ANNUAL REPORT 2020-2021
PTO Report Rachel Radcliffe PTO Secretary
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f there’s one thing the PTO did this year, it was to adapt to the realities of these COVID-19 times. Gone were the touchy-feely welcome back picnics, the community-building potlucks, the fun movie nights, the amazing on-campus Duka, the cornucopia of mouth-watering food at International Day, and pretty much everything ISK has come to associate with the PTO. Instead, the PTO put on its thinking cap, rolled up its sleeves, and started innovating ways to keep our community together.
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Community building is one of the PTO’s primary purposes. Most of you experience this through the grade-level WhatsApp groups we administer. ISK is at its best when its parent and teacher communities are strongly connected, and when new families are assimilated and quickly embraced. This year, we weren’t able to host new parent welcome events and other parent socials on campus, so we took advantage of Nairobi’s many spacious outdoor venues. New parent welcome coffees and sundowners took place in September and January, and were well attended by new and
existing ISK families, the ISK administration, and board members. The popular Nairobi Bus Tour took place in September, using two buses this time to ensure proper social distancing. Other parent coffees and sundowners were hosted off-campus when possible, and there were also a few grade-specific social events outside of ISK that gave new students an opportunity to meet their classmates in person.
Parent Social
Bus Tour
