Weekly Update: May 24 – June 7

HS Prom is on Saturday evening at starting at 6:00pm at the Reverie Hotel (next to Lucky Plaza).  Teachers and parents are invited to attend the first 30 minutes to see the students.  It’s a great opportunity to see our students all dressed up and a fun event for our Seniors.

Please ensure that your exams copies are left with Ms Huyen.  We will bring them to the gymnasium on the date of your exam.

Tim

Friday, May 24th
Day 10 – FGHE
Group 4 Project 11th grade students will not be in classes
STAFF BIRTHDAYS-May/Jun/Jul at morning Break

Saturday, May 25th
HS Prom 6:30pm at the Reverie Hotel in District 1

Sunday, May 26th
Pest Control inside and outside

Monday, May 27th
Day 1 ABC Adv D
Advisory Schedule
Apple Distinguished School Award Ceremony at 3:00pm in the Auditorium

Tuesday, May 28th
Day 2 EFGH
Senior Transition Program
HS Leadership Meeting at La Fiesta 3:30pm

Wednesday, May 29th
Day 3 BCDA
HS Faculty Meeting at 3:15pm in the MPR

Thursday, May 30th
Day 4 FGH Adv E
Advisory Schedule
Yearbook Assembly

Senior Dinner at Quan Ut Ut

Friday,  May 31st
HS Final Exams Day 1
Final exams S2
PTA Volunteer Appreciate Coffee from 8:00am – 10:00am in Auditorium

Saturday, June 1st
SAT Exam at 8:00am
HS Graduation at 4:00pm at the GEM Center

Sunday, June 2nd
Pest Control Outside

Monday, June 3rd
HS Final Exams Day 2
Final exams S2

Tuesday, June 4th
HS Final Exams Day 3
Final exams S2

Wednesday, June 5th
HS Final Exams Make-UpDay
Final exams S2

Thursday, June 6th
Last Day of School (Early Dismissal at 12:15pm)
HS Social/Farewells 2pm (MPR)

Friday, June 7th
Full Faculty Meeting: State of the School and Plans for Next Year 10:00am Auditorium
Full Faculty & Staff Luncheon at 12:00pm
Last Day for Faculty (Dismissal at 2:00pm)

HS Faculty end of year check out list 2018-19

On the Horizon

• Last Day for AP/IB Courses Students, May 17
• HS Principal Recruiter on Campus, Meet with HS Faculty, May 23 (3:15)
• May 24th Group 4 Project 11th grade students will not be in classes
• Printed Final Exams Due (with cover page) to Huyen, May 24 by 3pm
• Prom, May 25
• No HS Faculty Meeting (report card/comment) time, May 29
• Final exams S2 begin, May 31
• Graduation, June 1 at 4pm
• HS DAY CALENDAR 2019 – 20 DRAFT
• HS Important Dates and Events that Impact Instructional Time 2019 – 20
• Summer 2019 Student Reading / Work to be Done
• HS Last Day Assembly 2018 (new schedule will be made for 2019)

Staff Action Needed

• HS students should not be missing your class to talk with one of our College Counselors.  Students are expected to book an appointment with them.
• Review end of year tech process
• Complete “predictive grades” for all IBDP Y1 Students (here are the directions)
• Begin your comments for grade 9-11 students (IBDP Y1 see special format below)
• Review Master Schedule for 2019-20
• Review the end of year information sheet for Seniors
• Read the IB/AP and Matrix sections of the Dragon’s Lair
• Nominate a colleague for great work via Kudos

End of Year Important Events–

• Sports Awards for Seasons 2 & 3 takes place tonight, May 24 at 5:30 in the Auditorium.
• Prom is Saturday night, May 25 at the Reverie Hotel, D7.  If you are a chaperone you know your time to report.  If you are not a chaperone and would like to stop by the event and see our kids all dressed up, you are welcome to stop by from 6-7pm before dinner starts.  Our kids would love to see you there.
• Senior Transition Program takes place on Tuesday (May 28) from 10-2:30 and Wednesday (May 29) from 1-4:40 on the 4th floor of the HS building.  Here is the schedule.  Feel free to stop by and check out what the seniors are doing/learning.  Thank you teachers for moving your classrooms to accommodate our sessions with students.
• Graduation Rehearsal and Senior Awards take place in the auditorium on Thursday, May 30.  Here is the overall program for the day which includes senior awards, senior walk through and 2nd Grade Buddy Ceremony.
• Yearbook Assembly takes place on Thursday, May 30 at 12:20 in the HS gym.  We will have the assembly first on this day and then go to lunch afterwards, so students have a chance to look at and sign yearbooks during their lunch.
• Senior dinner takes place on Thursday, May 30 at Quan Ut Ut, D7.  Invitees include our seniors, senior advisors and counseling team.
• Graduation on June 1, 2019 at the GEM Center.  The ceremony starts promptly at 4pm.  All HS faculty are required to attend and arrive by 3pm.  There is a bus leaving from SSIS at 2:15 to take faculty down to the event.
• Sunday, June 2nd, time to breathe and gear up for the final week.

Master Schedule– The master schedule has been mostly finalized and share with heads of department.  Here it is.  As a department, you should review room assignments (to ensure equity of sharing of rooms).  The blocks are locked into place and cannot change.  We have close to 100 singletons (class that is only offered for one block) and it amazing that we have put together a schedule that gets most students their schedules.  Special thanks to David Perkin and Nghi who supported our work in regards to this with PowerSchool.

Report Card Comments and Peer Review– The end of semester is almost upon us.  It is important to start and finalize your comments before final exams start.  You should set an internal deadline for yourself as May 24.  Your attention will focus on marking exams, projects and presentations at the very end of the year.  Most of the comments that you write before May 24 will have enough information for the family.  If you have a student that failed final exam, project or presentation all you would need to do was to add a sentence to the already written comment explaining this.  You do NOT need to write S2 comments for grade 12 students unless they dropped more than one letter grade from Q3.

Each teacher needs to share the draft of their S2 comments with a peer for review by May 31.  Most teachers share their comments via Google Doc with someone in their department.  Peer editing should include looking for grammatical errors, spelling, correct student names, and adherence to the HS comment writing format.  We have created a quick guide about comment writing that is more useable than the previous documents.

Grade 11/IBDP Y1 Predictive Grades & Comments– At the end of grade 11, students in IBDP courses receive a predictive grade 1-7 from each teacher.  Here are the directions to input the 1-7 mark.  The comments you make should provide context to the 1-7 grade you provide them.  Here is the format.  You can create a common 1-2 sentence comment for all of your students.  This comment will let the families know what has been covered this year and what will come in Y2.  An example of this is written in PINK below.  Then add 1-2 sentences specific to the individual student and their progress toward and IB mark they might receive at the end of Y2.  In the end, you are providing a brief context to the predictive score you will be adding to PowerSchool for Y1.  You can see an example of this written in the BLUE text.

Here’s an example- Lang & Lit students have done preliminary work on Parts 1 and 2 of the course and have completed Part 4. The predictive score reflects marks in those areas; next year’s score will change to reflect further assessment on Parts 1 and 2, in addition to the entirety of their Part 3 study. [Name] has completed assessments on Parts 1 and 2 that range from 4-6 on the 7 point IB scoring scale, has earned a 5 in [his/her] Part 3 study. Please discuss with your student what these scores mean and the percentages each is weighted; this information has been shared with [him/her].

Group 4 Project-  This is an interdisciplinary activity for all science students in grade 11. It is a collaborative venture where the emphasis is on interdisciplinary cooperation rather than the product of the project. Students will work in assigned teams to analyze a common topic. This year’s topic is photography.