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UNIS Hanoi’s Weekly Community Newsletter Volume 21, Edition 20, Friday 30 January
Notes from the Head of School (p.2)
Notes from the Board of Directors (p.3)
Who is behind the tree? The
Scholarship Fund update (p.4)
K2 Performance. Save the date! (p.5)
MSHS Counselling upcoming events
(p.6)
Grade 4-5 Basketball Festival (p.6)
UMA and ASA sign-up. Get ready! (p.7)
Middle School Soccer rocked the fields
(p.8-9)
Service Learning news (p.10-11)
Let’s get some green home! (p.12)
New UNIS Hanoi apparel. Check it
out! (p.12)
Spring Fair: Make it unique, make
it yours (p.13)
SCO New Family Bus Tour (p.14)
Such creative snacks! (p.14)
Take off your headphones and hear
this (p.15)
NEXT WEEK… MONDAY, 2 FEBRUARY JV Boys' Basketball vs VAS @ UNIS, 16:00-17:30,
Sports Centre
TUESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY Board Executive Committee Meeting, 12:00-13:30,
Conference Room MS Girls' "B" Team Soccer vs CISH @ UNIS, 16:00-
17:30 Community Hors d'oeuvres with the Head of School,
19:00-20:30, Community Room
WENESDAY, 4 FEBRUARY UMA Session 3 Registration on ISIS, 4-5 Feb Board SMP 2015-2020 Task Force Meeting, 7:00-8:30,
Community Room Advancement Committee Meeting, 12:00-14:00,
Conference Room
HS Season 3 Sports Begin (Soccer), 15:45-17:30, Sports Centre
THURSDAY, 5 FEBRUARY MRISA High School Basketball Tournament @ ISPP, 5-
8 Feb HISAA Youth Sport Basketball Festival, 14:00-17:00,
UNIS Hanoi PYP Interactive Workshop for Parents new to the PYP,
19:00-20:00, Black Box
FRIDAY, 6 FEBRUARY ASA Session 3 Registration on ISIS, 6-8 Feb
SATURDAY, 7 FEBRUARY ES Tet Gift Bags of Love Delivery, 9:00-12:30
COMING SOON MONDAY, 9 FEBRUARY K2 Exhibition, 9-14 Feb
TUESDAY, 10 FEBRUARY K2 Parent Performance, 9:00-9:30, Theatre MS Boys' Soccer vs WIS @ WIS, 15:30-18:30 MS Girls' "B" Team Soccer vs BIS @ UNIS, 16:00-17:30,
UNIS Fields MYP Information Night for Parents new to the MYP,
19:00-20:00, Black Box
FRIDAY, 13 FEBRUARY ASA and UMA Session 2 Ends
New Parents Workshop with ES Counselors, 8:30-10:00, Library Projection Room
New Parents workshop with MSHS Counselors, 8:30-10:00, Group Study Room - Library
ES Tet Assembly, 14:00-15:10, Theatre
SATURDAY, 14 FEBRUARY UNIS Hanoi Tet Break, 14-24 Feb School & Offices close
IN THIS WEEK’S TIN TUC - The Highlights...
For our upcoming “Hors d’oeuvres with
the Head of School” next Tuesday
evening at 19:00 in the Community
Room, we plan to have a short
presentation by our Technology Faculty led
by the Director of Technology, Ed
Gilbreath. Our goal is to respond to
questions we have received from the community and offer
this opportunity for parents to ask more questions, express
concerns, and offer suggestions.
To get things started, we have prepared a list of questions
with written responses. These can be found here . Of
course we will allow enough time during the 2nd part of the
evening for questions, concerns and suggestions about
other relevant topics.
We hope to see you there next Tuesday evening.
We have had some parents express concern regarding the
installation of a vending machine just outside the Sports
Centre. I would like to explain briefly our intent in trying
this machine out.
Our campus is used after school each day and on
weekends. There has been a need expressed to have
healthy snacks and drinks available during those times
when the cafeteria is closed and there is no group or club
selling refreshments.
