The document provides information about Phoenix School's upcoming Christmas celebrations and activities. It includes photos from the previous year's Christmas party, profiles of new teachers, an announcement of the upcoming party, news from language and classrooms, stories and poems from students, information about tests before the break, and sponsors of the school's Christmas raffle. It also announces that Shawnee Troha won an award for selling the most raffle tickets.

1. Contents
Xmas Party Photos
- Pages 2 & 3
Phoenix New Faces
- Page 4
Language Center News
- Page 5
Class Pages
- Pages 6 to 14
Xmas Raffle Sponsors
- Pages 15 & 16
Top Ticket Seller Award
- Page 16
School Holidays
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 14, January, 2016
Hue, Vietnam
33/9 Nguyen Hoang, Phuong Kim Long, Thanh Pho Hue
Tel: (85-54)6564 839 Fax: (84-54)3519 617
Email: phoenixschoolvn@gmail.com
Websites: www.phoenixeducation.asia
www.fundraisingforeducation.net/
The Phoenix Education Directors, teachers and
staff wish everyone connected with our school a
very happy, healthy and prosperous new year for
2016.
Children performing at our annual Christmas Party.

4. My name’s Nhung. I’m 24 years old. I come from
Hue City. I graduated from Hue University College of
Education in 2013. After graduation, I’ve worked as a
primary teacher for 2 years in Phu Xuan 1 and Phu
Xuan 2, Phu Vang District, Thua Thien Hue Province,
and Phu Thuan Primary School in Hue City. Now,
I’m a primary teacher at Phoenix School. This is a
good environment for me to improve my English
skill. I will try my best to be a successful teacher.
Hello everybody! I'm Phuc, I am 23 years old. I’m from
Ha Tinh which is about 350 km north of Hue. Now I'm
live in Hue City with my friend. I have just graduated
from Hue University of Education. At the moment, I'm
a primary teacher at Phoenix School and I so happy
about that. I want to be a good teacher so I will try my
best.
New Faces at Phoenix
Hi! My name is Thanh. I am from Hue City.
I graduated from Hue Economic University and Hue
Science University. I have worked at Unilever Joint
Venture Company and Customer Insights market re-
search company in Vietnam. I’ve also been a vice-
director of at Co.op Mart, Hue and Hue BigC. During
this time I was also teaching marketing to high school
students in Hue.
Now at Phoenix I am working in office administration
and marketing.
All my work has given me a lot of experience, matur-
ity and joy in life. I have loved all my jobs.

5. WELCOME TO THE CHRISTMAS PARTY AT
PHOENIX
LANGUAGE CENTER.
On the evening of Saturday, December 19, to wel-
come the coming Christmas and New Year, parents
and students of Phoenix Language Center had the
chance to join in the annual Christmas party which
was held at Phoenix campus. Under the warm at-
mosphere, all beloved attendees actually enjoyed
the happy time with music performances and
discovered this interesting western celebration.
Toward the end of the evening, the children
were excited when they had the chance to meet
Santa Claus and received lovely gifts from him.

6. We joined in all the festivals during the first
semester at Phoenix. They were great and we
really loved them.

7. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
On Christmas Day, We had a wonderful time at Phoenix School. We had a lot of activities and en-
joyed delicious food!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016!
Some activities in our class.

8. Let’s dance “Up on the Housetop.”
Our students received gifts and best wishes from Santa Claus.
We were ready to see many fascinating performances

9. Sunny Class
All of our students were
very excited about the
Christmas Concert. Our be-
loved students performed
quite well and they all con-
tributed to the success of the
Concert. We were very
proud of them.

10. Our Christmas party on Saturday 19th
, December, 2015 was a great suc-
cess. The students did a great job singing and dancing the songs. Santa
Claus came and gave our children a lot of presents and enjoyment. That
was really a good chance for the students to learn more about Christmas
and its distinguished culture. Thanks to all who were able to attend our
Christmas party. To you all we want to say “Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year”.
P C
R L
E A
P S
S

11. We joined in the typical Christmas
activities.
We had a good time together that day. We took a lot of photos and
tried some special food.
Grade 1

12. Everyone have a good time at the Christmas Party.
At the and of the party, the students received gifts and
had their photo taken with Santa.

13. Grade FourCant wait to see my presents
Holly is always pleasant
Reindeers carry Santa Claus
Icicles hanging on the walls
Santa is my favorite
Turkey is cooking in the oven
My food is shared with my cousin
Always open your advent calendar door
Snow is coming, I want more!
By B.J.
Christmas in the snow
Ho ho ho! What’s that smell?
Ring the bells
In the snow lets go play
Santa Claus is coming in his sleigh
Turkey tastes soo good
Mistletoe above the wood
Advent calendar chocolate is soo sweet
Santa here are some cookies to eat
By Shawnee.
How to make the
Grumpy Grinch Grin
This Christmas, to make the grumpy Grinch
grin, he will steal children presents by sneaking
into their houses and taking all their Christmas
stockings away. Next, he will steal the candy
canes from the families Christmas tree and use
them for himself. Finally, he will drag their
Christmas tree away through the chimney, and
throw it onto the rubbish dump. After that he
will return to his cold, dark cave and cackle.
By Shawnee
How to make the
Grumpy Grinch Grin
This Christmas, to make the grumpy Grinch grin, he will
put traps in people’s houses so he can steal all their
presents. After that, the green Grinch will kidnap Santa
Claus so nobody else gets their presents on time. Soon
after that he will blow the snow clouds away and make
the snow melt. Finally, he will break everyone else’s
presents before he sneaks back to his cave to snicker.
By Austin

