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School News 1
NEXT WEEKMONDAY, 2 NOVEMBER
• ASA Session 2 Registration, 2-9 Nov• Grade 5 Slice of ICE Exhibition, 2-4 Nov• UNIS Hanoi Invitational Swim Meet• HS Season 2 Begins• SCO Executive Meeting, 9.00-12.00, Conference
Room
TUESDAY , 3 NOVEMBER
• Board of Directors Community Meeting, 18.30-20.30, Black Box
WEDNESDAY, 4 NOVEMBER
• Quarter 1 Ends• Finance Committee Meeting, 7.00-8.30• Grade 5 Slice of ICE Parent Performance, 8.30-
10.00, Theatre Foyer• Head of School Meeting with the Korean
Community, 10.00-12.00, Community Room• ES Walk-a-thon, 12.30-14.00, Back Field
THURSDAY, 5 NOVEMBER
• MRISA Sr. Volleyball @ SSIS, 5-8 Nov• Faculty/ Staff Professional Development - No Classes
for Students, 5-6 Nov • Quarter 2 Begins• MS Boys’ and Girls’Basketball vs SPAS @ UNIS,
16.00-17.30
FRIDAY, 6 NOVEMBER
• Local Staff Professional Development, 6-7 Nov
SATURDAY, 7 NOVEMBER
• SAT Testing
UNIS Hanoi’s Weekly Community Newsletter Volume 22, Edition 10, Friday 30 October
COMING SOONMONDAY, 9 NOVEMBER
• Freedom from Chemical Dependency Visit, 9-13 Nov• ASA Session 2 Registration
TUESDAY , 10 NOVEMBER
• Grades 3-5 Athletics Morning• Singers United Mini Musical, 16.00-17.00, Black Box• Grade 9 College Intro Night, 18.00-19.00, Library
WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER
• All Community Meeting with SCO, 8.30-10.30, Community Room
• Board of Directors Meeting, 17.30-19.30
THURSDAY, 12 NOVEMBER
• MS Boys’ and Girls’ Basketball vs HIS @ UNIS, 16.00-17.30
• Freedom From Chemical Dependency (FCD) Parent Night, 19.00-20.00, Theatre
FRIDAY, 13 NOVEMBER
• ISPP Invitational Swim Meet, Cambodia, 13-15 Nov• MSHS Talent Show, 18.00-20.00, Theatre
SATURDAY, 14 NOVEMBER
• ASA and UMA Session 1 Ends• HAC MS Basketball Festival @ BIS Hanoi• Alumni Reunion - London, The House of Ho,
18.00-21.00
SUNDAY, 15 NOVEMBER
• KOTO Annual Bike Ride from UNIS Hanoi
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I would like to highlight the upcoming Board-Community meeting to be held next Tuesday evening, November 3. This year in addition to the usual Board business we will be rolling out our new Five Year Strategy 2020. We hope you can plan to attend this important meeting. Details can be found on page three.
As you are probably also aware, next Thursday and Friday, November 5-6, are professional development days for our faculty and staff. These two days will be devoted to several key initiatives including the implementation of our Strategy 2020 focusing on the Excellent Learning goal, examining more ways to use data to help improve our programme, and a series of team, department and division meetings.
I wanted to make everyone aware of an important visitor/consultant who will be spending three days on campus in March. Dr. Michael Thompson, a renowned international child psychologist, has published and presented on a variety of topics with some specialization in the growth and development of boys. His two books: Raising Cain and It’s A Boy have proven to be best sellers and since he will be visiting next spring (March 16-18), it might be of interest for families to pick up a copy of one or both of these books prior to his visit. Dr. Thompson visited our school a few years ago and was extremely well received then so we look forward to his return.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Respectfully,
Dr. Chip Barder [email protected]
From the Head of School
We wish all the best to Sujata Thornton, 4BMShweta Mondal, G11bwho left UNIS Hanoi this week.
