UNIS Hanoi’s Weekly Community Newsletter Volume 19, Edition 22, Friday 08 February Next Week... Tet Holidays 09 - 17 February. School Closed. Coming Soon... Monday, 18 February ● School Resumes Tuesday, 19 February ● ISIS Family workshop 17:30, Community Room Thursday, 21 February ● MRISA Junior Soccer Tournament, HIS 21-24 February ● Finance Committee Meeting 07:00 - 08:30, B7 ● Advancement Committee Meeting 08:30 - 10:00, B7 ● Curriculum Transition Meeting for Grade 5 Parents 18:00, B8 Friday, 22 February ● ASA Session 3 Registration 22 - 24 February Saturday, 23 February ● UNIS Hanoi Aquathlon Coming Soon... Tuesday, 26 February ● Community Event with Peter Brown 18:00 - 19:30, B10 Wednesday, 27 February ● APAC Drama Festival -Seoul Foreign School, ends 3 Mar ● APAC Band-Hong Kong Int’l School, ends 3 Mar ● Kindergarten PAC, 09:00 - 10:00, B10 ● Community Meeting: Values & Beliefs, 19:00 - 21:00, B10 Thursday, 28 February ● UNIS Hanoi MUN Conference 28 Feb - 2 March ● ECC Parent Info Session 14:00, ECC-Room G27 ● Information night for G5 Exhibition, 18:00 - 19:00, B7 [email protected]IN THIS WEEK’S TIN TUC - The Highlights... Notes from the Board of Directors (p.2) Admissions for 2013-2014 (p.2) Notes from the Middle/High School Principal (p.3-4) Kindy PAC. Save the Date! (p.10) Peter Brown. Coming Soon... (p.11) 25th Birthday Alumni Project (p.11) ISIS Family Special (p.12-13) We had a lovely Tet Celebration (p.5) NEW! Uniquely UNIS Auction (p.6) Notes from the Middle/High School Assistant Principal (p.7) Tet Bags Thank You (p.14) UNIS Tree Nursery (p.15) Spring Fair. Book Now! (p.16) New Year...New Drum (p.17) Grade 5 Curriculum Transition Meeting (p.8) ECC Parent Info Session (p.8) UMA News (p.8) 100 Day Celebration (p.6) After School Activities News (p.19) APAC Swimming (p.20) MUN Host Families Needed (p.22) Job Opportunity (p.23)
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UNIS Hanoi’s Weekly Community Newsletter Volume 19, Edition 22, Friday 08 February
Next Week... Tet Holidays 09 - 17 February. School Closed.
Coming Soon... Monday, 18 February
● School Resumes
Tuesday, 19 February
● ISIS Family workshop 17:30, Community Room
Thursday, 21 February
● MRISA Junior Soccer Tournament, HIS 21-24 February
● Finance Committee Meeting 07:00 - 08:30, B7
● Advancement Committee Meeting 08:30 - 10:00, B7
● Curriculum Transition Meeting for Grade 5 Parents
18:00, B8
Friday, 22 February
● ASA Session 3 Registration 22 - 24 February
Saturday, 23 February
● UNIS Hanoi Aquathlon
Coming Soon... Tuesday, 26 February
● Community Event with Peter Brown 18:00 - 19:30, B10
Wednesday, 27 February
● APAC Drama Festival -Seoul Foreign School, ends 3 Mar
● APAC Band-Hong Kong Int’l School, ends 3 Mar
● Kindergarten PAC, 09:00 - 10:00, B10
● Community Meeting: Values & Beliefs, 19:00 - 21:00, B10
Thursday, 28 February
● UNIS Hanoi MUN Conference 28 Feb - 2 March
● ECC Parent Info Session 14:00, ECC-Room G27
● Information night for G5 Exhibition, 18:00 - 19:00, B7
Bui Vu Yang Seung Yoo Phung Mai Kim Min Ji Lee Hyun Ji Ryu Chi Hyun Escalante Vince Jose Kei-ko Fiebrantz Lena Buahin Awua Shankar Anushka Lachman Ewa Dung Pham Thao Muchaku Mai Obayashi Chihiro Trinh Nhi Nguyen Linh Vo Linh
Academic
HONOuR ROLL
Grade 10
