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ASV + Registration 2023-2024
The ASV+ Program (Academics-Sports-Values) is the co-curricular activities program developed for all our school community: PreKinder 2, Kinder, Elementary, Middle School and High School students. All ASV+ activities take place during the school day, twice a week and each session lasts one hour (all Middle School and High School athletic activities have one additional afternoon training session).
Starting next week we will launch the ASV+ Program for 2023-2024 by opening the registration forms for PK2 to Grade 12.
To give priority to enrolled students in 2022-2023 we will launch a renewal period of one week prior to opening to all the community. The Registration Form will be available in ASV Voices and all families will receive an email.
Registration Forms are scheduled as follows:
- Middle School and High School RENEWAL registration: May 18, 2023.
- Middle School and High School OPEN registration: May 25, 2023.
- Preschool and Elementary RENEWAL registration: May 26, 2023.
- Preschool and Elementary OPEN registration: June 1, 2023.
Watch out for ASV Voices 348 on May 20, 2023 for more detailed information!!!
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ASV+ Open House Events
During the month of May, the ASV+ team is organizing Open House events for families of registered children. Please, see the detailed list on this section of the Parent Resources website.
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ASV BBQ 2023
The ASV Community is invited to join the ASV BBQ Party on Saturday, June 10, 2023 (17:30 to 23:30) to celebrate this traditional end-of-year event for the first time since 2019.
Please see more details on the official poster. The event will feature a variety of activities for children and adults, as well as a tex-mex style dinner served by Colevisa, the school’s dining service partner.
The BBQ Party ticket sales will be available to the ASV Community on Monday, May 15, 2023, and an email will be sent to all families to the currently registered email address. Ticket sales will be limited, so please purchase your tickets early.
Start searching for your best country-western attire as well, and a call for volunteers to support this community event will be coming soon.
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ASV Summer Program
ASV is continuing to accept applications for the Summer Program 2023. English Language Learners, Advanced English Learners and STEAM Program are the three available pathways this year. All of them follow the teaching methods that make ASV the leading international school in Valencia.
The field trips and the special activities included have been confirmed. They will be:
- For PK1, PK2 and Kinder: Mas del Capellà school farm (Olocau)
- For Grades 1-4: Segóbriga Park water park + Adventure activities in Masía de Tous (Pobla de Vallbona)
- For Grades 5-6 and Teens: Segóbriga Park water park + Outdoor activities in Aventura Valencia (Estivella)
We invite the ASV community to visit the Summer Program official website (www.summervalencia.com). Consider enrolling your child in an enriching experience in which language learning is combined with art, games, sports and fun off-campus activities.
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Professional Development
ASV Hosts K-5 Math Collaborative
This past May 11-12, 2023 ASV hosted the second session for the AISiS (American International Schools in Spain) K-5 Math Collaborative. Teachers from the American School of Barcelona, American School of Madrid, Benjamin Franklin International School and American School of Valencia participated in a two day workshop that focused on digging deeper with our approaches to teaching and learning math.
All participants experienced a labsite in the Kinder Blue class that was led by Ms. Alyssa Martinez where teachers observed both student and teacher moves/actions during the lesson. The labsite focused on an approach called a “Data Talk” where children approach visual information (tables and charts) and make their own conclusions about the shown data.
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Lost and Found Reminder
We have a large number of items of clothing found around campus that are not properly marked with a student’s first and last name, which means that it is not possible to return them to students.
If your child has lost an item, please ask them to look through the Lost and Found this coming week. Items not retrieved by Friday, June 2, 2023 will be donated to a local charity.
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Preschool and Elementary School
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K-5 Awards Assemblies
On Friday, May 5, 2023, students, faculty-staff and parents gathered for the Monthly PBIS Awards Assemblies to recognize and celebrate some of the hard work, effort, and excellent behavior students are demonstrating on a daily basis at the American School of Valencia.
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Kinder - Grade 2 Awards 👇
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2022-2023 Preschool Yearbook: Order Your Copy
Last Weekend!!!
ASV will be producing a beautiful Preschool yearbook for the 2022–2023 academic year. If your child is in Nursery, PreKinder 1, PreKinder 2 or Kinder and you are interested in a copy of this special memory book, please note that the order form will be available until Monday, May 15, 2023.
Preschool Yearbook Order Form
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Spring MAP Testing
Next week we continue our Spring 2023 Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) testing for all students in Grades 3-10. Students will take math and reading tests on separate days within the next two weeks. Each test is approximately an hour long, but actual length varies for each student.
We would like you to know a few important things about this test:
- Every year this test is administered twice annually to all ASV Grades 3-10 students.
