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AIS MONTHLY NEWSLETTER | Issue Nov 2017

Helping children become successful in life

From the Executive Principal

Helping our children become successful in life

ast week, I attended some of the APEC sessions. There was considerable talk about the future and how we prepare nations for it. As an education, this means thinking about the educational and life skills children need to be successful. When I was at school, (‘back in the day, Dad’, as my children would say) if anyone was asked to sum up a good education, more likely than not they would reply, a good education means learning the 3 Rs – reading (w)riting and (a)rithmetic. In other words, a good education meant knowing the basics, and that meant knowing the facts. After all, you can’t do much if you can’t read or write or do your sums. If I was to ask the same question today, would we give the same answer? Quite possibly. We would all agree that the basics are very important as they provide the building blocks of learning. Literacy and numeracy skills are essential, and at AIS, we take our responsibility to parents to ensure children become fluent in English, and have great skills in Maths. However, is this enough? If we want our children to be successful in a rapidly changing world, where labour is mobile, and technology changes the way we both live and do business, then for me, schools need to offer more than just ensuring children can read and write. At AIS we support children to develop skills that are transferable and will last them a lifetime. These

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by Dr Roderick Crouch are sometimes called soft skills or 21st century skills, but essentially they are skills of employability and success. If we simply focus on teaching children a series of facts so that they can pass a test, we undersell our children by not providing them with skills they actually need. I think we need to redefine the 3Rs as follows: The first R stands for Research. In other words, children need to know how to acquire knowledge. This includes the ability to read and write. In the knowledge age in which we live, where new information is being created all the time, it is simply not possible to know everything. What we can know, however, is how to find the necessary information. To be able to locate quickly, and digest, the information one needs, both traditional and technological skills are essential. Staff at AIS support children in learning how to research, how to use the internet, and most importantly, how to think about what they are reading. In a world of ‘fake news’, children need to learn that something is not necessarily true just because it is on the internet. The second R stands for Reason. Having knowledge is one thing, but being able to apply it to new or different circumstances is equally crucial. This requires the development of higher order thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis and evaluation. If we

employ a builder and we live on a hill, what good is it if he only knows how to construct a building on flat land! What good are we, as employees, if we can’t develop an ability to solve problems. From Year 1, students at AIS are learning these critical thinking skills. The last R concerns Relationships. In other words, how we work together. As human beings we need to know how to manage the various relationships we have (with family, colleagues, spouses, and even ourselves). The best employees are those who can work well with their colleagues and contribute positively. This is why at AIS, we have home rooms with dedicated pastoral care periods, mindfulness sessions in primary school, as well as all the student leadership opportunities. All of these, plus the professionalism of the staff, help students build their skills in relationships so that they know how to manage themselves and be part of a team. One of the reasons AIS is an IB world school, is that it supports our goal to encourage our students to develop a spirit of inquiry and be a global citizen. As we work together at school and home, we are indeed leading our children to a bright future - as successful, productive young men and women who contribute positively to their families, their communities and to our world.

Library changes

n upgrade to the library has been one of this year’s priorities for AIS. In addition to many new resources and books, including EBSCO – an online platform for secondary students that gives them access to many, many resources, AIS has upgraded its library software. It is a great pleasure to announce that we have now officially launched Follett Destiny as our main library managing software across the school. Follett is an online library database which has been used widely around the world by well-known universities and international schools. Students will have a training session to help them with the new software. Parents are also able to use the software as follows to check if our library has any book that you would like read or borrow. - Go to http://link.aisvietnam.com/ website. - Clicking on “Follett Destiny” logo in Faculty/ Student tab - Choose your child’s campus and the search screen would appear. - No need to log-in. You will use it as a guest. - From here, do the searching under any of the 5 criteria (Subject/ Author/ Series/ Title/ Keyword) If you have any further question, please don’t hesitate to contact me through email: the.mai@aisvietnam.com. by The Mai Librarian

