Dear all,
Happy long weekend!
Enjoy the extra day Friday and travel safe for all those travelling.
Thank You’s (don’t forget to let us
know if you’d like to acknowledge someone here!)
- To Sherene from Sharon: I would like to thank Ms. Sherene for her dedication, compassion, sincerity, cooperation, and positive and pleasant attitude in her tenure (5 years) with me. I am so grateful for all she has been and done, and I wish her all the very best as she moves on to being the new admin assistant for the Office of Advancement.
- Deepa, and the Grade 2 team; Becky and the Grade 5 team, Rachael and Alex for being so open to let the NGO educators observe a planning meeting - they were impressed!
- Rachael, Karen and Alex for their thoughtful participation in Cognitive Coaching last weekend - through Tuesday.
Faculty Update
- Congratulations also to Uma, who has accepted our WL EAL teaching position for next year!
- Ken will be out from Monday afternoon for the next couple of weeks as he recovers from knee surgery. Clinton and Priya will be working together to cover Ken’s art classes.
Anyone, teacher or TA who is involved in any tutoring
relationship on or off campus must come to a meeting next Monday 29 January in
the BBT at 3:30pm
This pertains to:
- Tutoring AISC students or adults off campus/at home/another venue
- Tutoring non AISC students or adults on campus
- Tutoring non AISC students or adults off campus/at home/another venue
Please pass this message on to ensure every Elementary TA and teacher is aware of this meeting and able to attend.
Responsive Classroom -
Feb 5 to 8
In addition to coverage, a (reasonably final) specials
schedule can be found here. Homerooms should read across the columns to see
which teacher their students go to each day. Specialists should read down the
rows to find their names. See Lori with any questions.
Some miscellaneous notes about the week:
- If your class misses their library period, you can coordinate with Teena and Jet to take them down for a book exchange (note that both Teena and Jet are covering classes for that week, so you’ll have to coordinate a time that Sarat can help with the book exchange).
- Third grade will not have world language. Fourth and fifth grade will; Jet will be teaching French. TAs who are covering homerooms will have their WL English classes covered by either Sarah or Teena.
- A new duty schedule for Feb 5-8 is still to be created - watch for that next week.
- Friday will follow a regular schedule for everyone! Phew!
TA Evaluations
A reminder that TA evaluations are due to the ES office no
later than 9am on February 2nd. Directions can be found in last week’s blog,
and here’s the link for your convenience.
Field Day reminders -
from the PE team
A reminder of the Field Days taking place on
- January 31st 10:15-12:15 (Grade 2 & 3),
- February 1st 10:30-12:30 (Grade 4 & 5)
- February 2nd 10:15-11:35 (EY3-Grade 1). *Ending a few minutes earlier than planned so children can change out of wet swimsuits before lunch.
v All afternoon PE classes
will continue as normal.
If your class has a specialist lesson during Field Day,
please communicate with Specialist teacher and decide whether to reschedule the
class or to have the Specials teacher take on your responsibility at Field Day.
Homeroom teachers:
please make an Edmodo post reminder to wear swim gear for
Field Days, and to bring an extra set of clothing to change into. Parents can
be encouraged to come watch or help out.
Field Day T- shirts
We will send the field day T-shirts to the classrooms on
Monday. All students and teachers will receive a t-shirt. Generic sizes were
ordered for students; they can take an appropriate size. Please distribute to
students only on the morning of their Field Day and not earlier, as we may not
have enough extras if they forget to wear it on that day. Boys should wear swim
trunks and their t-shirts. Girls should wear swim suits under shorts and the
t-shirt. Specialists you are welcome to come on Tuesday and take a T- shirt.
Expectations of working
with coaches (repeat
link) - this document here adds greater clarity to the role of coaches,
and what the expectations are of planning meetings when working with coaches.
Emergency drill - code
blue - Thursday 8 February
There will be a code blue emergency drill at 1:45 pm on
Thursday 8th February. This is not
likely to affect classes as it is a localised emergency, involving security and
pertinent personnel. No alarms will
sound, no evacuation or response required.
Meet AISC - Carl Knudsen
- Elementary Design Studio Teacher
Originally hailing from Denmark, Carl is in his fourth year
at AISC, and is joined here by his wife, Lori Newman, and his two sons Jakob
and Ben. Carl loves ‘creating stuff with
kids!’ and also chocolate. When Carl immigrated to Canada, he travelled by ship
across the north Atlantic and the ship hit an iceberg! Sadly, his parents lost
most of their possessions as the hold carrying their belongings was flooded.
Carl would love to have super vision as a super power. Carl is leaving AISC at the end of this academic
year to move to Tunis where he will be an Elementary Art teacher and also work
to set up their Design Studio.
Report card information
update (repeat announcement)
This time is coming up again soon - the style guide
has been updated, please everyone read thoroughly.
New students who have been with us less than a month -
joining after the winter break do not receive a full report card. Please instead write an introductory welcome
to school type overview with a transition/settling in comment. This can go on a google doc, be shared with
Hazel/Cheryl to be put on AISC letterhead, and uploaded into powerschool.
Any students who withdrew from school over the break also do
not receive a report card.
PSE Narrative comments - should use the AISC Vision of a
learner attributes
Specialist teachers - 3 bullet points per student. 2 areas of success and 1 growth area.
Proof Readers (**
specialist teachers please share comments with all proofers listed below)
LSS - Lori
EY3, 4 & 5- Lori
Grade 1 - Rachael
Grade 2 - Hilary
Grade 3 - Keryn
Grade 4 - Dan
Grade 5 - Alex
Reporting Timeline
Wednesday 14 Feb
|
Faculty meeting time dedicated to
writing/proofing report cards
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Thursday 15 Feb
|
Report card comments due to colleague
proofreader
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Tuesday 20 Feb (9am)
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Report card narratives (google doc) due to
admin for final proofing
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Monday 26 Feb (9am)
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All reports returned to teachers. Can begin
entering narratives into powerschool
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Wednesday 28 Feb (EoD)
|
All report information comments and level
indicators into Powerschool
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Friday 2 March (EoD)
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Reports go live to parents
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Teachers needed for
library display
The library is creating a special bulletin board and display
on staff members' favorite books! We think this will be a great way to promote
reading and also help students learn about different teachers they may not
already know. Maybe some students will even have the same favorite book as you!
Would you as a staff member be interested in having your photo taken with your
favorite book to help with our display? If so, please fill out this very shortGoogle Doc (name, favorite book, author).
Have a wonderful long weekend!
Warmly,
Keryn & Lori
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