Year: 2020

Community Activities – Tabata lessons for adults only

Tabata lessons for adults only (NIS Parents& Staff) will start during week 18.

Tabata is a high intensity interval training. It helps to burn lots of calories and work with the muscles. Great way to stay in shape.And of course loads of fun!
  • Every Tuesday Morning 9:00-10:00 starts from December 1st , NIS parents only and follows as below lists:

December 1st, 8th,15th/ January 12th, 19th, 26th/ February 2nd, 9th – 8 lessons

  • Every Wednesday Morning 8:30-9:30 starts from December 2nd , NIS parents only and follows as below lists:

December 2nd, 9th,16th/ January 13th, 20th, 27th – 6 lessons

  • Every Saturday Morning 9:00-10:00 starts from November 28th , NIS parents and staff only and follows as below lists:

December 5th, 12th/ January 16th, 23rd, 30th/ February 6th. – 6 lessons

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 Activity Coordinator
Christine Ge

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – tickets now available on WeChat and Alipay!

 

By popular request… The further adventures of Flora

Flora, due to her excessive common sense and precocious appreciation of Shakespeare, eventually became a teacher, and spent her life in the corner of the kitchen at parties rearranging fridge magnets into quotes from her favourite plays that were quiet and unnoticed cries for help. She lived alone with two cats called Lysander and Demetrius.

Follow her wise advice, and buy that ticket now!

On sale from the cashier (cash only) OR in the Centre lobby, 7:30-8am, WITH WECHAT & ALIPAY!!! Friday sold out!! Get your tickets for Wednesday or Thursday while they last…!!!

NIC Christmas Charity Festival – 5th December 4-6pm in the PAC

It is nearly that time of year again, and we are delighted that NIC will host the 10th Anniversary Christmas Charity Festival here at NIS for NIS Community members only on Saturday, 5th December from 4-6pm.

Tickets available from Sue in Admissions and before the Production on Wed/Thurs & Friday nights this week.

NIC Members Free – but you MUST have a ticket.

Non NIC Members  : Adults RMB 100/school age children RMB 50 /under 3’s FOC

Tickets are strictly limited to 500 and when they are gone- they’re gone.

Like everything this year it  will feel a bit different. It is not seated and in the absence of the RFG Christmas Market we hope we can re-create a festive market feel with food and drink, gifts, merchandise, student produced cards and much, much more.

Santa will be welcoming children in the Black Box, there will be musical entertainment and some good old singalongs!

Amy K is constructing her famous, fabulous gingerbread houses which will be raffled off on the night.

Please wear your NIS ID and follow the well rehearsed rules for safety on campus.

All proceeds go to our nominated charities.

See poster below

Five books for fans of “The Queen’s Gambit”

Books with dramatic chess games. Books set during the mid-20th century in America, Europe and Russia and coming of age stories full of angst, psychological trauma and introspection. Stories with women and men dealing with past mistakes, family drama, the pitfalls of fame and discovering a found family. Stories with style.

All available from our library!

Five books for fans of The Queen’s Gambit

2 volunteers G9+ needed to Scorekeep

On Tuesday, our boys’ basketball team will play against a neighbouring school.

On Tuesday, we need 2 scorekeepers from 4.30 – 6pm.

Please sign up on Veracross after 1pm today.

Week 16 – Lunch 1 – Blue Gym

Hi MS/US students,

NO Specific structure this week. Just come on down and get moving.

Reviewed on a weekly basis AND subject to change

YOU will be responsible in setting up/putting equipment away and looking after everything

If this does not work then the blue gym will NOT be available for use by the MS/US students until further notice.

Please support your community with this arrangement and you are always welcome in the gym to socialise and be physically active.

Don’t Forget! -> ManageBac Mondays – MS|US

  • Author By Mr. Barder
  • Publication date November 23, 2020
  • Categories: Staff

Cindy and I are offering focused ManageBac sessions for MS|US teachers to help clarify questions you might have and improve your MB skills. Here is the schedule for each Monday up until the December holiday:

We will be meeting in the LGR, during lunch 2, unless otherwise noted.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Cindy and Joe

Grade 8 X-Share Preparation

Grade 8 X-Share will be held in the Centre, Thursday, December 3rd.

