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Cayman International School | P.O. Box 31364, Grand Cayman KY1-1206

phone 345.945.4664 fax 345.945.4650 email: [email protected] website: www.caymaninternationalschool.org

May 31, 2013

CAYMAN INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS EVENING

Wednesday night was an

exciting evening at CIS.

The Secondary Drama/

Drama elective students

and the Kindergarten –

Grade 5 Musical Theatre

Club students per-

formed a very mov-

ing showcase of

songs from Les

Miserables.

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CIS Mission Statement: Cayman International School endeavors to provide each of our

students the opportunity to achieve his/her academic and personal best within a U.S./International educational environment that encourages and inspires leadership, character, and community service while embracing cultural diversity.

Top Stories ……………………………………….. CIS on the Move……………….....…………….……………..Page 8

CIS Community News…………………..Page 2, 3, 4, 5 Seen on the Campus………………..……..………………….Page 9

Secondary Headlines………………...............Page 6, 7 Attachments

Events May 31 Grade 5 Sleepover, 6:00pm, Library June 1 Open Library, 9:30-11:30am June 1 CIS PROM June 3 ES Soccer Celebration June 3 NCFA Concert Finals, Karinya L. & Tsin Zan G. performing June 5 K-12 Music Concert Evening, ARC, 6:30pm June 6 IB Evening, ARC, 6:00pm June 7 Early Childhood Sports Day, 8:30 June 7 Kindergarten Bake Sale June 7 Elementary Movie Event after school June 8 Battle of the Books June 10 Grade 8 Parent Transition Meet- ing, MPR, 5:15 June 10 Grade 5 Parent Transition Meet- ing, MPR, 6:00pm June 12-19 Secondary Semester Exams June 14 Graduation, ARC, 7:00pm June 17 Public Holiday, Queen’s Birth- day—No School June 20 Last Day of School (Half Day for Students)

CIS ANNUAL ART SHOW

Also on Wednesday evening, the artistic tal-

ents of our students from Kindergarten

through Grade 12 were showcased around

the ARC at the CIS Art show. As always CIS is

proud of the efforts of the students and

the staff in presenting and organizing

these events! Well

done everyone.

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SCHOLASTIC SUMMER READ-ING CHALLENGE

2013! If your child is in ele-mentary school, you

should have received their login credentials this week from library class. Each student has a unique username and a password that they have created. Students are welcome to start reading and logging now! Use the QR code or this link to ac-cess the login screen to begin keeping track of minutes. Help us beat the world record in summer reading! http://www.scholastic.com/ups/campaigns/src-2013/kids



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CIS Community News

SUMMER IS NEAR, TIME TO CLEAR CIS PTA Uniform Swap June 11, 2013

The CIS PTA is organizing a Uniform swap to give families a chance to replace outgrown uniforms. Gently used and clean uniforms may be donated and placed in the labeled box outside the Administration Building until June 10. (Please check and ensure your do-nated items do not have stains, buttons miss-ing or holes). Funds raised will go to-wards school library books. More details to follow.

No Summer School at CIS

CIS will not be offering a summer school program this year. The reason for this is two-fold. Sever-al months ago we expected that there would be major construction on the campus during the summer, particularly due to expansion plans. After consultation with Camana Bay, we have all decided to postpone construction work until next summer. Staff availability and classroom and building maintenance necessitate that classes cannot be held at CIS this summer. Thank you for your understanding.

To make things easier, we have added a link to the Scholastic Summer Challenge Web site on the CIS library homepage. You will find it on the right-hand side of the library site. Keep up the

Soccer Celebration

To change things around a bit this year our sports day will be a

Soccer Celebration, on Monday, June 3rd. It will be a friendly

competition between classes in grades 4 and 5. In the kindergar-

ten to grade 3 classes, grade teams will be made up by me. Kin-

dergarten will be made into 2 teams, grade one- 2

teams, grade 2- two teams, and grade- 3 two

teams. Students should have hats, sun screen, and

water bottles.

http://www.scholastic.com/ups/campaigns/src-2013/kids

http://www.scholastic.com/ups/campaigns/src-2013/kids

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Congratulations to

Winners this Month



May 31, 2013

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CIS Community News

Ms. Jill’s KG Grade Class

Graduation Day!

