Lower School Newsletter 21 November 2022

HIS CALENDAR

                 Upcoming Events

*25 November   Professional Inservice Day   No students

*26 November   Tree Lighting- Four Seasons

*3 December     Seussical KIDS performances

*23 December    Semester 1 reports home

*23 December    End of semester 1

*27 January        Professional inservice/ New                                Family Orientation (no school                            for students) 

*30 January        First Day of Semester Two

CONGRATULATIONS HIS SWIM TEAM!

CONGRATULATIONS HIS Golden Dragon swimmers for the outstanding performance at the Hangzhou International Youth Swimming Open Championships this past weekend held at Hangzhou Swimming Pool, No. 181, North Huancheng Road. The event was attended by 3 Swim Clubs, 3 Bilingual Schools, and 2 International Schools. What a day it was. 35 HIS Dragons swimmers brought home 38 Gold medals, 24 Silver medals, 17 Bronze medals, 18 other excellent awards, and many PBs! Kudos to our fantastic coaching team, dedicated student-athletes, and incredible parents! Everyone had a blast cheering and racing. What a fantastic experience for our young student-athletes! 

Let us congratulate our student-athletes who represented HIS... 

LS – Luke Petring, Lucas Guo, William Lou, Astin Hong, Eachan Lu, Leo Guo, Flynn Yu, Jean Mao, Alison Sun, Kiki Jin, Chloe Wang, Carol Zhong, Vivian Jiang, Mable Lu, Coco Jin, Shirley Lin. 

US – Aditya Sharma, Divay Agarwal, Richard Xu, Peter Pan, Harry Wang, Dennis Lu, Nathan Zhu, Anderson Lai, Derek Xu, Tina Liu, Helen Zhong, Lisa Wu, Amber Lam, Lydia Yu, Allison Wang, Naoimi Xia, Victoria Ca Cao, Alice Wu, Anna Lu. 

SCAN THE QR CODE FOR Hangzhou International Youth Swimming Open Championship Photos

You can look at the photos in the link below:

https://as.alltuu.com/album/1071002502/?from=link

CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR THE Video Replay

http://m.zj-qq.live/dl/63745f964ea04

CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR THE Results

https://www.his-china.org/extend/swim-team/results

Upcoming Events:

Nov. 26 – Dulwich College Suzhou Invitational Swim Meet (Canceled)

Dec. 3 – HISAC Round 1 Postponed Meet

Dec. 10-11 – 2022 Swim Cloud Junior International Swimming Championships

Dec. 17 – Santa Splash Swim Meet

Email swimming@hisdragons.org.cn for inquiries, and visit the Aquatics Swim Meet Calendar webpage for updated events.

  Chinese Lantern Festival Gala Audition     

               Chinese Language Festival           

                               Lower School                            ATHLETICS

LOWER SCHOOL ATHLETICS 

HISAC Cross-Country Championships - Open Invitation 

On Saturday 3rd December we will host a Cross-Country event in some parklands adjacent to our HIS Campus. Student who would like to participate are invited to register with Mr. Nogueira this week in person or through email – athletics@hisdragons.org.cn . Distances for U11 is 1.6km and U14 is 3.2km. 

UPCOMING EVENTS IN NEXT 2 WEEKS  

2022 HISAC CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS – ALL AGES (U11 / U14 / U19) 

Hosted by Hangzhou International School 

Saturday 3rd December 

Natalio Liares, IV

Aquatics Coordinator

Hangzhou International School   

                    Principal's Message             

Dear Parents,

I hope you have enjoyed tuning into our assemblies if you have been in Kindergarten and Grade 2. We hope to join grade 3 on Thursday as we share the students learning at their Assembly.

Classes connect their Assembly to the work they have been doing in class and showcase the students developing understanding as a powerful way to transform learning. There is a growing focus on taking knowledge and using another form or medium to demonstrate it. The ability to do this is evidence of deeper understanding and connection. 

We had our first certificates in the ECE on Thursday. These celebrate all sorts of growing and learning our youngest students demonstrate. We will be giving these out regularly at each Assembly, and they are more about celebrating small growth and achievement. 

I'm looking forward to joining the Mandarin team tomorrow for their trip to the lake, which will stimulate beautiful descriptive writing. We are hoping the weather cooperates! I look forward to seeing some of you on the trip.

Enjoy your week.

Lynn

Lynn Pendleton 

LS Principal

COUNT UP TO OUR 100 DAYS OF SCHOOL CELEBRATION

 Our students from K -Grade 5 are counting up to 100 days of school this academic year. This is a terrific opportunity to be involved in Math talks and to see the different ways the numbers can be represented! Each class will have about 3 numbers to celebrate! We will have a celebrationi  when we reach 100 days!

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.

CCA's LEARNING NEW THINGS AND DEVELOPING PASSIONS! HANDSEWING FOR BEGINNERS

The students are practicing different stitches. The running baste stitch is a temporary stitch used to secure pieces of fabric together. They then used the running stitch which is a shorter but much stronger stitch to sew their emoji pillows. They will then add Stuffing to finish off the pillow.

CCA 1 DATES 

Monday, October 10 – Friday, December 16 

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. 

WHAT ARE LOOSE PARTS? We Need Your Help collecting Loose Parts!

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.

COVID PROCEDURES AND PROTOCOLS FOR SCHOOL ENTRY

COVID Procedures and Protocols

We have a number of families and staff affected by the current lock down of Powerlong Shopping Centre.

