AISB COMMUNICATION

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Communication Shorts

Dear Parents, PTO Meeting The PTO will meet this afternoon at 4:30 at Le Rebalais on the Sotuba Road. We will meet by the pool and the main agenda item will be planning the Halloween Carnival. This is a major school event. Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting to help with the planning - all ideas and help are welcome! Parent Survey - Please complete, we would love your input! The AISB Counseling and Learning Support Team would like find out how it can better serve the parent and student community through outreach, training, volunteer programming and communication.  Please take a few moments to complete the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/AISBparentsurvey and submit it by Wednesday, October 12th.  Thank you! (L'Équipe d'Appui - Conseils à l'Apprentissage au niveau de AISB voudrait savoir comment elle peut mieux servir les parents et les élèves à travers la sensibilisation, la formation, les programmes de bénévolat et de communication.  À cet effet, nous vous prions de bien vouloir compléter le sondage http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/AISBparentsurvey et le soumettre avant mercredi 12 octobre. Nous vous en remercions d'avance.) Emergency Contact Details We are establishing a new emergency communication system. Instead of using a traditional telephone tree, we will be using SMS blasts to notify parents of emergency information. In the case of emergency, involving unexpected school closure we will send a SMS message to all parent's phone numbers. We will begin using this system next week. Please make sure that we have your emergency contact phone numbers. If these have changed since the beginning of the year, please inform Sushma Singh (ssingh@aisbmali.org) ASAP. Progress Reports Once you have read your child's progress report, please sign the envelope and return it to school. please keep the report for your records. General Annual Meeting - Next Tuesday All parents and teachers are invited to AISB's association (all parents are members) general meeting. This is an opportunity to learn more about the school, the progress that has been made with the new building, programs and our plans for the future. AISB General Association Meeting Tuesday October 11th 2011 7:00p.m. All parents are members of the AISB Association. As such you are invited and encouraged to attend the AISB General Association Meeting. This is a time of change at AISB. We have recently moved into a new campus, we have a largely new board of directors, a new director, as well as a number of new families. The agenda is currently being finalized but will include: Board Report Director’s Report Finance Report Time to socialize with other parents If there are particular issues and questions that you would like addressed at this meeting please let me know. To help plan this event, please respond to me at cjacoby@aisbmali.org by Monday 19th September if you plan to attend. I am looking forward to seeing many of you at the meeting to learn more about your child’s school. Have a good week. Regards, Caroline Jacoby Director Some Reminders Please display your new 2011 - 2012 vehicle placard on the dashboard of your car when coming into the pick up/drop off zone in front of the school. Cares without these will not be able to enter this area after this week. If you are not coming to school in the near future please send in a passport photos with your name clearly written on the back and we will make a badge for you. Students should arrive at school between 7:15 -7:30a.m. Please do not drop off children earlier than this, as they will not be supervised. Students should bring a snack and refillable water bottle from home. They may purchase lunch tickets from the school store. These cost 1500 CFA per picket and are sold in books of 10 for 15 000CFA.[Lunch Menu] For everyone’s safety students are asked to wait inside the main gate until their parents or driver come to collect them.