TeT Fair 2016 - Australian International School

Australian International School | issue no.27
The AIS
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Tet Fair 2016
his Lunar New Year is the year
of the “Fire Monkey”. This
was a great opportunity for all
primary students, parents and
teachers to join, explore and experience
the cultural and festive atmosphere of
Vietnam through live performances,
hands-on activities, foods, crafts,
games, arts and so on.
To kick off the celebration on 4
February 2016, we had a Tet assembly,
in which we talked about the
meaning of Tet. We also had musical
performances and a fashion parade by
all primary students. The students then
enjoyed a Tet fair in the cafeteria, where
games and a multitude of activities were
available, including picking lucky red
envelopes from the Cherry Blossom
tree, Vietnamese calligraphy, walking
on the Kieu bridge, sack jumping. Some
students even had a go at wrapping the
traditional Banh Chung and Banh Tet
at the fair.
There were delicious traditional snacks
with full flavours of Tet for all Primary
students enjoy too.
Thank you to the teachers, support
staff and parents for volunteering and
supporting this celebration.
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Life in Kindergarten
indergarten children have
been celebrating TET. They
made Cherry Blossom trees,
red lucky envelopes, monkeys
and designing their own Ao Dai’s. We
are All Kindergarten children loved
the school celebrations held at the
Sport Centre, where everyone looked
beautiful in their traditional dress.
We had a ceremony to help bring
in the New Year. At Xi Campus, we
washed and blessed all the cars
and bikes. It was lovely to see how
everyone was very respectful and
enjoyed taking part as for many it was
a brand new experience.
The Kindergarten children also
celebrated Australia Day where every
helped to make cheese sandwiches
for our campus wide picnic. We
learnt a new painting technique,
using cotton buds to dot the paint.
We decorated some Australian native
animals just like the paintings found
within the Australian aboriginal
culture.
We have been continuing with our
Unit of Inquiry about ‘Sharing the
Planet’. The children have been
specifically learning about ‘Ocean
Animals’ and how they can live in the
water rather than the land. Some have
also been learning about animals and
their young, understanding that adult
animals are called different names to
their babies just like a cow and calf or
sheep and lamb.
We are also very much looking
forward to celebrating the AIS annual
Book Week ( 7-11 March) so start
thinking about your costume for your
favourite book character ready for our
parade!
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Primary Cross Country
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n Friday 19 February primary
students from both campuses
gathered at our Thao Dien
Campus (Cherry Blossom) to
compete in the Cross Country run. This is
a new event on our school calendar and it
was wonderful to have such a great turn out
of parents and students. There were two age teams to compete in the upcoming SISAC
groups competing: Under 9 – 1.1Km and
Cross Country Championships.
Under 11 - 2.2Km.
Congratulations to all those who
The results of the top 3 runners in each
participated, we hope this will become an
race are listed below. These students along annual fixture on our school calendar in
with others who ran well, will make up our future.
AIS Primary Cross Country Results
1st
2nd
3rd
TD
U9 Boys
Lucas Clifford
Lucas Ostergard
Kotaro ShiChiJi
TD
U9 Girls
Geralynn Choo
Yuma Kaneko
Florence Bishop
TD
U11 Boys
Talon McLachlan
Sam Clifford
Joshua Tonkin
TD
U11 Girls
Zoe Bernard
Daria sulek
Shizuka Hoshino
TT
U9 Boys
Loudan Hughes
Balfour, Frederick
Polishusk, Zohar
TT
U9 Girls
Pun Pun Pornsiripiyakool
Leia Pham
Kimmi Doan-Tran
TT
U11 Boys
Kotaro Wato
Priyansh Obhan
Kevin Yang
TT
U11 Girls
Banri Abe
Kim Phuong Anh DEBBIE Nguyen
Tanuska Bora
Professional Development
The School is currently busy preparing for the Council of International Schools accreditation visit
and the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme review. Both of these will affirm that
we are an outstanding international school.
One of the indicators of an outstanding school is the quality of our teachers. By valuing the
performance and building the capabilities of our teachers - particularly their expertise, intellectual
development, professional judgement and collegial networks - we improve education outcomes for
students.
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Over the past two years our PRIMARY TEACHERS have had opportunities for professional development
and workshops in:
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Using theatre in the classroom.
IKAN (Individual Knowledge Assessment of Number)
EAL strategies
SENA (Schedule for Early Numeracy Assessment) - a
diagnostic tool
• Probe reading assessment “Probing Kids – using Running
Records effectively for Year 3-6 (or reading level 20+)”
• Letter and sounds
• Primary Art
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‘Outdoor Games for Early Years’
Weebly – online blogging
‘Talk for writing’
Using mobile technology to improve the collection,
organization and sharing of assessment in early primary.
Meditation Workshop: Meditation and Success
Online PYP training for Making the PYP happen
PYP training on Taking Action.
Assessment for Learning strategies
PRIMARY SUPPORT TEACHERS have also had professional development in:
• Taking Action in the PYP
• Literacy
• EAL
• Behaviour management
• Problem solving in mathematics
We have also delivered workshops for Primary & Kindergarten parents on:
• The importance of After School Activities and other nonacademic activities
• Cambridge English and mathematic programmes
• Learning in the kindergarten
It’s important that we continuous learn and share knowledge to evolve and improve, as a school community.
of fun activities
AIS Book Week 2016 is coming on the 7 March – 11 March. Lots
ts and friends of
have been planned for Primary and Kindergarten students. Paren
ery readers’ or to
the school are very welcome to become involved, either as ‘myst
details about Book
come and enjoy the parade on Friday at the campuses. Further
Week will be emailed to parents.
BOOKS
UP OUR WORLD!
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hout the week, including:
Celebrate Book Week 7 MARCH – 11 MARCH with numerous fun activities throug
•MysteryReaders,
•Read-a-Thon,
•BookFair
•BookCharacterParade…andmore!
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Spring Gala
Concert
The Spring Gala Concert promises to be the highlight
of the music calendar. With a wide range of variety
performances, from singing, dancing and juggling,
the Spring Gala Concert will showcase the very best
performers the school has to offer. Please join us on
Wednesday 16 March 2016 at 5.30pm in the Auditorium,
Thu Thiem campus. Funds raised from the event will go
towards the Loretto project.
Be part of the ever growing music community within AIS.
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