MS eNews – Friday, December 13, 2013
Updated MS Calendar of upcoming events:
Saturday, December 14
- MS Student Social at 5:00pm in the ES Gym
Tuesday, December 17
- MS Biathlon at 1:20pm
Wednesday, December 18
- MS Dance and Drama Assembly at 1:00 – 2:05pm in the Chevron
Thursday, December 19
- MS Olympics
Friday, December 20
- MS Alternate Dress Day
- Lost & Found Display in Cafeteria
- MS End of Semester Assembly at 7:20am in the Chevron
- All student dismissal at 11:30am
December 23 – January 10
- ISB Winter Holiday (No School)
Monday, January 13
- School opens – 1st day of Semester 2
Monday – Thursday, January 20 – 23
- MS Drama Auditions – after school
Thursday, January 23
- MS AMIS Strings (off-campus)
- MS Yearbook Make-Up Photos
- MS PTA Meeting at 11:00am
- Drama Auditions – after school
Friday, January 24
- MS AMIS Strings (off-campus)
- MS Alternate Dress Day
Saturday, January 25
- MS AMIS Strings (off-campus)
- BISAC U13 Badminton – Boys at ICS, Girls at TCIS
- BISAC U13 Soccer – Boys at NIST, Girls at SHB
- BISAC U15 Badminton at RIS
- BISAC U15 Soccer at BPS
Tuesday, January 28
- Early Dismissal Day
Friday, January 31
MS BKK Choral Festival at ISB
Saturday, February 1
- MS BKK Choral Festival at ISB
- MS Bangkok Choir Festival Concert at 2:00pm
Monday – Friday, February 3 – 7
- MS Class Trips
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: Link to MS Activities and Athletics
Thank You and Goodbye to Our Khun Dalad
MS Secretary, Khun Dalad is retiring and her last day working with all of us in the MS Office will be this Friday, December 20th. We thank her for, and appreciate, her dedication and work over the years with our MS students, parents, and staff over the years and wish her all the best on her new adventures! If you’re on campus over the next, please drop by and say goodbye, as we know Khun Dalad will greatly appreciate it.
Access to PowerSchool & Semester 1 MS Report Card
Reminder, MS student and parent access to the Grades section of PowerSchool was turned off at 3:00pm on Friday, December 6th to allow teachers time to finalize the semester 1 report cards. Access will be turned back on 12:00pm on Friday, December 20th. Please contact teachers directly with any questions regarding missing assignments etc you may have for the remainder of the semester.
For All Returning Students – The Semester 1 Report card will be mailed home sometime first week of January (exceptions are students with any unpaid bills – report card will be held until all bills are cleared).
Students Leaving ISB – Can pick up their report card and school records from K. Fon in the MS Office on their last day of school.
Christmas Bazaar, Saturday Dec. 14th at 9:00am – 4:00pm
Martin Brekke, President ISB Kids Action for Kids HS Club
13024@students.isb.ac.th
This Saturday Dec. 12th the ISB Kids Action for Kids’ High School Club and the Scandinavian ladies’ group with international friends arranges a Christmas Bazaar at the New Nichada Plaza. Many of the students from ISB MS have helped make Christmas decorations and crafts for sale, and many of the MS students will help out with the selling and organizing at the Bazaar. The Christmas Bazaar will be on from 9am to 4pm and is filled with a fun program for the whole family. We will have competitions and games for younger and older kids, a quick lottery, face painting, a big raffle with great prizes, golf cart wash, Jul Cafe with foods and drinks, and Christmas sale of hand/homemade Christmas decorations and gift items. For Christmas photos, Santa Claus is visiting at 12.00-14.00.
All proceeds go to Kids Action for Kids (KAFK), which spends 100% of all funds raised to finance surgeries for Thai kids with facial deformities, cleft lips and cleft palates. The organization works in close cooperation with dtac, which matches all funds KAFK raise, and with Operation Smile.
Don’t miss the Christmas Bazaar, please come and help us create more smiles!
www.kidsactionforkids.org
Middle School Father/Son Book Club @ the Library
By Robert Kelly
Contact Email: rkelly2@gmail.com
Ship Breaker, the National Book Award nominee for adolescent literature, is a fast, action-filled thriller set in the near future. It has inspired numerous You Tube videos for “book trailers” and a couple of “action films” put together by middle school kids re-creating scenes from the book. Take a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Perhaps the next Steven Spielberg? https://www.youtube.com/watch?
We are organizing a father/son book club to read this book and then meet together in late January. Yes, I know, hanging out with Dad in the library is probably the last thing your 12, 13 or 14 year old son would like to do on a weekday night (or any night)! But as a father, I would like to grab any opportunity I can before my son drifts off into his independent teenage orbit, and share in the adventure and fun of a good book.
Please join me, and the other dads that have already signed up.
So, what book are we reading? Ship Breaker is written Paolo Bacigalupi. It is a powerful book choice for this age level that covers the nature of trust, family, fate and luck from the thematic underpinnings of Ship Breaker’s heady adventures.
Here is the link to the book information on Amazon. It can be ordered in paperback or downloaded on the Kindle or iPad: https://www.amazon.com/Ship-
The idea is that fathers and sons can read the book at home over the holidays (it’s a fast read) and then we will gather at school for a casual evening that will include conversation about the book, as well as refreshments.
If you are interested in joining us, please send me an email at rkelly2@gmail.com, and I can send you more detailed information.
PS. The American news show, 60 Minutes, did a segment on some of the real ship breakers in Bangladesh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Cafeteria News…Did You Know…?
Every holiday and special occasion has a foundation built on traditions. The majority of these traditions are centered, around food. Especially when we think of a New Years Eve Celebration, many traditions around the world include food symbolizing luck, prosperity, health and good fortune. Items to be found on such a Menu may be: Pork– it brings good luck and favorable fortune. If you are not a meat eater, so will any other treat in the shape of a pig do the same thing; Fish Scales or any dish with fish which symbolizes silver, hence precious metals of fine fortune; Bread or Cakes with trinkets baked inside, those who are lucky enough to end up with the trinket are the recipient of good fortune and luck; Eating 12 Grapes at the stroke of midnight, a good luck forecast grape for each month; Eating long, uncut noodles at 12 o’clock for an equally long life. From all of us at Epicure Catering, we hope you have a fantastic New Year’s Celebration, which will bring you into the New Year with all the Well Wishes you desire, whatever your Menu may be. Enjoy.
Reminder: Student Laptops During The Winter Break
Dear Parents, Please be aware we will not be collecting student laptop computers for the ISB Winter Break. Students will be able to bring their school laptop computer home for the winter break (some individuals may lose the privilege to do so as a discipline consequence in which case those parents will be notified). Please click on the following link for some information that should be helpful: Winter Break – Laptop Recommendations for Students and Parents