Dear overseas staff,
Please find here attached the latest health screening package specially customized for NIS.
Best wishes,
Clara Xi
HR Assistant
claraxi@staff.nanjing-school.com
Nanjing International School
Tel: +86 25 85899111*3060 / Fax: +86 25 85899222
This is purely an FYI about what happened this morning and our process of solving it so that you, as a user is better informed. Feel free to ask any of us “IT” folk about it for clarification.
There was a brief break in our VPN connection on the Teacher wifi network this morning from about 0750 – 0950. York Zha, our Network “guy,” leapt into action and did some behind the scenes work to shift that connection to the student line to try and minimize the interruption while our provider (GOIP) worked on fixing the issue. Since we have 2 lines – Unicom (for students) and Telecom (for teachers) – dedicated to our VPN provider (GOIP), and only the GOIP Telecom line was down, York worked his magic and switched the Teacher network (network = WiFi) onto the same Unicom line (internet) as the students.
When something like this occurs (or you suspect something like this is occurring) the best thing to do is to turn off then on your wifi. What this does is allow the WiFi card in your computer to reset the settings for connecting to the internet, essentially giving it time to figure out that old addresses it was connected to were not working and find the ones that do. A good example would be when you and a friend are trying to meet up somewhere and figure out how far apart you are: you call each other initially to say that you are just heading out the door; then when you get to the place ahead of your friend, you call to check in and find out where they are/how close they are and find out that they’re running late because of traffic.
If you’ve read this far, congratulations! You can claim to be a level 1 network ninja. If you’re still puzzled, feel free to ask York or any of the rest of IT to clarify. We’re always happy to educate and geek out! Enjoy your weekend and Happy Friday!
On Saturday, August 26th, NIS will be providing some musicians to play background music at a Christmas bazaar. The PYP / MYP choir will be performing, and we hope to have some soloists and small ensembles as well. If you are interested, please let Ms. Heidi or Miss Keus know, so that we can add you to our documentation and get your equipment needs setup, etc. Please let us know by Tuesday, November 22nd.
Attached is the list of the 16 G6-10 students attending the Speak Easy at BWYA on Nov 25-26. The students will leave school after Block one on Friday Nov 25.speakeasybwyanov-25-26
Round 2 of Life 101 starts Today, Friday, November 18, 2018. Day 8 Block 2. Enjoy your new set of lessons.
Grade 7: Digi Citi: Upstairs cafeteria: Mrs. Barder and Mrs. Kong
Grade 8: Organization: Upstairs Design Center: Mrs. Bezzerides
Grade 9: Sex Ed: Drama Classroom: Mr. Bratton
Grade 10: Wellness: MYP/LGR: 1st lesson focus: PPP Mrs. Snyder
Grade 11: College Counseling: Music Room: (Mrs. Galaty)
Grade 12: Life After HS: DP Lounge: First lesson is EE Ruth
Hi Grade 12, we will have a final Extended Essay session tomorrow (Friday) during Life 101 in the Music Room (m251). Please bring your computers and be ready to work!
See you there.
Feeling gloomy about the state of the world? Cheer yourself up by giving. The Giving Tree gift bags for Pfrang students are on sale in the library foyer today, at the NIC benefit concert tomorrow, in the Centre foyer morning and afternoon from Monday plus the Student Council will be going round to homerooms next week. So plenty of opportunity to buy a gift (or three) for a Pfrang Student. 100RMB for a rucksack full of goodies. Prizes for the PYP homeroom and MYP/DP advisory that buy the most. A chance to win in a raffle for everyone.
Hello Middle and Upper School Students of Life,
Our second session of this year’s Life 101 begins today during Block Two. Please see below for locations:
Grade 7 Digital Citizenship: Upstairs in the cafeteria (with Ms. Cindy and Mr. Barder)
Grade 8 Organization: Upstairs in the DC (with Ms. Bezzerides)
Grade 9 Relationships: Drama classroom (with Mr. Bratton)
Grade 10 PPP: MYP LGR (with Mrs. Snyder)
Grade 11 Expression and Confession in the Black Box Theatre (with ZZK)
Grade 12 EE in the Music Room (with Ms. Clarke)
Enjoy!
Hello All Middle and Upper School Students,
Today we all get to join together an enjoy an assembly led by our visiting poet Zohab Zee Khan! This will take place during our regular Extended Advisory time in the PAC and will go into Block One. Also, please find the attached schedule for the breakout sessions with Grades 11 and 7. Dig it!
We are hoping to hear some more of that inspired poetry that was written at the workshops with Zohab this week. Just show up in the library at the start of lunch and take the stage-
Hope to see you in the library-