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UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS
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PLEASE HELP OUT WHEN AND WHERE YOU CAN!
IS and the ISPTSA are currently seeking the following volunteers:
- Back-to-Business Day General Volunteers—8/14
- Back-to-Business Day Laptop Volunteers—8/14
- Mini Back-to-Business Day Laptop Volunteers—8/21
- Session Leaders for High School Retreat—9/5
- Chaperones for High School Retreat—9/5–9/6
- On-call Volunteers
Click
here
to learn more and sign up.
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FROM YOUR MONDAY MESSENGER TEAM: CONGRATULATIONS AND HAVE A TERRIFIC SUMMER !
Congratulations to all of our graduating seniors and their families! To those who will not be returning to International next year, best of luck on your adventures.
We'll see everyone else in August, as we prepare for another amazing school year. Enjoy your summer break!
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A THANK YOU TO VOLUNTEERS
The school and PTSA combined efforts this year and held a volunteer appreciation coffee last Monday morning. Thank you to all the volunteers who helped in so many ways this school year!
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LIZ VANDENBERGHE RETIRING
Our own Liz VandenBerghe is retiring after nineteen years in the Bellevue School District.
Thank you, Liz, for all your support of students, families, and staff as International's Office Manager. Your calm, kind, and welcoming presence will be missed greatly.
Read more about staff members retiring from the district this year
here.
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FAREWELL AND THANK YOU TO STAFF LEAVING INTERNATIONAL THIS YEAR
The following staff members will not be returning to International next year. We'd like to thank them for all they've done for our students.
Brenda Bedrosian
Shivangi Bharti
Katy Crane
Sally Fouché
Leah Hernandez
Kimiko Nishiwaki
Barb Sneckner
Krystal Stephens
Taylor Tillotson
Liz VandenBerghe
Lori Wheatley
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GRADUATION SPEECH OF CHARISE HALLBERG, INTERNATIONAL HUMANITIES TEACHER
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Whether you know it or not, you’ve experienced Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. This is the term given to the experience of learning something new, and immediately thereafter, noticing this new knowledge appearing and reappearing in your everyday life. For example, maybe you can recall learning about a theory, not at all new to the scientific community but new to you, and then suddenly, it seemed that theory were appearing in the world in places you’d never before noticed even existed. It’s as if the world were suddenly updated with new content. Of course, it’s not the world that has suddenly changed; it’s you..."
Click here to read Charise Hallberg's entire speech from International's graduation ceremony last week.
Congratulations to all our graduates!
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A MESSAGE FROM THE DISTRICT:
Dear families,
We have developed summer math resources that are available for students to practice their math skills for their upcoming Integrated Math Topics 2, Algebra 1, Geometry or Algebra 2 courses. You can access these resources at this website:
https://bsd405.org/summer/summer-math/
Teaching and Learning Department, Bellevue School District
For more info on summer in the district,
click here
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BACK-TO-BUSINESS DAY
Wednesday, August 14, 8:00 AM–2:00 PM
MINI BACK-TO-BUSINESS DAY
Sponsored by ISPTSA
Wednesday, August 21, 3:00–6:00 PM
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR BACK-TO-BUSINESS DAY!
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Back-to-Business Day will be upon us before we know it! Our Back-to Business-Days have been successful in the past and set the tone for an amazing year ahead because of the help of our dedicated volunteers.
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We are currently in need of
parent/guardian volunteers
for various stations
such as photos, Orca card, forms, floaters, etc.,
for this year’s Back-t
o-Business Day, so please consider us as part of your summer plans and
sign up to volunteer!
If you have any questions, please e-mail Arty Christianto at
[email protected]
. We thank all of you in advance!
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We need both
student and parent/guardian
volunteers to help at Back-to-Business Day with
computer handout and setup
—monitoring doors; handing out laptops, charge cords, and styluses to students; helping students follow typed directions for setting up laptop; etc.