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Please join us at the next Board of Directors Community Meeting The Board of directors would like to invite you to the next Community Meeting on Tuesday, November 3 at 7.00pm. The meeting will be held in the Black Box, Centre for the Arts. The complete agenda can be found here.
A reception will begin at 7.00pm at which you can meet with the Board members while enjoying some light refreshments. The formal meeting will start at 7.30pm
From the Board of Directors
The meeting will conclude with a question and answer session. To prepare for and effectively respond to your questions, please send me in advance any specific questions you would like us to address at [email protected].
We look forward to meeting you next week.
Regards,
Nguyen Van HieuBoard Chair
• ESLearningJourney.PhotosbyTimBarnsley
Job Opportunities
UNIS Hanoi is inviting applications for the following vacancies:
1. Technical Officer
2. Fitness Instructor
To view more information about these openings and other job opportunities at UNIS Hanoi, and to apply online, please visit our website at www.unishanoi.org/jobs
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Dear Elementary Families,
Learning JourneysMany thanks to you for supporting our “Learning Journeys” over the past two days by attending our Open Classrooms and deepening your understanding of the Primary Years Programme and aspects of collaborative and inquiry based learning. Classrooms were buzzing with energy and excitement with many visitors commenting on how different the educational experience is for our students as compared with our own elementary schooling - many years ago for some of us! Over the coming weeks we will be hosting a series of curriculum coffee mornings to bring parents together to share our philosophy and practices on teaching and learning in the PYP at UNIS Hanoi, and how you as parents can support your child’s learning at home. Keep an eye out for your invitation.
From the Elementary SchoolVisitors to the SchoolWith so many visitors to our school for a variety of events, we are naturally very protective of our teaching time to ensure that we are providing our students with as much quality classroom instruction as possible. For this reason, we do not encourage visits to our classrooms during the school day. We ask for your understanding and cooperation in the following areas:
• Parents wishing to get a message or deliver something to their child may approach the Elementary Office where our Secretaries will be happy to relay messages and materials.
• Hosting visiting children (friends, family, past students) in classrooms for a school experience is not possible as we look to minimise disruptions to learning and classroom routines. Please refer to our Elementary Handbook on the UNIS Hanoi website for further guidelines regarding visits to the school.
Sincerely,
Megan BrazilES Principal
School News 5
• ESLearningJourney.PhotosbyTimBarnsley.
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UNIS Hanoi proved once again that it was a United Nations school not only in name, but in practice too when two senior UN officials came to spend time with students recently.
Ms Victoria Kwakwa, the World Bank Country Director for Vietnam and Mr Richard Colin Marshall, the UNDP expert on policy for poverty and social protection in Vietnam took time out of their busy schedules to speak to select groups of students about the work they do.
The presentations were organised as part of the school’s annual UN Day celebrations. And in line with
UN Officials Inspire Students to Make a Difference in the World
UNIS Hanoi’s theme for this year, the presentations centered on how each individual can play a part in creating the world we want.
Making a difference through careersMs Kwakwa spoke to the graduating class of 2015 about the diverse career options open to them at the World Bank. As part of the talk, she also revealed why she chose a lifelong career in the World Bank. She explained, “From an early age I knew I wanted to be an economist and as I come from Ghana, a developing country, there weren’t many job prospects so everyone aspired to go ‘global’. Furthermore, I have always been socially conscious and wanted to work in an area where I felt I could contribute something to the world.”
After attaining her Ph.D from Queen’s University in Canada, Ms Kwakwa applied for a position at the World Bank through their Young Professionals programme. Starting out using her economist training and despite her
stellar qualifications, Ms Kwakwa divulged that she still needed to learn new skills on the job, such as improving her French and learning about other disciplines including education and health. Her desire to work ‘in the field’ coupled with her drive to succeed has seen Ms Kwakwa steadfastly rise up the ranks to become Country Director of the World Bank in Vietnam.
Looking to the future, Ms Kwakwa advised students to develop soft skills such as teamwork. She also touched upon the professions she believes the world needs to make change happen. She shared that there is a growing need for experts in conflict resolution, early childhood development and medical research.
