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Dear families, The school administration and our faculty team wish you a Happy 2022 New Year. We are grateful for the winter break, safe travels, and returns to Busan. We started school in our virtual mode to enable traveling staff…

Dear families, Time goes by fast and it is almost the end of our winter break: I am grateful for the time spent with my family and friends, and look forward to a second semester of learning and growth at…

Dear Early Childhood and Elementary families, Happy new year! I hope you had a restful winter break and are energized for the new year.  As previously announced, on Monday, January 10th we will be starting Quarter 3 with two weeks…

Dear Families, Recent changes to Covid social distancing regulations will affect some of our upcoming scheduled events: The Early Childhood, Elementary, and MS&HS music concerts and the ES STEM Fair will be held in-person as planned with registered parents able to…

Dear Parents, Happy New Year 2021! I hope you have been able to use the Winter break to rest, recharge and spend quality time with your loved ones. At present, we are planning to commence school face-to-face under our enhanced…

Dear BFS Parent, As we approach the end of the first semester of learning at BFS, and are about to enter winter break, we would like to share some important announcements/reminders: If you are planning to travel abroad during the…

Dear Parents, Thank you for your patience and flexibility as we have moved to virtual school these last two weeks. You entrust us with your child’s safety and we take this seriously. As we move into our last week before…

Dear Parents, In light of the number of confirmed cases in Busan and the continued 2+ restrictions announced by the city of Busan, BFS will stay on virtual school for the upcoming week. We will continue to monitor the situation…

Dear Parent, We would like to let you know that The Busan Metropolitan City Office of Education has extended the minimum classroom density at schools at least until October 18th. This means we need to maintain our current educational model…

We would like to let you know that The Busan Metropolitan City Office of Education has decided to maintain the minimum classroom density at schools at least until October 11th. This means we need to maintain our current educational model…

Dear Parents, We are excited to start our new school year. Amid a recent increase in Busan's COVID-19 cases, the city and ministry of education of Busan have issued strong recommendations to increase social distancing within our school community. At…

Dear Parents, This is a follow up to yesterday's announcement about BFS' physical school opening. To allow our students to continue learning within the Korean Ministry of Education mandate, please note the following. Middle and High School students can attend…

Dear Parent, Thank you for those that attended and asked questions during today's webinar information session. We believe in creating the best possible environment for your child to learn. Were you not able to join our webinar today? you can…

Dear Parent/Guardian, I am excited to announce the Scholastic Spring book club order and have some wonderful news for all of you. As a token of appreciation for everyone's hard work, and to further encourage literacy at our school, BFS…

Dear Parents, Busan Foreign School is committed to putting books in the hands of our students, even during these times of virtual learning. Thus we will be offering another book bag pickup next Wednesday, April 8th. Pick up and drop…

Dear Parents, Please find below the link to the recording of today's webinar session. April 3rd parent update webinar Agenda: Course enrollment Mental wellbeing Upcoming tweaks and adjustments Sharing gratitude We wish you a happy weekend. Enjoy the Spring!

Dear Parents, As previously advised, Mr. Macfarlane will host a webinar information session tomorrow Friday, April 3rd at 10:30 am. Please follow the link below in order to join us. https://zoom.us/s/949367156 We encourage all of you to connect with us!…

We have arranged a bag to be picked up from the school with the books organized by your child’s last name as it appears in Renweb. In order to be safe, we will wait outside the school and give out…

Dear Parents, Busan Foreign School will be crediting or refunding lunches and bussing for the time that we were physically closed during COVID-19. If you are departing BFS, you will receive a refund. If you are returning to BFS, you…

Dear parents, Thank you so much for joining us during today's webinar. We will continue to host these sessions regularly. Meanwhile, please stay in touch and continue giving us feedback through our weekly surveys. For those that could not attend,…

Dear BFS Community, As we finish our second week on BFS Virtual School, I would like to reach out for some important information. First, we do not yet know when we will physically reopen BFS. It is a fluid situation…

Below is a list of information session webinars we have hosted: ALL 2021 Feb 9th Connect parent meeting 2020 May 15th information session 2020 April 29th information session 2020 April 3rd information session 2020 March 20th information session ELC&ELE 2020…

Dear Parents, We are looking forward to speaking with you tomorrow via Zoom webinar. You will be able to experience first hand one of the tools we will be using for virtual school. Tuesday, March 3rd Early Childhood & elementary…