The Graduating class of 2013 would like to welcome you to share in this accomplish-

ment and their happiness at the 2013 commencement celebration.

When: Friday, June 14th, 2013 Time: 7:00 P.M.

Where: Arts & Recreation Centre

CLASS OF 2013

Ms. Jill’s Grade 3 Class

AFTER SCHOOL

SWIMMING

All classes are cancelled

for Friday June 7. There

will be an extra session

on Friday June 14 for all

students affected.

INTERSCHOLASTIC

HOCKEY TOURNA-

MENT is Saturday, June

1, 2013 at the Kings

Sport Centre. CIS has a

team compet-

ing—come on

out and cheer

them on!!

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Red and Pink Civvies Day today

raised over CI$700 for the

Cayman Heart Fund. Thank you

everyone. Your contributions

are appreciated!



May 31, 2013

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CIS Community News

Keep up the hard work!

LIBRARY BIRTHDAY BOOK PROGRAM

Happy Birthday and Thank You to the May

Birthday Book Contributors!

3RD ANNUAL MOVIE AFTERNOON Elementary Student Leadership is pleased to host our

3rd annual Movie Afternoon on June 7, 2013. For

grades K-2 the movie will be from 2:15-3:45. Grades

3-5 will have their movie from 3:15-4:30. The price

of admission is 3 good quality books at your child’s

reading level. We sort and place these books into

classroom libraries during our work week at the begin-

ning of the school year. Many thanks for all the past donations as the students love

having a great supply of books in the classrooms. Please read The information

sheet attached to this CIS newsletter because it will provide all the information in

regards to signing up for the event, the movies we are showing, the availability of

after-school club for those students who have an older sibling and other de-

tails. Additionally, a snack and drink will be provided for this event.

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May 31, 2013

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CIS Community News

Keep up the hard work!

STAND UP

DAY Today the Early Child-

hood students observed

“Being Friends Day” and Ele-

mentary School Students all partic-

ipated in “Stand Up Day.” This was

our way of taking part in International

Stand Up to Bullying Day and in the Anti-

Bullying Initiative in the Cayman Islands.

During the morning Early Childhood students in

some classes made friendship bracelets for friends in

another class. Children sang friendship songs and read

books such as Fox Makes Friends, Best Best Friends and

Rainbow Fish. Children talked about how to solve problems if

someone is doing something they don’t like or if they don’t want

to play the same thing, etc. They also gave compliments to each

other and talked about what they liked about their classmates.

Elementary students did activities and discussions related to the

Pledges they recited at the afternoon assembly. Many classes did

an activity with crumpled heart cutouts to illustrate how unkind

words and actions can hurt our feelings. There were Kindness

Notes and Compliment activities, viewing Brain Pop videos about

bullying, reading and discussing books and stories, singing buddy

songs and many other imaginative and creative lessons.

Counselor’s Corner

Ms. Siv

WE STAND UP FOR BEING KIND

WE STAND UP FOR BEING HELPFUL

WE STAND UP FOR BEING ENCOURAGING

WE STAND UP FOR BEING RESPECTFUL

WE STAND UP FOR FORGIVING MISTAKES

WE STAND UP FOR INCLUDING OTHERS

WE STAND UP FOR SOLVING CONFLICTS POSITIVELY

WE STAND UP FOR DOING OUR VERY BEST

WE ARE PEACE BUILDERS

I PLEDGE

TO PRAISE PEOPLE

TO GIVE UP PUT-DOWNS

TO NOTICE AND SPEAK UP ABOUT HURTS

TO RIGHT WRONGS

I TAKE A STAND FOR PEACE AT HOME, AT SCHOOL

AND IN MY COMMUNITY EVERY DAY

I TAKE A STAND FOR PEACE

Dear Parents,

Today was International Stand Up to Bullying Day. CIS participated across all

age levels with age appropriate activities and teacher/counselor led discussions. We

hope that this programming encouraged students to treat each other with respect, be

kind, think about the words they use, and know the steps to take if they witness bullying or

are being bullied.

