UNIS Hanoi’s Weekly Community Newsleer Volume 21, Edion 30, Friday 10 April [email protected]Notes from the Head of School (p.2) Bus Etiquette (p.2) Grade 2 Slice of ICE photo special (p.3) Global Codeathon. Join NOW! (p.4) Counselling Hightlights (p.5) Advice from our Grads (p.6) DP Art Show photo special (p.7) MRISA Soccer Tournament (p.8) Mai Chau Service Learning (p.9) Summer Programme. Register NOW! (p.10) World Health Day (p.11) School Community Organisation News (p.12-13) Job Opportunities (p.13) NEXT WEEK… MONDAY, 13 APRIL K1 Exhibition, 13-16 April EAL Testing for ES students, 13-17 April TUESDAY, 14 APRIL School Community Organisation, 8:30-10:00, Community Room MS Boys’ and Girls’ Volleyball vs CISH @ UNIS Hanoi, 16:00-17:30 WEDNESDAY, 15 APRIL APAC Boys Soccer Tournament @ CA, 15-19 April APAC Girls Soccer Tournament @ WAB, 15-19 April K1 Parent Performance, 9:00-10:00, Theatre THURSDAY, 16 APRIL MSHS 3-Way Parent Conferences (No school for Grades 6-10, No ASAs/HS Sports, MS Sports as normal but no transportation provided), 10:00-18:00 FRIDAY, 17 APRIL Grade 2 Field Trip, 8:30-11:00 ES Snack Sale Morning, 8:30-10:30 Board Committee/Taskforce Appreciation, 18:00-21:30 SATURDAY, 18 APRIL UNIS Hanoi Invitational MS Boys & Girls Volleyball Tournament COMING SOON MONDAY, 20 APRIL Primary Years Programme Grade 5 Exhibition, 20-24 April TUESDAY, 21 APRIL MSHS 3-Way Parent Conferences (No school for Grades 6-10, No ASAs/HS Sports, MS Sports as normal but no transportation provided), 10:00-18:00 Board of Directors Meeting, 18:00-20:00 WEDNESDAY, 22 APRIL ES Earth Day Grade 4 Market Day, 8:45-11:00 THURSDAY, 23 APRIL Executive Committee Meeting, 8:15-9:45, Conference Room MS Boys’ and Girls’ Volleyball vs HIS @ UNIS, 16:00- 17:30 Grade 5 PYP Exhibition Community Sharing, 18:00- 20:00, Centre for the Arts FRIDAY, 24 APRIL Grade 2-3 Swim Meet , 12:30-15:20 SATURDAY, 25 APRIL - MAY 3 Spring Break IN THIS WEEK’S TIN TUC - The Highlights... Click THIS LINK to read new The Spark edition, UNIS Hanoi Middle School Newspaper
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UNIS Hanoi’s Weekly Community Newsletter Volume 21, Edition 30, Friday 10 April
NEXT WEEK… MONDAY, 13 APRIL K1 Exhibition, 13-16 April EAL Testing for ES students, 13-17 April
TUESDAY, 14 APRIL School Community Organisation, 8:30-10:00,
Community Room MS Boys’ and Girls’ Volleyball vs CISH @ UNIS Hanoi,
16:00-17:30
WEDNESDAY, 15 APRIL APAC Boys Soccer Tournament @ CA, 15-19 April APAC Girls Soccer Tournament @ WAB, 15-19 April K1 Parent Performance, 9:00-10:00, Theatre
THURSDAY, 16 APRIL MSHS 3-Way Parent Conferences (No school for Grades 6-10, No ASAs/HS Sports, MS Sports as normal but no transportation provided), 10:00-18:00
FRIDAY, 17 APRIL Grade 2 Field Trip, 8:30-11:00 ES Snack Sale Morning, 8:30-10:30 Board Committee/Taskforce Appreciation, 18:00-21:30
SATURDAY, 18 APRIL UNIS Hanoi Invitational MS Boys & Girls Volleyball
Tournament
COMING SOON MONDAY, 20 APRIL Primary Years Programme Grade 5 Exhibition, 20-24
April
TUESDAY, 21 APRIL MSHS 3-Way Parent Conferences (No school for Grades
6-10, No ASAs/HS Sports, MS Sports as normal but no transportation provided), 10:00-18:00
Board of Directors Meeting, 18:00-20:00
WEDNESDAY, 22 APRIL ES Earth Day Grade 4 Market Day, 8:45-11:00
THURSDAY, 23 APRIL Executive Committee Meeting, 8:15-9:45, Conference Room
MS Boys’ and Girls’ Volleyball vs HIS @ UNIS, 16:00-17:30
Grade 5 PYP Exhibition Community Sharing, 18:00- 20:00, Centre for the Arts
FRIDAY, 24 APRIL Grade 2-3 Swim Meet , 12:30-15:20
SATURDAY, 25 APRIL - MAY 3 Spring Break
IN THIS WEEK’S TIN TUC - The Highlights...
