SET Minutes Week 22
Hello All. Please find the Week 22 SET meeting minutes linked here. Thanks!
Thank you from the Student Council
Good morning!
Thank you to all parents, teachers and students who bought the Candy Grams being sold by Student Council this week.
We have raised 700 RMB and are very pleased to be giving the proceedings to the Amy Yang Foundation.
Thanks for all your help!
Angela Lu @ The Student Council
HOMEWORK CLUB!
Q: Wanna hear a joke about paper?
(The answer is at the bottom so keep reading!)
Today (Monday) at 3:15 Homework Club will be held in C142 aka the LSS area.
If you’d like help with your:
-PP
-Organization
-Syncing your Veracross to your iCal (Ms. Cindy is coming down to help)
-Homework
Come join us! See you there!
A: It’s Tearable!
Last call for a chance to get into the Talent Show!
Dear Students, Teachers, and Parents,
If you wish to perform in the Talent Show and win prizes, this is your last chance!
Submit a video recording of your performance onto the Student Large Storage under “Talent Show Digital Submission”, we will evaluate your performance.
Please do this before Tuesday, February 21.
Good luck!
Willy
willywang@students.nanjing-school.com
ISA Tests disruption to classes
Dear Teachers,
Please note the ISA testing schedule below that will necessitate some disruption to classes on Wednesday and Thursday next week. Apologies for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience. Invigilators have been notified. If you normally teach this grade during the testing time and you are not invigilating, your class will be cancelled. This is a change to previous years as the tests are online and are for Writing only.
ISA Essential Training
Dear Teachers, If you are invigilating an ISA test next week please attend the training session that Cindy will run on Monday February 20th at 3.45pm. Bring your computers and the ISA testing handbook.
Inter House Badminton – G6-8, G9-12 – Next Week
Ladies and Gentlemen,
???Interhouse Badminton is coming next week!???
House captains: get your teams together. Secret Badminton superstars: speak to your house captains.
2 competitions: Gr 6 – 8 and Gr 9 – 12
• Grade 6 – 8 Teams of 6: 3 girls and 3 boys
• Grade 9 – 12 Teams of 8: 4 boys and 4 girls
Pencil it in your schedules?! Add it to your calendar?! Set a reminder on your phone?!
Come along and cheer your team to victory! Show some house spirit by wearing your house shirt?❤️?.
See you, Wednesday* first lunch, in the gym
(*TBC)
Senior House Basketball Results
Girls:
Taiping 6 defeated Xuanwu 0
Wutaishan 4 defeated Taiping 0
Xuanwu 6 defeated Wutaishan 0
Boys:
Xuanwu 17 defeated Taiping 7
Wutaishan 13 defeated Taiping 3
Xuanwu 12 defeated Wutaishan 8
Final Points:
1st Xuanwu 6 points
2nd Wutaishan 4 points
3rd Taiping 2 points
Well done to all the players for putting on a great show.
Thanks so much to Ms Andrew and Mr Coad for their outstanding refereeing! Thanks also to Mr Bratton, Mr Marsh and Mr Hornell for scoring, and Mr Dutton for timekeeping and organising the event.
Grade 4 Creative New Undertakings Share-Out
Have you heard a lot of chatter about Creative New Undertakings in Grade 4 this year? Have you wondered what this is all about? Do you want to know more? On Friday, February 17th the Grade 4 students are going to present their progress and thinking about their Creative New Undertakings project to the entire school community. Please join us in the foyer in front of the library from 9:20-10:40 to discover more about exciting student-driven inquiry projects. You will see authors, designers, bakers, woodworkers, filmmakers, cartoonists, builders, interior designers, inventors, problem solvers, and thinkers. We hope you all can make it to this special event.
ISTA Middle School Festival
…3 days of theatre games, workshops and performances, a chance to meet new people and develop skills in Drama…
If you’re still interested in the ISTA theatre festival in April (for grade 6-8 students) please collect a form from Ms Philip or Mr Brown.
For those who have completed a form, please hand in to Ms Philip or Mr Brown as soon as possible!
MS/US Awards Assembly Tomorrow!
Hello Middle and Upper School Scholars,
Our Semester One Awards assembly will take place tomorrow morning in the PAC. This event will start at the usual assembly time of 8:00am and may push a little into Block One. Get ready to enjoy our poet laureates, an orchestra performance, ace speeches, and, of course, honoring our award recipients!
See you there!
TEDxYouth@NIS
TEDxYouth@NIS is just around the corner!
Join us at the Performing Arts Center this Saturday (Feb 18th) at 5pm.
Tickets every morning in the Center Foyer and with Mr Mello in room D204.
Grades 9 and up welcome!
Come see Frank Hossack on ‘the return of the radio’ and Stuart Ramsey on “Comfort Zones” — watch this space for more speakers tomorrow.