Month: October 2014

Dear parents

Re: HIA MUN February conference

As part of our MUN program, we are planning to take part in the Hayah International Academy Model United Nations. This conference, which will take place on February 11-14, 2015, offers students an opportunity to attend a local MUN conference.

As part of this event, the students will be involved in various simulations of the United Nations councils, along with a social event on one evening during the weekend. Any conference schedule is hectic, but the experiences that students gain are worth the effort they put in.

The cost to attend this conference will be 1100 LE, which includes lunch every day, snacks, the social outing conference materials, and the badge fees. Hayat does provide some buses to and from pick up points at no extra cost to students, or alternatively, students can use their own transportation to and from the conference, which takes place at the Hayah campus in Katameya

There are limited spaces available and a number of students have shown interest. To confirm your son/daughter will be attending HIAMUN, please complete the slip below, and return it to me with 1100LE to school by Wednesday October 29. Please note that this payment of 1100LE is non-refundable, as it will be immediately paid to the conference organizers to confirm each student’s place.

Regards

Dear Parents,

In only a few more years, your child will be getting ready to enter the university of his/her choice through completion of a college-ready courseload at school and the CollegeBoard’s SAT. The SAT measures a student’s college-readiness skills in three key areas: Critical Reading, Mathematical Reasoning, and Writing, and students take the SAT for the first time during the Spring of Grade 11.

For a number of years, one of our steps towards preparation for the SAT has been the administration of the Preliminary SAT (PSAT) to students in Grades 10 and 11, and (from next year) to students in Grade 9 as well. Now, the CollegeBoard has offers us an additional tool to better help students on the track to college entry and college success. ReadiStep testing enables key areas of strength or areas in need of improvement to be identified at a very early stage, and so enables the school to prepare for, provide and ensure optimum learning opportunities for all students as they enter High School, and then work towards the SAT, graduation, university entrance and future success.

ReadiStep is a standardized test that provides students, parents and the school valuable information about student learning and performance prior to the students entering High School. It is fully aligned to the CollegeBoard’s college-readiness skills, as well as curricular standards in Math and English Language Arts, and follows a structure and format similar to the PSAT and SAT.

We will conduct ReadiStep testing with all Grade 8 students on Wednesday, October 15^th.

Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Sincerely,

Allison Fleet

American Senior School Principal