Summer Learning Links
Parents! Summer is an incredible opportunity to spend time with your children reading, playing and having rich experiences as a family. In order to support you, here are a few resources that were shared at recent parent training by your Learning Coaches and Teacher Librarians: Enjoy!
https://inside.isb.ac.th/parentportal/
Charity Run for Nepal
It’s just a fun way to stay active and help us raise some more money for NEPAL. Please consider running with us! Register here and start collecting donations from your colleagues and friends or just bring a minimum donation of 200 baht and run for as long as you want.
The pledge form you’ll find here
Stay Active!
Keep Running!
World Language Choice for 2015-2016
The World Language choice form goes home today, Friday, May 22nd to those students who need to make a choice for the next school year. Students in pull-out EAL and LS programs and Thai national students do not need to make this choice. Completed forms must be returned to homeroom teachers on Monday, June 1, 2015.
Father Daughter photos
KidsFoto father-daughter dance photos are in. Please stop by the CAO office Monday through Friday from 7:00 to 11:00 and 12:00 to 3:00 to pick up your prints.
(Repeat) NaNoWriMo Celebration and Book Launch
Please come along to congratulate our newly-published authors at this year’s NaNoWriMo Celebration and Book Launch on Tuesday 26th May from 2:30 to 3:30pm in the ES Hub. You will have the opportunity to browse the diverse selection of new novels, mingle with the authors and celebrate with cake! All welcome.
(Repeat) Kindergarten Picture Book Sale
In Kindergarten, we have a tradition of holding a used picture book sale in June. This event allows the children to reuse books that they have finished reading and to raise money to benefit an important cause. This year, the proceeds of our sale will go to support both the Moonlight Foundation in Nepal and to help start a lending library for neighborhood children that is being organized by volunteers with the Soi Prasert Free English Class. The sale will be held on Thursday, June 4th. We are now collecting gently used picture books for the sale! Our students will be selling books to the Pre-K, Grade One, and Grade Two classes. If you have some used books that you think would be appreciated by this age group, please send them in sometime before the end of May. You can drop off books beginning next week in the large box in front of the Elementary School office or in boxes outside the doors of the Kindergarten classrooms. Thanks so much for your support!
(Repeat) HUB News
As we near the end of the school year, we would like to have all books back for inventory. On June 1, if you are a returning ISB family, you are more than welcome to come in and check out 10 books for the summer holidays.
Please note that no check out from Hub during Wednesday, May 27 – Friday, May 29.
Returning students – return books by May 27. Summer book check-out for returning students will start on May 29if account is cleared.
Leaving students – return books by May 29.
Grade 5 students will still check out books from the Elementary School HUB until start of 6th grade.
(Repeat) ES Music Share Starts on Friday
The ES Music Department is excited to host Music Shares during music classes from May 29-June 5. The Music Share is an opportunity for students to give a small performance for an informal audience of their peers, parents and teachers. You can find more information on the sign-up form here. Please return completed sign-ups to the music room.
(Repeat) Health Letter for Returning Students
The purpose of this communication is to inform you of updates to ISB’s Health Requirements which will require your action and to provide you with the health form for returning students in the 2015-16 school year.
As we look ahead to the next school year, we want to give families ample time to plan for health appointments and allow for the Health Clinic staff to perform any necessary follow up. In addition, we want to highlight some minor changes to the health form requirements for this year.
For the 2015-2016 school year, all returning students are required to have a complete physical examination that includes:
1) Overall health assessment
2) Hearing and vision screening
3) Cardiac evaluation with ECG – Required only for students entering Gr 6, 9, and 11
Annual physicals are an excellent opportunity to provide benchmarks regarding your child’s overall health and to create a picture of progress and development over time. This information enables early detection of emerging issues, a review of immunization status, and the opportunity to inform the school of any changes related to recent illness or injury. For the upcoming school year, a change has been made to limit the ECG requirement for only those students entering Grades 6, 9 and 11. This allows for an age-appropriate assessment of health while increasing efficiency in the administration of student health information. These changes were made in consultation with local pediatric health professionals and health resources in the ISB community.
Action required:
All returning students are required to complete and submit the Comprehensive Physical Examination Report Form by June 30, 2015. Please follow up with your local healthcare provider, a healthcare provider in your home country or take advantage of established ISB Student Packages at either World Medical Center or Bumrungrad International Hospital. When making the appointment, please indicate that the appointment is for the ISB Comprehensive Physical for an existing student. In addition, please bring the Comprehensive Physical Exam form and the student ID (if available) in order to receive the established package pricing. Price details are listed below.
Please submit the completed Comprehensive Physical Examination Report Form to the ISB Health Clinic in person or via email (nurse@isb.ac.th) by June 30, 2015.
ISB is committed to your child’s overall development, both educationally and health related. Should you have any questions regarding either ISB’s health requirements or the forms, please contact the Health Clinic, or the Health Consultant, Sonja Roback.
Sincerely,
Usa Somboon Sonja Roback
Headmistress Nurse Consultant
(Repeat) Summer School 2015 at ISB
Planning on being in Bangkok during June or July? Looking for something for your child(ren) to do? Then this is the year to join us for ISB’s exciting and enriching Summer School Program! Once again students in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12 will be learning in an environment that is nurturing, academically challenging, and socially engaging. ISB’s highly qualified teachers are inspired professionals dedicated to creating the best possible learning experiences. New ideas, new curriculum and new friends await each student.
We have a range of classes that are sure to meet every student’s needs. Registration is now open with an Early Bird special that expires on May 29. For more information on program dates, courses, costs, and registration process, please click here then open tabs located on the left side of the page under the heading of Summer School.
(Repeat) If You Know you are Leaving ISB
Families who are leaving ISB at the end of the school year are asked to inform the school as soon as possible using the official Notice of Withdrawal Form. This helps us prepare school records for your child and with planning for next year. Completed forms can be dropped off at the ES Office.
Calendar of Events
May/June 2015
| May 29-30 | After School Dance (ASD) Performances |
| Jun 1 | Visaka Bucha (Holiday for Classified Staff); School in Session |
| Jun 2 | 1:00 pm Early Dismissal |
| June 4-5 | ES ‘Out of School Uniform’ Day |
| Jun 5 | Lost and Found Display |
| First Friday with Andy 8:00 am | |
| Jun 8 | Gr. 5 ‘Moving On’ Celebration 8:00 am |
| Jun 10 | Report Card Released on PowerSchool |
| Last Day of School | |
| ES Final Assembly 9:00 am (Chevron) | |
| 11:30 Student Dismissal | |
| Jun 15 | Summer School Begins |
