Passports and Visas for Discover China Week
All MYP / DP students should give a copy of your passport and current visa to your Advisory teacher by this Friday (Aug 28th).
Birthday Cupcakes -August Birthdays TODAY
PTA is giving out Birthday Cupcakes today (Wednesday) at morning break, in the foyer in front of the Library. Happy Birthday all August Babies!
MYP/DP Production Audition – TODAY
A reminder to all those auditioning for the MYP/DP Production to go to the Theatre first lunch (12:55).
Good luck!
Creating their own word banks
After students have been introduced to key words have them create there own word banks in a notebook with a definition in English, an example sentence, a translation in their home language and a symbol/picture for the word.
SET minutes: Aug
Good morning,
Please see the attached minutes from Aug 19.
Set Up Your School Email on Your Mac
If you have NOT set up school email on your computer yet or if you have problem with checking your school email, please follow the steps to set up your school mail:
1. Open “System Preference” from Apple Menu
2. From the system preference window, please open”Internet Accounts“.
2. You will see the following window pop up. Please select “Exchange” which is our mail account type.
3. Please enter:
Your school email address: your school account@nanjing-school.com
Your school account is your first name last name, all together and all lowercase.
Password: your email password.
Then no matter what message shows, please click “Continue” to move on.
4. Then please enter the following information:
User Name: your school account@nanjing-school.com
Password: your email password
Server Address: outlook.office365.com
Afterwards, please click “Continue” to move on
5. You will see your account summary. Please click “Continue” to move on.
9. Please make sure you check “Mail” and “Contacts” then click “Done” to finish.
Now if you open your “Mail” application, you will be able to check your school emails.
Announced Evacuation Drill on 27 August 2015
Kind reminder for the scheduled Evacuation Drill on Thursday 27 August, 2015@11.30am.
Important Announcement for MYP/DP students
Have you had your computer re-imaged? Frustrated you lost all your data because you didn’t back it up? Can’t figure out where things are? Don’t know how to sign into Microsoft 365?
If so, then you may be eligible for some free tech help!
Learn amazing new skills, like how to set up your email, printing, accessing your email online, logging into Microsoft 365, backing up your computer, and more!
Join Ms. Johnson in the gaming room (across from the Macquarium) this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday during the first half of lunch for some introductory lessons on computer basics. Bring your computers, your hard drives, and any questions/problems you may have.
RFG Christmas Market preparation
Only 10,526,470 seconds until Christmas!
Calling North American Christmas/Holiday-folk! This year will be the first RFG Holiday Market!
Purpose:
-To bring some more Christmas spirit to our ex-pat life here in Nanjing
-To have a lot of fun
This is a call for people from North America to help out with building, choosing items to sell, sourcing, and selling.
There will be about 10 stalls, one which is for us, from NORTH AMERICA.
Dates: November 28, 29
Times: Current open times are 3pm -10pm Saturday and 3pm – 7pm Sunday
Stall Size: about 2.5m x 1.5m Stall Location: They will be lined up in RFG near to each other, like a German Xmas market
Please contact Tom Johnson if you would like to help with the North American stall
or Robin Marsh if you are keen to help with all things else.
PYP Student Council update
Thank you very much!
FYI: PYP Student Council 2015-2016 |
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| Grade 2 |
2A Khai Brown (Semester One) and Reuben Chandler (Semester Two) |
2B Sagnik |
2C Yeongsuh Seo (Sem One) Konrad Karner (Sem Two) |
| Grade 3 |
3A Elijah Smith (Semester One) Eunbin Chang (Semester Two) |
3B Will Felton |
3C Jamie Attard (Semester One) Clara Theret (Semester Two) |
| Grade 4 |
4A Max (Semester One) Calidore (Semester Two) |
4B Matilda Paradisis |
4C Saelyn Hwangbo |
| Grade 5 |
5A Fiona Stolze and Xixi Xia |
5B Casey and Suyoung |
5C Chiara Stumpf and Angele Wei |
C&S / CAS Signup on Veracross
The C&S / CAS signup link on Veracross is now open. Activities that require student helpers will be advertised on the daily bulletin during the year and you can signup at this link. You may like to periodically check if there are activities to signup for.
Upcoming C&S Activity
NIC BBQ – Sunday Sept 13th: Students helpers are required for three time sessions – 11.00- 3.00, 12.00-4.00 and 1.00-5.00pm. Students may signup for one of these times. There will be a maximum of 10 places for each time. Please note that only students who sign up will be able to help on the day as no additional helpers will be able to signup or help on the day of the BBQ.
Notification Email for Assignment
Dear MYP/DP Teachers,
Juan and Kasson indicate that if you send assignment notifications, please send it to Parents and Advisor instead of Homeroom. This year, we use advisory group and advisor instead of homeroom.
The “Notify Homeroom” button can not be removed. Please ignore it. Thanks.
MYP/DP Parent-Led Conferences Today!
Hello MYP/DP students. Today is the day!
Remember that we are ending school at 1:30pm today so that you can sit down with your parent(s) and advisor for a 15 minute session. Please remember the following:
-Normal “Tuesday Schedule” today through Block 4 and the start of lunch.
-At 1:15pm the bell will ring and MYP/DP students are dismissed.
-Buses leave at 1:30pm, but you might not be on them (especially if you have an early conference slot).
-If you are waiting for you parent(s), feel free to relax in the library.
Thanks!
Language Acquisition
Display Key Vocabulary
Once students have been introduced to key vocabulary, display the key vocabulary for that unit with definitions/visuals. This will help them to become familiar with them and will help them to get a better understanding of the concepts being taught.
PYP and MYP/DP Teacher lists
Good morning, I have had a number of requests for teacher lists for PYP and MYP/DP. Please see attached for your reference.
Arden