“Young people don't always

do what they're told, but if

they can pull it off and do

something wonderful, some-

times they escape punish-

ment. ”

― Rick Riordan

In This Issue

Principal’s Message

Caring 4 Creepers Update

20 anniversary

Comics

Track and field Upcoming Events

Dear Parents,

Another extremely busy week of learning has come and gone with plenty of excitement in

the school hallways and classrooms. On Tuesday and Wednesday grade 3 participated

in a very successful Digifam (no digital media for one day) as part of their provocation for

their new unit of inquiry on digital media. Thursday administration hosted parents for our

monthly coffee morning to learn more about how learning looks in our school. Thank you

for your participation and enthusiasm: we had a number of parents who were very in-

volved in the learning process and the investigation posed. Parent work on the mathe-

matical investigation will be posted in the school.

Caring4Creepers, a major fundraiser for local charities, was a huge success thanks to

the support of parents and students. For more information, please read the article located

in this newsletter.

Our assembly next week will recognize those students who will be leaving ISHCMC,

thanking them for the friendships made and wishing them well as they move on to their

next challenge. If your child is leaving as of December 13th, please join us at assembly.

Next week our SRC will have a Red and Green Day on Friday, December 13th in order to

raise money for Loreto (one of the charities closely linked to the school). Please help us

support this worthy cause by wearing those colours.

Have a great weekend!

Dec 6th, 2013

Event For Whom? Date/Time Location

Celebration of Music Lower Primary

Upper Primary

Dec 10th-8:30am

Dec 10th-6:30pm

MPR

MPR

Sports day Primary Dec 13th all after-

noon

Soccer Field

SRC action day Primary Dec 13th-All day Whole School

Holiday break starts Everyone Dec 13-11:10 Everywhere

New years eve Everyone 31st 12:00am

Everywhere

As we weaved through the traffic,

a rush of excitement went down

my spine, I felt nervous to tour

the blind school.

I looked around to see Miss

Seibert, Mr. Stichbury, Mr. Quirke

and other students, Marika, Dan-

iella, Martino, Hansuel, Julia and

Jayden.

I listened to all the noises

around me; I heard the sound of

motorbikes and cars, honking

horns and the sound of the world

talking to itself.

I thought about how lucky I was

to be able to go to the blind

school, in my curious mind, I did-

n’t think I would ever get the op-

portunity to ever go to a blind

school, but I was wrong. “We

have arrived!” I thought to myself,

I was full of curiosity and wonder

of what will happen next...

We have raised 105 million this year,

we are hoping to raise as much as we

did last year, which was 140 million.

Trip to the blind school

We went into the blind school

and I saw lots of children waving at

us, although they could not see,

“These students must be very clev-

er to be able to do things without

sight” I thought to myself.

The blind girl who greeted us

was eating a crunchy piece of

bread, she followed our voices into

the KG classroom, and she looked

interested at the iPad because she

was playing with the flap of the

iPad cover. We toured around the

classrooms, and we saw students

using computers on their own, chil-

dren writing braille, children play-

ing, as well as learning English.

It made me think how hard it must

be to be blind or visually impaired.

Written by: Emma Shadwell

Caring 4 Creepers

By Drew

Attention ISHCMC, do you like

helping kids and animals? Do

you also want an extra recces

with your house team? If you

do, you have to support Caring

4 Creepers before classes

starts (7:15-7:40).

Bring human food, or cat food

that will not go bad. For every

piece of food you bring you will a

get tally and a paper for your

house team. Your colored paper

goes on the creeper because he

lost his skin!

The money goes to street people

and the animal rescue.

Hope you come!

The track and field team did great during the SISAC competition Sat-urday 31st of November. The Rhi-no’s track and field team compet-ed against other schools such as B.I.S, C.I.S and A.B.C.I.S. The team went to Vietnam’s national stadium.

The event started with an 800m run. After that they started doing more events at the same time for example fling sock, discus, high jump and 300m running. There was lots of cheering from parents and ISHCMC officials.

There was also a secondary track and field competition, but that was after the elementary track and field competition. The whole team did extremely well, and the under 9 girls team even won!!!

By: Jan

Elementary Track And Field Competition

Celebration of Music

Something that almost everyone is ex-

cited about is the ‘celebration of music’.

Everyone is waiting for next week

Tuesday. That is when celebration of

cultures is. Lots of people are going to

the music room and practicing. All the

grades are sing songs from the 1950s.

Celebration of culture happens every

year and lots and lots of people come.

This year Ms. Jacklyn (the music teach-

er) said that everyone has to come.

Grade 1s and are singing a song called

‘I am the earth’. The grade2s are sing a

book that they have been reading. The

grade 3s are singing ‘Hound Dog’ and

‘How Much is that doggie in the Win-

dow’ The grade 4s are singing ‘The lol-

lypop song’ and ‘Shake rattle and roll’

and finally the grade 5s are singing ‘At

the hop’ and ‘ Love potion number 9’.

By: Aditya D