Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Dear Parents, On behalf of the F1 team I would like to wish you and your family a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year! Term 1 at school has gone so fast and we could have not done it without your support. We are looking forward to more fun at school when we come back for Term 2 on the 4th of January 2017. Thank you and enjoy your well-deserved break! Below is a photo slideshow of our Christmas party yesterday.

Regards, Ms Grace, Ms Crislet and the F1 Team

Newsletter 09.12.16

Ho! Ho! Ho! It is a happy Christmas indeed in EYFS!

This week has been a joyful one with lots of Christmas carols and arts ad crafts. Each class have been busy rehearsing for the show and making different fantastic artwork for the hall and the classrooms.

In F1, we have made elves, Christmas trees and Santa Claus. The children had fun sticking, hand printing and more! Just look at these wonderful artwork!

EYFS Christmas Show

This morning, after all the rehearsals and preparation, all EYFS children showcased their talents and came up with such an amazing show! We hope you had a great time watching the show. We are certain that you will agree with us in saying that the F1 children looked adorable in their elf costumes and that they did very well with the 2 songs!

We would also like to congratulate Monica, Xuka and Jolene for being very brave in speaking up on  the stage. Well done girls!

Here are the children's fantastic performances:

                       

                       

Well done F1 Children! You all made us very proud! 

NOTICES:

Monday 12th December: Deadline for Boxes of Hope. Please put your child's Box of Hope by the Christmas tree in the foyer. 

Thursday 15th December: Class' Christmas Party. 

-Children can come in school wearing their party clothes. Please have the uniform ready in their bag just in case they need changing.

- Yesterday, we asked the children to choose one food that they want to share with their friends. This is written on the slip that we've given out today. The list is also posted in our notices board for your reference. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask any of the F1 Team.

Friday 16th December: Last day of Term 1. Home time is at 11.30 for ALL children. Please collect your child on time. 

Christmas Break: 19th December to 3rd January

Term 2 starts on Wednesday 4th January.

Thank you!

Have a great weekend! 

Kind Regards;

Ms Crislet, Ms Grace and the F1 Team

TX Christmas Musical Market

TX Christmas Musical Market

We would like to invite you to our TX Musical Christmas Market on Wednesday 14th December from 5.30-7pm.

There will be stalls with handmade Christmas crafts, refreshments, dancing Santas and musical performances from our MP3 Percussion Group, MP1 Choir, MP2 / 3 Choir, Chamber Choir, String Group and TX Orchestra.

There will also be guest performances from our TX Parent Group and some of our talented TX staff.

Do come along and get into the festive spirit.

Newsletter 02.12.16

Dear Parents,

Hohohoho! Happy Christmas!

On the first day of Christmas, F1 children decorated the tree with lots of colourful tinsels and baubles. Oh what a delight to see them giggling and laughing as they put each trinket up in the tree.

We have also started creating our Christmas display for the show. Today, the children have been busy sticking and decorating their 'Elves'. Whilst some are in the crafts table, some were in the role play area singing their hearts out as they wrapped boxes for presents to put under the Christmas tree.

Have a lovely weekend!

Regards,
Ms Grace, Ms Crislet and the F1 Team

REMINDERS: 

* EYFS Christmas Show : All children will wear white top. Girls - black leggings and Boys - black trousers. Please make sure that the children come to school on Friday 9th December 2016 wearing the said clothes.

* F1 Christmas Party : Thursday 15th December (more details to follow)

* No Splash Pool for the remaining days of the TERM 1.

* Boxes of Hope deadline is December 12. Kindly put the boxes under the Christmas tree in the foyer.

EYFS Reports

Boxes of Hope

 Boxes Of Hope!

Boxes Of Hope is when you give a Christmas gift to an orphan which has, probably not been given a gift before! We're doing this cause for good reasons and for people to be happy.

You will be given this sheet and a box on Friday. On the sheet you will be able to choose if you want to give your gift to a boy or a girl. There are instructions on the sheet, and information about what to put in your present, and what NOT to put in.

Here is some pictures of the sheet.

Thank you, we are aiming for 300 boxes! So make sure you put something inside that box.
Thanks,
Student Council

Newletter 25.11.16

When Goldilocks went to the class of F1,

Oh what did her blue eyes see? 

A cottage role play and a table with porridge!

She counted them 1, 2, 3! 

