Please see Mr Brown or Ms Philip for sign-up and extract.
MS/US House T-shirts distribution on August 16th
Dear MS/US Advisors,
Please tell your students come to MYP Large group room(Room D207) to get their house T-shirts at Break Time, Lunch Time and After school(3pm-4pm) on August 16th(Thursday). Only Yellow highlighted students can have T-shirts.
ISTA Theatre Festival Guangzhou for G6-8 students
Are you passionate about drama? Do you love the sound of 3 days in Guangzhou creating theatre and performing with similar aged students from all over Asia? Yes…this year’s ISTA Middle School Festival will be in Guangzhou, China from the 2nd – 4th November.
If you are in Grade 6-8 and are excited about this then you need to come to a meeting during Thursday 15th August break at 10:20 in the Black Box to find out more information. Or see Mr Brown anytime!
CISSA Touch Rugby starts on Wednesday!!
Open to all Gr5 – Gr8 students. Sign up on Veracross.
Practices are on Mondays and Wednesdays 3.15 – 4.30pm
First Day Reminders
Have a great first day with students!
All non-homeroom teachers please help support transitions for students in the Library Foyer and around the Early Years Centre.
All teachers to be ‘on deck’ to support their students as they settle into lunch routines.
2:30pm Dismissal
Bus Ayi Location= Hutong
3:00 ALL PS Staff Huddle in Heidi’s room
Grade 10 meeting at break in the LGR
Good morning, Grade 10! Welcome to the Upper School!
Please come to the MS/US LGR at break for a very quick but important meeting.
Thanks, and see you there!
Ms Ham
EY Construction Area Closing
Dear all,
Due to construction needs, Classrooms (C115,C116,C118,C129,C130,C131,C132,C133,C134) and EY playground area is off limits for whole school year 2018~2019.
Thanks for your cooperation.
Facility Department
Thank You MS/US Ambassadors
Our NIS Ambassadors have been hard at work welcoming new families to NIS and showing them around the school for the past .
Thanks to them our new students are put at ease. Keep up the great work!
Staff Briefing Today!
We will have our “Monday” briefing today during Break (10:10-10:30am) in the Staff Lounge (Reminder: Tuesday schedule today). If you have a break-time teaching opportunity during this time, please attend it. Minutes from the meeting will be provided. See everyone else there.
Have a great first morning of the 18/19 school year!
Music Clubs Information
Production auditions will be taking place in the middle music room next week, so orchestra rehearsals have been pushed back one week. Here are the new start times:
Drumming – Aug 22nd
Choir – Aug 24th
Middle School Band – Aug 27
Advanced Orchestra – Aug 29
**AUDITIONS!!!!!!**
The Performing Arts Team are off to a cosmic start to the school year with the launch of the MS/US musical production: Return to the Forbidden Planet. Please see the attached poster for audition details and see Mr Brown or Ms Philip for sign-up information.
Global Content Posters
I made up some Global Context posters for xBlock, in English, Chinese and Korean. If you would like them for your classroom, please go to teacherlargestorage / xBlock / Global Context. They are A3,150DPI, so if they are too big to print, you can resize them using Mail or go to IT for help.
ISTA Theatre Festival Guangzhou for G6-8 students
Are you passionate about drama? Do you love the sound of 3 days in Guangzhou creating theatre and performing with similar aged students from all over Asia? Yes…this year’s ISTA Middle School Festival will be in Guangzhou, China from the 2nd – 4th November.
If you are in Grade 6-8 and are excited about this then you need to come to a meeting during Thursday 15th August break at 10:20 in the Black Box to find out more information.
Grade 6 to 8 – Day 1 (Tuesday) – Block 3 – Xblock – PAC
Grade 6 to 8 advisors please tell your students to go straight to the PAC after break for the launch of this year’s Xblock.
PS ALL STAFF Meeting today
Let’s have a brief PS Huddle in Heidi’s room at 2:30pm.
Standing meeting 15 minutes.
Have a great day with new families.