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The School is Growing! Written by Neo K. (G11)

The new school year (2018~2019) has started. There are a lot of new developments that are happening, and I’m excited to My Bachelor's Degree is in Political Science and see the school have grown to 170 . In this article, I’m History; I also hold a Postgraduate Diploma in going to introduce our school’s new principal, Mr. Samuel Education. As an educator, learning is essential to Goh. He spent the last three years as a high school me, and I went on to pursue my Masters in and Secondary principal at Wuhan Yangtze International Management. School. I am Singaporean by passport but spent a good Questions & Answers with Mr. Goh part of my childhood growing up in New Zealand. Like many of you, I am a third culture kid, and I 1. Please introduce yourself. grew up in a culture which was very different from Mr. Goh: Before introducing myself, I would like to share with my passport country. The various experiences you and our readers that I'm honored and blessed to be here have given me a very global perspective and have at YHIS and to share with you my story. also allowed me to experience education across a variety of settings. My name is Mr. Samuel Goh, and I am the Head Principal for YHIS. I have been an educator for over ten years, and I started More on this on page 5... my teaching career in as a trained English, History, and Social Studies teacher, and thereafter held a leadership W H A T ' S I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E : role at the . A few years later, I joined the Singapore Education Ministry Headquarters serving in the Planning and Policy Division. Over the course of Preparing for iSC MS Soccer - 2 my career in Singapore, I'm blessed to have many people who coached me and gave me numerous opportunities to learn iSC Student Council Retreat - 2, 3 and grow. I also received awards, such as, “Best Research Movie review and fun quiz - 4 Paper in the International Redesigning Pedagogy Conference” (2013), school-based awards as well as a national-level award. Music review and Learning Outcome - 5 In 2015, my family and I moved to Wuhan and I served as a Interview with Principal - 6 High School Social Studies teacher at Wuhan Yangtze International School, before becoming the Secondary Principal in 2016.

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PREPARING FOR iSC SOCCER TOURNAMENT! Written by Emma and Kate. (G6)

This year, YHIS will host the iSC Middle School Soccer Tournament from November 2-3. I am a new middle schooler and also a team member of the girls Middle School Soccer Team. It is about four weeks to the start of the tournament and I would like to share with you how the team is preparing for the tournament.

Since Monday, August 20, my team members and I have been practicing hard for the tournament together with our coaches, Mrs. Bond and Mrs. Van Santen. The soccer practice starts at 3:20 and ends at 4:45. As a team member, our focus is to build unity and improve our skills. Every practice, we meet in the café and put on our soccer attire such as soccer shoes, shin guard, long sock`s and tied hair. After a warm-up exercise, we run four to five laps. We practice kicking, passing and dribbling the ball. Sometimes, I would even practice soccer over the weekend to improve my skills.

The members of the team are Molly from 9th grade, Faith from 7th grade and Kate and Emma from 6th grade. Our favorite part is running and stretching and our least favorite part is getting tired.

iSC STUDENT COUNCIL LEADERSHIP RETREAT Written by Faith (G7)

O n August 30-September 2, all of the YHIS High School students went to Jixian for the Student Council Retreat of the iSC schools. I am going to share with you an interview with Cathy Lee (9), Ben Jung (9), Shaina Kim (11), and Neo Kim (11). I asked what were their favorite parts of the trip, and Cathy said, “During the trip I could meet many other iSC students, and it was a lot of fun.” “Five poles and session time.” said Ben. “My favorite part of the trip was meeting new friends During the trip I could meet from other iSC schools and talking about what activities the other schools does.” said Shaina. many other iSC students, and it “Building relationships with other schools, was a lot of fun. making friends with other school students, and the basketball match with the Qingdao students was also really fun.” said Neo.

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Additionally, I asked what they learned during the As continued from page two... trip, and Cathy said, “I learned how different schools lead the school, and what I should do to be a good iSC STUDENT COUNCIL leader.” Ben said, “I learned leadership and how to work as a Stuco member, and what I should do for LEADERSHIP RETREAT public relations.” “I learned what a secretary does in Written by Faith (G7) Stuco.” said Shaina. Neo said, “I learned the way to

Next, I asked how did they felt about the trip, and Cathy leave new people, how to lead a group activity, a way said, “This trip was meaningful, because during this trip, to become a world class leader, and how to work we discussed a lot about how to lead our school as a together." Student Council.” “It was fun, and I want to do it again, because it was meaningful.” said Ben. “It was good to learn things about Student Council, which is a first for me.” said Shaina. Neo said, “It was fun and exciting. I was nervous about meeting new people, and staying in a room with new people, but when I made new friends, it was fun and happy.” said Neo.

Thirdly, I asked who their roommates were, and Cathy said, “Sophia from Chengdu, and Emily from Qingdao.” Ben said, “David from Qingdao, Stephen from Wuxi, and Tony Kim from our school.” Shaina replied, “Camila Migliano from our school and Heemin from Chengdu.” Neo said, “Brian Choi from our school, Jadon from Qingdao, Andre Migliano from our school, and Tim from Finally, I asked what were the Stuco plans. Cathy Chengdu.” said, “The Stuco plans from Stuco was about Stuco’s store product, spirit days, and Student Council Carnival on International Day.” Ben said, “Speaking the community language.” Neo said, “Holding a lot of events, such as movie night, game night, lock-in, try to make our whole school into one by helping others relationships with each other, sell more types of goods, and how to help students when they have hardship."

