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Dear Parents,

With the coming of warm beautiful weather we can feel the warmth of the sun on our face and back. No wonder our step seems just a tad lighter and faster and our energy is coming back to life. It is also a reminder that the school year is coming to an end. However, before we come to our last day you will notice that the Elementary School has a ton of activities and events planned. Below you will find what is happening for May and June. Enjoy.

Dennis Bissmeyer, Principal

May

May 12 Grade 5 Soccer Day

May 13 Grade 4 Soccer Day

May 14 Grade 3 Soccer Day

May 14 PTSA - Fall BBQ Planning Meeting at Vizcaya 9:00 A.M.

May 20 Upper Elementary Music concert

May 21 Field Day for PK – 2^nd grades

May 21 Parent Volunteer Appreciation event

May 22 Field Day for 3^rd – 5^th grades

May 27 Moving Up Exercise for all grade levels

June

June 5 Summer - Sizzler: End of Year Celebration

June 9 5^th Grade Promotion Exercise

June 11 Last day for student: School lets out at 11:30

June 12 Last day for faculty: Final check out and clearance

Dear Parents,

On May 7^th the PTSA will hold its Annual General Meeting at 8:30 on the Pudong Campus. At this meeting you will have the chance to cast your vote on the 2009/2010 PTSA Exco Board and Budget Closing. From 10:00-11:00 the Elementary School will make a presentation on Student Led Conferences and more.

May 8^th is Teacher Appreciation Luncheon.

The PTSA of Pudong and Puxi are proud to announce a Meet the Candidates Forum for today April 21st.
Please remember to meet the candidates so you can make an informed vote!

Transportation by SAS to the PTSA Meet the Candidate Forum, sponsored jointly by the Pudong and Puxi campus PTSAs

Don’t forget the PTSA sponsored  Meet the Candidate Forum

April 21 at 6:30 pm Radisson Hotel Shanghai New World

Busing Provided by SAS!

PICK UP POINTS

5 pm: Green court 1

5:05 Green 2

5:10 Green Villa

5:15 Vizcaya

8:45 pm return, same route.

OR….

5:15 PM: SAS Puxi Campus

8:45 pm return to SAS Puxi Campus

NEW FORMAT!!  Speed Candidate!!

YOU haven’t missed the opportunity to ask that “ONE LAST QUESTION” .

Come join us for our 1st Joint PTSA’s Meet the Candidate Forum.

Translator’s will be available to ask questions in your mother tongue.

Candidate responses will be translated and posted after the meeting.

Radisson Hotel Shanghai New World

88 Nanjing Road (W)

6359 9999

On April 3^rd report cards will go home for
quarter three. These will reflect a new
format and information system called Power
School. I believe you will like them. You will notice some minor changes that
include a more office look, your child’s picture on them, the SAS logo, and a
much higher degree of security that allows all three divisions to connect all
student information into one data system. Don’t be alarmed if you don’t see
quarters one or two filled, they have been stored in their student school file,
and at the end of the year the new report card at the end of quarter four will
have all quarter filled in.

At our April 16^th Principals Coffee we will speak
more about this as will as introduce the concept of going from a quarter system
to a trimester system. Be sure to attend
this meeting. Here are important dates
to keep in mind:

April 3 Kindergarten Spring Party

April 6 Tom-sweeping Day…No School

April 7 Booster Meeting. 9:00 AM at the Jin Qaio
Starbucks

April 9-10 PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES: HALF DAY
FOR STUDENTS

April 11 SAS

Click on the link below for more information

Gala: An evening for the Endowment .doc
YongFoo Elite

April 13-17 ERB
testing for grades 3^rd -8^th.

April 16-18 APAC
Soccer Tournament

April 16 Elementary School PTSA Meeting 8:30: EXCO
meeting 10:00

April 23 Grade
5 Spring Fling

Dennis Bissmeyer, Principal

There has been some interest in our online Parent survey that ended on March 11, 2009.

As interest has grown the deadline has been extended to Friday 13th, 2009, 3pm.

Please go to this link: http://portal.saschina.org/survey/pudonges
This survey is also available in Korean and Chinese from the above site.
Thank you in advance for participating and offering honest, constructive and balanced feedback.

