Larry the Lion’s
Friday News
Address: P.O. Box 34249 Kampala
Website: www.kisu.com
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Issue No. 308
6th January,
2017
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 0752 711 908
Head of primary’s
Message
Dear students and parents,
Happy New Year and welcome back!
Wednesday saw the school return to its normal busy
self as the students returned from their holidays, relaxed and yet full of enthusiasm to see their friends
and face the second part of the school year. The
playground in KS2 was filled with groups of students all chatting to each other, catching up on
their holiday news. It is good to have the place back
to normal again. It’s awfully quiet without the children.
We received unfortunate news over the holiday
that due to her son’s asthma condition, Kristen
Woodruff would not return to KISU this year. We
understand it was a difficult decision to make.
Dawn Burks, who has worked here before on two
other occasions, will take over the class until their
full time teacher, Tom Entwistle, arrives beginning
of February. Both Tom and Dawn had accepted
full time positions with us for August 2017 and we
are delighted they have both offered to step in at
this time.
Please keep Wednesday February 8th open in your
diary if you have children in KS1 and/or KS2. Student led conferences are scheduled for that day.
Your children will be leading you through some of
their activities and sharing their learning with you.
IMPORTANT DATES AND
DATE
EVENTS
PRIMARY HOUSE SHIRT DAY
9th Jan
PTA COFFEE MORNING
10th and
11th Jan
PRIMARY HEAD CANDIDATES
AT KISU
PTA COFFEE MORNING
18th Jan
LIBERATION DAY (PUBLIC HOLIDAY)
26th Jan
STUDENTS LED CONFERENCES
8th Feb
Year 6LH have been studying about the human body.
To showcase their knowledge they cut open Tijn and examined his heart
and lungs to carried to finish out an exercise experiment. Great assembly!
School will be closed for normal
lessons for the KS1 and 2 children
only. Secondary and Early Years
will continue as normal as will
any after school clubs. More information will be sent out to
you shortly.
It’s with great sadness to tell you
but this will be my final year
here at KISU. It was an extremely difficult decision to
make as this is a wonderful
school and I have thoroughly
enjoyed my time here in Kampala and Uganda. Our two top
candidates are coming to interview on Tuesday and Wednesday next week and I know you
will be welcoming to them.
A HUGE welcome to all of our
new students. Already these students are settling into their
classes and making friends. You
are part of our KISU family now.
Have a good weekend and
week ahead
Best regards
Jude Payne
ASSEMBLIES
Early Years — KG 3EN
Primary — 3RM
Early
Years—Reception
Larry
Early
the
Years—Reception
Lion’s
Friday News
School Community and Class News
Specialist Awards
EAL
Alma Pettersson – For focusing on listening to and
copying, the words in the songs for our production
Ziyu Liang— For her great progress in writing, partici
pating using adjectives and fronted adverbials
Junhee Lim — For showing more confidence and
speaking more in EAL class. Keep up the good work!
Music Tamara Milutin Sredojevic — For being a super singer,
doing her very best to learn the songs for our up
coming production
Hannah Froese — For excellent musicianship
Abigail Sebatindira – For excellent singing and guitar
playing skills
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PTA
Dear All,
Happy New Year!!!!!!!
Welcome back. I hope you had a wonderful festive season and
you are rested and yet ready for 2017. It’s great seeing our children back with huge enthusiasm for the new term.
I would like to welcome the new parents that have joined the
KISU family and hope you are settling in well. We will be having
our coffee morning on Wednesday 11th January 2017 at 7:45am
in the area above the main reception and Wednesday 18th
January 7:45am same venue, to welcome the new parents. They
which are great opportunity for the new parents to get to know
the old parents.
Art
Aazeen Shamsy — For creating a creative clay
sculpture inspired by nature
Stephanie Sumbu — For showing confidence in using
spreadsheets to create multiplication tables
Upcoming events:
Wednesday 11th January – Welcome back Coffee Morning
Wednesday 18th January – Coffee Morning
Thursday 2nd February – KS1 show @ 6pm
Saturday 4th February – ISSAK football – Boys
PE
Isabel Schweiger — For running 5 laps (2000m) in 10
minutes. Well done!