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Pastoral Care At AIS by Mark Vella Deputy Executive Principal

n the late 1990s I was fortunate enough to attend a seminar by renowned American educator, Dr Lorraine Monroe. Dr Monroe rose to prominence through transforming a failing school in Harlem, one of the poorest districts in New York City, into a school of high student expectations, aspirations and achievement. During her seminar Dr Monroe asserted that it is vital that, in any school, every student should have at least one adult that they know they can go to and talk to if they need help, support or guidance. This idea really resonated with me and has been a guiding precept throughout my career as an educator in relation to pastoral care systems in schools. Pastoral care involves supporting students’ physical, social, intellectual and emotional development and well-being. After reviewing pastoral care at AIS, and with Dr Monroe’s advice in mind, we decided to enhance our pastoral care system by implementing a number of initiatives for the 2017- 2018 academic year. The first of these involved the appointment late last year of a team of Student Welfare Co-ordinators (SWC) comprising Ms Danielle Hansen (Years 7 – 9), Ms Christina Zinetti (Years 10 & 11), Mr Andrew Masterton (Year 12) and Mr Andy Cartlidge (Year 13). The SWCs provide reactive support by dealing with issues as they arise. Students are encouraged to see their SWC for support and help if they are experiencing problems or challenges in their lives. The SWCs also provide proactive support by promoting positive behaviour and identifying ageappropriate topics and preparing lessons for the Pastoral periods that are scheduled throughout the year. In particular they encourage students to be an ‘upstander’ - someone who when they see something happening that is wrong does something to make things right - and not a ‘bystander’, someone who witnesses something wrong but doesn’t get involved. Working closely with the SWCs, is Ms Laura Cepek who was appointed as full-time Counsellor and Special Education Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO). Ms Cepek provides counselling for students who are struggling with social and emotional issues. Students may be referred to her by their teachers or SWC, or they may self-refer if they feel they need support. In order to enhance the effectiveness of the school’s Homeroom system the decision was made to change from a vertical structure to a horizontal structure where homeroom classes are made up of students from the same year level. Homeroom teachers have always played a vital role in the pastoral care system, and are the primary point of contact between parents and the school. Moving to horizontal homerooms fosters a stronger, more effective relationship between Homeroom teachers and their classes, and between the students themselves. It also allows us to deliver targeted, age-appropriate pastoral lessons. For example, Year 7 Homeroom classes might have a pastoral lesson focussing on time-management and organisation to support their transition into the secondary school, while Year 12 and 13 students have a lesson with a focus on tertiary study and careers. It is our belief that, together, these initiatives will provide a more supportive environment in which our students can succeed in their studies and thrive in life, both at school and beyond.

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IB Core Celebration Day 2017

riday 10th was our Core Celebration day – a chance to celebrate the achievements of our Year 13 students in their core subjects: Creativity Activity & Service (CAS), Theory of Knowledge (TOK) and the Extended Essay (EE).

watch some of the best ToK presentations of the year (thanks to Ruby and Tien) and then they had a chance to meet all the Year 13 students who each had their own stands to showcase their achievements. You will see from the photos how much fun we all had!

The event kicked off with the inaugural AIS 2 Minute Extended Essay Competition (2MECC). 7 students presented their EE to all of Year 11, Year 12 and Year 13 in only 2 minutes with only one slide in front of a panel of judges. They all did an outstanding job at engaging the audience and presenting the key findings of their highly thought provoking and interesting topics in the fields of Science, Psychology, Art and Literature. The winner was Tien with her presentation about smoking prevalence in Southeast Asia and the amount of nicotine in cigarettes. Her prize will be awarded in a future assembly. After lunch, our Year 12 students had an opportunity to

The Year 13s did an exceptional job in preparing for this event in only one week and I have to thank them and especially our 2MEEC competitors (Ruby, Tien, Lan, Truc Anh, Ha Phuong, Anh Khoi and Tilly), as well as the judges (Ms Hobden and Mr Armstrong) and all the teachers who helped out.

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Well done Year 13 – AIS is proud to have you as our cohort of 2018! Mr Andrew Cartlidge Head of Senior School & IBDP Coordinator

The Hitmaker Project n September 30th, 5 Year 12 students from AIS participated in a business competition open to all International Schools in HCMC. The “Hitmaker Project” is a design and business competition aimed at challenging high-school students to be collaborative and innovative. There are 3 main parts; the business report, manufacturing an original product constructed entirely from recycled materials and showcasing it to a panel of judges that included representatives from the Korean and Spanish Consulates as well as a number of prominent business representatives. Hyun Jin Seo introduced the competition to Seung Yoon Jung, Ramya Balbon, Blair Kelly and Harrison Craig and we all thought it was a great idea. From mid-June 2017,

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we started planning and designing our product, a pet hammock made from recycled MDF and textiles. After writing up the business report we built the product utilizing the school’s Design Technology resources. There were a total of 14 teams in the competition which had students from 7 different international schools in HCMC. Out of these 14 teams, the students from AIS came 2nd overall. Thanks go to Mr Mitchell, the Design Technology teacher. It was a terrific CAS Experience, where we learned important life skills such as collaboration, planning and commitment. by Nigel Hall

