Day: October 10, 2016

Grade 12 IBDP Group 4 project

All grade 12 students,

Please make sure you can login to IBWrite before this Friday. You will use it during the Discover China trip to write down your Group 4 project reflection. If you have any questions, please see your DP Science teacher or Mr. Mello.

MYP/DP Passsport / Travel ID Collection – Reminder

Please bring your passport to the listed person below unless you need it before Discover China week. G12 Students please note because Dr Saavedra is not at school Elaine Liu and I will collect G12 passports.

G6 Suzhou Mr Paul Underwood  D220

G7 Shandong Mr Robin Hutchison Activities Office

G8 Hangzhou Mr Dan Snyder D212

G9 Beijing Ms Rebecca Crème D346

G10/11 Yangshou Ms Vicki Hong Athletics Office

G10/11 Xiamen Mr Kasson Bratton D207a

G10/11 Chengdu Ms Elaine Liu Activities Office

G10/11 Guizhou Mr Robin Hutchison Activities Office

G12 Shenzhen Elaine Liu and Robin Hutchison Activities Office

Suzhou Field Study

Grade 12 Biology and grade 11 ESS students are reminded to be on campus at 6am on Wednesday October 12th for our Suzhou Field Study. What to bring: packed lunch –no nuts– or lunch money (no more than 75¥); a jacket (we’ll be outdoors, forecast is cloudy and windy); ESS or Biology notebook; writing tools.

No laptops, please.

Learning Alchemists Environment – October 20

Due to 3-way conferences, the Learning Alchemists Environment next meeting will be

Thursday, October 20

in the Strategy Room at Lunch

we will read the attached article.

Please remember, you can drop in and leave any time. 🙂

Contact Tom Johnson for more details

Article for Oct 13

Scaffolding and Achievement in Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning-A Response to Kirschner Sweller and Clark 2006.pdf

Past Articles

Social Committee Calendar – Update

Hello All, The Social Committee Calendar has been updated.
We will not have an event this week – and there is less frequency of activities.
The updated calendar will be hanging in the staff room.
We would like to highlight the following:

First Aid Training

There are still two places available for the First Aid training course on November 12th. The course will result in an internationally recognised certificate from ISOS (see details attached). Please note that if you intend to coach a sport next year you must have an up to date First Aid certificate.  See me for more details.

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Extended Essay Supervisors

Grade 11 will begin their Extended Essay journey in November! We have a new guide starting this year (attached) with some major changes. If anyone is interested in supervising a student in Grade 11 that has perhaps not supervised in the past, please come and see me. In particular I am looking for someone to supervise Psychology and Economics Extended Essays.  guide_extended_essay2018

Learning Alchemists Environment – Oct 13: Debate Article

If you would like to come to the Learning Alchemists Environment

Thursday, October 13

in the Strategy Room at Lunch

we will read the attached article.

Please remember, you can drop in and leave any time. 🙂

Contact Tom Johnson for more details

Article for Oct 13

Scaffolding and Achievement in Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning-A Response to Kirschner Sweller and Clark 2006.pdf

Past Articles