Teacher Hiring for 2009-2010

Kaye Jacob, director at AIS West, and I just returned from teacher hiring fairs in the

United States. The amount and quality of candidates was amazing. The numbers seeking

teaching positions in Cairo was overwhelming. AIS has always sought superior candi-

dates and this year the quality measure was ever higher. We look forward to finishing

this year strong and to provide a firm foundation for these new staff. The downturn in the

world economy and the desire for international teaching experience enhanced the pool of

wonderful applicants for 2009-2010. We trust you will be pleased.

Minnesota was -10°F and Boston was 15°F. We were ready to return to the Chilly 65°F in

Cairo. Amazing how much warmer we felt in Cairo. It was a pleasure to represent AIS

and the ESOL group at the Fairs. We are recognized as leaders in the field of Interna-

tional Education.

Facebook and My Space-Social Networking Websites

Social networking by your student can have both a positive and negative set of conse-

quences. On the positive side, more and more people worldwide are connecting electroni-

cally for personal and business social networks. A good “Facebook” account can be an as-

set in sharing your interests, skills and personal resume in a variety of ways.

On the negative side, some Facebook site entries are simply stupid. Some put too much

contact information and allow unfortunate contacts into their lives. Others post photos

and behavioral details that generate unexpected consequences. This has happened to our

AIS students recently. Photos implicated our students in behaviors that violated school

policies. Consequences occurred. Others were contacted by unsavory characters when too

much information allowed a personal contact. What students consider their “private”

domain is in reality public information.

I recently returned from a teacher-hiring trip to the States. As with other employees, we

surf Facebook and My Space accounts for indications of the applicant’s character. Some

unknowing candidates never receive an interview based on an unflattering photo or event

mentioned on their webpage. Stupidity cost this person a potential job. Be sure your stu-

dent is advised on social networking pros and cons. Have you seen your students’ web

page? Would you hire them?

Craig L. Paul PhD

Director’s Message 1

News from IB at AISE 2

AISE Book Fair 2

Scores and more: Inter-

school athletics 2

News from HS Counsel-

ing 3

KG2 Learns to tie shoes 3

Lend-a-hand

3

Thanawia Amma 3

MS Awards 4

Grade 1C Reading Mara-

thon 5

AIS Delegation attends

MUN 5

Pizza Party 6

Talent Show 6

Active Citizen 7

By:Mohamed Abdel

Nasser-Grade 3 7

Inside this issue:

DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

AIS-E NEWS

February 2009 Volume 2, Issue 3

Volume 2, Issue 3 Page 2

The AISE 2nd Annual Book Fair will be held from March 16 - 19.

Details will be coming home with students in the coming weeks.

NEWS FROM IB AT AISE

Applications for the IB program are being processed this month. All grade 10 students will report to an assembly on Thurs-

day, 5 February, period 4, course 6 in the auditorium for an IB informational session and an explanation of the application

process. During the assembly, application forms will be distributed along with teacher recommendation forms. The applica-

tion forms must be signed by a parent and returned by 12 February in room 329.

The IB application process is as follows:

Thursday, 5 February

IB informational assembly, application forms and teacher recommendation forms distributed

Thursday, 12 February

Application forms and teacher recommendation forms due in room 329

Sunday, 15 February

Writing sample in library during lunch

Monday, 16 February

Interviews begin

Students who do not meet the above deadlines or are not accepted into the IB program in February are encouraged to re-

apply at the end of May if they have shown improvement in their academics, writing skills, attendance or deadline meeting.

This is the home stretch for our IB seniors. Many, many, many critical internal assessments and IB requirements are due in

the next few weeks. Mock IB exams are the week of March 15th. Please have your student use part of his/her Spring Break

to prepare for mocks. Mock exams count as the second semester exam grade for diploma, certificate and anticipated candi-

dates.

The last day of regular school for IB Diploma seniors is April 23rd! There are only 8 weeks of classroom instruction left in this

2 year conquest.

On a closing note, I would like to thank the parents of the IB students for not only supporting their students academically

and emotionally but supporting their teachers as well.

