Winter Holiday Assembly & Happy Holidays

Dear colleagues,
It is time to start our winter break and get some well-deserved rest, rejuvenation, and life-medicine in self-managed dosages. Before we go, please find the seating plan and program for the Holiday assembly.


Thank you for the wonderful and successful first semester! We would like to wish you all a wonderful winter holiday and Happy New Year and looking forward to seeing you all back in 2020!
Riana, Trevor, and Heikki

Here is the seating plan. Please enter and leave through the doors indicated so we can smoothly transition in and out of the BBT.

Assembly Venue: Black Box Theater

Assembly Start Time: 9:30

Assembly Agenda

1. Track Rats

2. 5R Korean pop dance

3. Student Council

4. Hip Hop dance group

5. Kayla 5R live drawing   

6. G2 Sharing Learning - rights and responsibilities one short video

7. Sayonara Booklets 

• Annika Rajan 
• Sanaaya Rajan (G3M)
• Luca Villa Gonzalez (G1M)
• Olaya Villa Gonzalez (G4S)
• Hailey Hope (G5B)  
• Liam Preston (KBL) 
• Karen Preston (G2S)  
• Adelyn Speichinger (KAW)
• Colton Speichinger (KBC)
• Dawson Speichinger (G3S)
• Sophia Speichinger (G5B)

8. True Colors - Teacher performance

9.12 Days Before the Break - Teacher performance

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=12+days+of+christmas+teachers

10. Heikki's holiday message

Weekly Update, Monday, 16 December 2019

Dear colleagues,

It is the final and last week of the year 2019 and the whole decade ahead of us! What a journey it has been so far!
We are very excited and proud of everyone and congratulations go to the whole Elementary School for making the
teaching and learning of students, faculty, and parents meaningful, effective, and very successful.

The past week was rich in learning for all the constituencies mentioned above. Thank you to Student Support
Services and Ellen for making the rotations smooth and rich learning experience to all. On Thursday, the Japanese
team had a wonderful parent learning session. Congratulations Emi, Kaho, and Noriko! 

This week’s highlights include Extending Learning celebration and Town Hall meeting on Wednesday, and of
course the Holiday Assembly on Friday starting at 9:30 in the Black Box Theater. Another big thank you goes to
the report card writers for a thoughtful and thorough process of carefully crafting powerful comments describing
the process of learning. We are on schedule and the reports will be open on Friday by noon at the latest. The final
report card review will be happening on Tuesday and we are hopeful to be able to upload them to PowerSchool
on Wednesday and Thursday. 

 

Have a great week!

Riana, Trevor, and Heikki

Message from Heikki:

I would like to express special thanks to everyone who helped, particularly to Riana and Trevor for stepping in, in
few places as I was away.
Also, I am grateful for the flexibility and understanding of all the changes that occurred during my absent days,
including the rescheduling of meetings. Finally, I highly appreciated all those caring and encouraging messages
received on Thursday and Friday. I will be joining the troops on Monday again.

Heikki

Supervision Roster:                                                                                   Draft Supervision Schedule Sept-Dec

Time Sep 9 - 13	10:15 - 10:30	12:25-12:50	12:40-13:00	13:00-13:20	14:10-14:20
Duty  (*Rainy day area)	Playscape Playscape Soccer fields (In classrooms)	Line Tables	Shed  (Gym) Playscape (Gym) Soccer fields  (Atrium)	Shed (Gym) Playscape (Gym) Soccer fields (Atrium)	Playground Note:  Shed kept  closed (In classrooms)
Who	Ava Enoch Seth	Kieran	Neetu Kris Kasumi	Satsuki Kae Emi	Ava Enoch Seth

This Week's Schedule:                                                                                                 Master Schedule 19-20

Day	Morning	Afternoon
Mon 16 Dec Day 9
Tues 17  Day 1	ES Leadership Full Day Meeting - Report Card Checking and Team Meeting
Wed 18 Day 2	9:00-10:00 Assembly Practice in  BBT 9:00-10:30 School Leadership  Team Meets	13:30-14:30 Curriculum Leadership Meeting Wednesday Learning: 14:40-15:45 EL Celebration and Sharing 15:45-16:30 Town Hall Meeting
Thu 19 Day 3		12:40pm-1:40pm Assembly Practice in BBT
Fri 20	9:30-10:30 Winter Holiday Assembly 11:30 Dismissal	Holidays begin!

Professional Learning: 

Please note that in order to qualify for Professional Development, you must always apply through the CA PD

 application form found on KissFlow. Applications must be submitted no later than 10 days before the
registration deadline. For further information on 'How to apply for PD - click here'.

• Learning through Wellness January 18 & 19 at Yokohama IS
• Fusing Reading and Writing Workshop in IB Schools, January 18 & 19 at Tokyo IS
• IB PD 19-20: Here is the IB PD booklet. Here is their search to find the workshops.

N.B. All PD information posted on Blogger is by default 'Personal PD' unless otherwise noted.

