Dear all, please refer to enclosed weekly updates on PM2.5 data.
MYP SLC Sign-In Desk Rota
Reminder and thanks!
HEALTH WARNING!!!
Inspector Hound has issued a health warning regarding unfortunate new discoveries in the Black Box:
HEALTH ADVISORY: The public are warned that the reality/artifice boundaries are dangerously unstable in certain areas of the Black Box. The public is reminded that only professional actors are able to withstand the atmospheric pressures of artifice. Members of the public are advised to stay in their seats; on no account should they cross these boundaries – doing so may endanger both mental and physical health.
Oooh, how very ToK!!!
Student-Led Conferences Tomorrow!
Hello Again MYP Students,
Tomorrow we will have our annual student-led conferences! At some point on the day, between 8am-4pm, you will come to campus with a parent (or another willing adult if your parents are both unable to attend), sign-in in the Centre foyer, and pop into each of your classrooms for a student led (that means you!) activity, showing off what you have learned.
This is not a “normal” school day, but this IS a mandatory school day. You can come anytime, but you should give yourself about three or four hours to make the rounds. It is very important that you bring a charged laptop as well.
See you then!
Grade 10 – Work Experience Week
I have had a number of queries about the Work Experience Week timeline. For those who could not find it, here it is: TIMELINE
There have also been requests for the relevant forms, here they are: FORMS
And I’ve had students ask me for ideas, as they are ‘stuck’ : IDEAS
Oddly enough, these are all links to the Work Experience Week Edublog – who’d have thought?
With the holiday coming up, you’ll want to make sure you have a clear idea in your head for how you are going to organise your Work Experience Week. By now, you should have shared some initial thoughts with your homeroom teacher. Maybe you have already approached a perspective employer…
If you are having any difficulties please come and see me before the end of the week. When you get back from the holiday, you’ll need to be making your firm commitment to a plan and getting all the relevant paperwork together.
Language Acquisition
Helping Non Native Speaker Understand Written Texts 2
Give students as much background knowledge as possible.
ACAMIS Service Learning Grants
Grants of up to US$2500 are available to individuals or groups who wish to undertake a Service project. Information is available at the ACAMIS website. http://www.acamis.org/page.cfm?p=518 I have also attached a document that explains this more. Service_Learning_Criteria If you are interested please contact me. Application deadline is April 15th
Trashbusters ASA – still has a few vacancies
If you would like to get some exercise on Friday after school and also do the environment favor you are welcome to sign up for Trashbusters ASA – there still are a few places for G6-8 students. Please email me.
A message from Inspector Hound…
‘The web is closing in, like a fog when the cuckoo-beard is in bloom.’
Make of that what you will.
The Real Inspector Hound, Wednesday, 1st April and Thursday, 2nd April
— STOP PRESS!!! — Due to popular demand, a limited supply of extra tickets may be available. See the Accidental Theatre Company for further details.
The Real Inspector Hound
A pre-preview preview was held in the Black Box yesterday evening. These are some reviews of the preview (only the good ones, of course)…
No-one will leave the house! Scotland Yard Inquirer
Wonderful wallpapering! Town and Country
I almost fell asleep! John Rinker
Student-Led Conferences Wednesday This Week
Hello MYP Students,
On Wednesday we will have our annual student-led conferences! At some point on the day, between 8am-4pm, you will come to campus with a parent (or another willing adult if your parents are both unable to attend), sign-in in the Centre foyer, and pop into each of your classrooms for a student led (that means you!) activity, showing off what you have learned.
This is not a “normal” school day, but this IS a mandatory school day. You can come anytime, but you should give yourself about three or four hours to make the rounds. It is very important that you bring a charged laptop as well.
See you then!
Language Acquisition
This week the Language Acquisition post will look at helping non native speakers understand reading texts.
Helping Non Native Speaker Understand Reading Texts 1
Legibility
Students, particularly non native speakers, may have problems that are caused solely by the fact that what they are trying to understand has been poorly printed or copied, is badly set-out or is in a very small type-face.
Earth Hour Thanks
Many thanks to everyone who helped to make the Earth Hour event such a success on Saturday. The students, teachers and parents involved in organising activities were fantastic. Those who performed in some way were wonderful. Facilities performed miracles as always.
Don’t let it be in vain-USE YOUR POWER to make some small changes that could make a big difference.
The winners of the best ‘trashion’ outfits were Sophia Rinker and Sofia Saavedra Adams. The eco-logo and bin designs competitions will be judged this week.
We interrupt this bulletin for a police message…
Further to the unfortunate discovery of a dead body in the Black Box on Friday last, the police would like to announce the opening of an investigation into the circumstances of death, if, indeed, death it is proved to be, as it were. In order to facilitate this investigation, we would like to urge the NIS community to put themselves, as it were, into the hands of Scotland Backyard’s finest, Inspector Hound.
The Inspector will be present, in person and in attendance, as it were, at NIS on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Meanwhile, the Inspector urges the community not to be in the least worried – even though it seems that the killer is in our midst – and to take our minds off the matter by being on the lookout for a sinister and mysterious personage described as being of medium height and build, wearing a darkish suit and lightish shirt, and quite possibly behaving, or indeed acting, as a madman.
Further to this announcement, the Inspector has made a request for aid in identifying the as yet unclaimed dead body, described as longish, tallish and thinnish. Anyone who thinks they may know, or personally be acquainted with, a dead body that fits this description is politely, but not too politely, asked to be in attendance at the Black Box on Wednesday, 1st April and Thursday, 2nd April at 7pm precisely, when all, as is the manner of these things, will be revealed.
PYP Assembly today
Good morning!
Please head directly to the PAC this morning as we have a longer-ish assembly and would like to begin on time. The programme is as follows:
1. Paul Johnson and his gardening club.
2. G6 students performing a poem about recycling.
3. K1s stealing the show with their assembly on How We Express Ourselves.
4. House Point update
5. LOTW certificates