Welcome to UNIS Hanoi
Among the expectations was a clear mandate to insure that
the food and drink met certain standards of health and
wellness. This was not the case when the machines were
first introduced and we therefore insisted that the vendor
offer only healthy choices as determined by the school.
The Health Centre was engaged to help with the evaluation
of the products in the machine and this monitoring
continues currently.
If the vendor cannot get this right, we have made it clear
that he will have to remove the machine. He has until the
end of this school year to get it right.
We have developed responses to questions and concerns
that we have received about vending machines and the link
to that document is here .
Have a nice weekend. I hope the weather holds up for a
while longer.
Respectfully,
Dr. Chip Barder, [email protected]
Filmed during ES Book Week
On behalf of the Board of Directors, I am
pleased to announce that parent-elected
Board member, Mr. Nguyen Van Hieu,
has been elected to the position of Board
Chair for the remainder of the 2014-2015 School Year.
brings a wealth of experience to the role as he has
been a member of the board since 2011 and served as its
Treasurer since 2013-14. Currently, he is Chair of the
Finance Committee and a member of the Advancement
Committee. Hieu has also served as Board Secretary in
2012-13, as chair of the Finance Committee in 2013-14, as
chair of the Buildings and Facilities Task Force in 2012-13,
and as members of both the Governance & Policy
Committee and the Finance Committee in 2011-12. Hieu
worked for Oracle Vietnam in 1995 and later became its
Managing Director until 2002. He then held a number of
regional management positions in the Asia Pacific Region
for Oracle based in Singapore until 2007, at which time he
decided to return to Vietnam as an independent
entrepreneur. He is currently involved in green cement
technologies and has investments in Vietnam’s IT services
industry. Hieu is Australian with a Bachelor of Electrical
Engineering degree from the University of New South
Wales, Australia. He has two children at UNIS Hanoi.
Congratulations Hieu.
On behalf of the Board, I am also pleased to announce the
UN appointment of Dr. Gabit Ismailov by Dr. Pratibha
Mehta, the United Nations Resident Coordinator, and of
the Board’s appointment of current Strategic Management
Plan 2015-2020 Task Force member, Ms. Yoon Durbin,
to the Board.
(UN appointed) has served as Programme
Management Officer for the World Health Organization
(WHO) Representative Office in Vietnam since 2014. Prior
to Vietnam, he worked in various positions for the WHO
for Western Pacific, for Europe, and in Kazakhstan. Before
joining the WHO, Gabit was a Medical Coordinator and a
Medical Officer for Médecins Sans Frontières in Russian
Federation, Pakistan and Turkmenistan/Uzbekistan. Gabit
graduated from South Kazakhstan State Medical Academy
with an M.D. (Medical Doctor). He also holds an M.P.H
(Master of Public Health) from Boston University School
of Public Health, USA and a Postgraduate Diploma
(Information Technology) from the University of
Liverpool, UK. He is fluent in Russian and English. Gabit
has three children at UNIS Hanoi.
(Board appointed) is a graduate of Harvard
University (MEd) with a concentration in Administration,
Planning and Social Policy and earned a BA in Political
Science from Boston College. Most recently, Yoon was an
Education Support Program Consultant at the Open
Society Institute in Budapest, where she worked on
educational reform in Eastern Europe. Yoon has a long
history in education working both at the policy level as a
Presidential Management Fellow with the U.S. Department
of Education and at the practical level in the classroom.
Yoon is American and has lived in Japan, Korea,
Indonesia, and Hungary prior to moving to Vietnam. Yoon
and her husband have one child at UNIS.
Congratulations Gabit and Yoon.
The Board will elect a new Treasurer to serve for the
remainder of the 2014-2015 School Year.
In closing, I will continue to serve as Vice Chair until June
2015.
