Sage International School of Boise

Sage Beta Club volunteered at a very chilly but fun Boo at the Zoo yesterday at ! They provided face painting and candy to LOTS of happy kids as a service project. 🎃

We've got fun for everyone tomorrow night! Thursday, 10/26:
**Sage Night at the Farmstead - 2500 South Eagle Rd Kuna. 4:00 - 8:00 pm. $5 off entry fee if you tell them you're with Sage! 5th-grade teachers will be kissing a PIG at 7:30 after raising the most in our PTO fundraiser, totaling over $700!
**Middle School Dance - Everest cafeteria, 6:30 - 9:00 pm. Tickets $5 at the door, costumes encouraged!
**High School Dance - Summit building, 7:30-9:30 pm. Tickets $7 at the door, costumes encouraged!

It’s spirit week in middle school! Yesterday was twin day, and we were lucky enough to have TWO Mr. Parkers on campus! 🤣

On Friday a VERY generous and anonymous Sage family treated our entire staff to our favorite fix at ! Thank you Secret Sage family! ❤️

Ten adventurous 3rd-5th graders had a great time on the ESage Fall camping trip! This year the group headed to Bruneau Dunes State Park for an overnight trip that included hiking and sledding in sand, campfires, and lots of fun! The students even got a peek of Jupiter and 4 of its moons through Idaho's largest telescope during their nighttime visit to the Bruneau Observatory.

Division 2 Team Champions! Congratulations to our Sage Mountain Bike Team for solidifying 1st Place 🏆 in state at Saturday’s season finale at Bogus Basin! This team of not only athletes, but coaches, parents, and volunteers has traveled around Idaho since August competing, camping, and putting a lot of sweat and tears (maybe a little blood) into making this happen. So proud of you all!

Sage students recently participated in throwing and handbuilding clay bowls as a service project for “Empty Bowls” through the . Their beautiful projects created at Ceramica are going to help Idahoans experiencing food insecurity! ❤️

We hope you can join us for some international family fun this Thursday! https://m.signupgenius.com/ #!/showRSVPSignUp/10C0E4EACAD28A4FEC52-international

Join us at our International Cultural Event for an array of FREE and FUN activities, including:

Games
Crafts
Food
Music
And more!

Plus, it's a potluck! Think of bringing a dish or treat to share.

See you there, this Thursday!

Recently a group of middle school students had a Sage Expedition just outside of Sun Valley. They spent a day doing trail work with who shared these great photos and had this to say: “It was so much fun having everyone out working on the Fox Creek trail Saturday. What a cool group of people and program. The projects we worked on as a team have been a major problem for that trailhead all season and was in need of some serious help! Together we hauled and crushed rock for around 3 hours... That's a ton of work!!
We couldn't have done it without you.” Way to go Sage! 💚

We hope you and your family can join us to celebrate the many cultures that make our International School so wonderfully diverse! Feel free to just come and enjoy, or you can sign up to contribute a potluck dish, activity, and/or help setup/cleanup!

🌍 Sign up TODAY and Join the Multicultural Potluck and Celebration!

Food Sign-Ups: You don't need to feed everyone, just bring a dish from any culture you'd like. Share your favorite international flavors with us.

Activity Sign-Ups: Share a cultural activity or game that's close to your heart. It can be a simple and fun way to showcase any culture.

Multicultural Talents: Do you, your student, or someone you know have a talent to share?

Our international school community makes this event extra special, and we encourage you to sign up now and be part of this exciting event!

👉 Sign Up Here: https://m.signupgenius.com/ #!/showRSVPSignUp/10C0E4EACAD28A4FEC52-international

Last week third grade went on a field trip downtown! They visited City Hall and heard from Mayor McClean, toured our State Capital, and more. Learning in action! Thank you for having us!

Fridays without students provides many professional and learning opportunities for our staff, and last Friday several participated in CPR training! We are committed to not only cultivating great learners, but keeping them safe and healthy as well. ❤️ We are so grateful for our full-time nurse Natalie, but appreciate having a whole team of certified staff to help care for our students.

Thursday was the first day of our 4-week after school climbing clinic at the Boise Black Cliffs! Through our partnership with these high school students are learning about outdoor rock climbing from professional instructors over the course of these 2.5 hour sessions. We are so excited about opportunities like this through our Sage Expeditions program, thanks to coordinator Megan Furois!

Such a great night with our Sage family at K-8 Back to School night! Thank you to our staff and families for joining us in this partnership educating our students!

Executive Director Andy Johnson and Chief Financial and Operating Officer Emily Downey with Governor Brad Little! Our two dedicated Network Leaders devote their time and hard work to giving our students the very best opportunities. This was a proud moment to have the opportunity to share it with the Governor. We only wish he could have stayed all day to meet all of our school heroes and students!

It was such an honor to have visit Sage today! He met with our whole senior class to personally let them know about educational funding available to them through Idaho Launch. He took the time to answer great questions from our Inquirers. Thank you Governor!

We hope to see our families with students in Kindergarten through 8th grade on Thursday the 14th! (High School, yours is on the 21st!) We will have sessions for all grade levels so you can make your way around. Start at 5:30 for a welcome from PYP (K-5) Ms. Hunter, and Middle Visit school at 6:00 with Mr. Parker. Visit our main hallway for information from our "specials" teachers, the PTO, Sage Expeditions, ESAGE, and even buy some Sage Spirit Gear. See you there!

