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Cayman International School | P.O. Box 31364, Grand Cayman KY1-1206
phone 345.945.4664 fax 345.945.4650 email: [email protected] website: www.caymaninternationalschool.org
May 31, 2013
CAYMAN INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS EVENING
Wednesday night was an
exciting evening at CIS.
The Secondary Drama/
Drama elective students
and the Kindergarten –
Grade 5 Musical Theatre
Club students per-
formed a very mov-
ing showcase of
songs from Les
Miserables.
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CIS Mission Statement: Cayman International School endeavors to provide each of our
students the opportunity to achieve his/her academic and personal best within a U.S./International educational environment that encourages and inspires leadership, character, and community service while embracing cultural diversity.
Top Stories ………………………………………..Page 1 CIS on the Move……………….....…………….……………..Page 8
CIS Community News…………………..Page 2, 3, 4, 5 Seen on the Campus………………..……..………………….Page 9
Secondary Headlines………………...............Page 6, 7 Attachments
Events May 31 Grade 5 Sleepover, 6:00pm, Library June 1 Open Library, 9:30-11:30am June 1 CIS PROM June 3 ES Soccer Celebration June 3 NCFA Concert Finals, Karinya L. & Tsin Zan G. performing June 5 K-12 Music Concert Evening, ARC, 6:30pm June 6 IB Evening, ARC, 6:00pm June 7 Early Childhood Sports Day, 8:30 June 7 Kindergarten Bake Sale June 7 Elementary Movie Event after school June 8 Battle of the Books June 10 Grade 8 Parent Transition Meet- ing, MPR, 5:15 June 10 Grade 5 Parent Transition Meet- ing, MPR, 6:00pm June 12-19 Secondary Semester Exams June 14 Graduation, ARC, 7:00pm June 17 Public Holiday, Queen’s Birth- day—No School June 20 Last Day of School (Half Day for Students)
CIS ANNUAL ART SHOW
Also on Wednesday evening, the artistic tal-
ents of our students from Kindergarten
through Grade 12 were showcased around
the ARC at the CIS Art show. As always CIS is
proud of the efforts of the students and
the staff in presenting and organizing
these events! Well
done everyone.
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SCHOLASTIC SUMMER READ-ING CHALLENGE
2013! If your child is in ele-mentary school, you
should have received their login credentials this week from library class. Each student has a unique username and a password that they have created. Students are welcome to start reading and logging now! Use the QR code or this link to ac-cess the login screen to begin keeping track of minutes. Help us beat the world record in summer reading! http://www.scholastic.com/ups/campaigns/src-2013/kids
Cayman International School | P.O. Box 31364, Grand Cayman KY1-1206
phone 345.945.4664 fax 345.945.4650 email: [email protected] website: www.caymaninternationalschool.org
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CIS Community News
SUMMER IS NEAR, TIME TO CLEAR CIS PTA Uniform Swap June 11, 2013
The CIS PTA is organizing a Uniform swap to give families a chance to replace outgrown uniforms. Gently used and clean uniforms may be donated and placed in the labeled box outside the Administration Building until June 10. (Please check and ensure your do-nated items do not have stains, buttons miss-ing or holes). Funds raised will go to-wards school library books. More details to follow.
No Summer School at CIS
CIS will not be offering a summer school program this year. The reason for this is two-fold. Sever-al months ago we expected that there would be major construction on the campus during the summer, particularly due to expansion plans. After consultation with Camana Bay, we have all decided to postpone construction work until next summer. Staff availability and classroom and building maintenance necessitate that classes cannot be held at CIS this summer. Thank you for your understanding.
To make things easier, we have added a link to the Scholastic Summer Challenge Web site on the CIS library homepage. You will find it on the right-hand side of the library site. Keep up the
Soccer Celebration
To change things around a bit this year our sports day will be a
Soccer Celebration, on Monday, June 3rd. It will be a friendly
competition between classes in grades 4 and 5. In the kindergar-
ten to grade 3 classes, grade teams will be made up by me. Kin-
dergarten will be made into 2 teams, grade one- 2
teams, grade 2- two teams, and grade- 3 two
teams. Students should have hats, sun screen, and
water bottles.
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Congratulations to
Winners this Month
Cayman International School | P.O. Box 31364, Grand Cayman KY1-1206
phone 345.945.4664 fax 345.945.4650 email: [email protected] website: www.caymaninternationalschool.org
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CIS Community News
Ms. Jill’s KG Grade Class
Graduation Day!
