Day: August 14, 2019

Open Gym

Secondary Basketball/Volleyball Open Gym

Grades 6 – 12

Wednesdays from 3:15 – 4:15

Blue Gym

OWC/Cigna Monthly onsite helpdesk

Dear overseas staff,

Please see enclosed schedule for OWC/Cigna team’s regular visits to NIS in this semester.

Date Venue booked
27-Aug H303
15-Oct End of Café corridor
3-Dec End of Café corridor
21-Jan H303
10-Mar H303
28-Apr H303

Thanks

B.rgds/Myra

Little Shop of Horrors – AUDITIONS!

Auditions for this year’s MS/US musical production of Little Shop of Horrors will be held next week Wednesday lunch and Thursday after school, with call-backs on Saturday 24th August from 9:00-12:00.

Auditions are open to any G6-12 student!

If you want to be part of a fun-filled, HORROR-ific, musical extravaganza involving man-eating plants, evil dentists and songs to DIE for…then speak with any Music or Drama teacher for an audition extract TODAY!!

Learning 2 PreCon

  • Author By Sonya
  • Publication date August 14, 2019
  • Categories: Staff

Dear Colleagues,

 

We have an opportunity for a small number of our teachers and teaching assistants to attend select Learning2 Pre-Conference sessions that run all day on Thursday 16th October.

The available Pre-Con sessions are:

 

Team Teaching: Shared Spaces, Shared Students, Shared Practices (Whole School)

Linda Eide and Ed Hagen

 

Shifting Student Paradigms Through Immersion Programs

Mike Gregory  (Head of Caufield School in Nanjing)

*This is an interactive full day experience in which Mike shares how Caufield uses Nanjing as the classroom

 

It’s Not Rocket Science! Exploring Computer Science Experiences in the Early Years and Elementary School

Cheryl Terry

 

If you and/or your TA are interested in attending one of these sessions, please email Kasson with the following information by the end of business Tuesday, August 20th:

 

Name: Your name here

Grade: Grade level

Pre-Con Session: Name of Session

A line or two about why you’d like to attend

 

Applications will be reviewed by the PD committee and you will be notified as soon as possible of your acceptance.

 

There are also a few additional places for teachers to attend the amazing Learning2 Conference as a full participant on Fri/Sat. Please let Sonya know if you would like one of these spots!

 

Thanks,

 

Sonya

NIS L2Asia Conference Coordinator

We temporarily have 2 libraries!

Our (new) secondary library is upstairs in the cafeteria, and holds books for 6-12 grades and adults, including foreign language books. Checkout is available during the school day and after school, but the upstairs library is closed during break and lunch.

 

Our primary library is in it’s regular location, and holds books for our younger students in English and various foreign languages, as well as our parenting books, travel guides, DVDs for parent and teacher checkout, and professional collection for teachers.

Summer library books are now due!

Students, teachers, and parents: don’t forget to return your library books that you checked out in June! They are now due, and overdue emails will be sent out Thursday morning to remind you. Avoid my emails by returning your books!

PD Committee Opportunity

The esteemed NIS Professional Development Committee is in need of one new member for the 2019/20 school year. Please have a look at our updated PD Handbook for information about the committee’s purpose and function. This group meets at lunch once per cycle to consider applications. Current members are Angel, Angela R., Joe,  Sonya, Steven, and Kasson (as the non-voting Chair) if you’d like to hear more directly from committee members about this commitment.

If you would like to be considered for this role, please email Kasson by the end of business on Monday the 19th. Thanks!

Wednesday Music Clubs

Advanced Orchestra & Chinese Drumming clubs start Wednesday, August 14, 2014. 

Advanced Orchestra has two gigs in semester 1 – Learning2 conference in October and Awards Assembly in January. All members must be auditioned. Rehearsals are Wednesdays after school. Please see Miss Keus (M252) for more information.

Chinese Drumming will be performing at a wide variety of events throughout the year, including the winter concert, NEAMC, assemblies, Earth Hour, Music Evening, etc. No auditions required, but space is limited to the number of drums available. Rehearsals are Wednesdays during lunch.  Please see Sunny Cho (M252 advisory) for more information.