MS eNews – Friday, March 15, 2013
Updated MS Calendar of upcoming events:
Friday, March 22
- Last Day MS Quarter 3
Monday, March 25
- First Day MS Quarter 4
Tuesday, March 26
- PTA Staff Appreciation Lunch
Thursday – Friday, March 28-29
- MS Student-Parent-Teacher Conferences (No classes these two days)
March 29-31
- BISAC Swimming Championships at ISB
Monday, April 1
- MS Track and Field Tryouts begin afterschool
Monday, April 8
- Chakri Day & Professional Day – no school for students and Classified Staff
Tuesday, April 9
- Thai Food Festival
- Board of Trustees Meeting at 6:00pm
Friday, April 12
- MS Alternate Dress Day
- MS Songkran Assembly at 7:20am in the Chevron Theatre
Saturday, April 13 – Sunday, April 21
- ISB closed for Songkran/Spring Holidays
MS Activities and Athletics Weekly Update
Check out some of the highlights that have happened, or will happen soon. For the most up-to-date information, click on the following link: https://inside.isb.ac.th/inthemix/https://inside.isb.ac.th/inthemix/
Upcoming MS Parent-Student-Teacher Conferences – How to Schedule Your Appointment
Dear MS Parents,
Our Middle School Parent-Student-Teacher Conferences will be taking place during the school day, in place of classes, on Thursday and Friday, March 28 and 29, 2013. For more information about the actual conferences and what to expect, please refer to this posting from Friday, March 1st: MS Conferences Information
For information on how to schedule your block of time via our online scheduler, please read on!
Please follow the directions below to access Pick-a-Time online to schedule your conferences. You can access the site at your convenience anytime from now until 12:00pm on Wednesday, March 27 to schedule your conferences or make any necessary changes once scheduled.
To get to the Conference Scheduler, please click on the following link and then follow the directions below (you may want to print out the directions first so you have them handy to follow). The link is:
https://www.pickatime.com/client?ven=11603340
How to Register – You need to do this even if you were here last year
- Click on the link provided above.
- Click “Login/Create Account”
- Fill in the required fields and register.
- For each middle school child you have, you will have to add them in
- a. Enter child’s student ID number
- b. Enter child’s birth date (use format mm/dd/yr eg. 02/26/10 – you need to include the / in between the month, day, and year)
How to Sign In (after having registered first time)
Enter your email and password. The system will know about any appointments you have made previously.
How to schedule for your block of time
- For parents with children in both the ES and MS, please make sure you select MS conferences as the event to see schedule for your MS child. For parents with child(ren) only in the MS, no need to worry, the MS conference event is default and will show for you automatically.
- Select the box next to your child’s Humanities teacher name. You will then see the schedule of available times for that teacher.
- Each colored square represents an available meeting time. Click on a square to schedule that time
- Then click on “Create Appointment”.
- You can click on the “Printable Schedule” link located on the top right corner and print the resulting web page to get a hard copy of your schedule.
- Please contact Khun Arisa at arisap@isb.ac.th or, Mr. Baron-Toaldo at maurilib@isb.ac.th, in the MS Office with any technical difficulties.
We are looking forward to seeing you at our MS Parent-Student-Teacher Conferences where we hope many meaningful conversations take place of not only where your child is at presently in his or her learning, but of where their learning could go next!
SEA Honor Orchestra and Choir Live Feed!
All is going well here in Guangzhou and the kids are, having a fantastic experience!
If you would like to tune in and see what is going on, here is a link for live streaming of the rehearsals and tomorrow’s concert! The concert will begin at 5:00pm Guangzhou time, which is 4:00pm Bangkok time. Enjoy!
https://www.aisgz.org.cn/sea/orchestrachoir/
Regards,
Ms. Peterson and Mr. Secomb
MS PTA Meeting from Tuesday, March 12
By Mr. Burgess, MS Principal
thomasb@isb.ac.th
Please click on the link below to access a PDF of our PTA presentation from the other night.
PTA 2013 03 12 Humanities In Focus PPT
Grade 8 Parent Meeting from Thursday, March 14
By Mr. Rogers, HS Dean of Academics
Please click on the link below to access a PDF of our presentation from the other night. You may also refer to the HS Program of Studies page on the parent portal where there is good information about the choices Grade 8’s have for next year in grade 9.
G8-Main-Registration-Slides-2013
ISB Students Saving Sharks!
