There will be a cart of FREE adult fiction books to look through in the PAC on Friday! I will be adding books to it morning and afternoon, so check early and often. These are all titles I have deleted from our adult fiction section due to age, lack of patron interest, and condition.
Grade 8 Humanities Trip (20th February, Blocks 3 & 4)
All Grade 8 will be out of school for these two blocks, as they will be visiting Nanjing Museum to see the current temporary exhibition of artworks from the Italian Renaissance. This is in connection with their current unit, which focuses on innovation and ideas in Renaissance Europe, so the exhibition has arrived in Nanjing with timing so perfect we couldn’t ignore it! The exhibition ends on 24th February, so next week is our only chance to get there.
All Grade 8 students will depart school as soon as possible after 10:20am, and will be back in school during lunchtime. They will therefore miss their Block 3 and 4 lessons; Block 5 should go ahead as usual.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused, and please see me, Trina or Nick if you have any questions or concerns.
Today’s mid-morning sessions
Dynamic Dialogues
“Curriculum-inspired Service as Action” with Luiz Mello
The goal of the session is to identify the role of Service as Action the MYP and DP programme models, share examples of curriculum-inspired Service as Action in MYP and DP Biology and to generate potential links to service in the units of participants.
“Direct Instruction Vs. Inquiry in the MYP” with Nick Baker
Exploring Student Voice and Choice to engage our students, while at the same time delivering those vital ‘knowledge download’ parts of the curriculum.
What to bring: laptops and your unit planners and/or SLOs
–Both sessions happening in D204 (Luiz’s Lab)–
Documentary and Discussion
Most Likely to Succeed
A powerful documentary examining education reform and inspiring school communities to re-imagine what students and teachers are capable of doing.
–PAC
ISA Proctor Training
Preparing for, and answering any and all questions ISA proctors may have about, next week’s testing sessions.
–D208