[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.2″ hover_enabled=”0″] Dear Kairosians Last week we enjoyed an exquisite evening of bidding farewell to our wonderful Grade 7s, each of them such sterling representatives of our Kairos School of Inquiry — and yet uniquely so. This occasion was a particularly momentous event for our school, for it included […]
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Headmonsterly Hmmm 03/11/17
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.2″] Dear Kairosians Our fantastic team of parents, led by the extraordinary Adi Friedburg, have just pulled off another incredible success of a Halloween-Diwali celebration at Kairos. Thank you very sincerely to Adi and your team. We are so grateful to enjoy such a supportive parent body. It seems […]
Headmonsterly Hmmm 01/10/17
Dear Kairosians Recently a friend of mine shared on Facebook his belief that schooling of children should be “stopped, possibly even outlawed”. This is a very successful business person, holding a senior position in an international corporate. So I take his opinion seriously, because of his global vantage point, even though I believe he is […]
Headmonsterly Hmmm 01/09/17
Dear Kairosians For the past few months I have been engaging in a renewed curriculum development process with the help of our piping-hot Teachers of Kairos. It’s one of the more dry yet more ambitious tasks of Kairos: to articulate a school curriculum ourselves instead of passively importing an existing curriculum, such as the National […]
Headmonsterly Hmmm 04/08/17
Dear Kairosians During the last week of school holidays, the full time teachers met out of town for our annual Kairos Teachers’ Retreat. The final meal together was a Friday night dinner, at which we spontanously offered a multicultural set of blessings on the meal. Jeff shared the Friday night Kiddish ceremony, with bread and […]
Headmonsterly Hmmm 01/07/17
Dear Kairosians, This has been an intense term with many important challenges we have tackled — including revising our discipline procedures, refining the format of our mid-year assessments, and significantly upgrading our admin and accounting systems with our new and wonderful Lorna van der Lith and Stephen Lindes. For this Hmmm, I would like to […]
Headmonsterly Hmmm 02/06/17
Dear Kairosians Managing a system of discipilne in a school (and also instilling an ethos of discipline in a school — not the same thing!) is always an on-going conversation in all schools. On the one end of the discipline spectrum there is a “Lord of the Flies” school culture where the adults in the […]
Headmonsterly Hmmm 17/03/17
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″] Dear Kairosians Two of the parents who met me this week to inquire about the school were a mom and dad who had a particular skill in asking interesting questions. One of these was something like, […]
Headmonsterly Hmmm (03/03/17)
Dear Kairosians We are not a secular school. This may be a strange statement, but I start with it to be a bit provocative and maybe entice a few more readers than usual. Secular means not being connected with religious matters or anything spiritual. But we are blessed with a variety of religious traditions represented […]