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SUIS NEWSLETTERShanghai United International School Hongqiao – Gubei Campus

From the Principals

Parents what a busy 2 weeks we have had. Last week our Eco Action commitee of

teachers and students planned activities for a fantastic Earth Day. We are sure that

you agree that children knowing about how to protect our planet and making

changes to what they do helps to widen their minds and see themselves as

responsible action takers. We had a wonderful whole school picnic and every child

and teacher came together to share food in the beautiful sunshine - what a perfect

day! Our young Eco Action members then worked together with our Grade 1 students

to play games they had created by recycling products. Thank you for all of your

support. We raised a huge amount which will be donated to The Million Trees Project.

Each day this week we have hosted a special Science Fair for all. I have really

enjoyed welcoming students into school in the mornings who have been carrying big

boards of their ideas and big bags of all kinds of potions and materials. The projects

have been delightful to see and there have been so many creative ideas. Thank you

to Mr Chris and Ms Linda who have been busy, busy, busy. We would also like to thank

you for supporting your children in their learning outside of school.

So now brings the start of the Labour Holiday. We wish you safe travels and fun in

whatever you choose to do.

Ms Jenny Chen & Ms Kim Sahi

Vice Principals

DATES TO NOTE

April 28th – May 6th Labour Day Holiday

May 7th Return to School

May 10th G4 YED Day

May 16th PSG Meeting

May 17th -18th G5 Exhibition

May 18th PR-G4 Report 5 to Parents

May 24th G4 Musical Performance

May 29th - 31st Student Led Conference

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On March 22nd , it was our great pleasure to have Mr. WANG DONG, the

parent of our Hongqiao International Stream G4 student, to share his

knowledge and experience of news interviews and editorial with us.WANG

DONG used to work as a journalist in well-known international broadcast

media such as the United Nations News & Media Division, HKS and ESPN.

He shared many stories about news editing with details behind the scenes.

The students and teachers were very much enjoying it with lots of

learnings.

Human bodies are made up of body

systems that keep people alive

In Unit 4 our Grade 3 students have been

learning about the many wonderful body

systems that keep us alive. We explored

these systems in experiments and looked at

them in more depth through scientific drawings;

we realized how the human body systems

worked together in a holistic way. With the

focus on data handling and graphing, students

had multiple opportunities to demonstrate their

findings from research and experiments. We

were delighted to see students collaborate with

their team members, form strong hypotheses

and gather reliable proof to support their ideas.

Students listened to the school nurse talk about

maintaining a healthy body and a parent

volunteered to share her knowledge about the

importance of eating a “rainbow colored”

helping.

All of our learning lead up to our glorious

Science Fair where students were able to share

their knowledge with the rest of the school and

the greater community.

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I used scrap material to make pockets.

Each pocket has a little wooden label on

it; eco, help and earth. I also used dried

leaves for extra decorations.

Sophia 3E

My grandma helped me sow this bag.

She first opened one side of the bag,

then she was able to sow it by hand. I

colored-in the heart with turmeric to

get a bright yellow shade.

Chloe L 3E

Students in 3E class got really excited to use natural ways to

decorate in an ECO during the lead up to Earth Day celebrations.

So great to see students thinking creatively and even learning

from the expertise of grandparents!

I used honey mustard sauce from the

kitchen and a medicine called ‘propolis’ and coffee to make a sunflower.

Julie 3E

I smashed vegetables to make the green

land on the earth and for the blue ocean

I used blue flowers to color the water.

Leo 3E

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On April 10th and 11th, the Grade 4 students and teachers went for a field trip to a teagarden in Hangzhou. This trip was not only a boost of students’ interest in learning theupcoming Plant UOI unit, but also a warm-up for their mother tongue inquiry unit TeaCulture.

The students enjoyed the spring scenery along the way while taking the short trek to the teamountain. Under the guidance of local tea farmers, they then started to pick tea leaves andexplore as much as they could. What enjoyable learning!

After lunch, the students went to the local tea farmer’s house to observe and experiencethe whole production process of making Lonjing tea , which is one of the famous Chinesegreen tea. Each student also brought back a bag of tea as a souvenir and gift for family.

A huge amount of students said this trip has inspired their huge interest in further learningabout Chinese tea culture. They expected to have a more tight connection with Chineseculture through the inquiry learning of this oriental tea leaf.

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GIRLS’ A TEAM SOCCER PLAYERS WIN AGAIN!

Our U11 SUIS Hongqiao Girls' A Team took first placeagain in tournament play, bringing their winning streakto 4 out of 4 competitions. On Saturday, March 18th,2018 the team played at Soong Ching Ling School, andcame in first place out of 7 teams. The Most ValuablePlayer was Breanna in goal, and Joanne led the offensewith a total of 2 goals and 3 assists. Rainbow, Julia,May, and Nikki also had 2 goals apiece and Lumy had agoal and assist. The Sportsmanship Award went toCady for a caring attitude on the field. Gameresults were: 8-0 against Soong Ching Ling B, 2-1 overYK Pao, 1-0 in semi-final action against Soong ChingLing A, and finals were 1-0 against Shanyin. The HongQiao B team played well and had good defensive clearsfrom Ashley (MVP), Cherry moved the ball quicklydown the field (received Sportsmanship Award) andSunny had strong tackles and clears. The coachesCiaran and Sondra would like to thank Mr. Paul forhelping at the tournament, and Team Mom Ms.Rainbow for sharing news and supporting the girls andcoaches.