High School students can earn COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS!
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STUDENT SPORTS & OPPORTUNITIES
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BHS 2019 SUMMER WATER POLO CLINICS
Join us for a fun, hands-on introduction to this exciting, fast-growing, and amazing sport! Open to boys and girls ages 6–14. No experience necessary.
- Saturday, June 29, Triangle Pool, 9:00–10:30 AM
- Sunday, June 30, Overlake Golf & Country Club, 8:00–9:30 AM
- Sunday, June 30, Norwood Swim Club, 10:00–11:30 AM
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REGISTER NOW FOR BBLC SUMMER LAX CAMPS!
Summer Lacrosse sessions run Monday–Thursday from 9:00 AM–2:00 PM at International School. All sessions are open to players starting K–8th grade in Fall 2019.
- Session 1, June 24–2, Skill Development—All Levels
- Session 2, July 8–11, Skill Development—All Levels
- Session 3, July 15–18, Skill Development—All Levels
- Session, July 22–25, Advanced Skill Development
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METRO OFFERS SUMMER ORCA CARDS FOR STUDENTS
Metro is offering a special ORCA summer program for youths. Because BSD-issued student ORCA cards are only active during the school year, the ORCA Summer Youth card is an opportunity for students to continue using METRO at the discounted rate of 50 cents per ride from June 17–Sept. 4.
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MASTHEAD / DIRECTORY / LINKS
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President
Ching Guo
Secretary
Zena Heywood
Treasurer 1
Beverly Ni
Treasurer 2
Nancy Chung
VP of Communications
Li Wu
VPs of Community
Liying Tan & Qiong Chen
VP of Fundraising
Dori Kelleran
VP of Outreach
Meribeth Nordloef-Pedersen
Membership
Sharon Chen
Advocacy
OPEN
Monday Messenger
Julie Molinari
Website
Sylvia Abrahamsson
IS Staff Liaison
Taylor Tillotson
PTSA
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SHOP FOR THE BELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
Enter Amazon.com through this
link
and Amazon will donate 8% of every purchase you make to support Bellevue students, including those at IS! Share the link and spread the word to family and friends anywhere.
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CONFUSED ABOUT SOMETHING?
The ISPTSA is always here to help answer your IS questions.
Email us
here
, and we'll help you find the answers you need.
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SCHOOL DIRECTORY & LINKS
Attendance 425-456-6545
Main Office 425-456-6500
MS Counseling 425-456-6546
HS Counseling 425-456-6542
Registrar 425-456-6535
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SUPPORT YOUR PTSA
Donate Anytime
Write your check to the International School PTSA and send it to:
ISPTSA
445 128th Ave. SE
Bellevue, WA 98005
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ISPTSA TUMBLER
Support your school community and the environment by buying an ISPTSA Tumbler
These great-looking 14-oz dual-wall insulated stainless-steel tumblers have a swivel lid with drink-thru opening and a plastic-ring seal to stave off spills. With the ISPTSA logo, it will keep your drink hot or cold while you look cool handling the morning commute or afternoon pickup, and your purchase will benefit the International School PTSA!
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MONDAY MESSENGER
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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- Please submit articles by FRIDAY at 12:00 PM (noon) to [email protected].
- We encourage submissions that align with our mission.
- Submissions are subject to review by the ISPTSA and may be accepted, rejected, or edited.
- Please use a separate email for each article submitted.
- Documents in plain text are preferred, however, you are welcome to include an image or icon as a separate attachment—please do not include them in the body of your email or document.
- If you need to link to a registration form or document, send us either the address of the link or a pdf copy of the document.
- If you would like your article to repeat in successive Monday Messenger editions, please resubmit it for each edition in which you would like it to appear. If you do not resubmit it, it will not be republished.
- Note: you will receive an automatic confirmation email response once you submit material to the Monday Messenger.
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International School PTSA
445 128th Ave. SE
Bellevue, WA 98005
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