What A Way To Finish Off The Semester!

Sports Day

Sports day was thoroughly enjoyed by all. The students were full of enthusiasm and team spirit, encouraging each other through the activities. It was especially great for me to see the skills that the students had acquired over the semester during PE classes.

Enjoy the video :-) 

Dress Up Day

The student council organised another dress up day of Princesses, Pirates and Pjs. It was great to see many of the students supporting the student council and enjoying the dance party under the knowledge centre at morning tea time.

WELL DONE GRADE ONE

YOU WERE ALL AWESOME!

Our Grade Ones put on a brilliant display of their learning. I was so proud of all the children for all the time, effort and hard work they put into the assembly to make it just right!

Travelling Tale

Our last travelling tale for 2017 is completed. This time we were in charge of the beginning! Enjoy our story "Pirate Adventures"

Finally we have come to the end of semester one. Wow! I can't quite believe we have reached Christmas already! Thanks to all the children for a fabulous first semester and for always bringing your smiles to the class every morning. Parents and caregivers, thank you for your kind support and help, it is very much appreciated. I wish you all a very happy holiday and looking forward to seeing the children for loads more fun and learning next semester! Have a fantatsic break everyone and see you all in the New Year.

School is back on Tuesday January 9th 2018

Last week!

We had such a busy week last week getting ready for our - Three-Way-Conferences which are happening tomorrow. I didn't want to spoil the surprise by posting photos on the blog. We have been reflecting on how much we have done this Semester in Grade One and what we feel we each are doing well in. We have also spent time thinking about what we would still like to continue to improve on. We have been setting goals for ourselves and we will also ask the parents to help set a goal tomorrow for their child at the conference.

All of our work is being posted on Seesaw but we are just waiting until we have had time to share with you at the conference before posting.

Watch this space!

Wednesday 13 December • EY, KG & Grade 1 Sports Day  

8:00am • School Field

Students will participate in their class groups in a variety of running, throwing and jumping activities. Students wear their ISPP coloured house shirt, ISPP cap, sunblock and appropriate closed shoes.

It will be very hot so please ensure that your child takes his/her water bottle to school. there will be places at the field to refill with water. Parents are most welcome to come and cheer on their children.

Conferences and Assembly!

Three Way Conferences:

Tuesday, 12th December (all day)

EY1 through to grade 5: Every child, with his/her parents, has been signed a 15 minute conference time with the homeroom teacher.

Please remember that your child will not attend school on the day of Tuesday 12th December, but your child must accompany you to school for his/her three-way conference. This is a special time for your child with you and your child's homeroom teacher and we ask that siblings do not attend the conference.

Three-way conferences are one very important form of how we share information between teachers, students and parents. During the three-way conference, parents with their child and the teacher collaborate to establish and identify your child's strengths and areas for improvement.

You will have receive a letter with this information repeated and also your three-way conference time(s).

All single subject teachers will be available to meet with you and your child on the day of your scheduled three-way conference.

Grade 1 Assembly:

Friday, 15th December: 7:45am Black Box Theatre

All Grade 1 students will present their learning during the assembly. The assembly begins at 7:45am sharp. New and leaving students will also be recognised at this assembly. You are all invited to attend and watch your child preform.

Looking forward to see you all next week

International Day!

A huge highlight of our school is International Day! Remember to save the date to join in the celebrations!

Saturday 10 February 2018 - 10am - 2pm Waving your flag Do you or your family want to march in the Parade of Nations? Register here! That way you’ll keep up to date with where to march and have a flag to march with! Please encourage others to register - it only takes a few seconds and it’s very helpful for our organisers. Country booth challenge - remixed! This year, we have redesigned our country booth competition into four separate categories. Booths can aim to have the Best National Cuisine, Best Cultural Display, Best Activity or be the Most Environmentally Friendly. Our Elementary Student Council and Environmental Action Committee will decide the winners. Nations wanted - apply within We have some great countries already represented, but there’s room for plenty more! If you would like to host a booth, please sign up using this form. Please note: Country booth hosts must be an adult (parent, faculty or staff member). Questions about hosting a booth? Please email communications@ispp.edu.kh. Born to perform? We’ve seen some really terrific performances on stage over the years, and we think there’s even better to come! Music, dance, or something else that demonstrates your culture? Please register your interest or find out more details by emailing events@ispp.edu.kh. Wondering about something? Do you have a question about International Day? No inquiry too big or small. Email communications@ispp.edu.kh and we’ll let you know.

What's been happening?

We had such a busy time last week and this week was no different. We have had a lot going on in our class and we have already shared some of that with you all on Seesaw.