Julia Karungi Kimbaleeba
PTA Chairperson
Heather White — For swimming 58 lengths (1450m) in
25 minutes
French Adrian Fatahilliah — For good participation in French
Sean Maginza — For good participation in French
Bathia Sandall — For her amazing progress in French
Carson Wright — For being attentive, patient and
enthusiastic during French class
Tabitha Johnson — For her great improvement and
constant participation in French
Congratulations to all our
Stars
When: Wednesday 11th January, 2017
Wednesday 18th January, 2017
Time:7:45am
Where: Above Main Reception
All new parents are welcome and
we look forward to meeting you.
Early
Years—Reception
Larry
Early
the
Years—Reception
Lion’s
Friday News
School Community and Class News
Early Years
Happy New Year to you all! We hope you had an enjoyable
holiday with your families. Welcome to the second term in Kindergarten 2 and a special welcome to the new children: Zeinab,
Emil, Anne and Nana who have joined us. We hope all the children will find the experiences in this setting enjoyable, stimulating and challenging this term. We are all looking forward to
working with you.
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MUSIC DYNAMICS
A warm welcome to all our new students and parents, and to our
continuing ones! Please take note of the following information
from the music department!
Associated Board of the Royal School of Music Examinations 2017
As you may know, KISU is a centre of the International Music Examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
(ABRSM). Students that take lessons on individual instruments are
presented with the opportunity to take music examinations conducted by an international assessor from the United Kingdom
Should you wish to have your child examined under this scheme,
please let me know so that we start working towards that.
ABRSM Practical exams and registration deadlines
Grade
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Fees in UGX
130,000
135,000
140,000
144,000
154,000
173,000
183,000
188,000
Fees in Dollars
36
37
38
39
42
47
50
51
The dates and fees structure for the ABRSM examinations for 2017
are out. The first session of the ABRSM theory exams will take place
on Wednesday 1st March 2017 at 2:00pm. The deadline for
registration for this exam is Friday 13th January 2017.The Fees
for the Theory Exams are as follows below.
Individual Private Music Lessons
Early Years children are gradually gaining control of their whole
bodies. They are becoming more aware of how to negotiate
space & objects around them. They are able to stop and, communicate their needs for things such as food, drinks, or toilet.
The majority of the children can engage in activities requiring
hand-eye co-ordination. Some are showing increasing control
when using PE equipment. Most can balance on various parts of
their bodies and can show respect for the personal space of others.
Robert PE
KISU runs a Private Music Lessons program for all age-groups
where students seeking to improve their playing or singing ability
have the option of taking individual private lessons for an additional fee. Approximately 10 professional musicians from around
Kampala offer intensive weekly instruction in voice, keyboard,
wind, string, and percussion instruments. Students may study
voice, piano, classical guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, modern
drums, African drums, cornet, recorder, violin, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and African Xylophone.
Registration is in progress now and you forms can be obtained
from the Secondary or Primary office or from the reception
area. The cost per lesson is UGSHS 35,000 and a minimum of 10
lessons is required at registration each term. All payments must
be in advance.
Dr. Benon Kigozi, Head of Music
Early
Years—Reception
Larry
Early
the
Years—Reception
Lion’s
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Director’s Message
Head of Primary
Many of you will know by now, but it is time for me to inform
you officially, that, with no little sadness on either side, Jude
Payne has decided to call time on her stint as Head of Primary
at KISU at the end of the coming academic year. Jude has been
a huge support to me in my first year as School Director and we
will all miss her greatly. It seems to me that our primary school is
in many ways an expression of Jude’s personality: it is a happy,
warm and welcoming place and there is a great sense of energy
and fun about it that I think is attributable in no small amount
to Jude’s leadership. You only need to hear Jude’s wonderful
laugh to know that she is a wholehearted, kind and positive
soul. Her teachers will attest to the same and so will her students.