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MOVIE REVIEW: MOANA Written by Lisa (G6)

This movie is called Moana. There are many characters in Moana. There is Maui, Hei Hei the rooster, and Gramma Tala. Moana is a teenage girl who lives on an island with her parents. Her dad forced her to be the next chief on the island, but Moana refused. Later she explained everything by singing a song called “How Far I’ll Go”. This is a very famous song that many people like to sing in their spare time. Moana didn’t want to be the next chief on the island. She was kind of sad, but she didn’t listen to her father and followed her heart. She always wanted to go near the water, but her dad always saw her and brought her away. Her father’s friend died because he went sailing on the water. Maui is a demi-god of Source: http://www.movies.disney.com the wind and sea. He stole the heart of an island, the heart of the mother of nature, because he wanted all the power to himself. Maui, Moana, and Hei Hei go on an exciting adventure in the movie Moana.

FUN QUIZ: WHAT REPUBLIC IS IT? Written by Lisa (G6) Down: Created by Sally (G6) 1-Located in Southwestern Pacific Ocean, capital is Wellington.

2-Located in Southwestern , ______Republic, capital is Lisbon.

4-Located in Central America, Republic of ______, capital is Guatemala City.

6- Located in Western Asia, Republic of ____, capital is Baghdad.

7-Located in South Asia, Federal Democratic Republic of _____, capital is Cathmandu.

10-Located in East Asia, capital is Ulaanbaatar.

Across: 12-Located in Western Asia, Kingdom of 3-Located in Southeast Africa, Republic of ______, capital is Maputo. Saudi Arabia, capital is Riyad.

5-Located in Western South America, Republic of ____, capital is Lima. 8-Located in South Africa, Kingdom of ______, capital is Mbabane and Lobamba. 9-Located in Central and Southeast Europe, Republic of ______, capital is Zagreb 11-Located in Southeast Asia, Republic of ______, capital is Manila.

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MUSIC REVIEW: is back! (Kpop)

Written by Dorothy (G6)

A female singer, called Sunmi, came back with a song called ‘Siren'. Before she debuted as a solo artist, she was one of the members of . As a solo artist, Sunmi debuted on August 22, 2013 with a song called ’24 Hours Is Not Enough'. Until now, there are five songs that she has sung. On September 4th, a song called ‘Siren’ came out. When her song came out, it was first place on the music chart. ‘Siren’ is a song that connects with ‘’ and ‘Heroine’. The movie is connected to ‘Heroine’. The movie is about Sunmi warning herself to not do the same thing as she has done in the past. Also, some parts of the song’s ideas are from a Greek story taken from Greek and Roman mythology. Source: For her song, 'Siren', Sunmi wrote some parts of the lyrics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunmi She also gave some ideas for her song.

LEARNING OUTCOME: Connection

Written by Dorothy (G6) Did you know?

Our school, Yantai Huasheng International School (YHIS), supplies a transformative holistic education with a global YHIS Weekly Newsletter is mindset to develop dynamic individuals of truth, integrity, available every Thursday. and excellence who positively influence society. We will learn nine outcomes in this semester. The first outcome that we learned was ‘Connection’. Scan the QR below for more school news. For Connection, we learned about valuing people by communicating, language learning, and understanding other countries' cultures. If we want to value people, we can talk to each other to know their language and culture. Also, we can create a good relationship with other countries’ people.

Connection is bringing people together.

Mrs. Shirley Goh

Connection means investing and getting to know someone else.

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2. What’s your goal for this year? Mr. Goh: That's a great question! I'm glad you asked this. As shared with the parents during Open House in August and also at the PTO Welcome Tea last week, the school has created a strategic roadmap, which captures and communicates the school’s strategy and anticipated outcomes within the time frame.

My goal for the year is to create a vibrant learning community, by building a strong academic program, developing student leadership, growing staff professionally, building strong systems as well as engaging the community. These goals will lead to us fulfilling our school's vision of raising world class servant leaders in every Mr. Samuel Goh, vocation. Head Principal

3. How will you achieve that goal? 5. What are three advantages and Mr. Goh: In achieving the goals, the school improvement disadvantages of our school? plan provides comprehensive information on the timelines, Mr. Goh: I would say this is more about our indicators, and owners. Each goal is slightly different in how points of difference and what are our it will be achieved, but I am grateful for the support of the opportunities for growth. There's so much that I community partners, school board, parents, staff and can share with you why an international student students in making YHIS the place to be in Yantai. With all of should choose YHIS. However, if it's just three, us working together to make this happen, I am confident here's my thought: that YHIS will be the best environment for all.

Three strengths: 4. Why did you choose YHIS? 1. A robust iSC system of schools with a proven Mr. Goh: I choose YHIS because of the many opportunities track record and global partnership that that the school has. Being able to serve the international provides varied opportunities for secondary community in Yantai is exciting. Yantai is also a lovely city to students to participate, and compete in student live. leadership, MUN, athletics, Science Fair, fine

arts, and more.

N E W S P A P E R C L U B ( T E A M A ) 2. Inspiring , extraordinary care. Our teachers have come across the world just to Student Editors: Shaina (G11), Neo K. (G11), Cathy L. (G9). Writers and Reviewers: Lisa (G6), Emma (G6), Dorothy (G6), Kate (G6), and Faith (G7) be here in YHIS. They have a great passion for Teacher sponsors: Mrs. Shirley Goh, Ms. Jessica Winston and Ms. Lindsey Varble students and learning. They are more than just educators – they are mentors, coaches, and more.

3. Broad-based International Experience that offers students varied opportunities, choices, and possibilities.

Opportunities for growth: I would love to be able to grow the number of students in high school so that we can offer more programs in the school. Because we are a relatively new school, we need to establish our reputation both in the city and with universities around the world.

Thank you, Mr. Goh. Let’s welcome Mr. Goh!