Please pay strict attention to your COVID prevention protocols and monitor your health code status regularly.

Masks must be worn on entry and can be removed when children are inside the school grounds.

As you know, we are back to 72-hour COVID tests in Hangzhou. The school will usually conduct three (3) COVID tests for all staff and students weekly. 

Please note that if your child is absent on the testing days, you must ensure they have a valid COVID test to reenter the school. Please forward your child's result to lilyfan@hisdragons.org.cn or florali@hisdragons.org.cn

                      PAFA NEWS                     

Congratulations to the winners of the GIN Club Greeting Card Competition!

All winners will receive their free pack of cards from GIN club, and can pick them up next week at Ms. Andrea’s office: 

Thank you to all the participants. Please, collect your drawings, plus a chocolate, with Ms. Andrea. The winning submissions have been printed on greeting cards and will be sold at the different events at HIS. All proceeds help fund GIN club projects and charity experiences.

     GIN ADVENT CALENDAR PICK UP     

GIN Club –Advent Calendar delivery orders- 

If you ordered an Advent Calendar, this will be distributed by November 28th to your child, but if you wish to collect the calendar yourself, please send an email to Ms. Andrea: andreastubbs@hisdragons.org.cn

Thank you for supporting the HIS GIN Club Projects in the community while giving a special gift during the festive period!

                    HIS TURKEY  TROT              

HIS Turkey Trot 2022! 

HIS Dragon Runners and Hikers, join us this Saturday, November 26 to the “HIS Turkey Trot”. We’ll run, or hike 5km on a trail from the Lianhua Old Temple to the HIS Campus.

We will meet at the HIS Campus at 8:30am, and together (transportation provided) we will depart to the Lianhua Old Temple to start our journey. Our HIS Cross-Country team will join us to conclude their training season.

We will have different groups leading, so everyone can find their own pace. Below is the elevation and if hiking slowly, the approximately time that it takes (2hrs.)

Sign up by joining to the WeChat Group below, before this Thursday morning. If you have questions, please contact Ms. Andrea.

              Individual School Photos               

Individual Studio Photos are available to see and order! Following Dave’s Studio recent visit to take school photographs, you are able to see the photos and if you wish, order online directly with them by scanning the QR Code below. If you have questions, you can contact them by email: davesstudioinfo@qq.com or by scanning their WeChat contact below:

FOUR SEASONS TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY

HIS Tree Lighting Choir and Strings Ensemble Performances

It's that time of year again!  The HIS Tree Lighting Choir and Strings Ensemble will be performing to celebrate the official lighting of their Christmas tree at the Four Seasons and Intercontinental Hotels.  Here are the dates for these evening events:

Four Seasons - Saturday, November 26. This is a traditional Gala Charity Event to fundraise the Carnation School for Children with Special Learning Disabilities, and our HIS Christmas Choir and Orchestra is really proud to participate to give back to the community. Tickets must be purchased in advance by scanning the QR code in the poster, and include a free flow of the drinks and food (Limited Tickets for the event) 

InterContinental – Friday, December 02 (Free – no ticket needed)

                    Lost Property              

Please label your child's jackets, coats, umbrellas, waterbottles......everything! It is very worrying to see the number of unclaimed items, some of them brand new, but without a name and the ability to find the owner! We will try and locate the owner if the item has a name on it! Please help us and avoid needing to buy new items that could be located, if only we knew who it belonged to.

                    LIBRARY NEWS                     

Dear Families,

In the ECE Library, Ms. Ivy set up a story table "The Enormous Potato" for the students to observe and experience the harvests that occur during fall. The students also had to try to solve the problem and work together to pull the enormous potato out. The students enjoyed acting out with finger puppets and different materials to help them to pull the potato out.

This coming week the students in grade 3-5 who have read at least 5 books over the last few weeks will have the opportunity to fill out the Predication Sheet to enter the Battle of the Books voting rounds. The students need to predict which book they think will win.

The Upper and Lower School libraries are holding a “Season’s Readings” Competition! It is similar to our winter book bingo from last year. Come to the library starting November 23rd to get your card for the competition!

Our CCA students from “We Are Lit – librarians in training”, Ted and Nathan, created a great dinosaur book display in the lower school library. Come check it out and learn more about dinosaurs.

Lastly, Mr. Em has put up a FIFA World Cup display where he will be updating the football matches as they occur during the tournament. The students can come check out all the updates from the World Cup!

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 and Ms. Cocoa – uslibrary@hisdragons.org.cn

Happy reading!

Best wishes,

Mrs. Majoos

Lower School Librarian

  STORY TABLE THE ENORMOUS POTATO

   Messages for entering/exiting the school   

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.    

Ordering School Uniform

Parents can go to the following link and look at the uniform web page (https://www.his-china.org/support/dragon-shop).

Parents can place an order with Nancy in the Dragon Shop (dragonshop@his-china.org) by email or by calling the school directly (Tel# 8669-0045 X109) during office hours (Monday-Friday 7:45 am - 11:30 am and 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm).

Also, parents may make an appointment to go to the Dragon Shop between 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm when the regular school day is over.

Older students may come to the Dragon Shop to select sizes and purchase uniforms if they have time before or after school during open hours.

Payment may be made through AliPay or by giving students cash.

You can choose from the following options to receive uniform orders:

Give items directly to students

Wait for pick-up at the school gate

Deliver home 12RMB pay on delivery fee.

         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            

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