CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS Wednesday 21st December: Evening buffet and show 12.15 Children go home as normal

16.15 Children return to school with their buffet

contribution.

17.45 Parents take up seats in aula

18.00 The show starts!

19.00 The show ends!

For the parents, the IPC hosts drinks and pot-luck

supper while the children have their buffet.

More information to follow next week!

Bedburg-Hau: One of the best Christmas markets in the area. It is held in a beautiful castle called Schloss Moyland More information and directions can be found at www.weihnachtsmarkt-moyland.de.

Xanten: November 20th –December 22nd is a Christmas market not to be missed. Almost the entire small monastic city of Xanten gets involved in-cluding the local, still inhabited monastery. All the restaurants serve festive food and there are over thirty small wooden houses serving as stalls.

Other local markets include the Nikolausmarkt in

Kranenburg: 5-6thDecember

Goch - 11th- 13th December

Kleve:- 27th November-6th December

Doesburg- 7th December - 10am onwards

N E W S T H I S W E E K :

Christmas Celebrations

Sinterklaas

Christmas Markets

Creative Workshop for Parents

Musical Events

IPC at Rivers

Announcement new website

Christmas Markets:

Cooking “Pepernootjes” All classes will be cooking these traditional Sinterklaas cookies in their classes.

Monday 5th December: SINTERKLAAS AND HIS PIET`s ARE AR-RIVING IN SCHOOL! The Sinterklaas entourage will be re-ceived in the school hall at 08.40hrs. Together with the Piets there will be lots of music and fun to be had while we all try to see how Sinterklaas solves the problem (we heard all about it dur-ing the week opening). All parents are welcome to join us. He will then visit the four youngest classes and if he has enough time, he will visit all the class-rooms. Piet might have pepernoten and kruidnoten for all the children as they pass through the school. Hopefully he will leave the children some pre-sents to celebrate his birthday before he returns to Spain. The older school children will open their “Surprises” today!

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The musical events happening in the school in De-cember. All Parents are invited to come along to watch the performances which will be held in the Aula:

9th December Music Department and Performing Arts Performances Time: 14.15 � School Choir � School Orchestra � Drama Club � Piano � Ballet

16th December Performing Arts Show Time: 15.00 � Y1 dancers/Ballet � Piano � Guitar � Woodwind � Singing � Hip Hop Dance Performance – Y6/Y7 and AIS Lorentz

Ikebana Class By the artist, Tamayo Hussey

Ikebana - Japanese flower arranging, an art form involves nature, people and human creativity.

The classes and the workshops are enlightening as well as calming. Ikebana opens your mind

Heightens your senses Captures your creativity

All participants learn how to build their own Ikebana creations, which they can repeat at home.

There are photos from the workshop held in February for you to board at the main school entrance.

CREATIVE WORKSHOP for Parents BEGINS FRIDAY 25th

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International Parents' Community at Rivers

Class Representatives: Each class year group has at least one class representative who works with the class teacher to ensure clear communication with parents regarding class activities. They act as hosts for socialising occasions such as coffee mornings and outings for par-ents as well as sharing information and details about school-wide activities. Any parent at any time can suggest an activity or event to be organised and class representatives are crucial to the success of these as they share the information and encour-age parents to take part. This year we have a wonderful group of parents who have volunteered to take on the role of class representative. They are:

Reception: Avalokita Gudavi and Parul Mohta

Year 1: Carina Antunez and Millon Mishra

Year 2: Fernando Dominguez

Year 3: Stephanie Fitts and Yelli Ayala

Year 4: Wanda Lansbergen

Year 4/5: Patricia Addom

Year 5: Emma Corcoran and Laura Boyle

Year 6: Sangeetha Ganesh

Year 7: Charlotte Bellamy

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Announcement

Rivers International School Arnhem is delighted to share its new corporate identity and launch of its new website with you. Over 28 years ago, Arnhem International School started with one classroom catering for the needs of a handful of international pupils. In March 2017, Primary and Secondary will move into their new building being joined by a Pre-School.

In this setting, we aim to develop our pupil’s integrity and creativity in a warm and safe international community as a basis to explore their worlds’.

With the new building and a strong focus on our core values, we are able to provide a unique and recognisable learning environment and home for the international and local community under our new name Rivers International School, Arnhem. We invite you to celebrate with us by visiting www.riversarnhem.org and spread the word by social media.