FS Weekly Memo week 15

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Week 15

Hello and welcome to the weekly memo for week 15 of 2019-2020. Please take the time to look through it carefully, making a note of everything that concerns you and your family. In each weekly memo you will find information concerning primary, secondary and whole school events for the coming three weeks. To view the entire message, be sure to click on the ‘view email in browser’ button.

Have a nice week!

Primary

Whole School

Secondary

Primary

Word from the Primary Head

I would like to extend my thanks to Ms Andria Spring for her hard work ensuring that there will be ECAs available for the French Section MS and GS students during the second semester of this school year.

Thanks to her commitment, all's well that ends well, and our MS and GS families were able to choose from a selection of the most popular ECAs from the first semester. Moreover, we were able to offer more ECAs in French, which makes us very happy indeed!

Wishing you all a nice week and good parent-teacher meetings to all!

Ms Carine Capel

Winter Concert Costume Requirements and Meeting Times

Please consult this table for information about what clothes parents need to provide for their child’s performance at the Winter Concert on Thursday 12th December.

PS, MS, GS and CP students will stay with their class teachers at 3pm ahead of their performance at 3:30pm. ECAs for those children are cancelled on that day.

CE1, CE2, CM1 and CM2 students should take the school bus, be picked up by their parents or attend their ECAs as normal at 3pm on Thursday 12th December. They should return to school to meet their teachers in their classrooms at 4:30pm, ahead of their performance at 5pm. Parents, please notify the bus service of any change to your child’s regular 3pm procedure.

Parent-teacher meetings with EAL, FAL, FLC and MS CLC teachers

Please note that Karen Corne, Isabelle Rajnfeld, Marion Hagnere, Wan Ting Yeh and Kuo Ying Chiang are available to meet parents of children in their EAL, FAL and MS CLC classes from 7:30am to 4pm on Friday 6th December.

Lise Darbas works at Tamkang University on Fridays and is therefore only available for meetings with parents from 5-7:30pm.

Appointments can be made with the EAL, FAL, FLC and MS CLC teachers using the same booking system as for the classroom teachers (details below). If parents cannot make the allotted time period for each teacher, please do not hesitate to contact them to organise a separate meeting date and time that suits:

Wan Ting Yeh: wanting.yeh@tes.tp.edu.tw

Kuo Ying Chiang: kuoying.chiang@tes.tp.edu.tw

Karen CORNE: karen.corne@tes.tp.edu.tw

Isabelle. Rajnfeld: isabelle.rajnfeld@tes.tp.edu.tw

Marion Hagnere: marion.hagnere@tes.tp.edu.tw

Lise Darbas: lise.darbas@tes.tp.edu.tw

Adult Toilets

Please ensure when visiting the EPC to only use the toilets marked 'Adults’ (second floor of the central building, first floor of the junior building, first and second floor of the infant building).

If you have young children (PS to GS) who need to use the toilet on pick-up or drop-off, or whilst ECAs are in progress, please use the children’s toilets in the infant building. These have been designed for easy access for children of that age and should not need adult support. CP to CM2 aged children should be using the children’s toilets in the central and junior building.

Adults should not be entering children's toilets, children should not be entering adult toilets.

Thank you for your support, we endeavour to ensure that our campus is as safe as possible at all times.

From Thursday 28th November to Tuesday 3rd December
The Head of Primary, Mme Carine Capel, absent.

Monday 2nd December

CE2: students from the secondary Maths for Fun club share some ‘Christmaths’ activities.

From Tuesday 3rd to Thursday 5th December

Visit of Mr. Loïc Brillet, AEFE pedagogical advisor

Friday 6th December

PS to CM2: no school for students today

PS to CM2 parents 7:30am-7:30pm: parent-teacher meetings with FS teachers.

MS parents 7:30am-4pm: parent-teacher meetings with Kuo Ying Chiang and Wan-Ting Yeh

GS to CM2 parents 7:30am-4pm: parent-teacher meetings with TES CLC teachers, a second appointment date is available on Tuesday 10th of December.

MS to CE1 FAL parents 7:30am-4pm: parent-teacher meetings with Marion Hagnere and Isabelle Rajnfeld

CE1 to CM2 EAL parents 7:30am-4pm: parent-teacher meetings with Karen Corne

CE2 to CM2 FAL & FLC parents 5-7:30pm: parent teacher meetings with Lise Darbas

Monday 9th to Friday 13th December

MS to CM2: last week of ECAs and homework clubs for semester 1. Semester 2 ECAs and homework clubs start on Monday 10th February.

Monday 9th December

CM1 & CM2: meeting Kelly Yang, author of Front Desk

Tuesday 10th December

GS to CM2 parents 7:30am-7:30pm: parent-teacher meetings with CLC teachers. No CLC class for students.

CM2 & 6eme: working on this year’s Azimut literary project

Wednesday 11th December

PS to CM2: winter concerts dress rehearsal

Thursday 12th December

French Section Winter Concerts in the amphitheatre

PS, MS, GS & CP parents start time: 3:30pm

CE1, CE2, CM1 & CM2 parents start time: 5pm

If your child will be absent on Thursday 12th December and will not attend the winter concert, please notify the class teachers as soon as possible.

