Year: 2023

Walk-a- thon for Parkinsons Disease

We (the WWWY team) are holding the Walkathon this Friday for fundraising and raising awareness. The donation will be sent to the Michael J Fox foundation for finding cures through funded research agenda. Please participate!

Advisors: please support us by taking your Advisory groups out to the track at about 8:10am on Friday morning. Students can walk around the track to show support for people who have Parkinson’s Disease.

What do you know about Parkinson’s? Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disorder that slows movement over time, making simple tasks difficult and time-consuming. They may shake their hands as they hold their cup of coffee or may be difficult to get out of a chair.

Parkinson’s disease doesn’t go away and continues to get worse over time. There’s currently no clear cure for Parkinson’s disease, but only treatments that help relieve the symptoms. Even drugs become less effective over periods, and they need to be changed multiple times.

‘We Walk With You’ service group aim to raise awareness and support patients with Parkinson’s disease, especially young patients.
Contact Haju and Saelyn for more information

Chat GPT Sessions Today, Tomorrow, and Friday

Recent advances in Artificial intelligence (AI) are a force for disruption across all fields, including (and maybe especially) education. Open AI’s Chat GPT is now a freely available online AI program that mimics human learning, thought, creativity, and written expression.

Shannon and Kasson would like to show you this tool. They will offer three repeat 25-minute lunchtime sessions this week (Wednesday-Friday) at 12:30pm in D243. Please come along; all are welcome!

G6-12 Performers needed for CNY Assembly

Performers needed for CNY assembly, if you would like to perform at CNY Assembly, please make sure to come to the audition).

Students in G9-12 can count this as a GCD experience for Artistic Expression or Multilingualism (depends what you are performing.)

The audition will be held this Wednesday, January 11 at noon in the Large Music Room.

Contact Ms Keus or Jim or Hesh in Grade 11 for more info.

Semester Two BTT ROTA

Morning All,

Please note that we will not reschedule the whole BTT roster for semester two. I will contact the people with who I made small adjustments this week and next.

Teachers are open to making swaps this week and next week until next Wednesday afternoon. Please email Zhangbo if you made a swap, and I will update them on the semester two BTT roster.
Thank you and have a nice day!

Paper Recycling

  • Author By jeanyang
  • Publication date January 10, 2023
  • Categories: Staff

The Priceless Paper Service group have put green boxes for recycled paper near each printer across the school. We will collect them during Service blocks, shred the used paper and make them into new paper product.

We have a few extra boxes available. If you need one in your room, please let me know and I will arrange a student to deliver it to you. Thanks.

G6-12 Performers needed for CNY

Performers needed for CNY assembly, if you would like to perform at CNY Assembly, please make sure to come to the audition).

Students in G9-12 can count this as a GCD experience for Artistic Expression or Multilingualism (depends what you are performing.)

The audition will be held this Wednesday, January 11 at noon in the Large Music Room.

Contact Ms Keus or Jim, Andy or Eric in Grade 11 for more info.

Photo/Videowalk on Wednesday

Dear all,

This Wednesday, January 11, we will be doing another all-day photo and video walk to capture life and learning at NIS. These are very important for our communications efforts. If you’d like to opt out, simply let our crew know on the day, or send me an email.

Many thanks!

Best,

Kyle

Community Activity Cycle 2 Sign-up

Community activity Cycle 2 sign-up for adults opens at 10am Wednesday, January 11th through WeChat mini program. Please scan the QR code for catalog and signups.

Username:  Your email address

Password:    NISca2022

 

Students Learn to Swim Cycle 3 sign-up opens at 12:45 Wednesday, January 18th by SchoolsBuddy.

 

Please contact cac@nanjing-school.com for any questions.

 

G6-12 Performers wanted for CNY Assembly.

Performers needed for CNY assembly, if you would like to perform at CNY Assembly, please make sure to come to the audition).

Students in G9-12 can count this as a GCD experience for Artistic Expression or Multilingualism (depends what you are performing.)

The audition will be held this Wednesday, January 11 at noon in the Large Music Room.

Contact Ms Keus or Jim, Andy or Eric in Grade 11 for more info.

EdTech Tip: Rewordify

  • Author By Dr.D
  • Publication date January 9, 2023
  • Categories: Staff

Rewordify

As a teacher, are you looking for a way to improve your students’ reading comprehension and vocabulary? Rewordify.com is here to help!

This powerful, free online tool simplifies complex English language, making it easier for your students to understand and learn. It’s a great resource for you as well, helping to save time and create engaging lessons. And with millions of users and billions of words read, Rewordify.com has a proven track record of effectiveness.

Not only is Rewordify.com convenient to use (no software installation necessary), it’s also safe for children. Give it a try with the online demo and first-time user guide, or print out some free literature to get started. You’ll see firsthand how Rewordify.com can help improve your students’ learning outcomes.

Start using Rewordify.com as a teacher today and see the difference it can make in your students’ academic success!

https://rewordify.com/

 

Swim Meet Volunteers February 11-12th G6-10

Please sign up on SchoolsBuddy to help at the SSL Swim Round Three.

Volunteers are needed as runners, timekeepers or ribbon distributors. The jobs are as follows:

Runners: Lead the swimmers from the blue gym to the pool when it’s their turn.

Timekeepers: Use a stopwatch to record the swimmers’ times.

Ribbon distributors: Hand out ribbons to the winners of each heat.

Possible outcomes (choose only ONE!!!)

ethics – because you are starting and stopping the stopwatch on time and not cheating.

collaboration – working with the announcers to get the right swimmers to the pool at the right time.

commitment and perseverance – 3.5 hours is a long time, maybe you have to stand up the whole time or it’s hot or you struggle to talk to strangers (you will have to talk to the swimmers to ask them their names to make sure you have the right people.)

Saturday February 11th

Session #1: 9.00-12.30

Session#2: 13.30-17.00

Sunday February 12th

Session#3: 8.00-11.30