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Last Assembly of the 2006-2007 School Year
Our last day of school was 15 June and our whole school assembly was warm and enjoyable, and a fitting end to a good school year. The school said farewell to leaving students and teachers while also acknowledging the musical talents of some of our students.
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Grade 10 Enrichment Day
Classes were cancelled for Grade 10 students on Thursday and Friday! Instead of teacher lead classes, these students lead their own learning.
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Mr. C's Grade 6 Music Class Teaches Grade 4
Mr. C's Grade 9 Drama Class presents 'The Apple' |
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Origami
On Monday June 4, Mrs. Nishikori, Mrs.Nishimura, Mrs. Yukinori and Mrs. Yamakawa visited Grade 6 English B classes and taught the students how to make various beautiful origami figures, including the paper crane.
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Graduation Class of 2007 Ceremonies - Watch Video
Last night the 12th Grade students graduated from UNIS-Hanoi. The graduation ceremony was our largest to date and it was a smooth and enjoyable ceremony. The students expressed their joy at the ceremony as indeed did their parents and friends.
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Rome Sweet Rome
Congratulations to the UNIS Staff for their great production of Rome Sweet Rome! It was a fun evening for parents and students and very entertaining to see the staff dress up, act out and have a little fun.
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Tree Planting Ceremony for Grade 12
In 2005, Grade 12 parents and students got together and decided that, each year, the Grade 12 students should leave behind a gift for the school.
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Roll Up, Roll Up the Circus was in Town
ECC children were under the Big Top on Thursday night for a Circus extravaganza. The evening was hot with anticipation and as the Big Parade began the evening was off to a super start.
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Disco Fever
Grade 8 student council provided a fun filled night when they hosted the inaugural grade 4/ 5 disco dance held recently. All students and teachers joined in with the dancing and games.
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UNIS Invitational Swim Meet 2007 - Results
If you were lucky enough to have been at the pool last Saturday the 12th, then you got to see a fabulous and historical day at UNIS! The Hammerheads swim team were host to the International School of Ho Chi Minh City for our first ever invitational swim meet. |
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EcoBoat Study Tour
The UNIS Green Team and some Year 3/ 4/ 5 students recently disembarked from the EcoBoat. Look inside for the report and photos. |
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International Rugby Coach Visits UNIS
Over 70 students from UNIS and other schools in Hanoi attended a Junior Rugby Coaching Clinic on a recent weekend conducted by Pierre Villepreux, International Rugby Board Development Manager and former coach of French National Team.
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Middle & High School Art Show Success
True Fluxus in art was experienced through the myriad of studio works from across the grades, as well as the Hoi An fashion show and Digital Imagery presentations at our recent art show.
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Elementary Art Show Summary
The ECC and Elementary school recently held their Art Show at UNIS. It was a colourful week on campus, and the displays were welcoming, varied, and showed a large cross section of artwork produced over the year. |
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Grade 2 Field Trips to the Zoo
Last week the Grade Two students went to the Hanoi Zoo. Everyone enjoyed seeing the many animals and this generated discussions about the role zoos play in protecting animals.
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Trek to Mt Fansipan
Recently, nine students and three teachers set out on UNIS’ first ever outdoor hiking expedition to climb Mt. Fansipan. After a long train ride to Sapa Friday night, the group set out to Tram Ton to begin their climb.
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Grade 6 French Pancake Sale for Cuc Phuong
Recently Mr. Goegebeur’s Yr 6 French class tried out a French pancake recipe and organized a Pancake Extravaganza, the Most Spectacular Pancake Sale Ever Witnessed In UNIS History!
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Reefs to Rainforests
Selected students from 9th to 12th grades went on a trip to Thailand in February to learn about the unique natural ecosystems in the area. They recently presented their experience to the rest of the 9th – 11th graders at a high school assembly.
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Elementary Swim Meet Results
The UNIS Elementary Swim Meet was a huge success this year!! We had all the students in Grades 3, 4 and 5 competing for their School House Team and swimming in plenty of races.
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How Do You Make a Healthy Snack?
Grade 1 with their parents showed each other how to make a healthy snack. All the snacks came from their home country. Then at snack time all grade 1 with their parents and teachers ate the yummy, healthy snacks.
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Auction for Prom
Grade 12 held an auction to raise money and awareness for their upcoming prom. The Prom will be on May 26th, Saturday @ Melia Hotel.
