Day: March 16, 2015

Language Acquisition

CALP isn’t just the understanding of content area vocabulary. It includes skills such as comparing, classifying, synthesizing, evaluating, and inferring.

GAMES!

Do you like to play games? Me too! Do you want to challenge a teacher to a board/card/dice/other type of game? Of course you do! Well there is some good news: Friday Game Day is continuing this Friday during the first half of lunch in the fishbowl (the room across from IT). Bring your own game or play one of ours (Uno, Spoons, Uno Attack, Jenga, and a variety of others). Challenge your friends. Challenge your teachers. Challenge yourself. As Author Unknown once said, “The way a man plays a game shows some of his character. The way he loses shows all of it.”

Student Homework Survey

Hello MYP Pupils,

Thanks to the 184 students that dutifully completed this HW survey on Friday! Now the rest of you… don’t make Uncle Sam angry (does he look like a dude you want to mess with?). If you were out for ACAMIS, CISSA, NEAMC, some other acronym I’m not aware of, or just sick, then welcome back! Now please complete this survey in homeroom today or tomorrow. Your input is important!

Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VH3NRMR

Many thanks,

Mr. Bratton (Uncle Sam’s nephew)

Uncle_Sam_(pointing_finger)

ACAMIS Badminton

The NIS badminton team brought 24 players up to Beijing for the ACAMIS badminton tournament.

Fifteen different schools came to the tournament to compete inside the famous ISB dome.

At the end of three days of badminton, the NIS 1 team finished third in Division 1 and the NIS 2 team finished first in Division 2.  These were great results for the NIS shuttlers. All the NIS players improved over the course of the tournament but special mention should go to Jia Yue Seow, Jason Oh and Hyunuk Kang for their outstanding performances.

While not playing badminton, many of the Grade 12 students spent their free time preparing for the upcoming mock exams. These students provided a great example of what it means to be a student athlete.

MYP Tech Challenge is coming!

On Friday March 20th after lunch be ready to create, build to solve challenges and lead your house to victory.

MYP Tech Challenge: Friday March 20th – Block 5

The MYP inter house Tech Challenge is rapidly approaching. It will be block 5 on Friday March 20th. This is day 4.

The following teachers will miss the chance to be involved because they are teaching grades 11/12 at that time: Ruth, Rob Battye, Danny Clarke and Cheryl.

Due to the sheer volume of grade 12 artwork spread throughout the design centre there has been some changes in locations for some activities. Please see the updated version. Note: DC Courtyard is the outside area behind the cafeteria.

Task sheets will be emailed out to teachers (please keep secret from students) on Tuesday.

Teacher helper list-2015-Semester 2