All prepaid trips have already been reimbursed to parents. If you have not received this reimbursement, please let us know.

1. ​​​​​​Currently the ASA office and Sport Box support trainers and activity leaders to get public financial support as much as possible.
2. As soon they determine how many lessons need to be cancelled they will be able to do a final calculation and reimburse families who are leaving at the end of the year.
3. The amount left for unused sessions will be used to issue vouchers for next semester to those students which were registered this semester.

Contact: vis(at)sportbox.cc

1. Contracts and payment were arranged with individual VISMA teachers. Parents should please address the VISMA representative for reimbursement. We were notified that most VISMA teachers offer alternative online lessons, so parents might want to consider that as an alternative option.
2. VIS will waive the room fee of € 25 per semester next year, so that VISMA can reduce the cost next semester for those who were registered this year.

Contact: visma.music(at)gmail.com

1. At the end of the school year, when the school caterer knows how many days need to be cancelled, they can do a final calculation.
2. Reimbursements needs to be requested directly from Eurest.

Contact: Andrew.Warren(at)eurest.at

1. At the end of the school year, when the bus company determines how many days need to be cancelled, they can do a final calculation.
2. The amount left will be used to issue vouchers for next semester to those students who were registered this semester.
3. Reimbursements will be only possible for students leaving the school and need to be requested directly from Blaguss.

Contact: vis(at)blaguss.com

The 2020 Yearbook is now under construction and getting ready for production. This year the price will again remain at 55 euro per Yearbook and 100 euro for 2 Yearbooks. If you wish to order more than 2 Yearbooks, then the price is 50 euro per Yearbook. Please ensure that you only make one payment for the total sum of the multiple books and not separate payments. The discount of multiple Yearbooks is ONLY for families with more than one child. It is not for a group of families to get together to place one order to make it slightly cheaper for themselves. We recognize that the Yearbooks cost a reasonable amount of money and are trying to make it easier for families to afford to buy one Yearbook per child.

If you would like to order one (or more) Yearbooks, please make the payment to the VIS bank account by 12 pm Friday24^th April. There is no need to email the Yearbook Team to confirm your order. 

You will find below the details to make an online or in bank payment:

Erste Bank

Am Belvedere 1

1100 Wien

IBAN: AT27 2011 1837 2730 1401

BIC: GIBAATWWXXX

Payable to: Vienna International School Yearbook

Please ensure that you put in the reference section your child's name and class.  If you are ordering more than one Yearbook, please put in the name and class of the child that you would like to receive or collect the Yearbooks. It is usually better that older siblings collect the Yearbooks as they are very heavy for young children to carry and less likely to get lost.

Once the books arrive in school, copies ordered for students in the Primary School will be delivered to the homeroom classes and passed directly to the students in their homeroom. Secondary students and parents will be able to collect their copies during specified times in the Secondary Library. It is important to keep a copy of your payment proof to bring along when you collect your copy of the Yearbook in the case that we do not receive record of your payment from the banks. 

We are planning for the books to be available by early June, sometimes there are delays, but definitely they will be distributed before the end of the school year. If you are leaving the school and would like to have a Yearbook posted to you, then please contact the Yearbook Team to find out about arrangements for this. An email is sent out to all and a notification in the newsletter will take place once the books are ready for distribution.

Students who arrive at VIS before mid-March are included in the Yearbook.

Please note that there will only be the number of Yearbooks requested in advance actually ordered, so please take care not to miss out on your copy. If you do not prepay your order you will likely not receive a copy of the Yearbook.

Any queries, please contact us: visyearbook(at)vis.ac.at

The Yearbook Team

Teachers are very happy when students attend the on-line lessons and complete tasks in Art, Music and Drama but also understand that the Distance Learning workload and other circumstances may not always allow for this. Students should participate as often as possible based on their individual needs.

Music and Drama (from G2) will provide instructions for the week’s tasks in the on-line lessons, whereas Art and PE will also provide tasks on SeeSaw and websites. 

To make it possible for our single-subject teachers to respond to student work on SeeSaw, it is essential to tag the posted work with the subject - many thanks!

Many parents have shared that it would be easier to prepare for and support Distance Learning by having information earlier than 9:00 each day. We will endeavor to send an overview of the week ahead each Friday.  Information regarding specific learning tasks may also be shared throughout the week as needed.

Given the importance of maintaining face-to-face contact between teachers and students, we have been working to create timetable routines and technical capacity to facilitate greater virtual conferences and instruction. Most teachers and students have already been using Google Meets for these purposes, however the routines and structures mentioned above should increase the amount of time students and teachers connect directly. In addition, sharing links and logging into Meets should also become easier. 

At the time of writing this, we’re just putting the final touches on the instructions for connecting through Meets as well as safety and behaviour guidelines for students and parents to follow.  These will be communicated through ManageBac over the weekend. Note that the Google Meets app will be removed remotely from the iPads after 15:30 today but that students will be able to connect through Seesaw (ELC to G3) and Google Classroom (G4 & 5) starting next week.  Students not on Seesaw will receive links to their Google Meets via their Google Drive folder.  

We are aiming to assess and report as authentically as possible under the current circumstances and ask that parents understand the importance of the integrity of this process. Just as all tasks should be completed as independently as possible to allow teachers to see best next steps for each student, assessment tasks need to represent the student’s own work in order to provide reliable information. Parent support in this area is greatly appreciated.

• Reducing homework:
  • Grades 6-8 have no assigned homework. Any work that Grade 6-8 students are completing outside of class time should be work you were assigned in class that you did not have time to finish. 
  • Grades 9 -11 homework will be minimised to that which is essential.
• Where possible, teachers will set work that can be done off screen during class time.
• Each teacher will have some regular face to face contact with their students via Google Meet. 
• When it is possible, double lessons will end 5-10 minutes early to allow longer breaks.  

• After Spring Break lesson attendance will be taken on ManageBac by all teachers.
  • The teacher can use these factors (or a combination of) to judge:
    • Direct contact via video link.
    • Email contact.
    • Completion of assigned work.
    • Comments on discussions. 
    • Views on MB.
    • The teacher will inform the students what “counts” as attendance.
• Students who have a health excusal will still be marked as absent. Please remind your parents to write a ManageBac excuse if you are sick, and cannot attend classes.

• Teachers will continue to deliver assessments.
  • Below is a reminder of the Code of Conduct related to Academic Honesty. It is expected that all VIS students abide by the Code of Conduct, even while completing assessments via Distance Learning. 

Academic Honesty : VIS is committed to high standards of academic honesty.  This means that all work should be based on the student’s own ideas, and that the work and ideas of others should be acknowledged with appropriate references and citations.

For your information about reports:

• Secondary reports will still look the same as normal.
• Your participation and attendance in Distance Learning will be made an integral part of “Self-Management” ATL skill.
• A new behaviour tab has been added in MB to highlight students disengaged with Distance Learning. This means your parents may receive a ManageBac behaviour note if you are not completing the work assigned.