{"id":164,"date":"2022-11-15T15:05:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T15:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.aris.edu.gh\/?p=164"},"modified":"2022-11-15T18:47:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:47:01","slug":"secondary-highlights-nov-dec-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.aris.edu.gh\/index.php\/2022\/11\/15\/secondary-highlights-nov-dec-22\/","title":{"rendered":"SECONDARY HIGHLIGHTS (NOV\/DEC 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-contrast-3-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Parents,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we approach the end of semester 1 of the 2022-23 academic year,\u00a0on behalf of the secondary team, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to our esteemed parents for their continued support, trust, and guidance.\u00a0We appreciate your assistance and feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;In this newsletter, I&#8217;d like to highlight a few updates and upcoming activities in November and December.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" id=\"MAP-TEST\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>MAP GROWTH TEST<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We conducted a MAP GROWTH TEST for students of Years 7, 8 and\u00a09 students. The MAP Growth test is the most reliable and innovative assessment for determining each student&#8217;s achievement and growth in maths, reading, language usage, and science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will share your child\u2019s growth report Via ManageBac starting on 14th November. Kindly find the family guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.nwea.org\/docs\/Family+Guide+to+MAP+Growth.pdf\">MAP GROWTH HERE.<\/a> This guide will help you to understand your child\u2019s growth better. We are also ready to answer your questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" id=\"3way\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>STUDENT-LED 3-WAY CONFERENCE<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We appreciate your participation in our student three-way conference once more. Our goal in instituting student-led conferences is to empower your child to participate in their learning activities and commit themselves\u00a0to work towards their learning goal.\u00a0 We also collected our Parents&#8217; responses after the meeting. Kindly Find their response here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark>243 students<\/mark><\/strong> presented their learning journey to their parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark>182 students<\/mark><\/strong> were able to communicate their challenges in their learning journey, which helped <strong><mark>161 parents<\/mark><\/strong> have a better understanding of how to support their children at home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark><strong>175 parents<\/strong><\/mark> voted their child&#8217;s presentation to be well-structured and <strong><mark>139 parents (57.2%) <\/mark><\/strong>found it unnecessary to meet their child&#8217;s teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark>213 parents<\/mark><\/strong> voted the 3way conference to be well organised and it should continue as a practice at ARIS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" id=\"Dates-to-remember\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u00a0DATES TO REMEMBER<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark>16th November 2022:<\/mark><\/strong> Our Art Department has organised an event called \u201cRAZZMATAZZ\u201d. All students from Year 7 to year 10 will participate in this event to showcase their learning this semester. We will share our stories with you through our social media platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark><strong>23rd November till 1st December<\/strong> <strong>2022<\/strong><\/mark>: End of semester examinations for DP2\/CP2 and DP2\/CP1 will write their end of semester exams.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark>23rd November till 30th November 2022:<\/mark><\/strong>\u00a0 MYP5 will take their End of semester written exams (1st Mock) To prepare them for the writing On-Screen Examination.\u00a0The rest of the MYP classes will have their second summative\u00a0during this time.\u00a0Details will be found on the coordinator page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark>9th December 2022:<\/mark> Sports Day<\/strong>: We are very happy to organise this event after two long years. \u00a0 We will send you more details closer to the dates.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark>12th December till 16th December 2022<\/mark><\/strong>: Spirit Week: SRC is organising a week-event to celebrate the diversity in our community.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark>15th December 2022:<\/mark><\/strong> End of semester report cards will be sent home via Managebac.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark>16th December 2022:<\/mark><\/strong> End of semester assembly and class parties. School ends at 12.30 pm.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark><strong>19th December 2022 till 13th January<\/strong> 2023<\/mark>:\u00a0 Semester break\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark>16th January 2023<\/mark><\/strong>: School resumes for Second Semester.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0Have a Wonderful Break with your families and Friends. See you next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents,&nbsp; As we approach the end of semester 1 of the 2022-23 academic year,\u00a0on behalf of the secondary team, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to our esteemed parents for their continued support, trust, and guidance.\u00a0We appreciate your assistance and feedback. &nbsp;In this newsletter, I&#8217;d like to highlight a few updates and upcoming &#8230; <a title=\"SECONDARY HIGHLIGHTS (NOV\/DEC 22)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/newsletter.aris.edu.gh\/index.php\/2022\/11\/15\/secondary-highlights-nov-dec-22\/\" aria-label=\"More on SECONDARY HIGHLIGHTS (NOV\/DEC 22)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secondary-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.aris.edu.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.aris.edu.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.aris.edu.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.aris.edu.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.aris.edu.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.aris.edu.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.aris.edu.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.aris.edu.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.aris.edu.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.aris.edu.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}