Year: 2020

MS/US Student Council Elections

Dear Future President

If you would like to run for the Student Council President or Vice President, please contact Mr Hornell or Mr Meyer via email by TODAY at 3:20pm.

We will arrange a small meeting next week to discuss any questions.

Good luck

Student Council

Managebac Level – I

Managebac Training

Don’t forget about the Managebac training sessions for all MYP and DP teachers during lunchtime to prepare for using it in the fall. We will be offering 3 levels of training in order to ensure teachers are prepared for this change, and awarding digital badges to recognize mastery levels.

Managebac Level I training will be offered today from 1300 in D218. The instructional portion of the training will be around 20-30 minutes, but Cindy and Joe will be available for the duration of the lunch break to answer questions and facilitate deeper dives. All MS/US teachers must attend at least one session prior to the end of the school year (and before taking any other levels of Managebac training). Level I will cover the following:

Assessment – connecting the unit plans that have been created in Managebac to assessment tasks and learning activities, including how to navigate between these elements.

Teachers will be able to:

  1. Create/Modify/Delete categories of assessment tasks (i.e. quizzes, tests, projects, etc.)
  2. Create/Modify/Delete types of assessment tasks (i.e. Formative vs. Summative)
    a. Create/Modify/Delete task-specific clarifications related to assessment tasks
  3. Add resources to Units and Tasks and edit the organization of them
  4. Understand how the Resource/Stream feature works
  5. Connect Task submissions to Turnitin Feedback Studio
  6. Develop an understanding of basic navigation within Managebac

We look forward to hosting you in D218 at 1300! Special thanks to Danny for the use of his classroom.

BTT: Update

Now that our younger learners are returning to campus, here is the finalised BTT schedule for the semester. The changes are effective today. Please be sure to check through it for your confirmed BTT allocation.

If anything arises during your BTT, please contact any member of SET.

Thank you very much for your flexibility in response to the evolving needs of BTT. It’s very much appreciated.

Managebac Level – I

Managebac Training

We will be running Managebac training sessions for all MYP and DP teachers beginning tomorrow until the end of this school year, during lunchtime to prepare for using it as our Course Management System/Learning Management System beginning in the fall. We will be offering 3 levels of training in order to ensure teachers are prepared for this change, and awarding digital badges to recognize mastery levels.

Managebac Level I training will be offered tomorrow from 1300 in D218. The instructional portion of the training will be around 20-30 minutes, but Cindy and Joe will be available for the duration of the lunch break to answer questions and facilitate deeper dives. All MS/US teachers must attend at least one session prior to the end of the school year (and before taking any other levels of Managebac training). Level I will cover the following:

Assessment – connecting the unit plans that have been created in Managebac to assessment tasks and learning activities, including how to navigate between these elements.

Teachers will be able to:

  1. Create/Modify/Delete categories of assessment tasks (i.e. quizzes, tests, projects, etc.)
  2. Create/Modify/Delete types of assessment tasks (i.e. Formative vs. Summative)
    a. Create/Modify/Delete task-specific clarifications related to assessment tasks
  3. Add resources to Units and Tasks and edit the organization of them
  4. Understand how the Resource/Stream feature works
  5. Connect Task submissions to Turnitin Feedback Studio
  6. Develop an understanding of basic navigation within Managebac

We look forward to hosting you in D218 at 1300! Special thanks to Danny for the use of his classroom.

Grd 7 Life 101

Hello Grade 7,

See you for Life 101 this week…

7 A Monday, Day 8, Block 4 in C 154

7B Tuesday, Day 1 Block 3 in D 218

7C Wednesday, Day 2 Block 1 in D 241

 

No Monday Staff Briefing Today

Good Morning All,

We will not have a staff briefing today. We will run these bi-weekly for now, meaning our next gathering in the PAC will be Monday, May 18th,

Many thanks!

1:50pm Bell FOR PRIMARY STUDENTS ONLY

Hello All,

Today you will notice a PRIMARY SCHOOL bell playing at 1:50pm for PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS. When you hear this bell, PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS should line up, as usual. Middle and Upper School students should disregard this bell and head to Block 5 at the “new normal” time of 2:10pm. Thanks to PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS for listening to this bell and to Middle and Upper school students for ignoring it 🙂

Below is a preview if you’d like to have a listen!

Lunchtime – it just keeps getting better!

MSUS Students: We know that you are flexible and versatile and for that reason we are able to change the lunchtime plan frequently 🙂

Starting on Monday these indoor spaces will be open to you:

Lunch 1

All MSUS students can use the Blue and Green Gym

G10 will be able to access the LGR

G11 will be able to access the US lounge / Cafe

G9 will be able to access the PAC foyer

Lunch 2

All MSUS students can use the Blue and Green Gym

G10 will be able to access the Cafe and the LGR

G11 will be able to access the US lounge 

G7 and 8 will be able to access the PAC foyer

Volunteering Opportunity for Grades 6-11

Publicity, poster, PSA COMPETITION – Everesting Challenge

Find your paints, your crayons, your coloured pencils, your camera or your laptop!

Mr Stevens needs publicity for his fundraiser. We need posters, videos etc that explain what, when, why, how, when and where!

Who: Mr Stevens

What: will ride up and down “Yangshan” 80 times.

Where: near Golden Eagle

When: June 6

Why: Mr Stevens is raising money for the Hopeful Hearts Charity. This charity helps pay for children’s heart surgeries.

How: He will ride up and down the hill 80 times. This is the same distance as climbing to the Mount Everest base camp! This challenge is call EVERESTING. It’s the most difficult climbing challenge in the world: everesting.cc .

So how can you help Mr Stevens?

We need to advertise this fundraiser. But we don’t have any posters or PSAs yet.

Your advertisement should be clear and informative. You can draw, paint, or use any media you want. Perhaps you would like to do a little video, like a PSA.

How is this volunteering? Your contribution to this poster competition is indirect volunteering. You will be raising awareness about heart surgeries and hopefully, people will donate money and cheer him on.

The submissions are due on Monday, May 11th at 9am.

Please put them on OneDrive. For more info, please contact Mr Stevens or myself.