When Goldilocks went to the class of F1,

Oh what did her blue eyes see?

A 'Funky Fingers' table with pegs and plates! 

She counted them 1, 2, 3! 

When Goldilocks went to the class of F1,

Oh what did her blue eyes see?

A maths table with people counters and plates saying big, medium and small! 

She counted them 1, 2, 3!

When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears,

Oh what did her blue eyes see?

A tuff spot with coffee beans and a tuff spot with porridge!

She counted them 1, 2, 3!

When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears,

Oh what did her blue eyes see?

An IWB with 'Dress-up the bears' game!

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This week's focus story is 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. We taught the children the song and read the story to them too. Next week, we will continue with this focus and will do more different activities about it. 

Here's the lyrics and the video of the song: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears,

Oh what did her blue eyes see?

A bowl that was big, a bowl that was medium and a bowl that was small- and that was all, 

she counted them 1, 2, 3!

When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears,

Oh what did her blue eyes see?

A chair that was big, a chair that was medium and a chair that was small- and that was all, 

she counted them 1, 2, 3!

When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears,

Oh what did her blue eyes see?

A bed that was big, a bed that was medium and a bed that was small- and that was all, 

she counted them 1, 2, 3!

When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears,

Oh what did her blue eyes see?

A bear that was big, a bear that was medium and a bear that was small- and that was all, 

they growled at her Roar, Roar, Roar!

*We changed 'huge, small and tiny' to 'big, medium and small'. 

           



NOTICES:

Saturday 26th November from 8.30-11am - EYFS Family Morning

Friday 9th December - EYFS Christmas Show. More details to follow.

Wednesday 14th December - TX Christmas Market. More details to follow.

Friday 16th December - Home time is at 11.30am.


Thank you!

Have a wonderful weekend!


Kind Regards;
Ms Crislet, Ms Grace and the F1 Team

EYFS Family Morning - Reminder

Dear Parents,

We hope by now that you have received a letter with details of this year’s EYFS family morning.  The children will be busy this week baking snacks to sell in preparation for the event!

Here are a few reminders of the event;

·       Please return the slip on the letter you received last week stating that you are able to come to the morning and if you are bringing a friend.

·       The morning runs from 8:30am – 11:00am.

·       Tokens to purchase snacks on the day are currently for sale in the office from 2:30pm – 4:00pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for 10.000VND each.  All food and drink will be priced at 1 token and all money raised will be given to the ARC who are the EYFS community partner.  Additional tokens will be available to be purchased on the day.

·       If you would like to help run an activity on the day such as, face painting, nail art, food stall or arts and craft then please let our class rep know. (Michelle - Paris' mum)

·       If you would like to donate any food for our bake sale then please let our class rep know what you will be bringing.  The food stall is for snacks so please bare this in mind when choosing your donation.

We hope to see you all on Saturday! 

Regards,

Ms Grace and Ms Crislet

Newsletter 18.11.16

Dear Parents,

We are very pleased to share with you many exciting photos from this week's International celebration. It has been an extremely busy week learning about different countries and nationalities.




 On behalf of all the teachers in F1 I would like to say thank you for the lovely presents we received for Teacher's Day. Have a lovely weekend! Regards, Ms Grace, Ms Crislet and the F1 Team

EYFS Family Morning

Newsletter 11.11.16

Here are this week's highlights:


* In line with nursery rhyme week, we have been learning 'Incy Wincy Spider' and 'Little Miss Muffet' this week. The children have been joining in singing and reciting the rhymes and doing the actions at the same time as part of our 'Talk for Writing'.

For some children, they were able to draw their own story map of 'Incy Wincy Spider'. Here are some of their fantastic drawings:

* For our creative activity, we tried marble painting this week. Children enjoyed shaking the basket and seeing the marbles leave marks on their paper. In the end, we had amazing spider webs and we also added 'Incy Wincy' on them. 

* We have also made our very own kinetic sand with sand, cornflour, water and food colour. The children had fun mixing the ingredients and using the knives and moulds as they play with it. Please see recipe on the Messy Play page.

* For ICT, we have been encouraging children to draw on the Interactive Whiteboard using the Activ Inspire software. Most of the children were able to manipulate the IWB pen and use it to click on their chosen colours.

* This morning, we had a visit from Mr Andy Gleadhill, an educator and professional percussionist. He is currently here with us to hold percussion workshops to all classes. He gladly let the children played with an array of instruments and encouraged them to do various beats. Please see video below. 

