Teacher Hiring for 2009-2010
Kaye Jacob, director at AIS West, and I just returned from teacher hiring fairs in the
United States. The amount and quality of candidates was amazing. The numbers seeking
teaching positions in Cairo was overwhelming. AIS has always sought superior candi-
dates and this year the quality measure was ever higher. We look forward to finishing
this year strong and to provide a firm foundation for these new staff. The downturn in the
world economy and the desire for international teaching experience enhanced the pool of
wonderful applicants for 2009-2010. We trust you will be pleased.
Minnesota was -10°F and Boston was 15°F. We were ready to return to the Chilly 65°F in
Cairo. Amazing how much warmer we felt in Cairo. It was a pleasure to represent AIS
and the ESOL group at the Fairs. We are recognized as leaders in the field of Interna-
tional Education.
Facebook and My Space-Social Networking Websites
Social networking by your student can have both a positive and negative set of conse-
quences. On the positive side, more and more people worldwide are connecting electroni-
cally for personal and business social networks. A good “Facebook” account can be an as-
set in sharing your interests, skills and personal resume in a variety of ways.
On the negative side, some Facebook site entries are simply stupid. Some put too much
contact information and allow unfortunate contacts into their lives. Others post photos
and behavioral details that generate unexpected consequences. This has happened to our
AIS students recently. Photos implicated our students in behaviors that violated school
policies. Consequences occurred. Others were contacted by unsavory characters when too
much information allowed a personal contact. What students consider their “private”
domain is in reality public information.
I recently returned from a teacher-hiring trip to the States. As with other employees, we
surf Facebook and My Space accounts for indications of the applicant’s character. Some
unknowing candidates never receive an interview based on an unflattering photo or event
mentioned on their webpage. Stupidity cost this person a potential job. Be sure your stu-
dent is advised on social networking pros and cons. Have you seen your students’ web
page? Would you hire them?
Craig L. Paul PhD
Director’s Message 1
News from IB at AISE 2
AISE Book Fair 2
Scores and more: Inter-
school athletics 2
News from HS Counsel-
ing 3
KG2 Learns to tie shoes 3
Lend-a-hand
3
Thanawia Amma 3
MS Awards 4
Grade 1C Reading Mara-
thon 5
AIS Delegation attends
MUN 5
Pizza Party 6
Talent Show 6
Active Citizen 7
By:Mohamed Abdel
Nasser-Grade 3 7
Inside this issue:
DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
AIS-E NEWS
February 2009 Volume 2, Issue 3
Volume 2, Issue 3 Page 2
The AISE 2nd Annual Book Fair will be held from March 16 - 19.
Details will be coming home with students in the coming weeks.
NEWS FROM IB AT AISE
Applications for the IB program are being processed this month. All grade 10 students will report to an assembly on Thurs-
day, 5 February, period 4, course 6 in the auditorium for an IB informational session and an explanation of the application
process. During the assembly, application forms will be distributed along with teacher recommendation forms. The applica-
tion forms must be signed by a parent and returned by 12 February in room 329.
The IB application process is as follows:
Thursday, 5 February
IB informational assembly, application forms and teacher recommendation forms distributed
Thursday, 12 February
Application forms and teacher recommendation forms due in room 329
Sunday, 15 February
Writing sample in library during lunch
Monday, 16 February
Interviews begin
Students who do not meet the above deadlines or are not accepted into the IB program in February are encouraged to re-
apply at the end of May if they have shown improvement in their academics, writing skills, attendance or deadline meeting.
This is the home stretch for our IB seniors. Many, many, many critical internal assessments and IB requirements are due in
the next few weeks. Mock IB exams are the week of March 15th. Please have your student use part of his/her Spring Break
to prepare for mocks. Mock exams count as the second semester exam grade for diploma, certificate and anticipated candi-
dates.
The last day of regular school for IB Diploma seniors is April 23rd! There are only 8 weeks of classroom instruction left in this
2 year conquest.
On a closing note, I would like to thank the parents of the IB students for not only supporting their students academically
and emotionally but supporting their teachers as well.
