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Volume 11, Issue 4, 09 September 2010
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Message from the Principal
September 10
Hari Raya Puasa No School
This Friday we are celebrating the festival of Eid or Hari Raya Puasa, a public holiday
in Singapore. It falls on the first day of Syawal, the 10th month of the Islamic
calendar Hijrah. It is an occasion to celebrate the end of a month-long fasting called
Ramadan. Hari Raya is Malay for "grand day of rejoicing" and in Singapore, it is the
most prominent of all Muslim festivals. On behalf of the school, we hope that our
Muslim families enjoy their celebration and we will look forward to learning more
about this celebration during our assemblies next week.
September 15
School Photographs
September 16
Grade 6 & 7
Excursion - Asian
Civilisations Museum
September 18
Cognita Principal’s CupGolf Tournament
September 22
MYP Parent Workshop
September 25
Family Picnic
September 29
PYP Parent Workshop
On Monday, we started our afterschool and lunchtime activity program which is
always very popular with the students. Despite the rain we had a very successful
week and I would like to thank Ms. Karen Voroney for all her work in preparing the
program and allocating staff and students to activities.
On Wednesday, we had the first of our series of Information Coffee afternoons
which saw a large group of parents in attendance to discuss and learn more about
our Learning Support department, its programs and the processes we have in place
to cater for individual needs and differentiate student learning. It highlighted how
important these sorts of sessions are in articulating the school’s vision and what we
can do to shape it. I would like to thank Carrie Lupoli for her wonderful presentation
and to the parents for engaging in such an important discussion. Thank you also to
the PTA for their support in organizing these events and if you have any ideas about
future topics you would like covered, I am sure they would like to hear from you.
School Photo’s - Next week, September 15th, we will be taking our class and
individual photo’s for the year – children will be required to wear their full school
uniform including closed in shoes (no crocs or ballet slippers). We would also ask
that children are neat & tidy in appearance which includes girls tying their hair back
with hair ties. Please do not send children in their PE uniform on this day.
A reminder to all our parents to observe the school’s parking lot speed limit of
10kph. Also, slow down as you pass the raised walkway. It is imperative that we
observe these rules to keep our children safe!
Have a great weekend everyone!
By Mr. Liam King
Principal
[email protected]
Stamford American International School Pte Ltd • 11 Lorong Chuan • Singapore 556821 • Tel: +65 6602 7247 • www.sais.edu.sg
Registered in Singapore No. 200823594D • Registered office: 80 Raffles Place, #48-01 UOB Plaza, Singapore 048624
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Early Years Update
Early Years shared their first assembly on Thursday and what a wonderful time we had. The children made some beautiful
decorations to help celebrate Hari Raya which were on display around the room during our assembly.
Miss Christabel’s KG1 class gave a lovely rendition of the “Brown Bear, Brown Bear who do you see?” book.
book What clever
students to remember the order and all the animals in the book!
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Starting next week we will be running additional and different small groups for children in the Early Years. These are fun
small groups which give intense structured language, communication and social skills to children. I have been running these
for many years and enjoy them as much as the children do. They are play based sessions which run for 20 minutes once per
week. During the next few months all the children will be involved in these groups at some time. If you would like more
information on this, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Polite Notice –Can parents of children in the Early Years please take their snacks outside of the canteen
between 11am and 1pm.
Happy Holidays to all.
By Ms. Sylvie Lepillier
Early Years Coordinator
[email protected]
Stamford American International School Pte Ltd
Ltd • 11 Lorong Chuan • Singapore 556821 • Tel: +65 6602 7247 • www.sais.edu.sg
Registered in Singapore No. 200823594D • Registered office: 80 Raffles Place, #48-01
#48 01 UOB Plaza, Singapore 048624
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Elementary Update
“Do you learn because people tell you to . . . or because you have a burning question?”
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What is so special about the PYP?
Why should you know more about it?
How is it connected to the American curriculum?
What has it got to do with lifelong learning and global citizenship?
We would like to invite you to the PYP Information Evening on September 29, 2010 at 7:30pm.
The key idea we will inquire into is:
The PYP is an international curriculum framework that promotes student-centered, relevant, significant, challenging and engaging
teaching and learning.
As the session will be organized in a workshop format we ask that you RSVP to our PYP Coordinator Miss Raquel at
[email protected] to confirm a place.
Upon receipt of your confirmation, we require your help! Assessing prior knowledge is all part of the learning cycle. To
enable SAIS to facilitate parents understanding of the IB Primary Years Programme and how you can support your children’s
learning at home, we will ask you to complete the survey so we can endeavor to include your inquiries in our introductory
workshop.
On Friday, there is no school because of the holiday. We wish all our Muslim families a Happy Hari Raya Puasa!
Finally, I would like to congratulate the following children who received merit awards this week in the Elementary assembly.
Great work! We are all really proud of you.
Kindergarten 2
Augustine Stoeterau, Yansi Foong, Andres Cedeno and Grace Lupoli
Grade 1
Alexandra Parciak, Dante Jimenez, Andreas Canos and Camilla Fujino Moller
Grade 2
Caterina Canos and Kendrick Sebastian
Grade 3
Justin Policarpio and Freddy Scott
Grade 4
Ben Swanson and Hee Jee Noh
Grade 5
Deniz Korkmaz and Harry Cho
I look forward to sharing more news with you next week.
