Dear Parents,
It was great to see so many families at the Jan Jamboree last week. I had no idea that I was going to be on the receiving end of many water balloons, but the children had fun throwing them at me- and each one was refreshing as it was getting quite hot on the field!
Food Services Update
You still have time to contribute to the parent survey about food service at the elementary school. The Nutrition Task Force will review the results at the February meeting, and will be using the feedback to inform future improvements. The survey closes on Monday, February 9th.
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Food Services Update
You still have time to contribute to the parent survey about food service at the elementary school. The Nutrition Task Force will review the results at the February meeting, and will be using the feedback to inform future improvements. The survey closes on Monday, February 9th.
Click here to get started.
Book Week: February 9th to 13th
As part of "Books and the Arts," our theme for this year's ES and MS Book Week, we have the immense pleasure of welcoming two very talented artists to help us celebrate books. Lauren Stringer, a renowned author and illustrator, will be joining AISC alongside her daughter, Ruby Smith, who is an accomplished international dance instructor. While in Chennai, Lauren and Ruby will be leading workshops for both students and staff, showing them that stories can take on rich new meaning when connected to the arts! Below are Lauren and Ruby's biographies.
Lauren Stringer
Lauren Stringer is an artist, author, script-writer, and theatrical designer living in Minneapolis. She has exhibited her art in museums and galleries across the country. As an author and illustrator, she does numerous school visits around the world as well where she shares her passion for writing and drawing. Her work has won numerous honors, including the International Reading Association Children's Choice Award, the Minnesota Book Award, Booklist's Top Ten Art Books of the Year, and the Crayola Kids Best Book of the Year Award.
Ruby Smith
Ruby Smith is an international dance instructor, currently based in Tangier, Morocco. She teaches contemporary dance with a focus on personal expression, creativity, and connections between words, stories and movement. An esteemed choreographer, Ruby has worked with mentoring projects in the United States, as an artist in residence at the American School of Paris, and led dance workshops in London. Some of her work in London is also connected to performance workshops used to discuss important issues, such as domestic violence and other forms of abuse.
Parent Coffee with the ES Administration
Lauren and Ruby will be our guest speakers at our next parent coffee (Tuesday, February 10th in the Black Box Theater). Lauren will share her story of becoming and illustrator and writer. Her daughter will also join her. How perfect to have a parent and daughter talking to parents about fostering creativity in their children! She will also share the story of making the book, When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky. There will certainly time for a Q&A.
AMIS (Association for Music in International Schools)
AMIS runs music festivals at international schools around the world. The participants are selected through a rigorous audition process. This year we have two students have received the honor to participate in this festival: Yoon Jung Kim for Oboe and Suzu Toyonaga for French Horn. Congratulations to these two young musicians.
On February 11-14, we will be hosting 87 participants from 16 of the best international schools from around Asia, along with their band directors and a panel of AMIS officials. The festival will run from February 11-15, 2015 and will involve many hours of focused rehearsals, leading up to a gala concert on Saturday, February 14 at 6.00 p.m. in the AISC auditorium. There is no better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than listening to the beautiful music of these young Mozarts, Bachs, Louis Armstrongs, and A.R. Rahmans. Please join us for some fun music on February 14!
Ticket booths will be set up before and after school on the Thursday and Friday (February 12-13) before the concert, one by ES entrance and one by the main entrance. We will have tickets available free of charge for the general AISC community at that time. They are just admittance passes to keep our numbers straight. If anyone needs to get one before those days, please contact Ms. Deborah Lee at ldeborah@aisch.org.
Have a great weekend!
Kevin Hall
Elementary School Principal