MS eNews – Friday, November 9, 2012
Our updated MS Calendar of upcoming events for the next four weeks:
Monday, November 12
- MS Soccer Tryouts Begin After School
Tuesday, November 13
- Student Early Dismissal at 1:00pm
Thursday, November 15
- MS Theatre Sports
Friday, November 16
- MS Alternate Dress Day
Saturday – Sunday, November 17 – 18
- ISB Panther Swim Team Swimfest
Wednesday, November 28
- MS Band Concert at 6:30pm in Chevron Theatre
Friday, November 30
- MS Assembly at 1:10pm in Chevron Theatre
Tuesday, December 4
- MS Parent PTA Meeting at 9:30am
- MS Choir/Strings Winter Concert at 6:30pm in Chevron Theatre
Wednesday, December 5
- H.M. King’s Birthday – No School
Reminder: Early Dismissal on Tuesday, November 13th
Dear Parents,
Reminder, all ISB students will be dismissed at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, November 13th, our next scheduled Early Dismissal Day. School buses will leave at 1:15 pm. There are no scheduled after school activities this day for MS students. Early Dismissals allow ISB Staff to collaborate and further their professional development, providing a common meeting time in all three divisions. Please note that no instructional time is lost, as we have added additional school days to the academic year.
MAP Parent Information Meeting, Thursday 15th November at 9:00am (ES MPR)
MAP scores should be reaching parents of students in grades 3-9 this week. For more information about the MAP test, parents can attend the above meeting at school or visit www.nwea.org
For individual student concerns, parents should first contact the appropriate counselor who will advise the best next steps.
BISAC Soccer Tryouts start Monday, Nov. 12.
Meet in front of the PE offices at 2:15pm. Also, if this is your first BISAC sport, make sure you visit the MUST Do page on the MS Athletics blog, https://inside.isb.ac.th/athletics/ms-athletics/must-do-imp-info/. If you have any questions, please see Mr. Dyke (kerryd@isb.ac.th)
ISB Middle School Theatre Sports Competition 2012
By: Mr. Huxtable
On the 15th of November at 3pm in the Cultural Centre Theatre in the New Arts Building, Middle School Drama will be holding the next Theatre Sports Competitions. For those of you who do not know, “Theatre Sports” are acting games where the performers play theatre games in front of an audience without any planning. Each game has rules and a time limit. Teams are challenged to use all their powers of creativity and teamwork to work together and produce a surprising and entertaining set of improvisations.
On November 15th at 3.00pm there is the Performance Final, with the winning team lifting the ISB Theatre Sports Trophy.
Tickets are only 50 baht. All money raised goes to the “Operation Smile” charity. Donations are also gratefully received.
The Theatre Sports “Festival of Ideas” is a lot of fun and the audience is normally amazed at what these talented students can do on stage under pressure. Come along and cheer for a team!
Leaving ISB End of This Semester?
If you are leaving ISB end of this semester, please contact Khun Fon in the MS Office at supanniy@isb.ac.th – she will send you paperwork that needs to be completed in order for her to get your child’s school records ready for his/her next school.
ISB Email Etiquette
Following is a list of email etiquette guidelines to help us all maintain a high professional standard:
- Take another look before you send a message: Check to whom you are sending the email to, and that the content is appropriate.
- Keep messages brief and to the point.
- Use of CC field: Use CC to keep people in the loop (FYI), do not use the CC for criticisms, this is best done “face to face”. If you are CC’d in a conversation, there is no obligation to reply.
- Use “Reply All” judiciously.
- Reply in a timely manner.
Finally don’t forget the value of face-to-face conversations.
Sincerely,
Chad Bates
IT Director
International School Bangkok
Cafeteria News…Did You Know…?
Glorious Kale and Morning Glory…Why should you be eating these wonder veggies? The First and Best Reasons Are: they are local vegetables grown in Thailand, and are quite a hardy plant all on their own. Therefore they are automatically drastically reduced from the sprays of chemical pesticides even without the ‘organic’ label, because they ward off the unwanted guests mostly on their own! Now for the other reasons: They are extremely high in Anti-oxidents, full of Vitamins K, A & C, Rich in Minerals such as Iron and Calcium (offering even more calcium than milk!) It is proven that a diet full of vegetables not only boosts your immune system, but also reduces your risk of muscular degeneration, obesity and certain cancers. Good News is they are offered on a regular basis for lunch in the HS/MS Cafeteria- please watch for them! Enjoy.
Michelle Ihrig
Epicure Catering
Manager of Operations ISB
cafeteria@isb.ac.th Tel. 02-963-5800 ext. 7728
eNewsletter Guidelines
by Tony Arnold anthonya@isb.ac.th
ISB eNewsletters provide a valuable avenue for communication within the ISB parent community. For your convenience we have provided you with our eNewsletter guidelines below.
- Submitting an announcement for publication ISB accepts announcements from ISB families for potential publication in our eNewsletters. The announcements are generally intended to highlight events that occur at ISB and/or highlight information about ISB.
- What to include in the announcement • A title for your announcement • An email contact for further information
- Where to submit your announcement
- 4publish@isb.ac.th is for announcements of interest to the entire ISB community
- tinaratr@isb.ac.th is for Elementary School announcements of interest to ES families
- maurilib@isb.ac.th is for Middle School announcements of interest to MS families
- vijitl@isb.ac.th is for High School (HS) announcements of interest to HS families
Your announcement will be submitted to the appropriate Principal and/or to our Marketing Director for review. ISB reserves the right to determine which announcements will and will not be published, and to edit announcements that are approved for publication.
- Frequency of eNewsletter mailings
- The ISB eNewsletter that is for the entire community is sent out on Thursdays. Announcements for potential publication in this newsletter must be received by noon on Thursdays.
The ES, MS, and HS eNewsletters are sent out on Fridays. Announcements for potential publication in these newsletters must be received by noon on Fridays.