Happy New Year!
This week we welcomed all our students and teachers back from the winter break. We hope everyone enjoyed the time with their families and that all students are refreshed and ready to learn!
1: Important Reminders
2: Curriculum Focus - PLG of the Month
3: Friends of Hope - Upcoming Events
4: House Points
5: Photos!
1: Important Reminders
Jan 20 - NO SCHOOL (MLK Jr. Day)
Feb 9 - Friends of Hope: Community Clean-up
Feb 17 - NO SCHOOL (Presidents' Day)
Feb 24 - Open School
2: PLG of the Month - Thinker
During today’s assembly, Hope students will explore the Personal Learning Goal focus for this month, which is thinker.
The following are some ways that Hope students can demonstrate this goal:
When explaining a solution to a problem, they can give the reasons for the steps they have taken, using logic and intuition to support in justifying their conclusions.
They are able to take time to reflect on their learning, consider their strengths and use this information to help identify their next steps.
They are able to build upon the ideas of others, to further develop their own thoughts, using different perspectives to provide inspiration and insight.
They can ask questions that help them to extend their learning, using these questions to build connections across their subjects and their lives.
A “Thinker” in IMYC and IPC covers four different key areas - critical thinking, metacognitive thinking, creative thinking and curious thinking.
A student demonstrating the “Thinker” PLG will be able to understand the strategies they use in their learning that helps them solve problems, reflect on the steps they make to get there, identify opportunities for growth and extension through questioning, and use many different perspectives to support in this growth.
At home you can support this month’s focus by asking your child to explain their learning and help them to identify ways they can grow further, challenge themselves and build connections.
3: Friends of Hope - Upcoming Events
Friends of Hope are currently planning two events for this semester:
a community clean-up day
a talent show.
The talent show will be an event in collaboration with the Student Council, so start thinking about what talents you would like to share with everyone! More info on that to come soon!
The Community Clean-up Day will be held in the morning of Sunday, February 9th and will focus on Sunabe beach and the seawall. Winter winds bring a lot of trash from areas surrounding Okinawa to beaches on the west side of the island. Trash bags will be provided; please bring your own gloves, tongs, sun protection and refreshments!
We will share more details about both event in the upcoming weeks.
4: House Points
Dragon - 2770
Hydra - 2477
Basilisk - 2450
Phoenix - 2431
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