Sue Eby

IB Coordinator

The winter season has started and all the sports areas at

AIS are busy with practices and exhibitions games. Both the

Junior Varsity girl's and boy's teams will be playing at Cairo

American College on February 6th and 7th in the CISSA

championships. The Middle school festival teams will be also

competing but in the ISSAC championships on Feb 19-23 at

Modern English School (MES) in Cairo. Middle school

football has begun and both teams will be competing in the

CISSA championships which AIS will be hosting on March

20th and 21st. The winter season will end with the Varsity

basketball teams traveling to Abu Dhabi for the ISSAC

championships on March 4th to 8th. The girl's team will be

trying to defend their title from last year and the

expectations for the boy's team will be very high. It will a busy two months for AIS Athletics and we are hoping for

positive results.

SCORES AND MORE: INTERSCHOOL ATHLETICS

Grade 11:

During the first week of February, all grade 11 students during an English class were presented with an overview of the

college planning process, key websites useful in researching colleges and universities all over the world, and a college explo-

ration project. This project will serve as a point of discussion when students meet with me individually . My hope is to meet

with all grade 11 students during second semester. It is important for students to give serious consideration to what and

where they want to study during this semester, so they are ready to begin the application process when they return to school

next fall.

Grade 12:

With the completion of overseas applications, seniors are now turning their attention to applying to Egyptian universi-

ties. On February 22, AISE will host an Egyptian College Fair from 1:45 – 2:45 pm in the AISE auditorium for all inter-

ested seniors. Representatives will attend from British University in Egypt (BUE), German University in Cairo (GUC) ,

Modern Sciences and Arts University (MSA) and Misr International University (MIU). Interested seniors learned about

AUC in December when they toured the new campus last December.

Parents:

Please let us know if you have questions about how your student is doing or about how to help them make plans for the

future. We welcome the chance to work together. Also, you are always welcome to attend events including the following:

Sunday, February 15 1 – 1:40 AISE Auditorium Representative from the University of Toronto

Sunday, February 22 1:45 – 2:45 AISE Auditorium Egyptian College Fair

Wednesday, February 25 1 – 1:40 AISE Auditorium Representative from University College, London

NEWS FROM HS COUNSELING

Page 3 AIS-E NEWS

KG2 held a "KG2 Learns to Tie Shoes!" week. Students practiced at home and at school, receiving

special awards after showing they could tie shoes. The week-long event was celebrated with a noodle

party. Pictures of students who can now tie their own shoes are on a banner in the KG2 hallway.

KG2 LEARNS TO TIE SHOES!

“ Track and Field is starting.” Anyone interested in joining the Track and Field team should see Mr.

John Gillespie in the HS guidance office

Lend-A-Hand will be displaying student art work for Gaza throughout the school in the coming weeks. Originally planned to

be a silent auction to raise awareness and rasie donations to be given to humanitarian organizations, such as CARE, is now

geared towards students expressing concern, their thoughts, feelings, and opinions regarding the 3-week offensive, killing

and injuring thousands of civilian Palestinians in Gaza. CARE Egypt and CARE West Bank and Gaza offer their humanitar-

ian assistance to injured Palestinians, those who have lost family members, as well as local organizations working to re-build

a functioning Gaza. CARE is one of the largest NGOs in the occupied territories and is internationally recognized having

offices all over the world. For more information, please visit their website at www.care.org.

LEND-A-HAND

Now is the time to complete the application for Thanawia Amma Exam (Arabic & Religion) for Egyptian

and Arabic students in Grades 11&12.

For more information, please feel free to contact Mr. Mamdouh Mazhar 26188423.

Deadline for completed applications is Thursday March 5, 2009.

