Dear
all,
As we head into the weekend we can be proud of all number of hats we
wore this week. Thank you, it was
appreciated!
Not only
did we kick off our Friday with our first ever fabulous 3-5 ‘Learning
Celebration’, we also had a great week of inquiry learning. Anyone interested in going further - here
is a great read on Standards learning vs Inquiry - can they co-exist? :)
Congratulations & Thank yous!
Congratulations to Daphne who has accepted the position of Grade Team
Leader (GTL) to represent the PreKindergarten team.
Thank you to Tania for a great week of Inquiry learning. If you want to connect with her, or learn
more about events organised by Innovative Global Ed, here is her website.
Thank you to Lori who arranged subs so we all could have time working
with her.
Thank you to Ron for coordinating our first Learning Celebration on
Courage! Fabulous.
Thank you also to all the teachers and students who prepared wonderful presentations for this.
Thank you also to all the teachers and students who prepared wonderful presentations for this.
Tutoring
Anyone who is tutoring a student this year - please come and have a
conversation so we can get this relationship confirmed.
A reminder about our tutoring guidelines:
● Tutoring
should not happen during the school day (8:00 – 4:00) except under mitigating
circumstances as approved by the Principal.
● Teachers
(or Teacher Assistants) may not tutor their own students.
● In all
cases of tutoring, the tutor is responsible for adhering to the supervision
expectations of the appropriate section (ES, MS, HS).
● All
tutoring of any AISC student by a school employee must be approved by the
principal.
Email etiquette
Many of you expressed a concern of
the volume of email traffic! From now
Hazel/Cheryl will be publishing faculty absences on our daily bulletin page on
my blog rather than via email. Daily
updates for classes can also been seen there.
Whilst this blog will still be pushed
out only on Fridays, if you bookmark the link, you can go there daily to view
who is absent. Other than that, if your email is so short that a conversation
would suffice or long enough that a meeting is needed - let’s try that first.
Other tips for managing email here!
Other tips for managing email here!
Leave
A reminder about personal leave. Unless this is an unavoidable emergency, personal leave needs to be applied for (in writing) well in advance, and not the 1-2 days before you require the leave. Additionally, if possible, please avoid applying for personal leave when school events are already planned.
A reminder about personal leave. Unless this is an unavoidable emergency, personal leave needs to be applied for (in writing) well in advance, and not the 1-2 days before you require the leave. Additionally, if possible, please avoid applying for personal leave when school events are already planned.
Learning Celebrations (*rebranded extra Assemblies!)
As mentioned, we have scheduled a few extra Friday celebrations of
learning. The purpose behind these is community building and to give our kids
greater opportunities to share their learning and practice performing
skills. As decided by the GTL, parents
will only be explicitly invited to the already scheduled ‘Assemblies’.
MAP Testing (Grades 2-5)
MAP testing begins next Wednesday;
the schedule can be accessed
here. Prior
to your first testing session, please make sure you can log in and navigate to
“Saved Test Sessions”. As with last year, the naming convention for testing
sessions will be ‘class/test’ (i.e. 2A Math). If you need a refresher on
proctoring, touch base with Lori for a review session.
Over the next two weeks, students
will write the following tests:
●
MAP:
Reading 2-5 Common Core 2010 V2
●
MAP:
Math 2-5 Common Core 2010 V2
●
MAP:
Language 2-12 Common Core 2010
●
MAP:
General Science AERO 2011 V2
You’ll need access to the
following MAP Resources:
Student
instruction page to be read prior to testing (You may want to print this page for easy
reference.)
Have a great weekend!
Keryn
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