Dear Middle School Parents,
Welcome back grade 6 students and teachers from their phantastic Week Without Walls experience in Yelagiri. Some of the highlights included: early first morning mystery hide and seek, the visit to the local school which included a talent show with singing and dancing and playing outdoor games, a nature walk, learning yoga, some team building games, and a visit to a local Mulberry and fruit farms. They also did some journaling and wrote reflections on their days. Our Week Without Walls trips are a great opportunity for our young adolescents to build on their independence and personal responsibility, in addition to forging stronger relationships with their peers, and appreciating more of our incredible host country.
Once we have all the photos compiled, we will share them with students and parents.
Middle School Coffee 18 March at 8:45 in BBT
The next middle coffee will be dedicated to the Service Learning Task Force to give you an update on the program and where we are at this point. The presenters will talk about service versus service learning and what it might look like in the Middle School in the future.
Model United Nations (MUN) Parent Meeting
MUN is an extracurricular activity where students assume the roles of countries and organisations represented in the United Nations in specific committees. The aims of an MUN conference are to encourage debate and sharing of views between students from different schools and of different ethnicities. The ultimate goal is to promote awareness of international relations and issues in young people, and to inspire global mindedness and an understanding to the problems of the world and how to combat them, whilst providing an atmosphere where students can progress in their communication skills and open mindedness. This would allow students an insight to further their understanding and learning of politics in a global and international manner.
There will be a parent meeting on 19 March at 3:45 in the BBT for all delegates who will be traveling to Taipei in April. We will provide details of the trip and answer any questions you may have.
Congratulations to the MathCounts Team
We were not able to get the pictures out last week, but here they are. Please congratulate the following students for taking Second Place at the Math Counts in Bombay. Shreyas Saxena also took Third Place individually.
Grade 6: Reuben Nielsen
Grade 7: Haegun Cho, Tarun Krishna and Siddesh Vijayakumar
Grade 8: Shreyas Saxena, Uday Saharia, Vikram Sivakumar and Sang Hyeok Lee
From our Athletics Director-Mr. Ron Thomson
First of all, I would like to congratulate all of our awesome Track & Field athletes for a great job at the Track Meet this past Tuesday and Wednesday. I felt like a proud Papa watching all of our teams compete to the best of their abilities. The old expression "leave it all on the track and give it your best" was definitely the theme of these two days. Well done!
I want to send out a big "thank you" to all of our school personnel for making this meet happen at the National Stadium. Without the hard work and support of our administration, security team, maintenance staff, nurses and volunteers this could not have been possible.
Now we move onto the next challenge of the season, the 2014 SAISA Track & Field Meet, which we will be hosting from March 12-14. With an event this size, we will need a lot of help. So if you are interested in working 1, 2 or 3 days of the Track Meet, please let me know.
We have many critical jobs to fill and really need your support. The list of jobs is endless. So please let me know if you want to be part of this great meet.
Have a good weekend.
Alan Phan