Month: October 2015

Local School English Tutor Group now open to G8-12 – C&S/CAS

The local school English Tutoring group is now open to G8-12 for C&S / CAS. There are a few vacancies. We go to the local Middle School on Wed after school and do about 40 minutes small group English conservation. If you are interested please signup on Veracross on the C&S/CAS signup link. The next visit is Wed after Discover China Week. We meet in the MYP LGR at 3.10pm then go to the school.

Inter House Volleyball Today

Come and support the Grade 9-12 students in their inter house volleyball competition at lunchtime today. 

Teams – remember to wear your house shirts.

Competition starts at 12.50 in the blue gym.

 

Language Acquisition

Provide written notes, summaries, instructions, and prereading

ELL/English B students may not be able to process oral information quickly enough to understand fully or to make their own meaningful notes; your notes can highlight key ideas, new words, etc; written instructions are particularly useful to students when homework or major projects are assigned.

Sharpen Those Razors

It is getting close to that time of the year again.  Little hairs are slowly preparing to start covering the lips of men around the world. In 24 Days, Movember 2015 is set to begin.

Movember is more than just a bunch of men looking stunningly handsome for one month of the year, it is about raising awareness and money to help find solutions to a variety of men’s health issues.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a Mo Bro or a Mo Sista – Movember is for everyone. There are two ways to participate: sign up to grow a moustache for 30 days, and/or take the MOVE challenge and get active every day for 30 days.

If you’d like to learn more about the important work and impact the Movember Foundation is having please visit: http://hk.movember.com/programs/strategy.

If you’d like to get involved and join Team Nanjing, please visit http://mobro.co/richardfischl

Parents, Teachers, and Students are welcome to join the team. If you can’t grow an amazing moustache, take the MOVE challenge and exercise every day during the month of Movember (November).

If you have any questions please email me at rick.fischl@staff.nanjing-school.com or Mr. Buhler at bobbuhler@staff.nanjing-school.com

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Grade 10 – Family Connection

All Grade 10 students. Please log in to Family Connection this week and see Zoe or myself if you have any difficulties in doing so. You need to be able to log in before you go away for Discover China Week.

Username is school email address.

Password will have arrived by email yesterday if you had not previously logged in.

https://connection.naviance.com/family-connection/auth/login/?hsid=nis

Eco Team Meeting

The whole Eco Team will meet on Friday 9th October in C122 at 1:20, allowing everyone time to eat their lunch first. We will then split into sub-committees. PYP teachers, please pass the message on to all members in your homeroom. Members who cannot attend should email Cosima Conen or Sophia Rinker. Thanks.

 

NIS Speech and Debate Extravaganza: Think, Speak, Act

* Do you love arguing your point of view?

* Are you an actor?

* Can you talk your way out of anything?

If your answer is yes to any (or all) of the above, Speech and Debate needs you!

NIS is hosting an ACAMIS weekend dedicated to all things Speech and Debate, alongside our MUN pals on February 27th and 28th.

Come to an info session in Ms Ham’s classroom (D341) this Wednesday (October 7th) at the beginning of lunch to find out more!

Language Acquisition

Children learn best when they feel secure and are interested in what they are
doing. Successful learning takes place in a supportive, non-threatening,
enjoyable learning environment.

10.10 aka El Capitan isn’t supported

I’m sure there are some high flyer eager students who have already upgraded to 10.10, Apple’s newest Mac OS. It is important to know the school at this time only supports Mac OS 10.9 also known as Yosemite.

We purposely wait on upgrading the base Mac OS because of software issues. For example it has been reported that Microsoft Office will not run on 10.10 and I’m confident there will be more issues. (see reader reports on macintouch.com)

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If you have upgraded to 10.10 we can help you down grade to 10.9. If you have upgraded but are not interested in down grading then you will be responsible for your own tech support.

PPP Film Audition Meeting

Once again, hello to all of Grade 9 and up! Just a reminder that today, first half of lunch there will be a meeting in the Black Box about how auditions will work for my PPP Short Film. I am very excited to see you there.

– Kostya Tyoschin G10

Game Mechanics in your Classroom

Teachers,

As I mentioned at the briefing yesterday, I’m beginning to explore the use of game mechanics in a classroom setting. This is not the same thing as playing (video) games in class. Rather, it’s similar to transforming the classroom culture into a role-playing game. If you’re curious, here’s a video of Classcraft: the platform that makes this concept easier to implement.

University of California System Virtual College Fair

The University of California System Virtual College Fair is this week!

Thursday, October 8th from 11:00am to 8:00pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time). To save you some clicks, that’s 2:00am on Friday 9th until 11:ooam local time.

You can create your free CollegeWeekLive account at ucday.collegeweeklive.com and log in on the 8th to learn which UC school is the best for you…

Urgent Scrooge! meeting

There will be a meeting for all cast involved in Scrooge! at Wednesday morning break (10:20) in the Black Box. We will detail a change in the Production Camp dates and times. All involved in the production must attend. Please arrive as quickly as possible, as the sooner we start the sooner we finish.