Have students create their own examples when trying to understand and remember a general concept. This not only helps students remember the concept better, but also helps them check their own understanding.
SCISAC Soccer Helper Meeting
This message is for the people that signed up to help during the 3 days of tournament play NOT for the Friday evening event (that is something separate and only for Grade 10-12), there was some confusion yesterday.
A friendly reminder that we have a meeting TODAY (Friday 6th November) at lunchtime (1pm) in the blue gym. It is extremely important that EVERYONE attends. If you do not attend or do not let me know that you are unable to attend, you will be replaced on the list.
Please bring your MacBooks with you.
Thanks! See you at lunch!
C&S / CAS Helper Vacancies for upcoming event
We still need helpers for the following activity:
HS Basketball Saturday Nov 28th 12:30-4:30pm – Grades 6-10
Please signup on the Veracross C&S/CAS signup link.
Check Public Area Reservations
Before you book the public areas, you might want to check what are other reservations on certain date and when it is available. You can go and get those information from Veracross:
1. Login Veracross Teacher Portal: https://portals.veracross.com/nis/
2. From “School Report“, please find and open “Public Area Reservations”
You will get a reservation calendar and see what are reservations each day.
NIC Benefit Concert@NIS Dec 12th – Student Helpers wanted
Signups for the NIS Benefit Concert on Dec 12th will open on Monday (9th Nov) at 0800. You will need to help on Saturday evening Nov 12th – the times will be finalised later.
IB EXAMS (November retakes)
Today and tomorrow we have two graduates from our Class of 2015 taking retakes in school. The exams are Thursday morning (7:00-11:00) and Friday afternoon (1:00 -2:00) and will take place in room D220a (in front of my office). Please be considerate and keep the noise down in the corridor when moving between classes. There will be signs to remind you!
Extended Essay Workshop today
Grade 12 – all welcome to one of our final EE workshops in the Library at 3.15.
Deadline for final EE: December 7th.
Steps to success: don’t prevaricate, meet your supervisor, know the criteria
Grade 11 Extended Essay
Grade 11 you have begun your Extended Essay journey.
The first step is to decide on which subject you want to write your EE in or if you want to take our new and exciting World Studies EE.
You must speak to your subject teachers and come and see me. If you want to look at examples see the EE Edublog: http://share.nanjing-school.com/dpextendedessay/
After that please write your proposal in Managebac and get the supervisor to approve it.
Deadline for choosing your EE subject is: November 13th.
The full timeline for the class of 2017 is attached.
Time frame for Extended Essay Class of 2017