Parent Conferences
‘Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers,
motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.’
We hope you enjoyed meeting with teachers during the last few days. Both teachers and parents have expressed how conversations have helped nurture learning partnerships and set goals for the year ahead. We look forward to continuing this year’s learning journey with your child in the weeks and months ahead and thank you for your involvement in the process – we know from research that it makes a significant difference!
Kelly, Sarah, and Keith
ES PTA Meeting – Thursday October 13th at 9:00 am
International Day will be held on Friday, November 18, 2016. We have had lots of amazing parent volunteers sign up to host a country room, but we still need more! Please if you are volunteering or want to volunteer to help that day, come to our next ES PTA Meeting on October 13th at 9 am in the ESMPR. The main purpose of this meeting is to discuss International Day! Remember if you are not volunteering to help that day, you are not allowed to stay in the Elementary School after the assembly. Don’t miss your opportunity to be a part of this wonderful day! Please come to the meeting on October 13th, but if you cannot attend, send us an email atescoord@isb.ac.th
We look forward to seeing you! Abbie Boudreaux and Katie Edsall, PTA ES Representatives
International Day – Friday, November 18
International Day is a ‘hands-on’ learning day to celebrate ISB’s rich intercultural diversity. Many of our ES classrooms are ‘transformed’ by parents into country themed rooms so that our students can celebrate different cultures, food, dress, language, music, and geography throughout the day.
A few details for parents:
- Students are welcome to dress representing their home country to school on International Day!
- Students are invited to wear country t-shirts instead of their uniform or P.E. uniform in the week leading up to International Day.
- International Day begins with an Assembly. Parents are welcome to join the Assembly, as we are gathering in Rajendra Hall. Parents will need to be seated by 7:45AM SHARP – so that the Assembly can begin on time.
ES ‘Out of Uniform’ Day – October 13 and 14
These two days are ‘Out of Uniform’ days in the Elementary School. On PE days, students need to wear their PE uniforms. On their non PE day, students may choose to not wear their ISB uniform.
Appropriate dress guidelines for our ‘Out of Uniform’ days are:
- Pants/slacks/shorts—good condition
- Shirts/blouses—sleeves & midriff required, appropriate logos only
- Skirts/dresses/jumpers—sleeves required, modest length
- Shoes—sneakers, street shoes or leather sandals with back strap
- Hats must be worn all the time when playing outside during recess or during PE classes.
Head Lice
Over the last few weeks we have had several students with head lice in the elementary school. Head lice are a small parasitic insects that live on the human head. They do not spread any disease but they can spread between people. Lice are NOT associated with having “dirty” hair.
To help limit spread of lice in the elementary school we are asking all parents to check their children for head lice weekly for the next 4 weeks and to treat if any lice are found (and please notify the school if you find any lice by email (nurse@isb.ac.th)). We are asking you to check weekly due to the fact that your child may only have a few lice initially and these may be missed on the original check.
How to check for Head Lice:
This will take 3-5 minutes to check your child’s head, depending on hair length and thickness.
- Untangle the dry hair using an ordinary brush and comb.
- Once the comb moves freely through the hair without dragging, switch to a detection comb (a fine tooth comb available at pharmacies).
- Starting from the base or the side of the scalp, comb the hair from the scalp down to the end of the hair. Comb each section of hair 3-4 times before moving to an adjacent section.
- Look for lice as the comb is drawn through the hair. The lice are brown and mobile. Adult lice are about the size of a sesame seed.
- If a possible louse is seen, trap it against the face of the comb using your thumb. This avoids the risk of the louse being repelled by static electricity as the comb is pulled out of the hair.
- Continue combing the hair section by section until the whole head of hair is combed through.
- At the same time look for nits (eggs) which are small and white-yellow and they are attached to the hair close to the scalp (viable nits are within 1 cm of scalp). They do not move and are difficult to remove.
For further information please look at this link (Checking for Head Lice). If Head Lice are detected please contact the Health Clinic (nurse@isb.ac.th) and information about head lice and treatment will be provided.
How to prevent head lice:
- Avoid head to head contact
- Do not share combs, brushes, hair accessories, towels and hats
- Long hair should be tied up or braided
- Spraying hair with diluted tea tree oil or put some tea tree oil in the conditioner
Thank you for your co-operation.
