Diwali photos
With festival season upon us and Diwali just around the corner, AISC is all set to celebrate India Month. And we want to see you in your finest festive wear! So upload your Diwali photos here or tag us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter (@aischennai).
Diwali Mela community dance
Shake a leg this festive season with a dance tutorial from ASA Instructor Ms. Kavya! Bring your family together and share a recording with the PCA Executive Team! We hope many families will enjoy learning this dance and upload their videos to this folder. Please click on the link for the music for this dance.
Diwali Mela - India themed videos
If dancing is not your thing, you can still get involved. Get creative and share your Indian talent or skill with the community. Students, parents and faculty/staff are all welcome to participate.
Some ideas for you to consider are:
- singing and music
- story telling
- dance
- poetry reading
- cooking demonstrations
- mehendi or kolam designs with instructions
- painting, embroidery, arts and crafts
- any other Indian themed video - get creative!
Technical details
o Find a space with good lighting, preferably natural light, not sunny but well-lit.
o Please record with limited background noise,
o Please keep the video in LANDSCAPE position.
o The video should be 2-3 minutes, although we can allow up to 5 minutes for cooking videos
o The format should be Mp4.
If you have any questions (technical or otherwise) please let us know and we will try to assist you.
Please upload your completed video in the Diwali Mela video folder . Any problems uploading, please contact hfrancescapca@aischennai.org
Deadline for submitting your video is Monday November 1st, 2021 - 4:00pm (IST).
High School Fall Production - LIVESTREAM EVENT today at 6pm
Roll up, roll up get your tickets to the High School Fall Production “The Legend(s) of Sleepy Hollow” today at 6pm! You know one version, the popular version, of Washington Irving’s tale of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow— but wouldn’t you like to know what really happened on that fateful night that Ichabod encountered the Horseman? This play reveals all from the point-of-view of the one character who was there and knows the whole truth: Ichabod Crane’s horse, Gunpowder.
Visit the website to book tickets, get a sneak peek at the costumes and even some book recommendations. Looks like it will be a spooky start to the weekend!
PCA Book Group
Our new PCA Book Group will launch on Wednesday 27 October at 19.30-20.30. Our book for this semester will be “My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante. This book, originally written in Italian, is available in many languages including English, French, Korean, Japanese plus many more. So you should be able to read the book in your mother tongue. For more details on the book, please refer to the slide show which Ms Babs presented at this week’s PCA Monthly Meeting.
If you would like to join the book group please complete the form below, and we will add you to a dedicated Book Group whatsapp group. Note that even if you cannot attend the first meeting you will still be able to join the Book Group, as we will be having another meeting in December once everyone has had a chance to read the book.
Save the Date! Portal Project AISC Dialogue - What is Learning?
This month the Portal Project is focussed on "What is Learning?" and we invite all parents, faculty and students to help us craft a definition of learning and identify conditions that support it. The session will take place on Thursday, October 28th from 4:30 - 5:15 pm. Portal Project dialogues are not only engaging but generate data that is shared with the Community Planning Team and Leadership Councils to help guide our Futures Planning process. As such, participants have a voice in helping to shape the AISC of tomorrow. Interested? Please click here to add the event directly to a google calendar or here for the direct meeting link.
Please register for the 2021-2022 NESA Webinar Series: Parents as Partners—an engaging collection of webinars for parents addressing child development within the context of family and school. Twice each month, for one hour, you can join parents from across the NESA region to listen to distinguished specialists and learn new strategies in support of your child as a learner. Please note, if you are unable to attend at the scheduled time you will be sent a video of the webinar to watch at your convenience.
The webinar series is FREE to all AISC parents; register in advance with the following link:
https://nesacenter-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_twD9UwmCRQOyV75Zej1FjQ
NOTE: On the registration form, please type the FULL NAME of our school: American International School Chennai (do NOT use the acronym, AISC).
Upcoming: Webinar #5, Neutral Spaces: Tips and Tools for Avoiding Power Struggles presented by Joy Marchese, Tuesday, November 2nd 2021, 7:30pm IST (NOTE Daylight Saving Time ends in Europe on October 31st, hence change of seminar time from this week onwards).
Do you find yourself feeling overwhelmed, frustrated and constantly losing your temper because your kids “never listen?” Do you find yourself yelling, nagging, lecturing, threatening and/or bribing way more than you’d like? Are you ready to learn how to calm the chaos and create more PEACE and CONNECTION in your home?.
This session will help you learn how to increase cooperation and end the power struggles, so you can have a family life filled with more calm, connection, joy and FUN! We will cover the following:
WHY you get into power struggles with your children;
Specific STEPS you can take and TOOLS you can use to end a power struggle;
What to do to PREVENT power struggles in the future.
So you can...
guide your children without yelling, nagging, lecturing, threatening or bribing;
set loving limits effectively and respectfully;
create a deeper connection with your children;
feel more confident in your parenting approach;
have more peace, calm, cooperation and FUN within your family.
Our annual PCA publication, AISConnect, is now live!
Relive key moments from the last academic year with articles from parents, students, and faculty. From RaptorSafe to CHEMUN and our 25th Anniversary Celebrations, AISConnect is a PCA-driven publication that tells our stories from the year gone by.
Thank you for your support! Please write to media@aischennai.org if you have any questions.
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