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stakeholders as possible. During the course of the two days
(Tuesday and Wednesday) the candidates will be involved in a
series of panel interviews with the PTA, Students, Teachers/TA’s
and the Board. They will also be leading specially arranged assemblies on each morning, at which you are most welcome, and
you can also meet them at the PTA Coffee Morning above Reception on Wednesday before school.
I am really excited to meet the two candidates in person and I
believe either one of them will make an excellent appointment……….but we will still miss Jude!!
Have great weekend
Steve Lang
And do not under-estimate Jude’s sheer professionalism and expertise. In many ways, Jude chose one of the most challenging
possible times to become Head of an English curriculum international primary school because of the upheaval the British
government (in its wisdom....yes, that is sarcasm!) has foist upon
us with the new curriculum and the scrapping of levels. But she
has led us through the transition with a steady hand and a clear
focus on what she believed to be in the best interests of our children. Ironically, some of the developments that Jude has been
leading behind the scenes will only just be coming to fruition just
as she is leaving us but I hope she will take solace from the fact
that she will definitely have left a stronger school than she
found. Jude feels that she would be like to be closer to family
back home in Wales and, and at the end of the day, while work
is important, nothing is more important than family so we respect her decision and wish her only good things in the years
ahead.
Of course, this means that we need to appoint a successor to
carry on Jude’s excellent work. I am delighted to say that we
drew a very strong field of approaching 40 applicants from the
adverts that we placed. We whittled these down to 5 candidates whom Terry, Jude and I interviewed, and I must say that
by the end of that process we felt all 5 were eminently appointable. However, I am delighted to confirm that the top two
candidates will be in Kampala next week for final interviews.
They are:
Christine Gibbon: Chris has 8 years of experience as a Deputy
Head in two UK Primary Schools and has also acted as HeadTeacher for 2 years. She passed the National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) in June 2015
Maha Griffin: Maha has been Vice Principal at CAS school in
Dubai since 2012 and has an M Ed. from Penn State University
This is a really important moment for us as a school and I have
tried to design an interview process that involves as many school
Wednesday 8
February
th
School is closed except for your
conference time
Normal school day for EY and
Secondary
After school activities as normal
Early
Years—Reception
Larry
Early
the
Years—Reception
Lion’s
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School Community and Class News
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Year 1
We hope you all had a great holiday and New Year. We welcome you back and are looking forward to a great term. Year 1
will be learning about living things. We are excited to show the
children different plants and animals. Our hope is to go to
Mabira Forest for a school trip. The children will have a knowledgeable guide who will show them the different trees, plants
and even animals that live in the forest.
In our topic lessons the children will
discuss the different parts of plants and food chains.
Information regarding the dates will be sent in due course.
Just like everyone else, Y6 have had a busy first term. They all
decided which their favourite events were:
Hannah Froese / Baraka/ Tendo / Stephanie/ Kanko/Mohamed/
Tabitha /Gabriel / Hanien/ Tijn/ Thijmen/ Jawad- Outdoor Ed
trip to Lake Nabugabo.Ohiseme- The Outdoor Ed trip talent
show.
Upcoming events
Key Stage 1 production – ‘The Puzzled Penguin’ will be on
Thursday 2nd February. Rehearsals are already underway. More
information, including times will follow. Year 1 will be the choruses for the songs.
On Wednesday 8th February we will have our student-led conferences. This is a fantastic opportunity for your child to show
you their learning so far this school year. There will be no school
on this day. More information to come next week.
Jason – when Tendo fell asleep in Literacy!
Ritz – swimming in the lake at Nabugabo
Isabel/ Sadiq – WW2 history project.
Niharika- the end of WW2 presentation
Victor – recycling as the Green team
Boden – Yeast experiment
Luka/Sebastien- competing at GEMS in the Invention Convention competition and using the Lego studio
Milton-the Yr6 production ‘Go For Goal.‘
Tariq /Hannah/Brendan/Nahom/Tao- the inter house basketball tournament.
Danny/Kolokanto- using the cool new Lego room.
Alina/Selina- competing in the Key Stage 2 swimming gala.
Evita-being part of the ISSAK team.
Louisa/Samanyu- all the excitement of Book Week
Early
Years—Reception
Larry
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Term 1 Review
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