**Please check the Meeting Schedules (in the sidebar) and the calendar at the bottom for information regarding this week's meetings and events. Laptops are not required unless requested. Thank you for leaving them in your classrooms.
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31- MA4-Kindy ASA Day
31 - June 11- ES ASA Teacher sign-ups for 2021 Session 1
June
1- ES Faculty Conversation (Report Writing)
2- Grades 1-2 ASA Day
3- Grades 3-4 ASA Day
4- Report Completion on VC
4- Grade 5 ASA Day
8- ES Faculty Conversation (Core: Class Placement/ Encore: Integration & Toddle)
14- Grade 1-5 Sports Fun Day
14- Last Plastic Bottle Event
14-18 - Summer Book Checkout for ES Students
15- EC Fun Day
15- ES Faculty Conversation
17- ES End of Year Assembly (8:45 am)
18- Last Day of School (Student dismissal at 11:20 am)
18- Grade 5 Bridge Walk 11:00 am (Shh. It's a surprise! The students don't know)
18- Semester 2 Reports go live (4:00 pm)
~from the ES BBE
AISB is excited to celebrate the last plastic bottle we will sold on campus on Monday, June 14th, 2021. A celebration ceremony will take place at 12:15 pm and all are invited to attend. As soon as we confirm the location, we will let you know.
All students and teachers are invited to write a 'note to the Earth' that will be placed inside the resting place of the final plastic bottle. Please write small post-it size notes on recycled paper. Members of the EAC will come to collect the notes between 8:30-10:30 am on Tuesday, June 15th.
Food for Thought
Magda Gray has been working with a group of parents who have formed a nutrition task force. The committee is responding to the question of how to maintain nutritious, healthy meals that the students enjoy while ensuring we adhere to government regulations and promote green sustainability? The goal is to create an enjoyable eating experience for all members of the community.
For this purpose, they have developed a questionnaire for each groups served, which we would like to have answered by the students or, in part, by the teachers, in elementary and early childhood. In addition, the parents will come in on Monday, May 31st, to observe in the cafeterias and informally survey some of our students. A member of the Advancement team will accompany them.
Core teachers are kindly requested to help their students complete the surveys prepared by the parents next week.
Elementary Survey
Early Childhood Survey
If you have any questions regarding the surveys or parent visit, please contact Magda ([email protected])
Monday is Graduation Day for our seniors and the traditional graduation walk is back!. The graduation walk is scheduled to begin at 3:05 pm with the elementary school being the first part of the walk. Please see the maps below for the route. To help the celebration maintain excitement, please spread yourselves out along the route before the start of the walk at 3:05 pm. Children, teachers, assistant teachers are invited to make inspirational posters for our graduates and encouraged to cheer our graduates on as they pass through the halls.
Each and every one of us plays a role in the growth and development of our children. The young adults who graduate today are a product of the hard work and dedication of every teacher who has had the privilege to teach them. Congratulations to our graduates and to you for your role in helping them achieve this milestone.
The graduation walk in the elementary will run from 3:05 - 3:12. The graduates will enter the elementary via the doors on playground B nearest the MPR and gym. They will head up that hallway and through the reception and up the stairs where they will head down the hallway past grades 3, 4, and 5 and across the bridge to Building B.
We are excited to announce that Diane has completed the recruitment and interview process for the final two alumni assistant teacher positions. Both positions have been offered and accepted.
Please join me in welcoming Csaba Békési and Leon O'Brien back to AISB.
Csaba joined AISB in 7th grade and graduated in 2015. Originally, from Hungary, he spent two years in the UK following grade 12 graduation. Csaba is excited to join our team and 'give back to the school that gave him so much.'
Leon O'Brien became a Blazer in 2007 when he joined our Grade one. Leon was at AISB for 12 years. At the end of his 10th grade year, his family moved to Beijing, where Leon completed his IB diploma this past May. Leon is looking forward to returning to AISB, working with the students and teachers of AISB, and seeing everyone again.
This year we will no longer complete the end-of-year check-out lists. This means that between now and the last day of school, we will need to complete the following tasks related to student learning data:
Sort assessment data by student (not by subject) in chronological order with F&P on top and working back until the math benchmark assessment is at the back.
▢ Most recent F&P assessment (May)
▢ Most current writing sample with scored rubric (May)
▢ Most current math benchmark assessment (Sep)
File student assessment data in the corresponding student’s cumulative folder
Bring all other student data to the ES office and file in one of the designated "to shred" boxes.
All sessions from the recent Toddle Ties Inquiry Educator's Summit are recorded and accessible for viewing through this link.
In preparation for Kath Murdoch's visit to AISB next year (Oct. 6-8), you may also be interested in her recent collaboration with Matt Glover and Kathy Collins in this complimentary webinar focused on Curiosity and the Teaching of Writing (May 29 and recording available afterward if registered).