Dear Community Members,
This weekend, over 20 elementary school students are participating in the Stonehill International School Swim Meet in Bangalore. This is a great opportunity for these students to meet peers from other international schools, to compete, practice good sportsmanship, and have fun. Good luck to the following students: Jacob McFarland, Byungjoon Yoon, Axel Martins, Adam Martins, Tess Welbes, Louis Labauge, Arthur Labauge, Kolby Porter, Amy Jacob, Victoria Baltzer, William Hawkridge, Oliver Hawkridge, Fred Johnstone, Noa Ravon, Emma D'Andria, Filippo D'Andria, Imogen Monk, Ziad Oumina, Reda Oumina, Carolina Serravalle, Felina Lange, Maya Martin, Jonghyuk Park, Daniel RodrÃguez, Lucienne Crouch, Hayden Zuzulock, Christian Horchler, and Raheel Thakore.
Below is a picture of the kids prior to heading to the swim meet this morning. Check out the beautiful rangoli that was made prior to the arrival of the team!
MAP Test Results
Below is a picture of the kids prior to heading to the swim meet this morning. Check out the beautiful rangoli that was made prior to the arrival of the team!
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| Photo credit: Mr. Tom Zuzulock |
Today we sent home the Spring MAP Student Progress Report with your child (grades 2 to 5 only). On the Student Progress Report, you will see a graph for each MAP test that you child has written while attending AISC. The graphs illustrate the student score compared to the district (AISC) and the norm grade (students in the USA who are in the same grade as your child) within each graph for fall and spring. Beneath each graph, you will see subject strands or, as MAP calls them, goal areas, and your child’s RIT range within that goal area. Under the reading graph, you will also notice a Lexile range. Lexile levels match readers with books and other reading resources appropriate to the child’s reading performance. At AISC, we use the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System whereby a child’s reading level is identified by a letter. The Fountas and Pinnell reading level is not reported on the MAP Student Progress Report. Following is additional information that should help you understand the report.
The RIT Score: RIT stands for Rasch unIT, which is a unit of measure that uses individual item difficulty values to estimate student achievement. The RIT score for your child is a measure of individual achievement in each test. The RIT score is used to measure a student’s growth over a period of time. It is very important to remember that scores on any test are estimates of performance with no one score being treated as an absolute. Score ranges indicate a range of measurement error around a particular score, for example, (231-234-237). The score in the middle is your child’s score. The numbers on either side of it define the score range.
District Grade Level RIT: This score is the average RIT score for all students at AISC in the same grade who tested at the same time as your child. This is represented as an orange line on the graph.
Norm Grade Level Mean RIT: This score is the average RIT score for students in the United States who are in the same grade and who were tested at the same time as your child. This is represented as a yellow line on the graph.
Percentile Range: This score tells how you child is doing compared to other students in the same grade when compared to the normed group (students in the USA). For example, it would tell you that a student who scored in the 85th percentile in math, scored as well as, or better than, 85 percent of the students in the nationally normed group. Note that a score in the 85th percentile does not mean that your child answered 85% of the test questions correctly.
A special note to new students and parents: No graph is displayed for students who joined us after our first round of testing. These students have a series of black dots and it will be difficult to determine which dot represents your child, which is the AISC average and which represents US national norms. You can refer to the table to determine your child's percentile ranking is for each test.
After-School Activities
All After School Activities end on Friday - May 27, 2016. We will have a make-up day for Saturday Swim school that will be held on May 28th.
Grade 5 Bake Sale
The students of Grade 5 will conduct a Bake Sale to raise funds for the fifth grade service learning project. With the funds collected, they will purchase materials like books and stationery material for the children of Prathyasha - Home of Hope. Please come and participate in the sale. There will be counters open in the covered area after school from 3:30-4:00 on Wednesday, May 25, 2016.
After-School Activities
All After School Activities end on Friday - May 27, 2016. We will have a make-up day for Saturday Swim school that will be held on May 28th.
Grade 5 Bake Sale
The students of Grade 5 will conduct a Bake Sale to raise funds for the fifth grade service learning project. With the funds collected, they will purchase materials like books and stationery material for the children of Prathyasha - Home of Hope. Please come and participate in the sale. There will be counters open in the covered area after school from 3:30-4:00 on Wednesday, May 25, 2016.
AISC Robotics Competition
On Saturday, May 28, from 9:30-4:00, students from AISC, Chellammal, and a Corporate school in Tiruvallur, will participate in AISC's Robotics Competition. AISC students are coming from the elementary, middle and high school. Chellammal is a local school that is generously supported by Caterpillar, and the Corporate school in Tiruvallur is supported by Ford.
This is the final step in a journey that began in November, when these students came together to create and compete with robotics.
The three teams that won the November competition were originally slated to compete at IIT Madras in March. However, due to the floods, IIT Madras could not host the competition, and it was moved to Mumbai.
This new location proved a challenge, so AISC decided to host its own final competition with the support of Lema Labs of IIT Madras. The competition component of the activity will take place from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the ES Cafeteria on Saturday, May 28. Everyone is welcome!
Bike-a-Thon & Campus traffic inconveniences on May 21st
Please be aware that on May 21st from 8.30 am to 10.30 am, there will be some traffic inconveniences on AISC campus due to the Bike-a-Thon. There will be no traffic in the staff parking lot (entering or exiting the area is restricted) and vehicles will stop to unload passengers in the middle lane of the drop off area as left lane will be destined to cyclists. Please cooperate with our security staff who will direct traffic during that time. Thank you for your understanding and cheer on our cyclists as they will be passing through the drop off area.
Bike-a-Thon & Campus traffic inconveniences on May 21st
Please be aware that on May 21st from 8.30 am to 10.30 am, there will be some traffic inconveniences on AISC campus due to the Bike-a-Thon. There will be no traffic in the staff parking lot (entering or exiting the area is restricted) and vehicles will stop to unload passengers in the middle lane of the drop off area as left lane will be destined to cyclists. Please cooperate with our security staff who will direct traffic during that time. Thank you for your understanding and cheer on our cyclists as they will be passing through the drop off area.
Message from the Chirag Sherpas Club
Chirag Sherpas Club is working with Danirasa Foundation for Rehabilitation Centre to help school kids who were affected by the floods. They are initiating a free sports camp in the flooded areas for the kids in Thirunindravur area. They have 70 kids in the age group of 6yrs to 16 yrs. They have a coach who has volunteered to train these kids and are in need of a number of supplies. AISC students from the Chirag Sherpas Club would appreciate donations of the following items:
1. Volleyballs
2. Footballs
3. Volleyball net
4. Chessboards
5. Carom boards
6. Shoes
7. Bandages
8. Old sports clothes
9. Socks
10. Sports medicines
11. Board games
12. Cereal
13. Any fiber rich foods.
There will collection bins outside the main reception for people to drop off the items.
Have a great weekend,
Kevin Hall
Elementary School Principal