Friday, September 4th, 2015

Dear Community Members,

Welcome to September! It is so hard to believe that we have finished one month of school. We’ll have our first parent coffee of the school year this month (September 15th from 8:45 to 9:45 in the Elementary School Cafeteria). As you are likely aware, the school has adopted a new math resource called, Bridges. Would you like to learn more about this resource? Please plan to come to this parent coffee which will be led Bridges experts Pia Hanson and Jenn Christiansen from The Math Learning Center.

What's New at the Pool?

The pool continues to be busy every day of the school week. With the addition of our new Aquatics Teaching Assistant, Velin Prabhu, we have been able to open up American Red Cross swim classes during the week, as well as continue with our Saturday American Red Cross swim classes.  

We will be rolling out a new policy at the pool beginning this weekend, Saturday, September 5, 2015. When you come to the pool for Open Swim, we are asking patrons to leave their ID with the Pool Supervisor. This will be in lieu of signing a paper and allows us to know exactly who is in the pool. When you are wet, we cannot always read the writing. It is good to have your correct name in the event of an emergency.  We hope that you see the benefit of this new system as we work to keep our aquatic environment as safe as possible.

Please check the school website for the updated pool schedule and feel free to contact Donna Fava (fdonna@aisch.org) if you have any questions.

Here comes Big Bad Blue!!!

On Friday, September 18th from 4-6pm and Saturday, September 19th from 8:30am-5:30pm, we will be hosting the12th Annual Big Bad Blue Swim Meet here at AISC. Friday evening there will be 4 events swum by our AISC Team and on Saturday we will welcome 9 local teams to join us in a full day of competitive splendor. We invite the community to join us to cheer on our teams as they prepare for their SAISA competition in Muscat, Oman at the end of October.

Grade 5 EAL Parent meeting: 11th September 2015

The Grade 5 team invites you to the first EAL parent meeting for 2015-16. The purpose of this meeting is to have a detailed conversation about the EAL program at Elementary school and what this looks like in our classes.

In this meeting, we will discuss:

• Inclusive education at AISC
• Literacy instruction
• Use of home language
• How to support your child’s learning
• Use of technology to support language learning

Date: Friday, September 11th, 2015
Time: 2.00 pm - 3.00 pm
Place: Black Box Theatre (BBT)

Edmodo

We will be moving over to Edmodo as our default communication tool on September 18th.  Next week you will receive another direct email with instructions on signing up and adding your children. If you do not complete this sign-up you may potentially miss out on important announcements and class activity. 

Food Service Update

AISC continues to work with the Taj Madras Flight Kitchen to improve the food quality and food service on campus. New additions include croissants filled strawberry, dark cherry, custard, blueberry or raspberry. These will be available on separate days in the elementary cafeteria, I-Hub and main cafeterias.  

Is your child enjoying the recent addition of fruit and milk, yogurt or juice to the meals at lunch? These items are now included to help students meet the AISC Nutritional Guidelines established last year. If they have not yet tried these items, please encourage them to do so.

Food services at AISC are always in continual improvement. Should you have questions, suggestions or concerns, please contact Food Service Manager Prakash Shanmugam (sprakash@aisch.org), Elementary Associate Principal Lori Newman (nlori@aisch.org) or Secondary Associate Principal Jason Hicks (hjason@aisch.org). If you have not had the chance to have a meal in the I Hub or Secondary Cafeteria, please join us. We would love to hear your feedback about the food at AISC.

Art Sustains

Art Sustains is proud to present "Chaparral", works by Gurunathan Govindan. This will be the first exhibition of our local artist series that will be displayed in AISC's Art Gallery (FAC atrium). 

Art Sustains is a service organization that works towards sustaining Tamil Nadu's cultural and natural assets with an emphasis on the arts.

Our primary goal is to support the sustainability of the arts in Tamil Nadu, through educational programs, promoting international awareness, and by providing financial assistance for artists and art communities in the area. 

Beyond supporting the arts, Art Sustains believes in the importance of preserving and celebrating all cultural and natural assets of Tamil Nadu.

Indian Month Photo Display

All students and faculty can submit photos for the India Month Photo Display. Please submit a picture of India that you have taken (with you in the picture or not). These photos can be shared hard copy or digitally. Please upload the image to http://tiny.cc/tntp2x or drop of the hardcopy with Pradeep in the Main Reception. These images will be displayed during the month of October. The deadline for submission is October 5.

Have a great weekend and do not forget that Monday is a holiday so there is no school.

Kevin Hall
Elementary School Principal