Month: December 2017

Become Courageous – Week 18

How might we create opportunities for the NIS community to be courageous?

In week 18, a stage environment in front of the library will have the following play/experiment/learn items:

  • Monday – Hula Hoops
  • Tuesday – Simple DJ equipment
  • Wednesday – Juggling Balls
  • Thursday – Art Easels and Supplies
  • Friday – Piano

Courageous learners and creators are invited to enjoy and interact with any articles on the stage.

They will be filmed with the purpose for review by the prototype team to see if activities should be scaled or ditched.

 

This prototype is inspired by Sugata Mitra’s 1999 Hole in the Wall experiment.

Computers were placed in a slum in Kalkaji, Delhi to enable

unsupervised access, informal, public, self-guided and collaborative work

to synergize through creative and courageous play.

 

Enjoy,

The Courageous Prototype Team

Advisory Activity Sign-Ups Tomorrow!

Hello All MS/US Superstars,

Please see the linked sign-up sheet to see what’s on offer for our annual Friday-before-the-break activities. Your Advisory MUST sign-up for activitie(s), since Advisors are the ones running them! 

Sign-up’s will begin tomorrow at 7:46am on the glass outside Mr. Bratton’s office and continue through Thursday at 8:15am. First come, first served! 

Please remember to decide and sign-up BY ADVISORY.

Make your plan today!

 

 

Grade 5 & 6 Basketball Skills Challenge on January 16th!

Dear Grade 5 & 6 Basketballers,

On January 16 from 3:00pm-4:30pm ACAMIS Basketball legend Gautier Freville will host a “Skills Challenge” for any interested Grade 5 and 6 students in the NIS gym as part of his Personal Project. It doesn’t matter if you know how to play basketball or not, just come and you can learn some basic drills and have some fun. There is no cost for this session.

If you are interested in attending in this event, please ask your parents to email him at gautierfreville@nanjing-school.com and cc Mr. Bratton at  kassonbratton@nanjing-school.com. Then, just bring along appropriate shoes and shorts (your PE kit is fine) to the blue gym on Tuesday, January 16th at 3:00pm. It will finish at 4:30pm.

Hope to see you there!

Life 101 Block 2 Today

Dear MS and US Students,

Life 101 today will take place in a few different spaces. Please take note of your location for today.

8A with Mr. Dutton in the Black Box

8B and 8C with Mr. Bratton in The Large Music Room

G9 with Ms. Bezzerides in the Drama classroom

G10 with Mr. Barder Upstairs in the Cafeteria

G 11 and 12 with Mrs. Galaty and Alums in the MS/US LGR

See you then!

Become Courageous – Week 18

How might we create opportunities for the NIS community to be courageous?

In week 18, a stage environment in front of the library will have the following play/experiment/learn items:

  • Monday – Hula Hoops
  • Tuesday – Simple DJ equipment
  • Wednesday – Juggling Balls
  • Thursday – Art Easels and Supplies
  • Friday – Piano

Courageous learners and creators are invited to enjoy and interact with any articles on the stage.

They will be filmed with the purpose for review by the prototype team to see if activities should be scaled or ditched.

 

This prototype is inspired by Sugata Mitra’s 1999 Hole in the Wall experiment.

Computers were placed in a slum in Kalkaji, Delhi to enable

unsupervised access, informal, public, self-guided and collaborative work

to synergize through creative and courageous play.

 

Enjoy,

The Courageous Prototype Team

MS/US Veracross Scores Invisible to Parents and Students through January 18th

Hello MS/US Colleagues,

A heads-up that students and parents are now not able to see criterion scores in Veracross between yesterday and the start of Semester Two. This gives us the ability to calculate marks and enter exam scores without parents and students being able to watch us work in real time and/or get an alert every time we enter or change a mark/assignment.

If you would like to communicate marks via Veracross between now and January 18th, please do so via the comment field (like in the old days).

Please see Kasson with questions. Thanks!

Where do grades come from?

A reminder that a session on how to determine “best fit” overall achievement levels for students in Grades 6-10 will happen in D340 at lunch today. Please come along if you would like some support, advice, or reminders. For new and veteran staff alike!

Staff Party Today

Forgot to sign up? Changed your mind about coming? NO PROBLEM! Come anyway. The list on the wall is to give organisers an idea of numbers. A few extra won’t matter!

Reminder: Party starts at 4:00. Gift giving game will start at 4:15. You can drop gifts off at the tree in Staff Room any time today. Be sure to write your name on a slip at the tree and put it in the box under the tree.

 

PS LGR Booking

  • Author By zoetang
  • Publication date December 7, 2017
  • Categories: Staff

Dear all,

If you need to book the PS Large Group Room, please check the PS LGR Timetable hung on the outside wall of the LGR first, and then mark the time you need on it. If you need to make some set-up to the room, you can fill in a yellow form and submit it as usual.

 

Cheers

Zoe Tang

Last Weekly Bulletin of 2017

FYI
This Friday 8th December will be our last Weekly Bulletin of 2017

There will be no issue next Friday on our last morning.

If you have anything for this week and have not submitted already- there is still time JUST…

Send me an email and then I can save a slot.

Thanks

Sue

Become Courageous – Week 18

How might we create opportunities for the NIS community to be courageous?

In week 18, a stage environment in front of the library will have the following play/experiment/learn items:

  • Monday – Hula Hoops
  • Tuesday – Simple DJ equipment
  • Wednesday – Juggling Balls
  • Thursday – Art Easels and Supplies
  • Friday – Piano

Courageous learners and creators are invited to enjoy and interact with any articles on the stage.

They will be filmed with the purpose for review by the prototype team to see if activities should be scaled or ditched.

 

This prototype is inspired by Sugata Mitra’s 1999 Hole in the Wall experiment.

Computers were placed in a slum in Kalkaji, Delhi to enable

unsupervised access, informal, public, self-guided and collaborative work

to synergize through creative and courageous play.

 

Enjoy,

The Courageous Prototype Team