I would like to share these resources with you so that you can also help prevent and address bul-

lying:

Cyberbullying: http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Cyber-Bullying

How to recognize and address bullying:

http://www.greatschools.org/parenting/bullying/64-stamp-out-bullying.gs

12 Myths of Bullying:

http://www.greatschools.org/parenting/bullying/slideshows/3098-10-bullying-myths.gs?page=1

Teaching empathy to kids:

http://www.parentingscience.com/teaching-empathy-tips.html

Enjoy your weekend, Keep care, Ms. Katie

Ms. Katie

Secondary Counselor’s

Corner

STAND UP PLEDGE

http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Cyber-Bullying

http://www.greatschools.org/parenting/bullying/64-stamp-out-bullying.gs

http://www.greatschools.org/parenting/bullying/slideshows/3098-10-bullying-myths.gs?page=1

http://www.parentingscience.com/teaching-empathy-tips.html

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Secondary School Headlines

INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE AWARDS

WE ARE BACK FROM A WONDERFUL TRIP TO NEW YORK CITY!

From May 21st-26th, 34 High School students went to NYC for a College, Culture, and Band Competition trip. We

had a great time! Some of the highlights included 2 guided College tours, Spiderman on Broadway, the 9/11 memo-

rial, a boat tour to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, the Museum of Modern Art, Body Worlds exhibit, a night

baseball game (Mets vs. Braves), 6 Flags amusement park, a band competition (we scored “excellent” and won first

place!), NYC pizza, Dave and Busters Arcade, Times Square, a city tour, and of course a little shopping. We had a

very busy and exciting week!

Battle of the Books Under the Sea

Our Battle of the

Books team has been

working very hard this

year to prepare for our

book trivia battle on

June 8th against St. Ig-

natius. Our team, the

Brainy Barnacles, is

comprised of Karinya L., Alexia L., Marianne

R., Nicky G., Madison I., Megan E., and Lean-

na S. These students have read and studied a

handful of books and will be fun to watch in

competition! Please join us on June 8th 9-

11:30 in the library to cheer on these students.

IB Student

of the

Month:

Caelyn M.

Senior Superlatives Content Area

Awards: Moses E, Jennifer M.

Sheline C.

IB Student of

the Year:

Moses E.

Congratulations everyone!



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Secondary School Headlines

2013 UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES

The CIS Senior class has worked diligently for several years. Their efforts and determination throughout high school

and IB coursework has paid off in the form of impressive college acceptances, and many students will be eligible to

earn valuable college credits when they receive their IB exam results. While acceptances are still pending at some uni-

versities, here is a list of several of the acceptances that have already been celebrated by our Seniors this year:

University of South Florida

University of Tampa

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

University of Victoria

Vanderbilt University

West Virginia University

Conditional Acceptances (pending IB results) and

Waitlists

Brown University

European Business School, London

Keele University

King's College, London

Kingston University

London Metropolitan University

New York University

Royal Holloway, University of London

Arizona State University

Eckerd College

Indian River State College

Mount Saint Mary’s

New York Film Academy

Pace University

Penn State University

Stetson University

UCLA

University of Central Florida

University College of Cayman Islands

University of Colorado, Boulder

University of Maryland

University of Miami

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

University of San Francisco

University of Southern California

University of South Carolina, Columbia



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CIS on the Move

DAVID L. & HIS BAND ARE

ON THE MOVE Cayman's hottest rock band IN-

VERSE will be performing Friday 7th

June from 7 to 8pm at Camana Bay.

The band features David L from

year 10 under guidance from Mr.

Gene, music extraordinaire!

OLIVIA Z. DONATES TO THE HUMANE SOCIETY

Olivia Z. is in Ms. Alyssa’s Kindergarten class and celebrated her 6th birthday with a party at Motions Unlim-ited Gymnastics Stu-dio. Olivia asked all of her guests to please do-nate to the Cayman Islands Humane Soci-ety in lieu of gifts for herself. With the help

of her friends, she raised CI$300.00 and received lots of goodies for all

of the dogs and cats, a very worthy cause! WAY TO GO OLIVIA!

2013 YOUTH FILM

FESTIVAL FINAL-

ISTS

Congratulations to

Devin Ross M., Fran-

cisco M., Jagger H.

and Marianne M..

Their films have been

nominated and will be

shown at the 2013

Youth Film Fest Red

Carpet premiere to-

night, May 31 at

6:00pm in the Harquail

Theatre. for People’s Choice Awards.

