Year: 2023

Down to the final 2 Panda Picture books!

It’s down to Magic Candies and We Want a Dog! The final voting link/QR code will be in the Daily Bulletin on Tuesday and Wednesday. Voting ends at 3:00 on Wednesday and the winner will be announced on Friday.

Staff Social Club TGIF Today.

Hi Everyone,

TGIF from 3:15 in the Staff Lounge today.

Free first drink. 5 RMB each drink onwards.

Have an excellent day!

Personal Project Marking

This is a reminder that PP supervisors will meet Tuesday, March 7 to standardize personal projects. The necessary files are in this folder PP 2023 Standardization.

Please check who is on your marking team and mark all reports for your team before arriving at the meeting.

A more detailed explanation is provided in a February 23 email.

G11 +12 Formal Dance Tickets

Grade 11&12 Dance tickets go on sale Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd from 10:10am-10:30am in front of the library.
Alipay and Wechat accepted.

G11+12 Formal Dance Tickets

Grade 11&12 Dance tickets go on sale Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd from 10:10am-10:30am in front of the library.
Alipay and Wechat accepted.

Track & Field starts on Monday

Gr6 – 12 can now sign up for the Track & Field season. Practices are Mondays and Wednesdays from 3.15 – 5pm.

If you are doing volleyball and badminton at the moment, sign up anyway and you can start when these seasons finish in a few weeks. Sign up on SchoolsBuddy

Feedback on Lockdown drill@1.45PM

This is kind reminder for scheduled Lockdown drill today.

Please input your feedback by 4.00PM tomorrow via  NIS Code Blue on Mar.02  or by scanning the enclosed QR code.

All staff members must submit their feedback in the provided online survey.

Thanks for your support.

Arek Owczarek

Director – Operations and Finance

Tech Tip 2: Super Handy Keyboard Shortcuts on your MAC

Today’s Tech Tip is a list of what I find are some of the most helpful keyboard shortcuts to help save time.  Most of these shortcuts rely on you pressing a combination of keys together, and most of the time you will be starting by pressing and holding the Command Key (or Cmd) ⌘ followed by another key, then letting both/all of them go together.

I’ll start with the really common ones, and then include a few of the less common but really useful ones that I use all the time.

Copy, Cut and Paste

  • Command-C: Copy the selected item to the Clipboard. This also works for files in the Finder.
  • Command-X: Cut the selected item and copy it to the Clipboard.
  • Command-V: Paste the contents of the Clipboard into the current document or app. This also works for files in the Finder.

Select everything

  • Command-A: Select All items. I often use this in combination with the Command C -> Command V to select everything in a document or website then copy it all and paste it somewhere else.

Undo – Redo

  • Command-Z: Undo the previous command.
  • Shift+Command-Z to Redo, reversing the undo command. In some programs, you can undo and redo multiple commands. If so, you can just hold down the Command or Shift+Command and repeatedly press the Z key.

Screenshots, Screen Snips and screen recording

  • Shift+Command-3:  Whole Screen screen-shot
  • Shift+Command-4: Brings up a cursor allowing you to select a section of the screen to take a screen snip
  • Shift+Command-5: Opens a tool bar allowing you to take a screen shot, screen snip or make a screen recording.

OK, they were the ones I use every day.  Now for a few less common but equally useful ones.

  • Command-Tab: Bring up a tab that you can use to select from the most commonly  used programs.  This is most helpful if you have your Apps maximized and so can’t see your Dock.
  • Shift-Command-N: Create a new folder in Finder (super handy to teach students when you want them to organize their files )
  • Control+Command-F: Maximize the program to full screen. If the program is already in full screen, using this shortcut will take it out of maximize mode.
  • Control-Command-Q: Lock your screen.  This is what I do at break time or the end of the day if I don’t want to fully shutdown my computer.

And finally a special shortcut for the Maths Dept, courtesy of Sarah.

  • Option-K: This inserts the degrees symbol where ever your cursor is currently located.  This saves you having to hunt through and find it buried in “Symbols” and add it manually.    Thanks Sarah 🙂

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

Tech Coach Ken