Monthly Archives: April 2018

Child Protection Lessons – This Week!

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Next week, G5 students will be participating in a number of lessons concerning Child Protection. Over the course of 3 lessons, the following topics will be discussed:

  • Assertive Communication

  • The Touching Rule – No one should touch your private parts except to keep you clean and healthy

  • Safety Steps:

    • Say words that mean No

    • Get away

    • Tell an adult

  • Using Assertiveness Skills in Unsafe Situations

  • When and Whom to Tell

We will also review what we have already learned about online safety and discuss this from a child protection perspective.

Further blog posts will be made on the day of each lesson with more specific details as to what was covered in the lesson so that you can have conversations at home with your children.  We appreciate you speaking further with your children about this topic. It is important that we partner in teaching these important lessons to the children.

If you have further questions, please contact Jill Wagner, our counselor, at jwagner@zis.ch, as she will be leading most of these lessons.

 

Nepal Orphanage Clothing Collection

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Dear Parents,

We are really looking forward to our exhibition evening tomorrow.  As you know the topic for exhibition this year is innovation, and the concept of empathy was one of our points of emphasis. With that in mind, the high school Nepal Club has asked if we could help them collect children’s clothes for their upcoming service trip to Nepal.  Over twenty students will be traveling to Nepal in the first week of June. While there they will work with a school for street children in Kathmandu. This school was started by a former ZIS alumni.

The Nepal Club is asking for gently worn clothes, shoes, and flip flops. The students they work with are from the ages of 3-11. We will be promoting this throughout the elementary school, but we thought we would kick it off this clothing drive with our exhibition evening.  If you have any gently worn clothes, shoes, or flip flops your children no longer wear there will be donation boxes at the school entrance at tomorrow nights exhibition.  Thank you for your help in this endeavor.

Warm Regards,

Grade 5 Team

Exhibition & MS Elective Course Selection

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Dear Parents,

Next week is a big one in G5! As described in the Newsfeed this week, next Tuesday evening is our Exhibition. Also next week, on Thursday during the school day, students will be selecting their Middle School elective courses. There are detailed posts about both on this week’s newsfeed.

 

EXHIBITION

The Grade 5 students and teachers are very excited about our upcoming exhibition presentation on Tuesday, April 24.  The students have worked very hard throughout this unit and should be very proud of their accomplishments.

Here is an outline of how the evening will work (you will receive a program on the night).

17:40-17:55: Arrival and a chance to look at art produced by the Grade 5 students. We ask that students stay with their parents at this time.

17:55-18:00: Parents head to the MPR and students head to their exhibit tables (the loudspeaker will be used to make announcements during the course of the evening).

18:00-18:15: Formal presentation for the parents led by Alice Sikora, curriculum leader.

18:15-19:30: Student presentations.

19:30: Clean up.  We will ask the students to take down their exhibit and return it to their classroom.

We would like students to dress smartly for this occasion.

 

 

MS COURSE SELECTION (repost from Newsfeed)

On April 26, Grade 5 students will register their elective courses for the next school year. Please see the descriptions in the Grade 6 electives options.

Students need to select their electives for both the first semester (August to December) and the second semester (January to June). In order to fill the elective blocks/classes, students must choose two electives for both semesters which may consist of  4 semester courses or 1 year-long course and 2 semester courses.

Please note that students who will be in a learning support class next year should choose either 1 year-long course or 2 semester courses along with learning support. Learning support will take the place of an elective class.

Please discuss the elective options with your son/daughter and help them decide on the electives they would like to take next year. Please also complete this form to indicate your choices in advance of the April 26 selection undertaken with students at school.

On Thursday, April 26, Middle School Assistant Principal Suzanne Keys will visit the Grade 5 students and they will be enrolled in their elective choices.

There may be cases where students have conflicts in scheduling and may not be able to take their desired elective. We will do our best to accommodate each student’s elective choices, and will contact you if there is a problem.

If you have any questions please contact the Middle School Assistant Principal Suzanne Keys.

One Week Until Exhibition & The Ghana Cup

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Dear 5R Families,
We are only one week out from our exhibition and students are putting in a lot of hours getting ready. We have fascinating projects evolving, from strategies to promote a culture of borrowing, to the chemistry of slime. Next Tuesday evening, we can’t wait to have you join us.
This week students will continue to bring work home to complete their projects, and prepare their presentations, both in terms of physical materials, and the speeches they hope to make. They may want an audience to practice their speeches with, or someone to look over their speech ideas.
Be sure to plan to join us next Tuesday evening!
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Ghana Cup 2018
 
The Ghana Cup is a popular and fun end-of-school year event for those who play football/soccer regularly and for those new to the game. It is a community event where we celebrate the value of participation, friendship, sportsmanship and having fun. 
This year, the Ghana Cup takes place on Sunday 6 May, with ECC and Lower School games scheduled in the morning. If your son / daughter is interested in participating in the soccer tournament, please register by clicking  zis.ch/ghanacup . Registration closes Friday 20 April and it is very difficult to add players after this date.