Tran My-Linh Cheong Devin Lai Veronica Jeong So Yeon Jeong So Hee Nguyen Minh Anh Senanayake Darikha Do Van Hamer Ruan Do Quynh Anh Fiebrantz Jonas Noh Hae Ji Kim Na Young Than Viet Vallely Gillian Yoon Hye Lin Mallon Kim Lan Nguyen Duong Beek Melanie Park Tae Jun Curcio Sara
Grade 11
Vu Thien Barbara Trees Jamie Lee Ju Youn Lee Ji Hoon Le Son Stephens William (Will) Do Quynh Anh Hoa Phong Nguyen Hai Anh Ho Minh Yoon Eel Hee Muchaku Mana Prytz Lucas Sohn Seung Hyun Le Phuong van den Brink Jessica Tam Hiong Lin Lee Dong Heon Tang Maximilian Sugimori Kanji Mondal Partho Evans Aincre Nguyen Tuan Anh Le Hai Anna Hyun Kyung Hyea Tagomori Hanna Mai Chi Satpathy Shefali Tran My Ko Eun Bee (Cindy) Hwang Hyun Su
Grade 12
Ha Hai Teranishi Masatoki Soderberg Jimmy Davies Ruby Senanayake Dehaja Kimura Ayaki Nyberg Yanik Kim Young Jin Tang Zhen Wayne Kim Da Hyeong Emblem Kelly Jo Tae Hee Porter Charlotte Tran Le-My Dluzniewska Monika Beard Ellen Kim Bum Soo Cohen Sariek (Sarig) Banglorewala Shraddha Kim Andrew Le Huong Giang Ngo Minh Pham Linh Nishimura Haruka Yang Na Yeong
Tet Celebration
Notes from Advancement Office
BIRTHDAY UPDATE
Our BIRTHDAY BALL is approaching – Make sure you have the date marked in your calendar: APRIL 13. We
will be launching the event details after Tet and it promises to be a wonderful community celebration as well as a lot of fun
and fundraising… Get ready to party!
Our goal is to make a Birthday Gift which will support those most in need in Vietnam for the next 25 years! And most im-
portantly, will also engage our students and build meaningful connections in our community through Service Learning.
Last week we announced our UNIQUELY UNIS AUCTION – an auction of our community’s time and talents!
It is a celebration of what we all have to offer! It will also only be open to UNIS Hanoi community members for bids.
ALREADY CONFIRMED FROM FACULTY…
A round of golf with the Head of School
Dr Chip Barder will host a round of golf at one of Vietnam’s top courses.
Handyman for the Day
Director of Operations, Dave Porter, will set your home straight.
Digital Scrapbooking Class
HS Physics teacher Ingrid Renneberg will introduce this beautiful hobby.
Personalised Perfume!
ES French teacher Clemence Barbier (La Dame Clemence) will consult and create a perfume just for you!
French Cheese and Wine Tasting
With her French husband, Director of Advancement, Emma Silva will host a ‘guided tour’ from their homeland.
NEW! Tandem Tour with our Cycling Supremo!
A fun trip out with Director of Technology, Ed Gilbreath and his tandem
ALREADY CONFIRMED FROM PARENTS…
Personal Style Review
Wardrobe Review & Personal Shopping tour
Knitting Masterclass
Either beginners, starting again after a long absence or looking to tackle something more difficult.
Cooking Whizz!
Learn to cook a delicious new menu and then enjoy eating it!
Private Yoga Class
75 min private hatha yoga class for absolute beginners to intermediate-level practitioners
NEW! British Beetle Drive Bonanza
A traditional Games Night for teams of 4 – Fun for all the family!
These are just a few of the wonderful ideas that our parents and faculty have already come up with… But anything goes!
Contact the UNIQUELY UNIS team on [email protected] with any questions or with your ideas.