MS AWARDS

Volume 1, Issue 1 Page 4

High Honor Roll

Grade 6

Alan Deuvletian 4

Haidy Ramzy 4

Malak Sekaly 4

Rayan El-Sharkawi 4

Tayam Amar 4

Dana Dempsey 3.9

Dalia Eldeeb 3.87

Naomi Attia 3.7

Grade 7

Ali Abassi 4

Gabriella Makarious 4

Nadine Rady 4

Ahmed Zaki 4

Omar Allam 4

Mostafa Elbakly 4

Farahnaz Abdel Bary 3.8

Nour Shoukry 3.75

Nadeen Abdel-latif 3.7

Mirna El Banawy 3.63

Nermeen Aboudawood 3.6

Grade 8

Ashraf Ramzy 4

Amina El Sadek 4

Tamara Abdel Aziz 3.92

Nahed Salem 3.86

Mona Sayer Dayer 3.86

Mariam Shash 3.83

Krystina Brown 3.71

Mahytab Mostafa 3.71

Kinzi Dempsey 3.67

Adam Ghobrial 3.67

Nadine Yacoub 3.67

Honor Roll

Grade 6

Tariq Dabash 3.67

Karim Rady 3.63

Virginia bassily 3.63

Mohamed Kandil 3.6

Ismail Fayek 3.42

Hana El Khwanky 3.4

Salma El Azhary 3.38

Omar El Gendy 3.3

Joseph Wheeler 3.3

Ibrahim Emara 3.2

Hana Hanafy 3.2

Ahmed Wael Sabry 3.2

Alaa Bahaa El Din 3.2

Grade 7

Hager Salama 3.8

Yoona Kang 3.63

Yasmine El Dessouki 3.6

Marawan Hamza 3.6

Nermeen Gamil 3.5

Marina Milad 3.5

Alaa Mostafa 3.5

Salma El Derawi 3.5

Nada Hosny 3.25

Motasem Abdel Fattah 3.2

Omar Monsef 3.2

Farah El Barbary 3.2

Grade 8

Hadeel Dahalan 3.83

Rinada Kanjo 3.71

Nadine Ramadan 3.58

Abdullah Salem 3.58

Ramy Hanna 3.57

Anne Marie Kirollos 3.5

Lydia Megalaa 3.5

Lena El-Ghor 3.43

Engie Ezeldin 3.36

Farah Ibrahim 3.29

Nourhan Salah El Din 3.25

Attendance Award

Grade 6:

Salma El Azhary

Ahmed Sorour

Ahmed El Wassief

Jonas Herrera

Hussein Raza Ali Gulam

Haidy Ramzy

Sandra Ramzy

Grade 7:

Omar Allam

Farah El Barbary

Mostafa Elbakly

Grade 8:

Krystina Brown

Karim El Azhary

Ramy Khazbak

Karim Saleh

Nahed Salem

Omar Sayed

Abdullah Salem

Mona Sayer Dayer

On A Roll

Grade 6: Adam Ali

Yassin Shaker

Youssef El Tazy

Grade 7: Yasmine Al Maghraby

Mahmoud Sweillam

Grade 8: Mirna Shaker

Hamad Al Khalifa

Panther

Grade 6: Karim Rady

Tariq Dabash

Grade 7: Hager Salama

Omar Monsef

Grade 8: Maged Alawa

Mahmoud Gamil

Volume 2, Issue 3 Page 5

During the Reading Marathon November 23-27 the elementary students and teachers had a great week partici-

pating in the reading marathon. Each day the students would spend about 20 minutes reading and they had no

idea when the bell would ring to indicate it was time to stop reading. To cap off the week, the students and

teachers brought pillows and everyone sat in the halls and read for 30 minutes. Here are some reports and com-

ments from Grade 1c about the reading marathon.

GRADE 1 C-READING MARATHON

In the reading marathon I read a

nice book. It its about Junie B.

Jones, I liked sitti

ng in the hall-

way. And when the bell ring it

means it is tim

e to read.

By Sarah Ramzy

I like Reading Maration because

we sit in the hallw

ay and when

the bell rings we stop reading.