Sue Eby
IB Coordinator
The winter season has started and all the sports areas at
AIS are busy with practices and exhibitions games. Both the
Junior Varsity girl's and boy's teams will be playing at Cairo
American College on February 6th and 7th in the CISSA
championships. The Middle school festival teams will be also
competing but in the ISSAC championships on Feb 19-23 at
Modern English School (MES) in Cairo. Middle school
football has begun and both teams will be competing in the
CISSA championships which AIS will be hosting on March
20th and 21st. The winter season will end with the Varsity
basketball teams traveling to Abu Dhabi for the ISSAC
championships on March 4th to 8th. The girl's team will be
trying to defend their title from last year and the
expectations for the boy's team will be very high. It will a busy two months for AIS Athletics and we are hoping for
positive results.
SCORES AND MORE: INTERSCHOOL ATHLETICS
Grade 11:
During the first week of February, all grade 11 students during an English class were presented with an overview of the
college planning process, key websites useful in researching colleges and universities all over the world, and a college explo-
ration project. This project will serve as a point of discussion when students meet with me individually . My hope is to meet
with all grade 11 students during second semester. It is important for students to give serious consideration to what and
where they want to study during this semester, so they are ready to begin the application process when they return to school
next fall.
Grade 12:
With the completion of overseas applications, seniors are now turning their attention to applying to Egyptian universi-
ties. On February 22, AISE will host an Egyptian College Fair from 1:45 – 2:45 pm in the AISE auditorium for all inter-
ested seniors. Representatives will attend from British University in Egypt (BUE), German University in Cairo (GUC) ,
Modern Sciences and Arts University (MSA) and Misr International University (MIU). Interested seniors learned about
AUC in December when they toured the new campus last December.
Parents:
Please let us know if you have questions about how your student is doing or about how to help them make plans for the
future. We welcome the chance to work together. Also, you are always welcome to attend events including the following:
Sunday, February 15 1 – 1:40 AISE Auditorium Representative from the University of Toronto
Sunday, February 22 1:45 – 2:45 AISE Auditorium Egyptian College Fair
Wednesday, February 25 1 – 1:40 AISE Auditorium Representative from University College, London
NEWS FROM HS COUNSELING
Page 3 AIS-E NEWS
KG2 held a "KG2 Learns to Tie Shoes!" week. Students practiced at home and at school, receiving
special awards after showing they could tie shoes. The week-long event was celebrated with a noodle
party. Pictures of students who can now tie their own shoes are on a banner in the KG2 hallway.
KG2 LEARNS TO TIE SHOES!
“ Track and Field is starting.” Anyone interested in joining the Track and Field team should see Mr.
John Gillespie in the HS guidance office
Lend-A-Hand will be displaying student art work for Gaza throughout the school in the coming weeks. Originally planned to
be a silent auction to raise awareness and rasie donations to be given to humanitarian organizations, such as CARE, is now
geared towards students expressing concern, their thoughts, feelings, and opinions regarding the 3-week offensive, killing
and injuring thousands of civilian Palestinians in Gaza. CARE Egypt and CARE West Bank and Gaza offer their humanitar-
ian assistance to injured Palestinians, those who have lost family members, as well as local organizations working to re-build
a functioning Gaza. CARE is one of the largest NGOs in the occupied territories and is internationally recognized having
offices all over the world. For more information, please visit their website at www.care.org.
LEND-A-HAND
Now is the time to complete the application for Thanawia Amma Exam (Arabic & Religion) for Egyptian
and Arabic students in Grades 11&12.
For more information, please feel free to contact Mr. Mamdouh Mazhar 26188423.
Deadline for completed applications is Thursday March 5, 2009.