Heart Maps

We shared with you on Seesaw our beautiful heart maps. The students had so many things that they held close to their heart it was so wonderful to see :-)

Also we expressed ourselves and our emotions through colour. We all showed with our faces how we would express various feelings. Then we created a picture using colours that represented that feeling for us. Finally we wrote a sentence about how we relate to that feeling.

A very big thank you to 'Granny Jane' (Aoife's Grandma) who came in on Wednesday as our Mystery Reader! She is here visiting from Ireland and it was an absolute delight to see the excitement on Aoife's face when her Granny arrived in the classroom. We were treated to not one but two books that had the class completely engrossed. Granny Jane you are welcome back anytime :-)

Grade 12 Drama

We were lucky enough to be invited by a group of grade 12 students to watch a play that they had created. We thought it was hilarious, with very funny character names and lots of audience participation. We gave them the thumbs up.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Book Character Dress Up Day!

What a fantastic way to end a brilliant BOOK WEEK! Dress up any day is always a fun day! And we LOVED IT!!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Monument Book Fair!

Students had a great time browsing through the books at the 'Monument Book Fair' there was so much to choose from and it was difficult at times to make a decision.

Mystery Reader 

Today we had Ms Rachel come to our class to be our mystery reader. We have been so lucky this week having had so many different people to share a story with us!

Candle Light Read Aloud

What a lovely time we had tonight at school for the Candle light read aloud. Was great to listen to so many stories being read in many different languages. Of course we can't forget the delicious biscuits we got to eat at the end of the night!

Don't forget it is 'Book Character' dress up day tomorrow!

A Session With The Visiting Author

In the knowledge centre ready to listen to David Schwartz share with us about how he writes stories, where he gets his ideas from and what the main ingredient to a good story is.

Mr David spoke to us about how he writes books and shared with us - Super Grandpa.

He read the story to us with lots of expression, fun and questions. The story had a lot of problems that we had to identify and at the end we reviewed the story and plotted where the problems were and how they were solved. This will be very helpful when it comes to writing our own realistic fiction books!

Mystery Reader

The students came back from lunch today to see this mysterious person sitting in our room!

They knew the person looked familiar, but couldn't quite figure out who it was!

Until....

He removed his disguise which revealed it was Mr Garrett from Grade 5 that was going to read to us! We were treated to two books. Mr Garrett had the class rolling around the floor laughing one minute and shaking in fear the next!

Thanks for the brilliant story telling Mr Garrett! All the students would love for you to come back again!

Tomorrow look out for yet another mystery reader coming to our class. Also it is our turn to go shopping at the Monument Book Fair. Please check the email sent out for information regarding this.

Poem In My Pocket!

Another great day with lots going on for #bookweek - Take a look at all the things we did today!

We all had a poem in our pocket, and some very brave children shared their poems with the class this morning.

We also went to see our buddies and shared our poems with each other. Our grade 4 buddies are great listeners and very helpful when we come across words we're not sure about.

We also got to have a sneak peek at our collaborative book that has been making it's way through the elementary school. It is awesome!

Realistic Fiction

We also wrote and published our very first class realistic fiction book. We will be sharing it with you very soon on Seesaw! Everyone worked very hard to collaborate together to write and illustrate our book 'Pearlie Proud'.

Mystery Reader

We were very lucky to have Ms. Ethel come and visit us from secondary and be our mystery reader today. She shared with us one of her favourite books 'Olivia'. It was a hilarious book that had us all laughing! 

We also did a little activity where we got to draw one of Ms. Ethel's favourite animals - a pig. All we had to do was draw a pig before we even got to listen to the story. But as the story went on and we discussed what was happening, then we knew what we needed to do. Add to our pictures something that 'Olivia' loved! 

Tomorrow we get to have a session with our visiting author. Stay tuned for the update!

Book Week - Visiting Author!

What a great way to kick off #isppbookweek with an assembly by our visiting author - David M. Schwartz

He has written many different books but they all have one thing in common - wonderings with a splash of maths. 

Two lucky students from our class were called up onto the stage to help Mr. Schwartz solve one of his wonderings. Well done Aoife and Albert for being such awesome risk takers!

We also got to count and add popcorn! How much does a million pieces of popcorn look like? Well we thought a lot! So we set to work counting.....we didn't have a million pieces of popcorn but we did see a photo of a school in America that did have a million pieces of popcorn and it was HUGE! Mr Schwartz did however have bags with 1 piece, 10 pieces, 100 pieces, 1000 pieces, 10,000 pieces and another picture of a bag with 100,000 pieces in it!

It was HUGE!