By Mr. Dyke, ISB Environmental Coordinator
kerryd@isb.ac.th
As part of our Mission to develop ‘caring, global citizens’, ISB sent 26 students to the 2nd annual Bangkok ServICE conference last week, where eight international schools came together to share their passion for service and caring. This conference offers a great opportunity for students to teach and learn from each other and it leads to joint projects across many schools that are all fighting for the same cause. The ‘ICE’ stands for INSPIRE, CONNECT, and EMPOWER and yes, our students did just that. ISB had five student led presentations, two of which were led by MS students who did an amazing job and had the attention of everyone in the room.
One presentation, lead by 7th grade twins, Pavin and Mint Sethbhakdi, was about shark finning. The timing was perfect since there is currently a strong FIN FREE campaign in Thailand to protect sharks and take shark fin soup off of the menus of restaurants and hotels, which Pavin and Mint were also a part of. Their cause was getting so much attention that the NGO’s (Love Wildlife and Freeland Foundation) invited our students along with Namsai, a student from NIST, along to the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to hand over a petition to the Thai representative early this past Monday morning. To everyone’s surprise, the students were then invited inside to watch the CITES process take place.
A World of Thanks! Staff Appreciation Lunch
By: Cathy Miller Contact Email: millercm@hotmail.com
Annual Staff Appreciation Lunch March 26, 2013
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
The staff at ISB, have been working hard all year to make this school a great place for our kids to learn. To show our appreciation, the PTA hosts an annual “Staff Appreciation Luncheon” with food prepared and served by parent volunteers.
This year the luncheon will be held on Tuesday March 26, 2013. We need an abundance of food to feed over 425 hungry ISB employees (teachers, administrators, and all the support staff that make the school run successfully). Several food dishes are needed from every classroom to make this a success.
Click here: Sign up here!
Please keep in mind the following guidelines:
1. Each dish should serve 12 people.
2. Dishes should be delivered between 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m on Tuesday, March 26th to the MPB at the top of the zig-zag.
3. Dishes should be in reusable containers, and labeled with the owner’s name on it, teacher’s name and classroom number. The labeled containers will be delivered to the classrooms following the luncheon. Any unlabeled containers will be delivered to the PTA Office after the luncheon and can be picked up as soon as possible. Please pick up containers by April 5th. All unclaimed items will be donated after that date.
4. Please do not use styrofoam.
5. Please keep in mind that all dishes will be served at room temperature as we do not have heating and cooling facilities.
6. Please label all dishes and if it contains meat.
7. Please remember, NO NUTS!
Food request by grade level:
Pre-K: Appetizers
Kindergarten: Bread and Cheeses, Appetizers
1st Grade: Dessert
2nd Grade: Meat Dish
3rd Grad e: Salad
4th Grade: Vegetable Dish/Side dish
5th Grade: Vegetable Dish/Side dish
6th Grade: Dessert
7th Grade: Fruit
8th Grade: Vegetable Dish/Side Dish
9th Grade: Meat Dish
10th Grade: Fruit
11th Grade: Dessert
12th Grade: Salad
Thank you for all of your help!
Cathy Miller
ISB PTA Hospitality Coordinator
Faculty Follies DVD Now Available!
By Ms. Fitzgerald kerrif@isb.ac.th
Thanks for all the support – we are well on the way to raising 60, 000 THB for the Breast Cancer Centre. A packaged DVD of the show is now available from the Activities Office at a cost of 200 THB – some of those acts are worth a second glance!
Cafeteria News…Introducing…
… FREE – Gluten Free/Wheat Free Chocolate Brownies and Chocolate Chip Cookies at the Grind! The feedback so far ‘They are better than the original ones.’ And for breakfast we’re serving up build your own Breakfast Burritos, with all your favorite choices, for only 95B. Look for them at the omelet station. Further, not to let any station or section go untouched, we’re adding premium, open-faced sandwiches to the sandwich bar. Free range, black pork, Iberian Salchichon served on a bed of assorted greens and when possible organic tomatoes, spread atop German dark bread with your favorite mustard. Our popular smoked salmon will now also be available on German dark bread. Prices will range from 140-150 B. Keep your appetites ready for more to come. Enjoy.
Michelle Ihrig
Epicure Catering
Manager of Operations ISB
Tel. 02-963-5800 ext. 7728
M: 082-322-7531
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.