Friday, March 22, 2019

What's Coming Up

PCA Meeting, Monday, April 1, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

KPA Meeting, Tuesday, April 2, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Early Release, Wednesday, April 3, 2:00 p.m.

Director of Teaching and Learning Coffee, Thursday, April 4, 8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

Inspiration Conversation, Thursday, April 4, 3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

MS Movie Night, Thursday, April 4, 3:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

MS Celebration of Learning E-Portfolios and MS Conferences (No ASA for MS), Friday, April 5

PCA Viva Las Vegas Ball, Saturday, April 6 at ITC, 7:00 p.m.

Please join us on Monday, April 1st for the PCA Monthly Meeting at 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. in the BBT. We will be having as our program guest speaker, Gayathri Sriram, Board Chairperson and Danza Institute of Modern Dance, for dance lessons. Its going to be a fun time!

A trained professional dancer of many dance forms, including jazz and contemporary, Hari Krishnan is now living his dream of providing Chennaites the opportunity to learn dance at Danzza Institute of Modern Dance which Hari and his partners set up. Born and raised in Chennai, Hari found he had a passion for dance at an early age. He began his dance career learning Hip Hop, Bollywood and other local styles of dance backing it up with gymnastics. It wasn’t long before he was part of the dancing scenes in many Tamil movies. His work was appreciated and from dancing he moved up to choreography. Some of his work can be seen in the movies ‘Lingaa’, ‘Raavana’, ‘Thoranal’ just to name a few. While working in the movie industry he continued learning dance in a technical manor and joined the CSTD board where he achieved his teacher’s Diploma in Modern Jazz from the same board. Hari had the opportunity to work with an International Dance Troupe called ‘Bharati – The Show’. For 4 years they performed in countries like France, Canada, Marocco, Dubai, America, Switzerland and Spain. He currently spends his time choreographing for many events including Music Videos, schools and sangeeths. He holds many international workshops and has recently come back from Malaysia doing the same. His main focus remains Danzza. The dance institute is associated with the Australian CSTD board is focused on providing quality dance training in a professional atmosphere. We will also be taking a vote on the following proposed changes to the PCA Bylaws that were shared at the March 4th PCA Meeting.

PCA Executive Committee Voting Change

Effective May 2019

Rationale

In order to increase parent participation in voting and include more parents who cannot attend due to work or other commitments, the recommended change to the PCA by-laws is that the elections are done via an online voting system. Currently, voting is done on paper at the May meeting. Online voting is, also, the environmentally responsible solution as there is less waste.

Timeline for 2019, if the online voting change is approved:

April 3        Interested candidates for the PCA Executive Committee can collect the

Self-nomination Form from Sherene in the Head of School office.

April 10    Optional information meeting for those interested in running for the PCA

Executive Committee. At this meeting the roles of each position will be reviewed, and the current Executive Committee will answer questions.

April 19    By noon, Self-nomination Forms are due to Sherene. Any forms received after

12:00 noon will not be accepted.

April 19    Candidates will be listed on the blog until the 10th of May.

May 8        By 5:00pm, the electronic ballots will be sent to all AISC parents via the School.

AISC Administration and PCA Executive Committee members not running will

oversee the ballot creation and distribution.

May 9        By 5:00pm, a reminder will go out to all of those who have not yet filled out the

ballot.

May 10     At 8:00am, an AISC tech team representative will close the voting. The AISC

Administration and all PCA Executive Committee members not running will see the ballot results. The results will be printed, signed by the witnesses, and announced at the PCA Meeting just prior to the PCA Volunteer Appreciation event.

We will also be voting to make a change to the wording of the bylaws to be consistent with the terminology we use presently. We will be changing representative to coordinator in each instance used in the bylaws.

If you are interested in reading the PCA Bylaws, they can be located by clicking on the Parent Community Association Bylaws tab on this blog.

PCA Ball 2019: Viva Las Vegas!

Tickets Are Going Fast!

Book Your Table Now!

This year's PCA Ball is on Saturday, April 6 at the ITC Grand Chola from the 7:00-12:00 midnight. The Ball Committee as been working hard to create an amazing experience. First, we are happy to announce that a live band, About Time, will be playing the event. This band has many of our faculty as musicians and vocalists. Second, there are great silent auction items up for bid. Finally, there will be great food and drink! Food is included in the ticket price, but drinks are not. 

Should you wish to book a room, please contact Mapin Philips at mapin.philips@itchotels.in. Tickets for the Ball are on sale before and after school at the Elementary (even numbered tables) and Main Entrances (odd numbered tables). Please come select your table and buy your tickets for 4000 rupees. You can even reserve an entire table! We are selling out fast, so please consider booking your table now. We have only five open tables left.

You have just less than a month to plan and find your outfit. You can channel some of Vegas's greats: Elvis Presley, Celine Dion, Liberace, Siegfried and Roy or the Rat Pack. There are many other Las Vegas Greats that you can dress like, or you can just come in the glitz and glam of Las Vegas!

Spice Trail Social Outing Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Join us on an exploratory journey through Indian Cuisine. Walk into an Indian Kitchen and watch the magic play out. This is one trail where you will love getting your hands dirty. Create a drool-worthy meal, sit back and relish every mouthful. It comes with a side of stories: of customs, of beliefs, and of much more.

The cost is 2500 rupees per person and includes bottled water, lunch, and refreshments. Money should be paid to the cashier by Monday, April 8, 2019 The trail lasts from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. We will meet at the Story Trails office on Wednesday, April 10th. If you would like to join PCA Social Outing, please sign up here.

Parents,

We have one last event that AISC will be hosting and needs homes for visitors to stay in.  It happens to be the largest event... SAISA Track & Field.  Teams of 30 athletes of both genders from ages 10-19 will be visiting from Mumbai, Dhaka, Colombo, Kathmandu, Muscat and Amman.  They arrive on TUESDAY and will all depart by SATURDAY which is shifted a day earlier than usual.

If you can help, please fill out this form.  Thank you to those that completed it already earlier this year when we were seeking hosts for other events -- you do not need to fill it out again if you already indicated you would host for track.

Arrival Day: April 9th - Tuesday

Departure Day: April 13th - Saturday

Meal requirements: Breakfast most days (some days may have early starts to beat the heat!) and 2 dinners

Housing requirements: Hosting of at least two visitors, who can share a room or even a bed, though we can also provide mattresses to put on the floor.

More details will be made available after we have students assigned.

Thank you!

Paint Me Happy Pottery Pieces Have Arrived for Pick Up

If you participated in the pottery program at the PCA Monthly Meeting on Monday, March 4th, your pottery is available for pick up in the PCA Room, MC-02. Please come and get your piece at your convenience.

President Sossity Smith ssossitypca@aischennai.org

Vice President Sunitha Kumaran ksunithapca@aischennai.org

Secretary Mahima Poddar pmahimapca@aischennai.org