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Greetings BASIS Chandler Parents,
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving break. Did you know that you could donate to BASIS Chandler and get a dollar for dollar Arizona Tax Credit? Single parents can donate up to a maximum of $200 and married filing joint returns can donate up to a maximum of $400. All you have to do is fill out the form below and drop a check off at the front office. You can designate it to any department or extracurricular program you wish. From the donations received to date we have purchased music for the Strings program, supplies for the Science programs, and theatre costumes for the Drama program. Encourage anyone you know to donate their tax dollars to education!
Arizona Tax Credit Form
Sincerely,
Stephanie Terrell
Head of School |
Lower School Award Ceremony | |
 BASIS Chandler's second lower school awards Assembly will take place on Friday, December 7th, during periods 2, 4 and 5.
- 5th Grade: Period 4 - 11:20 AM to 12:00 PM
- 6th Grade: Period 2 - 9:30 AM to 10:20 AM
- 7th Grade: Period 5 - 12:15 PM to 1:05 PM
Parents attending the assembly should enter through the main entrance, and sign-in for the assembly. The assembly will take place in the gymnasium.
BASIS recognizes high academic performance by listing students on the Distinguished Honor Roll, the Honor Roll, the 90's Club and the Most Improved Honor Roll.
The academic criteria for each are as follows:
Distinguished Honor Roll: The top 5 percent of students with the highest cumulative average.
Honor Roll: The top 15 percent of students with the highest averages for the current making period.
BASIS 90's Club: Students who earn at least a 90 percent average for the current grading period.
Most Improved Honor Roll: The top 5 percent of students in terms of total percentage improvement between the previous grading period and the current one. |
Congratulations to our Orchestra, Band & Choir | |
 A very special congratulations to all of the BASIS Chandler Students who have been selected for All-State Orchestra, Band and Choir. In Orchestra, Dokun Shin (Violin I); Esther Ko (Violin II) and Jaeyoung Kang (Cello) have made the 2013 Arizona Junior High All-State Orchestra. The 2013 Arizona Junior High School All-State Orchestra Festival will be held on Saturday, Feburary 23, 2013, at Valley Vista High School located at 15550 N. Parkview Pl, Surprise, AZ 85374.
 In Band, Keira Plano (Flute); Sachin Subramanian(Clarinet); Hannah Li (Flute) and Isaac Mordukhovich(Clarinet) have made the 2013 Elementary/Junior High All-State Band.
 In Choir, Youogo Kamgaing (Mixed Choir); Nishat Khan, (Mixed Choir) and Jigisha Bagchi (Treble Choir) have made the 2013 Elementary/Junior High All-State Choir.
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Congratulations to our American Mathematics Competitors | |
 Congratulations to Liam Lawson who scored in the top 1% of test-takers at the American Mathematics Contest 8 held at BASIS Chandler. Congratulations also to Ricky Hsu who scored in the top 5% as well as Kevin Zou, a 6th grader, who scored in the top five of BASIS students! We congratulate our outstanding math students and look forward to seeing many more math achievements.
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Girls Varsity Basketball Game | 
Our Lady Bobcat girl's Varsity Basketball Team has a game on Tuesday December 4 at 7PM. The bobcats will be playing Desert Heights High School at the Louis Sands Boys and Girls Club at 4730 West Grovers Ave, Glendale AZ. We would love to see you there. |
Phillips Exeter Academy Summer School Program Informational Session | |
 On Wednesday, December 12th at 5:30 a representative from Phillips Exeter Academy will be giving a presentation to BASIS Chandler about this wonderful opportunity.
This is what the Phillips Exeter Academy website has to say about this program:
Every summer Phillips Exeter Academy welcomes to campus more than 780 students for five weeks of academic study, athletics, and exploration that carry participants far beyond the classrooms and the playing fields. Typically, students come to us from more than 40 states, Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and 45 foreign nations. Summer School students come from a variety of schools. Most reside in campus dormitories; others travel daily from their homes in the New Hampshire seacoast area. Together they embody a rich diversity of language, culture, religion, and race. They come to Exeter with that particular mix of intellectual curiosity and adventurous spirit that holds the promise of glimpsing new horizons and making new discoveries.
If you are a serious student, intellectually curious, creative, eager to embrace new challenges and opportunities, then Phillips Exeter Academy Summer School may be a program for you.
