Newsletter April 10th

10th April 2015

Headmaster letter Dear ISHCMC Community Helmets I would like to remind all parents, staff, and students of the need to wear helmets when riding on a bicycle or a motor bike. This applies to both the driver and any passengers.

Commencing next week the local authorities will be stopping riders and imposing fines on their parents, for any children who are over the age of 6 years who are not wearing a helmet. The authorities will also report the students to their schools and are expecting the School to follow up.

The National Traffic Safety Committee and the Traffic Police Department have agreed on the above approach as part of promoting the National Child Helmet Action Plan. The plan aims to significantly increase child helmetwearing rates and is an important step towards improved motor cycle passenger safety in Vietnam.

Do Thanh Binh, Deputy Director of the Traffic Police Department says that the priority is the safety of children. In addition: “Enhanced child helmet enforcement is a powerful and effective response to the UN Global Road Safety Week and will lead to safer child passengers on the road�.

Departing Teachers July 2015 Below a list of the full-time teachers who will be departing ISHCMC at the end of this academic year. They have all given our school excellent service during their tenure however it is now time for them to move to other schools somewhere else in the world. I know that you will share with me our gratitude for the assistance and expertise that they have given our ISHCMC children over the years.

The 17 departing teachers represent 17% of our teachers at ISHCMC. 15% - 20% departure on an annual basis is considered to be acceptable in a quality international school setting.

Primary Diana Goyder - Grade 4 Ingrid Kelly - Grade 1 Jacklyn Tram Nguyen - Upper Primary Music Sarah Schnack - Student Support Services - Gifted and Talented Rebecca Stockdale - P.E. Carmen Weaver - Spanish Teacher Secondary Elliott Cannell - Secondary Science Teacher Brian Chesher - Secondary Counselor Heather Ferreira - Secondary English Teacher Glen Fleury - Secondary Drama Teacher Rachel Fleury - Secondary Music Teacher Vishal Ganguli - Secondary French Teacher Kerry Hurst - Secondary Science Teacher Casey Jackson - College Counselor Jaimi Litus - Secondary English Teacher Andres Lopez - Secondary Spanish Teacher Warren Schnack - Secondary Maths Teacher & TOK Teacher The recruitment of new teachers for the 2015-2016 academic year is nearly complete. As soon as the appointments are finalized I will advise you of the new teachers joining our school for the 2015-2016 academic year.

Calendar Change There has been a change to the published calendar for the 2015-2016 academic year.

The ISHCMC long weekend which was scheduled for Friday 18th to Monday 21st September inclusive has been moved to the following weekend. i.e. the ISHCMC long weekend will now be Friday 25th September to Monday 28th September inclusive.

The reason for the change is that we are unable to obtain the services of the outside provider to conduct professional development activities with our teaching staff on the scheduled holiday weekend for students. Thus the shift in dates.

Please see this link for more details: http://www.ishcmc.com/school-life/calendar.html Please accept my apologies if this has inconvenienced parents in any way.

With kind regards.

Simon Leslie Headmaster

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Music showcase We would like to invite the ISHCMC community to come and join us at the upcoming Music Showcase (previously called Gala Concert) on Wednesday 22nd April at 6:30pm. The Showcase will feature the school’s musical ensembles – Secondary Orchestra, Secondary Choir, Primary Choir, Jazz Band, Primary Instrumental and Vocal groups as well at soloists and the Rock Band.

This year we are holding the event at ISHCMC with a theme of ‘A blast from the past’. In order to cater for the number of musicians performing, the concert will be divided into 2 halves. One half of the concert will be in the MPR and the other half will be in the school Gym. Audience members will be allocated a ticket with either a 1 or 2 on it. This will indicate which venue you start with – MPR (1) and Gym (2). After audience members have seen the first half of the concert there will be light refreshments and then they will be escorted to the other venue to see the second half of the concert. All audience members will be able to see both halves of the concert so it doesn’t matter which venue you are allocated to start with.

Tickets for the event are free; however people will need to pre-collect the tickets from the main reception in the Admissions building. There are a limited number of seats available so each family will be only be able to take a maximum of 6 tickets.

Please come and join us and enjoy a fun evening of musical entertainment.

Glen Fleury Secondary Drama Teacher

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A BLAST FROM THE PAST! One Concert, Two Venues MPR (1) and GYM (2) April 22nd 6:30 - 8:00PM TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE FROM SCHOOL RECEPTION FROM APRIL 10th BETWEEN 7:30AM TO 4PM

Academic Honor Roll This year ISHCMC has launched an Academic Honor Roll for students in the Diploma Programme and the MYP. The purpose of the Academic Honor Roll is to celebrate students who have excelled across all their subjects academically. To be on the Academic Honor Roll in the MYP, students need to have achieved a cumulative total of 52 points or more out of a possible total of 56 points in their Evaluation of Learning.

The Academic Honor Roll awards will be presented twice a year, after the Evaluations of Learning each semester.

Last Tuesday, an Academic Honor Roll assembly took place to recognize the following students in the MYP who achieved 52 points or more in the semester one Evaluation of Learning: Kyle O’Dore, Yeji Kim, Wanatchaporn Borivenpaisal, Ngoc Quynh Mai Nguyen, Rizana Tatlock, Tran Nhat Vy Trinh, Irene Santangelo, Kayla Cook, Chang Heon Han, Chaiyeon Kim, Thao Chi Tran, Ana McCawley, Claire Hightower, Jody Rogers, Ju Ha Lee, Margaret Nethercott, Hyoeun Kim In addition, the following Diploma students also received their Academic Honor Roll recognition, which had been held over from the previous DP awards: Jee Ye Hong, Ksenia Kurnosova, Savyasachi Gupta

Personal Project Fair The Grade 10 Personal Project Fair took place on March 17th. Here is a link to a video of that event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opr5_N2YsuA

DP ART SHOW The DP art show is a showcase of students work. Students invite you to the opening where they will have an opportunity to speak about their artistic development, achievement and challenges they have experienced over the last 2 years. Works will be for sale.

ANIMAL ASIA Sale Last week the ISHCMC group of Animals Asia had two sales on Wednesday and Friday. These were a great success and raised over 13 million VND! Animals Asia is a non-profit organization dedicated to the cause of helping sun and moon bears in and around Vietnam. Their bear sanctuary and offices are in Hanoi and are collaborating with ISHCMC and AAVN to help raise awareness!

Louis Grist ISHCMC student

U11 ISHCMC SOCCER TEAM Another fantastic game to watch, the ISHCMC team competed well and fought hard. The final score was 6 – 0 to BIS. The ISHCMC team are ready for their next game and continue to train hard.

PTO TRASH AND TREASURE SALE The PTO Trash and Treasure Sale will be held on Saturday, April 18th from 9 am to 12 noon at ISHCMC. All money raised will be donated to charity, Friends of Street Children. If you have donations, please leave them at the PTO Rhino Hut from Monday, April 13th to Friday, April 17th. If you would still like to have a table at this event, please contact Molly Spangler at mollyspangler@mac.com.

Saturday April 18th 9am - noon Table Rental - 250,000VND Sell your unwanted items and keep the proceeds or donate your items to the PTO charity table!

Contact Molly Spangler at mollyspangler@mac.com for more information