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occasion and everyone
had great fun with all
the activities, followed
by a delicious buffet
dinner.
Moon Festival Photos
See pages 2 & 3
Halloween Photos
See pages 20 & 21
Coming Events
Phoenix
Christmas Party Saturday, Dec 19
(details to come)
Contents
Moon Fest Photo p 2—3
Star Awards p 4
Thai Teachers Visit p 5
World Educ Games p 6
Class Pages p7—17
Eng Lang Center p 18-19
Halloween Photo P20-21
School Holidays
Christmas Dec 19-Jan 3
Tet Feb 5—Feb 14
Hung Kings Memorial
Apr 18
Reunification Day &
Labor Day
Apr 30—May 3
Newsletter of Phoenix School
A
WORK OF HEART
Number 13, November 2015
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Celebrations at
PHOENIX
Over the last six weeks, Phoenix Education has celebrated
two great festivals, the Moon Festival and Halloween. On Friday, September 25, we celebrated the traditional Vietnamese
Moon Festival, a very important part of the country‟s rich cultural heri-
tage. Phoenix students dressed in traditional costumes, performed for
their families and participated in many traditional activities.
And on Saturday, October 31, we celebrated what has become Hue‟s
best Halloween party. Most people dressed-up in costume for the
Star of the Week
Award
PHOENIX EDUCATION
Each week “Star of the Week” certificates are presented to
students who have worked very well, or have done something
special, or have improved greatly in the previous week. These
certificates are presented to the winning students at our Mon-
day morning assemblies. They are an important incentive in
promoting positive student behavior and in recognizing out-
standing student achievement.
Mỗi tuần, “Ngôi sao của tuần” sẽ được trao cho những học sinh
học tốt hoặc làm được một điều gì đó đặc biêt hoặc có tiến bộ
trong tuần học trước đó. Những tấm giấy khen này đóng vai trò
quan trọng trong việc giúp học sinh phát triển hành vi tích cực
của mình và công nhận những nổ lực vượt bậc của học sinh.
Thai Teachers
Visit On Monday, October 22, 35 teachers from
north-east Thailand Provinces, came to Phoe-
nix School to learn about our educational pro-
grams.
This is the second time a group of teachers from
Thailand has visited our school, the previous
group having visited in March, last year.
This is further evidence of the renown Phoenix
Education is gaining throughout the region for the
quality of our educational programs.
Thứ Hai, ngày 22 tháng 10 năm 2015, đoàn giáo
viên gồm 35 giáo viên đến từ các tỉnh phía Đông-
Bắc Thái Lan đã đến tham quan và tìm hiểu về
các chương trình giáo dục của Trường Phượng
Hoàng.
Đây là lần thứ hai nhóm giáo viên từ Thái Lan
đến tham quan trường chúng tôi. Lần đầu tiên
tham quan vào tháng Ba, năm ngoái.
Đây là minh chứng cho danh tiếng của Giáo dục
Phượng Hoàng đang đạt được trong khu vực về
chất lượng của các chương trình giáo dục của
Trường Phượng Hoàng.
From November 13th to 15th, International Students at Phoenix School participated in
The World Education Games with more than 5 million other students from all
around the world. There were two subjects in the games, namely Math and Science.
Computers chose four students from different countries to form a group and they
would compete with each other. Students also could compete with other students
from Phoenix in the “school challenge”. Shawnee, Kiet, Tyler and Ngoc won a
bronze medal. All students were very happy and excited about the competition. The
following comment are what our students thought about the event.
BJ: “It was fun. I liked the science game the most because my favorite subject is
science. I can do experiments in science.”
Shawnee: “It was fun. I hope I can do it again.”
Tyler: “It was good, hard, but also fun. I hope I can do it every year and do it much
better .”
Kiet: “It was good, but it was fun. I hope I will be a champion in the games next
year.”
We had a good time joining in all the
special activities. We really loved it.
We had a good time together on these days. We took part in some activities and enjoyed many delicious foods.
Halloween
October 31,
2015
Moon
Festival September
27, 2015
Lollipop Class
We had a great time at the Halloween party at Phoenix School.
We also joined in the Moon Festival at our school.
Birthday parties of members in Pre-Kinder class.
We all felt very happy and excited
when taking part in the Moon Festi-
val as well as Halloween at school.
Many interesting activities were tak-
ing place throughout these festivals.
We really had a wonderful time to-
gether. These are some nice photos
of our class.
