ES e-News for December 13, 2019

Last Day of School—Early Dismissal Dec. 20, 2019 at 11:30
Just a reminder that on the last day of school students will be dismissed at 11:30 am.  Please make sure students are collected on time.

Festival of Lights 2019: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to All – 6:30pm Wednesday, December 18 Chevron Theater
On December 18th, join us for an evening of story, song and dance as our ES Panther Choir, Orff Ensemble and String Ensemble unite us with music and movement from various cultures. The concert will take place in Chevron Theatre at 6:30 p.m. and is free of charge!

Learning HUB News
Returning Books and Holiday Books Lists
Please help your child(ren) look through their bedrooms and bookshelves to find books that belong to ISB. Children regularly borrow books from the Learning HUB, classroom libraries and the Bookroom.  All these books have ISB stickers and/or Barcodes on the back covers. Let’s clean up for the holiday! 

Holiday Book Lists: Be sure to visit our HUB blog for recommended reading lists by grade level, hour of code ideas and some great online resources! library.isb.ac.th/hub

The ES HUB Team Wants you to READ Over the Winter Holiday!

Taking time to read with and to your child grade PK-5, will help them with learning and provide important family bonding time.  

Why not stop by, visit and read in the HUB over the holidays!  

 Opening times:
December 23, 24
January 2 -10

7:00-11:00 and 12:00pm-3:00pm

Due Dates:

Materials (Books) checked out over the break are due on the first day back in January:-)

Sock Hop Dance
The Girl Scouts of Thailand presents the Mother-Daughter Dance on January 18 from 5-8 pm in Multipurpose Building (MPB). The tickets will be sold at ISB-CAO office until January 15. The cost is 800 baht.

The upcoming International School Bangkok Novel Writing Challenge (ISBNWC)
Click here to learn more about the ES Novel Writing Challenge launch and sign up process.

(Repeat) Cafeteria News
In our efforts to continuously improve the food services at ISB, we have updated our procedures for reporting quality and safety issues in the cafeteria. For ES, if students have any concerns, please encourage them to report these to the teacher or instructional assistant on duty. For anything related to MS/HS please report to Michelle Ihrig or another Epicure staff member. You can also share your concerns with our Headmistress Khun Usa (usomboon@isb.ac.th) or the Director of Risk Management Mark Hevland (markh@isb.ac.th ). All reports will be recorded in our Logit incident reporting system so we can analyse data and track trends.

If you have any other questions please don’t hesitate to contact Marc de Vries (marcd@isb.ac.th) or Michelle Ihrig (cafeteria@isb.ac.th ). 

(Repeat) Gymnastics Winter Camp
ISB Panther Gymnastics Club is happy to host a gymnastics Winter Camp for all our Kindergarten to HS level gymnasts. The camp is a recreational camp to learn new skills and having fun by doing a lot of tumbling and games that use gymnastics movement. It is not a camp to prepare for a competition or focusing strictly on routines (it is still vacation :-).

Date: Monday 6 to Friday 10 of January 2020

Grade 1 & Up
Time: 9 am – 12 pm (3 hours)
Price: 750 THB per day, you can pick the number of days you want

Pre-K 2 – Kindergarten
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm (2 hours)
Price: 500 THB per day, you can pick the number of days you want

Registration:

• Please sign up your child HERE 
• Deadline to register and pay is 12 December, 3pm 
• Drop the envelope with the correct amount of money, marked with the gymnast’s name, in the marked box at the Community & Arts office.
• The camp is only open to all current members of the ISB Panther Gymnastics Club
• Once registration and payments have been made, refunds will be allowed for medical reasons only.

Best Regards,
Torill Haga Olufsen
ISB Gymnastics Coordinator
Mobile and WhatsApp: 06 171 56 800
Email: cao.gymnastics@isb.ac.th
www.facebook.com/isbpanthergymnastics

(Repeat) Leaving ISB at the End of the First Semester?
Parents of students who are not returning to ISB after Semester 1 need to notify the ES Office, K. Ann (naiyanar@isb.ac.th) as soon as possible and fill out the Notice of Withdrawal from ISB Form to enable us to process school records for their next school.  Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

(Repeat) After School Supervision
Any elementary school student on campus outside of regular school hours, who is not participating in a school-sponsored event, must be actively supervised by an adult in charge, appointed by the family. This includes being in the elementary Learning Hub (library).

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.
naiyanar@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
December/January  2019