14. Preparing for Christmas Break
December is a special time of the year, when we celebrate Christmas here at Phoenix School. We
are doing lots of rehearsals to perform in the Christmas party on December 19. We have lots of
food, and games to play. I’m really excited for that because there’s going to be lots of people to
play with and have fun. Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year. I am really excited instead of
being nervous to perform on stage with my friends. We are also selling raffle tickets to win prizes.
They are 30000VND each but if you buy 10 you get 50000VND off. My brother Shawnee has sold
the most so far, I think he will have at least 100 tickets sold by Saturday. He has already sold 82
tickets. This is also going to be a good and special Christmas party because for Mr. Chris, my
teacher, this is going to be his first Christmas party here. I have lots of good memories about
Christmas on Christmas day and Christmas Eve. We always call my grandparents to wish them
merry Christmas and we watch lots of movies about the night before Christmas. We have lots of
fun setting up the Christmas tree, fanning the Christmas tree, decorating it and decorating the
school and the house. We also put up the stockings and leave cookies and milk before we go to
bed. Hopefully the weather will be nice and sunny. It is only 6 days away until the real Christmas
day after the performance. I’m looking forward for the Christmas party to have great fun and to
perform in front of everyone.
Another thing we do before Christmas break is doing school work. We still have to finish our tests.
We have tests on Math, Science, English, and History. It is a lot of work for me because some of
them are hard and I miss my recess sometime trying to finish a test and getting a good and the
highest score in my class. I usually get good scores in my tests and if I make mistakes, they’re usu-
ally silly mistakes about grammar or vocabulary and sometimes spelling. I always want to do the
test as soon as possible so we can play and have fun. After we have done the tests, we can watch
movies, watch videos and do sciences experiments. I am really hoping to get a high score in my
tests.
We are preparing for Christmas break and this is one of the preparations we have to do before
Christmas break. We are going to perform some singing, skits, karate and some piano. We do re-
hearsals on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. I like performing on stage in front of everyone as well.
I really enjoy doing rehearsals because its fun and we get to play while we are wait for our turn so
it’s like a long recess. We practice singing and playing our skits during the rehearsals. It is really
cute to see my little brother Sundance playing the piano. Well, I hope you have a merry Christmas
and a happy new year.
By Tyler Grade 6
Grade 6

15. Study Before Tests
The bad thing about Christmas is studying before tests. There are a lot of hard things and we need
to remember all of them. But the second bad thing is I feel bad because I have lots of troubles. We
have already done 3 tests but I don’t know why I feel scared about the them. But the good thing is
we have 2 weeks off, and it’s almost Christmas. Before Christmas we sell raffle tickets. The inter-
esting thing is practicing singing and the skit we’re performing at the Christmas party. Selling raf-
fle tickets is really funny because we went all over the place and sold tickets to everyone. We di-
vided into lots of groups and went many places to sell the tickets. I’m wishing to get a balance
wheel for Christmas present. This Christmas is the first Christmas in my life I have been alone be-
cause all my family have gone to America already. I am really sad about it but I have friends in my
school. I wish all of you had a happy Christmas. All of the kids wish for Santa to come. He has
lots of presents for good kids. But I think I’m not good enough. This new year we will have a party
and we will play until 1 a.m.
By Kiet - Grade 7
Gmail Christmas
Christmas is a great holiday of the year. It is the day when Jesus was born, on December
25. The traditional colors for Christmas are red, green and gold. At Christmas, a lot of
countries celebrate by decorating their houses and children will do many good things so
they will have presents from Santa Claus.
Christmas is celebrated once a year in countries all around the world. At Phoenix school,
we will have a big celebration for Christmas. But before Christmas, I am very worried be-
cause I have to study before the tests, we also have been rehearsing for the Christmas
party. During Christmas, we will perform lots of things and after that we are going to play
games and do activities. The best thing about Christmas is that I can have a Christmas
break for two weeks and I can go out with my family.
By Ngoc –Grade 7
Grade 7

16. Our Raffle Sponsors
The people and businesses listed here and on the following page
generously provided prizes for our Christmas raffle. We thank
them greatly for their support of our school and ask everyone in-
volved with Phoenix Education to support these businesses in
return.

17. Our Raffle Sponsors
(Cont. from page )
Top
Ticket-Seller
Award
Shawnee Troha won the award for the
student who sold the most raffle tickets,
selling 102 tickets. Shawnee is pictured
being presented with the award at our
Monday morning assembly.
We thank everyone who supported our
annual Christmas raffle.