Dear Parents,
Wonderful seeing so many of you on
campus this week with our family literacy mornings. Your children loved having
you in their classes and sharing their literacy with you.
Learning Celebration
Thank you to all the families that came
to our Early Years 5 through Grade 2 Learning Celebration. The picture below is
of EY5 JB celebrating Super Readers Super Powers.
Literacy
Mornings - presentations for you to peruse
Positive Discipline from Counseling
Office
At AISC, we believe in respectful and
positive interactions between adults and children. All parents have challenges
with children’s behavior. This video overview
on Positive Parenting gives a good introduction to a more cooperative and
respectful approach to discipline and family harmony. If you would like more
information, please reach out to the Counselors for suggested readings and
strategies.
Early Years 3 & 4 Parent Coffee
Resources from the counsellors
Thank you to all the EY 3 and 4 parents
who came to our recent EY parent coffee. To access the resources that Ms. Linda
and Ms. Vanessa shared with you about young children manage big feelings,
please click here. During this session,
we discussed ways to support our children manage big feelings. Sometimes, we
all struggled to keep our cool and when our children display strong emotions, we
end up resorting to unconstructive ways to alleviate the situation. We often
hear our parents saying, "I just need to be more patient and things will
be better." While being patient with our children is a step in the right
direction, we also think that there are other strategies to help ourselves and
children manage strong feelings that might get in the way of building a healthy
parent-child relationship. These are the resources that we covered in our
session, and we hope that they would be helpful to you in your interactions
with your children. Please let us know if you have any questions or would like
to chat further about some of these strategies. Our doors are always open!
Early Release - Wednesday 20 February
Next Wednesday is an early release day
and school finishes at 2 pm. As usual, we thank you for your support in leaving
campus promptly before 2:30 p.m.
Student-Teacher Feedback
Next week, students grades 3 - 5 will
be invited to complete a short digital survey to give feedback to their
homeroom, EAL, and specialist teachers. These surveys are anonymous and
constructive, and give teachers an opportunity to hear student voice about what
is working well and possible considerations for growth. Some students who are
new to English will not participate in this survey.
Spirit Week
Have a wonderful weekend!
Keryn Dowling, Dave Allen, and Calley Connelly