Year: 2017

ACAMIS Touch Rugby – Cheering on our Lions!

Good morning,

As you know, we are hosting ACAMIS Touch Rugby from this Friday morning through to Saturday afternoon.  See schedule attached.

Our NIS Lions would love to be cheered on by our students and community.  MS and US Teachers, if you would like to take your class out on Friday, please send me (Arden) a quick note to let me know what time and which grade.  This is to avoid having the students in any given grade inadvertently out of class for multiple periods.

Touch Tournament Schedule 2017 V4-t58few

Go Lions!

ZZK Plan for the Day (Tuesday)

Hello Fellow Poets,

Zohab is in the building today. We’ll start with an Assembly for all students in Grade 6-12. For this assembly, please leave your things in you Block 1 class at 9:05am and head to the PAC. We’ll sit in Advisories according to the same plan as Friday. 

After the assembly ZZK will have a short session with Grade 5 and an extended double block with Grade 10, both in the MS/US LGR. See the schedule below and Enjoy!

 

ZZK Line of the Day

“We live in interesting times,

where bombs barely make headlines

and geographical location

is somehow an indication

of the value of our lives”

ETC&SENIA

Hi All,

If you are interested in attending the EARCOS Teacher Conference or the SENIA conference this year. Please send your application form to your direct head by Nov.24th.

Contact Bella if you have any questions of it!

Bella

TEDxYouth@NIS is happening on March 3rd, 2018 at Nanjing International School. Our goal is to provide a platform where the people of Nanjing can share their ideas worth spreading in either English or Mandarin.

Our speakers last year shared their path to forgiveness, challenged our perception of the hijab, showed us the beauty of dissonant sounds, and much more. You can check out last year’s TEDxYouth@NIS talks here.

If this sounds like you or someone you know, write to us at tedx@nanjing-school.com.

We hope to hear from you!

The TEDxYouth@NIS team

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You can use the questions below to send us a summary of your idea.

What is something you would like everyone to know?

You don’t have to be the expert in this area, but you do have to an expert.
What makes you an expert in this area?

The best TEDTalks have a call-to-action, something you want the audience to do as a result of your idea.
What is the call-to-action of your talk?

Book Fair outside the library

There will be local book sellers selling new books in English and Chinese in the foyer outside the library on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week. The books are for all ages, so look for yourself, your parents, your significant other, your dog, or whoever wants to read! Book it to the library!

OWC & Cigna visit on (Wed.) Nov. 15, 2017

Dear overseas staff,

OWC & Cigna visit will be on (Wed.) Nov. 15, 2017 (10:15~15:00 @ H303 Centre). This is the last visit of this school year.

The next one will be on (Wed.) Jan. 17, 2018 (10:15~15:00 @ H302A Centre).

Best wishes,

Clara Xi

XBlockers Today

Hello XBlock’ers,

Please report to your Advisory classroom for Block Three today unless you have Life 101 with Ms. Bezzerides.

Thanks!

Child Protection Officer

This year we have a new position in school, that of Child Protection Officer. I currently hold this position. Recently I attended a CIS Child Protection Workshop along with our three Counsellors. Following this we are building on the great work that was done last year to strengthen the systems we have at NIS in order to safeguard all of the children and students in our care.

If you have any concerns regarding child protection, the first person to report this to should be the Child Protection Officer or the Deputy Director – Learning.

 

 

MS/US Assemblies

Good Morning, Middle School and Upper School students!

If you would like to be part of the MS/US Assembly agenda, such as, being the Master of Ceremony (MC), or perform, or do a skit,  or ride a unicycle, or perfect your speech and debate skills, or lead a mindfulness, or simply make an announcement, or anything else we are not thinking of…Contact Mrs. Galaty or Ms. Bezzerides.  They are your Assembly go-to people.

Have a great week!

Book Week 2017…ZZK-The Epic Return!

Hello NIS MS/US,

It’s on. The writer, rapperentrepreneur, news maker, and 2014 Australian Slam Poetry Champion   Zohab Zee Khan will return to NIS this week! His visit will begin tomorrow with an Assembly for all students in Grades 6-12 during Block Two, then feature double block breakout sessions for all students in Grades 6-10. Zohab will also join a Grade 11 TOK class, work with the Speech and Debate team, and meet with our Grade 5 students as well.

Please see this schedule to see when you might be working with ZZK this week. Reminders and details will be posted each morning this week.

Enjoy!

Happy veg by Mr Gu here on 10th Jan and Wednesdays thereafter

As many of your know – Mr Gu comes into school every Wednesday with his delicious veg.

He will be here on the first Wednesday 10th Jan.

Do go along and talk to him about his project in the south of Nanjing. He is a very interesting man and your students may be interested too in finding out more about his farming methods.

If you cannot get to see him on Wednesdays between 2.30 and 3.30pm  you can make some other arrangements with him directly. See below for more information.

“Time Farm is a permaculture organic farm. Until 2017 we have been practising permaculture for 5 years. Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability and resilience of nature ecosystems. Permaculture design is a system of assembling conceptual, material, and strategic components in a pattern which functions to benefit life in all its forms. The philosophy behind permaculture is working with, rather than against , nature. There is NO chemical fertilizer, GMO, pesticide, or herbicide used inside the farm. We collect rain water for irrigation. Water from nearby pond is purified by a constructed wetland before watering plants. More detail can be found at our website http://www.timefarm.com.cn

I will bring some fresh vegetables(potato, carrot, green bean, green lettuce and bokchoy,etc,.) for onsite sale at NIS on Wednesdays from 2:30pm to 3:30pm. Welcome to join us.

You can also order through wechat. Our wechat ID is Timefarm. Every Wednesday afternoon on school days I will delivery your orders to NIS for your pickup”

PS House Event Today

Swing those hips! And meet in the gyms at 8:10:

Early Years: (PreK, K1, and K2) GREEN GYM

Grades 1-5HULA HOOP CHALLENGE! BLUE GYM

Who? All PreK-G5 students, teachers, and specialists.