Visit the ISA School Store for Back to School Supplies

The ISA School Store – the Bear Necessities – stocks many of the school supplies ISA students need for the academic year.

Be sure to check the supplies lists below to make sure you have everything for the first day.
Nursery, Pre-School, Pre-K, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5 and Upper School.

The store also sells maps of Amsterdam and surrounding areas and a variety of books and dictionaries to help you settle in the Netherlands.

The profits generated by the store go to the PTA and are used to cover costs of various PTA-sponsored events and as matching donations for SHARE charities.

Store Hours:

Monday: 15:00 – 16:00
Tuesday to Thursday: 8:10 – 9:00 and 15:00 – 16:00
Friday: 9:10 – 10:00

Bear Necessities has extended shop hours during the first ten days of school in August/September, as well as at the beginning of January.

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL WORLD WATER DAY FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN 

Recent Lower School assemblies have focussed on the PYP attitude of “appreciation”. Students enjoyed listening to Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” and learned how appreciative so many different groups of people are for the support in the recent World Water Day campaign.

The Lower School Student Council helped organise the campaign and counted all the coins donated through the small water bottles.  An amazing €4,222.60 was raised in just one week! We are so appreciative and we are sure that both East Africa Care and the communities that we help will be too!  Thank you to everyone who took part.

Thank you to every class who took part in the challenge.

POSITIVE DISCIPLINE WORKSHOPS

 

During the month of November, Denise Granai, one of the Lower School Counselor’s, offered two hour ‘Parenting with Positive Discipline’ workshops. These two hour workshops provided an overview of Positive Discipline through experiential activities.

To learn more about the importance of Positive Discipline read our recent article in ISA Connections magazine.

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR ISMTF MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH COMPETITORS

Several of our Middle School students competed in the recent International Schools Mathematics Teachers Foundation (ISMTF) Middle School Math Competition at the International School of Zug and Lucerne. Out of a total of 41 teams, ISA Team A (Anna Economon, Mamie Wilson, and Sylvia Liu) placed 4th and Team B (Daniel Duncanson, Pranjal Ray, and Vivienne Shi) placed 30th. Congratulations to everyone who competed!

ISA Hosts AMIS Middle School Honor Choir Festival – Watch Livestream

ISA has had the honour this week to host the 2016 AMIS Middle School Mixed Honor Choir Festival, featuring over 100 students and teachers from 12 international schools around the world.

The festival will end with a Gala Concert on 9 April at 19:00 and the entire ISA community is invited to attend. ISA will have 11 students performing, so be sure to come and show your support! For more information on the festival visit

For more information on the festival visit http://amis-online.org/festivals/festival-3/.

If you can’t attend the event, be sure to login to our livestream of the performance.


 

Upcoming SHARE events

As we start to round out the year, there are just a few more SHARE events that you may want to add to your agenda. Attend the Dance for Those Who Can’t  event and watch ISA students, faculty and staff show off their best moves to raise funds for charities in Haiti. Get your running shoes out for the SHARE Family Fun Run and if spring cleaning is on your to do list, be sure to collect your gently-used goods to donate for the SHARE Spring Second-Hand sale on 22 May.

Be sure to visit the updated website to learn more about SHARE, the charities they support and how you can volunteer and support these important ISA initiatives Be sure to bookmark the page and sign up for news update.