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ast Saturday Mr Gakowski and Mr Pollard accompanied three teams from AIS to the Senior Saigon Maths Competition (Senior SMC) at South Saigon International School. 25 teams, from 9 International Schools across HCMC participated in the event. The event consisted of four rounds of competition with each of the scores from the four rounds contributing to an overall position for each team. In the Number-Cross round, 4 teams achieved perfect scores; two of them were from AIS. The Year 12 team of Jerry TO, Hyeon Woo PARK, Yi Jeong BYUN, Min Soo KIM and the Year 11 team of Ji Soo KIM, Andy LI, Sun Min JUNG and Jack Trieu LE. The Year 12 team placed second in this round, the Year 11 team came fourth based on times. Hyeon Woo PARK from Year 12 received an award for Outstanding Achievement in the Individual Round for placing in the top 10 out of the 100 students involved in the competition. Congratulations to all the students who participated â€“ they represented the school well and were great ambassadors for AIS. Well done!

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hat’s right seniors. It’s that time of year to start preparing for your Winter Dance. In addition, for our Class of 2018 graduates, it will be their last AIS Winter Dance.

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FROM THE Primary SCHOOL And Kindergarten PRINCIPAL by Rachel Perkins

Helping your child with reading Dear Parents,

t AIS we love to promote reading with our children, and I would like to highlight a few ways that you can help your child at home.

Reading with your child, as we know, is vital. Research shows that it’s the single most important thing you can do to help your child’s education. It’s best to read little and often, so try to put aside some time for it every day. Books aren’t just about reading the words on the page, they can also present new ideas and topics for you and your child to discuss. Think of ways to make reading fun - you want your child to learn how pleasurable books can be. If you’re both enjoying talking about the content of a particular page, linger over it for as long as you like. Here are 7 top tips to help your child to enjoy books more: • Allow your child to read anything and everything ie comics, leaflets, even the back of the cereal packet! • Encourage your child to pretend to ‘read’ a book before he or she can read words. • Schedule a regular time for reading - perhaps when you get home from school or just before bed. • Buy dual-language books if English isn’t your family’s first language - you can talk about books and stories, and develop a love for them, in any language. • Look for books on topics that you know your child is interested in - maybe dragons, insects, cookery or a certain sport. • Make sure that children’s books are easily accessible in different rooms around your house. • Visit the school library as often as possible – parents at AIS are also members of our school library, so please feel to visit the library and borrow books under your child’s name. Next semester we will enjoy our popular book week where we will have a fun filled week of engaging in lots of reading activities, with parents can come in and be ‘secret readers’ and our now famous ‘extreme reading’ photograph completion but of course more details to come later. Happy reading!

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Innovate and Improve T

he AIS commitment to provide continuous professional development to both teachers and support teachers is testament of our collective approach to improve our teaching practices, and hence improve students’ learning. Tania Lattanzio, an experienced educational consultant, delivered a workshop for all primary teachers on concept based learning in October and worked with each year level team to help support their planning for teaching and learning. Tania, who has had a variety of roles including IB Professional Development manager for 5 years, is now the Director of Innovative Global Education, Currently I am providing training for all support teachers, so that they can be up-skilled in assisting teachers promoting higher order of thinking within Inquiry based approach. Sessions for support teachers will take place on a regular basis, to help them develop the teaching skills needed to facilitate students’ learning effectively using the PYP framework. When it comes to developing avenues for lifelong learning, the AIS commitment does not stop there. A parent workshop on Inquiry-based learning is planned to take place on 23rd November, in TD and TT campus. More details can be found elsewhere in the newsletter. This term, the primary department starts developing the Professional Learning Community (PLC) group, which promotes the idea of ‘teachers as researchers’. So far we have eight PLC groups, researching a variety of teaching aspects to create improvement in their classroom and beyond. We will be delighted to share with you some updates about our learning groups in the future newsletter. by Mida Abdul PYP Coordinator

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n English this month, students from Years 7-11 are participating in an exciting international vocabulary competition. Wordmania runs through the month of November and sees AIS compete with students from all over the world in a timed Scrabble style word building game. Participants are given 3 minutes to create as many words as possible from their assigned letters. This exciting challenge is a fun addition to our normal classes and a good opportunity for students to put themselves to the test! Wordmania will be buzzing through the English department and hopefully the school! by Hannah Maher

