International High School to Hold TET 2016 Celebration on February 3

WHAT:          
The International High School of New Orleans (IHSNO) will hold a TET 2016 celebration with an assembly featuring traditional dance, martial arts demonstration, student performances, arts, crafts, and a luncheon with a large variety of Asian foods from Vietnam, China, and India.
 
WHEN:         
Wednesday, February 3rd, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

WHERE:      
The International High School of New Orleans
727 Carondelet Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
Phone (504) 613-5703
 
WHY: The International High School of New Orleans (IHSNO) takes pride in its cultural diversity and will celebrate TET 2016 (Vietnamese and Chinese New Year and Indian Day) with an assembly featuring traditional dance, martial arts demonstration, student performances, arts, crafts, and follow by a luncheon with a large variety of foods from Vietnam, China, and India. 
 
IHSNO holds a series of cultural celebrations every year representing the languages that are taught at the school: Hispanic Heritage Celebration, Vietnamese and Chinese New Year (TET), French Week, Indian Day, Arabic National Day, and Black History Month.
 
The purpose of the TET celebration is to carry on the beautiful Asian tradition of showing respect and appreciation to school administrators and teachers at the beginning of a new year and to expose students and parents to multi-cultural aspects of Asian countries around the world.
 
International High School of New Orleans is an International Baccalaureate World School with an emphasis of language learning and diversity appreciation.  Founded in 2009, IHS is the only school in Orleans Parish to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP), a curriculum with a reputation for its international external assessment with published global standards that focus on the development of a student’s critical-thinking skills by engaging them intellectually, emotionally, and ethically, creating a “passport for success”.
 
For more information, please visit our website at www.ihsnola.org or contact Lynette Lopez, Enrollment Counselor, at (504) 613-5702 or [email protected].