Feb. 13th – 17th
This week promises to be as busy as the weekend was. First of all congratulations to all of our ES people who ran in the inaugural HCMC midnight marathon. Beyond that, our HS students competed in the U19 basketball and badminton SISAC championships and we had a VEX robotics competition on campus. So many examples of our CORE values were demonstrated this weekend. If you competed in, watched, or helped in any of these events, please take time to share your story with our students. It is so important that they hear these stories from us. It may feel uncomfortable to share your successes, but it is so important and necessary for our students to see and hear about examples of resilience, perseverance, dedicated service, balance in life and a sense of self among other things. Please share your proud moments.
Weekly Focus:
Our focus this week will be academic excellence.
PURPLE DAY
On Tuesday LLT will be coming around to all classrooms to see what amazing purple activities, students, and ideas your classes have come up with. We can’t wait to see how purple we can be!
A message from admissions and marketing
Alumni, Gabriel Thai, is currently working with our department to create a video for the 25th Anniversary Gala. He’s doing an incredible job capturing the story but needs some extra footage. Next week, he will spend some time on campus on Wednesday, February 15, and Thursday, February 16 from 12:00 to about 4:00 to gather video footage of various teaching and learning opportunities – ranging from robotics to theater, music, recess, etc. If there are certain rooms that should be avoided let me know.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Tanya
VTC Shout-out
Next week SSIS is hosting the VTC conference. We have multiple ES people presenting as well as other faculty. Please consider joining us for a teacher meet on Friday and the conference on Saturday Feb. 18th. If you have additional questions please ask Carlos or Danai.
PURPLE MOMENTS
With it being Valentines this week please find some purple moments to share. We will be in classrooms on Feb. 14th seeing them in action as well.
SUNSHINE COMMITTEE
The ES Sunshine Committee works to the fullest for the ES community and we would like to continue acknowledging important milestones for you and our community. Please help us spread the sunshine by using this form to give the Sunshine Committee a heads-up about happenings in the lives of faculty and staff, so we can make sure that they know we all care. Thank you so much!
WHAT TO DO IF YOU WILL BE ABSENT
Please refer to this link
The Week Ahead:
Monday, Feb. 13th
12:00- 1:00 – LLT
1:30 – 3:00 – SLT
Tuesday, Feb. 14th
8:30 – 3:15 – Adaptive Schools Training
2:40 – 4:00 – IDT
Wednesday, Feb. 15th
8:30 – 3:13 – Adaptive Schools Training
3:15 – 4:30 – Full Faculty meeting
Mel off campus beginning at 12:30
Thursday, Feb. 16th
8:30 – 3:13 – Adaptive Schools Training
Mel off campus
Friday, Feb. 17th
Mel off campus
Important Links
Staff Recess and Lunch Guidelines
Student Recess and Lunch Guidelines
HEALTH ADDENDUMS – The following is a link to health addendums that have been made. Please take a moment to read over them
Professional Development Opportunities: I have started a sidebar widget with links to amazing PD opportunities. If you know of others, please share with me, and I will continue to populate this.
CALENDARS:
Parent and Students: https://www.ssis.edu.vn/fs/resource-manager/view/60329413-97d6-4f31-95e8-9827aae85f23
Faculty and Staff: https://www.ssis.edu.vn/fs/resource-manager/view/3887734a-3c46-4863-9dc5-01cea04a8c2a
General:
Counselling:
Elementary Student Support website
SSIS Health, Counseling and Wellness
EAL:
Library:
More Important Info at your fingertips:
Visitor Registration Procedures
Operations Guide: The Navigator
ASA Arrival and Dismissal Information