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ecently Year 5 at Thao Dien campus had a special presentation from Mark Brown, who works for the United Nations. He came to speak to Year 5 about Migration and the causes and effects of it. The children attentively listened to his informative presentation, and asked lots of questions. We really enjoyed the opportunity to learn more about the risks, challenges and opportunities in migration. by Lorinda Ferreira Year 5 teacher

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usic students are becoming very proficient with playing their instruments. Music has a wide choice of instruments such as flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, trumpet and trombone. Students are practicing their instruments and this requires patients and ongoing commitment. Playing an instrument is a lifelong skill and it is a very rewarding opportunity for students to experience. Students have to play their instrument to make improvements and this is essential to learning an instrument. The Mulan Orchestra has been rehearsing on Saturday. The Orchestra will be playing a difficult selection of songs called the Overture and will be performed to start the show. Mulan comes with its own recorded backing tracks and these will be used in the production. The AIS Senior Concert Band continues to grow in numbers and we are preparing for the Christmas concert at the AIS Christmas Party in Thao Dien on 13 December. It is fantastic to see many students wanting to be at rehearsals on Thursday afternoon. We are playing advanced music and concert band members are enjoying the challenge of playing at a high standard. There will be many other student performances at the concert and this will be an exciting event for us all. Senior music student have been rehearsing and practicing for subject assessments. Selected year 11 and 12 students will be performing at the winter dance and there will be four student performances throughout the evening. We are looking forward to excellent performances at the Winter dance. by Andrew Sweeney

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tudents and teachers throughout the school have been busy helping make props for Mulan. Ms Maher’s and Ms McGuire’s after school clubs have made an enormous amount of cherry blossom flowers from tissue paper while Miss Maloney’s and Miss Alexander’s students have been helping to paint props. Thank you to Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Price and all the students who have been helping out with the production and transportation of these large pieces of art. We are all very much looking forward to the show next week.

n Friday 17th November and Saturday 18th November, GLEE students will participate as part of the chorus in the production ‘MULAN’. Students have been rehearsing every Wednesday at TT and Friday at TD. They will represent the ‘children from China’, while performing ‘Written in stone’. During the performance of ‘Keep ‘em guessin’, they will be part of the ensemble helping Mushu to make a soldier out of Mulan. Do not miss this fantastic show put together by the AIS

Production Team. The students will perform Christmas songs from all around the world at our annual Christmas Carols evening on Wednesday 13th December. This is always a fun filled event with one of the highlights being Santa’s visit. Our Primary School production this year is ‘Aladdin’. Rehearsals for speaking and singing parts will take place during the last week of term one. All GLEE students will be involved in this wonderful musical. Rehearsals will start in January and the performances will be in May. by Tessa Maloney

n 21 October 2017, 17 members of the AIS Titans Swim Squad were invited to a charity swim event. The meet was in Ho Tram and was organised by Mr. Carl Gay (Ho Tram Water Safety) together with a 50KM and 100KM charity cycle ride around Ho Tram Province. This was a community service event to promote safe swimming and water safety in Vietnam and a great opportunity for our new and younger swim squad swimmers to take part in the meet! Amazing swims from everyone that joined. Everybody had a great time and raced very well. After the meet, everyone enjoyed BBQ lunch by the pool. by Jet Asis 14 14

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very Tuesday evening squeals of delight and laughter are heard at the AIS Thao Dien pool when teachers, parents and CAS students (Harrison, Desmond, Mark, Andy, Song Ye and Do Yeon,) support children from the Te Phan orphanage and Hope House in learning how to swim. This project has been running for over three years now. Initially many of the children were scared of the water but now several of them are swimming independently, while the younger children are just happy to play and splash in the shallows. This is an excellent service activity for both staff and students as it puts into action the school philosophy to have a wider social impact on our local community. We also support the children with their transport costs through various fundraisers, and gratefully accept any towels and spare costumes that can be donated from the school community. Adult volunteers are always welcome so please contact cathy.levick@aisvietnam.com if you can spare an hour of your time and bring smiles to these children’s faces. by Cathy Levick - Y2 Class Teacher

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• Thu Thiem: 1.30 - 2.30 | EAL classroom B Block, 2nd • Thao Dien: 8.30 – 9.30 | CB Hall Please send your rsvp to mida.abdul@aisvietnam.com www.aisvietnam.com/upcoming-events

Let’s go Titans, Let’s go !

