Important Dates and Events

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School Director’s Message

Dear parents and children,

Welcome back to the last half of Term One!

• This half term will fly by very quickly as it’s brimming with events

and starts off in such a special way with the Loy Kratong celebration.

Our Wednesday’s assembly will provide children with an interactive

explanation of the festival, and on Friday, children are welcome to

dress in Thai costume if they have it and join us in a day of activities

based around the ever important need to be kind to nature, be grateful

for the water we have and the trees, flowers and plants around us and

make an internal promise to be the best people; both young and old;

that we can be!

• As we approach the end of the first term, it is time to take stock of

progress made across all our learning areas. Teachers will write

progress and school reports for each child and our new topics of study

are now underway. In Kindergarten, students are studying Dinosaurs,

in Nursery, the topic of study is Colours and Shapes Make My World

and the Little Clouds will be learning about themselves and their

families and homes with This is Me!

• This month we warmly welcome Ms Kerrin from America and Khun

Poupee to our permanent teaching team. Ms Kerrin will take our 3 year

old pupils in the Kindergarten class and Khun Poupee will be teaching

our children Thai twice a week. Khun Poupee’s son Ben will also join

our newly formed Kindergarten class. On behalf of everyone at Bright

Skies, we wish our new members a happy, productive time at Bright

Skies.

Around school, I hear and see more and more confident children happy

to try their ever-growing vocabulary and who have made some lovely

bonds with others and with all the staff at school. It does feel like a

home away from home!

• BAMBI hosted playgroup for children every Thursday 9.30-11.30am

• New – Kindergarten class for 3-4

year olds

• Please keep the air as unpolluted as

we can for our children.

Parents are kindly requested to

turn off their car engines while

parked in front of our school.

3 November Loy Kratong

celebration in school

4 December

School Reports to parents

5 December Thailand national day holiday

6-8 December Parent/Teacher consultations

Newsletter

November 2017

Happy Loy Kratong Festival!

As always let’s have fun this month and learn wonderful things at the same time.

Let’s also continue the example and legacy of the late King Rama 9 and be as kind as we can to

the people, plants and animals around us, work hard and practise surmounting small challenges so

that we can one day surmount bigger challenges with confidence.

Kind regards,

Mrs. Shayne School Director

Kids’ Corner

We asked our caring cook Khun Nui what snack the children prefer the most at school…

Can you guess what it is?

Yes! …. It’s sweet corn!

Issue 3 / Term 1

Little Clouds Class

Welcome back to school, Little Clouds!

I hope you all had a lovely break and we are happy you are back at school this week.

Happy Loy Krathong Festival!

It has been great to see the progress made by the Little Clouds class during the first part of the

term. We know the classroom routines well now and we’re learning to listen and follow directions.

We really are so proud of how far we’ve come and the breakthroughs we’ve had at school.

Before the holiday the children enjoyed learning to count farm animals with Spot the Dog in our

last book of the Tell Me A Story topic. Spot became a familiar face to us and we loved going on

adventures in class with him every day. We learned to identify common farm animals and also

count them. It was fun singing songs like Old Macdonald had a Farm, Five Little Ducks and One,

Two, Three, Four, Five. A favourite during Circle Time was the Five Little Ducks song with all of

the Little Clouds enthusiastically quacking with the mummy duck to call her ducklings home!

We’re looking forward to diving into our next topic where we’ll be learning all about Amazing Me.

There is so much to discover about ourselves and what makes us unique and I am sure we will

have lots of fun exploring this together! We will continue learning social skills like sharing and

being kind to others through playtime and focused Circle Times too. This month you can also look

forward to a school report giving an update on your child’s progress during their first term at Bright

Skies.

Keep up the wonderful work everyone!

Miss Susan

Nursery Class

Dear Nursery parents and families,

Happy Loy Krathong!

I hope you all had a nice and relaxing holiday!

We have now all settled nicely into school and the rules

and routines! It is great to begin to see the children’s

personalities coming through as I get to know your

children better and better! As always, I look forward to

continued progress and breakthroughs with our learning

and social skills.

We have just completed our first topic of the school year: Amazing Me! Thank you all for sending in a

photo of your families for our wall. The students loved the opportunity to stand up and introduce us to

their families! We have explored ALL about our bodies, senses, families, houses, and neighbourhoods.

To evaluate progress in this study theme, your child completed a one-on-one assessment with me,

assessing the knowledge, skills and vocabulary they have acquired to date. This piece of work has

now been added to the Portfolio folders we have created for each child.

After our Loy Kratong celebrations we will embark on the next topic of study Colours and Shapes!,

which we are sure your children will enjoy.

Well done so far everyone. Keep up the good work!

Best,

Miss April

Best, Miss April

Issue 3 / Term 1

Mandarin

Da jia hao!

Welcome back!

Mandarin classes are progressing nicely. We are hearing our

students using their new vocabulary more and more and in

louder, more confident voices and this makes us happy! The

highlight of last month’s events was our Mid- Autumn celebration. Chen Chen’s mummy very kindly

helped the teachers perform the story of this interesting festival to our students in a Wednesday whole

school assembly and we made lanterns and ate a lucky dumpling treat to mark the occasion.

The assessment task for the This is Me topic of study has now been completed. Among other items

tested in the task was vocabulary related to our body parts, our five senses, things we can do, our

families, our homes and our neighbourhoods.

We have also practised saying how old we are in Chinese and we also know some of the words in the

Happy Birthday song in Mandarin as well as a finger rhyme about families.

Colours and Shapes Make My World is our new topic of study in Chinese and we will make sure it is

challenging and enjoyable. Several of our students already know how to say circle in Chinese so that’s

a good start!

Xie xie

Zhou lao shi

Issue 3 / Term 1