ISY Elementary School Faculty Blog
Last Week
Mike Simpson
June 3, 2022
While we have one more week to go, this will be our last Faculty Blog post for the year.
Over the summer, I hope you can all take a bit of time to reflect on your contribution to an amazing team effort that kept our students happy and learning. We’ve had to struggle through all sorts of challenges this year and the way we kept focused on our students and supported each other is something that we can be really proud of.
We are saying goodbye to some wonderful colleagues this year. On behalf of our whole Elementary School team, thank you for all that you have done to make our school a place that our students love so much.
Next year will be a busy one as we build on what we learned this year and revive some things that circumstances have prevented us from doing for a while. But that can all wait until next year!
We all know we are doing our best…. even when we are not at our best!
Check in. How am I? What do I need? How are they? What do they need from me?
Ask for help and be helpful.
Be present and patient. Take time to fully understand others and allow time for others to understand you. Pausing, Paraphrasing and Posing Questions promotes our common understanding.
Share your ideas and be open to the ideas of others. Once shared, they become our ideas and anything could happen!
Withdrawing Students
If you hear from a family or child that they might not be returning to ISY next year, please let Nimmi know so she can follow up with the parents.
QUARTER 4 SCHEDULE
Here is the link to the ES Quarter 4 Schedule which is also available on the Elementary School Faculty Pages.
SUPERVISION SCHEDULE
Here is the Q4 Supervision Schedule that we will use for Quarter 4.
This week:
10:00 – 10:20 Grade 2-5 Recess Locations
- Front Steps End of Field / Front Steps Playground: Grades 2/3
- SAS Building End of Field / A Building Playground: Grades 4/5
8:00 – 8:20 Before School Play Duty
Update: Students are allowed on campus before 8am but before school duty will still begin at 8am.
Here is the Before School Play Duty Schedule that we will use for Semester 2.
People on duty this week:
- Monday: Kristi
- Tuesday: Laura
- Wednesday: Rosita
- Thursday: May Khine
- Friday: Ian
End of Year Assembly
Friday, June 10 at 11am
There will be an End-of-Year Assembly on the last day (Friday, June 10) at 11:00am in the gym. This will be a joint assembly with the Secondary School.
Students will be dismissed from the gym after the assembly at 11:30am so students will bring their bags.
End of Year Celebrations – Thursday or Friday
Homeroom teachers, if you are planning to have an end of year celebration with your students, please plan for this for Thursday afternoon or Friday morning. We will not have specialist classes on Friday morning. It is ok for students to bring food to share but please remind students not to bring single use plastics and that we also want to avoid any wastage of food.
Please reach out to Sandy or I if you have any questions as we finish up the year.
Semester 2 Reports
Thanks for all the work you have put into these reports and to report writing and parent communication throughout the year.
Please have your comments and grades into Powerschool by 12pm Monday.
We will get links to the PDFs versions of the reports if you want to check them again on Tuesday.
Reports will go out on Wednesday.
ZOOM LINKS (Semester 2)
Here is a link to the Zoom Links that we will use for Semester 2.
Previous Elementary School Posts
Elementary School Faculty Blog – April 9, 2021
Thank you, Delphine. We appreciate all that you have done for us and our school.
Elementary School Faculty Blog – April 2, 2021
Each day this week has seen more emails from families preparing to leave Yangon and we expect that this will continue throughout this quarter.
Elementary School Faculty Blog – March 26, 2021
I have a tremendous amount of respect for you all. It means a lot to be part of this group and I think it will mean even more as time goes on.
Elementary School Faculty Blog – March 19, 2021
We might not feel like experts but today’s assembly was a chance to remind ourselves that we are now good at many things that we did not know how to do at all just a matter of months or weeks or days ago.
Elementary School Faculty Blog – March 12, 2021
The reality of the current situation can make finding the bright side difficult. But research shows that in difficult times, it is important for our mental health to allow ourselves to acknowledge that times are difficult and to feel rather than suppress negative emotions.
Elementary School Faculty Blog – March 5, 2021
We have long term, yearly, quarterly, monthly, and weekly plans but our planning and preparation has now taken more of a day by day focus. It will therefore need to be very fluid as we plan for our students’ safety and wellbeing, connectedness, and learning.