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On Friday, 8 June, we said good-bye to our 'leaving leopards' in Primary at our final PALS of the year. Though it is a sad time for students and teachers as they say good-bye to their close friends, in the international world, we always hope that it will be a "see you soon" in a new destination. To all of our AISL students, families, and teachers moving on to your new 'chapter', please remember us and know that you have all left your footprint here at AISL. We are glad to have known you!
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Primary Math Olympiads celebrated their successes during the PALS assembly on Friday, 8 June. Congratulations to all the students who participated. Particular commendations go to the following students who scored in the top percentiles for Math Olympiad students across the world who participated: Rhona Harrison (top 50%), Alex Pollock, Adam Munro, Dylan Chapman, Jack Ockenden, Sam Monticello, Devon McDonald and Justice Agolory (top 40%), Kitty Zheng and Jamie Van Der Meij (top 30%), Nathan Wilson (top 25%), Noel Neville (top 10%), and Olle Rehnquist (top 2%). Well done!
Jill Canillas Daley, our PYP Librarian, has coordinated Mystery Skype sessions with the International Community School of Addis Abba in Ethiopia. Most recently, she connected Ms Emma's Grade 2 class with another Grade 2 class to complete a Mystery Number conversation. Previously, Jill also connected with Kindergarten and Grade 5 to discuss our different schools and have a mystery Skype conversation. During the Mystery Skype, students try to find out where the other school is by asking only yes or no questions similar to a 20 questions format. Each team takes a turn trying to find the other school with the use of maps, atlases, Google Maps, Google Earth, etc. Ms. Jill plans to connect more frequently next year on a variety of topics. Main Office
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What I am excited about this week…
As the school year winds down, please take a moment to thank someone on our staff for their effort – and encourage your children to do the same. The AISL team works very hard all year to provide great opportunities for our students. Teachers work long hours and grading, coaching, or chaperoning duties on evenings and weekends are the norm rather than the exceptions. Overnight trips bring with them the burden of extremely high levels of responsibility and accountability, 24/7. Teaching assistants work hard to support students and to ensure that classes run smoothly. Furthermore, the administrative staff works hard to remove obstacles and pave the way so teachers and TA’s can do what they do best. In the background, our support staff work diligently to ensure that our campus is clean and attractive and our bus drivers take great care to ensure that our children are delivered safely to their destinations. Like any school, AISL is a complex organization. It requires a large team of dedicated individuals to keep it running smoothly. Please take a moment sometime in the remaining days to thank at least one member of our hard-working staff in person or in writing.
And while I am at it, let me thank YOU, the AISL parent community. I have been truly grateful for the trust and support you have shown us this year. Educating children is a team effort and I am thrilled that we are working together to nurture and support our students as they strive to meet their potential. Thank you! Thank you to all our community members for your terrific support in returning all library materials so we could conduct our annual inventory and generate a list of items to be replaced / billed. It helps us to ensure that our collection is in good shape! This is particularly important as more than 90% of our inventory comes in only once a year in the big annual shipment.
Please come in to check out a bunch of holiday reads as long as you are returning and have cleared your record from this year. Each patron (regardless of age) may check out 10 items. These items are due on the first day of school: 8 August. Beginning next school year, all holiday items must be returned before patrons may resume checkouts for the academic year. Thank you for a wonderful year, everyone! If you've passed through the library this past week, you've probably wondered what is going on with all the book shuffling & shelf moves and other changes. Here's a peek at what we've been up to:
New computer station area in primary: This will be used for a variety of purposes, including Mind Craft gaming for upper primary and middle school students. Students will have supervision and boundaries with the use of this area. New tinker table in primary: This is a great way for students to inquire, explore, and engage in hands-on learning by taking apart every day objects and more! They are already using it and loving it! New sections in primary: Miss Jill has created specific sections for holiday picture books, fractured fairy tales (funny re-tellings of classic fairy tales), and a dedicated area for "SuperSeries"- books that are fantastic for children who are looking for more of a read than beginner chapter books, but who aren't quite ready for junior fiction. Come check it out! New sections in secondary: The DVDs, which are gradually going the way of Blockbuster Video and Redbox, are being shifted to the departments that use them for easier access during units of study. The DVDs were taking up a lot of "prime realty" right by the coffee bar. That space will now be used for some new genrified sections: real-life survival and adventure stories, high-interest non-fiction, wellness, teen sexuality, and high-interest biographies. You'll also notice a new shelf on the walkway with "Regional Reads" & regional travel books. Our hope is that our patrons can find what they want more easily this way. New fort for secondary students: Secondary students helped design a new "fort" for the back, left-hand corner of the secondary library. This will be built over the first part of the break. It will have a lower and upper level that will give them a fantastic space to enjoy reading. A Spruced Up Coffee Bar: Our "bundu" coffee bar will get a face lift! We have some simple but inspired design plans to make it more inviting for all. You'll see the changes when you come in after the break. Huge thanks to Primary IT Teacher Mr. Frank Louw for helping to create the plans for the redesign. A semi-enclosed quiet study space: Though our overall space makes it tricky for real quiet space (our new facility will have several glassed in study rooms for that purpose), we are trying to create a couple more quiet zones so people can focus on what they need to do. A new craft / maker table: In Secondary School student have a dedicated Maker Space in the Middle School Design Lab. But we also want to promote hands-on activities & problem-solving in the library. We will have a weekly activity or challenge on a large table where the computers used to be. Laptops for Check-Out for Work in the Library: We will have 4 laptops available to be used in the library starting in August for those people who used to work at the desktops. With the laptops you can work anywhere you'd like, which will give you greater flexibility and allow us to use our space more effectively. Thanks for bearing with us while we make our space better to meet our patrons' needs! We are always open to your suggestions!
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