Monday Oct 29^th  Day 7 12:55-13:45

Workshop presenter: Angie Battye & Lee Mayes

Venue: Green gym classroom (the room at Green gym near to the changing room area)

Grade level(s) and/or target audience: Kindergarten – G5

Updated title: Healthier Stronger Smarter – Why Physical Activity should be the building blocks of every school curriculum!

Society has evolved and children spending less time being physically active, and more time sitting around, ‘playing’ on electronic devices.What if we were to tell you that physical activity, is an essential building block when it comes to learning, and, if planned into the daily curriculum, there are a multitude of positive benefits, scientifically proven to drastically increase both the body and brains capacity to learn. Let us take you on a journey into the body and learn about the simple yet profound benefits of adding more physical activity into the school curriculum.

Here is how you can check your schedule for the 3- way conference, seeing how many parents have signed up to meet you.

1. Login to veracross teacher portal.  https://portals.veracross.com/nis

2. At the right side of the website, please find “Conf. Schedule” under the “Curriculum/Planning” section.

3. It will open your 3-way conference schedule in a PDF file. You can save your schedule as a PDF file using “Print to PDF” button at the top right corner.

Please try and let us know if you have any question. Thanks.

Good Morning All,

Please find and review the linked special BTT schedule for this week. In the interest of student safety, please be sure to double check to ensure you are where you need to be, when you need to be there.

Week 10 BTT Schedule

Many Thanks!

The flu shot will be arranged by school in next month. Are you interested in flu vaccination at local community clinic this year?

If yes, please register online by Oct.31: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2018_Flu_Vaccination

If you have any queries, please contact with me via nurse@nanjing-school.com

Good Morning,

If you have received an email starting like this:

Hello!

My nickname in darknet is hermie59 {or some version of this}.
I hacked this mailbox more than six months ago, 
through it I infected your operating system with a virus (trojan) created by me and have been monitoring you for a long time.

So, your password from {yourusernamehere}@staff.nanjing-school.com is pac123456

Don’t panic. Contact us in the IT Department, and rest easy knowing that this is the latest in a string of increasingly high-tech phishing scams designed to get you to panic and not pay attention to some of the details that otherwise highlight that this is fake. For more information on this latest scam, have a look at this article from the UK Business Insider journal. Remember, when in doubt about something like this, come and ask the experts in IT (and change your password!). Remember, protect yourself when you connect yourself to the world wide web!

Here is how you can check your schedule for the 3- way conference, seeing how many parents have signed up to meet you.

1. Login to veracross teacher portal.  https://portals.veracross.com/nis

2. At the right side of the website, please find “Conf. Schedule” under the “Curriculum/Planning” section.

3. It will open your 3-way conference schedule in a PDF file. You can save your schedule as a PDF file using “Print to PDF” button at the top right corner.

Please try and let us know if you have any question. Thanks.

Good Morning,

If you have received an email starting like this:

Hello!

My nickname in darknet is hermie59 {or some version of this}.
I hacked this mailbox more than six months ago, 
through it I infected your operating system with a virus (trojan) created by me and have been monitoring you for a long time.

So, your password from {yourusernamehere}@staff.nanjing-school.com is pac123456

Don’t panic. Contact us in the IT Department, and rest easy knowing that this is the latest in a string of increasingly high-tech phishing scams designed to get you to panic and not pay attention to some of the details that otherwise highlight that this is fake. For more information on this latest scam, have a look at this article from the UK Business Insider journal. Remember, when in doubt about something like this, come and ask the experts in IT (and change your password!). Remember, protect yourself when you connect yourself to the world wide web!

Attached are the minutes from the October 18 Strategy Team meeting. If you have any questions, please see a Strategy Team member.

Chris

ST Minutes 181018-1hx20yz

Dear all,

Julia Zhang will be the MOD of Oct. 27, 2018.

Best wishes,

Clara Xi

This year we have 3 teacher presentation proposal from our wonderful colleagues for EARCOS teacher conference 2019. As EARCOS request all teacher presentation need to be field tested and ranked within their school.  Please see the information below of each presentation and save your and attend as peer audience to support our colleagues.

Please note that all the sessions will be heppened during lunch time and it will be a shorter version of the real session.
1.Monday Oct 29th Day 1 12:55-13:45
Workshop presenter: Angie Battye & Lee Mayes
Venue: Green gym classroom (the room at Green gym near to the changing room area)
Grade level(s) and/or target audience: Kindergarten – G5
Workshop topic or subject area: Physical Education/Core Strength/Play=
Workshop title: Poor core strength and the impact on learning.
Description of workshop:
The purpose of the workshop is to understand the reasons why more and more children today are showing signs of poor core strength, how this affects their daily life and ability to learn in the classroom and what we as educators can do improve the core strength of our students.

2.Tuesday Oct 30th Day 8 12:35-13:25
Workshop presenter: Joe Barder & Lee Mayes
Venue: G2C C109
Workshop topic or subject area: Physical Education/Health/Technology
Grade level(s) and/or target audience: Primary School, PE, Reggio-inspired educators, Advisory Teachers, Teacher-Parents
Workshop title:Unplug, Reboot, and Play – Games for Boosting Learning

Description of workshop:
The goal of our workshop is to demonstrate how you can harness the power of gaming and design to “unplug” and “reboot” your students to be ready for learning. Broken into 3 chunks, participants will receive information about the science behind gaming, activity and the brain; learn the mechanics behind addictive apps in physical games designed by the presenters; and, apply these principles in the creation of your own game.

3.Wednessday Oct 31st Day 1 12:55-13:45
Venue: Design Center 2nd floor
Workshop presenter: Zach Groshell and Nik Madalinski
Workshop topic or subject area: Design Technology
Grade level(s) and/or target audience: G1 – 12
Workshop title:Dynamic Design: Personalized topics for the student-driven DT classroom.

Description of workshop:
In a unique and exciting format, design teachers Zach Groshell and Nik Mad will use their extensive experiences in theatre, summer camp, advertising, and teaching Grades 1-10 Design to motivate and inspire participants as they choose their own personalized workshop.

Upon arriving at the workshop each participant will be given a “menu” of future-ready design-themed titles. Participants will then be allowed choose what they want to learn about from the menu, ensuring that this workshop is based entirely on the interests and the needs of those in attendance. Every title brings a level of interactivity, performance, and a taste of the techniques, strategies, and thought that form a part of a dynamic instructional program that incorporates design thinking. Teachers from all subjects and grade levels welcome!