Best regards,
Dr. Nandini Oomman, Vice Chair
The Board of Directors is proud to lead the School’s first Annual Community Campaign. We are equally proud of our community’s generous support for The Scholarship Fund and thank everyone for participating. Please see the full report on the next page.
Our first Annual Community
Campaign is building to success thanks to the
generous donations from families, faculty, staff and
alumni!
Our Goal this year is to raise $75,000 USD to provide
ONE ADDITIONAL scholarship place for 2015-2016.
This week we received 43 new Dragon Fish and 2 new
Phoenix gifts to decorate our tree! Thank you!
Join the campaign by making a gift, and take a place of
pride in an incredible community project that will
transform the futures of so many!
CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT GIVING
This week our supporters share their reasons for
joining this community campaign:
“I contributed to the UNIS Hanoi Scholarship Fund because I
strongly believe the Programme will create opportunities for highly
talented but underprivileged Vietnamese students toward a
bright career prospect and future leadership in Vietnam.”
Hai Chi Pho & Quang Nguyen
“The scholarship students inspire me with their talents and discipline.
Working in Vietnam at UNIS Hanoi has given me new
opportunities and benefits and the Scholarship Fund is one of the few
ways that I give back to the country.”
Kd Ramsey (ES Art)
“We gave because it is good for the school, the students and our
children. Having quality students in our school community helps bring
in an extra rigor, creativity and learning experience into the classroom
environment. Not only have we helped scholarship students but they
have helped us to become an even better school.
We feel that our children have flourished at UNIS and we are happy
to be able to help provide some of these great resources and
opportunities for a Vietnamese child who would not otherwise have the
opportunity.”
Neil & Lori Fairbairn
We hope to celebrate not only reaching our financial goal
of 75,000 USD but also our goal to have our community
join together to take part in achieving our dream!
MAKE YOUR GIFT TODAY AND TRANSFORM
FUTURES!
WHO IS BEHIND THE TREE ?!
Did your child enjoy a story by Award
Winning visiting Author and Storyteller
Margaret Read MacDonald?
Need a good read?
Looking for stories from around the world?
We have publications by our visiting
author available for purchase in the
Library.
UNIS Hanoi is proud to be hosting the Hanoi International Schools
Activities Association (HISAA) Grade 4 and 5 Basketball Festival.
HISAA was initiated by UNIS Hanoi and a number of international
schools in Hanoi to meet the co-curricular needs of our Elementary
students. This Basketball Festival is only our second HISAA event and
four other international school from Hanoi will be visiting UNIS Hanoi to
participate. We warmly welcome the UNIS Hanoi community, especially
Grade 4 and 5 parents/guardians to the UNIS Court areas on Thursday
5th February. The first round of games will commence at 14.30.
We look forwards to seeing you.
Adrian Hubbard, Co-Curricular Activities Manager
Thursday, February 12 18:00 - 19:30
Theatre Center of the Arts
Meeting for all Grade 10 students and their parents: final explanations for Grade 10 about their subject choices for the Diploma next year.
There will be a general presentation for students and parents and then subject specific presentation from HoDs or teachers in charge of subjects. Afterwards there will be a chance to ask questions of Counselors, the DP Coordinator, HoDs and teachers in a more informal setting with drinks and a light supper.
Friday, February 13 8:30 – 10:00
Library Group Study Room
New Parents Workshop with the MSHS Counselors
Wednesday, February 4 12:30 – 13:20
Common Room B5 G29
Information Session of the European University Barcelona Rep: Mr. Kenneth Quah, Recruitment Manager
In 2013, European University was elected top tier European MBA program and second tier Global EMBA program by CEO Magazine’s International Graduate Forum. The 2013/2014 QS Report, ranked the EU campuses from Spain, Switzerland, and Germany at 33.
Wednesday, February 25 12:30 – 13:20
Common Room B5 G29
Information Session of Xavier University Rep: Mr. Kevin Keller, Assistant Director or Regional Recruitment
Xavier University's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities (Midwest), 5.
