Earth provides enough to

satisfy every man's

needs, but not every

man's greed.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

In This Issue

Primary Principal Up-date

Passion Projects

Going Green: Up-cycling

Book Week Update

Make a Difference!!!

Cardboard Play Date

Upcoming Events

Dear ISHCMC community,

We saw many excited faces happy to be back at school this past Monday

with plenty of engaging learning opportunities, including grade 2s voyage to

a magical storyland and where they used deductive reasoning to poison the

evil villain Timrek. Here at ISHCMC, parents were treated to an information

session on reading courtesy of our KG teachers and students participated

in ’Pink My ISHCMC’ by wearing pink to raise awareness of breast cancer.

Finally, our basketball teams both won their games against AIS (boys won

20-12 while our girls came out on top 20-8). Well done everyone!

Electronic sign-up for ASAs finished this week and will continue for confer-

ences until November 1st. Thank you for your patience with this process

and apologies for inconveniences caused by our new online system. Our

SRC is planning a Halloween dress-up on November 1st with another dress

-up taking place shortly after for our character parade (Nov 8th). There will

be a number of activities taking place throughout the week to highlight

books and literacy in general; for more information, see our article on page

3 of this newsletter. Have a great weekend!

Oct 25, 2013

Event For Whom? Date/Time Location

Book Week Whole School Nov 4-8th School

Parent/Student/

Teacher Confer-

ences

Parent, student and

teachers

5th Nov (no clas-

ses)

Various

IB/CIS visit Whole School Oct 29-31st School

Coffee Morning Parents Nov 7th Meeting Rm

Conference Online

Booking Ends

All Parents Nov 1st Online

Halloween Dress-up

and KG-Gr 2 Movie

Primary Students Nov 1st (all day

and after school)

School

Some people might know about the passion projects. As most students know, passion pro-

jects is for you to have the chance do anything you like, 20 percent of the time. Some Teach-

ers agree to do the passion projects, but not all of them. I like doing the passion project be-

cause you can do what you want to do, for example teaching little kids gymnastics, making a

movie and lots more. Passion projects have a way of helping us realize that it’s not the money

that counts, it’s how you want to

live your life. I want to tell you a

little story about a banker. It start-

ed when he was small and every-

one around him told him he must

be a banker and make lots of

money and he will be happy.

Years past and he was a very rich

banker. He earns 1 to 2 million a

year but he wasn’t happy. He

loves making things with lego.

Everyone said, “Stop making stu-

pid legos.” He didn’t stop doing

what he loves to do but he was so

afraid of people laughing at him

he and hid his wonderful art

works.

Soon he start showing people and

everyone liked it and even want to

buy it. He quit his job and he now

Sell lego statues even though he

wouldn’t make that much money.

The important part of this story is

that you are happy with what you

do. -Venus

Passion Projects

ISHCMC Saves the World

These old plastic cups can be reused to make something beautiful like this

When we use these old plastic

cups we can make something

really cool like this and we can

use these sculptures for decora-

tion. When people recycle these

cups they help the environment

because they reuse the cups in-

stead of throwing the cups in the

trash bin. Don’t throw them in the

trash bin but throw them in the

recycle bin

By:Jennifer

These plastic cups will look amazing

From Garbage to Sculpture

Book Week

4 Nov to 8 Nov is Reading Week at ISHCMC. To prepare we have some lovely events:

-Book Swap: Bring up to 5 books to the Achievement Centre next week and during Book Week you can trade them for books.

-Morning Rallies: Each day will start on the football pitch with something to get us all thinking about books and reading (drop your students off here!)

-Character Dress-up Day: Friday 8 November dress as a book character and join the special assemblies

-Home Language Read-in: During Lunch on Wednesday 6 November we will have parent and teacher volunteers reading with students in different languages (encourage your chil-dren to join the read-in fun)

-Door decoration, big book and 55 word story contest (the 55 word contest starts this week.)

55 Word Contest: Can you limit yourself to story in JUST 55 words? Encourage your child to give it a try and submit a 55 word story to Claire Simms by Monday 4 November at 3 pm).

Make a Difference In Someone’s Life

Once in Oklahoma, there was a girl named Eliza-

beth, her sister Mary, didn’t care to think about

what she was saying she didn’t make sure that

her words were:

Truthful

Helpful

Inspiring

Necessary

Kind

She never really cared. Elizabeth asked Mary if

she wanted to go to the orphanage to help and

donate, but Mary said no. Elizabeth said, “Just

this once” she pleaded and Mary finally said yes.

At the orphanage Mary met this girl named

Amanda she was suffering from hunger and

thirst, Mary felt bad about it but she would never

say it out loud. She and her became friends but

she told Elizabeth and Elizabeth was so happy

for her. She and Amanda were the best of friends

but one day, Amanda grew sick, and Mary want-

ed to do something about it (for once) but she

didn’t tell Elizabeth she saved up as much as she

could to help Amanda once she had saved

enough, she gave it to the orphanage to help

Amanda, she eventually got better and Amanda

said, “you made a big difference in my life!” Eliza-

beth was surprised the next day because Mary

had changed BIG TIME!!! And Mary said, “You

can make a difference in someone’s life if you

tried.”

THE END

At ISHCMC we had a cardboard play date and

all the grades from EE2/3 to grade 3 all got to

play the games and all of them were at least

made of cardboard! This was inspired by a kid

named Caine who made an arcade out of card-

board.

4A, 4B, 4C, and 4D had games to provide and

they were fun. This was to use their imagina-

tions and not just use computer games all the

time. Most cardboard games had prizes, mem-

bership cards, stamps and lots of other stuff.

But some games didn’t really work, but they

were fun. Grades EE2/3 to grade 3 got to play

these wonderful games including lots of bowl-

ing, whack-a-mole, basketball, pin ball, claw

machine, archery, and a puppet show and oth-

er fun games.

Congratulations grade 4 you all did a wonderful job!!!!!

Bopha Jones

Cardboard Play Date