HALLOWEEN
The Moon Festival and Halloween are now over and our students were happy
at these festivals. There were plenty of exciting activities, including lion
dance, making lanterns, pumpkin carving, the haunted house, the Halloween
costume parade, outdoor games, etc. We hope that the students will always
have a lot of fun memories of these school celebrations.
Prep Class
Moon festival (Children Festival) is on
the full moon day of the 8th lunar
month every year. Children look for-
ward to this festival because they will
often receive toys, starlights, đèn kéo
quân (a traditional light shade) and see
the lion dance and dragon dances.
Understanding that, Phoenix School
organized Moon Festival for all students
so they could have fun and delight, and
to feel the joyful atmosphere of the festi-
val. At the end of party, the students re-
ceived moon cakes which were made by
the teachers.
The Halloween Party Halloween is a traditional festival that
is celebrated on October 31st every
year. On that day, children will dress-up
in strange costumes, such as monsters,
ghosts, skeletons, witches, and where
the decorating style is not only unique
but also scary.
At our party there were a lot of featured
activities such as face painting, costume
parade, art, interesting games (Pumpkin
bowling, Bean Bag Toss, Water Balloon
Toss, Trick or Treat, Haunted House,
…), and a great buffet dinner, which all
helped to make this year's festival at
Phoenix really very impressive. It has
left a lot of fond memories in the hearts
of many people.
Grade 2
Halloween is a special event
celebrated on Saturday, October
31st. Students have the chance to
participate in several spooky
and fun games, such as “Trick
or Treat”, Pumpkin Bowling,
Bean Bag Toss, Cookie on the
String, Sack Race, Pin the nose
on the Jack „O lantern, Ring
Toss, and apple bobbing. And,
best of all, they get to dress-up
in Halloween costumes.
Halloween is a traditional festival, which is
celebrated on October 31th every year. Before, Hal-
loween was only celebrated in USA, but now it is a
festival held all over the world. This year I at-
tended the Halloween party at Phoenix School.
Everyone was dressed as a scary character, such
as demons, angels, fairies, vampires, zombies ... I
was dressed as a witch, and that evening I was
really lovely and pretty and also scary. Many ap-
pealing and interesting games were played on that
day such as Face Painting, Bean Bag Toss, Water
Balloon Toss, Haunted House, ... but I especially
liked the game "Trick and Treat". The spooky and
mysterious atmosphere of Halloween at Phoenix
school this year was just fantastic!
Celebrating Moon Festival
Halloween
Grade 3
Grade Four MAGICAL MAYAN MASKS!
This semester in History we have been studying the ancient American people of the Aztec, Inca & Maya. These ancient people all used masks at different times, some for parties, others to worship Gods, and some even used them to scare enemies in battle. We made our own masks based on the Mayans from Central America, they made masks to scare away evil spirits and to look scary in battle. Our masks have scary teeth and eyes, and we put hair on them just like the Maya used!
The Witches
Once there was a witch called
Blessed, her skin was green and
bumpy, it felt like old cheese and
she was grumpy. Each night she
called her friends to dance around
an old brown shawl to make magical
spells. Her friend’s names were
Mystic and Cursed, Mystic was tall
and thin but Cursed was short and
fat. On Halloween they would use
their long brooms to fly and laugh
evilly while scaring children. Then
they would cast spells on animals &
turn them into ugly monsters. One
Halloween they met Dracula while
he was looking for blood to suck, the
witches got mad and said “We are
the rulers of Halloween, not you. If
you suck one more person’s blood
we will cast a spell on you”. Dracula
attacked Cursed and tried to suck
her blood, but Cursed was quick and
cast a spell on him that made
Dracula as small as a mouse.
The witches were all scared by
Dracula’s attack and promised each
other “We will never go out on
Halloween again”. By Shawnee
The Devil is Coming
One day an old man named Martin,
the oldest man in town, saw
something strange and said “Oh no
that’s what I feared, the devil is
rising out of the dark mountain”. He
sent the whole army of his town to
help him put the devil back in his
hole. The mountain was very hard
to climb because of the steepness
of the mountain, it looked like an
upside down mountain. As they
climbed they found a dragon with
shiny black scales, red raged eyes,
and a fearsome purple flame.
Martin attacked it, and with five
slices from his electric light bulb
sword it was gone. They continued
up and found a tiny hole, which
suddenly broke into many pieces.
The mountain was destroyed and
the devil appeared, Martin could
see it had a strong suit of armor.
