Week Ahead: April 12-16

As I wondered through classrooms last week, I noticed this display in Tyler Banks’ classroom. It made me think – WE ARE EMBARKING ON A HERO’S JOURNEY! Yes, all caps needed 🙂 During Q4, we will be overcoming obstacles, taking on difficult opportunities, and seizing opportunities. We will be helping each other along the way, and we will succeed in finishing out this year in grand style! So glad to be on the journey with all of you!

Here is what’s up next week:

Monday, April 12
Day 8, HEFG
*health screening for students during PE – grades 6-8

Tuesday, April 13
Day 1, ABCD
*health screening for students during PE – grades 6-8
12:00-12:45 Advisory Team Lead mtg
12:15-12:30 DEAR – administer Community Survey for students (see link on DEAR/ADV planning doc)

Wednesday, April 14
Day 2, EFGH (Special CTP schedule)
3:15-4:30 Divisional Mtg, topic-Advisory, Library

Thursday, April 15
Day 3, BCDA (Special CTP schedule)
1-4:00 Molly off campus, Saigon International Schools Network meeting
3:15-4:15 Vaccine Information presentation by International SOS, Auditorium

Friday, April 16
Day 4, FGHE
*50% Curriculum Documentation Due
*G6 SOC meeting

Saturday, April 17
Faculty Follies – don’t miss it!

Upcoming (on the radar): new items will appear in blue from here on out
Season 3 Sports Schedule/Games

• April 20 and 22 – Final CTP testing days
• April 21 – No School, Vietnamese Kings’ Day
• April 27 – Advisory Team Lead mtg
• April 29 – MS Dance, 5-8pm
• April 30 – No School, Reunification Day
• May 3 – No School, International Labor Day
• May 4 – MS Band Concert, evening parent performance (possible disruption for G8 music students to have a combined G8 rehearsal)
• May 5 – STAR Reading Screener during Dragon Time
• May 7 – MS Band Concert during Dragon Time
• May 11 – Advisory Team Lead mtg
• May 12 – STAR Math Screener during Dragon Time
• May 13 – MS/HS Art Show and Party (format to be determined)
• May 21 – G5 Step Up Day, StuCo Executive Council Election; special schedule
• May 25 – HS Theory of Knowledge collaboration / fair
• May 25 – Advisory Team Lead mtg
• May 26 – Talent Show during Dragon Time
• May 27 – Sr. Graduation Walk, 1:15ish
• June 1 – G8 Promotion rehearsal (G8 off time table for last block)
• June 3 and 4 – MS Drama Productions (time to be determined)
• June 7 – G8 Promotion rehearsal (G8 off time table for last block)
• June 7 – Grades and Comments for Q4 / S2 due
• June 8 – Library Book Bingo Reward Field Trip
• June 8 – G8 Step Up Day, 10:35-11:45
• June 9 – G8 Promotion in AM (all grades attend – hopefully); Splash Day 1-3:00

SOC Meetings:

• G6: April 29, May 13 & 25, June 4
• G7: April 19, May 4, 14 & 26
• G8: April 20, May 5, May 19

CTP Overall Testing Plan: Please review the overall CTP testing plan. In this document you will see the special testing schedule, the order of tests, and the location of tests. Please be very familiar with this document.

Sample Core Drilling: Starting Thursday, April 15 at 9am a portion of the playing field and the reception garden will be cordoned off due to sample core drilling for the foundation of the new buildings.  This will continue until Monday April 19th (time unknown). The walkways will not be obstructed and will be outside of the cordoned areas.  No noise will occur. Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this.

Tracking Q4 events:  In order to assist with tracking events that might impact your planning, we are trying to list them in as many places as possible. You can find them on the Google calendars (MS Parent/Student, MS Faculty), on the blog under upcoming events, and now on the ADV/Dragon Time doc in a new row called “planning events”. There are many things that might impact your planning. We will do our best to help you know when those are coming. If you have something coming up that will impact the planning of others, please makes sure that you ensure it’s added to these calendars and documents.

Special Article on SSIS website focused on MS Advisory: Focusing on student wellbeing, our Middle School advisory program makes time for students to engage in rich social-emotional learning experiences twice a week. Read on SSIS Stories

2021-2022 House League Shirts: In an effort to reduce the amount of time between the house league shirt competition and the arrival of house league shirts on campus, we have adjusted the house league shirt competition process. In lieu of waiting until next August for students to submit and vote on shirt designs, we will do it this April. Next week, current grades 6-8 will be invited to submit a design for next year’s shirts. The first week of May, current grades 5-7 will vote for winning designs.  The shirt company will print sample shirts in early August for students to see and order during the first week of school. Shirts would arrive on campus early Sept.  Thank you to Claire, Ryan, Rick and Thao for helping to revise the HL shirt competition process.

Repeat post: STAR Screeners: We will be piloting a universal screener test in reading on May 5 and a universal screener test in math on May 12 during Dragon Time. We will provide more information closer to the test dates. If you want to learn more about in the meantime, please check out their website: Star 360

ISTE Global Collaboration Summit: @ISTEGlobalPLN is proud to announce its #GlobalCollaborationSummit 2021!  Save the Dates May 17-21

• 5 days; free
• Presenters needed; deadline April 16
• Summit Organizer and SSIS Contact: Ceci Gomez-Galvez

 Join us for five days of presentations, showcases, workshops and sessions on global collaborations happening in schools around the world.  The summit will be streamlined through Wakelet, where participants will access all summit information and the sessions held exclusively on Flipgrid.  

We’re also calling for presenters and welcome anyone from all walks of global collaboration (platforms, projects both large or small, etc) to share on our summit.  Click here to submit your proposal http://bit.ly/GCSsubmit.  Applications close April 16!

Five days of learning, collaborating, and connecting all for FREE and at your own pace!  Here’s our summit at a glance http://bit.ly/GCSglance 

On behalf of the ISTE Global PLN Crew,
Sean Forde | Chadwick International School, South Korea
Ceci Gomez-Galvez | Saigon South International School, Vietnam