Friday, October 26, 2018

Dear all,

Time for a much needed weekend - lots of fun and great learning happening this week!
In addition, there is a lot of sickness around - please be absolutely vigilant washing your hands!  If you’re not well, please do not come in.  Spare your students and colleagues from catching your sickness! At times we may need you to cover a class or a duty for a colleague.  We understand this can present challenges and we appreciate your support in this so much.  As you know, we only use this as a last resort and thank you for being so supportive and understanding.

   Thank yous…

• To Megha (and Joelle too) for facilitating Adaptive Schools.  Congratulations on your first full lead facilitation!
• To our Adaptive Schools participants - Keeley, Jane, Jenny, Vanessa K, Jayasri, Sharon, Amritha, Jayashree, and Uma - for dedicating a weekend to professional learning.  
• To everyone who provided coverage and support during Adaptive Schools training
• To Kay for supporting SAISA swimmers throughout the season and at the meet in Amman
• To each of the teachers who gave of their time and interests to make Wellness Day a (swimming, jogging, print-making, crochet, and meditating) success!
• To everyone who has covered (so willingly) to cover for colleagues during this flu week!
• Mary Kelly, Jayasri, Sarah Sahr and Sarat for their calming and strengthening yoga sessions with our students for India month.

 Upcoming Week at a Glance

Monday 29 Oct	ASA performances 4 PM Field Trip Seva Samajan 2BW & 2DJ - 9:00am - 11:30pm
Tuesday 30 Oct	ASA performances 4 PM EY3&4 Parent Coffee Field Trip Seva Samajan 2FL & 2UK - 9:00am - 11:30pm
Wednesday 31 Oct	Halloween Parade - starting at 2:45 p.m with Grade 5 Section Meeting 3:45 pm Madras Hall
Thursday 1 Nov	ASA performances 4 PM Newbie Dinner @ Keryn’s 6-8 pm - Spouses and Children Welcome
Friday Nov 2	ASA performances 4 PM ASA Season Ends

CARE Institute Visit, October 30

In order to support our local community, Dr. Nathan, Founder, five faculty members and thirteen post-graduate students will visit AISC on Tuesday October 30.  of the CARE Institute will visit AISC.  CARE has training programs in “Learning Disability” and Counseling. They will be visit predetermined classrooms, meet with member of the Counseling department, and members of the Learning Support department.  To learn more about  CARE Institute Brochure.  To see the schedule of the visit the LINK HERE.

Covered Area

Just a reminder that if you are on duty during arrival or recess, please let students know that only ball play allowed in the covered area is for 4-square. If a student is kicking a ball they should be redirected to the field.

Halloween Parade (repeat info)

• Parade will begin P7 on Wed 31st; starting at 2:45 p.m. with Grade 5
• The parade will become one continuous snake, starting with Grade 5, and the parade will come by your classroom areas for you to join on the back of the snake parade.  

Approximate timing schedule:

2:45    Grade 5

2:47    Grade 4

2:50    Grade 3

2:52    Grade 2

2:56    Grade 1

3:00    EY5

3:02    EY4 then EY3

After all classes are collected in the snake parade - the parade will take one final lap of the ES ground floor, collecting candy in different stations along the way:

Route & Candy Stations

1.       ES reception/gate (ES leadership)

2.      Amphitheatre (coaches and specialists)

3.      Nurse’s Office

4.      MS locker area (HOS / Teaching and Learning / Admissions)

5.      CIC (Jet and team)

6.      ES Cafeteria (ES Office)

Adopt a Garden is Back!

 #AdoptaGarden project sign up

Calling all gardening/eating enthusiasts!  We have several unclaimed garden beds out the back of the FAC just  waiting for children to experiment with and grow stuff in!  Combined with the optimal weather and growing season in January/February we are excited to present the Adopt a Garden opportunity.  

Any faculty member who would like to adopt a garden bed can.  Expectations are minimal.  We will take care of all the weeding, maintenance, watering etc, and all you need to do is visit the garden once per week to watch it grow.  You could take your whole class or a group, whatever is easiest and if you need help making this ‘fit’ - together we will make a plan for how this can happen.  You may drop a lesson once per week in a traditional subject area - learning will still happen in the garden!  Maybe this connects with an upcoming unit, measuring in math, experimenting or just hands on experiential learning. We can help you make this happen because we believe in it.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Warmly,
Keryn, Dave, and Calley