Oct. 19-23 October Holiday Week – No School
Enjoy the holiday! Have a lovely time with family and friends, traveling or taking things a little more slowly. Classes resume on Monday, October 26. It will be a ‘C’ Day.
Board of Trustees Live Stream – Oct. 27th @ 6PM
The October 27th Board of Trustees meeting will stream live starting at 6PM. In order to view the session, you need to register via this link. Please find the meeting agenda here.
Raising Multilinguals: Unlocking the World with a Family Language Plan
On Wednesday, October 28, 2020, from 7:45-9:15 a.m., ISB faculty and administrators will offer a workshop for parents from all divisions (ES, MS, HS) about maintaining students’ native languages while they also study in English at ISB.
At this workshop, faculty and administrators will:
- Present reasons to maintain native language, based on research
- Describe language classes and resources available at ISB
- Discuss the importance of making a family language plan
Please join us! Parents of students in PreK through Grade 12 are welcome. In order to ensure that we have enough space to comply with the current physical distancing guidelines, please sign up here if you plan to attend. We will confirm the location prior to the event. For further information, please email: nativelanguage@isb.ac.th
Weekly Message from Dr. Michael Allen
During our monthly PTA Coordinators and ES Principals meeting on Tuesday, October 13 we had an opportunity to review the feedback and questions we gathered from you during our September 3 and October 8 ES Parent Engage sessions. As a result of your feedback, we mapped out the ES Parent Engage sessions for the 2020-21 school year in the hopes that these sessions will strengthen our home-school partnership. Please save the dates and join us for these 90-minute Thursday morning sessions @ 7:45AM!
Nov. 5 – Guiding Students Behavior, Discipline, Peer Conflict & Bullying
Jan. 21 – Growing Readers – Selecting Just Right Books, Reading Progressions and Skills
Feb. 4 – Growing Mathematicians – Math Foundational Skills and Skill Progression to High Level Mathematics
Mar. 4 – Growing Innovators – Design, Technology and Engineering Skills in the ES
May 13 – Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Also note that we’ve finalized the 2020-21 ISB ES Virtual School Community Handbook and will host a webinar to review our virtual school plans with you and address your questions soon after the handbook is published. We continue to be hopeful that a return to virtual school will NOT be necessary, however we’re ready and prepared to do so if necessary!
On behalf of all of us in the elementary school, we wish all of our students and families a safe October break…we look forward to welcoming students back to campus on October 26th!
Your partner in education,
Michael Allen
michaela@isb.ac.th
Intercultural Week Poster Design Submissions Due October 26
Calling all artists!
We would like to call upon our talented ISB artists again to create a new Intercultural Week poster.
This is open to any Elementary School ISB artist. Students who are interested in working on an Intercultural Day poster will need to find their own time to work on their piece. All artwork needs to be original and connect with our theme, which is: Our Cultures, Our Stories. Posters with both of the phrases “Intercultural Week” and “Our Cultures, Our Stories” are highly encouraged. The logo must fit on an A4 piece of paper.
Students can get a piece of drawing paper cut to this size from their classroom teacher or from the ES Office. All artwork needs to be submitted to the ES Office by Monday, October 26th by 2pm. Please make sure that the artist’s name, grade, and class has been clearly written on the back.
A group of faculty members and staff will choose one poster for this year. We will celebrate all artwork that is submitted on a bulletin board for Intercultural Week in November.
If you have any questions, please email Brittany Rivera (brittanyr@isb.ac.th). Thank you!
Early Dismissal – Tuesday, October 27, 2020
All ISB students will be dismissed at 1:10pm on Tuesday, October 27, 2020. On Early Release Days, school buses will leave ISB at 1:25 pm. Early Release Days allow faculty members and administrators to collaborate and further their professional development. On Tuesday October 27, all faculty members will be meeting in PK-12 subject area groups as part of our practice to ensure our students experience a cohesive and aligned educational program as they progress through the grade levels at ISB.
Panther ES Explore Updates (ES After School Activities)
We are half way through our ES Explore Program.
All of ES Explore classes have already hosted their 4th session.
Please note that there will be no ES Explore in session during October break. All ES Explore classes will resume on Monday, October 26th.
