Wednesday, May 25
Tech about
May 25-27 (Tues-Thurs) - G3, G4, G5 iPads will be collected in i108 and i110
May 30 - G5 MBP Carts will be rolled to P303
May 31 - G3-G4 Classroom MBPs will be returned to P303
May 31 - Science & GATE MBPs will be returned to P303
June 1 - K-2 iPads + Headphones will be returned to P302
All Labs will be closed for the remainder of the year.
Creation Stations in the Loft closed on Thursday June 2
New from Finance Department (and Bookroom)
All classroom printers (color) will be collected and replaced with new monochrome printers over the summer. As such, the bookroom will not be ordering any more ink cartridges for your existing classroom printers (but please do not go out to buy them either - because they’ll only go to waste).
If you have run out of ink, please consider using the network printers in the office or the library.
Or send an ‘SOS’ through marketplace - there must be lots of spare ink cartridges from the first round phase-out.
Kindly submit all invoices and reimbursements by first week of June for it to be captured in this school year's budget.
Bookroom: Please make your final purchases from the bookroom by 27th May (Fri)
ES Happy Hour
Please join us on Friday, 27 May at Picotin, 60 Fairways Dr, S286966 for the Elementary End of Year Happy Hour. Thank you for your rsvp. If you have not yet responded and wish to attend please contact your Division Secretary. See you there! From your ES Admin Team.
Spirit Days
Friday May 27th is the final Spirit Day hosted by our Grade 5 Student Council this year. Friday’s theme is Sports Day. Please join the students by wearing your sports kit this Friday!
The Student Council share more information in this short video. (1:30mins)
REPORT CARD DATES - update. Please note change in dates below:
Please note the following deadlines:
Withdrawing Students’ Report Cards are due Tuesday, May 24th.
Report card grades and comments are due in Power School at 8am on Monday 30 May.
Peer Editing - PLCs will peer edit during their planning time on Monday 30 May. Editing needs to take place through PowerSchool to ensure comments fit within the given space on the final copy.
Final report card edits are due by 4pm on Tuesday, 31 May. No further changes can be made after this time.
Dear Elementary Teachers:
The PTA Book Fair Team is already gearing up for next year’s book fair in November!
Could you please poll your class and determine what their Top 10 Favorite Books/Series are?
Also, let us know if you have any special requests. We know that teachers are customers as well.
Email your responses to saspta.bookfair@gmail.com by May 27th.
Thank you for your time,
Amy Thompson and Rashmi Dalai
SAS PTA Book Fair Co-Chairs
Library
All library materials are now due back as of Wednesday, May 18th. Library classes and checkouts will also stop then for us to reorganize and re-shelve all of our collection. This is an SAS-compulsory inventory year for us, which means we need to account for each and every item in our ECC-GR5 85,000 item collection. Teacher materials can stay in your classroom, but we will need all other books returned.
If you need to know what materials you have out, please log in to the catalog using your username (ie acuthbert) and your password. ECC-G2 Password: fish GR3-5 Password: gecko IA Password: eagle
Please let us know if you need help with this.
Coaches Corner
Math PD Opportunities
How to Learn Math: For Parents and Teachers
Online classes from Youcubed, co-founded by Jo-Boaler, Professor of Mathematics Education at Stanford University
Math Enrichment 3-5
The current ME class list is located here. If you have students that need enrichment outside of what occurs in your class, please find the NEWLY ALIGNED packets located here:
Grade 3 packets Grade 4 packets Grade 5 packets
As there are no more ME nominations this time of year, please feel free to use the packets for in-class enrichment as needed. I think it's best not to send them home as an entire packet as the materials may still be used in the future. Please feel free to work on these in small groups or as a whole class, and confer with students as needed to challenge and engage them in their math thinking. I am happy to help you in any way, and am working to create more in-class enrichment activities. Please don't hesitate to ask me for support if you need it! More information on the math enrichment program can be found on my blog - click here.
Reminders
16-17 Local Orders (next year’s)
Teachers and IAs,
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Local orders are due to Cheryl the Monday you get back from spring break (Monday, 28th March).
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Beacon Order forms should have been sent to you. If you do not have one, please request for one from Cheryl (ext. 6109; email cwong@sas.edu.sg).
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Catalogs are still available from ES-A or ES-B offices or online links are on the left panel of this site.
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For other local agents such as for PACON or NASCO, please request for separate order forms (do not use Beacon forms as exchange rate and shipping charges are different)
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Once you are done working on your orders, please remember to share it back with Cheryl - cwong@sas.edu.sg to signal that you have completed.
Please do not hesitate to call or see Cheryl if you need any further clarification or information. Thank you.
Printers and Ink:
Please note that we are coming to the end of our contract with Fuji Xerox and will be changing our desktop printers in late May or June. Please do not stock up on ink cartridges as the new printers will require different cartridges - consider trading and borrowing with teammates to use up the current stock. Many thanks!
If you are going to be "out" (not in your regular daily role) for any reason (i.e. you are sick, you are in the building but attending a professional development session, you are on release time to do some work, you are attending a conference in or out of Singapore, you are stepping out to run an errand etc.) we are asking that you notify us in advance. We have created this link for you to do just that Hey I'm Gonna Be OUT!
CAMPUS ACCESS (SECURITY)
As you know, our security officers are under instructions to refuse anyone (and/or their vehicle) who is unable to provide proof of their identity and association with SAS. For consistency of notification and accuracy of information, please pre-register your visitors and their vehicles (at least 1-day in advance) by clicking here.
Should you have VIP guests requiring special access or parking arrangements, please highlight or contact Isaac and his team directly.
BUDGET
Please use updated claim form - please print from the link on the left - (copies are available from receptionists)
OFFICE OF LEARNING
The Office of Learning has streamlined and updated the Professional Learning Handbook.
The link to the information as well as an electronic form for application/submission is now found on the ES Daily Bulletin (left panel), under ‘Professional Learning’.
The electronic form will utilize docusign in order to make the process much more efficient and timely.
Professional Learning Coordinator, Sylvie Duval (ext. 6305), at the Office of Learning (OOL) is the point person.
The Office of Learning is in the process of launching a website which will contain all Professional Learning information, news of upcoming events and useful links - coming soon!
*in the meantime, please discard all paper forms and sign-up online with immediate effect.
Sick Leave
Please remember to contact your Deputy Principal if you are going to be out sick. Thanks.
There is now a new system in place at the bookroom.
Needless to say, the bookroom staff will need your cooperation (and patience) during its initial phase.
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You will now require your staff cards to make purchases.
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Your staff card will need to be scanned, for the purpose of accuracy of recording your ID#
(verbally providing your staff ID# or using someone else’s ID is discouraged) -
IAs purchasing on behalf of your teachers will have your cards scanned and purchases will be recorded as taken for your department. (no monies will be deducted from your personal accounts!)
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For IAs purchasing for multiple teachers, it will then be advisable to keep purchases separate and request for individual receipts so that you can keep a record for each teacher.
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The Finance department will provide monthly bookroom reports based solely from records of staff ID#s scanned. Balances given will be for an entire department i.e. there will be no more individual balances reflected of each team member - we can however, sort the data given, to identify the staff who made the purchases, to track expenses).
Important note: The above points are as much information as I have managed to gather so far from my conversations with the kind people at the finance dept., bookroom and feedback from some of you who had visited the bookroom yesterday.
At this time, I am unsure as to how I will be processing the bookroom balances in your budget spreadsheets to reflect individual spending within your teams - so I would ask that you request for a receipt each time you make a purchase and perhaps designate a person to file these to cross-reference them against the monthly reports in order to track individual spending and balances.
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