Weekly mail 9 6 December 2011
Breaking news Farewell and welcome back Today we said goodbye to Josefina. It is quite special for someone to become part of a staff in such an easy and quiet way. We appreciated your professionalism and hope to see you back in future. You are a born MYP teacher! Fortunately we also welcome back Florencia from her maternity leave. We are very happy to have you back and hope you get settled into your new routine quickly.
Morning assembly on Thursday We will have no morning assembly. Mentors, please let your classes know.
MYP Authorization visit. What to say? The reality is that we have to wait for the official report. Both Sabrina and I have a positive feeling about the exit meeting. There will be matters to be addressed, but I really hope that we can fix it by sending in a report. We will let you know as soon as we receive news. Again, thank you so much for your hard work and support in the months leading up to the visit and your positive attitude in getting this done.
Sinterklaas! I hope you agree that this was a lovely addition to our year calendar. Thanks to the parents and Yvette for arranging it all during a very hectic week.
“A personal touch in a sustainable environment” About our Students New students: Year 7 (Rob) Angelina Gamez Philip Pattynama (will join us from Monday 12/12/2011) Year 9 (Florencia) Samantha Gamez Hugo Claassen Reza Imamkhan (pending) Celine Imamkhan (pending) Year 10 (Ayesha) Judith Claassen Mentors, please buddy these students each to one of our own students. Take care in your selection. Yvette has information in the student files. Invite the parents for an introduction meeting in the first two weeks after the Christmas break so you can get information about the new additions to your class. This is the personal touch bit…
Staff matters Christmas dinner This year our Staff Christmas dinner will be held on Thursday 15 December starting with pre-dinner drinks at 16:00. Yvette and Natasha are organizing it. Invitations, I believe, are on their way. One thing you may want to consider is using public transport home, as we will be serving wine at the dinner.
Lars will be back as from tomorrow, joining us for half days until further notice. It is nice to have you back Lars!
Academic work Now that all the MYP AV excitement is over, we can really focus on getting a lot of work done before the Christmas th
break. Report 2 is due on the 13 of March. Only two months after the Christmas break and we should not leave tests and assignments for the two weeks before the report is due. This was a very specific request from the student council.
Staff meeting agenda 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Welcome MYP AV post mortem Open day preparation – 28 January (please see attached draft concept) PSG activities Other After the staff meeting, we will continue with the iPad training
The coming weeks at the ISAlmere Date
Activity
Tue 6 Dec
Parent teacher meetings and MYP5 subect
18:00
choice information evening.
Comment
Thu 8 Dec 13:30
Meeting – Gezonde Schlen in the auditorium
This is for your information only
14:45
Staff meeting (see agenda above)
Room 57
15:30
iPad training
Room 57
Thu 15 Dec
Staff Christmas dinner
Starts from 16:00
Mon 19 Dec – Fri 23 Dec
Community and service week
We will collect food for the voedselloket and students will be reflecting on their own C&S in this week
Thu 22 Dec
Christmas lunch
Fri 23 Dec
Christmas break starts
Rynette
No lessons