Livnat Ziskinder
ES Explore Coordinator
esactivities@isb.ac.th
Choral Union: ISB’s Community Chorus
Choral Union, ISB’s Community Chorus, is committed to musical excellence and expression where every singer is an integral part of the group. We provide a challenging and supportive choir perfect for those who love to sing and who have a desire to advance their musical skills! We rehearse on Monday evenings, starting October 26, from 7:00-8:30 pm in the Choir room, Floor 1 of the CC building at ISB with a concert scheduled on Wednesday, December 9th. Read more in the CATALOG, and sign up HERE.
| Days: | Mondays |
| Dates: | Oct 26, Nov 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Dec 9, 14 |
| Time: | 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM |
| Locations: | ISB, Room CC 8-140 |
| Cost: | 4000฿ |
Panther News
Panther Activities Camps – October Break:
Panther Basketball, Panther Gymnastics, Panther Soccer, and Panther Volleyball
Panther Dance is still taking participants!!!
Interested? Contact PantherDance@isb.ac.th
ES Cafeteria Menu
Please find the ES Cafeteria menu for next week linked here. Here is the menu for Kindergarten and here is the menu for Pre-Kindergarten.
(Repeat) Elementary School Intercultural Week 2020 – November 9-13
A Note From Your PTA Coordinators
We are so excited to be having week long celebrations during Intercultural Week from November 9-13 this year! In response to our campus health and safety guidelines, rather than having students participate in the cultural room rotation on the same day, we will be planning them across the week.
If you are interested in hosting a culture room for any grade level, please email us at pta-es@isb.ac.th. We will do our best to accommodate your preferred day and grade level.
Monday, November 9 is reserved for the Assemblies. Cultural room rotations will take place between November 10 and 13 (Tuesday to Friday). There will only be one culture room per grade level which will be visited by the classes of the same grade. As our host country, Thailand will be hosting their cultural rooms on Friday, November 13 across each of the grade levels. Communities are welcome to sign up for a grade level on either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday of the week.
The theme this year is Our Cultures, Our Stories. We encourage you to plan your activities and room set-up with this theme in mind. Please consider activities around storytelling and the role of stories in defining your culture and bringing communities together. The PTA coordinators are happy to help you with ideas and putting your plan together.
We will be sharing more information at our ES Engage sessions. In the meantime, please email us with a preferred day and grade level for your culture room.
Email: pta-es@isb.ac.th
(Repeat) Season Two ISB Athletics Registrations
Season Two registration is now open on CHQ for U11 Soccer programs (grade 3-5). Parents are asked to sign up their child through CHQ. The first practice starts on Monday 9 November.
For instructions on how to sign up using CHQ please use the following link – REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS CHQ,
(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). Note that school-sponsored events include ES Explore, Panther Activities and other activities offered on campus by outside providers.
(Repeat) PARENT ACTION REQUIRED: Student Tracking of Student After School and Weekend Locations
All ES parents are required to login to Powerschool and update their journal for the week, listing locations visited outside school hours. All schools in Thailand are required by the Ministry of Education to have their students/parents keep and complete a daily journal of their whereabouts after school hours. Only 60 families have completed the needed ES PowerSchool form. ES secretaries will need to contact individual families who don’t complete the PowerSchool form, therefore we ask for your support in completing this important Covid-19 safety task each Sunday.
Logging into Powerschool, you will see a notification to update the Journal:
Each Sunday, complete the journal for the preceding week for each ES child. If you are having trouble accessing Powerschool or are unable to see your students in Powerschool, email ES Powerschool Secretary, Khun Tom <cholthis@isb.ac.th>
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.
Calendar of Events
October/November 2020
| Oct.19-22 | October Break (NO School) |
| Oct. 23 | Chulalongkorn Day (Holiday for Classified Staff) |
| Oct. 27 | 1:10 pm Early Release |
| Board of Trustees Meeting 6:00 pm | |
| Oct. 28 | Raising Multilinguals Workshop 7:45 am |
| Nov. 5 | ES Parent Engage 7:45 am |
| Nov. 6 | Report Card Online 8:00 am |