To help you get prepared there will be three mini-workshops held in D241 in Block 3 tomorrow. They will only take 20 minutes or so for each class. Bring your laptop.  Looking forward to seeing you.

G8A: 10:40 – 11:15 in D241

G8B: 11:15 – 11:50 in D241

G8C: 11:50 – 12:25 in D241

Mr & Mrs Merrylees’ X-Block groups

Good morning X-Blockers.

Two of your off-campus X-Block mentors have finally arrived in Nanjing. Please go to D241 for Mrs M and D247 for Mr M. Two down, one to go – Mr Griffiths has only a week before he will be on campus also. We are so looking forward to seeing all the projects at the 3 X-share events coming up.

Two plays for the price of one!

 

Get your ticket now for a special offer – two plays for the price of one! Yes! For only 30 RMB you get to see two plays: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Lamentable Tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe’. A comedy and a tragedy, all in one night!

 

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is a classic of theatre comedy. But what do we know about the less famous ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’? Here are some reviews to whet your appetite…

 

‘This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard!’

Hippolyta, Boss of the Shanghai Amazons

 

‘”Merry” and “tragical”? “Tedious” and “brief”?

This is hot ice and wondrous strange snow.’

Theseus, Jazz King of Shanghai

 

‘A very good piece of work, I assure you.’

Nick Bottom, ass

Get your tickets from the cashier or from the Centre lobby between 7:30 and 8am Monday and Tuesday mornings!!!

ManageBac Mondays – MS|US

  • Author By Mr. Barder
  • Publication date November 20, 2020
  • Categories: Staff

Beginning next week, Cindy and I would like to begin offering short, focused ManageBac sessions for MS|US teachers to help clarify questions you might have and improve your MB skills. Here is the schedule for each Monday up until the December holiday:

We will be meeting in the LGR, during lunch 2, unless otherwise noted.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Cindy and Joe

Facility Notice

  • Author By amyyang
  • Publication date November 20, 2020
  • Categories: Staff

Dear all,

The Centre Fitness room will be closed from 8:00am to 12:00pm this coming Saturday (Nov 21st) for maintenance from supplier, they need check and fix the equipment one by one.

Thanks for your understanding.

Facility Team

Tickets for A Midsummer Night’s Dream

From Monday tickets will be on sale in the morning in the Centre foyer – Alipay accepted! Tickets will also still be available from the school cashier during normal opening times.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream…

The further adventures of Nora and Dora

Nora liked to put on a negative, cynical attitude to please her only friend Dora. But secretly, she wondered why she pretended to hate Shakespeare so much as she had never, as she was only 7, seen or heard a Shakespeare play. So, without telling her only friend, she crept up to the cashier’s office one lunchtime with 30 RMB lunch money clutched in her hand, and instead of buying a plate of chips and slice of pizza she bought a shiny, beautifully designed ticket for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. That night (it was 7pm, Wednesday, 25thNovember) Nora waited until it was dark to sneak into school without being seen by anyone, and darted into the theatre just before the doors closed to stand at the back where Flora and Fauna might not spot her and question why she was there. Then the show began. Nora had never in her life seen anything as wonderful – the lights and music (music by Chesterman, lyrics by Shakespeare – the Lennon/McCartney of fairy songs, the Rice/Webber of Elizabethan show tunes), the non-stop action across 5 stages, the speed and grace of the actors, the comedy and slapstick that left her laughing more than she had ever laughed before, the sinister fairies and the majesty of their king and queen, the remarkable skill of the actors in their ability to speak lines of Elizabethan English so clearly that Nora could understand everything they were thinking and feeling – it was an overwhelming and magical experience that changed Nora’s life forever. Nora is now an A-list movie star, lives in Hollywood, and has two Oscars and three Grammy awards to her name, and is still only 10 years old. And in celebrity interviews, she says owes it all to that night she gave up her lunch money for a ticket to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Dora didn’t go to see the play, out of spite. She grew up to become a cynical and bitter alcoholic, eventually dying a lonely death after being kicked in the head by a donkey in the tiny English village of Asses Bottom.

Online bookfair!

Since we won’t be having a physical bookfair before Winter Break, why don’t you try the online bookfair Obido is offering? Books are available in English and Chinese for all ages and will be delivered directly to your home. Scan the QR code to see what is available!

Online Bookfair through Obido