Friday, March 09, 2018

Dear Faculty,

TGIF - hope you are all making your way to my house as you receive this.  A pre-spring break celebration as we head into our final week this quarter. A reminder that the Maker Carnival is on tomorrow 10-4pm if you’d like to drop by.

Thank you’s….

• Joseph, Priya, Ken and Clinton for the wonderful Grade 3-5 Art Extravaganza
• Rachael and Hilary for hosting the lovely Tania, our visiting Inquiry consultant
• Salome and Becky for showcasing the scientific thinking in the virtual NESA science fair
• From AISC to Sarah, Widi, Lily, Carl and Sobha for offering a wellness activity on Wednesday
• Ryan, Jack, Aziz, Shez, Mike, Velin, Kay, Peter Jacobson (emergency tech help) and Shannon and her interns, Anita and Jonathan for all the support at the Raptorthon this weekend
• Ula and Janna for being go betweens and providing input and thinking as we finalise the Grade 2  and 4 classrooms of the future project
• John same above for the Grade 3 projects, and for supporting Keryn’s sanity in this project
• Amritha, Bindu, Seema, Kristina, Fiona, Sharon, Jayashree, Leontheen, Fer, Kay, Karen, Sarah, Ula, Widi, Jane and Jet for attending the Thursday afternoon session on using Children’s Literature to promote curiosity and wonder
• Jack for helping ES students through their first track meet this week
• Amy, Sweety and Steffi would like to thank Teena and the rest of the CIC crew for taking us in when our classroom was too smelly for Writers Workshop! We were wandering around with writing folders and chart paper looking for a place to land for our mini lesson and the CIC graciously welcomed us. Thanks for your hospitality!!

Scholastic Book Fair

We are holding our second book fair of the year, the Scholastic Book Fair, Monday-Wednesday during this coming week in the Unity Courtyard! There are many great titles that you and your students will love. Please use this link to schedule your class for a visit to the book fair! If you are also interested in sending flyers home with your students, we have some from Scholastic. Please come and help yourselves to them. Please see Jet if you have any questions.

Good Friday; March 30

To provide a layer of transparency to the decisions that were made regarding personal leave on this day we would like to share that Andrew, Alankrit, Sudha and Keryn worked together to establish the following criteria:

Recognising the importance of this day, as well as acknowledging the volume of leave requests (over 20 ES faculty), any faculty member who has already applied for this leave, and who has not exceeded 10 days absence already this year, can avail of half a day personal leave to attend religious services on this day. Unfortunately we are unable to sustain additional leave requests on this day. Thank you for your understanding.

Faculty Meeting next Wednesday

We will be sharing out from each Curriculum Area (CA) group together in the ES Cafeteria.

Student - Teacher Feedback Survey

On Monday you will receive your individual student teacher survey feedback results.  Please read through this carefully and think through how you can incorporate this into your PGE reflection.

Staff Appreciation next Friday 16 March

A few reminders and maps:

• 2:30pm - All ES student council members to be wearing SC t-shirt; head to the FAC cafeteria
• 2:40pm - Rest of ES head to form gauntlet walkway
• EY - meet Keryn on field to join end of HS line
• Grade 1 & 2 - head to covered area to split gauntlet into two lines (Lori will direct)
• Grade 3 - outside Grade 1 classrooms
• Grade 4 - join where Grade 2 ends; outside of CIC
• Grade 5 join where Grade 2 ends; outside of nurses office
• Once staff parade passes by, students may return to classes

Have a wonderful weekend.

Keryn & Lori