39 students from AIS represen ted the school at the annual AIS A games tournament, hosted thi by AIS Indonesia. After a 4am s year start, the students were excited to be on the ir way to the games. After a long journey Jakarta welcome d us with massive traffic jams wh ich extended our trip by 4 and half hours! This however did not da mpen the AIS spirit. The opening girls basketball ga me was exhilarating and is one of the most exciting games I ha to open a tournament. With 2 mi ve seen ns left to go, we were down 14 -17 . A thr ee pointer brought this is to 17-17 but we needed a winner. As stated in the tournament rul es , pla y continued until the next bask was scored. We fiercely defende et d, lost possession three times on ly to ma ke a great interception and score from a lay up. The crowd went wild. What an opening. The boys football team played some great games narrowing los ing each by just one goal durin first day of the tournament. In the g the 3rd / 4th position game, it was 3-3, we took the lead but after disallowed goal, we headed to a penalties. A nerve wracking ex pe rie nc e, the se did not go our way on the day. The girls football was also very evenly matched, the girls lost the chance of heading to the final penalties. So close. In the 3rd through / 4th place play off, again it we nt to penalties in which our girls determined not to lose. Everyon were e of the 5 penalty kicks went int o the ba ck of the net, securing the bronze medal position. Well do ne. Our swim team was led by Tess Young, many of our swimmers were competing against older and performed admirably, achie students, ving personal best times. This puts us in a great position in the come as these swimmers furthe years to r develop. Touch Rugby was introduced to our school last year by Mr. Dewe s. Last year we defended well but found it difficult to score. Th is year we scored 8 tries, were quicker with our decision makin understood the game better an g, d worked well as a team. The boys are really picking up the ga and most of the players will sti me well ll be eligible for the games next ye ar. It is fair to say that our boys ba sketball team dominated the oth er schools. We won every game were the talk of the coaches fro and m the other schools. The boys ce rta inl y ros e to the challenge and brought the Champions trophy back to AIS Vietnam. A fantastic tournament, a great group of students and some wo nderful results. So much to be Well done. proud of. Bring on next year, hope to see you in Sharjah at the next u16 AISA games! by Joana Denny

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nce again, our students and teachers were great ambassadors at the Terry Fox Fun Run and donated over 20 Million VND to the Foundation. Though it was an early Sunday morning start, teachers and students arrived well on time to begin the 4KM run. Although some students and teachers said it would be a leisurely stroll and/or brisk walk, their competitive nature proved otherwise. Unofficially, Harrison Craig finished in under 21minutes with Mr Patterson right on his heels. All in attendance had a great time. Thanks again to the teachers and students for all your efforts for this worthwhile cause. On behalf of the SRC.

by Gabriel Price

HALLOWEEN

n the 31st of October the Primary and Kindergarten children enjoyed a day of spooky fun and delicious snacks all provided by the Parent and Friends group. The children dressed up in their best Halloween costumes and took part in a variety of traditional activities. by Rachel Perkins

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AIS Production Team presents

FIND YOUR INNER WARRIOR AIS Thu Thiem Auditorium

17 Nov 6pm 18 Nov 4pm

For anyone who has ever felt “different” or “on the outside looking in”, the story of MULAN is for you. Mulan, played by Jenny Nguyen, is a young girl trying to do the right thing to help her father played by Andy Sundberg, all the while knowing that her culture is steeped in tradition. Defying the village matchmaker played by Sonia Cilento, she takes up arms and disguises herself as a boy in order to spare her father from having to serve in the army. The Huns have invaded, and it is up to the misfit Mulan and her mischievous sidekick Mushu played by Flynn Masterton, to save the Emperor! (played by Dr. Crouch) Disney’s MULAN story is a heart-warming celebration of culture, honour, and the ‘warrior’ spirit and celebrates performing arts excellence in AIS. The time is quickly approaching to show your inner warrior and to show your support for this year’s AIS School Production of Mulan. The date is quickly approaching so make sure to buy your tickets. The production will be on Friday, 17 November at 6 PM and Saturday, 18 November at 4 PM. With over 80 students involved in this production, it is sure to be a treat for the whole family to enjoy. If you are interested in purchasing a copy of the DVD of the show, please contact Mr Price atGabriel.price@ aisvietnam.com We look forward to seeing you there. On behalf of the entire production team. 19

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by Gabriel Price

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AIS

CHRISTMAS PARTY all parents are invited Wednesday 13 December, 5pm – 7pm Thao Dien (AIS Sports Centre) • Food & drinks • Games and activities for kids • R a ffl e a n d l u c k y d o o r p r i z e s r a i s i n g f u n d s f o r C h r i s t i n a N o b e l C h i l d re n ’s F o u n d a t i o n • Appearance by Santa • Performance by AIS choir • A n d m o re ! 21

RSVP: https://goo.gl/gSDEo7

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