By Ms. Kim Lightfoot
Elementary Coordinator
[email protected]
Stamford American International School Pte Ltd • 11 Lorong Chuan • Singapore 556821 • Tel: +65 6602 7247 • www.sais.edu.sg
Registered in Singapore No. 200823594D • Registered office: 80 Raffles Place, #48-01 UOB Plaza, Singapore 048624
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Middle School Update
Big congratulations to Grade 6 for presenting their science learning to students in KG2 – 7 on Thursday in such a meaningful
and appropriate manner. Students prepared their presentations in science class this week and, upon reflection, they really
know their stuff! I was especially impressed at how the students contextualized the significant concept in a way that was
appropriate for younger students. I would like to thank the parents who took the time out of their schedules to attend the
assembly and celebrate the grade 6’s learning. It really means a lot to the students and to our Middle School.
Our Middle School PTA representative, Mrs. Laurie Lang and our Middle School room parent, Mrs. Julie Collado spent a
great deal of time organizing a successful Middle School coffee and I was glad to see so many parents attending the session.
We spent a great deal of time discussing different possibilities for events and celebrations and I’m excited to have such
vibrant room parents for Middle School.
I am also very thrilled about our music program led by Mr. Miller. He has all the Middle School students playing an
instrument, but more so, the students are energized about music class. I was able to attend one of Mr. Miller’s grade 6 music
classes and he had the students ‘breathing correctly’ in order to play their brass instruments. I was in awe at the buttery
smooth sound that Mr. Miller was able to conduct out of the students!
Students in the Middle School are looking forward to the Asian Civilisations Museum on Thursday, September 16th. Please
remember that all students will need to bring a ‘nut-free’ packed lunch on this day.
A reminder that after school activities (ASA) have started this week and middle school students have been busy playing chess,
cheerleading and practicing taekwondo. A special thanks to Ms. Voroney for organizing such a great experience for all of our
students. Studies indicate that middle school students that participate in extra-curricular activities generally do ‘better’ in all
aspects of school life.
Finally, a reminder that I will be leading an introductory Middle Years Program (MYP) session on September 22nd at 7:30 p.m.
in the Multipurpose Hall. All parents from all grade levels are welcome to attend, however I ask that you RSVP before then
to: [email protected].
As always, thanks for the support.
By Mr. Andy Hancock
Middle School Coordinator
[email protected]
Stamford American International School Pte Ltd • 11 Lorong Chuan • Singapore 556821 • Tel: +65 6602 7247 • www.sais.edu.sg
Registered in Singapore No. 200823594D • Registered office: 80 Raffles Place, #48-01 UOB Plaza, Singapore 048624
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Dante Jimenez Gaziola
Grade 1
1 September
Michael Harris
Nursery
3 September
Cailin Du Preez
KG2
3 September
Egan Hansen
Pre-K
3 September
Ali Raza Jafree
Pre-K
3 September
Jun Fujino Moller
Pre-K
3 September
Emma Smits
KG2
5 September
Kristie Parciak
Grade 5
5 September
Millika McLeod
KG1
5 September
Oliver Cengarle Desforges
Pre-K
5 September
Ethan Kim
Grade 2
7 September
Kara Sebastian
Pre-K
7 September
Samantha Milliken
KG2
7 September
Nora Steen
Nursery
8 September
Cristina Yang
Pre-K
9 September
Kyra Finkelstein
Grade 4
11 September
Jordan Simon
Nursery
11 September
Lindsey Collado
Grade 6
13 September
Belle Leggett
KG1
13 September
Mia El-Yafi
KG2
14 September
Jack Lovas
KG1
14 September
Matthew Chen
Pre-K
15 September
Calvin Martin II
Grade 6
16 September
Alexander Sengelmann
Nursery
18 September
Michelle Nazarov
Grade 1
18 September
Isabella O'Brien
KG2
20 September
Mimi Lim
Nursery
20 September
Paul Slawson
Pre-K
22 September
Sarah Jafary
KG1
23 September
Diane Kim
Grade 1
23 September
Jasmine Wani
Grade 1
25 September
Cherry Nguyen
KG1
26 September
Sophia Maxwell
KG2
28 September
Misaki Hoshi
Grade 1
28 September
Ty Terunuma
KG1
30 September
Michelle Low
Nursery
30 September
Stamford American International School Pte Ltd • 11 Lorong Chuan • Singapore 556821 • Tel: +65 6602 7247 • www.sais.edu.sg
Registered in Singapore No. 200823594D • Registered office: 80 Raffles Place, #48-01 UOB Plaza, Singapore 048624
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PTA Update
We would like to thank Carrie Lupoli for her talk on Wednesday about the Learning Support Department at SAIS. We are
very lucky to have Carrie at SAIS to help with the development of this program. It will truly be something to set SAIS apart
from the rest of the international schools in Singapore.
We are still looking for volunteers for our UN food festival and Country Ambassadors. The PTA will be working with SAIS
and the 7th grade class in the running of this event on October 8th.
Halloween planning meetings have started so please contact us if you are interested in joining the committee. This
“Spooktacular”
pooktacular” event was a big hit last year and is shaping up to be just as big this year.
Family Picnic at SAIS – Sept 25th from 11-2pm
Everyone is invited to this fun, relaxed event.
Bouncy castle, free ball play and puppet show!
Bring a dish to pass and the PTA will provide the burgers and fun!
Suggestions for dishes:
Early Years – fruit and veggies
Elementary - Salads and sides
Middle School – Desserts
Please RSVP to [email protected] by Sept 20th for ordering purposes.
Notices
Learn to Swim Program
Would you like to be part of a fun program at Stamford American International School? We are looking for qualified
Swim Instructors for our Learn to Swim Program. If you are interested please contact [email protected].
Once qualified swim instructors are in place, we will commence our Learn to Swim program.
Stamford American International School Pte Ltd • 11 Lorong Chuan • Singapore 556821 • Tel: +65 6602 7247 • www.sais.edu.sg
Registered in Singapore No. 200823594D • Registered office: 80 Raffles Place, #48-01 UOB Plaza, Singapore 048624