MS AWARDS
Volume 1, Issue 1 Page 4
High Honor Roll
Grade 6
Alan Deuvletian 4
Haidy Ramzy 4
Malak Sekaly 4
Rayan El-Sharkawi 4
Tayam Amar 4
Dana Dempsey 3.9
Dalia Eldeeb 3.87
Naomi Attia 3.7
Grade 7
Ali Abassi 4
Gabriella Makarious 4
Nadine Rady 4
Ahmed Zaki 4
Omar Allam 4
Mostafa Elbakly 4
Farahnaz Abdel Bary 3.8
Nour Shoukry 3.75
Nadeen Abdel-latif 3.7
Mirna El Banawy 3.63
Nermeen Aboudawood 3.6
Grade 8
Ashraf Ramzy 4
Amina El Sadek 4
Tamara Abdel Aziz 3.92
Nahed Salem 3.86
Mona Sayer Dayer 3.86
Mariam Shash 3.83
Krystina Brown 3.71
Mahytab Mostafa 3.71
Kinzi Dempsey 3.67
Adam Ghobrial 3.67
Nadine Yacoub 3.67
Honor Roll
Grade 6
Tariq Dabash 3.67
Karim Rady 3.63
Virginia bassily 3.63
Mohamed Kandil 3.6
Ismail Fayek 3.42
Hana El Khwanky 3.4
Salma El Azhary 3.38
Omar El Gendy 3.3
Joseph Wheeler 3.3
Ibrahim Emara 3.2
Hana Hanafy 3.2
Ahmed Wael Sabry 3.2
Alaa Bahaa El Din 3.2
Grade 7
Hager Salama 3.8
Yoona Kang 3.63
Yasmine El Dessouki 3.6
Marawan Hamza 3.6
Nermeen Gamil 3.5
Marina Milad 3.5
Alaa Mostafa 3.5
Salma El Derawi 3.5
Nada Hosny 3.25
Motasem Abdel Fattah 3.2
Omar Monsef 3.2
Farah El Barbary 3.2
Grade 8
Hadeel Dahalan 3.83
Rinada Kanjo 3.71
Nadine Ramadan 3.58
Abdullah Salem 3.58
Ramy Hanna 3.57
Anne Marie Kirollos 3.5
Lydia Megalaa 3.5
Lena El-Ghor 3.43
Engie Ezeldin 3.36
Farah Ibrahim 3.29
Nourhan Salah El Din 3.25
Attendance Award
Grade 6:
Salma El Azhary
Ahmed Sorour
Ahmed El Wassief
Jonas Herrera
Hussein Raza Ali Gulam
Haidy Ramzy
Sandra Ramzy
Grade 7:
Omar Allam
Farah El Barbary
Mostafa Elbakly
Grade 8:
Krystina Brown
Karim El Azhary
Ramy Khazbak
Karim Saleh
Nahed Salem
Omar Sayed
Abdullah Salem
Mona Sayer Dayer
On A Roll
Grade 6: Adam Ali
Yassin Shaker
Youssef El Tazy
Grade 7: Yasmine Al Maghraby
Mahmoud Sweillam
Grade 8: Mirna Shaker
Hamad Al Khalifa
Panther
Grade 6: Karim Rady
Tariq Dabash
Grade 7: Hager Salama
Omar Monsef
Grade 8: Maged Alawa
Mahmoud Gamil
Volume 2, Issue 3 Page 5
During the Reading Marathon November 23-27 the elementary students and teachers had a great week partici-
pating in the reading marathon. Each day the students would spend about 20 minutes reading and they had no
idea when the bell would ring to indicate it was time to stop reading. To cap off the week, the students and
teachers brought pillows and everyone sat in the halls and read for 30 minutes. Here are some reports and com-
ments from Grade 1c about the reading marathon.
GRADE 1 C-READING MARATHON
In the reading marathon I read a
nice book. It its about Junie B.
Jones, I liked sitti
ng in the hall-
way. And when the bell ring it
means it is tim
e to read.
By Sarah Ramzy
I like Reading Maration because
we sit in the hallw
ay and when
the bell rings we stop reading.
