Year: 2020

Community Activity:Jazz Dance

Dear Students, Jazz dance lessons will start during week 6.

Jazz Dance Lessons for students only will start on Friday afternoon 16:30-17:30 from September 18th and run till December 11th.Room H302A – Centre LGR.

Community Catalog:

https://programregistration.veracross.com/App/nis/ProgramRegistration/community/Programs/Browse

Community Activities Sign Up Link:

https://programregistration.veracross.com/App/nis/ProgramRegistration/community/Landing/Auto

Please use your Veracross account to sing in. The sign-ups are running exclusively through Veracross, there will be no later sign-ups through CA office.

Your Community Activity Coordinator
Christine Ge
cac@nanjing-school.com

World Clean Up Day Sept 19 – Grades 10-12

Join the biggest one-day civic action against waste in human history.

Join millions of volunteers in 180 countries to clean up the world in one day!

On Saturday September 19th, 9.30 am – 12 noon, we will clean up Xianlin! Sign up on now/

X-Block Logo Competition

Hi Everyone!
This year X-Block is looking for a new logo and we want you to create it!
We will be running an X-Block Logo Design Competition, using the winning design for all of our print, web and media materials. You could be the proud owner of a piece of NIS design history! Sound like something you might be into?
Just click on this link to find instructions in the READ ME_XBlock Logo Design Comp document. In there you will find more instructions, a design brief, important dates and submission details as well as some handy fundamentals about designing a logo.
Absolutely anyone can enter and you can work in groups, pairs or solo – whatever you want. Competition closes in just over two weeks so get cracking!
Look forward to seeing all of your ideas!
Mr. Danny

Volunteers Needed for Sewing

Come learn a life skill – Sewing by hand.

We need students (and teachers) to sew PFRANG labels onto hats. Every Friday (until it’s finished) Lunch 1 in D229. Sign up on Veracross. Bring your laptop and we’ll fill out ManageBac as well.

Looking for some help and guidance with your PP or EE? Come to the library on Thursdays from 3:30 – 4:30! Maybe you just want some focused head-over-laptop time. Maybe you want to bounce some ideas of people. Maybe you want to conference with a teacher expert. We are here for you!

NOTE: You can’t pop across the street for Coco or Mac’ers, so make sure you bring a quick snack before you attend PP club!

Are these yours?

If these are your products and you want to keep them, please come to Design Center and bring them home or give them to your clients before this FRIDAY.

 

Take a Walk in Someone Else’s Shoes

Calling all parents, teachers, and students! Want to challenge yourself and learn about what life is like for other people at the same time? Try the Diverse Reads Reading Challenge, where you read up to 9 books written by or about a diverse range of people. I have copies of the flyer in the library if you’d like a hard copy.

diverse reads flyer

Not sure where to start? Go the library homepage, click on “Catalog,” then click on “Resource Lists” on the left. Scroll down until you find the 8 “Diverse Reads” resource lists I’ve created that fit the categories. I’ve included books, ebooks, audiobooks, and non-English books. Not every book is in the list, of course, but it’s a place to start. Email me at angelaromero@nanjing-school.com with any questions!

Grade 10 Wellness: Block 4

Good morning, Grade 10.

We’ll meet in the LGR at the start of block 4 tomorrow. Please bring your (charged) laptops. Make sure your bags are in your lockers.

See you there.

Ms Ham

XBlock Today

Grades 6-8 its XBlock today. Yippee. Please move quickly and quietly to your locations at the end of break-time.

  • Sports & Movement to the Gym
  • Cooking to the Early Years kitchen
  • Design, Tech & Art to the Design Centre
  • Computing and Game Design to D247
  • All other projects to the Design Centre

Don’t forget your laptop, pencil case and any resources you need. Remember that you MUST check in with your mentor. See you in Block 3.

Kitchen users must ensure that the kitchen is spotless with no trace left of their activity at the end of block 4.

 

Swim Lessons for Staff Only

  • Author By cac
  • Publication date September 2, 2020
  • Categories: Staff

Swim Lessons for staff will begin on next Wednesdays afternoon 4.30-5.00pm, September 9th.

We offer more seats now!

  • Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes:Improves participants’ proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the basic swimming strokes. Teach skills and concepts needed to stay safe in and around water and to help themselves or others in an aquatic emergency. (American Red Cross, Adult Swim -Improving skills and swimming strokes – prerequisites: Participants must be able to perform strokes that can be recognized as front crawl, breaststroke and back crawl, each for 15m)  – 2 seats left!
  • Swimming for Fitness: Refines participants’ freestyle, backstroke, and breaststroke strokes and turns and builds endurance. Teaches skills and concepts needed to stay safe in and around water. (American Red Cross, Adult Swimming for Fitness– prerequisites: Participants must be able to swim 25m for 3 different recognizable strokes) – 2 seats left!
  • Learning the Basics: Helps participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming strokes. Teaches skills and concepts needed to stay safe in and around water and to help themselves or others in an aquatic emergency. (American Red Cross , Adult Swim -Learning the Basics – no prerequisites) – 4 seats left!

Don’t forget to sign up for Community Actvities. Please check the newly updated Community Activities catalog on Veracross.

Community Catalog: https://programregistration.veracross.com/App/nis/ProgramRegistration/community/Programs/Browse

Community Activities Sign Up Link: https://programregistration.veracross.com/App/nis/ProgramRegistration/community/Landing/Auto

Your Community Activities Coordinator

Christine Ge

WORLD CLEAN-UP DAY – Gr 10-12

Join the biggest one-day civic action against waste in human history.

Join millions of volunteers in 180 countries to clean up the world in one day!

On Saturday September 19th, 9.30 am – 12 noon, we will clean up Xianlin! Sign up on Veracross at lunch today.

 

Diverse Reads Reading Challenge

Teachers, looking for ideas to read something new yourself or to get your students to read something new? Try this 8 book reading challenge to encourage readers to find books written by and about people from various backgrounds.

How awesome would it be for us as teachers to model our diverse reading by hanging this outside of our doors and updating the flyer as we read different books?

diverse reads flyer

Not sure where to start? Go the library homepage, click on “Catalog,” then click on “Resource Lists” on the left. Scroll down until you find the 7 “Diverse Reads” resource lists I’ve created that fit the categories. I’ve included books, ebooks, audiobooks, and non-English books. Not every book is in the list, of course, but it’s a place to start.