PYP New Websites

You can learn what is happening in your child’s classes by visiting our new websites. They are replacing the blogs. The websites will be updated each week.

Dear Parents,

Thank you for joining the Back to School meeting this morning, it was so nice to see so many of you there. Unfortunately, I forgot to record the session, my apologies. If you have any questions as you look through the presentation please feel free t email me regarding clarification june.va@kis.ac.th

Back to School Coffee Primary Sept 3 2021

 Dear Parents,

We hope you and your child had a fun and engaging week of school, our first full week was very successful as our students and teachers begin their year-long journey together as a classroom community. Just a couple of bits of important information for the upcoming week.

Learning Package Pickups:

Packages will be available for all Primary School parents as a drive-through service, in the main (secondary school) parking lot. Please drive up to the staff and open your window, hand them your paper with your child’s name and return any reading materials at the same time. Thank you

Further details

• Pick-up is organized for Friday 27th of August, this coming Friday.
• Pick up will be between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm
• Returns: Please return any reading materials to school at this time i.e. Library books, reading resources such as class novels ORT and others. Please place in a bag with your child’s name on it (nickname and grade) so we can catalogue their return and put them back into the system.
• Please keep your child’s whiteboard and stationary
• Please prepare a scrap of paper  with your child nickname and grade and hand it to the staff so they can give you the correct package (it is sometimes difficult to hear because of  windows, masks, and running engines)
• Please drive off when you have the new package

Assessment (Grade School 1-5)

We have begun our baseline assessments for reading, math, spelling, and writing.

You can help by providing a learning space that is quiet and has few distractions, encouragement, and support will help too. However, we ask that you do not assist your child in these assessments, it’s fine to get things wrong, this is how we learn and how we know exactly where your child is as a learner. This is how we plan appropriate lessons and learning for your child.

Here is a copy of the letter sent to you from Ms. Tania, our PYP Coordinator.

Assessment Letter

Early Years Workshops

Thank you for your attendance at the series of workshops presented this week for our Early Years’ parents. we hope you found the topics useful and informative. Here are the presentations for you to review, the recordings have been sent to you in the Head of School Letter on Friday, August 20th.

Presentations

• Navigating remote learning in the Early Years (Mr. Gerry, Vice Principal;)
• The purpose of play and learning environments Ms. Tania, PYP Coordinator)
• ICT tips for Remote learning (Mr. Eric, ICT integration Specialist)
• Our Library, and what’s available (Ms. Lindsay, Library Teacher/Integration Specialist)

We have postponed our Meeting for this coming Friday 27th, it’s a busy day with picking up packages and our first house day. It is now rescheduled for Friday, September 3rd.

We will continue to develop workshops and forums for you and are currently working on ones for all parents and grade-school specific ones too. Please let us know if there is something you want us to cover in particular.  either contact us directly or let us know through your KISPA representative.

House Day

Our first house day will be this coming Friday, August 27th, we will be selecting our House Captains and doing some fun activities alongside some our regular school activities, house shirts or hose colours will be the order of the day!

Good Morning,

Here is the presentation for the Early Years workshop this morning, Monday, August 16th, “Navigating remote learning for the Early Years”. If you have any questions or comments, please let us know, you can contact me at june.va@kis.ac.th thanks.

Navigating Remote Learning in the Early Years-A guide for parents

Dear Parents,

Wishing you all a warm welcome to the new school year, although we have not started the year as anticipated, everyone is eager and motivated to get started. Our first few days have been filled with excitement as the students get to know their new teachers and are introduced to new friends. Please find the revised parent handbook regarding guidelines for online learning.  This will help you to navigate and understand the programme a little more.

Parent Handbook Aug 21

Dear Parents,

Here is wishing you all a very happy New Year and we hope you had a fun-filled and restful holiday. Thank you for your continued support and partnership as we enter into the new year.

The year 2021 has not started as we had hoped, but we look forward to seeing you all and your children through the lovely lens of Zoom or Google Meets for the next couple of weeks. Currently, we are mandated to be closed until January 31st, so have worked to ensure we can provide our learners with the be remote learning opportunities we can. The teachers have provided tuning in activities and zoom meetings over the past few days and have prepared packages to support the online learning activities, to create a balance and hopefully, an enjoyable programme for everyone. The following handbook will provide you with some information regarding the structure and expectations of the programme and the teachers will be sending home emails and updating their blogs this afternoon in preparation for the more structured programme that starts on Monday.

Parent Handbook

Letter to parents 05_01_2021.docx (1)

Dear Parents

Sports Day letter 2020

KIS EY Swim Programme

Dear Parents,

A big thanks to those of you who came to the PYP workshops, you can find the presentations for the Grade School and for the Early Years by either clicking here or by going to the workshop folder on the right-hand side of the blog. I have also uploaded the Early Years swimming information there too.

Next Thursday is the last day for the Christmas Tree Gift-giving donations, please have them purchased wrapped, and under the tree by the end of the day on Thursday 10th of December. The specific charities we are supporting are The Rangsit babies home, The Thanksgiving Home, The Mercy Centre and the Haven Foundation for Children, your gifts are very much appreciated.

The Red Bins will also be emptied on Monday 14th December, there are a few more days for you to sort out these items, most of these items go to support the refugee and migrant communities on the border.

G3 (9:00 am), G4 (10:00 am) and G5 (11:00 am) will present their assemblies to their parents on Friday 18th of December, it is a half-day at school, school closes at 12:00. KISPA will be having their annual Holiday Marketplace., with lots of stalls and goodies to purchase and enjoy. We do however need to remember to wear masks, distance and use hand sanitizer as we move between stalls. Please remember to sign out your children and enjoy the stalls with them too.

Sports day is upon us for the grade school, here is the letter with all of the details. We also have a long weekend this weekend, school is closed December 7th.

Many thanks for all your support. and for a great term one 2020-2021.

PYP in the Early Years

Here is the presentation from, Friday 20th November 2020

PYP in the Primary Years