Click THIS LINK to read new The Spark edition, UNIS Hanoi Middle School Newspaper
Earlier this week the Grade 7s had a great advisory class!
We invited a group of Grade 12s to come and talk to us
about what it was like to be graduating and to give us some
advice they wish they had had in Grade 7. Despite the very
busy time for these senior students, they were more than
willing to help us out. They came prepared, and facilitated
the sessions very well. Each of our four Grade 7 Advisory
classes were led by three Grade 12s. They shared their
advice and posed great questions to get us thinking
They also graciously answered all the burning questions we
had, including;
How do you manage your time so you can still have fun
with your friends?
Is IB really that hard?
What are SATs?
How did you decide what university to go to?
Is it OK if you don’t know what you want to do for a
job?
What do universities want to know about you besides
your grades?
Did you study this much when you were our age?
The 12s had some very wise words for us about balancing
our lives, taking our studies seriously, the value of CAS, the
appreciation of the education we get at UNIS Hanoi, how
we can start to figure out what we might want to do, and
mostly to enjoy the time we will have in high school.
Thanks so much to Ms Kerry, Ms Zahid and Mr. Loeffler
for organizing with the Grade 12s and especially to the
students themselves, who gave their time to share some
wisdom with us: Devin Cheong , Do Quynh Anh ,
SoYeon Jeong,
Soya Kanemaru,
Na Young Kim,
Mavindra
Mayerfas,
Thanh Le,
Nguyen Ba
Hung, Than
Viet, Angelique
Somers, Vu
Duong and Vu
Khanh
The opening for the Diploma Visual Art Show was held this week night. There was a great turn out from the UNIS Hanoi community. The quality and magnitude of the
students work was outstanding and many parents and community member praised the creativity of our students here at UNIS Hanoi. The show will be up for another two weeks so you still have time to see it.
IB DP Art Show. Photos by Tuan Anh
The MRISA Football season of 2015 was yet another
season of amazingness, the effort and the passion for
football was seen on all our faces. The MRISA squad
selected consisted of: Jed, Thabo, Ujwal, Dan Bui, Ly Dinh,
SeungWon, Colin, Ki Hyun, Truong Son and Davlet and
was led by Coach Mike McMillen.
After 6 weeks of intense training, we arrived at the MRISA
tournament. During some games, we showed what we were
capable of but in others, we weren’t at our best. Although
we were disappointed with our finishing position of 8th, we
were extremely proud of our effort on the pitch. We
worked hard to close the space, frustrate the opposition,
and track back. We did all we could have done. The
motivation to win games was unbelievable and the sorrows
of losses were seen in the faces simply because of the
passion of the players. Taking ISPP to extra-time after a
thrilling 1-1 draw in normal time was one of the most
exciting and exhausting games we have played in and we
did everything we could to try and claim a victory but sadly
this time it was not to be. However, throughout the season
we have greatly improved our skills and team work and we
will be better prepared and stronger to come back and fight
for the MRISA championship next year!
Ki Hyun, a Grade 10 student who competed in his 2nd
MRISA tournament mentioned that “our season was fun,
the whole team put in a lot of effort into becoming better
players and I believe we did. Although it was tough to play
teams like HIS and ISE, who have been playing together
for longer and have more experienced players, the
experience was a great step into making us better players. I
was really happy with my 2 goals in the friendlies; like,
really happy!”
On behalf of the team, I would like to give a special
mention to Steward Magau, Jek Tan, Gun Hee, Animesh
Sarkorikar and Morgoun Le Nghiem, who had been
training with the team, but did not compete in the
tournament. Their support and involvement with practices
were a great help to us all. We would like to thank our
coach for us his great work this season and also the girl’s
team and friends and family who were there to support us
during the tournament. GO PHOENIX!!!