The Graduating class of 2013 would like to welcome you to share in this accomplish-
ment and their happiness at the 2013 commencement celebration.
When: Friday, June 14th, 2013 Time: 7:00 P.M.
Where: Arts & Recreation Centre
CLASS OF 2013
Ms. Jill’s Grade 3 Class
AFTER SCHOOL
SWIMMING
All classes are cancelled
for Friday June 7. There
will be an extra session
on Friday June 14 for all
students affected.
INTERSCHOLASTIC
HOCKEY TOURNA-
MENT is Saturday, June
1, 2013 at the Kings
Sport Centre. CIS has a
team compet-
ing—come on
out and cheer
them on!!
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Red and Pink Civvies Day today
raised over CI$700 for the
Cayman Heart Fund. Thank you
everyone. Your contributions
are appreciated!
Cayman International School | P.O. Box 31364, Grand Cayman KY1-1206
phone 345.945.4664 fax 345.945.4650 email: [email protected] website: www.caymaninternationalschool.org
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CIS Community News
Keep up the hard work!
LIBRARY BIRTHDAY BOOK PROGRAM
Happy Birthday and Thank You to the May
Birthday Book Contributors!
3RD ANNUAL MOVIE AFTERNOON Elementary Student Leadership is pleased to host our
3rd annual Movie Afternoon on June 7, 2013. For
grades K-2 the movie will be from 2:15-3:45. Grades
3-5 will have their movie from 3:15-4:30. The price
of admission is 3 good quality books at your child’s
reading level. We sort and place these books into
classroom libraries during our work week at the begin-
ning of the school year. Many thanks for all the past donations as the students love
having a great supply of books in the classrooms. Please read The information
sheet attached to this CIS newsletter because it will provide all the information in
regards to signing up for the event, the movies we are showing, the availability of
after-school club for those students who have an older sibling and other de-
tails. Additionally, a snack and drink will be provided for this event.
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Cayman International School | P.O. Box 31364, Grand Cayman KY1-1206
phone 345.945.4664 fax 345.945.4650 email: [email protected] website: www.caymaninternationalschool.org
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CIS Community News
Keep up the hard work!
STAND UP
DAY Today the Early Child-
hood students observed
“Being Friends Day” and Ele-
mentary School Students all partic-
ipated in “Stand Up Day.” This was
our way of taking part in International
Stand Up to Bullying Day and in the Anti-
Bullying Initiative in the Cayman Islands.
During the morning Early Childhood students in
some classes made friendship bracelets for friends in
another class. Children sang friendship songs and read
books such as Fox Makes Friends, Best Best Friends and
Rainbow Fish. Children talked about how to solve problems if
someone is doing something they don’t like or if they don’t want
to play the same thing, etc. They also gave compliments to each
other and talked about what they liked about their classmates.
Elementary students did activities and discussions related to the
Pledges they recited at the afternoon assembly. Many classes did
an activity with crumpled heart cutouts to illustrate how unkind
words and actions can hurt our feelings. There were Kindness
Notes and Compliment activities, viewing Brain Pop videos about
bullying, reading and discussing books and stories, singing buddy
songs and many other imaginative and creative lessons.
Counselor’s Corner
Ms. Siv
WE STAND UP FOR BEING KIND
WE STAND UP FOR BEING HELPFUL
WE STAND UP FOR BEING ENCOURAGING
WE STAND UP FOR BEING RESPECTFUL
WE STAND UP FOR FORGIVING MISTAKES
WE STAND UP FOR INCLUDING OTHERS
WE STAND UP FOR SOLVING CONFLICTS POSITIVELY
WE STAND UP FOR DOING OUR VERY BEST
WE ARE PEACE BUILDERS
I PLEDGE
TO PRAISE PEOPLE
TO GIVE UP PUT-DOWNS
TO NOTICE AND SPEAK UP ABOUT HURTS
TO RIGHT WRONGS
I TAKE A STAND FOR PEACE AT HOME, AT SCHOOL
AND IN MY COMMUNITY EVERY DAY
I TAKE A STAND FOR PEACE
Dear Parents,
Today was International Stand Up to Bullying Day. CIS participated across all
age levels with age appropriate activities and teacher/counselor led discussions. We
hope that this programming encouraged students to treat each other with respect, be
kind, think about the words they use, and know the steps to take if they witness bullying or
are being bullied.
