Weekly Update, Monday 31 August

Dear colleagues,

Thank you for your dedication, commitment, and hard work during the first full week. The start of the year is always very busy and can be stressful at times. We appreciate your smiles, patience and positive attitude in ensuring that our students will have the best possible learning environment from the day one onwards. This week will bring us the following:

Monday will be day 2 in the ES Schedule

Supervision

	12:15-12:40	12:25-12:55	12:25-12:55	12:15-12:35
Week	Cafeteria Tables	Playground	Playground	Cafeteria Line

8/31/2015

Aimee

Kasumi

Karin

Toyoko

Clubs 1st Season
Tuesday, September 1

MAP testing meeting

Grade 3 - 5 teachers are invited to meet on Tuesday at 8.00-8.25am with Heikki and Stephen Taylor.

On the agenda, we will have the following:

The purpose of MAP testing

How to best prepare students for testing

Testing Schedule

Preparation time for Back to School Night, Wed 2 September

We have reserved the Wednesday afternoon meeting time for fine tuning and finalizing the preparations needed for the Back to School Night.

Back to School Night, Thu 3 September

Starts at 6.00pm
BTSN Schedule

School Photos Schedule

Please be aware that there may be changes to the School Photo Schedule announced earlier. We will keep you posted and provide a detailed schedule early this week.

Leadership Team Meetings

- School-wide Leadership Team meets usually on Friday mornings

- ES Leadership Team meets usually on Friday afternoons and Tuesday mornings.

Collab Meetings
- All grade levels will meet at their regular time as per the ES Team Planning Meeting schedule.
       - Our focus is to continue planning the units and work on/review rubrics.
- This week's schedule for specialists:
     - ESOL Mon. 14:30-15:30
     - Japanese Dept. Tues. 11:10-11:40
     - Library & ICT Thurs. 13:00-13:40

Literacy Planning Meetings
 - All grade levels will meet at their regular time as per the ES Team Planning Meeting schedule.

Future dates:

14-16 Sep	MAP testing Gr 3-5
17-18 Sep	MAP catch-up dates
23 Sep	Parent Coffee
12-13 Oct	Sports Day
16 Oct	Running Record Data (K-5)
16-17 Oct	ES Drama Production
19-20 Oct	Progress Reports