FIRST TENNIS TOURNAMENT BRINGS GREAT RESULTS!

Our school entered some fine and talented tennis players into the SSSA U11 Singles Tennis Tournament on Saturday, March 24th at Shanghai HD School. The results are:

1st Place: Leo Li from SUIS HongqiaoRunner Up: Harry Cai from Soong Ching Ling3rd Place: Taylor Wu from SUIS Hongqiao

Congratulations to Leo and Taylor on their success! Special thanks to Coach Sylvie for a fine job of putting the team together and getting this event organized for our school. Thank you also to parents for their support at the tournament.

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Notice from Student Council

This is about your child’s future!What is your opinion about home-learning?We want to know!Please go to this website and complete a short survey.https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/W2BDBYN

Your answers will enable us to take action and make our school’s home-learning the best for our students.

SUIS students celebratedEarth Day on April 20th, 2018.Students and teachers woreearth color on that day toraise money for the MillionTree program of Roots andShoots. They also broughthome-made food and had anice picnic with own classesduring lunch time. Our ECOmonitors and some grade 1and 5 students sold seeds orrecycle crafts at lunch breakto raise money as well. In theafternoon, every class hasdifferent activities, such asbag painting, seeds planting,paper mache and nature dye,etc. Altogether, we haveraised 7987 RMB and all themoney was handed to MsTing, the representative ofMillion Tree program thisThursday.

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G3 Concert : “Elements of Music”Written by Abigail Cai and Karen Wang 4D

On Thursday, April 12th SUIS Hongqiao had a 3rd grade musicextravaganza. Entitled “Elements of Music”, the concert tookplace in the Muses auditorium. The songs were chosen forthe elements of music that they contained such as: Dynamics,Timbre, Melody, Percussion, Rhythm and Harmony.

First up were the class 3A who performed an African songcalled “Pokeko Stomp”. This was followed by the Lion King’s“Circle of Life” and ended with “So Long Farewell”.

Next to perform were 3B who performed, “It’s a Parade”,“Snails and Orioles(aChinese song)” and, “Jambalaya”. Thiswas followed by 3C who presented a couple of songs aboutcats; “Cool Cats” and “Mister Mestopheles”. They ended with,“Barbara Ann”.

Next in the concert was 3D performing “FancyDance”, ”Altogether” and “Let’s Rock” 3E were up nextperforming “Land of the Silver Birch” and “I Can See ClearlyNow.’ These songs grabbed everybody’s attention. Mr Smart,Head of Music said, “3E are a class that always listens andperforms well”.

After 3E, 3F started with the beautiful “Skating on the Volga”.The whole class did lovely movements to this song. The lastsong that 3F performed was, “One Love” which certainly hadMiss Flintoff smiling. The last class to perform were 3G. Theystarted with the famous Beatles tune, “The OctopusesGarden”. Their performance was flawlessly ended with, “ICan’t Help Falling in Love With You”.

When the concert had ended everybody clapped andcheered loudly. The watching audience claimed it was agreat success. Miss Linda was beaming with pride when shetold us that she knew it would be a very lovely show; and itcertainly was. Miss Linda went on to say that all the grade 3children had worked very hard and should be proud ofthemselves.

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Brilliant April---WSC 2018 Regional Round in Shanghai

The bustling regional round of World Scholar’s Cup Shanghai has reached its splendid conclusion. There were 49 SUIS-GuBei students who attended the Shanghai Round on April 14th and 15th in Shanghai Pinghe School. This year, the theme of the competition is “An Entangled World”. Scholars had the chance to learn knowledge beyond the textbooks, such as Diplomatic History, the Science of Memory, Human Relationships, Voices of the Inseparable and Black Markets. In addition, they got the chance to dauntlessly deal with arts and music regarding “Braving Distance” and so much more. Scholars competed in 4 different events: Debating, Scholar’s Challenge, Collaborative Writing and Scholar’s Bowl. We achieved excellent results with 9 trophies and more than 200 medals. May the students of SUIS create wonders once again in Kuala Lumpur Global Round of 2018, we will see you again.

SUIS Speaks

SUIS Gubei campus would like to invite you to an evening of innovation and inspiration. On the 13th of April, we proudly present our inaugural SUIS SPEAKS event, where a number of students, teachers, parents and members of our community will present their ideas, based around the theme of “West meets East”, where contributors will present case studies and narratives of how the voice of the East is driving and shaping innovation in the West.

A celebration of sports success

With the SUIS Gubei Grizzlies sports program going from strength to strength,boosted by the magnificent league title won by the U19 boys basketball teamlast season, it’s time to celebrate all of our athletes. Whatever the sport may be,our students are successfully juggling time spent on studies along withdedicated practice, determination and hard work on the pitch, court, track orfield. This passion, organisation and time management deserves recognition.The evening of Thursday 26 April from 18:00 at the Gubei campus will see allathletes and their parents invited to what will be a prestigious and glamorousblack-tie event, with awards for all teams. Refreshments will be provided alongwith live music from our famous rock band 60s' Roulette and photographexhibitions to give an insight into what it means to be a Grizzly! We hope torecognise the improvements and achievements of our athletes and thus, inspiremore students to follow their sporting dreams.