Eric Ip returns a volley during the QISN Table Tennis Tournament last Friday. Congratulations to all participants for an outstanding effort.

Announcements

• QISS has Spirit! Congratulations to the Grade 6 class for accumulating the most point during Spirit Week! As a reward, Grade 6 enjoyed a popcorn party to end the week.
  
  Grade 6 took second place in the Middle School Tug of War to secure the top spot for Spirit Week!

• QISS spellers win awards! Congratulations to Anna Li (1st place in grade 3-5 division), Candy Oh (2nd place K-2 division), Jakub Licko (2nd place grade 6-8 division) and Saskia Bunte (1st place grades 9-12 division) for their excellent performances at the QISN Spelling Bee yesterday at YCIS.
  
• Congratulations to the QISS Boys and Girls Soccer Teams who have enjoyed a very successful week. The boys beat Oxford 3-0 and topped ISQ 2-1. The girls were victorious over Oxford by a 1-0 score before falling to ISQ 2-0. Great effort by both teams!
• The QISS Science Fair - Back to the Future - takes place tomorrow from 9:00 until 2:00. Busses will pick up students 30 minutes later than normal. Parents may view PreK and Kindergarten projects in the library from 9:30 to 10:30. Lower School projects will be on display on the 4th floor of the Upper School building from 9:00 to 12:00. Upper School projects will be on the 3rd floor of the Upper School building also from 9:00 to 12:00. Final awards and presentations will take place after lunch in the theatre from 1:00 to 1:45.
• The GIG (Global Issues Group) will have a donation station at the Science Fair on Saturday to collect money to help purchase supplies for the village school that the 11th and 12th grade students will be working with on their trip to Guizhou.
• A draft of the WASC Accreditation Self Study Report can be found on the school’s website at www.qiss.org.cn. The accreditation report is important because it validates the integrity of the school’s program, assures the school community that the school’s purposes are appropriate and assists the school in establishing areas of strengths and areas for improvement.  If you have comments on the report would you please address them to: qisscomments@hotmail.com.  We look forward to receiving your comments.

A Warm Welcome to...

• Eunjin Cho who will start in Grade 2 on March 21st
• SoEun Park who will start in Grade 9 on March 21st
• Min Woo Oh who started in Grade 10 on March 15th

...we wish you much happiness and success at QISS!

What's Happening in Grade 5...

• The Fifth Grade celebrated PI DAY on Monday, March 14th. PI is an irrational number whose use is very practical in determining the circumference of a circle and is employed in various forms in higher mathematics. PI, for short, is the decimal 3.14. Hence the significance of March 14th, or 3/14. We celebrated by eating Pineapple Pie from McDonalds and we had a competition to see who could recite the most digits in this never ending number. Juno Kim won the competition with a recitation of the first 61 numbers of PI. Juno was very impressive and his mastery obvious. In rocognition, he won Mr. Bertholet's beloved green Fischer Space Pen. The satisfaction that Juno felt was enormous and he has a lot to be proud of.

• Fifth Grade students have created a nice, large, exhibit of hand-crafted tessellations. These tessellations, after an Islamic tradition, utilize solely geometrical shapes as their inspiration. The skill and spatial reasoning required to execute such designs are demanding. In conjunction, there is is small Fifth Grade exhibit regarding the "Wheel of Theodorus." Theodorus was a contemporary of Pythagoras who discovered that every hypotenuse was just the leg of yet another right angle, which in turn became another hypotenuse.The students' representations of the wheel are just extraordinary and very imaginative as well.

Next Week at QISS

Monday, March 21

• QISS Boys and Girls Soccer teams play against ISQ on the Shark Pitch (4:00 - 5:00). Go Sharks, go!

Tuesday, March 22

• College Visit - Representatives from La Roches International School of Hotel Managment (Switzerland), Glion Insitute of Higher Education (Switzerland) and NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano - Italy) will be speaking to QISS high school students at10:30 am.
  
• Girls  Soccer Practice on the Shark Pitch (3:30 - 5:00).

Wednesday, March 23

• Boys Soccer Practice on the Shark Pitch (3:30 - 5:30)

Thursday, March 24

• AP Literature Key Assignment - Students will be performing and analysing parts of Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of Being Earnest".
• Girls Soccer Practice on the Shark Pitch (3:30 - 5:00).

Friday, March 25

• Boys Soccer Practice on the Shark Pitch (3:30 - 5:30)

Upcoming Events

• March 28 to April 1 - Upper School Field Trips
• April 4 to 8 - Easter Vacation - Classes resume April 11
• April 12 - QISN Talent Show at KISQ
• April 14 to 17 - ACAMIS Soccer Tournament in Ningbo
• April 15 - Upper School end of Quarter 3
• April 20 and 21 - Parent Conferences - Students dismissed from classes at 1:00.
• April 22 - Upper School Report Cards sent home (Quarter 3)
• April 23 - QISS Talent Show
• April 25 to 28 - WASC Accreditation Visit
• May 2 and 3 - Labour Day Holiday - No Classes
• May 4 to 14 - AP Tests
• May 7 - SAT Testing at QISS
• May 20 and 21 - ACAMIS Middle School Cultural Convention in Suzhou
• May 23 to 27 - Festival of Words
• May 25 - QISN Drama Festival at QISS
• May 31 - After School Activities end
• June 4 - SAT Testing at QISS
• June 6 - Dragon Boat Festival Holiday - No Classes
• June 9 to 14 - High School Exam Week
• June 11 - Graduation
• June 15 - QISS Field Day
• June 17 - Last day of school - Upper and Lower School Report Cards sent home

Links

• QISS Website
• WASC - Self Study Draft Report