UNIS Hanoi’s Weekly Community Newsletter Volume 19, Edition 31, Thursday 18 April Next Week... Monday, 22 April ● MS MAP Testing (Grades 6-8) 22 - 26 April ● MSHS 3-Way Conference. No School for MSHS Tuesday, 23 April ● SCO All Parent Meeting 08:30 - 09:30, B7 ● Technology Advisory Council 16:30 - 17:30, B7 Wednesday, 24 April ● Grade 5 PYP Exhibition, 24 - 26 April, B10 Thursday, 25 April ● High School Athletics Day 08:30 ● Grade 5 PYP Exhibition PAC for parents 18:00, B10 Friday, 26 April ● Grade 3 Trip to Honda Motorcycle Factory 9:00-13:00 Saturday, 27 April - 5 May ● Spring Break. School and Campus Closed. Offices Open Weekdays except April 30 and May 1 Coming Soon... Thursday, 2 May ● IB DP Exam 2 - 22 May Saturday, 4 May ● SAT Testing (High School) Tuesday, 7 May ● ES Parents Forum with the principals 08:30 Thursday, 9 May ● All parents Technology Session 08:30 - 10:00 Library Projection Room Friday, 10 May ● Breakfast with the Head of School 08:15 [email protected]IN THIS WEEK’S TIN TUC - The Highlights... Notes from the Head of School (p.2) Avian Influenza News (p.3) Notes from the Elementary and Middle/High School Principals (p.4-5) Smile Charity Concert (p.13) Protect Your World - Get Vaccinated (p.14) SCO All Parent Meeting. Coming Soon! (p.15) Living with Technology (p.5) Grades 6-8 MAP Testing (p.6) IB Diploma Exam (p.6) A Night to Transform! Birthday Ball Photos Special (p.7-9) Who Swim Best in Elementary? (p.16) MS Athlectics Day Photos and Results (p.17) APAC Soccer Schedule (p.12) Grade 5 Exhibition Next Week! (p.10) IB Art Exhibition. (p.11) Summer Camp is Back. Read further for details. (p.12) Job Opportunities (p.14-17)
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UNIS Hanoi’s Weekly Community Newsletter Volume 19, Edition 31, Thursday 18 April
Next Week... Monday, 22 April
● MS MAP Testing (Grades 6-8) 22 - 26 April
● MSHS 3-Way Conference. No School for MSHS
Tuesday, 23 April
● SCO All Parent Meeting 08:30 - 09:30, B7
● Technology Advisory Council 16:30 - 17:30, B7
Wednesday, 24 April
● Grade 5 PYP Exhibition, 24 - 26 April, B10
Thursday, 25 April
● High School Athletics Day 08:30
● Grade 5 PYP Exhibition PAC for parents 18:00, B10
Friday, 26 April
● Grade 3 Trip to Honda Motorcycle Factory 9:00-13:00
Saturday, 27 April - 5 May
● Spring Break. School and Campus Closed. Offices Open
Field Trips We have enjoyed an extremely busy time with Field Trips in recent weeks in the Elementary School. Our field trips are organized for educational purposes to support and enhance the learning within the classroom and wider school setting. It is an opportunity to understand better a range of aspects of the local community and culture as well as to apply knowledge and skills in an external setting and to contextualize learning.
Groups of Pre-K students visited me last week to share the process they have been engaged in when planning and preparing for their visit to Tiniworld in Syrena Tower. As a part of their Unit of Inquiry “Journeys Near and Far”, they have been taking on responsibility for thinking ahead and speaking with key personnel in school to ensure the trip could happen. As well as visiting me, they went to see Mr Lai the bus coordinator and the children contacted Tiniworld directly via telephone to check dates and prices. They were certainly taking the planning seriously and seemed to appreciate the visit even more because they had been instrumental in making it happen.
At the opposite end of the Elementary School, the Grade 5s are heavily involved in preparing for their Exhibition and this has entailed visiting different sites and conducting off campus interviews with key members of different organisations within the Hanoi community to aid their research and collect data. Examples include:
A huge thank you is due to Miss Thao, Grade 5 TA, who has taken on the responsibility of co-ordinating this vast array of visits and to the teachers and TAs who have accompanied the small groups.
Grade 1 students have enjoyed visiting the Rattan Village this week as part of their Sharing the Planet unit as they are studying the different purposes and uses of plants and their importance to other living things. Grade 2 and 3 students all visited Bat Trang Pottery Village for different purposes in recent weeks – Grade 2 as part of their ‘Changing Transport’ Unit and Grade 3 to support their Unit “Rights at Work”.
Our ‘scientists’ in Grade 4 all visited the Questacon Science Exhibition this week which had been brought to Hanoi from Australia by the Australian Government. Questacon’s mission is to promote greater understanding and awareness of science and technology through fun, interactive educational experiences so this exhibition provided a great opportunity for our Grade 4 learners to coincide with their Science unit.
We will continue to seek out the best opportunities to apply and extend learning in the local community and beyond as we believe strongly that this helps the students understand the bigger picture of their current educational experiences and make connections in their learning.
