Arendal
International
School


Visiting Address:
Julius Smiths vei 40
4817 His
Norway

Postal Address:
Postbox 780 STOA
4809 Arendal
Norway

e-mail: 
post@aischool.no

TLF (School):
+47 370-55100
+47 454-23643

FAX: 
+47 370-55101

TLF (Arendal Kommune):
+47 370-13000


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Greet the Crown Prince and Princess Wednesday!

 
 
 
Crown Prince Håkon and Princess Mette-Marit will visit Arendal Wed 1st September. They have an exciting programme and will end the day by visiting UNEP/GRID. AIS students are invited to be by the GRID-building at 17.30 to greet them as they leave the building. Equipped  wih UN-flags and the AIS school banner we will salute them! Hopefully many students and parents will be able to join us Wednesday 17.30!

SCHOOL MILK

Today we received our first delivery of milk for this term. As you are all aware this is the first time that parents have ordered milk directly with Tine and have not ordered via the school.

The system seems to be working very well, although there are a number of children who have ordered milk, and paid for it, who did not receive any milk today. Tine explained that there may be some orders which were received too late to be included in this weeks delivery and  that the first date for milk delivery is clearly shown on each parents/students page on the Skolemelk Website. If your child did not receive milk as expected today, and todays date was stated, please kindly contact Tine Skolemelk directly. 

BACK TO SCHOOL: Monday 16th of August at 08:30

We welcome all AIS students to the new academic year starting Monday morning! We are excited about seeing you all back at school and we give a huge welcome to everybody, especially the newcomers!

Mrs. Mataji Sharma, our new Middle Year Programme Coordinator arrived from the Philippines recently and is already hard at work. A very big welcome to her!

AIS is into its fifth year and we know it will be a demanding, yet exciting year both for students, parents and staff - our whole learning community.

Please bring lunch pack, fruit and drink for Monday  - and a big start up smile! Primary teacher have put some more information for Monday on the class pages.

After-school - care (SFO) will start Monday afternoon.


Looking forward to the new school year at AIS!

As we reach the end of the current school year our attention shifts to the year still to come! 2009-2010 was a big year in the permanent establishment of AIS; we moved to the present buildings at His and were authorised by the IB to run the PYP.
As is the nature of international schools, every year some teachers will move on, whilst others arrive.  This year Mr Jonathan and Ms Sarah are leaving us, as they move to an international school in Thailand, Ms Gunn is taking up a full time position at Arendal High School as the IB diploma coordinator for the coming year, and Mr Fred is leaving so that he is able to concentrate more fully on his business.


We are very lucky to have Ms Mataji Sharma joining us from an established IB world school in India as our new MYP coordinator.  Ms Candice, who you will know from her excellent work with Grades 1 & 2 and as our support teacher, will be joining us as a full time PYP teacher.


Also there will be some internal changes in the staffing at the school, with Mr Ken stepping down as PYP coordinator to be ably replaced in that role by Ms Antonia. 


The contact teacher for all students and parents remains the homeroom teachers, and from August these will be:

Grades 1 & 2 – Mr Ken

Grades 3 & 4 – Ms Antonia

Grades 5 & 6 – Ms Candice

Grade 7 – Mr Geir

Grade 8 – Ms Jenny

Grade 9 – Ms Ruth

Grade 10 – Mr Alex


You will be pleased to hear that Ms Yvonne is not leaving us, but will be teaching science in grades 7, 8 and 9 and also taking over from Ms Sarah as our Teacher Librarian.

17TH OF MAY CELEBRATIONS 2010

Arendal International School had the honour in taking the leading line at the Children's Parade through the street of Arendal. Two students from AIS grade 7 were also selected to give the Speech of the Day beside the Mayor at the main event in town.

CONGRATULATIONS TO Ms SARAH - INTERNATIONAL AWARD WINNER!

CONGRATULATIONS TO Ms SARAH
Our school teacher-librarian, Ms Sarah, is the winner of the global School Library Technology Innovation Award 2010 for the work done this year on promoting the use of internet tools and technologies to enhance learning throughout the school at AIS!
 

The award is given by the International Association of School Librarians and will be presented in Brisbane, Australia later this year. This award is in recognition of the work Ms Sarah has done with PYP, MYP and the teachers at AIS, and is a genuine achievement, particularly when one considers how the school library began this time last year, and the huge range of big, established and often wealthy international schools all around the world she was competing against.  
I am sure you will join with us in congratulating Sarah for this amazing achievement!

PYP Choir Concert 3rd June at 18:00

The choir will be presenting a selection of the work that we have covered in music lessons this year and your child’s contribution is important! All PYP students will be singing in the choir, so please put the date in your diary now!
The PYP Choir performing at Chinese New Year's Celebration

The concert will be held in school at AIS and last approximately three quarters of an hour and afterwards there will be a chance to mingle and buy some refreshments.

 I look forward to seeing you in the audience!

 Ms Anna, Music Teacher


IT'S OFFICIAL

The PYP of AIS part of the Global IB Community!
Great news for AIS and all those who worked hard to attain the IB official certification.

The wonderful news came this morning (5th May 2010) in a form of a letter accompanied by a certificate that authorizes AIS to offer PYP. The letter, signed by the IB Director General, Jeffrey R. Beard, among others states:

"I am pleased to inform you that your school has been authorized to teach the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme starting with immediate effect. May I take this opportunity to congratulate you on this significant accomplishment and welcome you to our growing IB community."


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We look forward to working with you in the future and, again, warmly welcome you to the IB community".

 
One down, one to go. Next in line, is the MYP that will undergo certification early next year.

We congratulate our hard working teams.

 

 


 

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It may take a couple of minutes to load and you will need to make sure that your computer first has Microsoft Silverlight installed on it (this is free software). If your computer does not have Silverlight on it already, a link to install it will come up when you try to access the Junior Librarian catalogue.




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