Year 5 Newsletter

New International School of Thailand
A warm welcome to Year 5 @ NIST

Ye a r 5
Newsletter 1
A new school year brings new challenges and exciting changes
to NIST. The Year 5 Team would like to share some important
information with you. Communication is going to be a very big Monday
part of what we do this year. There are so many ways to learn 16th August 2010
more about what we are working on through the class blogs,
School portal, email, Veracross and newsletters. You will learn
more about some of these newer forms of communication over
time. Each of these serve a different purpose and we are confi-
dent that you should always find what you are looking for.
There will be a Back to School Night on Tuesday 24th August.

Times and exact locations are yet to be decided. Once these
The Year 5 Team
arrangements have been confirmed we shall pass the informa-
tion on to you. This is a great
way to meet and greet your Jane Cooper
classroom teacher. During this Year Coordinator
time you will learn more about jcooper@nist.ac.th
Year 5 expectations and the
programs we teach.
Kate Kitsos
If you have any questions or kkitsos@nist.ac.th
concerns please email your
child’s classroom teacher. We
Mondira Mukherjee
do hope that we can all learn
and work together to achieve mmukherjee@nist.ac.th
the best for your child.
Heather Rich
hrich@nist.ac.th
The Year 5 Team is looking forward to a
wonderful year which will see the students: Chad Walsh
cwalsh@nist.ac.th
 become increasingly focused and independent learners
 become more aware of the importance of organization and Patsy Littlewood
good time management Learning Support
 meet challenges in a positive and thoughtful manner plittlewood@nist.ac.th
 be excited by the learning experiences they are involved in
 work together and be caring and considerate of their Bill Vosko
friends and classmates ESL Teacher
wvosko@nist.ac.th
Miss Pooh
Academic Assistant
Parent Handbook
You should have received a School Arrival and Departure
copy of the Elementary Page 22 and Page 25
School Parent Handbook
which contains lots of useful We do appreciate that traffic in
Bangkok is always busy . However, Similarly, it is impor-
information. We would like
can you please try to ensure that tant that children are
to highlight a few key areas: your child is in school before the collected promptly
start of school bell rings. We do un- after school or ECA’s.
Page 23 - Birthdays
derstand that occasionally there are
Please note that we situations which are beyond our
are happy to celebrate control but regular lateness makes
birthdays through it difficult for your child, and the PE and Swimming Queries
prior organization of a rest of their class.
Page 35
suitable time with individual class
Homeroom time is a time which sets
teachers.
the scene for the day, homework
Something which is easy to share, may be marked, notices read out
such as cupcakes or brownies, are and activities may commence. If
welcomed. Cakes which need to be children regularly arrive late it af-
cut are difficult for class teachers to fects their organizational routine
organize. and they may miss key information.
Communication and Homework

Page 24 - Communication If you are not able to resolve cally ask for your input but much of
matters please contact the Year the work set should be done inde-
Please contact class
Coordinator. pendently or with guidance if needed.
teachers directly if
you have any con-
Most initial communication between In Year 5 we expect that students
cerns. Please re-
member that be- parents and teachers will be via a will:
tween 7.25am and school diary, the Blog or email. The
 read for 15-20 mins each day
2.30pm our priority new Veracross system can be logged
onto through the NIST Portal and
 complete 20 minutes of home-
is teaching our classes and we have
room assignments
limited time until after this period. parents are asked to ensure that
Please be patient and may we as-  complete 20 mins of World
their contact details are kept up-to-
sure you that we will respond to Language assignments
date.
emails as soon as we possibly can.
This is obviously only
Pages 29-30 - Homework
Similarly if you wish to speak di- a guide as students
rectly to a teacher it is always ap- Please could you monitor that your will take differing
preciated if an appointment is child completes all homework set lengths of time to
arranged. carefully. Some tasks may specifi- complete tasks.
Uniform and Lost Property

Page 42 - Uniform now available in the uniform shop permanent pen, laundry marker or
for the cooler months. appropriate name labels.
Please could you assist your child in
coming to school wearing the appro-
Page 32 - Lost Property If your child does lose any items it is
priate uniform each day.
important that they ask their class
During the year there is an amazing
teacher and that they visit the lost
Footwear is an area which needs amount of lost property collected,
property department in the base-
regular re-enforcement. Students most of which does not have names
ment of the new secondary building.
should wear shoes or trainers which and is never collected.
are predominantly black or white.
Sandals and crocs are not permit- Please can we ask that you check
that all of your child’s uniform and
ted. School jumpers and jackets are
belongings are clearly named in

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New International School of Thailand

A warm welcome to Year 5 @ NIST

There will be a Back to School Night on Tuesday 24th August.

Communication and Homework

Uniform and Lost Property

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