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Lights Out Activity at UNIS Hanoi
Last Friday, 20 April, UNIS participated in the world-wide Lights Out Day, where all lights on the campus were turned off for the day. Thanks very much to EVERYONE at school for making the day such a success. Click inside to see what activities took place.
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How to Stay Active
There are many ways to stay active. For their assembly, Grade 1 showed us some fun and easy ways. Doing the Hokey Pokey, setting up our own circuit training and even dancing while we are sitting in the car anything is possible.
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Pizza Meet Summary
Our swim team’s first ever “Pizza Meet” in which nearly 50 of our swimmers from Elementary to High school competed for great prizes was held recently. A fun, friendly yet spirited atmosphere filled the day as teammates raced each other in a variety of sprint events.
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Grade 2 Assembly
Grade 2 have been learning about how artists use many different forms of expression to convey their uniqueness as human beings.
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IB Art Show
The grade 12 IB Art students presented their 2 year portfolio in an exhibition at the Ciputra Ballroom from April 13th to 15th.
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Earth Day is 22 April 2007
As a tribute to Earth Day, Grade 9 EAL students have created web pages that focus on specific issues related to conservation, biodiversity, and global warming.
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Hammerheads Swimmer takes 5th Place
Last week, Nina Reinhardt of grade 9 took part in the 2007 Vietnamese National Age Group Championships in Da Nang. Vietnamese swimmers of ages 10 to 17 came from around the country to compete in a variety of events over a five-day period.
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Field Trip Week Reporting
The photos and summaries of a few weeks ago have arrived from:
| Cuc Phuong | Mai Chau | Hue & Hoi An |
Ba Be | Sa Pa | V Resort |
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Hanoi Schools Rugby Championship - 24 March 2007
It was so good to see so many of our students from 3rd to 12th Grades playing rugby on our fields recently. There were so many good games and it was wonderful to see our students enjoying themselves in such a sporting competition.
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Much Ado About Nothing
The Shakepeare Society, an after school activity, recently mounted a production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. The play is a set text for the IB English syllabus and one of Shakespeare’s most loved and successful comedies.
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Learning about Lacquer
As part of the Vietnamese program and our UOI, Grade 2 students met a special visitor, a lacquer painter. His name is Thong. Mr. Thong has shown us how to draw a portrait and how to make a lacquer painting, the unique art in Vietnam.
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UNIS Singers Meet with Yen So Kindergarten
44 UNIS Singers travelled to Hoang Mai District recently for a special meeting with the children of Yen So Kindergarten. They were greeted by an amazing welcoming committee of 3 4 and 5 year olds dressed in bright costumes and playing home made instruments.
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Elementary Sports Day
Elementary Sports Day was very successful this year!! We had more than 400 students from Discovery to Grade 5 participating in a variety of events throughout the morning.
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Grade 1 Celebrations
Grade 1 have been experiencing celebrations from around the world. Over the past 2 weeks we have played games from Korea, Vietnam, USA, Canada and England. Made crafts from Japan and England.
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Middle School Formal Spring Ball
The Middle School Formal Spring Ball was held on Friday 2nd March from 6.30pm to 9.00pm in the Ciputra conference room. Our MC‘s, and DJ’s, Vicky, Mikaela and Aurelie were wonderful because they organised many fun activities during the evening.
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The Global Marketplace
Grade 4 recently learned the Unit Of Inquiry, The Global Marketplace. Children undertook inquiries into needs and wants, goods and services, supply and demand and buying, selling and trading which all took place in a recent assembly.
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Healthy Snack Day
The Green Team organized a
Healthy Snack Day to promote healthy foods for healthy bodies and also create a healthy environment. We
hope that families will continue to take the time
to prepare a nutritious snack, free of
any extra wrappings and non
biodegradable wrapping (mainly
plastic).
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Walkathon for Blue Dragon
Elementary children from pre k to grade 5 participated in a walkathon on Friday 2nd March. Each child ran or walked approximately 15- 20 minutes around a 250 metre sport field.
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Chúc Mừng Năm Mới !
Tet, a short way of saying Tết Nguyên Đán, is the most important festival for Vietnamese people in the year. Tet marks the beginning of a new year on the Lunar Calendar and the beginning of Spring.
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Spanish in the Kitchen
Last Friday the ten 11th grade Ab Initio Spanish students had a session cooking simple food used every day in many parts of Latin America, food items that have been in use for thousands of years.
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Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
On Monday, an interesting sight would have greeted you had you come in walking to UNIS during Middle High school lunchtime. Students were crowding around a big poster, printing their own red hand prints all over this.
