ISY Elementary Blog
Elementary Update – November 3rd
Sandy Sheppard, Elementary School Principal
Dear Parents,
My apologies for the late blog post this week. I have been at a conference all week and have just returned. The conference was the EARCOS Leadership Conference. This coming week we have Linda Henke a Reggio Emilia Early Years expert in school all week working with our early years teams. We also have our school architect, Alan Higgs with us for three days. He will be meeting with students in Grade 3,4 and 5, teachers, the Board and parents. The 11th and 12th will be a holiday for students, the faculty will be attending Adaptive Schools training. There is important information on progress reports and the upcoming parent conferences in this blog.
Sandy Sheppard
PROGRESS REPORTS
Our first new Progress Reports will be going home on the 8th of November. Please see the attachment for a guide on the new reports.
PARENT CONFERENCES
Parent conferences will take place all day on the 21st of November. Sign up will go out the week before. Meetings are 15 minutes long. They start at 9:00 am and finish at 5:30 PM. Specialist teachers are available on that day in the Cafeteria for drop in meetings. We look forward to seeing you all at the conferences.
ARCHITECT VISIT
REGGIO SPECIALIST – Linda Henke
You are invited to attend a session with our visiting specialist, Linda Henke from 8:00 to 8:30 on November the 6th. This will be a session on Reggio Emilia early years practices. See the invitation below.
THANK YOU
Thank you to our amazing Parent Association for a wonderful Halloween event last Thursday. All activities were enjoyed by all. Thank you also to our teachers for their support.
DATES TO REMEMBER
5th November – 5:30 PM Alan Higgs Presentation, Cafeteria
6th November – 8:00-8:30 Linda Henke, Reggio presentation, Learning Commons
8th November – Progress Reports go home
8th November – ASA Session 1 ends
11th/12th November – No School (teachers will be participating in professional development)
16th November – Family Fun Fair
21st November – Full Dy of Parent Conferences (no school)
28/29th November – Thanksgiving Holiday
7th December – UWS Sports-a-thon Fundraising Event
Grade 5 students sharing their bibliographers
Previous Elementary School Posts
Elementary School Blog – June 10th, 2020
The last day of the school year is here, it certainly has been an interesting few months. I would like to thank you all for your support during virtual learning.
Elementary School Blog – June 5th, 2020
I hope the students enjoyed the assembly this week, it was a lot of fun. It was great to still be able to farewell our teachers and leaving students.
Elementary School Blog – May 29th, 2020
Next week will be our last full week of school. There will be slides up until Thursday. On Friday the 5th of June there will be no slides, the teams will have conferencing type activities planned, they will communicate these to you. Report cards will go home on Thursday the 4th of June.
Elementary School Blog – May 22nd, 2020
Thank you to all those who attended the parent meeting last night hosted by Dr Hedger. There is a lot of planning going on at the moment and as mentioned later in June you will be able to view more information on what the new school year might look like.
ISY Elementary School Blog – 15th May – 2020
Another week of virtual learning fun and experiences is over. We love keeping the learning connections with our students. Our teachers are working very hard to ensure that your children have access to the best learning virtually that we can possibly give them.
ISY Elementary School Blog – 8th May – 2020
Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey this week. The feedback you provide is so important to us. An email will be sent out soon that will summarize the feedback given.
The International School Yangon
20 Shwe Taungyar Street
Bahan Township
Yangon, Myanmar
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