MS to CP ECA students: students will not attend ECAs today on account of their Winter concert performance at 3:30pm

Friday 13th December

PS, MS & GS: Santa Claus visits the FS infant classes

Monday 6th January

PS to CM2: King’s Cake tasting in every class

Whole School

Meal orders January 2020

CP to Tle parents: please order TES canteen meals for January during the week of 2nd to 11th December.

Thursday 5th December

PS to Tle: announcement of the winner of the bookmark competition

Monday 16th December to Sunday 5th January

Christmas and New Year Holidays

Secondary

A word from the secondary assistant head

Starting today and until the winter break, our 2nde students are sitting the mock exams in English and Chinese for the IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education). These exams, organised by Cambridge Assessment, a department of Cambridge University, are recognised internationally. They certify the level of language that our students have, and the final grade may be taken into account for those who want to study at an Anglo-Saxon university.

All of our 2nde students study Enlgish with the British Secondary and High School Section (almost all of them study Chinese with them too). This means they have the advantage of a high level of English and Chinese language teaching, which is demanding and requires commitment from the students in order to be able to do well in the exams. It is an example of one of the advantages studying at TES has for our students.

Parents of 4ème to 2nde students who are interested in knowing more about the IGCSE exams are invited to an information meeting this Thursday 5th December at 5pm at the EPC amphitheatre.

One final reminder: the report cards for the first term are being sent by email this evening.

Mr Franck Lefèvre

Monday 2nd December

Parents de 6ème 1:50-6pm: meeting with FS teachers

Ms Puertas: room 1314

Mr Labouche: room 1307

Mr Marszalck: room 1319 (FS office)

Mr Wilkinson: room 1326

6ème to Tle: report cards available on Pronote

Students from the Maths for Fun club EPC: presenting Chrismaths to primary students

2nde 7h55 MPR: IGCSE mock exams - English as a first and a second language

Tuesday 3rd December

2nde 12:55pm MPR: IGCSE mock exams - Chinese as a first, a second and a foreign language. Students sitting the mock exams do not have class in the morning.

Wednesday 4th December

All classes: deadline to enroll for maths competitions for middle & high school students

Maths Kangaroo competition (19th March)
Waterloo University Maths Contest (26th February for 3ème and 2nde, 14th May for 5ème and 4ème)

2nde 10:40am MPR: IGCSE mock exam - English as a second language listening exam. Students sitting the mock exams do not have class in the morning.

Class council meetings ESC Conference Room

Tle: 2:30pm

2nde: 3:15pm

1ère: 3:45pm

3ème:4:15pm

Thursday 5th December

2nde 10:35am MPR: IGCSE mock exam English world literature. Students sitting the mock exams do not have class in the morning.

4ème, 3ème and 2nde parents 5-7pm EPC amphitheatre: information meeting about the IGCSE English exams

Enrolled 2nde, 1ère and Tle students only 1-3pm LCR: 1st session for student mediator training

Thursday 5th to Thursday 12th December

Atrium phase I Vie Scolaire floor: exhibition of the 3ème art and literary works on the theme of Interior Landscapes.

Friday 6th December

2nde 10:35am: IGCSE mock exams Chinese as a foreign and first language. Students sitting the mock exams do not have class in the morning.

Last day of semester 1 Club CCAs and music CCAs.

Saturday 7th December

8:30am-12:30pm supervised assessment at EPC

Tle ES & S: History & Geography

1ère: French

Tuesday 10th December

6ème 8-10am EPC: working on the Azimut literary project with CM2. Letter to parents here.

2nde 10:40am: IGCSE mock exam - English as a first language. Classes will resume for participating students at 11:45am.

Thursday 12th December

2nde 10:25am MPR: IGCSE mock exam world literature. Students sitting the mock exams do not have class in the morning.

6ème to 1ère 2:20pm-3pm atrium phase II: House Christmas Carols assembly

Tle: no change to regular timetable

Friday 13th December

5ème to Tle 12:45-1:30pm room 1305: final round of selection for the Nuit du c0de. Enrolled students should bring a packed lunch.

6ème to 4ème, 2nde & 1ère atrium phase II: Christmas assembly

3ème & Tle: no change to regular timetable

All students: classes end at 3:05pm

Last day of semester 1 Sport CCAs.

Monday 6th January

Tle: start of the IB mock exams in English and Chinese.

Tuesday 7th January

3ème & 2nde: webradio round table and comic strip workshop with the author Li-Chin Lin.

1ère parents 6pm EPC 2F conference room: presentation of the continuous assessment Bac tests.

Thursday 9th January

4ème 1:30-3pm: drama workshop with Anne Rodier

Saturday 11th January

Tle 8:30am-12:30pm EPC Staff Room: Bac style supervised assessments

Tle S: physics-chemistry

Tle ES: social & economic sciences

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