Lower School Newsletter 29 May 2023

HIS CALENDAR

HIS DATES

Upcoming Event

*1 June          Coffee Morning Singapore Math-             8.30 am                        *1 June         Children's Day celebration at HIS                                               *19 June        Film Festival Deadline   *21 June       Dragon Boat Festival Day at HIS                                               *22 June   Dragon Boat Festival (no school)                                                 *24 June        Dragon Run                 *29 June        Grade 5 Promotion Ceremony                                         *30 June        End of Semester 2 - reports             home

2023-2024 dates

*23 August -15 December -Semester 1 2023

*09 January -21 June         -Semester 2 2024

           Curriculum Morning and Night                The Arts

                                 CCA's                                                 Fun and learning                      Cartoon Creations

SAVE THE DATE THIS THURSDAY JUNE 1 COFFEE MORNING SCAN THE QR Code and JOIN US

                 Film Festival Entries                  

Dear Parents,

Coffee Morning- Thursday, June 1 at 8.30 am

Math Foundations at HIS -Singapore Math Explained

 Do you want to understand the homework your child is receiving? Are you unsure what the differences are in learning Math as you did and how your child learns using the renowned Singapore Math program?

This event will be a unique, hands-on, informative session with three of our keenest Math teachers at HIS! Join us to hear the foundations of great mathematical thinking and reasoning at HIS. 

Children's Day Thursday, June 1 

The students will enjoy many great activities to celebrate this special day. Please see the poster for our new earlier times to help avoid the hottest parts of the day. Students are encouraged to dress appropriately for outdoor activities, wear a hat, apply sunscreen if needed before school, and have plenty of water. The ECE will hold its activities in a shortened version, too.

The Mandarin team need assistance and would appreciate help from families. Please contact Lily Zhou or your child's Mandarin teacher if you can help.

Curriculum Arts Day /Night

Thank you to the many families who joined us to learn about and celebrate the extraordinary work in the Arts at HIS. The Arts are composed of the disciplines of Visual Arts, Music, Dance, and Drama.

The school was a visual and aural feast with many creative and beautiful images, artifacts, and sounds to appreciate. I know you join me in thanking our Specialist Arts teachers for all their efforts and the students who demonstrated the benefits of their learning so skillfully.

In the ECE, the Arts are part of how students demonstrate their understanding and knowledge, and the class teachers work with the children as part of their day-to-day creative explorations.

It was a team effort and a fantastic event!

Congratulations LS swimmers

Congratulation to our LS swimmers who performed magnificently and were part of the HISAC winning team. Great job everyone!

Have a great week!

Lynn

Lynn Pendleton

LS Principal

                 GATE PROTOCOLS                

Wearing masks to enter the school is optional for students and staff. Masks will still be available for students who want to wear them. 

Temperature and hand sanitizer checks will still continue.

Procedures and Protocols

We have a number of students with high temperatures this week. Please ensure that if your child is ill that they do not attend school. If your child continues with a high temperature or remains unwell, please seek medical support. We ask that parents err on the side of caution and keep children at home until they have fully recovered. 

Please note that if your child is absent due to COVID you must ensure they have a valid negative COVID test to reenter the school. Please forward your child's result to

lilyfan@hisdragons.org.cn or florali@hisdragons.org.cn

HOW TO CONTACT TEACHERS WE ARE ONLY USING WECHAT FOR EMERGENCY SITUATIONS SUCH AS SCHOOL CLOSURES AND LOCKDOWNS

Moments 365 Help

Help with Moments 365 is available from Mr Emlyn Majoos (Mr.M) to ensure we have all parents using this platform.  If you need a Chinese or speaker of another language please contact Mr M.and we will arrange support.

emlynmajoos@hisdragons.org.cn

Contacting Teachers

We ask parents to contact teachers via Moments 365 or by email. Teachers are busy working with students, attending meetings, preparing class materials, and ensuring student safety. They infrequently look at their computers or mobile phones and may miss your message. For changes to pick-up arrangements or urgent news, please get in touch with the school secretaries, who are online all day.

