Month: October 2022

Hello All,

Please see the reminders below as we countdown the final days until our 30th celebration. Action items in bold.

TODAY

30^th Anniversary Hope Ribbons:  We will come around to collect these from Homerooms and Advisors today around 11am. These can also be brought to Weiwei. Thanks!

New House Shirts: Please reminder students to get their new shirt and wear tomorrow!

Flags and Placards: Primary Homeroom teachers and Secondary Advisors will find flags corresponding to their parade country, along with sticks for flag waving in their mailboxes. Placards with the name of each parade nation can be found in the old Admissions Suite across from the old Design Pit. Primary Homeroom teachers and Secondary Advisors, could you please send a student to pick these up today. Thanks!

FRIDAY

Morning Friday Assembly Practice: Tomorrow morning we will practice getting everyone into the Blue Gym and seated in their correct locations. The timings in which each Advisory and Homeroom departs their classroom is critical to our success. Please see these timing below and stick to them. Please bring placards, not flags to the practice.

• 8:10: Romero/K.Beck/Newman/Hwangbo/Ibanez/Brady/Bradley/Baksh/Kuan
• 8:15: Freidle/A. Chen/A. Lee/Orteza/Moen/Griffith/Klyuk/J. Yang/L.Wang/M.Merry/Merino/Wu
• 8:20: Harrold/Holmes/S.Merry/terBorg/S. Wang/T. Farrol/Grade 5/Early Years
• 8:25: G4 and G1/12
• 8:30: G3 and G2
• 8:35: Dismiss (return placards to classes)

Friday Anniversary Cupcakes: Our wonderful PTA has sponsored 30^th Anniversary cupcakes for all students and staff. These will be briefly displayed in the Library Foyer on Friday morning, before being distributed to Primary Classrooms and Secondary Block Two classes. Cupcakes for staff will be available in the faculty lounge at Break.

Friday Afternoon Celebration Plan: A reminder that Homerooms/Advisories will march to the Blue Gym and sit in a predetermined order to enjoy a celebratory all-school assembly. They will then exit the Blue Gym in order and parade through the school with flags and music, exiting via the PAC and on to the pitch to create a large “30” for a school photo. We will then finish in a Circle of Peace before 3:00pm where Primary students will return to their Homerooms and Advisories are dismissed. Please see this plan for Friday afternoon specifics and note the lunchtime changes.

Many thanks for your support as we celebrate three decades of NIS. Please let us know what questions are out there!

Your SET and NIS 30^th Anniversary Organization Committee

Attention all students, the assembly committee is always looking for new and amazing acts to showcase during assembly. If you would like to sign up, please see Mr. Joyner (D248) or send email at RubenJoyner@nanjing-school.com.

Dear Secondary teachers,

Please kindly be reminded that a PSAT exam will be running today(Oct 12th) in room D243 from 8am to 12pm. Please advise your students to keep the noise down in that particular hallway, including during the break, and, if possible, aim to avoid playing loud music or videos if your classroom is nearby. Many thanks for your support and cooperation! Any questions about the test should be addressed to the PSAT Coordinator, Iryna S.

Please let any students who were part of Ukulele Club last year that they’re invited to come along to learn a holiday song.

Room C140 1:00pm.

A reminder that our special 30^th Anniversary “Hope Ribbons” are in now in our pigeon holes (thanks to Weiwei, Samantha, and Shan Shan).

For Advisors and Primary Homeroom Teachers, please work with your students to generate three words (or a short phrase) in any language that expresses their future hopes for the NIS community (or themselves) over the next few days. These can be inspirational words, specific wishes, and/or anything appropriate that contains a message of hope for ourselves or others.

For non-homeroom/advisor colleagues, you will find one ribbon in your pigeon hole just for you!

We will collect all ribbons on Thursday at 11:00am and hang them up in the afternoon so that we get to enjoy this collection of thoughts and ideas on Friday as we enter and exit school on the big day.

Please let Kyle, Laurie, Arek, Christine, or I know if you have any questions, ribbons or otherwise.

Many thanks!

This Wednesday (October 12^th Day 2) and Thursday (October 13^th Day 3) we are going to distribute the NEW house T-shirts at the library foyer. Everyone will get ONE new house shirt.

The new house shirts sizes are the same as the old ones, Please encourage your students to wear their old house shirts, or they go home and check what size they had, so they don’t need to try the sizes.

Below is the schedule on those 2 days.

Dear Colleagues,

Please read the one page JEDI Change Taskforce information letter and if interested please apply using this link.

JEDI Change Taskforce info

Dear Secondary teachers,

This is a reminder that some of our G9-G11 students will be taking a PSAT exam on Oct 12th from 8am to 12pm in Room D243. These students will need to be excused from their morning classes on the day of the test. Our PSAT Coordinator Iryna S will send the student lists to relevant secondary teachers. Thank you!

Good morning Primary Teachers,

Please remind your Student Council Representatives that we will meet today in my classroom (C140 / 5A) at 1:00, straight after eating time.

Thank you!

Jane