Day: August 16, 2016

Pfrang Association-get involved

Following up on my announcement in briefing, the first meeting of the Pfrang Association will take place in the staff room today (Wednesday) at 5 pm. Our main focus will be to organise one of our main events,  Pfrang Day on September 24th.

Pfrang is the school’s main charity which supports the education of impoverished children in Jiangsu. For more information, please see the website:  Pfrang Association

A great opportunity to get involved in giving back to the community.

School Bells

At NIS, the school bells are chosen by PYP homerooms and MYP/DP advisory classes. This week’s bell was chosen by Mr. Mello’s advisory from last year.

  • PYP, MYP, and DP homeroom/advisories submit the bells.
  • Bells should be between 15 – 20 seconds long.
  • Bells must be from clean songs, including having clean titles. Please do not pick an instrumental part from an explicit song.
  • Please check your lyrics to ensure they are appropriate for all ages / community members.
  • Please turn off the metronome when exporting from GarageBand.

If you need any help, you can also send the entire song to Miss Keus and explain where you want the bell cut, and she will do it in GarageBand.

Please submit your bells to afp://largestorage.nanjing-school.com/school_bells.

Mr. Mello, Mr. Marsh, and Mrs. Moen have the most enthusiastic advisories when it comes to bell submissions, so you need to submit yours fast before they fill the slots!

The bell schedule can be found at: Bell Schedule 1617  (Web view) using OneNote.

elections of advisory liaisons and student council representatives

Elections of Advisory Liaisons and Student Council Representatives

Are you interested?

Job description

MYP/DP advisory liaison : share your advisory members’ feelings and wishes with the Student Council.

Grade Level representatives :

– attend all Student Council meetings.

– help with great school events such as Talent Show, Art Auction, Pfrang Day and more.

More information?? Contact Angela Lu and Abbie Cadden.

During the extended advisory on Friday, August 19th,

1- votefor ONE advisory representative.

2-vote for TWO Student Council representatives.

Managebac – G6-9 and New G10 -12 Students

Managebac emails were sent to all G6-9 and new G10-12 students yesterday. Please follow the instructions in the email to log into your Managebac account. If you have any questions please ask your Advisory Teacher or me.

First Model United Nations Meeting

Hello grade 9-12 students.  We’ll be having an initial-interest meeting about MUN next week Wednesday, August 24 at the start of lunch in Mr. Galaty’s room, D246.  We spend 10 minutes talking about meetings, conferences and so on.  See you there!

Seniors: ACT US College Test

Hello Seniors who are applying to the US for college/university,

Either you will be taking the SAT or ACT or both this fall.  The ACT will be held on Oct 22, 2016 at NIS.  The NIS school code is 694219.  Please go to www.act.org to register.

Meeting today in PAC

Dear All,

Today’s meeting will be in the PAC beginning at 2.45. The first half will focus on health insurance. If you are not covered by the health insurance you do not need to attend this meeting. At 3.30pm the second meeting will be led by SET and will focus on policies and procedures. All teaching staff and TAs need to attend the second meeting.

Thanks,