ECE lilyfan@hisdragons.org.cn                           LS main building florali@hisdragons.org.cn

Online teaching and Student/Teacher contact

For online teaching and correspondence between teachers and students we use TEAMS.

 MAKER FAIRE 

This past weekend Shanghai hosted the Maker Faire Shanghai which is dubbed by many as the “Greatest Show and Tell on Earth”. Maker Faire takes place all over the world and this is the first time in 3 years since China has hosted one. The event brought together engineers to crafters to artists to scientists all in one venue to showcase their hobbies, creations, experiments, and projects. A few of our HIS families joined me at the event and our students loved all the hands-on activities and presentations. It is great to have Maker Faire back and can’t wait for Maker Faire Shanghai in 2024. Hope to see you there.

Mr Em Majoos

LS  Design & Technolgy

 SWIMMING

2023 HISAC SWIM MEET CHAMPIONS 

Congratulations to HIS Dragons swimmers who worked hard throughout the semester and put all the preparation into last Saturday’s competition. Everyone strived to swim their personal best and contributed to the overall success of the team. Our student-athletes swam hard and demonstrated themselves as the true ambassadors of sportsmanship throughout the event.  

AWARDS 

Gold – 35 

Silver – 28 

Bronze – 27 

54 Excellent Showings 

105 Personal Bests 

Age-Group Winners 

8 & Under  

Boys - Guo, Yibu Lucas – 2nd Place 

9 – 10 

Girls - Lin, Shirley – 1st Place, Zhong, Carol – 2nd Place, Jin, Coco – 2nd Place 

Boys - Petring, Luke – 1st Place 

11 – 12 

Girls - Wang, Alison – 3rd Place, Lam, Amber – 3rd Place 

Boys - Mao, Jean – 1st Place, Guo, Leo – 3rd Place 

13 – 14 

Girls - Liu, Tina – 1st Place, Lu, Anna – 2nd Place 

Boys - Chu, Carlos – 1st Place, Tukula, Paweike – 2nd Place 

15 & Over 

Girls - Borsdorf, Kari-Amalia – 1st Place 

PHOTOS 

SCAN QR Code 

https://live.photoplus.cn/live/pc/53826597/#/live 

The Aquatics Department would like to extend its sincere appreciation and gratitude to all volunteers and logistics team for making the 2023 HISAC Swim Meet Round 4 a success. The entire team worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make it a memorable event. Many thanks for the dedicated work in the lead up to the swim meet. Thank you to all involved! 

Mr. Danie de Beer and the Tech Team 

Ms. Andrea Stubbs 

Mr. Filipe Nogueira  

Ms. Christine Shi and Operations Team 

Ms. Xiao Han and Team 

Mr. Natalio Liares and Coaching Team (Coach Donal, Coach Kiki, Coach Xu, Ms. Ruyi) 

Nurse Ping Li 

Swim Team Parents, Faculty, and Student Volunteers 

Carli Borsdorf, YanLi Sun, Tun Jin, Yanxia Zhang, Carmelina Gabo, Jeff Stubbs, Anita Molina, Matthew Worley, Tony Cohen, Vanessa Tang, David Young, Jerry Shu, Muyun Lin, Rhema Hong, Prisha Jeswani, Gaspard Roubin, Sarah Kim, Benjamin Branham, James Lee, Ben He, Saanvi Tyagi, Vidhan Jain, Ashley Ho, Joanna Yan 

GOLD/PRE-GOLD REDUCED TRAINING SCHEDULE 

Effective this week (May 31st), NO Wednesday Swim Practice for Gold/Pre-Gold Squad after school. 

Updated Gold/Pre-Gold Squad Training Schedule: 

Monday – Afternoon Swim 

Tuesday – Morning Swim, Afternoon Dryland 

Thursday – Morning Swim, Afternoon Dryland 

Friday – Afternoon Swim 

SAVE THE DATE: JUNE 17, 2023 

HIS Swim Team Summer Splash 2023 / Swimming Awards 

UPCOMING EVENTS: 

May – Water Safety Month 

June 17 – HIS Swim Team Summer Splash 2023 / Swimming Awards 

June 22 – The World's Largest Swimming Lesson 

Email swimming@hisdragons.org.cn for inquiries and visit the Aquatics Swim Meet Calendar for updated events, swim meet results, and practice schedules. 

