AIAN will be a widely respected school providing a model US based educational program with an internationally minded community. January 13, 2012, Dear Community, On behalf of the School Board, PTA and faculty and staff may I wish you a Happy New Year! I trust that everyone had a great Winter Break. This last week was the seventeenth of the school year and saw the majority of the community back in school working hard. Practices for the Chinese New Year Celebration performances have started and all the students are involved in this. Teachers are busy preparing report cards for the second quarter, which finishes on Friday, January 20. The work the students do this week and next week still affects the reports. Please remind your children to do their best, as always. Other items for you attention are, CHINESE NEW YEAR PERFORMANCE This AIAN traditional performance takes place on Friday, January 20 in the Assembly Hall. It will start at 2.30 p.m. with a Dragon Dance from the front of the school. All of our community is welcome to come along and watch. A more formal invitation to parents will be sent home early next week, please watch out for this. Parents who wish to travel home with their children on the bus following the performances should call the school office on 86869999 and confirm this. This will allow us to ensure that there is sufficient room on the buses at the end of the day The program looks as follows. Opening : Dragon Dance (PTA and Student Council) 1. Chinese instrument GU Zheng (Gr.5 Francisca) 2. Chinese Sinology Show: ¡°Di Zi Gui¡± £¨ Gr 3, Gr.4 £© 3. Kung Fu Dance ( Kindergarten & Gr1 £¬ Gr.4 Rahul and Taku £© 4. Mogolia Folk song ¡°Ao Bo Xiang Hui¡± High school £© 5. Bamboo Dancing from Li Minority (Middle School £© 6. Tibetan Sing and Dance¡± Road in the Heaven¡± Aishah, Rahul, Jerry Lee, Grace, Violet, Jessica and £© 7. Remix of Minority songs (Elementary School & Middle School £© 8. Beijing Opera Gr2, Guest teacher Mr. Zhou £© 9. Chinese New Year Tradition Show £¨ Gr.2 Gr.3 £© 10. Chorus¡± Gongxi Gongxi¡± (All Mandarin students £© 11. HOS New Year message 12. Gifts time, sharing dumpling and spring rolls FAMLIES POSSIBLY LEAVING It is normal at this time of the year that some families will leave the school because of employment contracts ending. The school would appreciate being informed of this as soon as possible. This allows time to organize the necessary clearance forms for the students concerned. Also, this information helps the school when we get new applications. We need to know exactly what the student number situation is at each grade level. A few grade levels are very close to being full and naturally we want to be sure of the places we are offering to new families. Parents may call the office on 86869999 to inform the school if you are leaving. Report cards are due to be issued on Wednesday, February 1. Please understand we cannot issue the report cards before the due date. Of course we will email or send hard copies of the reports to you as soon as the cards are issued. If you are leaving school it is important that you leave a forwarding address or new email address with the school. We appreciate that you may need report cards to help enroll at a new school. The first quarter cards should be sufficient to do this in the short term and these can be reissued if families need them to be. Please contact the school office on 86869999 to make this request. Thank you. HIGH SCHOOL EXAM SCHEDULE FOR JANUARY 2012
EARLY FINISH, SHORT SCHEDULE. Please be reminded that Wednesday, January 18, February 15 and February 29 are early finish days. Please expect your children home early. AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITES (ASA) ASA's for the third quarter start on Monday, January 30 when we return from the Chinese New Year holiday. The process for the selection of the new activities block will take place next week. Mr. Carpinisan and Mr. Carroll will send out the necessary information soon. Please watch out for this, complete the necessary selection form and return it to the school. THE DIGITAL SPOT Chinese New Year is just around the corner! During this holiday most of you will be traveling within China or abroad but sometimes your child(ren) will want to use the computer and play around! Play interactive computer games associated with the culture of China and enjoy the Year of the Dragon!
The Technology Term of the Week Scrambler: A scrambler is a program that chops up an image and scrambles up the pieces (this requires the java plugin). The object of the game is to swap 2 pieces at a time until all pieces end up in position to form the completed picture. These scramblers all come with a 4 minute timer. Can you beat the clock?
DATES IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY FOR YOUR DIARIES January 18 th Short Day, early finish at 2:30pm January 20 th Chinese New Year Assembly February 1 st Report Cards Issued; Early finish at 2:30pm February 6 th &8 th Parent Teacher Conference February 14 th Valentines' Day February 15 th Short Day, early finish at 2:30pm February 17 th No School Day, Teachers' PD February 24 th Progress Report Cards February 29 th Short Day, early finish at 2:30pm Thank you. Regards, Mark Bretherton , Head of School. |
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FU (good luck) to you all!