After School Activities
(ASAs) at UNIS Hanoi are for all students, Discovery
through Grade 12. By now, all parents/guardians (and
students Grades 5-12) should have received an email from
the Co-Curricular Activities Office with information
regarding the third ASAs session of the school year.
Everything you require for registration and information
about the activities on offer is explained in this
communication. Please ensure you read the email in-full
and follow the instructions given.
Registration for Session 3 will commence at 07.00 on
Friday 6th and will close at 23.59 on Sunday 8th
February. All registrations will take place on the ISIS
Family online system.
Session 3 activities will begin on Monday 9th March and
will continue until Saturday 9th May (Aquatics ASAs will be
extended until Saturday 30th May).
UNIS Music Academy (UMA)
is a resource for all our students, parents and staff to learn
a new instrument, to train their voice or to improve their
musical skills working directly with talented musicians. The
Academy instructors are members of the Vietnamese
Symphony Orchestra, professors from the National Music
Academy and local expatriates.
By now you should have received an email from our UMA
Officer, Ms. Trang with information regarding the third
UMA session of the school year. Everything you require
for registration is explained in this communication. Please
ensure you read the email in-full and follow the instructions
given. The specific details for each time-slot will be
available to view on ISIS Family on Monday 2nd February.
Registration for Session 3 will commence at 07.00 on
Wednesday 4th and will close at 23.59 on Thursday 5th
February. All registrations will take place on the ISIS
Family online system.
Session 3 classes will begin on Monday 09th March and will
continue until Saturday 09th May.
Adrian Hubbard, Co-Curricular Activities Manager
UMA Lesson by Tim Barnsley After School Activity - Martial Arts
On Saturday, January 24, 2015 UNIS Hanoi hosted a
middle school soccer festival to run along side the middle
school soccer tournament. The goal of the festival event
was to provide our young and aspiring middle school
soccer athletes the opportunity to compete against other
schools in an environment conducive to learning and
development. Matches were set-up on a smaller field with
only 5 players on a team to set up more opportunities for
touches and involvement in the game. The final matches of
the day were set up as "jersey exchanges" meaning players
from various teams were mixed together to play along side
athletes they had been playing against all day long. The
hope here was to encourage healthy rivalries and
friendships across all our international sister schools in
Hanoi.
With our older and more experienced athletes competing
along side our festival teams in the UNIS Hanoi
Invitational Middle School Soccer Tournament , it was a
great day of soccer for our community. We hope that all
parents and community members will come out in the
future to support our athletes at these wonderful
events. Go Phoenix!
Photos by Tim Barnsley
The Middle School Girls MRISA Soccer team participated
in a local tournament on Saturday Jan. 24. The visiting
teams were BIS, HIS and CIS. The girls started their day
bright and early with a game at 8:00am against BIS. The
time didn't seem to affect their game play as the girls sailed
to a 7-0 win. The next game against CIS had the girls on
another scoring streak leading to another 7-0 win! Their
excellent showing of team work, intensity and strong
defense sent them to the championship game against HIS.
The final game proved more difficult as the girls weren't
able to score in the first half. With a score of 0-0 at half
time the girls had to bring more intensity and a hunger to
score in the second half. With time on it's way to expiring
UNIS Hanoi found a way to score two goals for a final
score of 2-0. It was a hard fought win and the girls proved
they were the best team of the day! The Middle School
MRISA Girls soccer team will be traveling to Thailand for
their final tournament on Feb. 26! The girls plan to do their
best to defend their championship from last year! Go
Phoenix!
On Saturday, the UNIS Hanoi MRISA squad had a
wonderful tournament with seven other schools from
Hanoi. There were two pools of four teams so each team
played three games in the pool. In the final round fourth
place in each pool played each other, then third place,
second place and first place teams played each other in the
final.
Unfortunately the UNIS Hanoi team couldn't make it into
the finals due to a 2-0 loss in their first game to the
eventual winners. However the UNIS Hanoi team fought
back and scored a massive 13 goals in the next 3 games.