- Students do not need to prepare for it
- Students can take all the time they need, and often the longer they take, the better they do (taking time on each question contributes to accuracy!)
- Students should do their best as this is an important measurement of growth and learning for them and the school that is used to inform our instruction, interventions and programs
The school uses this information in a variety of ways, including to track each students’ growth and make decisions to meet each child’s needs. The most important thing you can do is to ensure that your child gets a good night’s sleep before the test and has a good breakfast before school so they can do their best on the assessment.
Below are the dates and times for each grade level’s test. They will be administered the first period of the day when children are fresh and able to focus. You will receive the results of this MAP assessment with the Semester Report Cards. For more information, please refer to the parent toolkit which is available online.
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Parent @ Home Learning Series: What Parents Should Know About Streaming
Tuesday, May 16. 14:00-14:45
What 'influencer' is your child watching? Join Mr. Landete, our Technology Director to discuss what parents should know about streaming, streamers and influencers. Live streaming gives kids the possibility to watch and interact with celebrities and other unknown adults and teens directly through their mobile devices. There are plentiful positive interactions but this capability also represents an open door to inappropriate content and other dangers like grooming, monetary subscriptions, hate messaging, etc. We will discuss tips to prevent the cons of streaming and ways to support your child through open communication and education.
Join us for this important session by clicking here or paste the following link in your browser: https://meet.google.com/izy-wovy-hvi
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May Book Madness: Second Week Winner!
Kinder through Grade 5 are participating in the May Book Madness tournament. After reading in class or at home this week’s books, students voted and the winner is Goodnight Already.
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Grades 3-4 Sports Park Time
On Wednesday, May 10, 2023, Grades 3-4 students celebrated the final of the Soccer tournament that has been taking place during lunch park time once a week in March, April and May 2023.
86 students on 10 teams participated in this activity. The objective was to encourage all students to play soccer, promoting inclusion and risk taking between students. We had special help from Ms. Miriam Blasco who organized balanced teams and arbitrated during the matches.
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Nursery Learning Showcase
Nursery students have been learning about farm animals. As a culmination of this work, parents were invited to attend the Nursery Learning Showcase on Friday, May 12, 2023.
Students and parents worked together to complete activities within the classroom and out on the terrace. The children helped to paint a ´Three Little Pigs´ house and made different shapes on farm themed playdough mats. While on the terrace students played a game involving farm animals.
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Learning Activities
This week's topic: Art
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Grade 3 Observational Drawing 👇
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Grade 1 Created Street Art as a preliminary experience before the upcoming trip to the MIAU (“Museo Inacabado de Arte Urbano”) in Fanzara on May 18, to see the street art exhibited in this town as their closure to their current Art unit “Graffiti”
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Middle School and High School
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Last week of the 2023 IB External Exams
The Grade 12 students completing the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program are facing the last week of the 2023 IB External Exams. Come on, seniors, you are almost done!
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Grade 11 Biology Students Join the SWICEU Closing Ceremony
The CEU Cardenal Herrera University held the official closure of the 2023 SWICEU project on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. The Grade 11 students who have collaborated in this research and their teacher, Ms. Nonay, joined the event to hear the presentation of the results and receive their participation diplomas.
SWI CEU is a scientific project aiming to find microorganisms with potential antibiotics properties while raising awareness about the increase in bacterial resistance. Lab work is guided by university students who visit the schools and teach students to isolate microorganisms.
The closing ceremony included the presentation of the “instructional formats" created by the participant schools. In this year's edition, ASV students rewrote the lyrics of Meghan Trainor's “Made You Look” hit to tell a story about good use of antibiotics. “Our students are very happy to have participated in this research and have learned a lot from the UCH mentors assigned this year,” Ms. Nonay says.
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ASV in the News
The Puçol official webpage and a local news site have recently published the news story of the ASV Student Math Team selected to represent Spain in the International Mathematical Modeling Challenge. Feel free to follow the links:
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Second Week in Gommern, Germany
ASV students participating in the exchange with Europaschule Gymnasium finished their time in Gommern (Germany) on Friday, May 12, 2023.
The second week of the trip began with an interesting field trip to Magdeburg, the capital of the Saxony-Anhalt lander. “We visited the Magdeburg cathedral, an amazing example of gothic architecture and the Grüne Zitadelle Magdeburg, ia building designed by the famous architect Hundertwasser that showed us colorful facades, green roofs and wave-like shapes,” Ms. Bozena Schmidt describes.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the group spent all of their time at the host school. “This gave them the chance to participate in different lessons and have an impression of the German school system,” Ms. Ida Farkas says. Both groups were involved in creative activities, an art project and a theater project. The weather was good to enjoy outside activities in the afternoons.
