Students engaging in
MAP Testing. Results will be sent to parents before school closes for the holiday break.
During the month of November, the school Board held several extra sessions and worked closely with Judi Fenton. Along with Dr.
Ronald Marino, Ms. Fenton has assisted the Board to establish budget priorities, engage in a thorough policy review, and establish committee structures.
During this time, the Board completed this year’s review of tuition assistance applications.
Applicants were informed of the
Board’s decisions via a letter from the school’s business manager.
The Board and Director are in the process of formalizing contracts for all members of faculty and staff. The Board has committed to continuing to work with Ms.
Fenton and Dr. Marino in 2010 so that they can continue to support the school’s implementation of the new curriculum, policy review processes, and teaching strategies.
The Board has also established its construction priorities, based upon recommendations made by the
Buildings and Grounds Committee, who conducted a walk-through of the school buildings and property on
October 26. The sick bay/nurse’s office is nearly complete, and the computer lab will be ready in January.
The Board appointed Mr. Anthony
Fleming to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of Mr. Matthew Nims. Mr.
Fleming has served for the past several months as the US
Ambassador’s representative to the
Board, but will now be a full voting member.
The Board also approved several amendments to the school calendar to allow the faculty to engage in more professional development opportunities. The updated calendar has been posted on the web site and will be sent home in hard copy.
Please note that the school year has been extended to June 17 in order to preserve instructional hours.
We’d like to extend our special appreciation to the Heroux family for making an abundant donation of books to our library. The Herouxs have also pledged to donate two books per month throughout the school year. Hip hip
Heroux!
November 17: Inspector
Nigel Gravesande speaks to the GIA student body about Fire
Safety.
Our new textbooks have also begun to arrive. New Spanish, Music, and
Vocabulary books have already been implemented. We have begun to receive the new Reading series and expect the
Science texts to arrive in December.

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Academy
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Prashad Nagar
Georgetown, Guyana
Phone:
592 226 1595
Fax:
592 226 1459
E-Mail: director@georgetownin ternationalacademy.org
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In each issue, we’d like to give you an opportunity to get to know one of our teachers a little better. Mr. Michael Khan has been GIA’s art teacher since 1995. Mr. Khan is also wellknown in Georgetown as an entertainer, art instructor, and costume designer. Mr. Khan’s creations have won first place in the Mashramani costume and small band competitions.
Mr. Khan also designed the Children’s Millennium Monument in National Park and oversaw the Seawall Child Art Project for Carifesta 2008. Mr. Khan holds a Diploma from the
Burrowes School of Art, a B.A. in Fine Arts from U.G., and an M.Ed. from Framingham
State College. He has also served as a Board member of the Castellani House, an exofficio member of Unicef’s National Commission on the Rights of the Child, and the coordinator of several children’s art workshops. Mr. Khan has also participated in education and art courses and workshops in Jamaica and Venezuela.
Dr. Faith Harding provides grief counseling to GIA high school students following the death of a student from another school.