THE WORLD’S LARGEST SWIMMING LESSON 

The World's Largest Swimming Lesson will take place on Thursday, June 22, 2023. Since 22nd is a holiday, the Aquatics department will offer water safety classes on the days leading to 22nd June, which aim to build awareness. Learning to swim and the exposure to the water safety skills and messages that swimming lessons offer provides a lifelong foundation for drowning prevention. Let us make a difference! 

              CCA INFORMATION               

CCA's

Please visit the Co-Curricular page on the HIS website for more information https://www.his-china.org/extend/co-curricular-activities-clone.  

You can also send an email to activities@hisdragons.org.cn if you have any inquiries. 

PICK UP OF STUDENTS DELAYS  AND IMPORTANT MESSAGES TO TEACHERS

Please assist staff by advising us early (before lunchtime) wherever possible, if you need your child to do something different at their usual pick-up time and location. Teachers focus on working and engaging their class while maintaining a safe environment. They get to their computers sporadically and may miss changes. In addition, some classes are with Specialist staff for the last lesson and bring the students to the pick-up locations. They may be unaware of last-minute changes.

If you need to make a late change to plans, I'd suggest you send a message to our Lower School secretaries, florali@hisdragons.org.cn or in the ECE lilyfan@hisdragons.org.cn, and they can pass on your message.

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Hangzhou International School Dragons donate one more library!

Hangzhou International School Dragons donate one more library!  -Save the date for the 16th Annual Dragon Run, June 24-

The 15th annual HIS Dragon Run fundraising event, thanks to the support of the HIS parents, students, faculty, staff, and friends at the last June 2022 event, was able to continue supporting the Library Project (library-project.org) by donating one more library in a local school in China.

This time, the HIS Dragon Run brought a new library to Niuzhai Central Primary School in Niuzhai Village, located in Daijia Township, Wu Gong County, Xian Yang City, Shaanxi Province.

The new library received more than 1000 Chinese language books, wall bookshelves, library tables, library sofas, chairs, stools, globes, STEAM activity materials, bookends, day activity materials, training materials, and a comprehensive librarian training course.

The books in the Chinese language included history, science, short stories, fairy tales, dictionaries in Pinyin, reference books, comic books, and sets of encyclopedias. Books are of the highest quality, published in China, and full color.

The donation ceremony was last May and aimed to raise the reading interest among students and share the wonderful world of reading. Students listened to many stories with the help of volunteers who read different books during the donation day. Throughout the stories, they got themselves inside fantastic worlds, countries, and cultures. The students were excited and could not wait to pick their favorite book to start their reading journey.

The Dragon Run continues supporting the Library Project. This well-established organization brings literacy and benefits children in local communities by setting up libraries and reading rooms with the money fundraised. The Library Project team works tirelessly to improve education by “one book at a time”, and Hangzhou International School is proud to be part of it.

The Dragon Run organizers, Mr. Chaddwick Plotz and Ms. Andrea Stubbs thank the generous sponsors (poster below), volunteers, runners, and HIS community.  You can see the library donation video by scanning the QR code above.

It is great to be a HIS Dragon!

Andrea Stubbs

Director of Admissions and Community Relations

Hangzhou International School

2190 Xiangbin Road, Binjiang District, Hangzhou 310052 Phone: 86-571-8669-0045
Email: andreastubbs@hisdragons.org.cn
Website: www.his-china.org

Save the date! 16th ANNUAL DRAGON RUN! Join the fun! Saturday, June 24- Registration will open shortly!

Save the date! 16th ANNUAL DRAGON RUN! Join the fun! -Saturday, June 24- Registration is open!

You can participate in the 5K Race, the 1K Fun Run (Registration payment gives you a t-shirt and a goodie bag. All profits go to the Library Project).  If you are not a runner, come and cheer while enjoying the different activities, performances, and food stalls and support the Library Project, a charity that builds libraries and reading rooms in Chinese schools. Scan the QR code below to see last year’s event video!

