Month: March 2017

Accidental Theatre Auditions!!

The Accidental Theatre Company is back!

This year we will be performing “The Importance of Being Earnest” By Oscar Wild.

Auditions will take place Monday 20th March and Tuesday 21 March lunch time in the Black Box. Rehearsals will take place Monday and Thursday after school, some Sundays and we will perform 2nd and 3rd June.

All Students from Grade 9-11 are welcome & no prior drama experience is required!

Come to the Black Box and pick up an audition extract from Mr Brown at your earliest convenience!

Leftover Computers for Sales 2017

  • Author By cindykong
  • Publication date March 9, 2017
  • Categories: Staff

We have some MacBook Pros bought in 2012 for sale. They are still in working condition. Please check the following form for their configurations and prices. If you want to buy one, please fill the online form below. (you will see the form from website not email)

Please notice:

  • All computers sold have no warranty and no return.
  • Everyone can only buy one computer. If more people want to buy, we will do a lucky draw for winners.
  • Here is the timeline for this sale:  
  • March 10th, this Friday, 15:00 – deadline to submit your purchase request
  • March 15th, next Wednesday at 15:15 – lucky draw (we will show the lucky draw process on the screen near library)
  • March, 16th, next Thursday – winners will be notified by email

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Pi Day

The 14th of March is Pi Day. The Student Council is looking for people to help by baking pies and other goodies! It would be greatly appreciated.

For more information, please contact Abbie Cadden, Student Council President.

Visitor to EY

Today we have a visitor, Rachel Scroggins from Tianjin International School Early Childhood Centre. If you see her around, please do say hello and have a chat!

Personal Project Exhibition Visits Today!

Hello MS/US Students,

Please see the schedule below to find out when you’ll be visiting today’s PP exhibition by the Grade 10’s. You will GO TO CLASS FIRST, then your teacher will take you to the PAC for some of the Block to check out the capstone project of the MYP!

Please ask good questions and see as many projects as you can. Grade 9’s, this will be you next year!

See you there!

International Women’s Day Today

  • Author By
  • Publication date March 7, 2017
  • Categories: Staff, Student

Join us in the library today at the start of lunch for the International Women’s Day event. There will be an open mic for anyone interested in sharing a story or poem, some videos to discuss and some food to share.

All MYP/DP students and teachers are welcome. See you at 12:50-

MENTORS for Grade 5 Exhibition

Please consider being an Exhibition Mentor for a small group of grade 5 students

Why we have Exhibition

  • For students to engage in an in-depth, collaborative inquiry
  • To provide students an opportunity to demonstrate independence and responsibility for their own learning
  • To provide students with an opportunity to explore multiple perspectives
  • For students to synthesize and apply learning of previous years and to reflect upon their journey through the PYP
  • To provide an authentic process for assessing student understanding
  • To demonstrate how students can take action as a result of their learning
  • To unite the students, teachers, parents and other members of the school community in a collaborative experience that incorporates the essential elements of the PYP
  • To celebrate the transition of learners in the primary to middle/secondary education

Your mentor role

  • The role of the mentor is chiefly to advise and keep students on track
  • There should be regular meetings. For the most part we would like mentor meetings to happen during UOI time, in the grade 5 classrooms.
  • Offer advice on locating resources and using them efficiently
  • Ask questions (i.e. to clarify thinking, to help with processing information, to extend knowledge etc.)
  • Help interpret sophisticated/difficult information
  • Facilitate interviews, telephone calls, any electronic communication
  • Goal setting and time management advice
  • Be supportive and encouraging
  • Celebrate achievements and successes with the students

Please email any of the grade 5 teachers if you are willing to be a part of this exciting journey!

stevenfielke@Nanjing-school.com     taigashipley@Nanjing-school.com   lindybuckley@Nanjing-school.com

PYP EXHIBITION – speakers

Grade 5 have chosen “Fairness” as the overall theme for their 2017 Exhibition.