NOTICES:

INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATIONS:

Monday 14th November: All children should come in wearing their national costumes. Parade starts at 8.15. At 8am, please drop the children off in class, say goodbye immediately and proceed to the hall.

Wednesday 16th November: International Fair. There will be an array of activities in the foyer and if you would like your child to join in, then please purchase tokens from Ms Duong in the office next week. Token will be sold for 10,000vnd each. On this day, teachers will bring F1 children in the foyer in small groups. All proceeds will be for charity.

No splash pool sessions next week in line with International Celebrations.

Parents are invited to come in class and do an activity about your child's home country. It may be a story, an art activity, dance, dress-up/costumes, food tasting or any activity that suits the children. If you wish to do so, please let us know on Monday so we can sort time/date and also discuss the activity.

Thank you!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Kind Regards;

Ms Crislet, Ms Grace and the F1 Team

Newsletter 04.11.16

Dear Parents,

We have started a new role play area in the classroom based on most of the children's interest in the past which is Transports. All of us including the children helped create a Bus Station in F1. Children were surprised to see 2 buses made of boxes waiting for them to be painted. Some of them spent a considerable amount of time painting the boxes with the color of their choice. Those 2 lonely boxes turned into a colourful buses that the children have been playing with!

This week in class, we have also introduced 4 reading buddies. These tiny, cuddly toys are here to support us in developing the children's vocabulary and language skills. Through these animals reading a story is a more fun activity to do in the classroom. We have also been focusing on the nursery rhyme, Incy Wincy Spider as part of our Talk for Writing initiative at school. 'Talk for Writing enables children to imitate the key language they need for a particular topic orally before they try reading and analysing the story.' In F1, we have been using exciting props, pictures and drawings to make it easier and fun for the children to understand and learn a story or rhyme.

Splash pool was a success this week as the children have shown confidence in the water. We are very excited to have another session next week! Please make sure to let your children bring in their swimming kit to school (swimming costume and towel - all properly labelled).

In Maths, we have been using coloured chains in learning/saying numbers names in random and in sequence. Some children can say numbers names to 10 and are showing awareness of counting objects too.

A new addition to the Messy Play idea can be found here. (please click the link)

Three new children joined F1 this week, I know you will all join us in welcoming Long, Tony and Chi and their families into BIS Tu Xuong campus!

Just a quick reminder about 2 upcoming events at TX

* International Celebration - week beginning 14th November (children dressing up in their national costumes)

* EYFS Family Morning - Saturday 26th November (more information to follow)


Have a lovely weekend!

Regards,
Ms Grace, Ms Crislet and the F1 Team

Newsletter 28.10.16

First of all, please join us in welcoming Long in to our F1 Family. We look forward to sharing lots of fun memories with you this year!

This week, we've added another focus in our circle time. We have introduced our emotion board wherein children will place their photo in a block to indicate how they feel everyday. This is one way to develop children's self-awareness and their communication skills.

So far, the children have been responding very well and they even look at the board and talk about the emotions once in a while during the day.

This week, we have also brought the children to the library as we will formally start our library sessions next week. The children sat beautifully and listened attentively to Ms Grace whilst she introduced the routine as well as Ms Van who works in the library. The children were so excited as they walked around the library and saw lots of books. We are certain that they are ready for this new routine and that we will have amazing times in the library!

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Ms Grace and I would like to thank everyone who went to the 'Messy Play' coffee morning last Wednesday. We hope you enjoyed the session. Ms Grace and I will update our class blog with messy play ideas for all of you. 

NOTICES:

• Library Sessions will be every Wednesday. Each child will be able to borrow a book which will be put in his/her own library folder. Please return the book in your child's library folder on or before Tuesday of the following week. 

• Splash Pool sessions will also commence next week. These will be every Tuesday and Friday. On these days, please do not forget to bring your child's swimming kit with his/her swimming suit and towel, all labelled with your child's name. As it gets sunny during splash pool sessions, may we ask you to apply sunblock or sunscreen lotion on your child's skin before school.

• If your child is unwell and is unable to join the splash pool session, please provide a doctor's note indicating the reason. 

• EYFS Family Morning is coming soon. 

Have a lovely weekend!

Thank you!



Kind Regards;
Ms Crislet, Ms Grace and the F1 Team