Thank You
June 3, 2022
Our return to in-person learning was a wonderful reward for our community’s hard work and resilience. It also reminded us how much we missed simple things like sitting together to read a book, eating lunch with friends, or playing on the playground.
It can be very easy to take simple things for granted just because they are simple. But as we look forward to next year, I think it is the simple things that we are looking forward to the most. In making time for simple things and doing them well, we can build a sense of community that our children need to thrive academically and personally.
Like last year, this year was far from simple. Thank you for your support of our Elementary School team and of your children as they worked online and transitioned back into in-person learning. As principals, we are also very grateful for the tireless work of our faculty and staff who made the complicated as simple as possible so our children could continue to thrive.
While we would have preferred a much simpler year, we can look back on this year with great satisfaction. As we met challenges head on and found new ways to keep our children connected and learning, we uncovered strengths and skills we did not know we had and so did our children! Our children will continue to benefit from these new strengths and skills for years to come – hopefully in simpler times.
As we head into the last week of school, on behalf of all of our Elementary School team, thank you again for your support and we wish you all a safe and restful summer. And to those of you moving on from ISY, as we say to our students, Once a Chinthe, Always a Chinthe!
School will be dismissed this Friday, June 10 at 11:30am
COUNSELOR’S CORNER with Ms. Patty:
Creating Holiday Structure
As we look to the coming summer holiday, it is important to think about how to manage the hours without school. Generally, most families will benefit from developing some amount of structure or schedule. How much structure will depend on your family. While many children are able to take unstructured time and turn it into useful engaging activities, many are not and providing a structure is helpful. Important issues to consider when creating holiday structure include:
- Be consistent: Write your plan down and post it. Regularly monitor that the plan is being followed.
- Use the schedule as a tool: When the written schedule is relied on, it can avoid power struggles and help your child manage their time, develop organization skills and help them to transition back into school in August.
- Keep the Family Schedule: Often the holiday lends itself to sleeping in late and losing time. Keep family scheduled events, such as family dinner and bedtime routines consistent.
- Find a balance: The holiday is specifically that, a time for rest and relaxation. Don’t overschedule and manage every minute. It’s important to build in moments of down time around meaningful scheduled activities.
- Be flexible: Although consistency is important, allow for flexibility. If you find the schedule is too rigid or too laxed after a specific week, alter it to find a balance that works for your family that week.
Creating a balanced holiday schedule that reflects your family values can help make the holiday more pleasurable for everyone. Take time as a family to build a structure that meets the needs of everyone.
Ms. Patty wishes you a safe and happy holiday. She looks forward to returning to ISY in August for the 2022-23 school year and can be reached at escounselor@isyedu.org.
Patty Amundson-Geisel
Pre-K to Grade 6 Counselor
Return Library Books by Monday, June 6
If you have any overdue books you will be emailed a reminder from the library. Books can be brought to the library or put in the return basket on the front steps.
All library books are to be returned to the library by June 6.
Please Return ISY iPads and Chromebooks
Many of our students borrowed ISY iPads or Chromebooks to help with online learning at home. Now that we have returned to in-person learning, we have collected these devices to be used in classes next year.
If you still have an ISY iPad or Chromebook at home, please return it to the Elementary School Office as soon as you are able to.
Online Learning
Now that we are into the last few weeks of the year and we have settled into in-person learning, we will not be accepting any more students into our online learning program.
Moving forward, we are also setting a goal to eliminate the hybrid /online program for the 2022-23 school year. The only exception to this would be interruptions due to directives from the Myanmar authorities, or short term COVID spikes causing class, grade level, or full school return to virtual learning for short periods.
Semester 2 Reports – Thursday, June 9
Departing Families – Withdrawal Form
Elementary School Bracelets – Please return
Before the pandemic, Elementary School students used bracelets (see picture) to enter the campus. If you have a bracelet at home, could you please return it to school by putting it in the box on the Front Steps.
Donations can be made at
https://isyedu.org/life-at-isy/online-ordering/
Mississippi Challenge
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.
ISY Elementary School Blog – 1st May – 2020
See this weeks blog for a recording of the virtual coffee morning meeting.
The International School Yangon
20 Shwe Taungyar Street
Bahan Township
Yangon, Myanmar
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