For more information about the Phillips Exeter Academy Summer School Program, please click on this link: http://www.exeter.edu/summer_programs/7324.aspx
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 Mark your calendar for BASIS Chandler's Winter Concerts. Performances will take place on December 7th and 14th at 7PM in the theatre. Both concerts are in need of parent volunteers to assist with taking money for tickets at the gate as well as passing out programs. The Music department will be asking for a suggested donation of $5 to help with music/art program costs. If you are interested in helping out at the December 7th concert, please email Debra Pearson at debra.pearson@basischandler.org. If you are interested in helping out at the December 14th concert, please email Dr. DeBoer at andrew.deboer@basischandler.org.
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Geography Bee | |
 We are excited to announce that BASIS Chandler will once again participate in the National Geographic Bee! The Bee covers all aspects of geography and is open to students in grades 5 through 8. It will begin with the first preliminary round on Thursday, December 6th and Friday, December 7th depending on students' class schedules. Students who wish to participate will take the written quiz during Meet (grades 5-7) or lunch (grade 8) on one of these days. Contestants who qualify for the second preliminary round will take the next written quiz during Meet or lunch on Thursday, December 13th and Friday, December 14th. The top 24 contestants will compete in the final competition of the Bee which will be held after school in January. There will be a $25 fee for each of the 24 finalists to cover the costs associated with the school Bee.
The BASIS Chandler winner will advance to the next level of the competition which is a written examination to determine state competitors! State competitors then compete in April to qualify for the national-level Bee held in May in Washington D.C. which includes a first-place prize of a $25,000 collge scholarship! |
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BASIS Chandler Spelling Bee | |
 BASIS Chandler is happy to announce that our wonderful Lower School students will once again have the opportunity to participate in the BASIS Chandler Spelling Bee. The top placing spellers will advance to the All-Phoenix Area BASIS Spelling Bee which will be held at BASIS Phoenix, Friday, January 25th at 5PM. The finalist from there will go on to compete in the Maricopa County Bee.
All students in grades 5 through 7 will have the opportunity to qualify for the BASIS Chandler Spelling Bee. Spelling quizzes will be administered during the students' meet periods on November 27th through December 3rd, and the top 30 spellers will compete in the BASIS Chandler Spelling Bee.
Date: December 19, 2012
Time: 4:30PM (The Spelling Bee may take as much as 3 hours, so please plan accordingly.)
Place: BASIS Chandler Gymnasium
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | |
Congratulations to all of the BASIS Chandler Drama Group Students who participated in this years Fall play, 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Poe, Poe, Poe.' The performances were amazing with over 30 students participating. We look forward to the Spring play/musical, 'You're a Good Man Charlie Brown!' |
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BASIS Chandler Interest List | |
 Parents we need your help! If you have a child who will be in the 5th grade for 2013-2014 school year, we need you to put their name on the BASIS Chandler Interest list. This will help us in our planning for next year.
You can sign up on the interest list at www.basislink.org |
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Order your Bobcat Shirt Today! |  Order your BASIS Bobcat t-shirt or sweatshirt today! BASIS Chandler is selling Bobcat T-shirts and hooded sweatshirts just in time for the holidays. Youth shirts are $10, adult $12 with sweatshirts for youth $20 and adults only $25! All orders are due by Tuesday, December 4th. Delivery will be made prior to Winter Break. All of the proceeds will be given to the Annual Teacher Fund. To place and order, simply click on the link below, print and drop off the completed form with payment at the front office. Additional forms will be available at the front office. |
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Meet Mr. Ivanyi |
 Mr. Ivanyi teaches all of our 5th grade Classics classes as well as a number of our 5th & 6th grade Latin, a 7th grade Logic and our Latin III classes. He is also BASIS Chandler's subject advisor in Foreign Language as well as the leader of our Classics Club and one of our yearly student trips with a tour of the Ivy League occuring this Spring.
Mr. Ivanyi received a Bachelor of Arts in Latin and Classics with a minor in Archaeology and Art History (Magna Cum Laude) as well as a Master of Arts in Classical Philology (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of Arizona. Mr. Ivanyi has an Arizona Teacher certificate in Latin. Prior to working for BASIS, He worked in law enforcement and judicial branches of government for five years. From 2007-2011 he was the Latin Chair at the Gilbert Classical Academy.
In 1997, Mr. Ivanyi was voted best Teaching Assistant in Humanities by faculty and students as well as being voted best senior in Latin by the Classics faculty at the University of Arizona in 1994 while completing his undergrad work. He also delivered a Pew Conference paper on reviving Latin pedagogy in the modern classroom. When Mr. Ivanyi is not teaching he enjoys travel, reading and writing, cars, motorcycles and scuba. |
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BASIS Chandler
1800 East Chandler BLVD
Chandler, AZ 85225
Main Phone: 480-907-6072
Fax: 480-907-6624 |
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