Warm Regards,
Carole Denny, Elementary Principal
Exhibition Group Theme Organisation/ Venue visited
Human Rights/ Equality Access to Education and Girls’ Education in Vietnam
Blue Dragon Organisation Thuc Nghiem Elementary School
Pollution and Deforestation Phong Khe Paper Recycle Village
Technology: Positives and Negatives Eco-Technology
Panasonic Risupia Vietnam
Technology Programming Concordia International School
Nutrition EcoMart-EcoLink Organic Farm
Expression through the Arts Vietnam National Academy of Music The Film Director Office
Culture/ identity through Fashion Chula Fashion Store
Bullying Hanoi International School
Conflict Resolution The Museum of Army Engineers in Hanoi United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office
Animal Testing The Parkson Hanoi Mall
Astronomy The well spring International School (Astronomy teacher)
Discrimination The Donkey Bakery
Pollution Red River Fishing Village
Sexism DEP Fashion Magazine
Water Pollution Red River Village
Animals for Human Use National Hospital for Tropical Diseases
Animal Treatment Asvelis – Asian Veterinary and Livestock Services
Notes from the Middle/High School Principal
Dear MSHS Families,
UNIS Hanoi is pleased to be hosting the 2013 APAC Women’s Soccer Tournament. The tournament set for
April 20 – 22. Student led opening ceremonies will take place Thursday morning in the Sports Center with
games scheduled to begin shortly thereafter. If you have a free moment over the next few days please do
come out and support our Lady Phoenix! A schedule of games can be found in the Tin Tuc.
Our men’s soccer team is off to Beijing to participate in the APAC Men’s Tournament which will be hosted
by Western Academy of Beijing.
The entire MSHS faculty would like to thank all parents who attended 3 – Way Parent Conferences on Tuesday. There was a
positive energy present on campus and many parents reported that they were very pleased with the information provided by
teachers as well as the sign-up process.
Our second day of conferencing is set for Monday, April 22. If you have not signed up for the conference please contact
Ms. Phuong in the MSHS Office ([email protected]) and she will be happy to assist you.
In the MSHS we listen to our community try our best to address concerns regarding our program. In October many parents
reported difficulties and were extremely frustrated trying to sign up for Conferences using ISIS Family. As a result our
Director of Technology Ed Gilbreath and his team worked hard to streamline the process. I am happy to report that this
semester’s sign-ups went extremely well and we only had five parents report difficulties. Of those two had forgotten their
passwords, two had to install appropriate software, and one could not find the link. Kudos to Ed and his team!
In closing please continue to support your children as we head toward the final weeks of school. It is clear that students
reach higher levels of academic and personal success when they are supported by both parents and the school working in a
partnership. We hope that you, as parents, feel welcome to join in the educational process in what is in the best interest of
your children.
Warm regards,
Pete Kennedy, MSHS Principal
Living with Technology Session Series for all Parents
We would like to invite all parents to our remaining morning sessions
revolving around various topics on technology and its impact on learning. If
interested, kindly confirm your attendance by sending an email to
Wilson, Pippa Wood, Rob Corrigan, Sally Oxenberry, Tanuja Khadka, Tiffany Banner and Willie Cohen.
Thanks also to the UNIS Hanoi Advancement, Service Learning and Operations Teams, and the hospitality team
from the InterContinental Hanoi Westlake.
We thank the School Community Organisation for their support of tonight’s Grand Opening and our own UNIS Ha-
noi Dragon. We thank the Korean community and Yu Bin Jwa (Grade 6) for their support of our Silent Auction.
We thank the following sponsors for making this event possible and in the launch of our Birthday Gift Fund:
25th Birthday Ball
Grade 5 Primary Years Programme Exhibition
Visitors from French School
Dear Everybody,
50 students from the French school will come to visit Grade 5 PYP exhibition on
Wednesday, April 24, from 9:30 to 11:00
Programme :
09:30 : students pair up with their buddies.
The buddy give an activity sheet to French student in both English and French.
09:50 : French students visit the exhibition and fill up their activity sheet.
10:30 : recess
11:00 : French students leave the school.
The French Language Team.
IB Art Exhibition
A large and supportive crowd celebrated the graduating DP Visual Art student exhibition opening last Monday evening.
Opening speaker & DP Coordinator ,Steve Powers and DP Art teacher Rob Natoli both spoke of the value of creativity in
the modern world and acknowledged the wonderfully diverse artworks created by the graduating students: Emilie Brondum
Reeh, Ellen Beard, Charlotte Porter, Dehaja Senanayake, Gia Han Tran, Le-my Tran & Huy Nguyen.
Summer Camp
UNIS Hanoi Summer Camp
2013
June 17 – 28 - Monday to Friday
Full Day Programme (8:30 – 15:00) offered for current ECC, Elementary and Middle
School Students
Half Day Programme (8:30 – 11:30) offered for current High School Students
Programmes offered will include a balance of fun and educational activities including Sports,
Math Games and Investigations, English Language Skills, Performance Arts, “Hands On”
Science, and Arts and Crafts
ECC students will take part in a variety of activities with ECC dedicated staff, space, and resources
ES students will have a daily rotation schedule through activity and learning areas MS students will choose ONE of “Sports,” “Performance,” or “English Literacy” for
extended morning sessions followed by an afternoon rotation HS students can choose ONE of “Sports,” “Performance,” or “English Literacy” for
extended morning sessions
Sessions in the pool will also be scheduled for all students ECC through Middle School!
Enrollment Fees:
$600 USD for the two-week full day programmes
$325 USD for HS half-day programmes or one-week of the full day
programme
Full Day programmes include lunch and snacks. Bus transportation is available.
Registration will open soon through ISIS! Enrollment will initially be restricted to current UNIS
students and spaces will be limited so make plans to attend now and check back in to the Tin Tuc
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.