Keeping community spirit and friendship alive
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It is my hope that after graduating from Shanghai Singapore International School, all of our students continue their friendships and keep the spirit of SSIS alive. The SSIS community will always be proud of our students’ future successes.
Let me pause on that word “community.” It is important. One of the truly wonderful things about SSIS is its students and teachers are bright and confident enough to be able to respect the talent of others. There are very few places where you will find this, and we encourage all of our students to take full advantage of it. Just as each of us brings our own special abilities and skills, we should always remember that everyone we see around us is as equally gifted in his or her own way. We will find ourselves only stronger and better because of their influence. It is not likely that we will ever have the opportunity to be part of such a community again.
Every graduating class has left a wonderful legacy. They are the proof of what SSIS education is about. Their achievements have added another chapter to the school’s rich history. They set a high standard of performance and their university placement results tell us much, but not all, of their accomplishments. Although we are impressed by their academic success, I would rather focus on their many and diverse contributions to the well-being of the school and their world.
Our school shares a responsibility to continue to enhance that strength — through our own efforts, encouraging others, providing the necessary resources to support the program and, above all, by respecting the talent and ideas of those around us.
Returning again to the word “community and friendship.” When students leave the school they should stop and think of the many times their teachers, counselors, office staff and school staff have done something extra which has made their life better. They didn’t do it because it was their job, they did it because they cared enough to want to. It is this volunteer spirit, which reminds us of the human dimension of our life together in a school like this, and reminds us, too, that we have an obligation to look out for the spiritual health and well-being of our community.
In the future, we would like to see every member of this community being sensitive to the needs, cares and concerns of others. It is only in this way that we can expect to have a healthy community, and it is as important to understand that our human context is every bit as important as the intellectual.
My advice for new students: Never lose sight of the essential human quality of this school, and keep in front of you at all times the goal of gaining what it can give you, both academically and spiritually. To do any less would be to deny yourself the best that this school and its people can give you, or that you can give to it and to them.
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