Dear Middle School Parents,
There have always been a lot of study tips out there. I came across these research-based Study Tips that I thought it would be good to share some to you and your children. The video is short and has some great tips.
ASIAC Band and Choir Festival
AISC is very excited to host the ASIAC Music Festival this year. The festival will culminate in a grand Gala Concert on Saturday, October 10th at 4pm. Everyone is invited! Admission is open and free. Please bring your friends and family to support over 110 young musicians from from American Embassy School (AES), American School of Bombay (ASB) and our very own AISC students as they sing and play at this memorable event. You don't want to miss it!
Special Session Coffee: Standards-Based Report Card
Please join us in this special session on Monday, 12 October at 8:45 in the Hall of Light. Mr. Jason Hicks and Mrs. Victoria Hall will be comparing traditional grading versus standards-based grading. Parents will have an opportunity to experience grading in this manner.
Student-Parent-Teacher Conferences
If you have not done so, please remember to sign up with this link. The conferences begin on Thursday from 4:00-7:00pm and 8:00-4:00pm on Friday.
Please remember that the conferences will be held in the teacher’s rooms and are scheduled for 10 minutes with a no passing time between conferences. Since there is no time between appointments, you may want to consider leaving a gap between appointments to allow time to get to the next appointment, especially if you are visiting the fine arts teachers.
- Please bring your child and their Student Learning Habits with you to the conferences.
- Please respect the needs of other parents and do not continue your discussion beyond the allotted time. If you feel you need additional time to speak with any of your child’s teachers you can schedule an appointment at a later date.
- Your child’s teachers will need to take short breaks from time to time. These will be posted on their conference schedule.
Middle School Coffee
Topic: Essential Life Skills for Adolescents by Ms. Jen Gold, MS Counselor
Date, Time and Location: Tuesday, 20 October @8:45 in Hall of Light
Come to the parent coffee and learn about some of the essential life skills that we can be cultivating in our adolescents. Fostering developing skills now in areas such as stress management, perspective taking, self control, and resiliency, among others, is important for our children so that they are prepared for the demands of life beyond Middle School. Join other Middle School parents in learning about these life skills and discussing ways to encourage their development at home.
Special Guest on Campus
This year Wilbur Sargunarj will return to AISC to work with our students and present at the RISE event on Friday, October 16, from 4:00-5:30 in the FAC Auditorium. Tickets will go on sale by the ES entrance and the main entrance before school and after school starting Monday, October 12. Adult tickets are 200 rupees and student tickets are 100 rupees.
Luckily, Wilbur will also be here at AISC for the week leading up to the RISE event, and students are able to work with him in a variety of ways. Please note participation is subject to teacher approval and in some cases an application process.
- MS students will have a chance to sign up for ASA: So You Want to Be A Youtuber? on Tuesday, October 13 from 3:45-4:45pm where Wilbur will discuss how he became an internet sensation, and he will talk about the lessons he's learned.
Middle School MUN
At this year’s CHEMUN, we will have Middle School MUN students for the first time. The following delegates will be representing the MS MUN team. Congratulations to these candidates.
Abhi Desai
Adam Ludwig
Anant Bajaj
Bhavni Joshi
Diya Kumar
Luis Zink
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Manav Chakravarthy
Natsumi Shindo
Prahalad Giridhar
Soo Youn Hwang
Srivatsan Ramaswamy
Ye Won Lee
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Food Service Update
From October 19th, Taj Madras Flight Kitchen will be replacing microwave popcorn with a healthier option fresh from a popcorn machine. This popcorn machine, offering a snack lower in both calories and fat, will be installed in the iHub; packages will also be available in the ES cafeteria.
Is your child enjoying the recent addition of veg/non veg salads and the vegetable juice of the day? They’re now available in the iHub and ES cafeteria, so please encourage your child to try these new items.
Food services at AISC are always in continual improvement. Should you have questions, suggestions or concerns, please contact Food Service Manager Prakash Shanmugam (sprakash@aisch.org), Elementary Associate Principal Lori Newman (nlori@aisch.org) or Secondary Associate Principal Jason Hicks (hjason@aisch.org). If you have not had the chance to have a meal in the I Hub or Secondary Cafeteria, please join us. We would love to hear your feedback about the food at AISC.
You are Invited to the High School Celebration of Learning!
The high school is excited to announce that they will host their first ever Celebration of Learning on Thursday, October 22nd between 10:00 am and 12:00 pm in the Gym. All members of the community are invited!
What is a Celebration of Learning? It is a fair in which high school students will host 14 different booths highlighting their learning from in different classes. Each booth will display an essential question addressed in class and students will be on hand to guide you through their displayed work. For example, have you ever wondered if listening to music while studying improves your memory? Or how to identify rhetorical arguments in written texts? Or how graphical representations can tell the story of a particular data set? Well, now you can find out the answers to these questions and many more by attending the Celebration of Learning! Please join us!
Have a nice weekend.
Alan Phan
Middle School Principal