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Tomorrow we will be celebrating the arrival of the Lunar New Year of the Rabbit. In order to accommodate our celebrations,  the timings of the school day have changed. Please note that block 1 will start at 8am.

Friday January 20th

7:45am Dragon Dance performance outside courtyard

8:00am Block 1 begins

9:05am Block 1 ends – students go to block 2 to drop their bags and phones

9:15am Secondary CNY assembly begins

10:15am (approx.) CNY assembly ends – students return to block 2

10:40am Break and usual Friday timings resume

11am Block 3

Secondary CNY Tech Rehearsal

Thursday, Jan 19 from 3:00 – 4:30 in PAC

Mandatory for all performers.

NISSAC Recruitment!

The NIS Student Activities Committee (NISSAC) is looking for new members in G9 and G10! If you are interested in applying to NISSAC, please fill out the form (https://forms.office.com/r/ip8LMzNJ0h) by January 27th.

A confirmation email will be sent on February 2nd.

About NISSAC;
The NIS Student Activities Committee consists of a group of students in Grades 9 – 11 who actively participate in the Activities Program offered at NIS. Under the supervision of the Activities Director, Mr. Clarke, NISSAC helps organise events such as the Sports Celebration Evenings and ACAMIS Competitions hosted at NIS. NISSAC demonstrates our school Strategy goals of “Student’s Voice and Student Choice” to its extreme. The collaboration between NISSAC and the Activities department allows the exchange of students’ innovative ideas and teachers’ expertise, leading to many student-friendly events and activities.

Do you play golf to a decent standard? Can you play a full round of 18 holes on two consecutive days? If yes, read on:

We will take a team of golfers to the ACAMIS Golf Championships in Shenzhen on 14 – 16 March. This is an international schools golf competition for three different age groups:

Group A: 13-18 years old (Birthday: March 16th, 2004 – March 15th, 2010)
Group B: 10-12 years old (Birthday: March 16th 2010 – March 15th 2013)
Group C: 6-9 years old (Birthday: March 16th 2013 – March 15th 2017)

Students in Primary school would need to be accompanied by their parent.

If you are interested, please contact Mr Clarke in the Activities office for more details.

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

We are looking for 6 volunteers for each session to help decorate/undecorate the PAC for Chinese New Year.

Set – up will be Thursday, Jan. 19th, from 3.10 – 4.30 pm in the PAC – G8-10.

Clean – up will be Friday, Jan 20th, from 12.00 – 12.30 pm in the PAC – G6-7.

Please sign up on SchoolsBuddy.

For more info, please contact Jim, Andy or Eric in Grade 11.

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