KIS Family System & Houses
The Family System
The Family System is a pastoral care structure that is used in the Secondary School to ensure that all students know that there is at least one adult at the school who truly knows them, and cares about them.
School can be a busy and hectic place that can, if we are not careful, become too focused on academics, assignments, and learning objectives.
The Family System helps to support our academic staff in remembering the critical importance of forming meaningful relationships with their students, and creates a time and place to focus on relationship building.
Families are organized in cross grade level groups: Grade 6-7, Grade 8-9, and Grade 10-12, with groups normally being about 10 students in size. Students will stay with their grade-level classmates through the whole program, and teachers will stay with the same group from year to year, welcoming in a new group at the beginning of the year, and saying goodbye to an outgoing group at the end of the year.
Families meet for 20 minutes a day, five days a week, and use activities like games, guided discussions, service initiatives, and other activities to get to know each other, build community, destress, and have fun.
The House System at KIS
KIS has a House System in place from EY1 to Grade 12. All academic staff and students are assigned to one of four houses which are named after famous characters from ancient Thai mythology: Tosakan (the green giant), Erawan (the three headed elephant), Hanuman (the Monkey King), and Naga (a mythical giant serpent). Brothers and sisters are all assigned to the same House, and students stay in the same House throughout their time at KIS.
The House system is used to create community at KIS, and to help build relationships between students in the same grade and across grades, as well as to create leadership opportunities. Events that are designed to build school spirit and create a sense of fun and community typically occur through the House System.
Common events include things like: Sports Day, talent competitions, lunch time games and competitions, Spirit Week events, and social media challenges. The House system is a great way for community members to have fun, get to know each other, and be engaged in school in a way that isn’t just focused on academics.
Houses
Erawan
Hanuman
Naga
