The IB produces leaflets about its programmes especially for distribution to parents and students, which you may purchase from our IB store or download from the pages about our programmes on this website (via the What We Offer drop down menu). These particular materials may be copied for wider distribution, but if you have any queries please contact us at communications@ibo.org.

State law requires that schools contact either of a child’s parents to verify a child’s absence from school for any reason, including illness, doctor’s or dentist’s appointments, or family vacation days. Unless the school has received notification of a child’s absence from a parent, the school must call the telephone numbers on the registration form to verify the absence. The home telephone will be called first.

Keeping in Touch with FamilySend your parents cards to let them know how you are doing. Card are inexpensive and let your family know your thinking of them. They also add a personal touch that e-mail can leave out. Family Day at SchoolMany college campuses have a family day. This is a chance for parents and students to participate in campus events and find out more about the school. We recommend that parents try to attend family campus days.

No. It is entirely up to you as an educator to make decisions on the use of your notebook in the school.

Answer: Comparing the number of IB diploma students with the number of AP diploma students is comparing apples and oranges. The differences between the two programs are significant. In fact, there is no AP diploma. The College Board, which administers AP exams, stopped offering an AP diploma four or five years ago. At that time, FCPS said it would continue recognizing students who take a specified number of AP courses and exams with an AP certificate.

You will receive progress reports every six or nine weeks depending on the student's grade placement. You are also welcome to contact the Principal or individual staff members if you have questions or issues to discuss.

Local television and radio stations will be notified and an alert will be posted on the district home page. Please see our School Closings page for more details.

There are two kinds of IB assessments: external and Internal. Some assessment methods include portfolios/Dossiers, written essays, studio works, experimental work, oral commentaries as well as written exams and are tailored for the different learning styles. Considering that exams may or may not reflect what a student really knows and what he or she is able to do, having a variety of assessment tools allows the IB organization to fairly assess the student's true ability.

This is an important one: You may have a forwarding order with the post office, but the post office is not required to forward Periodicals mail, and they usually don't. So if we don't have your current address on file, there's an excellent chance that your magazine will be destroyed (literally) -- and to add insult to injury, the post office will charge us return postage to send the ripped-off cover back to us.

Cockroaches, like all insects, breathe through a system of tubes called tracheae, a word similar to the name of the tube leading to our lungs. The tracheae of insects are attached to the spiracles which are small valved openings on the side of each body segment, excluding the head. Thus the cockroach can breathe without its head! The valves open when the CO2 level in the insect rises to an unacceptable level; then the CO2 diffuses out of the tracheae to the outside and fresh oxygen diffuses in.

You should complete an A+ Activation Form annually in the Financial Aid Office. Upon your graduation from High School, ask your High School Counselor/A+ Coordinator to mail an official academic transcript containing the A+ Seal to the Registrar's Office at Mineral Area College.Complete the FAFSA Form annually. Once we have all of the information that we need, you will receive a copy of the A+ Activation Form back in the mail marked "Approved".

Everyone who visits our clinics - no matter what their age - can be assured that the information about their visit is confidential. We cannot discuss any information about any client without the client giving us permission to do so.

You can come by the Registrar's Office an ask for a change of address form that you can fill out and return to us.

IB is designed as a model of holistic education for the mid-range student and above. Statistically speaking, most students who earned the IB Diploma worldwide were of average or above average ability. It is not a program designed only for geniuses. What the IB program requires students to have are a strong work ethic, good time management and solid study skills. The IB program offers courses at different Levels (higher level and standard level).

IB certificate candidates taking all or some IB classes may choose to take exams in IB subjects of their choice or they may have the choice of not taking any IB exams at all. IB Diploma candidates must sit for exams in all 6 subjects in order to qualify for the IB Diploma.

Diploma programme students generally take six exams, including one literature course taught in the student’s native language, one foreign language, one social science, one experimental science, one mathematics and one arts course. The arts course can be replaced by a second social science, a second experimental science, or a third language.

Candidate and authorized schools are required to train a certain number of their teachers. This number is reported back to IBNA and helps them track the number of teachers your school has trained. All IB School Codes can be found on IB's website. From the home page, go to the "Find an IB World School" section. Find your school and click on the name. The IB School Code will appear along with other information about your school.

Schools recognised by the International Baccalaureate Organisation and offering the IB curriculum are known as IB World Schools. IB is the abbreviation for International Baccalaureate. It is an internationally-recognised school system made up of three educational programmes: The IB programme was founded in 1968 by the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO), a non-profit educational organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Serving students in 7th through 12th grade, Blair strives to create an environment where a shared commitment to learning (by staff, students, parents and community), cooperation, tolerance and self-discipline will enable our students to become lifelong learners and responsible participants and contributors in our culturally diverse, democratic society.

Gradekeeper creates all the web pages for your web site, but you need to upload those web pages to a web site that you have access to. Your school may have a web site you can use, your internet provider may allow you to have your own web site, or you can get a free web site from Geocities (www.geocities.com). To upload your web pages to your web site, you will need to use an FTP application. FTP is File Transfer Protocol, the method used to move web pages from your hard drive to your web site.