Dr. Daniel Mullen | Head of School
Dear UISG Families,
A big shoutout to our exceptional UISG athletes and coaches as the ACAMIS Volleyball tournament wraps up this weekend! What a great way to end the week, hosting other international schools from across China in this culminating ACAMIS event. Go Wolves!
Additionally, we are excited to announce that the Book Fair will take place on November 7-8! This is a wonderful opportunity to encourage our students’ love for reading and to support our school library. Please mark your calendars and encourage students to explore the fantastic selection of books available.
Don’t forget to support our talented musicians during the ISMAG Piano Competition this Wednesday. Let’s cheer them on as they highlight their skills and passion for music! We also invite all parents to join us for the Mother Tongue workshop focused on “Empowering Parent Book Clubs” next week. This workshop aims to provide resources and strategies for parents to foster a love of reading in their children’s native languages. Thank you for your continued support and engagement in our school community. Let’s make it a fantastic week!
Yours in Education,
Dr. Daniel Mullen
Head of School
Utahloy International School Guangzhou
Dr. Daniel Mullen
Chantelle Parsons | Head of Primary
Another fun and busy week with Spooktacular activities, Diwali celebrations and U19 ACAMIS Volleyball.
Happy Holidays, everyone! We made it to the first holiday of the school year, and I’d like to thank you all for the support you have shown both me and our teachers over this time. It has been a wonderful few weeks getting to know all our children and families.
Book Fair
The library is very pleased to announce that we will be hosting a Book Fair on November 7th and 8th
Events on November 22nd
We have an exciting day coming up for Years 1 – 5 with lots of fun activities and we are inviting parents to come along and join us. Sign up for this will be shared next week.
8:30 – 11:00 Year 1 – 5 Sports Day – including some parent races!
11:15 – 12:00 ECA Fair – sign your children up to Round 2 of ECAs
12:00 – 13:00 Bring a picnic and enjoy lunch on the field (all children from year 1 – 5 are required to bring lunch, there will be no lunch available in the canteen)
13:15 – 15:00 Children will go back to afternoon classes and the UPTA All Parents Meeting will take place
EAL Updates
The EAL team have been working hard to review, evaluate and adapt our approaches to supporting students with EAL challenges. The results of this review included the decision to reassess students who have shown a possible need for additional support, and creating structures and groups to allow for further support to occur throughout the week.
What this means for our students…Some of our students will newly be in EAL or will be back in EAL to receive support. Support could be in one or more of the four areas: Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing.
Receiving EAL support is NOT a negative thing or forever. The changes simply mean we are offering more students support that could benefit from it. This is a positive change in our EAL approaches.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Conflict Resolution
I wanted to share part of an email that was sent out to year 2 families this week, it is an important message for everyone (thank you Mr Paul for putting this together):
The issue of being hit by others was brought up by a student. We discussed the right way to deal with getting hit. Many students said they would hit the other student back. Many believed this to be the right thing to do, with some saying they have been taught this is the best way to protect yourself.
We all listened to each other and it was a very useful, open and respectful conversation. I said to the kids that it is not okay to hit people, even if somebody has hit you first. Violence makes problems bigger, not smaller. I explained that, sometimes it might happen that you want to hit back or think you must but in school we are learning the best ways to resolve conflicts are to use words and not violence. I assured the kids, and I want to assure you as parents, that the school is a safe place where there is always an adult who is nearby and can help you if you need it.
So, the right thing to do is to use words to tell the other person to “stop”. Then, get help from a teacher immediately by going to them or, if needed, shouting for them. I described to the children the idea that when you hit back, you have also done something wrong and that 2 wrongs don’t make a right.
I hope this message helps you to have a healthy conversation about resolving conflicts with your kids at home. It would be great if we can be on the same page with how we are teaching the children to resolve conflicts.
Parent Workshops
It’s November! The next round of Parent Workshops are coming up, so far not many parents have signed up, we would really like these to go ahead so please get signing up to the different workshops this month…
Events Coming Up
- November 4 – Parent Workshop: Mother Tongue (Start at 3:30pm) POSTPONED
- November 4, 11, 18, 25 – Parent Book Club Series (Start at 2:30pm)
- November 6- ISMAG Piano Competition
- November 7 – Open Day for Prospective Families
- November 8 – Primary Talent Show
- November 14/15 – Professional Development Days for Teachers (no students in school)
- November 18 – ECA Sign Up Begins
- November 21 – Parent Workshop: Big Questions for Young Minds
- November 22 – Year 1 – 5 Sports Day, ECA Fair and Family Picnic
- November 22 – UPTA all Parents Meeting
- December 7 – IFOL
Martin Grist | Head of Secondary
4 Nov – 8 Nov (Week 12A)
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Year 6 Design classes
ACAMIS volleyball
Hosting the ACAMIS volleyball has been a wonderful opportunity to watch some high-level student athletes, as well as a chance to cheer on our teams. Go Wolves!
Arts in the Atrium
The atrium in the Secondary building has been busy this whole month with the Inktober visual art activity, and there was an additional short story activity led by Ms. L. this week. These kinds of activities really support the Unique and Inclusive values that we share here at UISG.
Parent Sessions
Coffee morning today – learning about theatre and music in the Secondary school !
- November 13 – Assessment in the MYP, 8:30 – 9:30 in the Admin Hall
- November 28 – Coffee morning – focus on language and literature, 8:30 in the Wolves Cafe
- December 4 – Getting to know the DP (focus Year 10 parents), 8:30 – 9:30 in the Admin Hall
We hope you are able to join us for the ones that are relevant to your child.
Events Coming Up
- November 14-15 – Professional Development Days for teachers [no school]
- November 16 – Science competition – International Science Bee
- November 16 – ACAMIS maths competition @Nanjing International School
- November 21 – Secondary Talent Show
- November 22 – UPTA All Parent meeting
- November 25 – Hong Kong university fair @UISZ for Year 10-12 students (sign-up done through the College Counselor)
- December 7 – International Festival of Light (IFOL)
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