Dear everyone,
Happy Friday! Have a wonderful weekend and see you next Monday for a very short three day week before our Thanksgiving break. Who are you thankful for? Who have you given thanks to?
Thank you’s and shout outs…
- Sending a big thank you from the third grade team to Hilary for all of her time and effort to create a provocative and fascinating museum of historical objects for our third graders.
- Mary Kelly for shepherding us through the vision week reflection process.
- Alex for stepping up and leading the whole group data protocol/work exemplar collection PD for those not in MSA.
- Thank you to the Early Years team and Vigna for all your hard work and support!
- Everyone who came out to the TGIF last Friday night - a great way to build community.
- Thank you from the Kindergarten team for engaging in conversation around 'Braving Trust' with an open mindset.
Upcoming Week at a Glance
Vision Project Survey
Thank you for the valuable feedback that was offered during the Vision Project breakfast. In addition to what was shared on Thursday, we ask that everyone involved complete this survey. Your insight and expertise is essential as we reflect and look forward to future vision project opportunities for our students. Results from student, parent, and faculty surveys will be shared soon.
Calendar Change – Make-up School Day, March 23, 2020
To make-up for the additional Diwali Holiday we observed on Monday, October 28, the Board of Directors approved Monday, March 23, 2020 calendared as a Staff Professional Day as a full school day. We will
continue to remind our community of this change in future Head’s Notes!
Secret Santa
This year, the Wellness Committee have decided to host an All-School Secret Santa gift exchange this year. This gives us all an opportunity to get to know each other better and connect us as an organization.
Please use this form to sign up if you wish to play Secret Santa. Bear in mind that participation is optional. The form will also ask you for information that you can share that will help your Secret Santa prepare gifts for you.
Logistics on how Secret Santa will work:
- Secret Santa will happen in the last week of school before Winter Break, which is December 16th–20th.
- It will be a system-generated list and you will be assigned a person. This avoids any confusion and ensures everyone who has signed up receives a Secret Santa.
- Surprise them! It can be anything from a simple note that would cheer up their day, a 60-rupee gift, a snack, or you can get a little creative to make your own gifts.
- Make sure you gift two - three times. Reveal who you are with the final gift on Friday, December 20th.
- The form needs to be completed by December 6th.
Holiday Read Aloud
As a way of showing our appreciation at this time of year, and for all that you do, please sign up for a guest reader to come in for a holiday themed read aloud! You can feel free to leave at this time, continue to work on report cards, get a coffee, whatever it is you need to do at this time! Homeroom or specialists may take advantage of this opportunity. To begin with, please only sign up for one block to make sure everyone can benefit. Several individuals on the leadership team have offered times.
2020 January Jumpstart Program
As a way of showing our appreciation at this time of year, and for all that you do, please sign up for a guest reader to come in for a holiday themed read aloud! You can feel free to leave at this time, continue to work on report cards, get a coffee, whatever it is you need to do at this time! Homeroom or specialists may take advantage of this opportunity. To begin with, please only sign up for one block to make sure everyone can benefit. Several individuals on the leadership team have offered times.
2020 January Jumpstart Program
AISC is piloting a January Jumpstart Program for our beginning ELLs that have enrolled at the end of 2019 and will be new to AISC at the start of 2020. This one week program will help ELLs learn foundational English words, structures, and phrases needed for academic success at AISC. January Jumpstart will run from 6-10 January 2020 and we need teachers.
If you are interested in being a Classroom or Activities Teacher, please complete this form by Wednesday, 4 December 2019. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Ms Sarah in room 1209 or ssarah@aischennai.org.
Support Our Elementary Student Council Girls Sports Shoes Drive (repeat announcement)
The ES student council is sponsoring the collection of girls’ sports shoes. The shoes will be donated to “Educate to Empower” which has created a school in Tamil Nadu for underprivileged girls. Educate to Empower is led by an AISC alumni. The girls need shoes so that they can participate in sports. There are 210 girls in this school that goes up to grade 5. By donating shoes we will be improving the lives of these girls and creating positive changes in their confidence and education. Please donate used or new shoes by Monday and put in boxes provided for each grade level. The student council will sponsor a pool party for the grade level that collects the most shoes on Wednesday, November 27th during lunch recess.
Tutorials for Entering Data into Report Card Templates (repeat announcement)
Please note that no accents or semicolons can be used. Thank you!
Looking Well Ahead to Our End of Semester 1: Report Card Timeline (repeat announcement)
Please find below the timeline for writing our Semester 1 report cards. 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 at the bottom of the style guide.
This time around, please remember our proofing process from last year. 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. (You will find this list towards the end of the document under the heading, 2019-2020 Final Sem 1 Report Card Editor Assignments.) 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.
As you work on your comments, you may want to sign up for a free account with Grammarly. It takes only a moment to sign up and the service will automatically check your spelling and basic grammar as you write your comments. This may save you, and your proofreader, some time and energy.
Winter Concert Rehearsal Schedule (repeat announcement)
As per a TinyPulse request to get schedule changes to teachers as early as possible, we appreciate the effort that the Winter Performance team has put into getting this rehearsal and performance schedule ready. Please add these items to your Google calendar and be sure to remember that these rehearsals take the place of the regularly scheduled dance and music lessons. If you have any questions or concerns upon reading the schedule, please reach out to Calley.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Keryn, Dave, and Calley
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