Dear
Parents and Students,
Special
Deliveries
In the past couple of days the AISC middle school has had a few items put together to be delivered to your child. There is the MS Advisory t-shirt, a happy face stress ball, a lollipop, and an AISC face mask. These are small tokens of recognition for your child’s effort and commitment to this year's virtual school experience. Know that the middle school teachers are cheering your child on these last weeks of school! Believe, Always!
May
Long Weekend
There is no school Monday, May 3. Online classes resumes Tuesday, May 4.
Portfolio Conferences
AISC Times: April Edition
MS to HS Coffee To provide information for 8th grade parents about the transition from 8th to 9th grade, the high school counselors are hosting a parent coffee with 9th grade parents as special guests. During this parent coffee, which will be held on Tuesday, May 4th from 8:45 to 9:45 am, you will hear from 9th grade parents about classes, support, communication, extracurricular activities, social life, and stress. Please bring your questions as well!
This
week we celebrated our students creativity and growth in our band and choir
programs at our MS/HS Concert. If you missed the concert, you can watch the recording here. Thank you to Mr. Jason
Kennedy and Mr. Robert Krebs for their dedication, teaching music entirely
online this year and producing a virtual concert to showcase our students
performances. A special recognition to all of our music students, performing remotely
in order to contribute to our ensemble programs! The concert reminds us of the
perseverance and resilience demonstrated by our students throughout this entire
school year, and our longing to see each other again on campus!
Today
we also launched our first Vision for a Learner Day! Check out what our
students learned. See our student artifacts from today.
In the past couple of days the AISC middle school has had a few items put together to be delivered to your child. There is the MS Advisory t-shirt, a happy face stress ball, a lollipop, and an AISC face mask. These are small tokens of recognition for your child’s effort and commitment to this year's virtual school experience. Know that the middle school teachers are cheering your child on these last weeks of school! Believe, Always!
There is no school Monday, May 3. Online classes resumes Tuesday, May 4.
- We will continue operating on IST.
- Please contact the MS office if your family leaves Chennai before the end of the school year. This helps our teachers to know who is not on IST.
- Connection times are recorded and posted on PowerSchool. Students out of time zone can watch recordings when it is convenient for them.
- All modules are designed to be completed individually if students cannot attend connection times.
- If it is unreasonable for students to attend 9:00am IST connection times in your time zone, recordings are available for students to watch the connection times missed. Modules can be worked on independently. Students can stay in contact with teachers via email should they need to make appointments with teachers.
- All students, regardless of time zone, should continue to complete the daily check in form to register their attendance, even if they miss a block because of time zone differences.
Portfolio conferences are student led and are
an opportunity for students to present artifacts and reflections of their
learning to parents. These conferences are students’ own evaluation of their
learning and a time to celebrate successes and identify challenges.
This coming week, Wednesday through Friday,
we invite you to participate in your child’s portfolio conference at home at a
time that is convenient for you. Students have received instructions on how to
conduct conferences through advisory. Here are complete
instructions for students and parents. Parent instructions have
been translated into French, Korean and Japanese for your convenience.
There is no formal follow up on the
conference required; however, we would love to see students sharing their
portfolios with parents. Send a selfie during your at-home portfolio conference
to msoffice@aischennai.org!
AISC Times: April Edition
The April
edition of the AISC Times is
an all student-produced MS newspaper created by this fearless team of editors
and writers: Chaitanya, Ha Young, Jisu, Mihika, Sahana, Yashvi and Yuina. Students led the entire
process of creating this edition, all of the way from drafting to publishing.
Thank you to our newspaper team for keeping our MS up to date through the
monthly newspaper as they spotlighted important events, highlighted faculty and
students, and shared new ideas with their audience!
MS to HS Coffee To provide information for 8th grade parents about the transition from 8th to 9th grade, the high school counselors are hosting a parent coffee with 9th grade parents as special guests. During this parent coffee, which will be held on Tuesday, May 4th from 8:45 to 9:45 am, you will hear from 9th grade parents about classes, support, communication, extracurricular activities, social life, and stress. Please bring your questions as well!
Here is the Zoom information for the parent coffee:
Meeting ID: 883 3244 0949
Passcode: ZiHx8GOi1A
Also, we highly encourage all 8th grade students
to attend 9th Grade Orientation hosted by the high school Raptor
Agents on Tuesday, May 11th at 10:00 am. Orientation is a great opportunity
for 8th grade students to learn more about high school and
connect with current high school students and each other! 8th grade students
will be provided with the Zoom link information next week.
In the meantime, please reach out to us with any questions
you might have. We look forward to hearing from you!
Tracey Grimm and Josiah Laposky
High School Counselors
Return of School Materials
As family travel plans
for the summer may shift, all items belonging to AISC must be returned to
campus before the summer break or your family's departure from Chennai. All
students, withdrawing or returning, must return school property before the
end of the school year. In the coming weeks, you will receive notifications for
outstanding items from the library, individual classes, and ASAs. Students
who are withdrawing will not be able to finalize the process if items are
outstanding.
Returning Instruments
If
your child is in band, please read the instructions about returning school
instruments. If you have questions about instrument return, please contact Mr.
Kennedy (kjason@aischennai.org) or the MS office (msoffice@aischennai.org).
Past School Reports for Withdrawing Students
Parents of the withdrawing students please note that you can collect ONE paper
copy of the past school reports of your child from the school any time starting
from Tuesday, May 2 after sending an email to msoffice@aischennai.org Please note that these
reports are ready for families who have already submitted the withdrawal
form.
Also, please note we will be able to provide
final Semester-II report and Transfer Certificate paper copies only on June 4.
End of Year Withdrawals
If you child will not be continuing at AISC next year,
please complete the “Request to Issue Transfer Certificate/Past Records” form
linked in the Quick Links section of the blog in the sidebar. Please complete
this form and submit it to the MS office msoffice@aicschennai.org.
Withdrawal Process Explanation
To initiate the withdrawal process, the Request to Issue Transfer
Certificate/Reports form must be submitted. The certificate is available on the
Principal’s Notes blog and from the MS Office. Once the Request to Issue
Transfer Certificates/Reports form is submitted to the MS office with a
confirmed date of withdrawal, it may take up to five school days to process
your request. This is standard operating procedure for each
withdrawal.
- Documents will be issued only on the last day the student is enrolled.
- We provide only these documents: cover letter, transfer certificate and past school reports
- We provide only ONE copy of the documents. Copies are the responsibility of the family.
- Documents cannot be issued till the student has returned all the school property i.e. library books, musical instruments.
- The student needs to be cleared by the finance department in terms of fees and other payments.
Please note that emailing the MS office to inform us of your
withdrawal date does not initiate the process. The process begins when the
completed Request to Issue Transfer Certificates/Reports form is submitted to
the MS office.
Stamping Documents
Please
allow 24 hours for documents needing official school stamps to be processed by
the middle school office. As noted above, we will make one copy of official
school documents. Additional copies are made by the family and stamped upon
request by the MS office. Documents are sanitized upon receipt and before
returning them to families. Please plan accordingly for your timelines if you
need documents stamped.
Returning/Departing Chennai
If
your family is departing Chennai before the end of the school year, please
contact the middle school office msoffice@aischennai.org for changes in your time
zone.
Middle School Principal