By Ujwal Kumar (Grade 10)
The Mai Chau Service Learning Group was created to
further the work that we do on the Grade 7 Grade Level
trip. For several years UNIS Hanoi Grade 7s have visited
the Chieng Chau Middle School in Mai Chau, bringing
them school supplies, sharing activities and playing games.
Most of the students there are from the White Thai ethnic
group and the school is sadly under resourced. Last year we
were able to donate 10 used UNIS Hanoi tablets to the
school and with the help of Nguyen Dinh Khanh, from the
UNIS Hanoi Tech department, the Chieng Chau school
now has a functioning computer lab and the government
supplies them with a computer teacher.
With the creation of the SL group this year we are able
focus on building the relationship between the two schools.
The SL group is led by Medeha Zahid and myself and we
have had an absolutely outstanding group of 12 enthusiastic
and committed seventh graders. They held a tech drive in
the fall to collect printers and other useful items for the
school’s computer lab. They raised several hundred dollars
at the Women’s Bazaar and the Spring Fair, with the long-
term goal of raising enough money to build proper toilet
facilities at the school.
The highlight of the year, was bringing a group of 10
students and 2 teachers from the school in Mai Chau to
spend 3 days here at UNIS Hanoi and in Hanoi. An
exciting focal point of the trip was our students teaching
the Mai Chau students how to make movies on the tablets
and creating great little videos of their impressions of UNIS
Hanoi. Several of the students who came had never been
out of the valley and all of them were in awe of UNIS
Hanoi, which they described as the perfect school-
especially the swimming pool!
Here is a report from Richard, Vi and Agathe, three
members of our SL group:
“When the Mai Chau kids came to UNIS, it was clear that this
was a new experience. We tried to be as welcoming as we could when
they arrived, introducing them to UNIS with a scavenger hunt that
took them around our school. With them, we did many fun and
exciting activities, such as going in hamster balls on the water and
visiting the aquarium to see fish as big ourselves. After the day time
activities ended, we enjoyed two delicious dinners with the Mai Chau
students, both of which hosted by the students in the Mai Chau
Service Learning. Then, they enjoyed their stay at the Diamond hotel
downtown, near the Hoan Kiem Lake, before leaving us after three
fun-filled days.”
The Mai Chau group left Hanoi tired but happy and
full of appreciation for the time they spent here. Our
SL students, who planned and led the events and
participated in the activities, also gained so much
from the experience. It was a huge success for all
involved!
Donna Bracewell, on behalf of the Mai Chau SL Group
Food safety is the theme for this year's World Health Day
on April 7.The World Health Organization has chosen this
theme for 2015 over growing concerns about how safe is
the food we eat.
Unsafe food is linked to the deaths of an estimated 2
million people annually – including many children. Food
containing harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical
substances is responsible for more than 200 diseases,
ranging from diarrhoea to cancers.
Food safety is a shared responsibility. It is important to
work all along the food production chain – from farmers
and manufacturers to vendors and consumers. WHO’s Five
keys to safer food offer practical guidance to vendors and
consumers for handling and preparing food to prevent
foodborne diseases.
Key 1: Keep clean
Wash your hand before handling food
Wash your hands after going to the toilet
Wash and sanitize all surfaces and equipment used for
food preparation
Protect kitchen areas and food from insects, pests and
other animals
Key 2: Separate raw and cooked food
Separate raw meat, poultry and seafood from other
foods
Use separate equipment and utensils such as knives and
cutting boards for handling raw foods
Store food in containers to avoid contact between raw
and prepared foods
Key 3: Cook food thoroughly
Cook food thoroughly, especially meat, poultry, eggs
and seafood
Bring foods like soups and stews to boiling to make sure
that they have reached 70°C. For meat and poultry,
make sure that juices are clear, not pink. Ideally, use a
thermometer.
Reheat cooked food thoroughly
Key 4: Keep food at safe temperatures
Do not leave cooked food at room temperature for
more than 2 hours
Refrigerate promptly all cooked and perishable food
(preferably below 5°C)
Keep cooked food piping hot (more than 60°C) prior to
serving
Do not store food too long even in the refrigerator
Do not thaw frozen food at room temperature
Key 5: Use safe water and raw materials
Use safe water or treat it to make it safe
Select fresh and wholesome foods
Choose foods processed for safety, such as pasteurized
milk
Wash fruits and vegetables, especially if eaten raw
Do not use food beyond its expiry date
For more on Food Safety, read http://who.int/campaigns/