Month: August 2016

Call for Presenters

Following my announcement at Monday Briefing, we are looking for inspirational presenters for the prestigious ACAMIS conference, which NIS is hosting on the 10th and 11th March 2017. The theme for the conference is “Linked or Chained” and the strands will be:

Inclusion

Blended Learning

Burst the Bubble

Learning Spaces

Athletics Directors/Business Leaders/ACE (arts)

We have incredible Keynote speakers lined up and some really innovative ideas, which we hope will make this the best ACAMIS conference yet.

If you have seen a great presenter from another school, or know of somebody you would love to see share what they do, please email me their details. It could be an ex-colleague, someone you connect with on professional social media, or have seen at another conference …but they will need to be in the region and willing to accept the prestige, rather than great financial reward. Also, if YOU are thinking you might like to present, or want more information on what is expected, please let me know asap.

Look forward to linking with you.

Emma (McBride)

Social Events – August 19 and 20

Social Events this Weekend:

Friday:

  • From 4-7pm, come to Gilly’s for reduced price drinks. A special Spanish menu has been created for this event.
  • From 8-11pm, adults are welcome to an Indoor fun park on the 3rd floor of the Pizza Hut mall on the way to RFG.
  • Talk to Tom for more details about Indoor fun park – Cost involved

Saturday:

  • 6:00pm Welcome Back school buffet at Masala Kitchen
  • 80¥ – Kids up to 12 Free – Special price drinks

Managebac for G6-10 Service Activities and G11-12 CAS

All G6-10 Service Activities (C&S) and G11-12 CAS Activities will now be recorded in Managebac. All new students and returning G6-9 students should have received an email from Managebac about how to log into your account. Returning G10 – 12 students should already have an account. Please ensure that you can log into Managebac and you are assigned to the correct Advisory Teacher. More details about Service and CAS will be given to you soon. If you have any questions please contact me.

ASA Information – Teaching Staff

Hi All

We have closed the ASA survey so if you still need to inform me of what ASAs you will be doing this year please email me by Wed. We particularly need cycle 1 information as we need to put this together and publicise to students and parents soon.

Grade 12 Extended Essay

Dear Grade 12, Welcome back to your final semester of Extended Essay. You have work to do starting this week:

  • Make an appointment with your supervisor this week
  • Check you have done your second reflection in Managebac
  • Plan your time between now and the final deadline of December 2nd

NIS MYP/DP Gardening Team

Find out all about growing your own vegetables. Take care of your own vegetable plot and take home or sell your produce when it is ready to harvest.  If you are in MYP/DP and think you may be interested and would like to know more, please come to see Mr Clarke in the Athletics Office.36EAFB655DB15B91CC6140DF94A4E6709040BAD333263AA2C0pimgpsh_fullsize_distr

Items from Lockers

Hello all G7-12 Students,

This summer we cleared out all the left items from the lockers, if you have lost anything from your former lockers, you can come to my office Room D231 to collect. Please be noted all the items will be cleaned away by the end of this Friday August 19th.

 

No MYP Music Clubs

The music clubs will start from next week. This week, I will be choosing and preparing repertoire. If you need to audition, then please come see me sometime during break or lunch. If you are part of the advanced orchestra, and are in grade 12, please email to let me know whether you will be joining, and if so for how long (e.g. just one semester?)

Monday Briefing

Good morning –

A reminder that we will have our first Monday briefing of the school year at the start of morning break in the Staff Room. Please arrive promptly, unless you are on duty, in which you should also arrive to your supervision area promptly!

See you there,

Arden

Veracross Notice

  • Author By cindykong
  • Publication date August 12, 2016
  • Categories: Staff

Veracross database access website: http://esweb1.veracross.com/nis/ has been taken offline permanently since today (August 15th, 2016).  It has been replaced by Axiom: http://axiom.veracross.com/nis/  (Veracross Teacher Portal remains the same.)

You can login with your normal Veracross login account and password.

If you need any help with using it, please drop by or send me your available time, I will come and walk you through.

Cindy: cindykong@nanjing-school.com

Room: C102 (Macquarium)

Duties

Dear Staff

I will not make any changes to duties, apologies for any inconvenience, but I cannot accommodate all requests. However, please be aware that swapping your duty with a colleague can still be done.

Sport sign ups are open!!

All levels of experience are welcome to join – go along and give it a try.

Gr 9 – 12 Volleyball – Mondays and Thursdays – blue gym

Gr5 – 12 Cross Country – Tuesdays and Thursdays – track

CISSA (Gr5-8) Touch Rugby – Wednesdays and Fridays – field

ACAMIS (Gr9 – 12) Touch Rugby – Mondays and Wednesdays – field

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