Dear Students,
Please remember that only students in Grades 10-12 may access the Café in the Centre after school. Students in Grades 5-9 who are registered for an activity that starts after 4:00 may wait on the first level of the cafeteria.
Thank you,
Mrs Tyoschin
Wendy Chen, new TA for G1B, will start from Monday 17 Aug 2015. Let’s make her feel welcome!
Amy Yang will come to attend the MYP Assembly at 2:30PM Fri Aug 14. She is going to receive the Certificate of over 10 Years Service together with other 15 colleagues.
We will also take this opportunity to send her our greetings for her birthday on Sat Aug 15. I’ll put a birthday card in the Staff Lounge at lunch time today for all of us as her friends at NIS Community to sign.
MYP English B Phases
Phase 3
Phase 3 students understand and respond to simple spoken and written texts. They interact and share information in a limited range of familiar situations, using basic language appropriate to a limited range of contexts.
Phase 4
Phase 4 students understand and respond to a limited variety of spoken and written texts. They engage in conversation and write structured text to express their ideas, opinions and experiences in a range of familiar and some unfamiliar situations.
Phase 6
Phase 6 understand and respond to a variety of spoken and written texts. They engage in conversation and write structured texts in a range of contexts. They can communicate substantial information containing relevant and developed ideas.
At NIS we have a couple of students in some MYP grades who have not yet reached the standard of Phase 3, but who are assessed against the criteria for phase 3 and as such are on Veracross as phase 3 students. A list of these students will be distributed to the relevant teachers by the end of the week.
Ann Dong’s 2nd baby girl was born on 1-July-2015. Now she has two lovely daughters.
These will be held in the Strategy Room (C115), starting at the beginning of Lunch, and run for about 30 minutes.
Thursday, August 13 – SmartBoards – Tom
Friday, August 14 – Designing Presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint – Emily
Monday, August 17 – Creating and Sharing Documents in Microsoft 365 – Emily
Tuesday, August 18 – iPads – Seesaw – Tom
Wednesday, August 19 – Creating and Sharing Spreadsheets and Forms in Microsoft 365 – Emily
Thursday, August 20 – iPads – Seesaw – Tom
Friday, August 21 – Organizing your life with OneNote – Emily
We hope to see you there!
Any questions, let us know: tomjohnson or emilyjohnson
This week we will image student computers. When we image the computers, we will erase your hard drive and install new software. This year, we are upgrading to Yosemite and installing Microsoft Office 2016. We will pick up your computers from your Advisory groups and take them to the IT Bat Cave. We are planning to complete the process by 3 pm. Please pick up your computer after school from the Apple Store.
Please remember your hard drive will be ERASED. IT department will not back up the hard drive. Please make sure to back up the hard drive before the pick up date.
SCHEDULE for 10-12 Advisory Group (MYP Schedule will be posted next week)
Aug. 13th (Thursday)
| Teacher | Room |
| Moen, Cheryl | D213 |
| Usman-Snyder, Minza | D215 |
Aug. 14th (Friday)
| Teacher | Room |
| Kay, Andrew | Design Centre |
| Morin, Francis | Design Centre |
| Marsh, Robin | Design Centre |
WEEKEND
Aug. 17th (Monday)
| Teacher | Room |
| Hornell, Darren | D201 |
| Clarke, Ruth | D220 |
| Cofer, Bob | D241 |
| Hutton, Bronwyn | D242 |
Aug. 18th (Tuesday)
| Teacher | Room |
| Coad, Malcolm | D243 |
| Wiggins, David | D246 |
| Keus, Amy | M252 |
| Ham, Katie | D341 |
| Fox, Angela | D348 |
Hi all, if your older computer, like mine, is often agonizing slow with Yosemite installed on it you may want to try out tips found at:
Enjoy.
Hello Teachers,
Please find the attached seating plan for the PAC. Basically, each house gets 8 rows, 5 for 6-9 sections and 3 for 10-12 sections. It will be up to individual House advisors to sort out exactly where your lovelies sit within your section. There will not be enough rows for each advisory, so some creative thinking will be needed!
On Friday, it would be very helpful to stand beside your rows and direct your students to their seats. Feel free to coordinate ahead of time in today’s or Thursday’s advisory. This will be a good dress rehearsal as attendance will already be taken. I will publish the chart for students tomorrow. Thanks for your flexibility and extra thanks to Sam B.
Hello MYP/DP Students. Welcome to another exciting school year at NIS!
A reminder that we will have Extended Advisory today until the end of Block One (9:15am), then a regular school day. On Friday, we will have another Extended Advisory in the morning (until 8:40am) and our Welcome Back assembly at 2:30pm during Block Five.
Have a great day!
The CISSA rugby tournaments are being played in Shanghai in 5 and a half weeks so we need to get training. If you are interested and in grade 5 to 8 please come to the first training of the year tomorrow, Thursday the 13th of August. For those of you new to the school touch rugby is a mixed girls and boys sport and is a great way for the girls to teach the boys a thing or 2 about sport. Don’t forget to bring a hat, sunscreen and a drink bottle. See you on the pitch at 3.10pm. Coaches Marsh, Kay and O’Brien.