School as usual on December 11th
Please note that this coming Monday, December 11th is a regular school day. While many businesses have the day off for Thai Constitution Day, ISB will be open as usual. It will be a Day 3 for MS students.
Semester 1 Learning Feedback
by Dennis Harter
dennish@isb.ac.th
As the semester comes to a close, teachers will be capturing students Attainment of Learning Goals and their Habits and Attitudes for Learning on Semester 1 report cards. These report cards will be available in the week following the last day of school, through PowerSchool access. Parents will have to enter the password provided to open the PDF documents linked.
Report cards will all contain a comment from your child’s Advisory teacher. Other classes do not include narrative comments as we have made a shift to provide formative learning feedback in November through PowerSchool. By providing the comments earlier in the semester, students have opportunity to use the feedback to improve. In the past, we found that report card comments often offered advice that by virtue of timing arrived too late to do anything about.
Love and Logic Parenting Book Discussion Group
ES Counselors, Ellen Thomas and Kate Kersey will host a book discussion group around the “Love and Logic” Parenting Book on Monday Mornings, Jan 15-Feb 12, 2018.
If you want to raise kids who are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the real world, take advantage of the Love & Logic win-win approach to parenting. Your kids will win because they’ll learn responsibility and the logic of life by solving their own problems. You’ll win because you’ll establish healthy control—without resorting to anger, threats, nagging, or exhausting power struggles! We will meet once a week for 5 weeks, starting Jan 15, and the discussion group will end on Feb 12.
The group is limited to 50 parents on a first-come first-serve basis. The discussions will be held on Monday mornings from 8:00 – 9:30 a.m. in the ES MPR. Click this link to register. Parents from all divisions, (Pre-K through grade 12) are welcome!
MS Olympics are Coming!
This Thursday, December 14th, the Middle School PE department runs our Annual MS Olympics, this year “hosted by” Japan. Opening Ceremonies begin at 7:20 AM in Rajendra Hall, featuring performances by and celebrations of our Japanese community, and continue on the main field with the running of the Torch and lighting of the MS Olympic Flame.
Throughout the day students will participate in games and events as parts of the Red, Green, Blue or Yellow teams. The games include cultural games from Japan, fun field games, and more traditional Track and Field events. We end the day with team Tug-o-War competitions.
It’s a wonderful day and families are invited to come out and watch the fun unfold.
ISB Middle School’s Got Talent
On Monday and Tuesday of next week, MS students will be showcasing their talents with performances for their fellow classmates. We are excited to see these students (and their talents) showcased.
That said, we also recognize that ALL people have talents of some kind, even if they aren’t the kind that they can or want to share on stage. For this reason, around the middle school, we have MS Got Talent boards on which students have shared their own talents and passions. If you are on campus next week, have a walk around (a few are outside the MS Office) and read about our awesome students!
Music For All, MS Band Concert
Dear all,
A huge thank you for those that attended the MS Band Concert on Wednesday night. The night was full of incredible music and showed the growth from year to year with Beginning, Concert and Symphonic Bands performing.
Many of you were able to donate money to the “Music For All” group that was started by MS band students. The group raised a staggering amount of 105,000 baht in one night. All proceeds will go towards helping the children who live at the House of Blessing orphanage. This is a home set up to support children whose parents are in prison and jail. With tuition costing 5,000 baht per year, the money collected at the band concert will be able to sponsor an incredible amount of students.
Thanks to all performers, audience members, student organizers and those that donated.
Happy Holidays everyone!
Booking An Appointment With Google Calendar
By Michael Boll
MS Learning and Technology Coach
Need to book an appointment? See here to learn how: http://goo.gl/Oxq6fo
Want to Improve Road Safety Near ISB?
By Katie Edsall
Parent Traffic Wardens Needed:
Many parents in Nichada have become frustrated with lack of safety on the Nichada roads. Many children are commuting to school on bicycles or on foot, and are in harm’s way, despite the existence of bicycle lanes and crosswalks. Drivers of cars and golf carts are failing to drive at a safe speed, are passing dangerously, are failing to give right of way at the front roundabout, and are parking in bicycle lanes. ISB administration is working with Nichada on a variety of solutions to educate our community and enforce safety rules.
While the ISB guards work hard at managing the school crosswalks and entrances, they need our support. We are organizing parents to volunteer alongside the ISB guards and help make our school zones safer. This will require a team of parents who care enough about this issue to make a difference. Parent volunteers will be involved in assisting students at crosswalks, reminding offending drivers about the school zone rules, and reporting offenders to administration when they continue to break safety rules.
There is much talk about wanting greater safety in our community. Please volunteer your time to make ISB and it’s surrounding roads the safe environment we all want for our kids.
Katie Edsall – escoord@isb.ac.th