By Tina
AIS DELEGATION ATTENDS THIMUN
This January, 30 AIS students and 3 chaperones braved the wind and the cold in
the Netherlands to attend the prestigious The Hague International Model United
Nations Conference (THIMUN). Aside from lobbying and merging, debating and
improving resolutions and finally voting, the students spent a day in Amsterdam,
visiting the Van Gogh Museum as well as Madame Tussaud’s. Another day was
spent in Rotterdam, where students had the opportunity to relax and play paint-
ball, as well as visit the Kaunstahl Contemporary Art Museum. Senior Heba
Hosny had the rare honor of being President of the Second Committee of the Gen-
eral Assembly, a first in AISMUN history and was highly regarded for her hard
work and effort. Another senior, Mariam Aziz, was also presented with a high
position as a judge in the International Court of Justice. With a large delegation
and representing two countries, Malaysia and Denmark, AIS delegates submitted
several resolutions and frequently grabbed the spotlight, as difficult as this may
have been in an international conference of close to 4000 students. The students
returned to Cairo tired, but content and fulfilled with an enriching experience.
I brought a cat pillow and we
read the book. I like the book of
the Magic Shoe laces. I r
ead 10
books.
By HanByul
Volume 1, Issue 1 Page 6
" On Wednesday, January 28th. AIS had it's first annual elementary school talent show! It was an amazing time for the stu-
dent performers and audience alike. Everyone worked very hard and got a good taste of what it was like to be on stage! Par-
ents and classmates came to support them and were entertained by singing, dancing, magic, comic relief of many kinds
(including an incredible barrage of "knock-knock" jokes), jump rope, soccer and gymnastics skills as well! Around 75 students
participated in all and we had two programs run back to back. The first was for the 2nd and 3rd grade and the second was
4th and 5th grade. It was an incredible joy for me to work with the students and see them all doing their best and really suc-
ceeding in the skills they tried. Thank you all for your support and encouragement with the new program and I will look for
you all at the next show!"
Sincerely,
Heather Berlin
(Elementary Music)
TALENT SHOW
Grade 3 celebrated the half waypoint of their school
year with an awesome Pizza Party in the AIS Canteen.
Sixty-Four third graders and their teachers enjoyed a
lovely lunch together.
PIZZA PARTY
Volume 2, Issue 3 Page 7
ACTIVE CITIZEN
The Active Citizen class recently completed a variety of public service announcements
(PSA) regarding different topics they learned throughout the semester for their semester
exam grade. The PSA topics range including encouraging their peers to take an active
role in their community, anti-drug and anti-smoking campaigns, stopping hunger in
Egypt, stopping stereotyping, and a topic with a different audience in mind on secret
marriages. Anyone interested in watching these PSAs or showing them in class, please
feel free to come see Nora Elmarzouky in Room 320 in the high school.
This month, the class will continue their endeavors in Establ Antar, as they return to
carry out educational projects they specifically created for the children in the Madrasa
Fasl El-Wahd. The class will soon begin a unit on the environment including a trip to the
Mediterranean Center for Sustainable Development and finally wrapping up with final
community service projects.
Write a story using at least 8 of your spelling words. Under-
line them.
It was a cold rainy day and the wind blew very hard. I was in
my room trying to study for my test it was due on Monday
and it was already Sunday. Time flew very quickly and it
was already Monday morning. I knew I had to hurry to
School as I had already missed my bus. I had no clue how to
go to school and I was getting pretty nervous. At last I saw
one of my friends and he gave me a lift with his Mum.
BY: MOHAMED ABDUL NASSER-GRADE 3
1. knew 8. grew
2. flew 9. hurry
3. blew 10. study
4. threw 11. identify
5. true 12. candy
6. clue 13. pretty
7. due 14. *occupy
1
There are many unusual animals in the animal kingdom; here are the ones I
thought of: chameleon, blow fish and an octopus.
A blow fish is unusual because it can blow its self up when
it is scared.
A chameleon is unusual because it changes its colors as
the colors of its background. And lastly is the octopus is
unusual because it has two hearts and squirts ink to get
away from its enemies.
UNUSUAL ANIMALS
Primary Business Address
Your Address Line 2
Your Address Line 3
Your Address Line 4
Phone: 555-555-5555
Fax: 555-555-5555
E-mail: [email protected]
AIS
Cairo Festival City
Adjacent to Mubarak Police Academy
Msaken Nasr City
Egypt 11371
Phone: +2 26174001
Fax: +2 26174002
E-mail: [email protected]
The American
International School in
Egypt