Month: November 2018

Thanks for your involvement in Friday’s quiz, I hope it was a fun session. Thanks again to Miss Amy for her great questions!

For houses with only two teams, a third team was created by averaging the other two.

The results:

1st: Xuanwu, 314 points
2nd: Taiping, 298 points
3rd: Wutaishan, 295 points

8 volunteers are needed to sell Giving Tree cards in the Centre every day from 7.50 – 8.05 am and again after school from 2.50 – 3.10 pm. You can volunteer for:

November 12-19

November 19-23

November 26-30

December 3-7

Sign up on Veracross.

ACAMIS Chinese New Year Greeting Card Challenge – THIS COUNTS AS A CREATIVITY EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!

The Academic and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) component of ACAMIS hosts an annual Chinese New Year Greeting Card Challenge. All member schools are invited to participate! A winner will be selected from each grade level and the artworks displayed on the ACAMIS website. Here is how to participate:

1. Open to all grades and classes (not just art!) from K-12.
2. Participating schools will select a single submission for up to three grade levels (Primary, Middle, and Secondary).
3. Submissions should be medium resolution for digital viewing (around 120 ppi).
4. Submissions should be in either jpeg or pdf format.
5. No student or school names should appear in the greeting card.
6. Please include the words: “ACAMIS” and a positive, new year greeting in the design.
7. Deadline for submission is Tuesday, January 8^th.

Send your submission to annayuen@nanjing-school.com or drop them off in D236.

See attachment for last year’s winners. Two were from NIS!

Locations:

Grade 10 Mezzanine Upstairs Cafeteria

Grade 11 Large Music Room

Grade 12 LGR

Rules: Inter House Music Trivia Quiz: Thanks to Ms Amy Keus
• Three advisories, one from each house, meet in the designated room.
• Each advisory should create 3 more or less even sized mixed gender teams – so there are 9 teams in each room.
• 20 questions: PowerPoint to follow. Answer to be written on recycled/scrap paper.
• Total number of questions answered correctly is recorded and added to give a final score for the advisory.
• All the advisory scores are added together to give a final score for that house.
• Winning house: 60 points, second place: 40 points and third place: 30 points

6-8 Advisory
Advisories Location
Ms. terBorg Ms. Kuan Mr. Madlinski Upstairs Design Centre
Mr Dutton Mr Baker Mr Stevens Green Gym
Mr Synder Mr Lee Ms. S Wang Mr Snyder’s Room
Mr Bahilo Mr Winstanley Ms. Maier Mr Winstanley’s Room
Ms. Keus Ms. Seiguneur Mrs. Merrylees Ms. Keus’s Room
9-10 Advisory
Advisories Location
Ms. Law Ms. Fox Mr. Orteza Ms Law’s Room
Ms. Chen Mr. Hammond Ms. L Wang Mr Hammond’s Room
Mr. Chesterman Mr Fischl Ms. Zhang Mr. Chesterman’s room
11-12 Advisory
Advisories Location
Mr Newman Mr Hornell Mr Leitz Mr Hornell’s Room
Mr Kay Ms Moen Mr Coad Ms. Moen’s Room
Ms Lenk Ms Crème Ms Ryan Ms Crème’s Room