Commenting after the presentation, Grade 12 student, Sophia Trueblood said, “MsKwakwa’stalkwasveryhelpfulandinsightfulbecauseatouragewe’vebeengivenalotofadvicebutheradvicewasmeaningfultomebecauseitcamewithonevoiceandoneface,tellingonestory.Thismadeitmorerelatable.Shealsosaidweshouldapproachoureducationlikewewouldajob–it’sanobligationthatwemustcarryouteveryday,andnotjustwhenwefeellikeit.I’dneverconsideredthisbefore.Itwasreassuringtootoknowthatmyfuturecareerdoesn’thavetorelatetomydegree,especiallyasI’mnotyetsurewhatIwanttodoaftercollege.”
Making a difference through new goalsWhile Ms Kwakwa delivered her presentation, Grade 8 students
• MsVictoriaKwakwameetGrade12students.PhotosbyTimBarnsley
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were finding out about the UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals thanks to a talk by Mr Richard Colin Marshall from the UNDP. Mr Marshall shared with the students the reason for the goals, explaining that the UN and partner governments had ‘unfinished business’ to attend to following the end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). He further shared that “the performance of the MDGs informed where [the UN] started with the SDGs.”
Students discovered that the SDGs were made up of 17 separate goals with much stronger commitments set against them. For example, instead of reducing poverty, the UN and governments were committing themselves to eradicating poverty altogether.
Following his talk, students demonstrated real understanding of the new goals and how they too could help make a difference in the world. Ms Shannon Kelly, the Grade 8 coordinator and English teacher at UNIS Hanoi said she was delighted that students had a chance to find out more about what the UN does. She concluded, “Thisyear,wewantedtogiveourstudentsthechancetoexplorehowtheUNworkstogetherwithmanydifferentcountrieswhoallhavedifferingperspectivesonmajorissues.Thispresentation,togetherwithaminimodelUnitedNationsexerciseachievedouraim.”
INSIS - RebrandingDear UNIS Community,
Due to the continuing problems in the Middle East, Fovea Technology, the company providing UNIS Hanoi with our School Information System, has decided to re-brand our ISIS product to INSIS. The underlying name “International School Information System” is the same with only the acronym being altered.
We have already made this change to ISIS Family, now re-branded as INSIS Family. As an user you do not need to make any changes. We will be updating our website to reflect this in the upcoming weeks. Please see below the new look of INSIS Family:
Take me home!We certainly hope you ENJOYED the UN Day Community Lunch and we would like to THANK YOU AGAIN for all your DELICIOUS food contributions! Now we have some lonely left-over plates, dishes and containers that are wanting to return home. Please stop by the Advancement Office (Building 7 Room 102 upstairs) to be reunited with your long lost dishes! We will keep your dishes in the Advancement Office until Friday, November 6, before they will be donated to a new home for charity.
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Every Day is Earth Day!
Following the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Singers from UNIS Hanoi and Wellspring International Bilingual School have been collaborating in a super effort to rehearse the mini-musical “Every Day is Earth Day!”. Please come and support them perform in the Black Box 1 & 2 on Tuesday November 10 at 4.00pm.
For more information please see http://blogs.unishanoi.org/soxenberry/
Sally OxenberryES Music Teacher
ES Walk-a-thon
UNIS ES Walk-a-thon in support of
Wednesday 4th Nov. 12:50 - 14:30. Sponsor, Walk, Donate, Make a Difference!
See here for how last year’s donations, totaling $13,000,
was used.
See here
School News 9
Seniors’ Photo DayDear Parents of Grade 12 Students,
On Thursday, November 5 the grade 12 students will be taking their individual and group graduation photos. The grade 12 students will meet at the UNIS Hanoi campus at 8:00 and take private buses to the downtown area for our traditional group photo.
