concordia hanoi news march 2015
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Take a look at all the great activities from Dragon boating to culture sharing at our annual international festival in our March Concordia Hanoi newsletterTRANSCRIPT
Happy Lunar New Year from Concordia Hanoi!
MARCH 2015
CONCORDIA NEWS
2 STRENGTH OF A SCOUT
The Boy, Cub, and Girl Scouts have been up to some really great activities! Take a look at what great events they have held and learn more about scouting at Concordia.
4 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
The Concordia International Festival 2015 was the best one to date with loads of great food, games, and even some traditional Thai dancing from Concordia moms...
SCOUTS AT CONCORDIA
SCOUTS TEACHES LEADERSHIP & STRENGTH
Since 2012, the Concordia campus has been a proud host of the citywide Boy, Cub, and Girl Scouts of Hanoi. These groups are led by parents from the community with the goal of fostering young boys and girls to become model citizens and strong leaders through a variety of bi-weekly activities.
Most recently, some of our scouts have spent time testing their physical limits though dragon boating (Cub Scouts) and learning physical training exercises from the US Embassy Marines (Girl Scouts).
To learn more about scouts and how you can get involved in scouting, email parent leaders below:Girl Scouts (all ages): [email protected] Cub Scouts (Grade 1-5): [email protected] Scouts (Grade 6- 18 yrs): hanoiboyscouts@gmail.
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WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS AND COL-LEGES (WASC) COMES TO CONCORDIA HANOI
The first week of March, Concordia Hanoi will have a few visitors on campus from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). For the past several years, Concordia Hanoi has been undergoing a “self-study” and defining who we want to be as a organization, our goals, and what matters the most to us as a school. The WASC team is here to help us with this growth and will be spending time with teachers, students, parents, and other members of the Concordia community to see that we are indeed growing in the areas that we had hoped we would.
The main purposes of the WASC review is to:1. Foster improvement of the school’s programs and operations to support student learning;2. Validate the integrity of a school’s program and student transcripts;3. Assure a school community that the school’s purposes are appropriate and being accomplished through a viable educational program;4. A way to manage change through regular assessment, planning, implementing, monitoring and reassessment.
If you are on campus this month while the WASC team is present, make sure to say hello and welcome our visitors to the school.
ACCREDITATION VISIT
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STUDENTS CELEBRATE 100 DAYS OF SCHOOL
2 SCOUTS STRENGTH
The Boy, Cub, and Girl Scouts have been up to some really great activities! Take a look at what great events they have held and learn more about scouting at Concordia.
WHAT AN INTERNATIONAL DAY!
CONCORDIA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2015
This year our Concordia parents really outdid themselves with cultural sharing activities that ranged from authentic food tasting, traditional music, national games, and even geography and country information. Our Thai mothers started off the festival with a typical dance is done throughout Thailand and the day just kept going while students from preschool to high school had a chance to go from country table to country table and get to know more about the diverse nationalities at Concordia. A huge THANK YOU to all parents involved and for all your hard work to make this such a special day!
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2 SCOUTS STRENGTH
The Boy, Cub, and Girl Scouts have been up to some really great activities! Take a look at what great events they have held and learn more about scouting at Concordia.
MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL HAPPENINGS
Congrats Honor Roll Students!
Middle School Honor Roll for Semester 1 from Left to Right: (Back Row) Thea Caballero, Daisy Roberts, Gi Won Kim, Gracie Byun, Daniel Shin, Dat Nguyen, Kevin Bae, Ryan Lee, Kaylee Frerking; (Front Row) Elizabeth Winkelman, Mai Nguyen, Inho Song, Michael Son, Sofia Ortiz, Ha Trang Tran, Lexe Le, Alyx Khuat-Sherwood, Olivia Atria, Miles Roberts. Not pictured: Nam Dao, Hyunjin Oh, Angie Cheng, Rebecca Yang
Concordia Middle
School Boys
Soccer team
with Coach Chris
Doutt.
High School Honor Roll for Semester 1 from Left
to Right: Joy Shin, Michelle Frerking, Victoria Atria,
Chris Byun, Grace Ong, Mikayla Bloemberg, and
Hyewon Cho. Not pictured: Tonhi Nguyen
Congratulations to the Girls High School Basketball team and Coach Patrick Frerking on a wonderful season!
From the front cover photo:Happy Year of the Goat and as the Vietnamese say, “Chúc Mừng Năm Mới!” Concordia Middle and High School students showed their Mandarin and Vietnamese language and culture skills as they performed traditional songs and dances for the new year at our annual Concordia Hanoi TET celebration.
Concordia Middle School Girls Soccer team with Coach Meg Brainard posing with players from BIS.
CONCORDIA BOOK WEEK: MARCH 23-27Students in the Elementary School will be celebrating literacy, books, and their favorite book authors and characters during Book Week. On one of the days, students will have the chance to dress up as their favorite book character for a book character parade. Your child may need some help to prepare a costume to wear for the character parade. Be watching your email for more details about this exciting week.
To share an event in the next newsletter, please contact Lia Garcia at [email protected]
MARCH EVENTS:
HS Girls Soccer vs UNIS- GO CONCORDIA!
Parent WASC Coffee Morning @ 9am/ G4-5 Soccer Game/ ASAs
HS Model UN (March 5-7)/ Girl Scouts/ ASAs
Boy Scouts Camping Weekend (March 6-7)
MS Volleyball vs BIS Vincom / ASAs
MS Volleyball vs BVIS Royal Ciity/ Cub Scouts
HS Soccer vs BVIS/ ASAs
Math Olympiad- GO CONCORDIA!
HS Boys Soccer vs UNIS/ Boy Scouts at Concordia
HS Girls Soccer vs St. Paul/ ASAs
MS Volleyball vs HIS/ Girl Scouts/ ASAs
Parent Coffee Morning @ 9am
BOOK WEEK (March 23-27)/ MS & HS Interim Trips
Cub Scouts at Concordia
EARLY DISMISSAL @ 11am
BOOK PARADE (students dress up as their favorite book character)
Boy Scouts at Concordia
MS Volleyball vs. BVIS Royal City
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