They won the 3rd place in the tournament, winning the
bronze match 7-0 against Olympia School. Congratulations
to all the students who playedon Saturday! Congratulations
to BIS who won the tournament.
Photos by Tim Barnsley
There is a new student led Service Learning club in the
Elementary school called the Plastic Solvers. We are a
group of kids from Grade 2 who want to help UNIS Hanoi
use less single use plastics (SUPs). We want people to stop
using single use plastic: bags, spoons, bottles, cups, plates
and disposal food containers at UNIS Hanoi.
Help us by not using SUPs on campus!
We are planning to organize a No Plastic Challenge.
We’ll update you soon with our plans.
A group of children, called
the Read-A-Thon
Committee, have been
working on helping the
Zaatari Refugee Camp in
Jordan. We want to help
the people in this refugee
camp who are fleeing the
war in Syria, especially the
children. They don’t have
as many books as us, and
many can’t afford or have
time for education. The
ES School, G1-G5, is now in the middle of a read-a-thon.
We would like to remind parents and supporters that if
their child has chosen to participate to please bring in the
donation they have raised by reading this entire week
(Monday to Sunday). Please bring in the donations by
February 6. We thank you for your support!
The Read-a-Thon Committee
Thank you to the UNIS Hanoi Community for your
support of our Community Garden ASA. We continue to
sell our bounty in front of canteen Mondays and
Thursdays after school to raise money to aid organic
farming in the Hanoi area. Please bring your reusable bag
to carry home the freshest produce in town. Also, look for
us at the Spring Fair, where we will sell seeds, plants, and
manuals to help you start your own garden.
On Wednesday next week, we will begin to sell NEW
UNIS Hanoi hoodies, sweatpants and tracksuits! All of the
new stock is acceptable PE wear in the winter. Based on
your requests from the previous order, we have larger sizes
available so parents, teachers, staff and 'generally tall
people' can get UNIS Hanoi wear too! Limited winter stock
available...so get them while they last!
We are looking for parent volunteers to help with the
school store on Monday morning from 8.00 - 9.00. It's
really fun, you get priority purchasing and have a say in
what the school store produces! If you are interested, please
contact Malin Niklasson, Shop coordinator
The UNIS Spring Fair is the largest event organized by
the School Community Organization. It’s about the
UNIS community getting together with our kids and
having fun while sharing our cultures. The THEME
this year is …. THE FARM !
The Spring Fair is completely organized by the hard
work of our committed volunteers. We are looking for
ALL countries in the UNIS Community to be
represented. The key ingredients for a successful Spring
Fair are a positive attitude, willingness to get involved,
some time and your passion to make this day
inspirational. You will feel proud to be part of an event
that bonds the community together and creates our
special blend of UNIS Culture.
Click HERE to be part of the FUN!
Want to see more games and activities? Share ideas
of fun games you have seen around the world and let’s
make them happen! For as many ideas we have, we need
parent’s help running the games, contact Christina
Baeck at [email protected]
Cultural Booths (previously Country Table): Get
together with families from your country/world region
and organize a booth to celebrate the cultural diversity at
UNIS Hanoi. It would be wonderful to have many
community groups represented. Please contact
Natascha Senftleben at [email protected]
Do you have a Family Business? If so, Spring Fair
2015 Small Business Booth is for you! Places are now
available to UNIS Hanoi Community business owners.
Whether you are parents, faculty, staff or students, you
are welcome at this year's Spring Fair. So hurry and
reserve your spot! For more information and to request
a spot, email Clarissa Hu-Andersen at
Spring Cleaning in order? Time to clear out your
house and make space for new junk! Book a space
quickly at our popular Flea Market by contacting Malin
Niklasson at [email protected]
Any other questions, ideas, comments….just email
Claudia Marinzi at [email protected]
12 new family members joined the extremely informative
bus tour around Tay Ho and the Old Quarter. A big
THANKS to Renea Freeman, Joh Ponsen and Pippa
Wood for organising and sharing your expert knowledge of
Hanoi! We would also like to thank the Hanoi Cooking
Centre for providing refreshments and an insightful tour
of Chau Long market. We were able to stop by Hang Gai
to purchase Ao Dai and end the tour at KOTO for lunch!