The winners of the ‘Young Image Mak-

ers’ and the ‘Cayman Though My

Eyes’ Short Film Competitions and the

People’s Choice Awards will be an-

nounced at this event. Good Luck !

ADVANCED BAND PLACES FIRST INTERNATIONALLY

Last Friday, 14 of our Ad-

vanced Band students com-

peted at the Music in the

Parks event in Jackson,

New Jersey while on the

High School trip to New

York City. The band per-

formed 3 pieces, received

an Excellent rating, and

placed first in Class

IA. Congratulations to the Advanced Band for their success in their first

ever International Competition!

On Wednesday, two of our seniors, Moses E. and

Juliana W., went with Ms. Sarah to watch the

swearing in of the new Legislative Assembly of

the Cayman Islands. The students witnessed each

member of the Assembly making their affirma-

tions and oaths, and heard a speech by His Excel-

lency the Governor before the elected members

and other honoured guests moved inside to begin

the first meeting of the new Legislature. This was

an important event for the Cayman Islands and we are thrilled that some

of our students were able to witness this moment.

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Seen on Campus



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STAND UP DAY

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June 1, 2013 $20 per player 4 on 4 tournament style

Game Day Time & Age

8:00-10:30 13U

10:30-12:00 6U

12:00-2:30 8U

2:30-5:00 10U

Age group based on Recreational league.

Multiple league entries welcome.

Past present and future players welcome.

Teams will be determined by numbers

Schools can be combined.

Practice times to be announced.

Jerseys provided for the day

Register by email. First come-first serve.

Pay on the day.

All proceeds go to benefit Youth Roller Hockey.

Email interest, questions, and

application form to

[email protected] or

call Krista 326-9226

Pizza & Bake Sale

4 School Teams CIS

Cayman Prep St. Ignatius

Combined schools

mailto:[email protected]

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Elementary Student Leadership Movie Afternoon

Date: June 7, 2013 (All movies) Grade Level: Kindergarten-Gr. 2 (ONLY if your child has an after-school club on Friday see the next page for Grade 3-5 movie options). Time: 2:25 – 3:45 (This is an approximate time, as movies might end a few minutes before or after 3:45). Cost: 3 gently used books at your child’s reading level OR $10.00 CI if you do not have any books to donate (books and permission forms are to be brought to the main office). These books will go into classroom libraries. Snack: Yes, one is provided. Theaters: All movies are G. Please choose two options as space can be limited. Theater 1: Ms. Philippa (A6) – Curious George the Movie Theater 2: Ms. Tatum (A7) – 102 Dalmatians Theater 3: Ms. Kaya (A8) - Gnomeo and Juliet Theater 4: Ms. Jen (B5) - Snow Buddies -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name of student: __________________________________ Parent Signature: __________________________________ Contact Number: __________________________________ Choice one: ___________________________ Choice Two: ___________________________

□ Yes, I will need my child, __________________________ to attend after school care until 4:45 pm because an older sibling will be attending the later showing. There is not a charge for this one-time event.

You would be assisting us greatly by completing a separate form for EACH child who will be attending a movie.

Elementary Student Leadership Movie Afternoon

Date: June 7, 2013 (All movies)

Grade Level: Grade 3-5 and ONLY Grade K-2 students who attend a Friday after-school club. (K-2 students in an after-school club coming to this time cannot sign up for Fly Away Home because it is rated PG). Time: 3:15 – 4:45 (This is an approximate time, as movies might end a few minutes before or after 4:45). Cost: 3 gently used books at your child’s reading level OR $10.00 CI if you do not have any books to donate (books and permission forms are to be brought to the main office). These books will go into classroom libraries. Snack: Yes, one is provided. Theaters: All movies are rated G, except for Fly Away Home (rated PG) . Please choose two options as space can be limited. Theater 1: Ms. Jill (B8)- Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board Theater 2: Mr. Matt (C5) – Monsters Inc. Theater 3: Ms. Darcy (C8)- Fly Away Home (RATED PG) Theater 4: Ms. Lisa (TBD) – Herbie Fully Loaded ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name of student: __________________________________ Parent Signature: __________________________________ Contact Number: __________________________________ Choice one: ___________________________ Choice Two: ___________________________ You would be assisting us greatly by completing a separate form for EACH child who will be attending a movie.

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