MYP Students-
Please note that the library will be reserved for quiet study only during lunch and after school during exam week. All other students are kindly requested to go to the cafeteria. Thanks for your support-
The Library Staff
EARCOS
Dear Teachers!
Please do not miss out on this awesome PD opportunity!
EARCOS Teacher Conference, Connecting Global Minds, will be having its annual conference in March.
In addition to the main conference, Dan Magie will be conducting a pre-conference on Service Learning (IB Category (3) Three workshop) on March 28 (Tuesday) and 29 (Wednesday). If you intend to register for IB workshop only and not attending the EARCOS conference, please let me know as there is a separate registration process.
Please check out their flyer and the video. If you are interested in attending, please apply through the PD committee.
The specific strands are:
Science
Math
Social Studies/Humanities
Global Issues/Global Citizenship
Middle School
Service Learning
STEM
Technology
Counseling
General Education Topics
Final Weekly Bulletin of 2016 – this week.
A short reminder that this will be the last Weekly Bulletin of 2016. There is no bulletin on the final Friday 16th.
Have a check that there is nothing important in the first week back (Week 19) that you want to mention this week?
Thanks
Sue
Have you… met TED?
Since all ASAs were cancelled this week due to exams, you have ONE MORE week to join us!!!!
What’s your passion? Share your ideas! Start talking!
TED-Ed Club, every Wednesday, at 3:15pm in C142a (in the Learning Support area).
Please check out the attachment below and sign up on Veracross.
For more information, please contact Ms. Betina Mello at the email below.
Betina Mello
Learning Support
betinamello@nanjing-school.com
NIS: Inspiring International Mindedness, Personal Excellence, Creative Thinking
Costume Room Closed
The Costume Room is in the final stages of a re-design/audit (thanks to Heidi Dean and Sarah Nappi!!) and is therefore out of action. Please do not request any costume for any reason until our new system is in place. We expect this to be during the end of Semester 2. We plan to have in place a clear system for the requesting and borrowing of any costume from the NIS Costume Room. Thanks for your co-operation!
Student Council: Exam Tips
From the Student Council Wellness Committee. Some tips for the upcoming exam week. Good luck!
Would you like to have a go at golf?
A Golf professional is running a clinic for students in Grades 2 – 7, after school on Thursday 8th December.
It does not matter if you have never golfed before, come and have a try. No equipment needed. See poster below for details. Sign up on Veracross. Sign ups close on Tuesday.
Would you like to try Netball?
For Grade 6 – 8 Girls: If you think you might be interested in taking part in netball, please come to a meeting with Ms Andrew and Mrs Merrylees on Tuesday breaktime in the green gym.
Visions Service Adventures
Continue exploring ideas for summer activities/service/adventure:
The Movember Challenge!
Before we forget about the incredible month we call “Movember”, lets look back on the great, hairy 30 days by playing a little matching game.
The first student OR teacher to correctly identify ALL of the super amazing mustaches below will receive one LARGE pizza during lunch this Thursday. Please email your guesses, one per person, to Mr. Fischl. And while you’re at it, check out http://moteam.co/team-nanjing to find out more information about Movember and the great things they are doing around the world! I’d also like to send HUGE thank you to everyone that has donated so far and to all of the gentleman that grew a mustache last month!
Homework Club!
Ready for exams? Have you finished all of your projects? Do you need help getting organized?
Homework Club will be running today (Monday) from 3:15-4:15 and Wednesday from 3:15-4:15 for ALL grade 6-12 students AND teachers.
See you there!
Music Trivia Competition
Well done everyone for being involved in Friday morning’s competition. Thanks also to Ms Keus for creating such an eclectic group of questions.
In collating the results, Houses that only had two teams in a room were given an average score to create a virtual third team.
It was close!
The results:
First with 420.5 correct answers: Xuanwu
Second with 420 correct answers: Taiping
Third with 388.5 correct answers: Wutaishan
Extended Advisory, Friday, December 2nd
- Advisory Quiz Challenge First 20 minutes of Extended Advisory
- Advisories 6-9 Go to MYP/LGR for a Student Council Keynote on time management, study techniques and general stress management.
- All others…Get together with another advisory and enjoy
- Grade 12 students – Congratulations! It is December 2nd! Bye bye, Extended Essay!
Grade 8 Course Choices for Grade 9
Hello Grade 8 Rockstars,
Yesterday both you and your parents received an e-mail from me with your possible course choices for next year and a link to submit them. The same message is also in the weekly bulletin today and we will discuss as a class next week (you can’t say I didn’t tell ya!). In the meantime, have a look chat with your parents and submit your choices. The deadline is Friday the 9th. All students should complete the survey… even those that may move on to another school.
You’re growing up so fast it brings a tear to the eye!
Mr. Bratton