Welcome back 2025/26 – Le Bulletin – Official Magazine of French International School of Hong Kong

Our Students Spirited and Confident

On behalf of the whole of the IS Primary team at all three of our primary campuses TKO, JL and CW, I would like to extend a warm welcome to you for the 2025/6 academic year at FIS! #ProudToBeFIS

It has been wonderful to welcome our new and existing students and families. We have many exciting student and community events for term one and for the rest of the academic year. These include:

Inter-school sporting events
Sports days
French and International shared projects
Swimming
Trips around Hong Kong
Exit Points
Gardening projects
Overnight outdoor adventure camps for Y4 to Y6 a Day camp for Y3
Kindness Week, Green Week and FIS Primary’s got talent

We will highlight events and learning on Le Bulletin, plus year-group home learning letters via Google Classrooms.

Our Community Diverse and Engaged

My Lfis IS Primary

Thank you to all the parents who have attended the welcome meetings at all three campuses so far. Once the welcome meeting has taken place, the slide decks will be placed on :

- My Lfis Learning > Primary > International Stream teaching and learning

Here, you will also find

Parent handbooks 2025/26
A parent guide to IEYC/IPC personal goals at home
IS Primary curriculum and policies
Parent forum slides
Parent workshop slides

School Policies (Whole School) are on the FIS website for example;

FIS Weather policy
FIS Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy
FIS Anti-bullying Policy and Procedures
FIS First Aid Management and Parent Communication
FIS Attendance (students)

IEYC/IPC Personal Goals

Personal Learning Goals underpin the individual qualities and learning dispositions that citizens of the future will need to thrive in a demanding and ever-changing global society. They are embedded in all our learning activities and school events, from IEYC to MP3. The handbooks contain these goals, which are a lovely way to engage in conversations with your children at home about their learning at school.

Zones of Regulation

We use the Zones of Regulation to support the emotional well-being of our students in IS Primary. The Zones of Regulation is a program that helps students identify and regulate their emotions. We use this program to help our students understand their emotions, learn self-regulation, and promote positive behaviour.

Our teachers and school counsellors are here to help each student's well-being and development. Any questions or concerns you have please reach out and make contact.

Our team talented and supportive

Parent Teacher Conferences (PTC)

In term one, these will be online via Google Meet for Primary Years 1 - Years 6 the week beginning 20th October. Early Years NS and RC will be face-to-face on campus in term one. In term two, the PTC will be all face-to-face on campus. Some parents prefer online. Some prefer face-to-face. This way, all preferences are covered. More information will be shared in the coming weeks.

Parent Workshops

This half term, we have parent workshops to help you learn further about teaching and learning such as French Language Education, Reading and Phonics and approaches in the IEYC and IPC. We will explain how we use a range of classroom approaches with the IEYC and IPC. Further information about how students are provided with challenge and choice. In the IEYC how students are encouraged to explore, express and extend. In the IPC how students are enabled to research, record and reflect. More details will be provided with Google sign up forms.

Would you like to be a Class or Year Group Parent in IS Primary FIS?

Each year we ask that each class or year group, depending on the age of the students, has one Class or Year Group Parent.

If you are interested, please contact

Pascale Vincent, our IS Primary Secretary, [email protected]

The role of class or year group parent is primarily to help the teacher organise parents for class activities - it can vary a lot from class to class but could include setting up a rota for a regular activity, such as swimming lessons, to one-off volunteer support such as school trips or props needed for a school performance.

The teacher remains the main point of contact for class or homework-related queries, any issues relating to school policy or issues for individual students. But one of the joys of being a class or year group parent is getting to know the children and their parents, so be prepared for some "left field' requests!