YOUR TIME AND TALENTS CAN CHANGE SOMEONE’S LIFE THOUGH THE
Westlake TET Specialties Buffet 8th -13th February
Come as a family or with a group of friends and enjoy our daily lavish TET buffet with fresh Nha Trang Blue Lobster, all your favorite local seafood and imported meat as well as house made Banh Chung and 6 interactive live cooking stations. Enjoy our Traditional Vietnamese Dragon dance to bring in the Year of the Snake on the 10th
VND 1, 075, 000 ++ per Adult excluding beverages
VND 1, 290, 000 ++ per Adult including free flow of beer, wine and soft drink
VND 2, 365 000 ++ per Adult including Moet Chandon
Saigon Restaurant
A Celebration of TET - February
Celebrate the Lunar New Year with a range of specially designed TET celebration menus custom designed by Chef Thang and his culinary team. Signature dishes include Deep fried minced beef and green rice, Wok fried soft shell crab, Salmon gilled in Pandan leaves and Steam live Garoupa and Pink Birds nest soup and stir fried lobster
TET Celebrations menus start at VND 840,000++ per adult
50% for children 6 -12 Children under 6 Eat Free
Don’t forget to ask about our special TET Hampers from Le Gourmet
For more information or to make a reservation, please call us at (04) 6 270 8888 or email [email protected]
From Our Birthday Sponsor For Our Community
Next week after the Tet holiday you will receive information concerning this year’s Grade 6 – 11 Trips that
will run from March 18 to 22. The Grade Level Trips provide an invaluable opportunity for your child(ren)
to interact with the local community, to have the curriculum extended in a meaningful and productive
manner and to interact socially while living and working together in a way that is not possible during the
regular school day. It is an expectation that all students from grade 6 through to grade 11 will attend and
participate fully. It is very important that all students have a copy of passport and visa along with their
consent forms completed, signed and returned to their homeroom teachers no later than Friday
February 22.
A link to up-to-date documentation regarding the trips, including copies all forms, will be sent out in the very near future.
Trip destinations by grade:
Grade 6 - Cuc Phuong
Grade 7- Mai Chau
Grade 8- Ba Vi
Grade 9- Ba Be
Grade 10 - Sa Pa
Grade 11 - Hoa Binh - V- Resort
During the same time, our grade 12 students will be involved in the Mock Examinations. The schedule for these
examinations will be released shortly but certainly preparation for these examinations should be an increasing priority over
My name is Bryony Rickard and as a Grade 10 student I have to complete a Personal Project. My Project is to get in contact with our alumni through the use of a quick, simple online form so that our current community can hear what our school was like over the last 25 years.
If you know anyone or you are someone who knows anyone I could get in contact with who has any interesting stories then please contact me! Thank you!
Bryony Rickard, Grade 10 Student
Nationality: Vietnamese
Where are you living now? HCMC
What are you doing now (job/studying)? Working
What year(s) [eg. 2010-2012] were you at UNIS and what Grade level(s) were you in at that time? 1997-2002, grade 7 - 12
What is your favourite memory from UNIS Hanoi? Playing soccer for UNIS team and finally winning the soccer tournament during my last year!
What was the best advice a UNIS teacher gave you? You need to work hard.
Who was your favourite teacher and why? Mr. Jacobsen, he was my IB History teacher and also my soccer coach. I was never really into history, but it became one of my favorite subjects even though he was probably the hardest teacher.
How did you get to school every morning? walk, school bus, motorcycle
Who were your best friends and are you still in touch with them? Waleed Matin and Janice Teo amongst many of my good friends, and I still keep in touch with a lot of them
How did you and your friends like to spend your free time? Playing sports and partying :)
What is your favourite memory/place in Hanoi? I was born there :P
Getting In Touch Project
Nationality: USA/Spain
Where are you living now? Hong Kong
What are you doing now (job/studying)? Fauna conservation volunteer
What year(s) [eg. 2010-2012] were you at UNIS and what Grade level(s) were you in at that time? Only 1 year, the 1996-1997 school year, 7th grade for me at the time
What is your favourite memory from UNIS Hanoi? I loved Olympic day at Hang Day stadium. I was so impressed by the fact that we were competing in an actual stadium. We even had team shirts printed out, with numbers and everything. I didn't win any medals but it was good fun.
What was the best advice a UNIS teacher gave you? It's not a particular word of advice I remember, but insight into the cultural differences inherent in an international school. I remember one of our teachers telling us how he could tell that some of the students were suffering from physical violence at home, but that it was difficult to take action: in America or Canada a teacher could be sent to jail for failing to report signs of parental abuse, but in Korea physical punishment was considered normal. He said it in the best possible way, in hopes that the students suffering abuse would come talk to him privately, but without singling anyone out. It helped me understand the cause of the violent behavior I had seen in some of my classmates.
Who was your favourite teacher and why? Mrs Auckland, my History/Geography teacher (and English? sorry, it's been so long...) She was warm and encouraging. As part of a presentation I sang a silly little song I had written for the occasion and she was delighted.