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Guerilla Theatre
The Grade 8 performance arts class wreaked a bit of havoc at our school last Friday. Students participated in a form of Guerilla Theatre and invaded classrooms throughout the campus.
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Vietnam Museum of Ethnology Field Trip
To finish their Unit of Inquiry ‘Houses, Houses Everywhere’ Grade 1 visited the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology and saw many different types of houses found in Vietnam.
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The Global Marketplace
In the current Year 4 Unit Of Inquiry, The Global Marketplace, students have created their very own businesses. The task for grade 4 students was to persuade discerning shoppers, the grade 3 children, to purchase their products or services at the Trade Expo.
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The Mokens - Tet Field Trip
Selected students from 9th to 12th grades are going soon on a trip to Thailand to visit an indigenous group known as the Mokens. During the visit, they will be going to explore their culture, understand their way of living and how they survived the Tsunami in 2004.
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The Blind Man & the Elephant
January 26 is India’s National day. The Grade 3’s brought a touch of Bollywood to our assembly on this special day with our dramatization of the story of ‘The Blind Men and the Elephant’.
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Grade 10 French Activity
Grade 10 French have been studying the film Amelie and each student dressed up & acted out a character from this film, acting out the themes of love marriage & relationships.
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Bat Trang Pottery Village Visit
The Grade 2 students visited Bat Trang as part of their Unit of Inquiry “Go”. On the way to Bat Trang they observed many forms of transport and were constantly spotting new kinds.
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Grade 6 Humanities Activity
Grade 6 Humanities is currently investigating Ha Noi and Vietnam. Each student has taken responsibility for one of the unique 36 streets of the Old Quarter. Field trips recently took place.
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Spirit Week
Every year, the Senate organises
Spirit Week for the Middle/ High
School, a fun opportunity for kids to
dress up and join in. Last week,
some students dressed up in different
ways all week.
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Grade
5 Sculptures 2
5W and 5C have recently completed their themed monument sculptures. They made their sculptures from clay and construction materials and chose a theme that could appeal to their age group.
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Grade
5 Sculptures
Grade 5 students are
completing a sculpture unit in Art. They had to make a
famous world monument using various innovative modelling materials.
5B had the challenging task of building their sculpture from
toast!
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Bangkok
Swim Meet
The Hammerheads swim team
returned Monday afternoon from Bangkok where
we competed against 6 other swim teams, from
Thailand, Singapore and China, in a large
and exciting international swim meet organized
by the Bangkok Patana School.
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Grade
2 Assembly
2H and 2T joined forces to
present a Christmas themed assembly. Based
on their last unit of inquiry ‘The
Wider World” the Second graders set
off on a journey around the world in search
of Santa who had disappeared.
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French
Field Trip
HF 6 French advanced class
went to the French School and meet students
of their age. Our UNIS student did present
in French the articulation of our three IB
program - PYP, MYP and DP and the French
students did present in English their educational
system.
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Friday
ECC Assembly
The ECC held their very
own assembly last Friday as there was not
an elementary assembly scheduled. We were
very fortunate to have one of Miss Carol's
ASA music groups.
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ECC
Learning Journey - 30 November 2006
Parents, caregivers and children
of the Early Childhood Centre went on a journey
of discovery and learning. The morning began
with a morning tea for parents before they
went to the classrooms to discover what and
how the children are learning.
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Grade
7 Beginners French
On the 28th of November UNIS
Grade 7 Beginners French Students organised
a treasure hunt on campus for the Students
from the French School. It was a fantastic
way to get to know each other and interact
in both languages.
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The
Second Annual Elementary Science Fair
Parents and various members
of the community came in to the Elementary School and explored
Science with students from grades one to five. Many parents expressed
amazement at the student’s ability to explain their experiments
in such detail.
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Casino
Royale - 23 November 2006
Middle School students and
parents at UNIS were able to see the future
of the gaming industry. Twenty-six
new games of chance were unveiled, including Checkmate,
Chicken Cow Moo, and the ever-popular Double
Trouble.
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Balance,
Travel, and Roll - Grade 1 Activity
Grade 1 students have
been working on their gymnastics skills - balancing, travelling
and rolling and using important skills like strength, body tension
and presentation to make a short sequence.
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The
Empty Pot
Grade 1 recently performed
the story "The Empty Pot" at the
assembly they hosted. They studied this story
as it is connected to planting and growing
seeds.