By Tina

AIS DELEGATION ATTENDS THIMUN

This January, 30 AIS students and 3 chaperones braved the wind and the cold in

the Netherlands to attend the prestigious The Hague International Model United

Nations Conference (THIMUN). Aside from lobbying and merging, debating and

improving resolutions and finally voting, the students spent a day in Amsterdam,

visiting the Van Gogh Museum as well as Madame Tussaud’s. Another day was

spent in Rotterdam, where students had the opportunity to relax and play paint-

ball, as well as visit the Kaunstahl Contemporary Art Museum. Senior Heba

Hosny had the rare honor of being President of the Second Committee of the Gen-

eral Assembly, a first in AISMUN history and was highly regarded for her hard

work and effort. Another senior, Mariam Aziz, was also presented with a high

position as a judge in the International Court of Justice. With a large delegation

and representing two countries, Malaysia and Denmark, AIS delegates submitted

several resolutions and frequently grabbed the spotlight, as difficult as this may

have been in an international conference of close to 4000 students. The students

returned to Cairo tired, but content and fulfilled with an enriching experience.

I brought a cat pillow and we

read the book. I like the book of

the Magic Shoe laces. I r

ead 10

books.

By HanByul

Volume 1, Issue 1 Page 6

" On Wednesday, January 28th. AIS had it's first annual elementary school talent show! It was an amazing time for the stu-

dent performers and audience alike. Everyone worked very hard and got a good taste of what it was like to be on stage! Par-

ents and classmates came to support them and were entertained by singing, dancing, magic, comic relief of many kinds

(including an incredible barrage of "knock-knock" jokes), jump rope, soccer and gymnastics skills as well! Around 75 students

participated in all and we had two programs run back to back. The first was for the 2nd and 3rd grade and the second was

4th and 5th grade. It was an incredible joy for me to work with the students and see them all doing their best and really suc-

ceeding in the skills they tried. Thank you all for your support and encouragement with the new program and I will look for

you all at the next show!"

Sincerely,

Heather Berlin

(Elementary Music)

TALENT SHOW

Grade 3 celebrated the half waypoint of their school

year with an awesome Pizza Party in the AIS Canteen.

Sixty-Four third graders and their teachers enjoyed a

lovely lunch together.

PIZZA PARTY

Volume 2, Issue 3 Page 7

ACTIVE CITIZEN

The Active Citizen class recently completed a variety of public service announcements

(PSA) regarding different topics they learned throughout the semester for their semester

exam grade. The PSA topics range including encouraging their peers to take an active

role in their community, anti-drug and anti-smoking campaigns, stopping hunger in

Egypt, stopping stereotyping, and a topic with a different audience in mind on secret

marriages. Anyone interested in watching these PSAs or showing them in class, please

feel free to come see Nora Elmarzouky in Room 320 in the high school.

This month, the class will continue their endeavors in Establ Antar, as they return to

carry out educational projects they specifically created for the children in the Madrasa

Fasl El-Wahd. The class will soon begin a unit on the environment including a trip to the

Mediterranean Center for Sustainable Development and finally wrapping up with final

community service projects.

Write a story using at least 8 of your spelling words. Under-

line them.

It was a cold rainy day and the wind blew very hard. I was in

my room trying to study for my test it was due on Monday

and it was already Sunday. Time flew very quickly and it

was already Monday morning. I knew I had to hurry to

School as I had already missed my bus. I had no clue how to

go to school and I was getting pretty nervous. At last I saw

one of my friends and he gave me a lift with his Mum.

BY: MOHAMED ABDUL NASSER-GRADE 3

1. knew 8. grew

2. flew 9. hurry

3. blew 10. study

4. threw 11. identify

5. true 12. candy

6. clue 13. pretty

7. due 14. *occupy

1

There are many unusual animals in the animal kingdom; here are the ones I

thought of: chameleon, blow fish and an octopus.

A blow fish is unusual because it can blow its self up when

it is scared.

A chameleon is unusual because it changes its colors as

the colors of its background. And lastly is the octopus is

unusual because it has two hearts and squirts ink to get

away from its enemies.

UNUSUAL ANIMALS

Primary Business Address

Your Address Line 2

Your Address Line 3

Your Address Line 4

Phone: 555-555-5555

Fax: 555-555-5555

E-mail: someone@example.com

AIS

Cairo Festival City

Adjacent to Mubarak Police Academy

Msaken Nasr City

Egypt 11371

Phone: +2 26174001

Fax: +2 26174002

E-mail: ais@aisegypt.com

The American

International School in

Egypt