THANK YOU parents from classes: DTU, DSS, K1DV,
G1VC, G4HK, G4LL, G4BM, G4PB for your creative
contributions to the January snack sale! And also
THANKS to the many volunteers that came to help
organize/sell at the snack sale.
We had Zucchini-Beetroot cupcakes, Sudanese Samosas,
delicious rice balls, roasted quail egg and sausage kebabs,
German brezels and the cutest designed cookies you can
imagine!
A total of 10,460,000VND was raised and all the funds go
to support a variety of projects proposed by the UNIS
Hanoi Community!
The Elementary School Snack Sale is a long standing
tradition at UNIS Hanoi. Over 20 years ago, the “Bake
Sale” was created to raise funds for library books while
providing students with the opportunity to taste a diverse
range of snacks from all around the world! The Snack Sale
has evolved into a fun opportunity for children to exercise
choice, learn how to handle money and is raising awareness
of the value of healthy snacks.
17th/ April
K1KM, K1AP, G1SF, G5MN, G5JH, G5DL, G5TC
From your Snack Sale Coordinators:
Akiko Nakano: [email protected]
Masumi Tsuda: [email protected]
Bo young Hwang: [email protected]
As a parent, do you often find yourself asking your
teenagers to remove their headphones so you can speak to
them? You may want to consider doing it even more often.
According to the Center for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), an estimated 12.5% of children and
adolescents aged 6–19 years (approximately 5.2 million) and
17% of adults aged 20–69 years (approximately 26 million)
have suffered permanent damage to their hearing from
excessive exposure to noise. These rates are 30% higher
than it was in the 1980s and 1990s - which many experts
believe is due, in part, to the increased use of headphones.
Noise-induced hearing loss is usually caused by exposure to
excessively loud sounds and cannot be medically or
surgically corrected. It can result from a one-time exposure
to a very loud sound or blast, or from listening to loud
sounds over an extended period, such as repeated exposure
to more than 85 decibels (about the level that teens listen to
their music today) of sound for eight hours.
As damage is gradual, a person may not notice until more
pronounced symptoms of permanent hearing loss become
evident. These would include:
Muffled or distorted hearing
Difficulty hearing sounds such as birds singing, crickets
chirping, alarm clocks, watch alarms, telephones, or
doorbells
Difficulty understanding speech during telephone
conversations or while participating in group
conversations
Pain or ringing in the ears (tinnitus) after exposure to
excessively loud sounds
So, how to prevent hearing loss? The following are some
useful tips to follow:
Follow the 60/60 rule: Use only 60 percent of the
device’s volume level for no more than 60 minutes at a
time.
Be sure to check the volume of the iPod/mp3 before
putting on the headphones. The last thing you want is a
sudden loud blast of music as you press play which
could potentially damage the ears.
Ear-bud type headphones are more likely to cause
hearing loss than typical headphones. When using
earbuds, it is highly recommended that you keep the
volume to a minimum, especially if you are using special
noise-canceling ones.
Noises above 85 decibels can cause ear damage.
Educate yourself to the levels of the noises you are
around most often.
Give your ears a break. Limit your time with devices
that can produce high decibels, such as a TV or stereo.
Find activities that do not involve high volume noises,
such as hiking or biking in a park.
Be careful not to fall asleep while listening to music,
especially if you are wearing ear buds. Your iPod can't
tell if you are actually listening to the song or not, but if
you have music playing in your ears for hours at a time,
you are putting yourself at risk of permanently
damaging your ears.
Have your hearing tested on a regular basis, especially if
you are exposed to loud noises a lot of the time.
If you are wearing headphones and someone within 3
feet (0.9 m) can hear what you hear - it's too loud!
School Health Centre