I would like to share these resources with you so that you can also help prevent and address bul-
lying:
Cyberbullying: http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Cyber-Bullying
How to recognize and address bullying:
http://www.greatschools.org/parenting/bullying/64-stamp-out-bullying.gs
12 Myths of Bullying:
http://www.greatschools.org/parenting/bullying/slideshows/3098-10-bullying-myths.gs?page=1
Teaching empathy to kids:
http://www.parentingscience.com/teaching-empathy-tips.html
Enjoy your weekend, Keep care, Ms. Katie
Ms. Katie
Secondary Counselor’s
Corner
STAND UP PLEDGE
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phone 345.945.4664 fax 345.945.4650 email: [email protected] website: www.caymaninternationalschool.org
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Secondary School Headlines
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE AWARDS
WE ARE BACK FROM A WONDERFUL TRIP TO NEW YORK CITY!
From May 21st-26th, 34 High School students went to NYC for a College, Culture, and Band Competition trip. We
had a great time! Some of the highlights included 2 guided College tours, Spiderman on Broadway, the 9/11 memo-
rial, a boat tour to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, the Museum of Modern Art, Body Worlds exhibit, a night
baseball game (Mets vs. Braves), 6 Flags amusement park, a band competition (we scored “excellent” and won first
place!), NYC pizza, Dave and Busters Arcade, Times Square, a city tour, and of course a little shopping. We had a
very busy and exciting week!
Battle of the Books Under the Sea
Our Battle of the
Books team has been
working very hard this
year to prepare for our
book trivia battle on
June 8th against St. Ig-
natius. Our team, the
Brainy Barnacles, is
comprised of Karinya L., Alexia L., Marianne
R., Nicky G., Madison I., Megan E., and Lean-
na S. These students have read and studied a
handful of books and will be fun to watch in
competition! Please join us on June 8th 9-
11:30 in the library to cheer on these students.
IB Student
of the
Month:
Caelyn M.
Senior Superlatives Content Area
Awards: Moses E, Jennifer M.
Sheline C.
IB Student of
the Year:
Moses E.
Congratulations everyone!
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phone 345.945.4664 fax 345.945.4650 email: [email protected] website: www.caymaninternationalschool.org
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Secondary School Headlines
2013 UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES
The CIS Senior class has worked diligently for several years. Their efforts and determination throughout high school
and IB coursework has paid off in the form of impressive college acceptances, and many students will be eligible to
earn valuable college credits when they receive their IB exam results. While acceptances are still pending at some uni-
versities, here is a list of several of the acceptances that have already been celebrated by our Seniors this year:
University of South Florida
University of Tampa
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
University of Victoria
Vanderbilt University
West Virginia University
Conditional Acceptances (pending IB results) and
Waitlists
Brown University
European Business School, London
Keele University
King's College, London
Kingston University
London Metropolitan University
New York University
Royal Holloway, University of London
Arizona State University
Eckerd College
Indian River State College
Mount Saint Mary’s
New York Film Academy
Pace University
Penn State University
Stetson University
UCLA
University of Central Florida
University College of Cayman Islands
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Maryland
University of Miami
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of San Francisco
University of Southern California
University of South Carolina, Columbia
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phone 345.945.4664 fax 345.945.4650 email: [email protected] website: www.caymaninternationalschool.org
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CIS on the Move
DAVID L. & HIS BAND ARE
ON THE MOVE Cayman's hottest rock band IN-
VERSE will be performing Friday 7th
June from 7 to 8pm at Camana Bay.
The band features David L from
year 10 under guidance from Mr.
Gene, music extraordinaire!
OLIVIA Z. DONATES TO THE HUMANE SOCIETY
Olivia Z. is in Ms. Alyssa’s Kindergarten class and celebrated her 6th birthday with a party at Motions Unlim-ited Gymnastics Stu-dio. Olivia asked all of her guests to please do-nate to the Cayman Islands Humane Soci-ety in lieu of gifts for herself. With the help
of her friends, she raised CI$300.00 and received lots of goodies for all
of the dogs and cats, a very worthy cause! WAY TO GO OLIVIA!
2013 YOUTH FILM
FESTIVAL FINAL-
ISTS
Congratulations to
Devin Ross M., Fran-
cisco M., Jagger H.
and Marianne M..
Their films have been
nominated and will be
shown at the 2013
Youth Film Fest Red
Carpet premiere to-
night, May 31 at
6:00pm in the Harquail
Theatre. for People’s Choice Awards.
