Provide follow-up activities that reinforce vocabulary and concepts.
Use your power
Use your power,
Don’t wait for Earth Hour!
Please, please, please help by only putting paper used on both sides in the large painted recycling bins! It is very disheartening to find paper which is clean on one side and which can be used again for scrap or for printing. Sort paper before recycling. Thank you.
Earth Hour- Small jars and tins needed
In preparation for Earth Hour arts & crafts, we are collecting used aluminum/tin cans and small glass jars for candle holder creations. Please note:
- please check that tin cans have no sharp edges along the rim
- smaller glass jars are needed. Your help in removing all labels would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for bringing any donations to the Library or PYP Design Room (John Rinker’s Room) before March 27.
Thanks in advance!
Michelle
The Real Inspector Hound
The Accidental Theatre Company returns with their spring production – Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Real Inspector Hound’. For two nights only, this acclaimed company has kindly agreed to present their latest show – an intriguing country house murder mystery / inquiry into the very nature of existence and truth – in special review for the enjoyment of a limited audience before they go out on tour*. Critics from local and national press will be in attendance.
The two shows will be presented in the Black Box at 7pm on the evenings of Wednesday, 1st April and Thursday, 2nd April. Tickets are available from all regular outlets (Centre lobby) and are FREE!
* Catch the show while you can before it goes out on tour: Shanghai, Beijing, Ulan Baator, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Murmansk, Spitzbergen and Reykjavik – schedule TBA (dependent on hitch-hiking opportunities and conditions of spring pack ice).
Early reviews have this to say:
It has scale. It has colour… Large as it is, it is a small masterpiece.
Moon, Second Rate Daily Times
It has a beginning, a middle, and I have no doubt it will have an end. For that, let us give thanks…
Birdboot, First Rate Entertainment Periodical
There are moments, and I would not begrudge it this, when the play, if we can call it that, and I think that on balance we can, aligns itself uncompromisingly on the side of life. Je suis, it seems to be saying, ergo sum.
Moon, Second Rate Daily Times
Sartre meets Shakespeare, Beckett meets Beckham, Joyce meets E.L.James in fifty shades of mauve.
Andrew Kay (NIS Promotions & Props Co.Ltd.)
Without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality…
IB Educational Supplement
Some of the cast seem to have given up acting altogether…
Purple Duck
Language Acquisition
This week the Language Acquisition post will look at how to support students after the lesson.
Provide non native speakers with summary notes of the main points of the lesson.
“When the sword becomes words” – Students of many nations sing for peace (C&S Activity) – G5-12
Like singing? Like trying to sing? In conjunction with schools around the world and the Middle school next to NIS, NIS students have the opportunity to collaborate in singing “One Day” by Matisyahu. This will be videoed and compiled with other schools into a video clip. NIS students will sing in conjunction with our friends in the Chinese school next door. We plan on meeting on Tue 31 March to practice and then on April 2nd to video. If interested please register on C&S / CAS signup link on Veracross. You can email me or Ms Bonnie for more information.
Pfrang Trip April 19th and 20th – C&S / CAS (G8-11)
Still some places left in the Pfrang Association trip to Northern Jiangsu Province on April 19th and 20th. The trip will be an opportunity for you to understand more about life in the Chinese countryside and for you to meet some of the students that Pfrang sponsors. Please email me for details. It will also be an opportunity for you to think more about how NIS can interact with the Pfrang students.
Don’t Forget – ACAMIS Middle School Cultural Convention (May 28-29) – Signups close Monday 3.00pm
Don’t Forget! Signup for ACAMIS Middle School (G6,7 and 8) Cultural Convention (May 28 and 29) will close Monday at 3.00pm
You can get more information from the convention website: https://teachersh.scis-his.net/mscc15/
If you are interested please sign up on the Cultural Activities Registration link on Veracross by Monday 3.00pm. We expect the approximate cost of this activity will be 1600rmb. After you signup we will send out more information to you.
Please do not sign up on the SCIS Cultural Convention website at this stage.
If you have any questions please contact me or your arts / performing arts teachers.
Lost & Found
Lost: iPhone 4, a pair of blue Nike runners
Found: 2 cell phones, 6 watches, a Macbook charger, a gold bracelet
Please see Mrs Tyoschin
Tech Challenge results and thank you
I want to send a big thank you to my fellow teachers, I really appreciate your help in making Friday’s MYP Tech Challenge a success and a really big shout out to Robin for his organisation of all the materials and the setup.
If you have any feedback on how to improve activities, set-up, clean-up, scoring, etc. please talk with or send a message to Robin Marsh and/or Russel Fleming.
MYP Tech Challenge Results
A fun and exciting Friday afternoon ended with a very tight house race in the MYP Tech Challenge. The total score for each event included points from 1st to 15th place and points for participation if the challenge was not achieved.
- The grade 6 winners of the Parachuts was Taiping.
- The grade 7 winners of the Rockets was Wutaishan.
- The grade 8 winners of the Bridges was Wutaishan.
- The grade 9 winners of the Earthquake tower was Xuanwu.
- The grade 10 winners of the Pilar strength was Taiping.
Overall Winners of the points from every activity results in a with Taiping in first, Wutaishan in second and Xuanwu in third place. Congratulations to all the students for their participation and enthusiasm.
MYP/DP Production Auditions
We are pleased to announce another MYP/DP production is coming your way. ‘Grimm Tales’ (adapted by Carol Ann Duffy) will be performed on 1st and 2nd June 2015.
We are holding auditions on the following days:
Monday 30th March
Tuesday 31st March
Lunchtime (1st half) in the Black Box.
If you are a student from grades 6-11 interested in performing in this show please sign-up and collect an audition extract from Ms Philip or Mr Brown.
Look forward to seeing you!
Language Acquisition
Graphic organisers can be used to develop Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency.
ASA Cycle 3 Signup is now closed
ASA Cycle 3 Online Signup is now closed. Please note that only students who have signed up for ASAs may attend. If you wish to signup now you should contact me to see if there are vacancies.
Courtyard outside of cafeteria closed today due to Tech Challenge set-up
The courtyard outside of cafeteria closed today due to Tech Challenge set-up. Please enjoy your lunch in another location for today.
Teachers please arrive 7-10 minutes early for MYP tech challenge
In order to have a smooth start to the MYP tech challenge please arrive to the Design Centre, 7-10 minutes early so you beat the crowd of students and your teacher leader can give any instructions necessary. Enjoy the afternoon.