Thank you for joining our 7th graders yesterday on their last ride about bike safety! It’s been such a great unit pedaling miles and miles around our campus and beautiful Boise Greenbelt. 🚴🏼🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️

SageFort Day 1 photo dump! All kinds of interests like hiking, reindeer, coffee, cooking, karaoke, and life hacks like self defense and how to change a tire! Day 2 tomorrow!

Everybody LOVES their library day and story time with our amazing Mrs. Konkol. ❤️📚❤️ We believe strong foundational reading skills set every student up for a successful journey!

Our Student IB Star winners for the week with Director Hunter, and two Staff IB stars as well! 🤩 We had a huge pile of applicants this week, so proud of our caring Sagers! 💜

Amazing moment this weekend as Mountain Bike team members Emery Huszar and Austin Freyer came in 1st and 2nd for the JV1 boys Division! Go Team Sage! Thank you to Adam Haynes for incredible photos as always!

Our campaign for the 2023-24 school year is off and running! As a Public Charter School, we are not part of the local school district and receive zero local tax dollars. We believe in school choice and providing options for families. We provide an outstanding International Education for over 1,000 students in grades K-12 every year FREE of any cost to them. In fact, we are the only ones in the state that do. Can you help us meet our goal? https://sageinternationalschool.networkforgood.com/

Sage families with students in grades 2-5! Starts next week for both boys and girls, check it out.

Thank you Days for Girls Boise Southwest ID Team for providing us with donated period products for 5 bathrooms. Thank you to Ms. Woodruff for your work to make these products available for our students!

Soccer Shots starts Monday here on campus after school for students in K-2, just a few spots left! soccershots.com/boise

🏀 Calling all Sage International School of Boise parents! 🏀

We have a great opportunity for your young athlete. Try out our AfterSchool Basketball Program FOR FREE! 🎉

For boys and girls of all skill levels, grades 2-5.
Sign up at our website: boiseASA.com

Register TODAY to join our Cross Country team! All students in grades 6-8 welcome, regardless of experience. This is a great way for students to have FUN, be ACTIVE, and build friendships! Find more info and register here: https://bit.ly/sagexc

TOMORROW our kiddos are back in school! Please join us for our Back to School Coffee Meetup. Drop off your students and come across the street to Zero Six Coffee Fix to connect with Sage families over coffee and breakfast treats.

It was so great to see students back on campus these last two days! Have a great weekend, we’ll see you on Monday to kick off another amazing year!

We'll see you later this week Sage Family! School photos, supply dropoff, meet your teacher(s), and see your classroom(s)! ONE WEEK until the First Day of School!

Are your kids getting bored? Complaining of the heat? Take a trip to your local library to keep improving those reading skills! There's still time to take part in the Boise Public Library summer reading program and earn great prizes. You can find more info here: https://www.boisepubliclibrary.org/programs-services/summer/

Our PTO has a great idea that will save you time AND raise money for Sage! Kick back and let them do the shopping for you, available for all students entering Kindergarten through 5th grade. 🖍️📓✂️✏️ You can find more info here: https://store76970504.company.site
School starts in just ONE MONTH!

Our Sage International Network of Schools is governed by a VOLUNTEER Board of Directors. June is School Board Appreciation Month in Idaho, and we would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank our school board volunteers for their dedication and public service. We are fortunate to have an experienced board with a broad mix of professional skills and experiences including legal, education, business, marketing, and finance. Thank you to our Chair Mike Lawrence, Vice Chair Blake Youde, Treasurer Michelle Watts, and members Keith Donahue, Paul Fleming, and Bill Carter!

On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas with the news that the more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state were free. This day came to be known as , now officially a federal holiday. Celebrate with

At Sage being inclusive and open minded is as the root of everything we do. We strive to be caring and knowledgeable, and reflect on the past so we can do better in the future. ❤️

We have the wonderful opportunity to invite students to join Middle School at Sage! Now enrolling for this fall in grades 6th and 7th. Sage engages our students within an inclusive IB learning community, and our phenomenal educators challenge students through open-minded inquiry. We prepare them for their journey beyond high school as lifelong learners! Invite your friends to find out more: https://sageintl.org/boise

Today Sage International Schools are honoring the memory of Anne Frank and all of the victims of the Nazi-organized and led Holocaust. Today is the anniversary of her birth. Had she survived World War II and lived until today, she would have been 94. Anne Frank and her sister Margot died at Bergen-Belsen in February/March of 1945 - shortly before the camp's liberation by the British Army. This picture was taken by our Executive Director Andy Johnson this morning at the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial.

To learn more about Anne Frank's life and the Holocaust, please see the following links:
Anne Frank House: https://www.annefrank.org/en/
United States Holocaust Museum and Memorial: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/anne-frank-biography
Wassmuth Center: https://wassmuthcenter.org/

Missing something? Our lost & found is outside our front PYP entrance through Wednesday at 4pm, when it will be bagged up and donated! Come check it out!

Yesterday Ms. Trevino and Ms. Duerr, two of our amazing art teachers, took off on a fantastic adventure with a group of 12 lucky middle schoolers to Tuscarora, Nevada! They are spending two nights at the throwing on a wheel, hand building, and learning about different techniques such as Raku firing. So grateful for this experience for our young artists!

Our 5th graders worked so hard on their PYP Exhibition projects this year and did a wonderful job presenting them this week! They tackled important issues ranging from environmental to mental health, equality, poverty, education, and more. We’re proud of these world changers and really enjoyed learning from them!