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Dear Parent,
Ellen Mahoney CEO of Sea Change Mentoring is a wonderful consultant who we are very fortunate to have working with our AISL community this week. She has worked with many International Schools around the globe and has done significant work on helping schools further develop their programs to support students wellbeing and sense of belonging. We hope that you can join us in a session designed for our parent community. Please RSVP using the form here to let us know if you will be attending Ellen Mahoney's Parent session on Wednesday, 18th January, from 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm. It will focus on helping your student to thrive by examining Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Research, Parent Role with SEL Development and Parent - Child Relationships. The P.T.A. will be sponsoring a wine & cheese wrap up to the evening - we hope you can stay for a glass and a chat.edit. The PTA would like to introduce ‘The Giving Tree’ this year as our Christmas Charity. We will be supporting the Living Hope Today Foundation based in Lusaka, Zambia. The Living Hope Today Foundation was created to benefit people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and the project that they are supporting this year is Chesed Academy. Chesed Academy is a Grade 1-12 school in the Kanyama/Makeni area of Lusaka. The school began eight years ago to educate displaced children in the Kanyama compound whose families had been impacted by HIV/AIDS. The school now has a permanent location and offers both primary and secondary education to children in the surrounding area. This year, we will set up two Christmas trees, one in the primary tuck shop area and the other one near the admin office at the Secondary entrance. Currently, they have no decorations, so we will be 'selling' Christmas baubles to the AISL community at a cost of 50 kwacha per bauble, which they will then put on the tree to decorate it. Alternatively, the children can bring in a bauble from home, along with a 50 kwacha donation. The more baubles, the brighter the tree, representing our support to the children of Chesed Academy. The funds will be used to provide a Christmas celebration from the children of AISL to the children of Chesed Academy who otherwise would have no Christmas. Please help us give these children a day to remember and encourage your children to come and put a bauble on The Giving Tree. We would greatly appreciate your help by sending in at least 50 kwacha with your children to decorate the tree. We will be selling the baubles at the primary tuck shop every day at school pick up and also by Shantall at the administration office. Many thanks, The PTA The Easter Leopard made an appearance at AISL on Wednesday, 13 April, stopping by all the classes to spread joy ahead of the Easter weekend. The Easter Leopard handed out Easter eggs, balloons and played some games with our students who were happy to see our school mascot back in action.
On Friday, 29 October, it was wonderful to see so many from our school community come together for our annual Trunk or Treat event, something we have missed out on for a while. The children were very excited as they visited the spooky, quirky, and/or humorous trunks, collecting their candy and engaging in some fun games. A very big thank you to our PTA Halloween Committee, who have been planning this event for a few weeks. It would not have been possible without all of your generous support. Below are some highlights from the afternoon.
A very special tradition at AISL is that of the poet laureate, who is chosen annually based on the top poem submitted as part of the annual secondary writing contest. Award categories include short stories and poetry, with separate award categories for middle school and high school. A panel of judges comprised of a parent, a student, and three faculty members (from various departments) read submissions without knowing who has submitted them. The committee then recognizes the top submissions for each category. This tradition receives tremendous support from the AISL PTA, which provided 3500 kwacha in prize money and beautiful trophies for this year's contest. We recognized this year's top submissions during a secondary assembly, at which students read excerpts from their pieces. Thank you to Head of English, Mr. Michael Ryan, for continuing this tradition at AISL. Please congratulate our students:
Still Looking for a Few More Parent Volunteers for Secondary Cultural Activities for Worldfest3/4/2019 Great news! We still have room for a few more parent volunteers who'd be willing to share any aspect of their culture with our secondary students for this year's Worldfest. If you've been thinking about it but haven't signed up yet, it's not too late to do so! We're hoping that five more people will volunteer so we can have appropriately-sized groups attending the sessions. You are welcome to work with a partner(s). The cultural activities part of the day will run from 10:00-12:30 on Thursday 18 April. Parents offering sessions will organize a 25-minute activity with enough supplies to do the same activity five times (students will rotate through in groups of approximately 12 at a time). These activities should be interactive & fun, and could take any form, such as: - Craft activity - Art activity - Games - Trivia contests - Songs - Dance - Interactive presentation We promise that teens & tweens are AWESOME age groups to work with and that our AISL students are affable, polite, and willing to try new experiences. We will happily reimburse you for any expenses incurred and can help organize sports equipment or other necessary items. Please sign up here to add your details to our planning spreadsheet. If you have any questions, please stop by to see or email Secondary Librarian Terry Maguire or Secondary Teacher Tom Potter. In 2015 we were honored to host Caine Prize-winning author Namwali Serpell at AISL. The Caine Prize is awarded annually to the best short story published by a writer from the African continent. The writer then customarily travels to his or her country of origin to receive the prize. This was the first time that a Zambian author had won the prize. It is no surprise that Ms. Serpell's first novel, The Old Drift, published this March, has been met with immediate glowing critical acclaim. Opening in Livingstone and following four generations and Zambia's history, the novel explores complex issues of race, development, the role of women, and post-colonial themes. Her writing is richly detailed, powerful, and lush. The New York Times has published two rave reviews of the novel this past week alone- one by Dwight Garner & one by world-renowned author Salman Rushdie. We are thrilled and honored that Ms. Serpell is willing to spend her very limited time back in Zambia this June with a visit to AISL (she is a professor at University of California at Berkeley). She will actually be coming directly from the airport to AISL for a 17:00 pm book launch in our Palm Pavilion on Wednesday 12 June! On Friday 14 June she will offer a large-scale launch in town at the National Gallery. The AISL Library is happy to help you purchase your copy of the book in advance through Penguin Randomhouse Publishers of Zambia. The cost per copy is 150 kwacha (please help us by bringing exact change if you can). Orders will close on Monday 15 April. That gives us time to get the copies here for you & for you to read in advance (566 pages). A limited number of copies will be for sale at the event. If you have any questions, please see or write secondary librarian Terry Maguire or a member of our library staff. We hope you can make it! We know the timing is tricky as it's the end of the year, but it was too fabulous an opportunity to pass up! With crafts, food, external vendors, music performances, face painting and of course the highlight, Santa's visit, the very first AISL PTA Holiday Fair was a resounding success - the only trouble is we have to wait an entire year for the next one...! Photo Credit: Robert Johnson
Please consider donating for the Bauleni Special Needs Project. Check out the poster below for more details:
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