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We were delighted to welcome back author Paula Yañez Baz, who has written numerous books for children about the adventures of a little girl, Aitana, who travels throughout the world. Paula Yanez Baz met with the grade 11 DP Spanish students. Her latest book features Aitana in Mozambique! Our library now has a signed copy. 
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This was a big week for our Grade 3, 4, and 5 students who all participated in MAP testing. MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) testing is a computer-adaptive assessment that measures students' academic growth and proficiency in areas such as math, reading, and language arts. It helps us track individual student progress over time, identify areas of strength and growth, and tailor instruction to better meet each student's learning needs. This ensures each student receives the support they need to thrive in class.  The MAP test is just one of many assessments that we do in Primary School. Teachers look at MAP data together with all the in-class assessments to understand what students need next to continue to grow.
We congratulate our Grade 3, 4, and 5 students for being thinkers this week, doing their best when being part of MAP testing. The Amazing Race 2024 was a huge success! The Amazing Race is an event planned by the parents of the graduating class to get them moving and have a little fun while building the relationships they have with one another. It was an awesome day, full of laughs and lots of love! Once again thank you, with love and affection - Check out this video of highlights from the event:  This week is Digital Citizenship Week. Here are some excellent resources for parents to promote Digital Citizenship Week at home and help to engage your children in discussions around digital citizenship.:
 On Tuesday afternoon the teaching team had a chance to come together to talk about learning and teaching, plan upcoming events, dive into research and inspire one another. It is always special to see our team connect, laugh, share ideas and stories, and build the strong relationships that are crucial in ensuring collaborative work.  18/10/2024 Transition: Supporting Ourselves and our family through transition (Parent Session)Read Now
We also want to share a little about communication guidelines and expectations. We are always seeking to streamline communications at the school to ensure that anyone with questions can get them answered quickly and effectively. The best way to do that is to create the habit of communicating first with the person who is closest to your issue or question and is therefore in the best position to assist you. We believe that by following these guidelines, it will help resolve issues and answer questions more quickly.
In practice, this habit looks like this:
Following these steps will go a long way toward streamlining communications throughout the AISM community. By the way, if you don’t know the email address of the person you are trying to contact, our email system uses the following convention: [email protected] As always, if you struggle to locate information about any area of our school community, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We are happy to help! Communication Channels at AISM We are constantly striving to improve communication - especially as some community members feel like we communicate too much while others believe we could communicate more! And although we recognise that it is almost impossible to please everyone, we wanted to share that there are several ways to stay informed about - and celebrate - AISM news, information, reminders and upcoming events.
This AISM Weekly Bulletin is our main medium to keep our families informed on such things as the day to day happenings on campus, before & after school activities, school events, helpful resources, and important dates and reminders. This is emailed directly to your inbox each Friday (if you hear of people who don’t see it, please remind them to check spam/junk). The AISM website is a great place to find information about the school, the faculty and staff, the curriculum documentation and much, much more. The AISM Whole School Calendar has all the upcoming community events including sports, meetings, holidays etc in one place. This page is password protected (check the top of the Weekly Bulletin for the password). We also have various social media platforms such as the AISM Facebook page, Instagram, LinkedIn and a YouTube channel for you to ‘follow’, ‘like’ and share with family & friends. Some of the more commonly-used hashtags to follow would include #aismlearns, #aismcelebrates, #aismcommunity - but there’s so much more too! The PS & SS WhatsApp Communities and Grade Level Groups are created by the Communications Team (Tony & Mishal).
We are at the end of a special week at AISM. Students only came to school for two days, but teachers and teaching assistants have been very busy collaborating, learning, creating and sharing amazing ideas. I am excited to celebrate our amazing teaching team in this week’s bulletin, showing how much they do every day, not just in class, but also out of class, after school hours, to continuously help AISM grow. I find their dedication impressive and inspiring and invite you to join me in celebrating them today. Here are just a few pictures that captured our amazing team in action:   As grade 5 learners are inquiring into peace and conflict and inspirational humans, we welcomed Shelly Pollock, co-author of award winning picture book, Lion Lights. This inspirational book has received four different children’s book awards including the 2023 Children’s Africana Book Award (CABA), the Outstanding Science Trade Book for 2022, California Eureka Silver Honoree 2022, and the 2022 Blueberry Award! Mrs. Pollock shares the incredible story of Richard Turer, a Kenyan Maasai who grew up trying to protect his family's cattle from the lions. Through hard work and perseverance, he designed and discovered a peaceful solution of flashing lights to scare the lions away without hurting them and protecting the cattle. As Shelly shared her writing journey she was able to encourage grade fives to take action and find sustainable solutions.  |
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