Dear all,
What a busy interrupted week we had!
Thanks to all those who were flexible with their schedules and allowing for
children to continue the flow of learning even with two days out. Looking
ahead, this final month of school will no doubt be hectic so please consider
attending the TGIF tonight to socialize with your colleagues before time gets
away from us all.
Thank yous!
- Ms. Anita and Ms. Vanessa
would like to thank everyone that helped us with the #AISCplasticfree art
installation: Ms. Keryn, Mr. Dave, Ms. Calley, Mr. Clinton, Mr. Vijay, Ms.
Jenn, Mr. David Hassler, Ms. Shannon, all the 5VL students who labored to
meet the deadline, all the AISC students who have signed the petition and
collected water bottles for us, and all the assistance from the AISC
facilities team members.
- Thank you to Megha, John,
Amanda, Janna, and Melissa for your work supporting students through math
differentiation, even late in the year. If you are wondering about meeting
a student’s or students’ needs in May, please reach out to Calley.
- Thank you to the Grade 3 Team
for piloting Prodigy for math home learning. We had an educational parent
coffee today and we plan to solicit more feedback from students, parents,
and teachers. iLab in action!
- Thank you, Jenny, for having
our social scientists come and observe your class this morning! We are
looking forward to having you join our first grade team.
Upcoming Week at a Glance
Monday 6th May
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MAP Test Gr 2 & 3
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Tuesday 7th May
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MAP Test Gr 4 & 5
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Wednesday 8th May
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MAP Test Gr 4 & 5
Faculty Meeting
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Thursday 9th May
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MAP Test Gr 4 & 5
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Friday 10th May
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MAP Test Gr 4 & 5
All report cards comments due to colleague proofreader 4:00 p.m
No learning celebration
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Rising Temperatures
The forecast for next week will be warmer, so you
may expect that there will likely be a few indoor recesses. Please continue to
remind your students to drink lots of water. We are closely monitoring the
temperatures around our area and will call an indoor recess as soon as it looks
like it will hit 40℃.
Please review the indoor recess schedule and let Dave know if you have any
questions.
Summer Maintenance Requests
For any minor painting, specific cleaning, small
maintenance tasks you may need done in your classrooms (not specialist rooms), please enter them on this sheet before May 10. Following May 10, Keryn
and Dave will meet with the maintenance team to confirm and approve these
requests.
Vision Projects Reminder
Just a brief reminder that on Wed, May 8 during
sectional afternoon time, upper elementary Vision Project teams will be working
on a collaborative tuning protocol for our project organizers. This means that
your organizer needs to be ready for a colleague’s eyes by Wed PM. Thanks
everyone for all the hard work and collaboration that is going into these
amazing projects.
Cancellation of Learning Celebration
The last All-ES Learning Celebration on May 10 has
been cancelled and will not be made up. This change to the community calendar
will be noted in Friday's Principal's Notes to parents. For those teachers
and students who were preparing to celebrate, you are invited to reach out to
parents after the blog post to invite them to a classroom celebration in lieu
of the community celebration. Alternatively, you might simply note that
"the learning celebration planned for May 10 will be cancelled to allow
for teachers to regain some instructional time." It's up to you and your
students to do what best meets your needs. If you have questions or concerns
about this, please reach out to Calley.
Learning Celebration Calendar Summit (repeat announcement)
To prepare for next year’s community
learning celebrations, and taking into account teacher feedback and the work of
the learning celebration committee, on May 13 GTLs will meet for a Learning
Celebration Calendar Summit. Briefly, this will be an opportunity for GTLs to
bring the Learning Celebration dates to the team, solicit ideas about the best
times for each triad to celebrate, then join a collaborative conversation to
decide on final dates. GTLs will find a time to look at this document with
their teams. Thanks for your flexibility and creativity in envisioning backward
planning for Learning Celebrations.
Semester Two Report Cards (Repeat)
Please find below the timeline for writing our final report cards of
this academic year. These will be printed as per other report cards this year,
so proofreading remains an ongoing focus to ensure these are error-free
going home. Therefore, everyone, please ensure to familiarise
yourself with the style guide and
proofreading process. You will also find the proofreading assignments here.
This time around, please note two differences in proofing process from
the progress reports. First, each homeroom teacher has been assigned
a colleague proofer. This is due to the volume of reports being much higher and
the challenge of making an equitable distribution. Secondly, we’d added to the
reporting process to ask that teachers check their own character count
before sending to proof reader (500-800 characters per comment). First
round proofers will also check, but it will go much more smoothly if we check
our own.
One streamlining suggestion is once you’ve written the first comment and
know this is between 500-800, count the number of lines in this comment and aim
for near that number of lines for all others.
Wednesday 1 May
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Fri 10 May
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By Weds 15 May - 8:00 a.m.
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Monday 20 May - 4:00 p.m.
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Wed 22 May - 8:00 a.m.
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Friday 24 May
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Monday 27 May
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Wednesday 29 May
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Roots and Shoots Fundraiser Outcomes
Thanks to everyone for supporting our fundraiser to
help the Sea Turtles at the Tree Foundation! We raised 87,970 rupees
in donations, which has been deposited to the cashier for the Tree Foundation
donation. On Tuesday, April 30th, Dr. Supraja from the Tree Foundation met with
the elementary Roots & Shoots group to thank them and the first graders for
their dedicated service to help the sea turtles. The students enjoyed sharing
with her the different activities they'd done to raise awareness about the sea
turtles. They also explained how they'd collaborated with the First Graders for
their fundraiser. Dr. Supraja presented all the students with special
certificates to thank them for their hard work!
FYI: Cancelled Swimming ASA - May 9th & 10th
This has been shared with parents, and also for your information. On Thursday, May 9th
(LTS 1-2-3 and Raptors 2) and Friday, 10th
(Raptors 1) there will be no swimming ASA. Saturday's
activities are still on as usual. For more information, please check our aquatics
website regularly.
Have a great weekend!
Warmly,
Keryn, Dave, and Calley
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