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The International School of Samui Newsletter I S S U E
Important Dates
Thursday 12th February -
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ISS hosts its first FINATHON fundraiser
KG Carnival
Friday 13th February Chinese New Year Celebration
16th - 20th February Half Term Break
Friday 27th February Kindergarten Open Morning
Thursday 5th March World Book Day
Friday 6th March - Thai Food Cultural Day
9th March - 13th March Parent Meeting Week
16th March - 20th March Year 11 IGCSE Mock week
19th/ 20th March Primary Science Super Learning Days
Friday 27th March - PTA Quiz Evening
Wednesday 1st April PTA Easter Egg Hunt
Thursday 2nd April Songkran Day
Friday 3rd April - Primary Dance Competition
Friday 3rd April - School closes at 12:30pm for Songkran holiday
Monday 20th April School opens for Term 3
F E B R U A R Y
Since the Shark Guardian charity came to visit ISS, the children have been fascinated by sharks and it has left us all wanting to do more to help. The school has become FINatical about sharks and we wanted to join thousands of other people by swimming against finning, the process by which sharks are killed for their fins. Therefore our very first ISS FINathon took place on Friday 30th January 2015. Our challenge was to swim 2200 lengths or 55,000m (which is the same distance as one lap around Koh Samui) to raise awareness and much needed funds. All our students from Year 1 to Year 11 participated and were charged with raising their own sponsorship funds. The results were amazing... The day began with our youngest swimmers completing lengths of our dedicated small training pool and the finale of the day was a wonderful display by our school swim squad, ISS Sharks. We were also joined by swimmers from The Dive Academy Dive School, who participated on behalf of Project Aware. It was a wonderful day, in which our students all worked together and displayed many fantastic qualities that we are proud to promote here at ISS; teamwork, perseverance, dedication to name but a few… The final result of the day was absolutely breathtaking, as our children swum 5523 length, which is 138,075 metres. (over two laps around the whole of Koh Samui.) The students also managed to raise a staggering 121,335 THB , which we will be happily donating to the Shark Guardians and Project Aware charities. We are so proud of all of our students, and we would like to thank them and all the members of our community who helped make the event such a success and who helped support the children's efforts.
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