ISB Health Clinic
NaNoWriMo and Parent Workshop
If your child is participating in NaNoWriMo this year, please consider coming along to our ‘NaNoWriMo for Parents Workshop’ in the ES MPR on 20th October from 7:45 to 8:45am. This will be an opportunity to ask questions, familiarise yourself with the NaNoWriMo experience, and learn how to best support your child at home throughout this project. For more information, click here.
ES Explore (ES After School Activities)
Most of ES Explore classes have already hosted their 4th session so there are no longer any changes permitted.
I am in the office daily from 2:00pm – 4:00pm if you have any questions or concerns.
Livnat Ziskinder
ES Explore Coordinator
esactivities@isb.ac.th
(Repeat) ES Parent Education Workshop – Raising Multilinguals
Thursday, October 13th, 7.45am – 9:00am, ES MPR. ES EAL teachers and Paul Dufficy, Mother Tongue Coordinator, will host a workshop for all parents of multilingual children. This workshop will guide parents on how to best support their children’s language development now and in the future. We’ll look at strategies, share ideas, and consider how to make a language plan. Join us! There will be an ES PTA Meeting that follows at 9:00am.
(Repeat) MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) and ISA (International Schools’ Assessment) Parent Meeting
On Thursday, 13th October from 1:30 – 2:15 there will be a short presentation on in MPB 2/3. If you would like to learn more about these standardized assessments, please come along. ISA is administered to students in grades 3, 5, 7 and 10 and MAP to students in grades 3-8. Please note, this is a general information session. Students’ Individual assessment results should be discussed with the child’s teacher or counselor.
(Repeat) Bangkok International Choir Festival (BICF)
THE 22nd ANNUAL BANGKOK INTERNATIONAL CHOIR FESTIVAL (BICF) will be held Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8, 2016 and will feature ISB’s HS and MS choirs along with twelve other visiting choirs from as far away as Jakarta, Indonesia. Unique to this year’s festival will be the the addition of special guest group, the award winning Male Ensemble Northwest (listen here), or M.E.N.as they are called. Join us for theM.E.N. Feature Concert*(200THB) on Friday, October 7 at 6:00pm in the Chevron Theatre and the BICF Gala Concert (FREE) featuring the 400 student MS and HS Massed Choir on Saturday, September 8 at 2:00 also in the Chevron Theatre.
*BICF participants will be given tickets for the Friday night M.E.N. Concert as part of their involvement with festival. Starting Wednesday, September 28 a limited number of tickets for the general public will be available for purchase at the MS/HS lunches in the ISB cafeteria, or by contacting Ms. Coleen Mann at coleenp@isb.ac.th.
(Repeat) After School Supervision
Please ensure you know where your child is each afternoon and that maids and nannies understand the ISB policy around supervision after school. ES students MAY NOT be on campus after school unless supervised by an adult in charge, appointed by the family. Thank you for your cooperation.
eNews Guidelines
Shelley Bragg
shelleyb@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 (ES) announcements of interest to ES families.
phremjiz@isb.ac.th is for Middle School (MS) 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 Director of Marketing and Communications 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.
Calendar of Events
October 2016
| Oct. 12 | Dr. Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa Parent Session ‘How to Support your Child in 21st Century Education’ 1:00pm-2:00 pm (MPB) |
| Oct. 13 | ES Parent Education Workshop (Raising Multi-linguals) 7:45 am (ES MPR) |
| ES PTA Meeting 9:00 am (ES MPR) | |
| MAP & ISA Parent Meeting ( ISA Grades 3, 5, 7 and 10 and MAP Grades 3-8) 1:30 pm (MPB 2 & 3) | |
| ‘Mother Tongue Education’ Parent Session by Dr. Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa 1:15 pm (MPB) | |
| Oct. 13-14 | ES ‘Out of School Uniform’ Day |
| Oct. 17-21 | NaNoWriMo Signup (Gr. 3-5 students) in the ES Hub |
| Oct. 18 | Board of Trustees (BoT) Meeting 6:00 pm (MPB 3) |
| Oct. 20 | NaNoWriMo Parent Workshop 7:45 am (ES MPR) |
| Gr. 4 Overnight Field Trip Parent Info Evening 6:30 pm (MPB 1) |
