Week Ahead: April 3-7

| April 2, 2023 | Week Updates | No Comments

What a week it was last week!  (Don’t worry, big reflections taking place about advisory, House Leagues, G7 PE Dance Extravaganza, CTP, and SLCs all converging in one week …)  I hope you all got rest over the weekend 🙂

Congratulations to all of you for the amazing SLCs that happened last week.  They were gorgeous … absolutely gorgeous!  Here are just a few of the moments that occurred:

When we set the bar at SSIS, we set it high.  Last week’s G7 PE Dance Extravaganza over shot the bar and flew up into the stars!

Here is what’s up next week:

Monday, April 3

  • Day 1: ABCD
  • *Happy Birthday Janelle Sculley!
  • 1:30-3:00 Admin mtg (Molly and Phil attend)

Tuesday, April 4

  • Day 2: EFGH
  • 3:15-4:30 MS Leadership Team Mtg (agenda)

Wednesday, April 5

  • Day 3: BCDA (slight alteration to schedule – Lunch, 4th Block, Advisory)
  • 2:30-3:00 Service Learning Fair
  • 3:15-4:30 Divisional Mtg (library)

Thursday, April 6

  • Day 4: FGHE

Friday, April 7

  • Day 5: CDAB

Upcoming (on the radar)

  • April 10 – Author Visit, Minh Lê; grade level assemblies planned (see below)
  • April 11, 12, 19, 20 – CTP Testing
  • April 14 – MS Talent Show (time to be determined)
  • May 1-3 – International Labor Day, VN Kings Day, VN Reunification Days observed
  • May 4-8 – Dan Kerr visits SSIS
  • May 27: Graduation from 4:00-8:00pm @ Landmark 81
  • June 9: Last Day for Students, Early Dismissal @ 12:15pm
  • June 10: Last Day for Teachers (AS Faculty Assembly @ 10:00am; AS Faculty & Staff Lunch @ 12:00pm)

SERVICE LEARNING FAIR, APRIL 5, WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE:  

On April 5  we will have a slightly altered schedule to support the Service Learning Fair.

CTP:

Thank you for all your work starting students on the path to CTP.  Just to keep them handing – here are the key documents that we will be using.

 

From Jacob H – Requests for Surveys:

There are times when families visit doctors and specialists outside of SSIS for concerns with their children. Sometimes you may be contacted and provided with checklists/surveys that they would like teachers to complete.
In these times please send the caller and/or surveys to the student’s school counselor. It is important that these requests go through our student support system, as it protects our teachers from an overload of surveys and helps the counselors to be aware of students who are visiting with outside doctors and specialists for safeguarding and health reasons.

From Jae Jun – Safety Committee Members Needed:

Dear SSIS Faculty and Staff,  We are delighted to invite you to join our construction Safety Committee.

As always, the wellbeing and safety of our community is our primary goal, and today I am emailing to solicit interest in serving on the SSIS Construction Safety Committee.

The purpose of the Construction Safety Committee will be to monitor, report, and work toward solutions concerning any potential construction safety issues. In our bi-weekly meetings, We will discuss issues that have been reported and work on suggestions for improvements.

As Campus Building Project liaison assistant, I will participate in weekly construction site meetings with our campus’s contractor and project manager. Ms. Michelle (Facilities Manager), Ms. Hang (Campus Building Project Admin Assistant), Mr. Thanh (Site Engineer), and Wai Mun Fong (Associate Head of School) will also be present at the weekly site meetings. The information that comes from the Construction Safety Committee will be used to inform the weekly construction site meeting.

We hope to have one faculty/staff from each division and parent representatives, as well. Please email me individually if you are interested!

Best regards,  Jae Jun Kyoung

AUTHOR VISIT, APRIL 10 (REPEAT POST):

We are so excited to have the opportunity to have author Minh Lê visit SSIS.  On April 10, we will have grade level assemblies (still working out which block for each grade) where Mr. Lê will share his work, career, and life story with our students.

Minh Lê is the author of the picture books Lift (Eisner Award nominee) and Drawn Together (winner of the 2019 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature) illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat, Let Me Finish! (named an NPR Best Book of 2016) illustrated by Isabel Roxas, and The Perfect Seat illustrated by Gus Gordon (all published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers). He also wrote Green Lantern: Legacy, a middle grade graphic novel (illustrated by Andie Tong) for DC Comics. In addition to writing books, he serves on the Board of We Need Diverse Books, is on the faculty of the Hamline MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and has written for a variety of publications, including the New York Times, The Horn Book, NPR, and HuffPost.

Apr. 10 (Monday): Author visit; grade level assemblies

  • 1st block (G) Grade 7
  • 2nd block (H) Grade 6
  • 3rd block (E) Grade 8

Related Posts

About The Author

Ms Principal