Friday, April 23, 2021

Dear Community,

PCA 2021-2022 Executive Committee Elections, May 4-6, 2021

Electronic ballots will be emailed to community members by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 4th, and on Thursday, May 6th at 8:00 a.m., an AISC tech team representative will close the voting. The results will be announced in the weekly newsletter on Friday, May 7th.

PCA Executive Committee Candidates 

Running for President: Francesca Hammond 

Francesca joined the AISC community over a year ago and has served as the UK Country Coordinator for this past school year. She looks forward to the opportunity to be more involved, and has many years of relevant parent volunteer experience at her children's former school, as well as work experience in a school setting before moving to India.

MS + HS SPRING CONCERT - SAVE THE DATE! 

On behalf of the Music Department, you are cordially invited to our Spring Virtual Concert. Students in both Middle and High School have collaborated to perform the song "See You Again," which has been arranged for both choir and bands by our very own Mr. Krebs! We will also have individual guitar and choir performances, plus a few special interviews from students. We welcome our school community to join our concert on Thursday, April 29th, 4:30–5:00 p.m. IST.

When: Thursday, April 29th, 4:30–5:00 p.m. IST

Where: Zoom (Meeting ID: 938 211 5079; Passcode: AISCMUSIC)  

Bare Necessities - discount

As part of our Earth Week events, HS Science in Action, KGAG, and MS advisory met with an organization called Bare Necessities. They specialize in ethically sourced, zero waste products and provide sustainability-themed educational programming. As part of their visit, they are offering the AISC community a 10% discount on both their products and online courses.

Use code BAREXAISC on barenecessities.in to access the offer (valid until July 31st). 

NESA Parents as Partners webinar series

AISC parents are welcome and encouraged to participate. 

The last webinar in this series will take place Tuesday, April 27, 6:30-7:30 pm IST

    Promoting a Summer Stride, Diminishing the Summer Slide
    Presented by Erma Anderson

If you have already registered you will receive a reminder with the link, a few days before.
If you want to sign up for the webinar series, you can do it here.

Recordings from previous webinars:

Behind the Screens: Digital Well-Being During Tough Times, Presented by Carey Goldstein
Managing Digital Media in the Home, Presented by Renee Hobbs
Parents as Learning Coaches, Presented by Steve Barkley
Bringing Out the Best in Your Children and Yourself, Presented by Joy Marchese
Parents Supporting Learners to be Mastery Oriented, Presented by Steve Barkley
The Human Side of Changing Education, Presented by Julie Wilson
Parenting in a Pandemic, Part II, Presented by Michael Thompson

You can watch the recordings of the webinars from the fall series here.

Saturday, April 24 to Sunday, April 25
MS MUN (Mumbai)

Week of April 26
Author Visit/Lit Week
Spring Book Fair

Tuesday, April 27
HS Parent Coffee 8:45 am
Parents as Partners 2.0 Webinar #8 6:30-7:30 pm - see above

Wednesday, April 28
MS MAP
HS MAP (Grade 10)

Thursday, April 29
EAL Program Director Coffee 8:45 am
ES Parent Coffee Grade 2-5 3:00-4:00 pm - see Elementary Principal’s Notes
MS/HS Music Virtual Concert 4:30-5:00 pm - link above

Friday, April 30
ES Parent Coffee Grade 2-5 9:30-10:45 am - see Elementary Principal’s Notes
MS Vision for Learner Day

Saturday, May 1 through Monday, May 3
May Long Weekend

Link to PCA Giving Tree’s Amazon wish lists

Please feel free to contact us at pca@aischennai.org

President	Karine Delalande	dkarinepca@aischennai.org
Vice President	Anitta Abildgaard Clausen	canittapca@aischennai.org
Secretary	Hanne Noergaard	nhannepca@aischennai.org
Treasurer	Sachiko Clark	csachikopca@aischennai.org