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Dear All

The Car Park area will be closed on Saturday, March 26th, 2016  as NIS is hosting High School Soccer & Badminton events.

jennyma@nanjing-school.com

The Tech Challenge last Friday was won by Taiping, with Xuanwu in second and Wutaishan 3rd. Here are the Grade by Grade results:

The grade 6 winners of the Parachutes was Xuanwu.

The grade 7 winners of the Rockets was Taiping.

The grade 8 winners of the Bridges was Taiping.

The grade 9 winners of the Earthquake tower was Taiping.

The grade 10 winners of the Pillar was Xuanwu.

This means that TAIPING are now in the lead in the race for the House Shield. The new overall scores are as follows:

On Wednesday March 30th Grade 11 students will take part in an EE and TOK day of workshops whilst PYP and MYP students have their student led conferences.

Grade 11 – you need to be in school at 8am as usual. We will meet in the DP lounge. Before the end of this week you will be sent a sample Extended Essay to grade in preparation for one of the EE workshops.

For Grades 5 – 8. Sign up on Veracross TODAY!!. Practices are:

Junior Boys (Gr5-6): Tue 4.20 – 5.30pm and Fri 3.15 – 4.15pm (STARTS ON TUESDAY)

Junior Girls (Gr5-6): Mon & Wed 3.15 – 4.15pm (STARTS ON WEDNESDAY)

Senior Boys (Gr7-8): Mon 4.20 – 5.30 & Thu 3.15 – 4.15pm (STARTS ON TUESDAY)

Senior Girls (Gr7-8): Mon & Wed 3.15 – 4.15pm (STARTS ON WEDNESDAY)

The Great NIS Inter house Trivia Challenge is today during Extended Advisory time. Advisories should pair up as shown below. You will need scrap paper.

Advisors, please take your group to these locations straight after you have taken the attendance. Questions will be sent in an email to each advisor.

Grades 6 – 9 (shh – Grade 12 exams are on so move quietly..):

Grades 10 – 11:

On Wednesday March 16th the Grade 7 students will be exhibiting their IDU between Science, Humanities, Language Arts & Art.  Please come celebrate the students learning by attending the exhibition.
Health and Disease Exhibition
When – Wed. 16th March – 8:30 am – 11:45  am
Where – Library Foyer
Statement of Inquiry – “Systems are not developed upon fairness and choice”
Key Concept – Systems
Related Concept – Connections & Choice
Global Context – Fairness & Development

On Wednesday March 16th the Grade 7 students will be exhibiting their IDU between Science, Humanities, Language Arts & Art.  Please come celebrate the students learning by attending the exhibition.
Health and Disease Exhibition
When – Wed. 16th March – 8:30 am – 11:45  am
Where – Library Foyer
Statement of Inquiry – “Systems are not developed upon fairness and choice”
Key Concept – Systems
Related Concept – Connections & Choice
Global Context – Fairness & Development

On Friday of this week, as part of our Extended Advisory time, all Grade 6 – 11 students will participate in the Inter House Trivia Challenge.  Everyone will be representing their advisory group and their House. More information on the structure will be given soon.

As we also have Inter House Tech Challenge in the afternoon this is going to be a big Inter-House day! Make sure you wear your House shirt and represent your House with pride. If Taiping win both events they can overtake Wutaishan and if Xuanwu win both, they can overtake Taping in the race for the House Shield!!

Dear all, please see enclosed monthly updates on PM2.5 data.

PM2.5 in March 2016

Boys – 1st Xuanwu, 2nd Taiping, 3rd Wutaishan

Girls – 1st Taiping, 2nd Wutaishan, 3rd Xuanwu

overall – 1st Taiping, 2nd Xuanwu, 3rd Wutaishan

Congratulations to Taiping

Current position: