Month: June 2023

International Food Festival – Friday, June 9

Grade 10 students are holding an International Food Festival on Friday, June 9 as part of their unit on Business Enterprise with all proceeds being donated to the KIVA organization. Students will sell a variety of food and drink items, ranging from mochi to lemonade, to fruit puddings to sausage rice sticks. All ingredients will be posted so students are aware of what they are eating. Prices will range from 5-20 RMB per item.

Students will pay with tickets: neither Cash nor WeChat will be accepted on June 9th. Tickets may be bought in increments of 5RMB and only cash will be accepted.

  • Grades 3-11 students will be able to purchase tickets during Break from June 5-8
  • EY and Grades 1 and 2 will be able to purchase and use them with their class prior to Break on June 9

Last chance to get PD books for summer holidays

Teachers,

It’s your last chance to check out professional development books for summer break before everything is boxed up. I begin boxing PD books Friday morning for the move on Monday! Just let the library staff know you want them over the summer when you are checking them out so we can change the due dates to August. Thanks!

International Food Festival – Friday, June 9

Grade 10 students are holding an International Food Festival on Friday, June 9 as part of their unit on Business Enterprise with all proceeds being donated to the KIVA organization. Students will sell a variety of food and drink items, ranging from mochi to lemonade, to fruit puddings to sausage rice sticks. All ingredients will be posted so students are aware of what they are eating. Prices will range from 5-20 RMB per item.

Students will pay with tickets: neither Cash nor WeChat will be accepted on June 9th. Tickets may be bought in increments of 5RMB and only cash will be accepted.

  • Grades 3-11 students will be able to purchase tickets during Break from June 5-8
  • EY and Grades 1 and 2 will be able to purchase and use them with their class prior to Break on June 9

Upstairs Cafeteria Closed

Grade 10 students… please note that the Upstairs Cafeteria is no longer available to you during break and lunchtimes this year. The space is going to be used for the library whilst the Hub construction takes place.

You have the Music room, gym, Library and downstairs cafeteria as places to go instead.

Thanks for your flexibility,

Mrs Clarke

Tech Tip 7- Using Turnitin to analyse the chances of student work being AI generated.

  • Author By kenbrady
  • Publication date June 6, 2023
  • Categories: Staff

Using Turnitin to analyse the chances of student work being AI generated.

Todays Tech tip explores a well-known tool, Turnitin.

With the arrival of AI based tools like ChatGPT and POE that can generate human-like text based documents, a tool for analysing student submissions is very helpful for teachers who seek to analyse the chances of student work being AI generated.

In response to this need, Turnitin which already available within Managebac, has added this feature to their product. An Ed-Tech support guide document has been created that goes through the details of how to setup and use Turnitin for this purpose.  It is located here.

In summary, the steps are as follows.

  1. Tick the Turnitin Feedback studio box when creating your assessment task
  2. Once students submit the task, click on “Feedback Studio” to access the Turnitin report
  3. Within this report, click on the actual similarity score for any given submission to see an individual report, including a calculation of the percentage likelihood that the document was created using AI tools.

Remember however, that this is NOT definitive, and the chances for false positives definitely exist. It is however a tool that can be used to give you the opportunity to have further discussions with students around how they created their submission based on the results that are presented by Turnitin.

That’s it for today’s Tech Tip.  See you again next Tuesday.

(Special Thanks to Cheryl for her assistance putting this weeks Tip together)

Tech Coach Ken

International Food Festival – Friday, June 9

Grade 10 students are holding an International Food Festival on Friday, June 9 as part of their unit on Business Enterprise with all proceeds being donated to the KIVA organization. Students will sell a variety of food and drink items, ranging from mochi to lemonade, to fruit puddings to sausage rice sticks. All ingredients will be posted so students are aware of what they are eating. Prices will range from 5-20 RMB per item.

Students will pay with tickets: neither Cash nor WeChat will be accepted on June 9th. Tickets may be bought in increments of 5RMB and only cash will be accepted.

  • Grades 3-11 students will be able to purchase tickets during Break from June 5-8
  • EY and Grades 1 and 2 will be able to purchase and use them with their class prior to Break on June 9

Speech and Debate @ BSN June 8th

On Thursday June 8th, the following students will miss Block 3, 4, 5 to represent NIS at a Speech & Debate event at BSN.

  • Alia
  • Suin
  • Yoojin
  • Minhwa
  • Minseo
  • Yuxian
  • Ian
  • Marsha

Full names are attached in a password protected PDF: June 8th Name List

Student Office Hours – Student Council Survey

Hello Secondary Students –

Your Student Council needs your feedback on how we can make the most of Office Hours. During Advisory today, Monday, June 5, please complete your grade level survey and share your feedback on how we can best promote and improve student office hours for next school year, 2023-24. Thank you for your constructive feedback!

Grade 6-7 survey

Grade 8-10 survey

Grade 11 survey

 

If you have any questions please contact Hesh in Grade 11 (Wangtong Wu <wangtongwu@students.nanjing-school.com>)

MYP Product Design – Client Sourcing

Next academic year G9 and G10 MYP design students will have the opportunity to design and build products for real clients with real needs.

If you or your teaching spaces have any needs such as furniture, teaching materials, hands on learning aids, accessibility assistance, etc. please let me know in the survey link below. This is a great opportunity for students to meet with teachers or your students to put design thinking into practice through a few meetings to collect data, and then follow-up evaluations. Through this both groups build communication skills.

Some examples of possible products:

– KG outdoor mud kitchen
– Indoor rainy day games
– Quiet reading nook
– Book storage/display

You know your space and needs best. We’d love to work with you and your students to custom-design a solution.

At this stage I’m collecting ideas, so if you put something down there is no obligation to go ahead with it.

SURVEY

 

NISMUN III Volunteers Needed

Current grade 6~9 students, we need your ATTENTION!

 NISMUN III will be hosted on October 13~14 on a Friday and a Saturday.

We need people (volunteers) for both days.

This is a wonderful opportunity to make new friends, get an insight into diplomacy, and have a nice day in a formal suit.

Your role will include passing out delegates’ notes, guiding the delegates, chairs, etc.

Please be aware that being a part of the admin team indicates that you will be a part of the MUN team.

If you have any questions, please reach out to either seoyunjung@nanjing-school.com or yifanyuan@nanjing-school.com

If you want to be an admin, please scan the QR code below and sign up.

Thank you,

Lucy