ES e-News for March 27, 2020

We hope your family is doing well and that Virtual School is becoming more comfortable as routines are setting in.  We have made some improvements to ES Virtual School based on parent, student, and teacher feedback. Linked here is yesterday’s eNews for your reference.  

Below is an image to help families support their children with Virtual School.  We hope that as you monitor your child’s online learning, you get a sense of their levels of engagement and wellbeing.  If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to your child’s homeroom teacher or counselor. 

Additionally, here is another good resource for families from Common Sense Media

Yearbook Photos
As usual, our yearbook will be full of a variety of photos including students involved in a variety of learning activities. Some of these will be students participating in Virtual School.  If you would rather not have your child’s photo be included in this, please send an email to Khun Ann at naiyanar@isb.ac.th 

Panther Activities

Dear Panther Activities Students and Parents,

We miss your kids and hope that they are healthy and staying active and engaged during ISB’s campus closure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Once open again, it is our hope that make-up lessons and classes will be offered alongside regular sessions until the end of the school year. In the meantime, some teachers, following the ISB Digital Learning Safeguarding Guidelines may be offering virtual sessions starting next week, for those who are interested. While this is not the same as being together, it is our hope that the opportunity to continue learning for your child, and the connection with coaches and other kids, albeit online, would be of value.

Many of you have inquired about activity refunds which we are examining on a pro-rata basis for classes we are not able to make-up. We will be in touch the week of April 20-26 with details once more is known about the length of the school closure. 

Regards,
Anthony Giles and Lucas Rivera
Panther Activities
Providing active, creative, diverse and collaborative opportunities for all students.

(Repeat) Seesaw Home Learning Codes
Seesaw has released home learning codes to support students with Virtual School. Home learning codes allow students to sign in to Seesaw, view their journal, add posts, complete activities they’ve been assigned, and receive class announcements from their teachers. Students do not see the work of other students in their class. If a student is a member of more than one class on Seesaw, such as a Homeroom class and a World Languages class, these will now be linked and accessible.

Look out for an email from ISB in the next day or two with your child’s home learning code. It will be a 12 letter code and it is different for each student. The following screencasts will provide you with directions on how to sign in using the home learning codes:

Using the Seesaw website on the Internet
For tablet devices (iPads and iPhones)

Please note:

  • If students are already signed in to Seesaw, they will need to sign out and then sign in again using the home learning code.
  • If students already have the Seesaw Class app on a tablet device, they may need to update the app for home learning codes to work. Instructions on how to do this are linked here.

We hope you find these home learning codes helpful in supporting your child to easily access their learning on Seesaw.

(Repeat) Update on ISB Summer School 2020 
Understandably, there are many uncertainties ahead due to the COVID-19 coronavirus incidents around the world. We are presently planning as regular for our ISB Summer School 2020 which will run from Monday, june 15th to Friday, July 10th. You can go to the ISB website to access all information about dates, programs, and fees, and to submit a registration form online. 

We encourage people to plan ahead and register. Please note that with the uncertainties around the world right now with the COVID-19 coronavirus, there will be no cancellation fees applied for people who register and then cancel by May 15th. This date will be reviewed as we get closer to it. Our EarlyBird prices for tuition are still available until Friday, April 24th.

For ES students, we have 3 new Special Enrichment Camps available this year in addition to camps from other years!

ES Art Camp (1 week) June 15 – 19 for students entering Grade 3 – 6 in August.

ES Reading/Writing/Performance Workshop: Fairy Tales, Folktales and Legends (1 week) June 15 – 19 or June 22 – 26 for students entering Grade 3 – 5 in August.

ISB Panther Swim Camp; Experience the “Panther Way” (1 week) June 15 – 19 for students entering Grade 2 – 12 in August.

For any questions, please email sumdir@isb.ac.th

Best Regards,
Mr. Maurilio Baron-Toaldo
Summer School Director

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.

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