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What I am excited about this week…
1. New Leopard’s Tale Format! This week we will be piloting our new Leopard’s Tale format. The new format is based on a significant amount of feedback we have received over the last year, including the results of our survey about the Leopard’s Tale. The new format will be sent separately and will open directly into your email and should be easily readable on any device. As we fine tune the new format, we will continue to issue the Leopard’s Tale in this format this week and next. We hope you enjoy the Leopards Tale’s new look. Speaking of new looks, don’t forget to check out our new website at www.aislusaka.org. 2. ISAZ U19 National Soccer Champions! Congratulations to our U19 Girls Soccer team who won the national championship last weekend and to our U19 Boys who won second place! We currently hold five ISAZ U19 national titles (out of the six we pursued): Girls and Boys Basketball, Girls and Boys Volleyball, and now Girls Soccer – with a silver medal for Boys Soccer. Wow! GO LEOPARDS! 3. ISAZ U12 Midlands Soccer Champions! Congratulations to our U12 Boys who won the Midlands Championship last weekend and to our U12 Girls who took 5th place. 4. ZASU National Swimming Championships! Last weekend, AISL was honored to host the Zambian Swimming Union Championships at our upper pool. This three-day event included 245 swimmers from across Zambia. Many of our AISL swimmers put in superb performances with numerous personal bests and national records. 5. More soccer this weekend! This weekend our U16 Boys and Girls team will be in the finals at Baobab and our U10 Boys will be in the finals at ISL. Please come out and support our teams. 6. MYP Play – Agatha Rex! Don’t miss this year’s MYP Play: Agatha Rex. It is a new take on Sophocles’ Antigone set in a modern high school! Show times are at 19:00 on March 30 and 31 and 15:00 on April 1. Tickets are K50 and are available at the door. Please come celebrate our talented scholar-actors and all the hard work they have put into this producti Vitamin C is best known for strengthening the immune system. This potent antioxidant also has many other important roles that control significant aspects of our health. Vitamin C helps detoxify our bodies, protects and promotes healing of all of our cells, and helps us deal with both mental and physical stress. It also supports healthy bacteria in our gut, neutralizes free radicals, is anti viral and anti bacterial, prevents and kills cancer cells, and so much more. Most people, especially children, would benefit from more vitamin C. Natural vitamin C complexes from wholefoods are more potent than store-bought vitamin C tablets. Yellow and red peppers, guavas, dark green leafy vegetables like kale, kiwi (especially with skin), broccoli, strawberries, and watermelon all have more vitamin C than a citrus fruit without the peel. Rosehip, parsley, cilantro, and coriander are also very potent vitamin C suppliers. The best vitamin C is the vitamin C that comes as food. It's not about how many milligrams of vitamin C you take; it's how much vitamin C your body assimilates. Citrus peels are very high in vitamin C; 100 g of citrus-peel provides around 130 mg of vitamin C. The fruit of an orange provides just 71 mg per 100 g of fruit. Citrus peels also benefit due to enzymes, phytonutrients, and important nutrition we don't even know about yet. Any organic orange, lime, or lemon peels left over from the fruit you buy will do the trick. Save all of your peels after you eat the inside of the fruit, and then cut the peels into thin strips. Place them on a plate on your dining room table and let them dry at room temperature for a couple of days until they are dry and crisp. You can also dehydrate the peels with a food dehydrator and then store them for up to a year in a dry container. For consumption, you can break up peels into smaller pieces and mix them with your favorite tea. This makes the tea taste great, but the downside to this approach is that heat destroys the enzymes. A better option is to place the peel strips into your blender or some sort of grinder and grind them into a powder (which won't hurt the enzymes). Throw the powder into your smoothie or fresh juices. One rounded teaspoon will supply you with more organic vitamin C complex, rutin, hesperidin, and bioflavonoids than your body needs for the day, regardless of your size. Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/047212_vitamin_C_oranges_homemade_supplements.html#ixzz3Fzvt57pp From Nurse Jennifer
Continuing in the spirit of Greek Theatre, the AISL Department of Drama will present the MYP production, Agatha Rex by Lindsay Price. Agatha Rex is a modern day reimagining of the classic greek tale, Antigone by Sophocles. Set in modern day Thebes High, instead of the ancient city of Thebes, Agatha is a model student who is forced to make a choice when confronted with injustice. Thebes High is run by the strict and conservative Dr. Creon whose inequitable punishments place the students in a difficult situation. Agatha is loyal to her family and loyal to her school, but when the stakes become high she cannot turn away. Featuring students in grade 6-10 onstage and in the booth, this promises to be a fast paced and lively show. Tickets are 50 kwacha and available at the door. Well done to the U12 teams, Boys brought the trophy home and Girls came in 5th. Also congratulations to the U19 Boys who came in 2nd at the Nationals and Girls who came 1st. Well done to all our Leopards!
This weekend is another round of finals , Our U16 Boys and Girls Teams will be battling it out on the pitch at Baobab for the trophy. Our U10 boys will also be playing in the Final Tournament at ISL this Saturday as well! Thank you to all the parents that have come out to support our teams! We hope to see you this weekend as well! Student led-Conferences (SLCs) will take place on Wednesday 5 April and Thursday 6 April in the Primary School classrooms from Preschool to Grade 5. While the Listening Conferences in September were parent-directed and the Parent-Teacher conferences in October were teacher directed, the Student-Led Conferences offer students the opportunity to take the lead in sharing their progress in learning. Although we have already had many important conversations during this school year—in addition to work shares after units of inquiry; assessed work; report cards; and informal conferences—this is the opportunity for us to celebrate each student’s success and review goals for the remainder of the academic year. KG-Grade 5 teachers will meet briefly with each student and their family as part of three-way conversation around learning goals. Your active participation and involvement in the student-led conference is vital to your child’s success during this learning experience. As a parent, your first and most important role is as a listener. Your second role is to talk with your child about the work that s/he is presenting.
In this ½-day format, all students will attend regular classes until 12:00 on the 5th and the 6th, and will be released at noon. Please allow your child to ride the bus home as usual or pick up your child at 12:00. Please supervise your child until your scheduled conference time. The canteen will be open and the playgrounds will be available. However, we will not provide lunch/playground supervision between 12:15 and 13:00. There will be no After School Activities on April 5th and 6th. ALL Primary Students must accompany parents to the conference! Siblings of Primary students should NOT accompany students and parents to the conference. Teaching Assistants will provide supervision on the ELC playground and the Primary playground from 13:00 to 17:00. Upper primary students with ELC siblings should play in the Primary playground area, and NOT on the ELC playground. Leverne Hinze, our Primary Assistant, has recently sent an email for all Primary parents regarding the sign-up process. Please reply directly to her with your preferred conference times and she will aim to coordinate the various times for families with more than one child in the school. If you have not received the email, please contact her directly at lhinze@aislusaka.org and she will be happy to support you through the sign-up process as well as answer any questions you may have. As promised, we wanted to share the presentation from our Primary parent information session on executive functioning skills facilitated by Maya Monteroso and Iole Pizzola at the end of February. Thank you to all of you who were able to attend. For those of you who were not able to be there, the presentation below shares the content that was covered. ELC (preschool and pre-kindergarten) will have their performing arts assembly this coming Wednesday, 29 March at 7h45 in the Performing Arts Center. This is a wonderful opportunity for our youngest students to share their creative talents through some of the work they have done with Ms. Natalie over the semester. We look forward to seeing our preschool and pre-kindergarten parents next Wednesday morning. |
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