PTA is giving out Birthday Cupcakes Today, Wednesday, at morning break, in the foyer in front of the Library. Happy Birthday all September Babies!
MYP Tech Challenge Results
A fun and exciting Friday afternoon ended with a very tight house race in the MYP Tech Challenge.
The grade 6 winners of the Gliders was Taiping.
The grade 7 winners of the Dominos was Wutaishan.
The grade 8 winners of the Catapults was Wutaishan.
The grade 9 winners of the Rocket Sleds was Wutaishan.
The grade 10 winners of the Tower was Taiping.
Overall Winners of the points from every activity results in a with Wutaishan in first, Taiping in second and Xuanwu in third place. Congratulations to all the students for their participation and enthusiasm.
Inter-House Table Tennis
The Inter-House Table Tennis competitions will take place next week; Grades 9 – 12 on Tuesday lunchtime and Grades 6 – 8 on Wednesday lunchtime. Each House will need a team of two girls and two boys for each of these days. If you are interested in playing in one of these competitions please see your House captains or House leaders as soon as you can.
IE University, Spain
A representative from IE University will be visiting on Thursday. Please come to the Counsellor’s Office @ 12.50 if you are considering studying in Europe in English!
A great opportunity to find out about a range of courses taught in English in a truly international environment, with tuition and living costs substantially below those of the US, UK and Australia. Click the image below for their website.
PM2.5 Updates
Please refer to attached updates on PM2.5 data in Sept.2015.
Thanks/Myra
PM2.5 in Sept.2015.pdf
Grade 12 US applicants
If you are applying ED or EA to the US, please come and see me tomorrow, Wednesday 9 September at 10.20 in my office. Thanks.
(If you don’t know what this is, you’re not…)
Science Trolley Missing . . . please help =)
Have you seen a blue trolley like this one. It has gone missing from Steve B’s old room/Dan S new room over the summer and is needed back in the Science department. Please contact Russel or Dan if you have any information. Thank you.
Table Tennis Sign Ups are open
The Table Tennis season starts next week. It is open to students in Gr6 – Gr12. If you are interested in participating, please sign up on veracross and attend the first practice on Tuesday 15th Sep at 4.15pm in Green gym. Practices are Tuesdays at 4.15 – 5.30pm and Fridays 3.15 – 4.30pm. Spaces are limited due to number of tables available so selections will be made.
Language Acquisition
When using the Student Research Centre on EBSCOHOST use the Lexile Reading Level in Advanced Search to find easier material or use Detailed Search in Kids Search – Middle & Elementary School to limit the Lexile Level.
Here’s a guide to Lexile Levels
1 Up to 300L
2 140L to 500L
3 330L to 700L
4 445L to 810L
5 565L to 910L
6 665L to 1000L
7 735L to 1065L
8 805L to 1100L
9 855L to 1165L
10 905L to 1195L
11 and 12 940L to 1210L
Announced Evacuation Drill @10.00am on Wednesday, 09 September 2015
This is kind reminder for the Announced Evacuation @10.00am on Wednesday 09 September 2015 for whole school.
Thanks/Myra
G11/12 CAS Opportunity －中文是你的母语吗？
如果中文是你的母语就看下面吧。
We are looking for a native Chinese speaker to help interpret for drama sessions on Wednesdays (3.30-5.00) for the next 5 or 6 weeks. There will be a group of NIS students and 2 groups of students from other schools here practising a play – but we need someone to interpret! 你愿意不愿意帮助我们？两个人也可以。This could be a Service and / or creativity activity. 如果你愿意的话请跟我联系吧。
Grade 11 Choice Unit in Life101
This Prototype, Student Choice – Student Voice unit runs on the following four dates: October 16, October 28, November 10, November 20
So far, we have five activities offered:
Danny C – Volleyball
Jacqui W – Tai Chi
Sam B – Presentation and self-presentation
Paul U and Martyn N – Circus Skills
Neila S – Mindfulness
With only 5 options, and 47 students, this could make for some larger-than-anticipated groups. Please email me with suggestions if you have an activity you would like to offer. Another two, at least, would offer a wider and more authentic choice.
As a reminder, if you are not an Advisor, the hope was that you would find two courses across the whole Life101 programme to offer. If you are only currently offering only one, could you please see you way to offering a choice activity for Grade 11 in this slot? (If you are an Advisor, you are hopefully offering at least one Life101 course during the academic year – if you see that you are not, please let me know!)
It’s a great opportunity for you to teach / interact with a new grade level if you haven’t had much to do with grade 11 before.
(The Grade 10 Choice Unit runs on the following dates December 14, January 14, January 26, February 22, and currently has five offerings: DannyC- Gardening, AmyK – Garageband, JacquiP – Vegan Cooking, SamB – Improv and VickiR – Chinese Watercolours. This is a larger year group, and so an even wider range of activities would also be welcome.)
Thank you to those teachers who have already jumped into the breach, as it were!
Microsoft 365
Hello all,
If anyone has an issue with Microsoft 365 (OneNote, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PowerPoint),
please submit the problem to help
We have a direct contact with Microsoft and can follow up for support.
Cheers,
Tom
Local School English Tutors (C&S / CAS) – G9-12
There are still a few vacancies for students to join the local school English tutoring group who will go to the Middle School next door and give some informal English tuition. I expect we will start (the Wednesday) visits in about two weeks. Please email me if you would like to join or simply sign up on the C&S / CAS signup link.
USA Universities Visit
Grade 11? Thinking of applying to the US to study?
Any other grade, considering the USA?
Put Monday October 19th in your iCal, Diary, agenda NOW.
At 9.00am, we have Boston University coming to visit (in my office). If you want to come along, you’ll need to get yourself excused from class and email me ahead of time.
At 10.40, in the MYP LGR, we have 6 US colleges setting up a mini-fair (as last year). These are:
Widener University, Western New England University, College of Saint Benedict/ Saint John’s University, University of La Verne, Northern Kentucky University, Loyola University Chicago
If you are thinking, ‘I’ve never heard of them, why should I bother?’ STOP thinking that, this instant! Having never heard of them is a good reason for coming – you are going to learn something new. In addition, they will all have something to say generically about the US application process. In short, if you are thinking of applying to the US, you should definitely be coming to this event.
After break, I will be asking the reps to present on The College Essay, Scholarships for International Students and Living and Studying in the USA. These mini-seminars will eat into the first half of Block 3, so please make sure you have permission from your teacher to be absent.
Scrooge Whole Cast Read Through
A reminder that there is a whole cast read through today straight after school. During this time you will receive scripts, rehearsal schedule and other information. Please do not be late.
3:15 start – Black Box.