Dear Parents,
This Thursday, teachers were all involved in professional development sessions presented by their colleagues as part of the process to present at the NESA Spring Educators Conference in March. There were fifteen different sessions with a number of technology sessions from video production, exploring the flipped classroom, I-pads/ inquiry/imagination, and 21st Century networking tools. There were sessions on language learning including conferring with ELLs in a Readers’ workshop setting, two co-teaching English as an additional language sessions, and an interactive activities for language acquisition session; there was a session on learning behavior strategies; a session on host country studies; a coaching session; and a session on classroom simulations. This was a wonderful learning opportunity for all of our teachers.
Congratulations to Seula Lee, Shreyas Saxena, Aleena Khurana, Ye Jin Song, Daniel Bacheschi, Uday Saharia, and Katrina Nielsen for their time and effort in applying for the Stanley Haas / Luke Hansen student award. The award recipient is someone who can demonstrate acceptance of other cultures and points of view, demonstrates an interest and commitment to helping others, is involved at school and in the community, works to make the world a better place, and is persistent and likes to take risks. Students apply for this award by completing an application from their advisory teacher in the form of an essay and/or a work of art illustrating their involvement in school and community life, highlighting their efforts to make the world a better place. The selection committee was able to only select three finalists from our school to be forwarded on on to Athens to the NESA Head Office for consideration for the award. Our three finalists are Daniel Bacheschi, Uday Saharia, and Katrina Nielsen.
The Middle School Move Night is tonight, Friday, November 16th from 4 – 6 pm. Please be sure to collect your son/daughter at 6 pm.
The AISC 2012-13 Yearbook staff is pleased to announce the sale of student photos.Please submit your orders not later than Wednesday, November 21. The photos will be ready by December 14th.
The Middle School Principal Coffee scheduled for November 21st has been cancelled this month to allow for a meeting of one of the middle school principal candidates with middle school parents. Information on the meeting has been sent out in an email to parents. Also the topics for the Curriculum Coffees scheduled for Tuesday, November 20th, will be postponed to a future coffee date to allow for a middle school parent meeting with a second candidate.
Please see notes from our Middle School Counselor, Ms. Trish by either clicking on the tab at the top of the page or by clicking on this link MS Counselor blog
The middle school activities club has started to organize the MS winter party for November 30th. The winter party will be held from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm in the PAC cafeteria. Please note that there is no supervision from 4:00-6:00 pm, if students remain at school during this time they need to be under parental supervision. Please ensure that your child is picked up promptly at 8:00 pm and note that students are not permitted to leave early unless prior arrangements have been made with the Principal.
Music Concert Uniform: Students participating in the MS music program must wear a pair of full-length black dress pants and black dress shoes (no sandals). In no case will black jeans be acceptable onstage attire. A black music shirt purchased from the school rounds off the concert outfit. Any student who already possesses an AISC Music logo polo shirt may use it again. Students must be in concert attire to perform.
Withdrawing students – Any students that are withdrawing will need to contact Ms. Aziz in the middle school office a minimum of two weeks prior to the withdrawal date to ensure all necessary documents can be compiled in a timely manner. Records from AISC are usually required by the next school. However, it takes us some time to prepare these records.Please note that for students leaving
school at the winter break, we will be able to provide previous years AISC
report cards and this year’s mid-semester 1 progress report. However, report
cards for semester 1 will not be available until January. We will be happy to
forward these to you at your next destination.
Have a joyous weekend,
This Thursday, teachers were all involved in professional development sessions presented by their colleagues as part of the process to present at the NESA Spring Educators Conference in March. There were fifteen different sessions with a number of technology sessions from video production, exploring the flipped classroom, I-pads/ inquiry/imagination, and 21st Century networking tools. There were sessions on language learning including conferring with ELLs in a Readers’ workshop setting, two co-teaching English as an additional language sessions, and an interactive activities for language acquisition session; there was a session on learning behavior strategies; a session on host country studies; a coaching session; and a session on classroom simulations. This was a wonderful learning opportunity for all of our teachers.
Congratulations to Seula Lee, Shreyas Saxena, Aleena Khurana, Ye Jin Song, Daniel Bacheschi, Uday Saharia, and Katrina Nielsen for their time and effort in applying for the Stanley Haas / Luke Hansen student award. The award recipient is someone who can demonstrate acceptance of other cultures and points of view, demonstrates an interest and commitment to helping others, is involved at school and in the community, works to make the world a better place, and is persistent and likes to take risks. Students apply for this award by completing an application from their advisory teacher in the form of an essay and/or a work of art illustrating their involvement in school and community life, highlighting their efforts to make the world a better place. The selection committee was able to only select three finalists from our school to be forwarded on on to Athens to the NESA Head Office for consideration for the award. Our three finalists are Daniel Bacheschi, Uday Saharia, and Katrina Nielsen.
The Middle School Move Night is tonight, Friday, November 16th from 4 – 6 pm. Please be sure to collect your son/daughter at 6 pm.
The AISC 2012-13 Yearbook staff is pleased to announce the sale of student photos.Please submit your orders not later than Wednesday, November 21. The photos will be ready by December 14th.
The Middle School Principal Coffee scheduled for November 21st has been cancelled this month to allow for a meeting of one of the middle school principal candidates with middle school parents. Information on the meeting has been sent out in an email to parents. Also the topics for the Curriculum Coffees scheduled for Tuesday, November 20th, will be postponed to a future coffee date to allow for a middle school parent meeting with a second candidate.
Please see notes from our Middle School Counselor, Ms. Trish by either clicking on the tab at the top of the page or by clicking on this link MS Counselor blog
The middle school activities club has started to organize the MS winter party for November 30th. The winter party will be held from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm in the PAC cafeteria. Please note that there is no supervision from 4:00-6:00 pm, if students remain at school during this time they need to be under parental supervision. Please ensure that your child is picked up promptly at 8:00 pm and note that students are not permitted to leave early unless prior arrangements have been made with the Principal.
Music Concert Uniform: Students participating in the MS music program must wear a pair of full-length black dress pants and black dress shoes (no sandals). In no case will black jeans be acceptable onstage attire. A black music shirt purchased from the school rounds off the concert outfit. Any student who already possesses an AISC Music logo polo shirt may use it again. Students must be in concert attire to perform.
Have a joyous weekend,