• March 3rd   Visting Authors Welcome
• March 3rd-6th Visiting Authors
• March 5th PTSA. This meeting has been moved to March 12th.
• March 12th PTSA ES presentation at 8:30.  General meeting at 10:00
• March 18th 5th Grade Invention Convention
• March 19th PTSA EXCO meeting at 10:00
• March 19-20 Michael Thompson on campus…schedule to be announced
• March 20 5th Grade Band Bonanza
• March 20 Rivers of the World 4th grade presentation
• March 20 End of 3rd Quarter
• March 23-27 Spring Break…no school
• March 30 School resumes

As a component of SAS’s Faculty Performance Evaluation program and in an effort to promote continued professional growth, parents are invited and encouraged to provide anonymous feedback on teacher performance via an online survey.  Know that you should complete the survey for each of your child’s teachers so please allot 10-15 minutes for you to respond to the 12 questions.

Please go to this link: http://portal.saschina.org/survey/pudonges
The survey will be available from Thursday, March 5th - Wednesday, 11th.
This survey is also available in Korean and Chinese from the above site.
Thank you in advance for participating and offering honest, constructive and balanced feedback.

Dennis Bissmeyer, Pudong Elementary School Principal

The interview team and the SAS administration are pleased to announce the appointment of Jason Robinson as the 2009-2010 Pudong Elementary School vice principal. Jason has been selected from a pool of excellent internal candidates following interviews with a carefully selected search committee and very strong recommendations from SAS administrators, staff and parents who have had the pleasure of working with Jason.Jason joined SAS in August as a Middle School Social Studies Teacher and is an invaluable and active member of the SAS learning community. Serving multiple roles within the school, Jason stays focused on helping achieve the 2012 vision. Dedicated to student learning, Jason has served as a member of the Leadership Team, the Student Programs and the WASC Steering Committee, the Educational Technology Task Force and the K-12 Social Studies Task Force. In addition, Jason is an apprentice of the National School Reform Faculty serving the SAS community as an experienced Critical Friends Coach, facilitating meetings on both campuses for teacher, administrator and PTSA groups.

• Monday, Feb 23rd - Students have Reading Assembly and introduced to this week’s festivities
• Tuesday, Feb 24th -  Hats off to Reading - wear your Hat Day
• Wednesday, Feb 25th - Wear a Word on your Shirt or Put a Poem in your pocket (be ready to read it)
• Thursday, Feb 26th - Wear Seasonal Clothes to Match a Book (wear a ski hat to match a book about skiing)
• Friday, Feb 27th - Wear your Pajamas Day (and maybe some rainboots - more showers predicted)
• Monday, Mar 2nd - Wear your house shirt day!This is a great week for your children to catch you reading a book or magazine. Everyone feels great when they read.

The Shanghai American School is delighted to host two wonderful authors at Pudong elementary school this year.  They are coming to our campuses on the 3rd of March and will be here for two weeks on both campuses doing presentations with all classes, working with small groups of students, teacher workshops and generally – bringing light and love to our budding authors and inspiration to all of us for books and reading.

Sheree Fitch is a poet, rhymster and a self-described “kind of female Dr. Seuss”.  She has won almost every Canadian children’s literature award and has over twenty five books to her credit.  Her home base is the east coast of Canada and she says …”I dance with dragons daily”, fashioned after her famous book “Sleeping Dragons All Around”.

Ralph Fletcher is a well-known friend of writing teachers everywhere.  He has written and coauthored dozens of books and videos for writing teachers.  He has also written numerous books for young readers, both elementary school level and early middle school.  He grows orchids and giant pumpkins, loves books, enjoys travel, movies, dark chocolate and is a baseball fan.

We are very excited to welcome our visiting authors this year. Click here for the ES Pudong Author Schedule.

Plus, from 2:15-3:00 on Thursday, March 5th at the ES/MS Parent Coffee at Vizcaya, Dr. Joel Schwartz will have a presentation for parents titled “Nurturing  your child’s Sense of Humor”. Dr. Schwartz, a prominent child psychiatrist, will speak about many of the ideas described in his book, Noses are Red: How to Nurture Your Child’s Sense of Humor. He will address the various stages of a child’s development, all the way from birth to age twelve, and the strategies parents can use to help their children become confident and resilient through a strong sense of humor. Not to be missed!