Future Dates: First Day of School in 2020 - Day 4 13 January ES Assembly  23 January

Wednesday Learning Schedule: 15 January  14:40-15:45 EL Planning 15:45-16:30 UOI#4 Planning 22 January  14:40-15:45 Behaviour Intervention Committee 15:45-16:30 UOI#4 Planning

Wednesday Learning: Student Support & Protocols with Purpose Dec 11

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you everyone for such a high level engagement and stamina at our Wednesday Learning!

Student Support poured their hearts into the research and presented a lot of information. Again, the goal was to share the big ideas about each topic and if you need to zoom in to support one of your learners - just contact one of the team!

Student Support (LS - EAL - Guidance)

• Responding to challenging behaviors  - Seth, Rose, Yoshiko, Katie B
• Self-regulation  - Seth, Rose, Yoshiko, Katie B
• Executive Function:  Organization and Time Management skills - Rose and Seth
• Pointers for Grammar, Speaking and Vocabulary - Saiko, Kasumi and Ava
• Class Meetings - Positive Discipline - Ellen and Yoshiko

Adaptive Schools 
In our ongoing effort to support teams, we reviewed three protocol and introduced three new to help with purposeful meeting and student learning. Hope they were as helpful as the conversations were engaging.

• Protocols with purpose 
• Meeting process slide

Weekly Updates, Monday, 9 December 2019

Dear colleagues,

Welcome to the penultimate week of school in 2019. The holiday season is upon us and there are a number of
different ways grade levels acknowledge the start of the holiday. As many of the holiday parties are co-planned and
co-organized with parents, please, make sure that you keep them limited in time (1-2 periods max) and inclusive
and respectful of all cultural and spiritual approaches of celebrating/not celebrating the season.

Past week Ellen ran a very successful parent coffee morning session on Positive Discipline. There seemed to be a
great demand for a repeat as well as follow-up sessions. On Monday last week, the Behavior Intervention Team met
for the first time to establish a purpose and goal for our work. We will meet one more time before the winter break.

Kristyn Art wanted to extend her thanks to the elementary teachers, students and their families for coming to the
Commedia show and donating to George Dickerson School in South Africa. A total of 101,946 Yen was raised
which is amazing! This will be a huge help to the school and will aid them in getting many projects completed.

This week, alumni Emma Haruka Iwao will share her passion for technology with ES students and the greater CA
community. Thank you to Kae Shigeta for organizing her visit. On Wednesday, the Student Support Team will offer
sessions in supporting learning in the classroom. If you haven’t done so yet, please sign up for the sessions by
following the link to Student support sign up at your earliest convenience. The second part of the Wednesday
session is dedicated to Adaptive Schools collaborative practices. On Thursday, the ES Parent Coffee will focus on
Japanese language learning in advanced/native level. Finally, on Saturday, the CA faculty and staff will get together
to celebrate the start of the winter holiday.

Have a great week!

Riana, Trevor, and Heikki

Supervision Roster:                                                                                   Draft Supervision Schedule Sept-Dec

Time Sep 9 - 13	10:15 - 10:30	12:25-12:50	12:40-13:00	13:00-13:20	14:10-14:20
Duty  (*Rainy day area)	Playscape Playscape Soccer fields (In classrooms)	Line Tables	Shed  (Gym) Playscape (Gym) Soccer fields  (Atrium)	Shed (Gym) Playscape (Gym) Soccer fields (Atrium)	Playground Note:  Shed kept  closed (In classrooms)
Who	Jen W Kasumi Orachat/Noriko	Noriko	Neetu Celia Enoch	Steve Amy Suki	Jen W Kasumi Orachat/Noriko

This Week's Schedule:                                                                                                 Master Schedule 19-20

Day	Morning	Afternoon
Mon 9 Dec Day 4		18:00-19:15 Emma Haruka Iwao Visit
Tues 10  Day 5	15:35 Learning R&D Team Meeting
Wed 11 Day 6		Wednesday Learning: 14:40-15:45 Student Support PD 15:45-16:30 Adaptive Schools Going  Further PD Refl. & Goal Setting
Thu 12 Day 7	8:30-9:15 Specialist Teacher Meeting 8:40-10:00 Parent Coffee:  Native Speakers' Japanese Programme	15:40-16:30 ELAC Team Mtg 19:00-20:00 High School Play
Fri 13 Day 8	10:45-12:15 ES Leadership Team Meeting	19:00-20:00 High School Play

Professional Learning: 

Please note that in order to qualify for Professional Development, you must always apply through the CA PD

 application form found on KissFlow. Applications must be submitted no later than 10 days before the 

registration deadline. For further information on 'How to apply for PD - click here'.

• Learning through Wellness January 18 & 19 at Yokohama IS
• Fusing Reading and Writing Workshop in IB Schools, January 18 & 19 at Tokyo IS
• IB PD 19-20: Here is the IB PD booklet. Here is their search to find the workshops.

N.B. All PD information posted on Blogger is by default 'Personal PD' unless otherwise noted.

Future Dates: Faculty Winter Party 14 December ES Holiday Assembly 20 December Start of Winter break - Early Dismissal 11:30 20 December First Day of School in 2020 - Day 4 13 January ES Assembly  23 January

Wednesday Learning Schedule: 18 December  14:40-15:45 EL Celebration and Sharing 15:45-16:30 Town Hall Meeting