“With this exchange, students have expanded their cultural knowledge of Germany,” Ms. Schmidt adds.
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Community Initiatives
A Group of ASV Families Supports LOHADA, an Organization Helping Disadvantaged Children in Tanzania
As mentioned in ASV Voices 342 (April 1, 2023), a group of ASV families traveled to Arusha, Tanzania, in April 2023 to collaborate in the renovation of the facilities of LOHADA, a local organization that supports disadvantaged children.
According to Ms. Ashamalla, it was an extremely successful trip in which they were able to raise $51,000 for LOHADA and paint nine classrooms and put the walls up for the new dormitory. “We carried about 500 50-pound bricks, we shoveled more mounds of dirt than we could count, we learned how to mix sand and cement to create mortar and we fell asleep exhausted each day from a hard day's work,” she describes.
The group prepared a party for all of the children hosted in LOHADA’s site, which required peeled potatoes for more than 240 people, paint faces, serve food and play soccer.
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University Resources
USA - New York University
The NYU SPS Career Pathways Bridge Program increases access and pathways into NYU SPS degree programs and family-sustaining careers by combining academics with paid work experiences.
Bridge Fellows engage in a number of courses and activities to help "bridge" the gap between high school and college. Fellows intern in off-campus or on-campus positions, working at least 10 hours/week and paid at least $15/hour; take credit-based, introductory Math and Writing courses. Applications for the Fall 2023 Pathways Programs will be accepted until May 1, 2023
More information here
UK- UCAS- Clearing Process Explanation
Grade 12 students applying to university in the UK can apply to up to 5 universities/ Courses. They can be accepted conditionally to their High School test results. They can start the Clearing Process to apply to another university/ program if they can't meet the expected scores. Here is the explanation.
UCAS- Application status meaning and what to do once the student is accepted.
Denmark
Engineering programs in English at Southern Denmark University. More information here
Recorded Webinars
- Glasgow/ Scotland - University of Strathclyde. Webinar recorded (Access Password: @C@S=31k). UCAS application process, Funding opportunities, Student Life, Housing
- USA- Emory U, Rice U, U of Michigan and U of Washington to help students make informed decisions about which college is the best fit
You can find more Career and University webinars (live and recorded) here
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Summer Options
Spain
EDEM Business School, Valencia
Summer Experience
Gr 9 to Gr 11 in person - 2 weeks
- Group A: June 26 - July 7, 2023
- Group B: July 10 - July 21
Students will create an entrepreneurial project in teams (in different sectors) and present it on the last day at Lanzadera, our business accelerator.
CEU University, Valencia
Summer Inspiration
When: June 26-30, 2023 Fees: 140€ incluyendo almuerzos, comidas y las entradas a todas las actividades. Registration here: Summer Inspiration | CEU UCH - 3 different workshops:
- Technical- Architecture
- Scientific- Medicine
- Humanities- Journalism/ Radio
LaSalle University, Barcelona
Summer Course in English - in person
1 or 2 weeks, Discounts until May 15, 2023. Date: July 3, 2023 Hours: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
4 tours
- Digital Arts- Anime Language and Worldbuilding
- IT- Analyze, design, and program Apps
- Architecture- build your own portfolio
- Business- Start-Up, Business Intelligence & Data Analysis
Register here
USA- Harvard students - Internship for HS students
Ladder Internships is a start-up internship program for high school students, founded and run by Harvard graduate students. In the program, students work 1-1 with supervisors from top start-ups to work on real-world projects in a real start-up environment. Our companies and supervisors come from Y Combinator, Harvard iLabs, Wharton, Google, Microsoft, McKinsey & Company. Here is the brochure , website, and application link. The summer application deadline is May 14, 2023.
UC Berkeley
Oxford Royale, launched a new summer school in California hosted on campus at UC Berkeley this year. It’s offering a limited number of full tuition scholarships for either Engineering or Business programs to students from selected international schools.
The usual programme cost is £4,995 for tuition, accommodation and food, but they are offering five free places to international schools like ASV. Application deadline is May 16, 2023.
Contact information: mvisaggio@oxford-royale.co.u
More Summer Programs here
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ASV Business Office Information
We invite ASV families to review regularly the information on the school fees, the billing policy, the continuity insurance and other administration topics available on this section of the Parent Resources Website.
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Office Communication Form
Remember that you can use this Google Form for the most common requests. Student car pick up, pick up authorization, absence, early pick up, late arrival, temporary special diet, etc. must be communicated to the school office by using this resource
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Photo Credits
Pictures and visuals: C. Minuesa, B. Schmidt, I. Farkas, CEU UCH University, R. Navarro, A. Crespo, M. Alonso, I. Segura, E. Casas, T. Amashala,
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