The winners of the ‘Young Image Mak-
ers’ and the ‘Cayman Though My
Eyes’ Short Film Competitions and the
People’s Choice Awards will be an-
nounced at this event. Good Luck !
ADVANCED BAND PLACES FIRST INTERNATIONALLY
Last Friday, 14 of our Ad-
vanced Band students com-
peted at the Music in the
Parks event in Jackson,
New Jersey while on the
High School trip to New
York City. The band per-
formed 3 pieces, received
an Excellent rating, and
placed first in Class
IA. Congratulations to the Advanced Band for their success in their first
ever International Competition!
On Wednesday, two of our seniors, Moses E. and
Juliana W., went with Ms. Sarah to watch the
swearing in of the new Legislative Assembly of
the Cayman Islands. The students witnessed each
member of the Assembly making their affirma-
tions and oaths, and heard a speech by His Excel-
lency the Governor before the elected members
and other honoured guests moved inside to begin
the first meeting of the new Legislature. This was
an important event for the Cayman Islands and we are thrilled that some
of our students were able to witness this moment.
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Seen on Campus
Cayman International School | P.O. Box 31364, Grand Cayman KY1-1206
phone 345.945.4664 fax 345.945.4650 email: [email protected] website: www.caymaninternationalschool.org
May 31, 2013
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Secondary Assembly
Elementary
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STAND UP DAY
4:
June 1, 2013 $20 per player 4 on 4 tournament style
Game Day Time & Age
8:00-10:30 13U
10:30-12:00 6U
12:00-2:30 8U
2:30-5:00 10U
Age group based on Recreational league.
Multiple league entries welcome.
Past present and future players welcome.
Teams will be determined by numbers
Schools can be combined.
Practice times to be announced.
Jerseys provided for the day
Register by email. First come-first serve.
Pay on the day.
All proceeds go to benefit Youth Roller Hockey.
Email interest, questions, and
application form to
call Krista 326-9226
Pizza & Bake Sale
4 School Teams CIS
Cayman Prep St. Ignatius
Combined schools
Elementary Student Leadership Movie Afternoon
Date: June 7, 2013 (All movies) Grade Level: Kindergarten-Gr. 2 (ONLY if your child has an after-school club on Friday see the next page for Grade 3-5 movie options). Time: 2:25 – 3:45 (This is an approximate time, as movies might end a few minutes before or after 3:45). Cost: 3 gently used books at your child’s reading level OR $10.00 CI if you do not have any books to donate (books and permission forms are to be brought to the main office). These books will go into classroom libraries. Snack: Yes, one is provided. Theaters: All movies are G. Please choose two options as space can be limited. Theater 1: Ms. Philippa (A6) – Curious George the Movie Theater 2: Ms. Tatum (A7) – 102 Dalmatians Theater 3: Ms. Kaya (A8) - Gnomeo and Juliet Theater 4: Ms. Jen (B5) - Snow Buddies -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name of student: __________________________________ Parent Signature: __________________________________ Contact Number: __________________________________ Choice one: ___________________________ Choice Two: ___________________________
□ Yes, I will need my child, __________________________ to attend after school care until 4:45 pm because an older sibling will be attending the later showing. There is not a charge for this one-time event.
You would be assisting us greatly by completing a separate form for EACH child who will be attending a movie.
Elementary Student Leadership Movie Afternoon
Date: June 7, 2013 (All movies)
Grade Level: Grade 3-5 and ONLY Grade K-2 students who attend a Friday after-school club. (K-2 students in an after-school club coming to this time cannot sign up for Fly Away Home because it is rated PG). Time: 3:15 – 4:45 (This is an approximate time, as movies might end a few minutes before or after 4:45). Cost: 3 gently used books at your child’s reading level OR $10.00 CI if you do not have any books to donate (books and permission forms are to be brought to the main office). These books will go into classroom libraries. Snack: Yes, one is provided. Theaters: All movies are rated G, except for Fly Away Home (rated PG) . Please choose two options as space can be limited. Theater 1: Ms. Jill (B8)- Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board Theater 2: Mr. Matt (C5) – Monsters Inc. Theater 3: Ms. Darcy (C8)- Fly Away Home (RATED PG) Theater 4: Ms. Lisa (TBD) – Herbie Fully Loaded ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name of student: __________________________________ Parent Signature: __________________________________ Contact Number: __________________________________ Choice one: ___________________________ Choice Two: ___________________________ You would be assisting us greatly by completing a separate form for EACH child who will be attending a movie.