To spark their interest, we are looking for any adult who may like to come into class to talk to the students about their own experience of fairness through their work here in China or a personal experience or interest in any organizations that overcomes fairness that would be relevant to their overall understanding of this theme.

An example here in Nanjing would be a trailing spouse who had to give up friends, a job and social life to follow the working spouse and then found an alternative fulfilment here in China through charity work.

Some “unfairness ideas” already suggested by the students are world food/water supplies, animal rights, racism, and various types of discrimination.

Please e-mail any of the grade 5 teachers if you would be willing to help.

stevenfielke@nanjing-school.com lindybuckley@nanjing-school.com taigashipley@nanjing-school.com

Grades 6 to 8 Inter House Volleyball

Wutaishan, Xuanwu or Taiping? Who will claim the title?

The Grade 6 to 8 House Volleyball competition will be held next Thursday March 16 at the start of lunch time.
· 2 separate competitions: Gr 6-8 Boys and Girls
· Teams of minimum 6, maximum 12.
· Net height – CISSA Senior height – 2.24M
· Round Robin format, each team playing the other 2 houses. Captains can toss a coin to see who plays first.
· One set up to 17 points. No clear 2 points required. Score for each game is recorded.

Results:
· For each competition points calculation based on total games won. If this is the same for 2 teams, the head to head game will decide the winner. If it is a 3 way tie, the points difference will decide the placings. If any of these are equal, the competition shall be declared a 3 way tie.
· Overall Placings for House Points – The boys and girls competitions for each age group are combined to give a result for that age group. Points are awarded based on the current points allocation system (30, 20, 15)

Leftover Computers for Sale 2017

  • Author By cindykong
  • Publication date March 6, 2017
  • Categories: Staff

We have some MacBook Pros bought in 2012 for sale. They are still in working condition. Please check the following form for their configurations and prices. If you want to buy one, please fill the online form below. (you will see the form from website not email)

Please notice:

  • All computers sold have no warranty and no return.
  • Everyone can only buy one computer. If more people want to buy, we will do a lucky draw for winners.
  • Here is the timeline for this sale:  
  • March 10th, this Friday, 15:00 – deadline to submit your purchase request
  • March 15th, next Wednesday at 15:15 – lucky draw (we will show the lucky draw process on the screen near library)
  • March, 16th, next Thursday – winners will be notified by email

You do not have permission to view this form.

If you can not view the form, please open this website:

https://share.nanjing-school.com/dailybulletin/2017/03/06/left-over-computers-for-sale/

PYP exhibition mentors

Please consider being an Exhibition Mentor for a small group of grade 5 students

Why we have Exhibition

  • For students to engage in an in-depth, collaborative inquiry
  • To provide students an opportunity to demonstrate independence and responsibility for their own learning
  • To provide students with an opportunity to explore multiple perspectives
  • For students to synthesize and apply learning of previous years and to reflect upon their journey through the PYP
  • To provide an authentic process for assessing student understanding
  • To demonstrate how students can take action as a result of their learning
  • To unite the students, teachers, parents and other members of the school community in a collaborative experience that incorporates the essential elements of the PYP
  • To celebrate the transition of learners in the primary to middle/secondary education

Your mentor role

  • The role of the mentor is chiefly to advise and keep students on track
  • There should be regular meetings. For the most part we would like mentor meetings to happen during UOI time, in the grade 5 classrooms.
  • Offer advice on locating resources and using them efficiently
  • Ask questions (i.e. to clarify thinking, to help with processing information, to extend knowledge etc.)
  • Help interpret sophisticated/difficult information
  • Facilitate interviews, telephone calls, any electronic communication
  • Goal setting and time management advice
  • Be supportive and encouraging
  • Celebrate achievements and successes with the students

Please email any of the grade 5 teachers if you are willing to be a part of this exciting journey!

stevenfielke@Nanjing-school.com     taigashipley@Nanjing-school.com   lindybuckley@Nanjing-school.com