Message From Our Middle School Principal

Dear Parents,

With the thrill of starting to a new academic year, I would like to say hello to all of you on behalf of NUN Family!

We look forward to meeting our students, who are your most precious assets in life, after the summer holidays every year, as they are the reasons for our profession, regardless of how many years have passed in our careers. Our days get festive and energized with their enthusiasm and cheerful voices filling the whole school. That day, a brand new adventure begins for some of our students and parents, while for others, the adventure continues. During these long learning journeys of our students, we, as their teachers, and you, as their families, are together under the same roof and for the same purposes.

The efforts, endeavors and wishes of each of us are, by maximizing the academic and social development, to raise happy generations who are sincerely attached to their country and nation, know and adopt their own culture and values, care for others, love and respect, who are curious and willing to produce, have good morals and compete in goodness. Our school administrators and teachers aspire to ‘raise people’, and they dedicate themselves. We aim to teach in line with this purpose; we prepare to be good and fair, to take responsibility, and, in short, to be on the path of Truth.

The start of the 2023-2024 academic year is approaching. We have completed our preparations and planning, considering the era's requirements, previous years' experiences, the demands of our parents and students and many other variables. We want our students to succeed in school exams and grow up as individuals who are resistant to all difficulties they will face, have moral values, and are helpful to society. In line with this vision, we have planned many activities and programs to help our students discover their skills and abilities. We have updated our original curriculum so our students can gain skills and abilities in different fields and experience a healthy psycho-social development process. We have made new arrangements to be able to closely follow academic and social developments individually since each student's character is unique and divergent, such as our fingerprints. We have restructured "Office Hours" we applied to support students learning in small groups for the Turkish, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and English classes and updated the name to "Academic Differentiation". We have made new plans and revisions for school clubs and workshops so that now our students can experience and expertise in the fields. We have established checklists for studies to enhance student opportunities on our campus, which is in a natural environment and boasts extensive facilities.

You can see our plans for the new academic year in this booklet, and we will share the details with you at our first meeting.

We live in a digital era where access to information is now effortless, cheap and effortless; numerous artificial intelligence tools are spreading at a dizzying speed. While technological advances ease everything in our daily lives, it is moving at an incredible pace, leaving quite dangerous gaps for us, especially for our children. Children used to play and socialize with friends and peers on the streets and visit neighbors and relatives, not so much 15-20 years ago. Now, spending time in a digital world in front of a screen feels more fun. In general, the accuracy of the digital content presented to our children, the messages given through these contents, and the acceptability of value judgments are disputable. We have made lengthy consultations and decisions with our entire academic staff to ensure our children's happiness in their learning environments and that they can have a pleasant time with their friends during their time at school. You can be sure that we will make a great effort, alongside the teachers, to ensure our children can spend their days efficiently and happily during extracurricular times. I strongly request you make the necessary arrangements to ensure our children have a quality and enjoyable time at home after school, plan your time with family members to share, and do not hesitate to ask for our support anytime.

I hope that the 2023-2024 academic year will be promising for all of us, with the happiness and pride of walking on the same path with you in the learning journey of our students.

I would like to express my respects on behalf of all my colleagues with the wish of the beautiful days we will spend with health, fertility, and happiness.

Middle School Principal
Ahmet Elmas