Dear Colleagues,
Welcome back to the spring season of learning! After the hopefully refreshing and relaxing break, we all feel ready for the final quarter of the year. The month of April will bring us both the PYP Exhibition and the Student-Led Conferences. Both of those events are amazing celebrations of student progress and learning. This Wednesday, we will look into the preparation phase of the Student-Led conferences.
As the school moves forward with its strategic goals focusing on data, DEIJ, and inclusive and exceptional learning journeys, we are interested in finding out what might be some of the Elementary School specific program or practice areas that we may want to focus on in the coming years. Therefore, in the Wednesday session, we will harvest some ideas and teacher voices about the areas of foci to plan the school year 22-23 with those in mind.
The EAL team is getting WIDA-ready as we are exploring and utilizing the WIDA assessment tool to have a school-wide assessment and data trail for our multilingual learners. With Saiko’s leadership, the team will take WIDA training this Wednesday between 9:00 and 11:00 AM. Please, note that the whole EAL team will not be available to support students and teachers during this time
This week, we will also invite parents to learn where the discipline of science and thinking like scientists lie in our programs and daily lives. We are hoping to gather some materials from the faculty and students to showcase science learning.
We are excited to see so many new students joining us this week thanks to the slightly loosened travel restrictions and the continued interest from Japanese families. I am sure they will be overwhelmed with the warm welcome from both the students and the ES faculty.
Finally, please note that Friday is the final day for placing the overseas orders so that they are at school for the August start.
Let’s have a wonderful week!
Riana, Trevor, and Heikki
This Week's Schedule: Master Schedule 21-22