Please make sure that students are dressed appropriately with proper shoes, boys with collar shirts and girls in dresses. Even though they will be wearing their caps and gowns, shoes and collars show up in the photos.
We will schedule individual portraits after students return to school.
Please know that your child will be off campus between the hours of 8:15 and 10:30 on November 5. Mr. Scott Loeffler, HS Counselor and Ms. Ha Phan, HS Guidance Secretary will be chaperoning the event. If you have any questions or concerns please let me know.
Sincerely,
Scott LoefflerHigh School Counselor
Counselling NewsDrug and Alcohol Prevention workshopFreedom from Chemical Dependency (FCD) Education Programming will be coming to UNIS’ MSHS throughout Nov ember 9-13 to speak with our students about Drug and Alcohol Prevention. MSHS advisory lessons are beginning to have conversations regarding the effects of drugs and alcohol, including caffeine and sugar. Please have conversations with your children about your expectations and how drugs/alcohol can impact the lives of everyone around.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! The FCD, along with the UNIS Hanoi Counseling Department will be hosting a PARENT WORKSHOP on Thursday, November 12 from 7.00-8.00pm. Please come and learn more about addiction in youth and ways we can work together to educate our students to ensure they make positive choices in their lives.
For more information, please contact Ms. Shira Fisher, MS Counselor at [email protected]
University visits this week
Date & Time Location Monday 21 September
• Wednesday, November 4, 2015 12:40 – 13:20
Common Room
B5 G29
University of Minnesota, MorrisAmerican University in BulgariaFull Sail University
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MSHS Spirit Week - Photo Special
School News 11
School Health Centre News
Hand, Foot, Mouth DiseaseRecently there have been diagnosed cases of Hand, Foot, Mouth Disease (HFMD) in Hanoi
Please observe your children daily for signs and symptoms.
Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease (HFMD) is a common childhood disease caused by a group of viruses known as Enteroviruses which includes Coxsackie A16 (CA16) and Enterovirus 71 (EV71). The infection is spread through direct contact with the nasal discharge, saliva, feces or blister fluid of an infected person and indirectly by contaminated articles. Young children, particularly those aged less than five years, are most susceptible.
The infected person can present with the following symptoms:
• Fever• Malaise• Sore throat • Flat red dots that turn into blisters on
the palms, soles or buttocks• Flat red dots in the mouth that turn
into blistersHFMD is typically mild and self-limiting however secondary complications have been known to occur.
The following is a set of advice to help you and your family to manage HFMD at home:
1. Parents should consult a doctor early if their child has fever, flat red dots / blisters in the mouth and rash (non itchy) on the palms, soles or buttocks. Sometimes they can be found on the knees and elbows.
2. Maintain high standards of personal and environmental hygiene to minimize the spread of HFMD. Parents should ensure that their children adopt the following good practices:
• Wash hands with soap before eating and after going to the toilet
• Cover mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing with a tissue or his/ her elbow
• Do not share eating utensils• Do not share any food or drinks.
3. Children with HFMD should remain at home until all the blisters have dried up. During this period, contact with other children should be avoided until the child recovers. The child should not be brought to any public or crowded places and should stay away from school and child care until fully recovered, usually 7-10 days.
4. As HFMD is infectious, other children living in the same household may also get infected. Parents should check children daily before they are allowed to go to school, child care centre or other pre-school centers. Children who come down with the infection should remain at home as described in para (3) above.
5. Parents should be alert to any change in their child’s normal behavior, e.g. irritation or sleepiness. If in doubt, parents should consult a doctor immediately.
6. Please notify the school if your child is diagnosed with HFMD at [email protected] or at Tel (04) 3758 1551 ext. 8911
Susan McComicHealth Centre Coordinator
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Co-Curricular Activities News
CHQ and ASA Registration InstructionsPlease remember to check your primary school emails for CHQ registration instructions!
