Year: 2020

Grade 6 Wellness today

Dear Grade 6, Get ready to move rooms to have a new Wellness experience today with a different teacher:

6A: Mrs Clarke in D241 (Ms Merrylees’ room)

6B: Mr Snyder in D212

6C: Mr Joyner in the Large Group Room

See you then!

Mrs Clarke

Grade 9 – block 1 today

Grade 9 students, please register in Advisory and go straight to the Centre third-floor for 8.10am.

Bring a pen and note paper, too.

Putting our foot down

A friendly, but firm, reminder that our default position is that all NIS students should wear shoes for the entirety of the school day to ensure their physical safety. There could be exceptions for specific activities that require shoeless feet for safety/hygienic purposes (including swimming :-), but generally speaking, students should have their shoes on throughout the school day. Please let Kasson know if you have any questions. Many thanks for helping us put our best foot forward!

TGIF!

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  • Publication date November 18, 2020
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Come on down to the Staff Lounge this Friday from 3:20! There will be Beer and Wine for around 20 RMB!

See you there!

 

 

 

Also, please talk to Sue B. or Bob B. if you have any interest in joining the Social Committee this year to help plan events.

Global Citizen Diploma – Competency: Wellness

Please come during lunch 1 to D229 all this week to learn more about the competencies and to get help with your stories:

Wednesday lunch – Wellness

Thursday lunch – Wilderness Engagement

Friday lunch – Personal Goal

Teachers are welcomed too!

Grade 10 – Block 1 today

Grade 10 students, please register in your Advisory and head over to the Centre (third floor) by 8.10am. You will need a pen and notepaper.

 

Do not miss the best NIS production since COVID!

The further adventures of Fauna

Once upon a time there was a young girl who didn’t know who Shakespeare was. She felt life was empty and meaningless, but had no idea why. It was a jungle out there – sometimes she wondered how she kept from going under. But then one magical night her friend Flora took her to see the MYP/DP production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and all the magic and wonder of life was revealed to her. She realised that life is not a dark jungle but a bright forest filled with hissing fairies and feuding kings and queens, and that the course of true love doesn’t run smooth at all but involves a lot of embarrassment, disappointment and humiliating mistakes with donkeys before love conquers all. What a romantic Shakespeare was! She also realised that rich people are always intrinsically admirable and are inevitably treated to a happy ending, while the working classes are inherently simple and funny. What a snob Shakespeare was! At 7pm on the nights of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (25th, 26th, 27th November) Fauna could be found standing in amazement in the NIS theatre as the lovers and fairies, kings and working men performed their wonders before her. At last Fauna had found fulfilment – and went on to find fame making a series of popular YouTube videos about the Romantic Marxist school of literary criticism. Not bad for 30 RMB.

To be continued…

Student Council – Student Voice and Choice Survey

STUDENT COUNCIL STUDENT VOICE AND CHOICE

Hi, we are the student council voice and choice committee. Lastweek Friday, we conducted a school-wide survey on school lunch pricing and quality during extended advisory. Now, we would like to know your suggestions for NIS. We will work on issues based on your responses. Please access this link to submit any ideas or suggestions. WE APPRECIATE YOUR INPUT!!!

Sincerely,

Yoonji Chae (Student Council Student Voice and Choice)

Update your website mugshot – 23rd November from 13.00 onwards

As I mentioned in briefing on Monday some people would like to update their photo which appears in the Staff Directory on our website : https://www.nischina.org/about/directory

This is the link so you can check for yourself.

Mr Sun will be here on 3rd floor of the Centre from around 13.00 on Monday 23rd November.

Bring a prop to jazz it up a bit. If you cannot make that time or are not desperate we will provide another opportunity in early 2021 for you to get this done.

See Sue for more info.

Thanks

 

 

 

PTA CUPCAKES – TOMORROW WED 18th NOVEMBER

Birthday Cupcakes – November Birthdays for students

PTA is providing Birthday Cupcakes on Wednesday 18th November, at morning break, in the foyer in front of the Library for all our students with November birthdays.
Kindly remind your students to come by and collect their cake, and for EY liaise with Lucy or myself for pick up at a time to suit you.
Note for your diaries – final cupcakes for December 2020 birthdays will be Wednesday 2nd December.
Thanks
Sue 

Global Citizen Diploma

Please come during lunch 1 to D229 all this week to learn more about the competencies and to get help with your stories:

Tuesday lunch – Public Communication

Wednesday lunch – Wellness

Thursday lunch – Wilderness Engagement

Friday lunch – Personal Goal

Teachers are welcomed too!

G 7-9 Volunteering Experience – Front of House

Please sign up Veracross!

Only 5 spots available.

You must:

  • Be in grades 7-9
  • Attend at least three events (at least 5 hours of participation) per school year
  • Be engaged during events. Conduct a positive attitude throughout and always be ready to help
  • Follow the dress code: white shirt, black trousers/skirt, and black shoes. (No trainers or sweatpants).