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Puppet
Extraganza!
Grade 4 has just finished
their puppet making project in Art as part
of the unit of inquiry “Cultural Signals”.
Each class studied a Vietnamese folktale,
developed a character from the story and
then turned the character into a puppet with
a movable part.
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Grade
2 Visits Science Lab
The Grade 2 students visited
the Middle High school science lab where Mr.
Hodgkinson amazed them with experiments about
'Heat'.
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Hanoi's
Contemporary Art Scene - a ComEd programme
The Contemporary Art Tour,
held on Sunday, 6 November, 2006, was an opportunity
for participants to find out more about the
art scene in Hanoi . The tour guide was Ms
Vu Kim Thu, who has worked at the School of
Fine Art and is herself an established artist.
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Grade
5 Camp Reports Back
The grade 5 camp was a great
success for all the teachers involved as well
as for the students. The location was picturesque,
the facilities were great, the food was plenty
and overall every minute was purposeful and
fun.
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UNIS
Hanoi Celebrates UN Day
UN Day, on Friday, 27 October, was a celebration
of our international culture through music, performance,
our Parade of Flags, a wonderful lunch and workshops for
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Crazy
Day Tuesday
On Tuesday 31st October, the ECC
and Elementary School students went CRAZY! The
SRC representatives decided that we needed to raise
money for the relief of Typhoon Victims in the
Danang area. |
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Lights,
Camera, ...Action!
As part of their "Inventing
the World" unit of inquiry Grade 3 children
helped write a tv script that was a spin off of
the ABC's "New Inventors" program. The
cafeteria was dramatically turned into a tv studio
and it was "lights, camera, ACTION!" |
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Puppets
During Art classes Grade 4 students made their
own metre high puppets, which were based around characters from
Vietnamese folktales. These will be displayed Friday November 10th
during Elementary School assembly time. |
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Grade
5 are off to Camp!
This morning, Wednesday, 1 November,
the Grade 5 students departed to Hoa Binh. Next
week we will have a full report with all their
findings and photos from their three day camp. |
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Bamboo
Brainstorm
Grade 7 Design and Technology classes
are designing a waterwheel for the school pond.
They have designed and created mini models. |
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Grade
9 Music Assessment
The Grade 9 music class performed
their first assessed piece of music just before
the October break. What a great group of
talented players! |
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UNIS
Secondary Swim Meet
Students became a part of
UNIS history on Wednesday as they were the
first group to use the UNIS swimming pool competitively.
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ECC & Elementary
School Moon Festival Celebration
The
Vietnamese Children’s Festival Day of Tet Trung Thu (Moon
Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival) is one of the
most important festivals in Vietnam. UNIS Hanoi has been
preparing all week for this magical celebration and Friday the
festivities began.
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Middle & High
School Moon Festival Celebration
Middle
School and High School along with the Nhat Tan school celebrated
the Moon Festival. The Vietnamese students have brought this
special celebration every year to UNIS Hanoi, to ensure new students
learn more about this annual festival.
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It's
a Bird, It's a Plane, ...It's Grade 2
This past week the Grade 2's
visited the Sofitel earlier this week as part
of their Unit of Inquiry 'The Wider World'.
They saw a lot of Hanoi city from a 'bird's
eye view' and tried to draw their own map of
what they could see from the 20th floor.
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Moon
Festival Preparations
Next Friday, 6 October
2006 is the Vietnamese Children’s
Festival Day of Tet Trung Thu (Moon Festival
or Mid-Autumn Festival), one of the most important
festivals in Vietnam. UNIS Hanoi has
been preparing all week for this magical celebration.
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Happenin'
High School Day
The
Student Senate organized an afternoon of games and activities
for the High School. The group activities built up appetites
and the anticipation of lunch. There were hungry glances in the
direction of the cafeteria.
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Middle
School Welcome Back Dance
The
newly elected Student Council organised and ran a very successful
evening. Aurelie, Mikaela, Victoria and Mariam were the MC's
for the evening and organised slow and fast dances, dancing competition
and many other fun events.
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Firehall & Doctor
Visit - Grade 1 Field Trip
What
do I want to be when I grow up? A doctor or maybe a firefighter?
As part of their Unit of Inquiry, Jobs People Do, 1st
Graders were leaning how to conduct interviews to learn about
various jobs in our communities.
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Orientation
Day
Orientation Day on Friday August
18 was well attended by the UNIS Community.
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