Dear Middle School Parents,
Happy Diwali! We hope you will enjoy this festive holiday here in India or wherever you may be heading to this break. Have a safe journey.
Upon return from the break, on Friday, 13 November, we will be publishing our first trimester report with the new standards-based reporting format. I will post instructions to access it on Skyward in the next Principal’s Notes. We have provided a series of special parent coffees to explain all the different components of the trimester report. Once the report is out and if you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of us.
Students Art Work
Here is a short video of Mr. Aneesh’s Grade 7 students working on your Fine Art Photography project. The video is less than two minutes and worth every second.
AMIS MS Honors Band Festival
AMIS results have come out. Out of many challenges, MinJae Kim has earned a place in this year's Asian MS Honors Band Festival that will be held in the International School of Yangon in February 2015. Congratulations to MinJae, and all other students who worked hard and learnt the audition music passionately, and recorded and submitted it courageously!
Cancer-Lap- A-Thon
Global Issue Networks will be organizing the Cancer-Lap- A-Thon again this year on November 27th. This year we have decided that the proceeds will be donated to the 30/30 project, an organization that is working to bring healthcare and health checkups to various communities around the world. Recently they have started to build a clinic in India, which we would like to sponsor. Our overall theme for the project is "Healthcare is a Human Right," - which is a key issue that GIN aims to tackle.
To participate, each person must get sponsors to pay them for the number of laps that they will run around the field. Participants can walk, run, jog, crawl, anything they like around the field, as long as they complete as many laps as they please to raise money for 30/30 Project. Everyone would need to pick up a form from the High School, Middle School, and Elementary School office to start getting sponsors. This event is open to all community members. The form is available in the Middle School Office.
Art Sustains would like to thank everyone who came out to support our local artists at the craft fair. During the 3.5 day event, we sold $3,615 in merchandise and managed to raise $700, which will enable us to fund numerous service based initiatives throughout the year.
We will continue to sell Ayyanar horse, elephant, ganesh, and numerous other terracotta sculptures in the IHUB throughout November and December. Baskar, one of the terracotta sculptors who worked with us during the Ayyanar Horse Project, had an accident in his studio two months ago. He could use our support now, more than ever.
Art Sustains is also happy to announce, that our Bollywood/ Signboard painters are back on campus! Make sure you stop by our Art Sustains table, outside the IHUB, on Fridays to place your order for a large Bollywood style family portrait.
Have a nice weekend.
Alan Phan
Middle School Principal