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High School News
Thursday - March 15, 2018
AMIS High School Honor Band
& Orchestra Festival
Singapore American School
14-18 March 2018
Two seniors were selected to participate in this festival:
Majd El Ashkar (Trombone)
Alexander Sidhu (Euphonium)
This Week:
MUN @ Colombo A small delegation of experienced TAISM MUN members journeyed to Sri Lanka to participate in an MUN Conference at the Overseas School of Colombo. Seniors Natalie Baltimore, Natalia Castano, Juan Quintana, Omar Ansari, Jared Rogerson, and Ana Arosemena, and junior Ewan Cosker, represented TAISM at the 24th annual COMUN event. Delegates debated international policy, participated in caucuses, and crafted resolutions to address issues ranging from the Rohingya refugee crisis, to drugs and crime, to the deployment of UN peacekeeping forces. TAISM delegates collaborated with participants from Sri Lankan international schools, as well as students from India and the Maldives. The TAISM delegates embraced opportunities to connect with fellow delegates, to learn new and varied MUN procedures, and to build relationships with one another. At the conclusion of the conference, the students enjoyed the opportunity to explore the city of Colombo. Among the stops on the tour, students wandered the Gangaramaya Temple (Buddhist), the Shri Ponnambalawaneswaram Kovil (Hindu), and viewed the unique beauty of the Jami Ul-Alfar Mosque. TAISM chaperones Jason Webster and Dante Gasser were continually impressed with the the students’ eagerness to learn and explore, their professionalism as delegates, and their perseverance through the stresses of travel. - Jason Webster (HS Social Studies teacher / MUN Adviser) High School Mid-Term Progress Reports for Semester 2 will be available to parents via email on Thursday, March 22nd. HS Parent-Teacher Conferences are scheduled for Sunday - March 25, 2018.
From the Principal:
Dear TAISM High School Parents:
I want to share a few examples of the rich and varied ways that At TAISM we engage and challenge students to create, to problem
our students are engaged in learning and to celebrate their recent solve, to take risks, to collaborate and to contribute to the learning of
achievements. In the last few days I have observed our students others. I wonder how they will respond to Nye’s poem Famous.
in classrooms working to develop their knowledge and skills in a
variety of ways, including Socratic Seminars, small group Famous BY NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
discussions, individual presentations, silent reading time, individual
music practice, formal research projects, community performances, The river is famous to the fish.
artistic creations using pencils and electronics, and experimental The loud voice is famous to silence,
design projects, as well as goal setting and self reflection. While which knew it would inherit the earth
engaged in their current courses, they have also been thinking before anybody said so.
ahead about course requests for next year and meeting with their The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
counselors to plan for the future. This week they have all been watching him from the birdhouse.
completing their mid-semester progress report self assessments,
The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.
which will be sent home to you as an email attachment on Thursday,
March 22nd. The processes of planning and goal setting, along with The idea you carry close to your bosom
self assessment, play a very significant and positive role in is famous to your bosom.
developing efficacy and a growth mindset for our students.
The boot is famous to the earth,
more famous than the dress shoe,
A group of our choir students were in Berlin for the AMIS Honor which is famous only to floors.
Choir Festival two weekends ago, last weekend a group of our
Model United Nations students were in Sri Lanka for an MUN The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it
and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.
simulation hosted at the Overseas School of Colombo (OSC), and
this weekend there are students in Singapore for the AMIS Honor I want to be famous to shuffling men
Band and Orchestra Festival. On Sunday morning, March 11th, the who smile while crossing streets,
Advanced Drama students hosted a performance for Elementary sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back.
School students in the Performance Hall. On Sunday afternoon
they performed for a general audience of high school students and I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
parents, as well as staff. Students in our Community Service Club or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
will be at Dar al Hanan this afternoon to do crafts projects with the but because it never forgot what it could do.
younger kids and their families staying at this “home away from
home”. This weekend we are hosting the annual Festival of Choirs
at TAISM, which will culminate with a free performance at 7:00 pm
on Saturday, March 17th. We value a wide range of opportunities
for our students and it is rewarding to observe their commitment to
learning in its many forms.
Our upcoming High School Parent-Teacher Conferences on
Sunday, March 25th, are an important time for face-to-face
communication about student engagement and learning. Ms. Zarita
will be sending an email on Sunday, March 18th where you can
sign-up for a block of time to conference with either all your
daughter's/son's teachers or selected teachers that you want to
meet. Teachers will also be requesting conferences when they
believe that the in-person conversation is needed to best support
the student. The conferences will be hosted mostly in teachers' Naomi visit to TAISM 10 years ago. Students in this photo
classrooms. graduated from TAISM (and elsewhere) just last year.
Author Naomi Shihab Nye visited TAISM 10 years ago and we will Sincerely,
have the opportunity for students to interact with and learn from Richard Petersen
her again on March 25th - 28th. Naomi will be interacting with high
school students in an assembly and in English classes on Monday,
March 26th and Tuesday, March 27th. Parents and staff members
will have an opportunity to attend a session with Naomi in the Middle
School Learning Commons (MSLC) on Tuesday afternoon.Scenes from Advanced Drama Acts
Pic. Credit:
Kris Hovland (MS/HS Drama Techer)
Candids from the Talent Show Pic. Credit: Jack Spilles (12)
Varsity Boys Basketball games / Track & Field Meet @ TAISM.
Pic. Credit: Suchitra Ambudipudi (10) & Ms. Paige Spilles (HS Yearbook Advisor / HS Librarian)HS Art: In February, as a part of Black History Month, the HS Painting class and the Advanced Art students paid tribute to African American artists with renderings of their works accompnied by a small written biography. Because of racially based segregation laws prevalent in the United States at the time, many black American artists were forced to be self taught, or had to travel to Europe for formal study. Artists and students: • Lois Marilou Jones by Ammar Akbar Ali • Kerry James Marshall by Isabela Montoya • Charles Wilbert White by Shreya Sharma • Faith Ringgold by Kazuo Chaed • Joseph Hilton by Yeongeun Soh • Norman Lewis by Mustafa Qaiser • Horace Pippin by Meera Macki • Benny Andrews by Maren Lee • Eldzier Cortor by Aliya Al Mughairi • Jean-Michel Basqiat by Manal Nasser Said • Nina Chanel Abney by Maitham Al Hashmi • Elizabeth Catlett by Laura Noack • Herbert Gentry by Monica Falla • Claude Clark by Varvara Smirnova • Beauford Delaney by Aiden Kemp • Hughes Lee-Smith by Mr M • Gwendolyn Knight by Deborah Effiong • Alison Saar by Omar Ansari • Bill Traylor by Melanie Valderrama • Mickalene Thomas by Daniel Bekele • William Henry Johnson by Alla Al Mazrooie • William Edouard Scott by Farah El Beik • Palmer Hayden by Gibran Pristi
Tuesday, March 27
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