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(Exerpts from latest LS Newsletter)
Dear Lincoln School Parents,
The 2008-2009 school year is drawing to a close. This edition of the Newsletter comes with just a few days remaining in the school year and is the last one until August.
The Graduation Ceremony for the Class of 2009 will take place at the Soaltee Hotel on Wednesday, June 10th, starting at 5 PM. This event will allow us to celebrate the accomplishments of our twenty-four graduating seniors. Congratulations to these students for having met the requirements for graduation! Nearly all will be attending colleges and universities in the fall and experience would suggest that they will be well prepared for success at that level. Special thanks to Liz Shrestha, Shira Daryn, Bob Cofer, and Bernie Lenoue, our Senior Class Advisors, for all of their work organizing the ceremony. Thanks also to Carroll Dunham who will serve as the Commencement Speaker and to Board Chairperson Steve Perry who will assist in the presentation of diplomas. Our student speakers will be Valedictorian Yoo Rim Lee and Salutatorian Ariane LeClerq.
I would like to extend an invitation to you to attend our annual secondary school Awards Assembly and National Honor Society inductions at 9:15 AM on Thursday, June 11th as well as the Happy Trails Assembly which will begin at 10:15 AM on Friday, June 12th. The Happy Trails Assembly is a must for departing families. We would like to send you off in Lincoln School tradition.
Report cards for all students and transcripts for those departing will be distributed next week. Students will need to return text books and materials as well as pay any remaining bills before receiving their report cards. Outstanding bills or fines may be paid in the Finance Office.
Thanks to all of you who contributed to the Staff Appreciation Luncheon on May 29th. The food you sent or brought clearly reflected the cultural diversity of Lincoln School. Our staff truly felt appreciated and enjoyed your generous offerings. Thanks to the LS Parent Association for organizing this wonderful event.
For those who are leaving Lincoln School we wish you “Happy Trails, until we meet again”. The international community is a small one and I am hopeful that our paths will cross again someday soon. For those returning to the school next year, please enjoy a well deserved summer holiday. We will reopen on Wednesday, August 12th. See you then!
Sincerely, Allan Bredy
Elementary News
Another chapter of Lincoln School is coming to a close, a chapter filled with some incredible memories including: UN Day, Elementary Kaleidoscope, numerous Fabulous Fridays and other assemblies, and a yearlong celebration of reading and literacy with our theme “The Year of the Reader”. Thanks to all of you for your support in making this school year such a success.
I hope many of you had the opportunity to see our pre-kindergarten’s art show this past week. For the past three weeks Nicole Decourriere, her teaching assistants, and two artists from the Kastha Mandap Studio have been working with all of the pre-kindergarteners in creating an incredible array of beautiful artwork. Thanks to Erina Tamrakar and Pramila Bajracharya of Kastha Mandap and Ms. Nicole for bringing this creative opportunity to some of the youngest artists at our school.
I hope to see many of you tomorrow, Saturday, for our performance of Eddie the Penguin Saves the World at 10 a.m. in our theater. Tickets are 100 rupees. A variety of food will be on sale after the program as well as handicrafts from Himalayan Health Care and water bottles and cloth shopping bags from Lincoln School’s Roots and Shoots students. Thanks to Kathy Shrestha, Debbie Cofer, Meekha Mathema, and Shayleen Burgoyne for co-directing this production and to all of the other teachers and teaching assistants who put forth incredible energy and time into making this a success.
Monday, June 8th, is our “moving-up” day. After our morning assembly our Primary 1 through Grade 5 students will spend a little time with their next year’s teachers, getting prepared for their transitions to the next grade. Fifth graders will be visiting Mrs. Riggleman’s science class and Mr. Davis’ language arts/social studies class. We have plans for two sections of fourth grade next year, but on Monday all third graders will be visiting Mrs. Bredy’s fourth grade class. We’ll be emailing parents rosters for Mrs. Bredy and Mrs. Carlson’s future fourth grade classes later next week. Moving-up day is a very exciting time for our elementary students, especially for fifth graders.
Over the past few summers, we’ve initiated a ‘Dear Lincoln’ program to encourage our elementary students to send postcards from the different places they visit during summer vacation. Once again we would like your children to send post cards to Lincoln School from wherever they might be this summer. We’ll turn this into an elementary geography project in August and make a special display of all the post cards. Just have your children write “Dear Lincoln,” and a few lines about where they are in the world. The address is: Lincoln School, P.O. Box 2673, Kathmandu, Nepal. For those students leaving Lincoln School this year, we’d still love to hear from you. Please send us a postcard when you land in your next home.Please note that, Wednesday, school will be dismissed at 11:50 a.m. as we all prepare for our high school graduation ceremony at the Soaltee at 5 p.m. Thursday all children will be dismissed at 2:30 and on Friday everyone will go home at 11:50.
Once again, thanks for all of your support this year, and have great summer adventures!
Craig Baker
Principal
News from the Middle School
It’s been a great end to the year for our middle school students with a variety of activities and programs. For the past three days, your children have been celebrating wellness. This included a fun day at Phora with a very nutritious lunch; yoga, salsa and soccer on Thursday; and an all middle school hike in Nagarjun today. Thanks to Sam and Luke Davis for all of their hard work in organizing these activities and to all of the teachers and teaching assistants who participated as well.
Also on Thursday we watched our eighth grade students participate in the annual Great Debate. The six winning teams were Nuutti Kiiveri & Ariel Lee, Mercedes Langton & Sonam Davis, Spriya Shrestha & Preetika Roka, Elinor Gurung & Dasha Dmytrenko, Ye-Rang Jung & Arvin Mosavi, and Raisa Rasul & Shreya Dital taking top honors as best overall team. Shreya Dital was also selected as the best individual debater. Congratulations to all of the participants, the decisions were extremely close. Thanks to Luke Davis, our speech and drama teacher, for organizing this event and Viva Bell, our moderator.
Next week we have more exciting activities in store, with our annual middle school brain bowl from 8 to 9 on Thursday and secondary academic awards presentations at 9:15. On Wednesday morning from 9 to 11, we’ll be showing a Nepali documentary to the secondary students in the theatre. The film is Mustang, Secrets Beyond the Himalayas and has an English narration. One of the co-producers, Biswant Shrestha, will be here at Lincoln to introduce the film and answer questions. All parents are welcome to attend this event.
Please note there is no school for secondary students, middle and high, on Monday. Teachers will be preparing final semester report cards on this day. School will be dismissed for everyone on Wednesday at 11:50 in order to prepare for our high school graduation. School ends at 2:30 on Thursday and 11:50 on Friday. I hope to see many of you at the Happy Trails Assembly on Friday at 10:15, but if not, have a great summer vacation!
Craig Baker
Principal
2009 - 2010 Calendar
August 6, 7, 10, 11 - Staff in Service
August 12 Wednesday - First day of school
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