How did you get to school every morning? I took a small school bus, like a mini-bus, but that was the easy part. The hard part was crossing the hectic stream of bicycles and motorbikes on Tai Ha street to get to the bus stop.
Who were your best friends and are you still in touch with them? My best friend was Trent, an Australian kid in my class, and his little brother Ben was best friends with my little brother (both in 5th grade). Other friends I remember were Gabriel (French), Sarah (Thai), Rowan (Australian), Frank (Dutch), Ashley (American). I also had my first girlfriend at UNIS, Ida (Danish), and my first heartbreak when she dumped me a week later. I'm bad at keeping in touch but my brother has been in contact with Ben and Trent through Facebook.
How did you and your friends like to spend your free time? In between classes or during a free period we would buy snacks from the Tuk Shop on the first floor and eat them on the nearby couch in the hallway. They sold crispy little Nem for 100 dong each, or 1 US penny at the time.
What is your favourite memory/place in Hanoi? The Swedish Bar (not exclusively for Swedes) was loads of fun. UNIS families would gather there on weekends for drinks and hamburgers. There was a pool, and just next door, a mini video game arcade (3 or 4 machines total). I also loved the zoo, where I often went with my brother and Ben and Trent, who lived right next door at the Daewoo, though at the time I didn't realized how badly neglected most of the animals there are... There were bumper cars, and you could hand feed the elephants (my brother almost got crushed once).
What is your claim to fame? Oh, I don't want to be famous.
Any other good/funny stories? UNIS used to share a building with 2 other schools: a French school and a Vietnamese school. There were bars separating our school from the Vietnamese one at the hallway junction by the Tuk Shop. In between classes we could see each other through the bars. Sometimes we would yell and insult each other, but it was mostly peaceful. Also, my brother's grade had class in a temporary one-story building outside the main school. During monsoon they missed a few days of school because of flooding but we didn't, and I thought it was 'so unfair'. Some kids got leeches.
Tech Director Tidbits
Normally at this time of year the weather is so miserable that I would be happy to be inside writing this short item for the
UNIS Hanoi Community. However, the beautiful weather this week has challenged my resolve to be task oriented.
Please take some time to access ISIS Family in order to confirm that your ISIS Family installation works before ASA sign-
ups in two weeks. This will also be a good time confirm that your Guardian Information is correct. Please follow these steps
to access ISIS Family:
1. ISIS Family works with PC (IExplorer, Firefox, Chrome) or Mac (Safari, Firefox). ISIS Family does not work with
Chrome on a Mac.
2. If this is the first time you have run ISIS Family from your computer, make sure that the Microsoft Silverlight plugin is
installed (version 5.1 or later) by going to: http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/ If you have don’t have Silverlight or
you have an old version it will ask you to download and install the latest version:
3. Run ISIS Family in your browser, by going to the URL: http://isis.unishanoi.org/isis_family/isis_family.html
4. Enter your ISIS Family Username and Password at the prompt (the same
password sent to you for Report Cards, Conference signups, and ASA
Signups).
Note: No @unishanoi.org after your username, as when you log into the
UNIS Hanoi portal!
Your password is a 6 digit number unless you have changed it. If you
changed your password and have forgotten it, please call UNIS Hanoi Tech
Support (04) 3758 1551 ext. 8601 and ask to reset your ISIS Family password.
5. On the right hand side Family panel, click on the rectangle with your name and photo.
6. When you sign-in and click on your picture you will see the following screen:
7. You can review your Guardian Information and submit information corrections by clicking on Change on the left side of
the menu bar. Once you have made the changes click “OK” at the bottom of the Change Request screen.
UNIS Hanoi will offer an ISIS Family workshop on Tuesday, February 19 at 5:30 pm in the Community Room of B7. We will have Tablets available for you to practice signing in to ISIS, checking your Guardian Information, practice accessing documents and signing up for ASAs. Please confirm your attendance by emailing me at [email protected], before close of business on February 18th, so that we can have enough Tablets available for the workshop. Tet is wonderful time to enjoy Hanoi. Happy New Year! Ed Gilbreath, Director of Technology [email protected]
Parents...please remember to send a lunch ticket or money each day with your Grade 1 and above child so he/she can purchase lunch. FYI: The Canteen does serve a vegetarian option each day.
Milk Product : Green Color
Pork : Red Color
Seafood : Blue Color
*** Main dish contains EGG
Canteen Menu for the week of February 18 to February 22