Martin used his magical powers &
everyone saw that Martin was a
great wizard. He tried to hit the
devil, but he was vaporized by the
devils eyes. To be continued next
time in ‘The final ones.’ By Austin
My Dream
One night in my dream I dreamt about an amazing car
that I had invented, it was fifteen meters high and eight point six meters long, and it had five floors. The first floor was where we sit to drive, it had four huge, comfortable seats and the inside was all black. The second floor was where we could sleep. There
were 8 rooms, one room had a big bed and a cool television, the other bedrooms were all smaller and didn’t have any
televisions. The third floor was the dining room. It had a big
round table, a tall fridge and an oven with a stove and a kettle on the top. The fourth floor was the living room with a plasma
television and big, soft couches to sit in. Finally, on the fifth
floor there was a garden with many plants from all over the world. We used an elevator to
go upstairs to the next floor, but then suddenly somebody woke
me up and I never found out what was on the last floor.
By B.J.
OUR STORIES
This Halloween was great. We had lots of
games like the ring toss, limbo, pumpkin bowling,
cookie on the string, balloon toss, freeze dance and
sack race, I may have forgotten some of them. As
for the food, we had BBQ ribs and chicken, salad,
pumpkin pie and more. A lot of people dressed up
in scary and cute costumes. I was dressed up as a
ghost with a bleeding mask and one of my friends
was Dracula. We scared a lot of little kids when
we were walking by but we didn‟t mean to. The
performance was good, we played some piano, we
sang and did a few skits. The haunted house and
the trick-or-treating was last, I got a good amount
of candy from trick-or-treating and I shared a lot
of my candy with my friends. The line for the
haunted house was really crowded, it started rain-
ing so that helped a lot by making the line shorter.
My brothers, Austin and I waited about forty-five
minutes until the line was shorter and that‟s when
we had a chance to go. It took us about two min-
utes instead of twenty. I had a great time at the
Halloween party and I really think this was the
best Halloween party yet, I couldn‟t get enough of
the food that my mom and the chef made. I really
enjoyed the Halloween party and I hope it will get
better next year. I‟m looking for the Christmas
party this year.
By Tyler, Grade 6
My name is Ngoc. I learn at Phoenix School and
I‟m in grade 7. There are many things I can learn
here and lots of teachers come from many different
countries to teach us. There are many holidays
here but the one I like the best is Halloween. Peo-
ple on Halloween disguise themselves into differ-
ent kinds of scary costumes and people usually go
for a „trick or treat‟. Last year on Halloween, we
celebrated a big party at school, all of the teachers
and students disguised themselves as witches,
ghosts, or zombies…. There were a lot of activities
there and we played many games. In the evening,
all of us were very excited to see the scary haunted
house. We hardly waited to see what‟s inside. And
then everyone lined up and went to the haunted
house. When we walked inside, there were lots of
scary sounds. Some of the children were so scared
that they ran out. The rest were still in there. When
I went down to the first floor and I heard a lot of
children screamed. After we went out the haunted
house, we were very scared but we had a great
time and all of us had a lot of fun.
By Ngoc, Grade 7
Phoenix school has a lot of interesting things. My
favorite festival here is Halloween. The Hallow-
een party at Phoenix School was really interesting
because my school does many things that is really
fun. That is the part that are really like in Hallow-
een. The next fun thing is my mom bought for my
a costume from America. The kids in my school
are scared of me because my costume is a Dracula
and my mask made them scared. But the sad things
is my mom went back to America. I try to forget it.
I won‟t forget that day because everybody came to
the Halloween party the person who draw on the
face is really funny. In the first performance we
sang the Phoenix Schools song. Everybody was
really excited for the next performance. The Hal-
loween party was the best party I ever went to. My
friends dress really beautiful. The party had a lot
of food. I was a ghost in the ghost house and I
scared a lot of people. My feeling in the Hallow-
een party was really fun.
By Kiet, Grade7
Grade 6 & 7
PHOENIX
English Language
Center
Taking Education Further
New English course for children will be opened on
Saturday, 7th November, 2015
with :
100% experienced Native English Teachers who are well-qualified with TESOL,
CELTA, TEFL certificates from USA, Australia, or U.K.
Applying modern, effective, and student-centered teaching methodologies.
Covering 5 basic skills of reading, writing, listening, grammar, and speaking.
There is an especially strong emphasis on communication in English.
English courses: Young learners English, IELTS Preparation, Business English,
Hospitality English, English Communication.
Halloween Party On Saturday, 31st Oct, 2015, the
English Language Center students
and their parents enjoyed an unfor-
gettable experience at the Phoenix
Education Halloween Party
At this special occasion, they dis-
covered a lot of new things about
western culture and also partici-
pated in a number of interesting ac-
tivities such as: face painting, music
performances, and playing many
outdoor games...