If you would like to learn more about how to become a sponsor of this 16th Dragon Run, email: dragonrun@hisdragons.org.cn or Ms. Andrea Stubbs at andreastubbs@hisdragons.org.cn

Registration is open! Join the fun and participate in the 16th ANNUAL DRAGON RUN!

You can participate in the 5K Race, the 1K Fun Run (Registration payment gives you a t-shirt, finish medal, and a goodie bag. All profits go to the Library Project).  

If you are not a runner, come and cheer while enjoying the different activities, performances, and food stalls and support the Library Project, a charity that builds libraries and reading rooms in Chinese schools. Scan the QR code below to see last year’s event video!

If you would like to learn more about how to become a sponsor of this 16th Dragon Run, email: dragonrun@hisdragons.org.cn or Ms. Andrea Stubbs at andreastubbs@hisdragons.org.cn

HIS PAFA (Parents and Friends Association) - End of the School Year Lunch –

 All HIS parents are cordially invited to attend the last lunch of the year to celebrate with good food, good company, and good wishes before heading to the summer holiday! Information and QR code to register in the poster below:

           PAFA END OF YEAR LUNCH        

HIS PAFA (Parents and Friends Association) - End of the School Year Lunch –

All HIS parents are cordially invited to attend the last lunch of the year to celebrate with good food, good company, and good wishes before heading to the summer holiday! Information and QR code to register in the poster below:

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                    LIBRARY NEWS                  

Dear Families,

The Lower School Library has updated its genre labels! The Lower School Library book collection is sorted by genrefication, which means the books are grouped by themes or topics so that students and teachers can easily access the books they want. Please have a look at the posters to familiarize yourself and your child with the collection. You could ask them which sections they like to visit or check together which genre the book they have from the library falls under. Parents and guardians, with their children, are welcome to visit the library between 3:15pm-4:30pm during school days. To make an appointment, please email the relevant librarian for the library you wish to visit. Parents can also open their own accounts and check out books. The Lower School Library is located on the Main Campus and faces the lower school playground.

Congratulations to all the Book Week Bingo winners!  It is always lovely to see the happy faces in the library and reading.

The Battle of the Books voting has started! If you would like to vote with your child, please feel free to scan the QR code and vote for your favorite books. This is a great time to ask them about the books they read and why they like them. Good luck with the voting rounds!

If you would like to contact the libraries, please use the email addresses listed below:

ECE Library, Ms. Ivy – ecelibrary@hisdragons.org.cn

Lower School Library, Mrs. Majoos and Ms. Amy – lslibrary@hisdragons.org.cn

Upper School Library, Ms. Sara– uslibrary@hisdragons.org.cn

Happy reading!

Best wishes,

Mrs. Majoos

Lower School Librarian

Parent and Student ID Cards

All students and parents should have an HIS Identification Card. Please review the information on the website to submit your photo to the secretary for ID card generation. HIS ID card information

DRAGONS WEAR THEIR UNIFORM WITH PRIDE EACH DAY!

School Uniform

Please wear our school uniform with pride each day, and we seek your support in having your child dressed in the complete uniform each day. We will notify you if it is a special day to dress up; otherwise, students should be in uniform. Also, please have your child wear their PE kit on swim days (Grade1-5). Please label your child's clothing to help us return it to you. We often find many items without names, and the students cannot recognize their belongings.    

Purchasing School Uniform

Families can purchase items at the Dragon Shop. It is open

Monday to Friday from 

9.00 am-11.00 am and 1.00 pm-3.00 pm

For more information, please contact the dragon shop:

olivexu@hisdragons.org.cn

          LS ADMINISTRATION TEAM            

Lynn Pendleton

Lower School Principal 

Aaron Ayers

Lower School

Vice Principal

Student Welfare

Cilla Giannopoulos

Lower School

Vice Principal 

PYP Co-ordinator

SCHOOL LUNCH

See this week's cafeteria menu

HIS Mission Statement

We provide international learners with opportunities to pursue academic and personal excellence within a caring community.