sent to CIS and NEASC accrediting agencies as well as to the members of the Visiting Team.

Now the school is preparing for the Team Visit which will take place the week of March 18, 2018. We will be welcoming 14 Visiting Team members from all over the world. The members will visit both campuses, looking thoroughly at our school and our practices, comparing what they see to what is in our report. They will be talking, both formally and informally, to administrators, teachers, students, parents and staff throughout the school. It will be an exciting week, giving us the opportunity to show the quality of our programs, the professionalism of our faculty and staff, and our continuous commitment to quality education. The visit will culminate in a set of recommendations from the team. Yet the school’s journey will not end there; the cycle will begin again.

 

The Accreditation Visit                                                                                        March 26, 2018

From March 18 to 23, IC hosted the NEASC / CIS Visiting Team for Accreditation. The team consisted of fourteen professional educators and administrators who came to us from the Middle East, London, Switzerland, Singapore, the Netherlands, Beijing, China, the United States and the Congo in Africa. Our guests spent five intense days looking into all aspects of the school. The visitors delved into school documentation and observed daily school life as they explored the campuses of both Ras Beirut and Ain Aar. They visited classrooms, talked to teachers, administrators, students, staff, parents and members of the Board of Trustees. Our visitors commented on the welcoming atmosphere created by the students, faculty and administration stating that they felt the “IC Spirit” and came to understand what it means.

Although the visit was intense for the team, we still managed to show them a bit of Lebanon. Some of our visitors took the time to see the National Museum, the Jeita Caves, and Byblos, others visited Baalbec. Everyone stated how much they enjoyed visiting IC and Lebanon.

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Bringing Graduates Back to School with Alumni Sundays

March 18, 2018, 6:00 am
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A joint initiative by IC's Athletics Department and IC Alumni Association’s (ICAA) sports committee is bringing alumni back to school every Sunday. As of March 18, 2018, IC’s doors are open from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for members of the ICAA along with parents, faculty, and staff to enjoy the sports facilities of the Ras Beirut campus.

Participants are able to use the athletic department facilities available and bring their children to enjoy the outdoor playground and the beautiful campus. This initiative brings graduates back to their roots and allows children to be involved in their parents’ fruitful memories. Several sports activities will be organized such as basketball and football games, ping pong tournaments, and fitness sessions led by IC Alumni trainers. As IC wants everyone to be involved, the games will be between parents and alumni, alumni and students, and between Ras Beirut parents and Ain Aar parents.

You are more than welcome to get the IC experience outside each Sunday. Learn what it means to be an IC student again and be an active part of the ICAA community.

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Ain Aar GS-KGII Music Open House

March 20, 2018, 2:00 pm
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Afin d’explorer l’idée maîtresse " les émotions jouent un rôle important dans nos vies", les classes de musique dirigées par Mme Céline Abou Rahhal et M. Rabi' Natour ont organisé des journées portes ouvertes aux parents des élèves de Grande section et de KG2. Le but était de permettre aux  parents d’assister aux cours, de découvrir de manière ludique toutes les activités musicales enseignées à la maternelle et de participer, avec leurs enfants, aux différents jeux instrumentaux. 

Comme l’a dit le grand philosophe Emmanuel Kant : «la musique est la langue des émotions». Ce fut un moment merveilleux !

 

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Deadline for the 3rd Trim Fees has been extended

March 30, 2018, 5:35 am
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Dear Parents,

Kindly note that the deadline for payment of the third-trimester tuition fees has been extended until April 16.

Have a happy holiday,

The Business Office

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Payment deadline of third-trimester tuition fees

April 10, 2018, 3:00 pm
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Dear Parents,

This is a reminder for the payment deadline of third-trimester tuition fees for this academic year. Monday, April 16, 2018 has been scheduled as the deadline date. 

Yours sincerely,

IC Student Section

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Reminder: Payment deadline of third-trimester tuition fees

April 16, 2018, 5:50 am
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Dear Parents,

This is a reminder that today, Monday, April 16, 2018, is the payment deadline of the third-trimester tuition fees for this academic year.

Yours sincerely,

IC Student Section

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RB MS Student Success at AUB Math Fair

April 16, 2018, 6:23 am
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On Saturday 14th April, Ras Beirut Middle School students took part in a achieved great success in the American University of Beirut's Math Fair. 

1st Prize in Math - Model or Demonstration, Secondary 

Project: Carrousel et Projectile 

Students: Ahmad Tabbara, Jad Haidar, Hassan El Hor and Mounir Khatib

2nd Prize in Math - Model or Demonstration, Intermediate

Project: Robotics 

Students: Adriana Abi Fares, Habib Khoury, Karim Azhary, Ramzi Doughan and Mira Agha

 

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Career Fair

April 12, 2018, 2:00 pm
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With the support of the IC Alumni Association, International College hosted a career fair for middle and secondary students on the Ras Beirut campus.  As students continue their exploration and work towards finding their passion, the career fair was another opportunity to meet with industry leaders from a variety of domains.  Students engaged, connected and networked with companies to continue their research on a variety of career pathways.

IC proudly hosted the following organizations:

BCI Holding S.A.

The Diet Center

Gustov

Elsa

Bank of Beirut

FDC

EBCO Bitar

Gazzaoui

Sarvam

The Commery

Nada Ghazal

Rana Salam

Midis Group

Gezairi Transportation

BankMed

Blom Bank

IMPACT BDDO

Kareem Audi

Tinol Paints

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Grade 12 Fun Day

April 13, 2018, 2:00 pm
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The Activities Office in collaboration with the Grade 12 Secondary School Student Representative Council organized the 11th annual Fun Day on Friday, April 13, 2018. This event started with a lunch at the school’s cafeteria followed by a variety of water games such as soap soccer, water slides, bungee basketball and other fun competitions such as sprint races, shotput, endurance competitions, potato sac race and tug of war. It was a fun, safe and memorable event. Many thanks to all who made this event a success!



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