Please find the attached students who will be absent from school @ 9:50am on Thursday, 16th Mar and whole day on Friday, 17th Mar for the ACAMIS Swim Meet. ACAMIS Senior Swim Meet 2023_SetPassword
G9 Design: Precious Plastic Pop Up Shop
On Friday, 10th March between 12 and 1pm, G9 students will stage a Pop Up shop for Precious Plastic. The aim of the shop is to sell products made from recycled plastic AND to gather consumer data to inform our making. Please come and shop and, wether you purchase or not, please fill in our survey on the day. See you there!
Alex Chen will be the MOD on March 11, 2023 (Sat.)
Dear all,
Alex Chen will be the MOD on March 11, 2023 (Sat.).
Best wishes,
Clara
Facility Notice
Dear all,
For your information.
Monthly Report – Utility Cost – Feb
Weekly Report (Week 23) –
1). Airplus PM2.5
2). Garbage Collection Statistics
3). Rubbish bin bags
Facility Team
New Access to “The Day” – news at different reading levels
We have access to “The Day,” which is an affordable alternative to Newsela (which is absolutely out of our price range). The Day offers current news in 5 different English reading levels. You can switch between primary and secondary (levels 1 & 2 do not include sensitive issues such as murder or death), can copy article links to send out to specific students or the whole class via SeeSaw or ManageBac, and includes news in Arabic, Mandarin, German, French, and Spanish. You can easily switch reading levels when viewing an article. Currently access is available on-campus only…I am working on off-campus access. This link is available for students and teachers to use.
Tech Tip 3: NIS Digital Subscriptions
For today’s Tech Tip I want to draw your attention to the amazing suite of online digital subscriptions that the school has available for your use courtesy of Angela in the Library. You can check these out by going to the schools Destiny Library page found here.
NIS Library Homepage (Destiny)
I would strongly suggest bookmarking this website, otherwise there is also a link to this site found on the MyNIS page of the school website. Here you will find a curated list of terrific online resources, including links to resources that the school has purchased subscriptions to. There are also grouped links to online resources including image databases, MYP/DP content, eResources for PYP and tools relating to APA Referencing amongst many others.
If you do want to use any of the subscriptions, you will need the appropriate username and password. A link to the file that has all of these can be found below.
NIS Online Subscriptions 2022-23
The information in that document is for NIS teachers and students only, so please be mindful of that.
And don’t forget that this and all previous and future Tech tips can be found here in the NISTech Sharepoint page.
That’s it for today’s Tech Tip. See you again next Tuesday.
Tech Coach Ken
Final day for Panda Picture book vote!
Voting ends at 3pm on Wednesday. Winner will be announced on Friday. I think this vote will be a close one!
https://forms.office.com/r/8natzf0ruR
Monday Briefing Minutes
Please find the minutes of this week’s Monday Briefing here. Thanks!
Self Defense Demo Class – This Friday!
Interested in GETTING FIT, building CORE STRENGTH and learning how to DEFEND YOURSELF… while having a lot of FUN?!
Come along to the free trial class THIS FRIDAY!
Kids Class 3.15 to 4.15
14+ & Adults 4.30 to 5.30
Note that kids must be accompanied by an adult for the 3.15 class.
If there is enough interest, we will organise a regular Friday club activity!
Hosted by NJBJJ – Nanjing Brazilian Jiujitsu
Scan the code to reserve your spot!
Voting for Final Panda Picture Books
Voting ends at 3pm on Wednesday. Winner will be announced on Friday. I think this vote will be a close one!
ACAMIS Golf Trip March 14-16
Please find the attached list of 5 students who will be absent from school on March 14-16 for ACAMIS Golf.ACAMIS Golf Name List
Secondary Talent Show – Interested in being a MC?
Student Council is hosting auditions for students interested in being a MC for the NIS Talent Show. If you’re interested, please check out the details below and sign up using this link
MC Auditions will take place during Lunch 2 on March 7 and 8 in the Music Room – See you there!
GOA Rethinking Assessment in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
GOA is offering a free Zoom event focused on assessment in the era of AI. This would be a late one for us here in China, but it looks good (Tricia Friedman is a star and having a student involved should provide added insights). Please register here if you are interested. Thanks!
Secondary – All of China Panda vote
Secondary students (and teachers) can now vote for the official (not just NIS) Panda Awards. You can vote once for each category of books. There are six categories, ranging from picture books to graphic novels up to chapter books. You can vote for a category even if you’ve only read one book! See Ms. Romero with any questions. Voting ends at 4:30pm on Friday. Primary students will vote with Ms. Romero during library sessions.