The Owl
A weekly parent newsletter
Article: Globally-Minded School
Education Week recently published an article about the importance of globally-minded schools. We thought we’d share! I Work in a Globally Minded School. Here’s Why Students Are Better for It
ISP Lan Su Garden Performance
International School of Portland will be helping Lan Su Chinese Garden celebrate the Lunar New Year! YiFeng’s 4th grade and Yi Guan’s kindergarten will be performing at Lan Su on Saturday, March 3. They will be doing the same performance that they are planning for The International Festival. The performance slot for Yi Feng’s and Yi… View Article
Chinese Capstone Students Are Here this Week!
Our Capstone exchange students from China are here this week! Students and teachers from the Suzhou Experimental Elementary School (our host school in Suzhou, China) are attending ISP Wednesday-Friday. The SEES students are staying with our Chinese track 5th grade families. These are the same students who will host our 5th graders in March. We are very excited… View Article
1st Graders Raise Money for UNICEF
A big belated thank you to our first grade students, who participated in “Trick or Treat for UNICEF” this year. First grade students learned about common needs of children and how UNICEF helps children in the world. They also learned some PYP learner profiles through this unit: caring, thinker, and communicator. They spent time to inquire and find… View Article
ISP Kindness Week
Today, we begin the ISP Week of Kindness! This was announced to students during the Spirit assemblies last Friday. During the week, classrooms will build kindness paper chains that we will then put together as one ISP paper chain on the 12th during an assembly. Acts of kindness are linked to the IB Learner Profile trait… View Article
ACT results
In Spring 2017, all ISP 3rd – 5th graders took the ACT Aspire. The ACT Aspire Assessment is a large-scale, standardized achievement test. The results provide students and teachers with information about mastery of standards during the school year and across grade levels. ISP at this time tests students on Reading and Math only. The… View Article
New EC Playground – Plants are coming in September!
Our awesome new Early Childhood playground is almost ready! We’ll have a brief opening ceremony at 8:30am on Monday, August 28 – the same day as classroom visits and the Parent Network Fall Fun Fair! We invite children of all ages to get out there and enjoy our unique natural play elements. However, you may… View Article
Introducing our new Health & Safety Coordinator!
We are pleased to welcome Brandy Ascough, our Health and Safety Coordinator! Brandy has many years of experience in healthcare, and is a certified Emergency Medical Technician and Emergency Room Technician. She spent the past eight years at Providence Milwaukie Hospital. From Los Angeles, California BS in Science from Portland State University Emergency Medical Technician… View Article
Meet our new Facilities Manager
We are happy to welcome Steven Borcherding, our new Facilities Manager, to the Team! Steve has 20 years of experience in almost all aspects of facilities and construction management. He was most recently at Portland Community College, were he worked for over ten years. From Washington State Studied at Olympic College in Bellingham, WA and… View Article
Introducing the ISP Owl!
Please say hello to the official ISP mascot! ISP student winners Eden K, Maia G, and Katherine W worked with designer Frances Ellenberger to come up with a mascot that they are very proud of. Some of the elements that were important to them included having open wings, being realistic-looking (not overly cartoonish), and being… View Article