APAC VolleyballHard work, determination, and drive that just won’t quit, summed up our volleyball season this year and was on display during the APAC Volleyball tournament this past weekend in Shanghai. Players that cared so much they played through pain, filled in where needed, and supported their teammates through everything is what we saw as coaches. Although both teams battled it out for fifth place and narrowly missed winning, as coaches we took home winners in the growth and attitudes we saw. Summing up a team can be done in wins and losses, which we come out ahead in, as winners of our HAC tournament attests, but we feel that is not how we want our players or our community to
remember the 2015 UNIS Hanoi Senior Varsity Volleyball Teams. They were a group of individuals who decided they wanted to be part of something bigger, whether that meant sacrificing their own egos, or modelling their drive and determination through pain and sometimes disappointments, they became a team. They learned leadership skills, worked on resiliency and started to understand what true inspiration is. These are the memories and skills they take into future teams or future endeavours. Special thanks to our seniors who worked so hard this year and showed how sports can and should be part of their IB life!
Senior Varsity Volleyball Coaches
• Photos by Tim Barnsley
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APAC TennisThe Varsity Tennis team traveled to Beijing, China last week to participate in the APAC tennis tournament. We took 5 boys and 5 girls.
The seeding of the team was as follows:
Boys Singles 1- Ky Anh NguyenBoys Singles 2- Son DaoBoys Doubles 1- Abhimanyu Singh and Duc Do
Girls Singles 1- Surabhi SundaramGirls Singles 2- Giang LeGirls Doubles 1- Ragne Henaes and Manya Arora
Mixed Doubles- Kiridan Munro and Yuki Ksumi
These 10 players played in a total of 51 matches throughout the 3 day tournament last week and performed well. Each player increased their skill level, represented UNIS Hanoi spirit and were happy with the results both as a team and individually.
The 2 top players for tennis were:
• Ky Anh Nguyen who placed 7 out of 12 for boys singles
• Surabhi Sundaram who placed 2 out of 12 for girls singles.
This was the highest seeds UNIS Hanoi has ever received in the APAC tennis short history.
Also, this was the FIRST UNIS Hanoi 2nd place silver medal for any APAC sport!
The students also had a quick trip to the Great Wall of China with tennis racquets in hand!
Both Coach Pho and Coach Loeffler were very pleased with the entire season and loved the positive attitudes of each player.
Congrats to the whole team!
APAC Tennis Coaches
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KOTO Dream Ride
Register for the Dream Ride today:koto.com.au/dreamride2015
How to Join
KOTO Dream Ride is an annual fundraising event to support at-risk and disadvantaqed youth through the KOTO non-pro�t vocational training program.
2,000,000VNDper person
200,000VNDper bike rental
JOIN THE DREAM RIDE
Dream Ride Program:OnSunday, November 15th, 2015Starting at United Nations International Schoolride through 65km of beautiful countryside, pagodas and rice �elds around Hanoi.
Help KOTO raise $50,000 to transform the lives of at-risked and disadvantaged youth in Vietnam.
All proceeds support operation of
KOTO Training Centres
Special o�ers available forgroups and families.
10% o� all registrationbefore Oct 27, 2015.
For more information:Luong Kim Ngoc
[email protected]+84 (0)912 779 078
Sponsored by
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Hanoi International Women’s Club (HIWC)24th Annual Charity Bazaar ST.PAUL AMERICAN SCHOOL - SPLENDORA
HOAI DUC DISTRICT, HANOI,
10:00 - 16:00 - SATURDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2015
Tickets: Adults VND 150,000 (VND 180,000 on the gate). Children aged 3-12 VND 50,000
The Bazaar is coming! A great family fun day out awaits you with food, drink and live entertainment, so get ready to buy your tickets (on sale around Hanoi and at UNIS soon) and be part of one of the largest charity fund raisers in Hanoi.
This year we are going to show that HIWC has “Got Talent”. Children under 16 performing solo or in a group are invited to take part on our main stage from 10am-12 noon. If you are interested, please contact [email protected].
For all other information including sponsorship and volunteering please contact: [email protected].
Gill LeverPresident HIWC
