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Dear Parents, All of us are very aware of the public health issues brought about by high levels of pollution this winter and concerned about ensuing illnesses and absences amongst our students. Accordingly, following discussions with the Inspections Department of Bayanzurkh District, we have decided that we must follow the whole City Health Directive and close the school from Pre-School to Grade 12 until after Tsagaan Sar, in line with every other school in Ulaanbaatar. We are able to continue the GMIT Study Course for Grades 11 and 12 until 25 January. Also over this time to rehearse for the Opera House Production in February. In addition, all Class Teachers and Form Tutors will be in touch with you about Study Programmes for your children over the Break. To make…

10 January 2019 Dear Parents,             Term 3 is underway with a full Calendar (the Draft of which is attached and on our website) and much to do over the next 8 weeks.             We are already into a series of Meetings for Parents, Students and Teachers centered on Grade 10 and the upcoming Cambridge IGCSE Exams. Next week, Grades 11 and 12 embark on the 2 week Nalaikh Intensive Study Programme. The Junior School is engaged in a series of Primary Years Programme (PYP) Workshops as we move towards introducing the IB in these Classes. Please see the Calendar for this Term’s Parents’ Evenings, running for every Grade in the School on February 20 and 21.             A Pleasure to welcome a Volleyball Team from Irkutsk to take part…

Dear Parents,           Christmas week for ESM – with some tidings of comfort and joy. The School has been full of music in these last days. Imaginative, well-rehearsed and polished shows – with all dialogue in English of course – and presentations from Pre-School (an hour long extravaganza) to Grade 1’s Big Cast offering and Grade 2C’s Snow White. Then the Songs Finals with the 12 Best Songs whittled down to 3 by the Judges, 2 Singers from the Opera House, and to the Best Overall Song – Class 9B’s “Alexander Hamilton”.           Many of these numbers were reprised in the two end of Term Concerts, attended by big audiences in the Dining Hall. The Junior Concert took in Carols, Piano and Violin performances, the Junior Orchestra and Dances of…

26 October 2018 Newsletter 4 Dear Parents,             Fully into our stride now in Term 2 of the Year, ESM is its usual chock-a-block self, as a glance at the Calendar (attached) and the 2018-2019 Arts Calendar reveals.             We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Mrs. Varduhi Grigoryan-Avetisyan as Head of Junior School and we are already addressing a range of academic and curricular matters ahead of some possible changes in August 2019. Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 October sees Parents’ Meetings for Years 1 and 2 IB Diploma students as we move towards Mock Exams in Week 6.             We have just celebrated Halloween from Pre-School to Grade 12 level with 4 different Parties in the Dining Hall. This weekend is the Internal Chess Competition on…

On October 20, the fifth Chinese national dance competition for middle school students of Mongolia, jointly organized by Confucius Institute of the National University of Mongolia and the Mongolian Chinese Language Teachers Association, successfully dropped the curtain at the Ulan Bator opera house. More than 500 students, teachers and parents watched this competition. The performance was comprehensively graded from the aspects of choreography, dancing movements,performance style, difficulty of performance and costume modelling. In the end, our school won the third prize for Thousand-Hand Kwan-yin and Wa national dance received awards for excellence. Here, we would like to congratulate all the students and Chinese teacher Mrs.Otgon for their continuous efforts to achieve greater results.

3 October 2018 Dear Parents, The School has settled in well now at the end of Term 1, with many adjustments in place and in hand to meet the large school roll this year, now approaching 750 students. The last week has seen a range of Parents’ Evenings in different formats, providing a reflective opportunity for you to assess your child’s academic and social progress and standing with all of our teachers. From our Youngest Students (the Pre-School now numbers 73) to our most mature (Grade 12 are in the midst of applications to a worldwide range of universities, including to UK and Europe, as well as to the United States and Asian institutions). These Autumn months are a time of progress and development for all. Everyone has been especially…

20 August 2018 Dear Parents, Now Enrolling, as the Poster in the Front Quad proclaims; and it is certainly true that ESM has been very busy receiving over the last 3 weeks: with our largest Roll in the School’s history and 200 new students joining us. With the expansion, we are watching numbers on a daily basis, especially at Pre-School, but at several other points, before deciding whether we need to create some new classes (and, of course, new classrooms). We are also currently working at some building plans for execution over the next few months. July and August saw the usual maintenance works and a highly successful 4 weeks Summer School. Recently we have received our external Exam Results, with some impressive clusters of Grades in IGCSE and an…