Dear Middle School Parents,
Happy Holidays! Whether you are traveling or having a stay-cation, we wish you a safe and restful school holiday break.
Please encourage your children to read for pleasure. If you go by a bookstore, stop by and let them pick up a book, graphic novel or magazine. Allow them to read what they want, creating good reading habits is more important than what they are reading. Research says that it takes about 21 days (three weeks) to do something for it to become a habit, this winter break is the perfect time to form new habits.
Early Release Wednesday - January 20th
In order to support continuous professional learning and development for AISC faculty members, there are seven Early Release Wednesdays on the calendar this year. On January 20th, we will have our fifth Early Release Wednesday. As a reminder, students will be released at 1:30 p.m. and are expected to depart campus in a timely and organized fashion. We appreciate your patience. In preparation, please plan on allowing longer time for entry and exit to the school at release time. Lunch will be a quick "grab and go" sandwich on this day for our Middle and High School students. If students want a hot lunch, please remember to pack one from home.
After School Activities (ASA)
Semester 2: January 25 - May 27, 2016. (16-week program)
Information regarding Pay Online & In Person registrations
We will open online registrations on January 14th (am) and end on January 17th (pm), 2016.
Please go to (https://payonline.aisch.org/), login and register. We encourage Parents to register through Pay online. Kindly note that payments made through credit card will carry service charges. This is charged by the Bank and not the School or ASA department.
IN-PERSON REGISTRATIONS: If you have missed registering online, then in-person registrations can be done on January 18 and 19 at the Elementary Cafeteria from 8.00 am – 9.30 am.
Please find the list of after school activities including swim programs planned for Semester 2.
MIDDLE SCHOOL ASA
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ASA Name
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Instructor
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Grade
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Day
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Basketball
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Sukavaneshwar D
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6 - 8
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Tuesday
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Tennis
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Gowthaman V
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6 - 8
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Thursday
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Soccer
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Sebastian Francis
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6 - 8
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Thursday
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Ping Pong
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Rajesh R
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6 - 8
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Monday
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Advanced Taekwondo
(Blue - Black belt)
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Yang Young Geun
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6
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Tuesday
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Acoustic & Rock Guitar
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Shiney Justin
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6 - 7
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Tuesday
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Yoga
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Widi Sumaryano
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6 - 8
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Thursday
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Lego Mindstorms
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Ryan Sager
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6 - 8
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Monday
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Raptor’s Swim Club
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Donna Fava
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6 - 8
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Tuesday & Thursday
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Flippa Ball
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Velin Prabhu
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6 - 8
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Friday
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Middle School Lego Mindstorms (Robotics) ASA
Start Date: Mondays, Starting 25 January
Location: ES Discovery Lab
Design thinking and engineering principles will be used to solve a student created problem using Lego Mindstorms EV3 robotic kits. Students will first learn how to identify and define a problem which can be solved using robotics. This includes setting the criteria which determines how well the student-made robots solved the problem. Next, they will use the prototyping cycle to iterate and refine their Lego robots. This cycle of trial and error is critical to the design thinking process. Their solutions will be shared with the community at the celebration near the end of the semester.
Have a safe and relaxing holiday break.
Alan Phan
Middle School Principal