Category: Staff

Secondary Tuesday Meeting

Good morning all,

As a reminder, during today’s secondary meeting, you have the choice of three workshops that you may not have been able to attend during the February PLDs. These workshops also nicely align with Neurodiversity Celebration Week! Please select and attend one of the following:

Executive Functioning with Tanya and Kim in Curt’s room.
Supporting students with ADHD with Stephen and Ruben in Andrew’s room.
Making Assessments Accessible with Kelly, Diane and Sarah in Sarah’s room.

Thank you to the presenters for offering their workshops again!

Spicy Bites – Neurodiversity Celebration Week

This is the first year that NIS will take part in Neurodiversity Celebration Week, March 18th-24th, 2024.

When it comes to inclusion, neurodiversity refers to a world where neurological differences are recognised and respected as all other human variations. This week, we will run some lunchtime sessions to raise awareness about SOME of the expressions of Neurodiversity in our community. 

Spicy Bites, (inspired by the Lunch Byte concept), will run on Wednesday and Friday this week.

Sensory Processing : Wednesday, 12.30, D246, Stephen: How to recognize and accommodate sensory processing differences

Neurodiverse Inclusion, Best Practice: Wednesday, 12.30, LSS, Seth: How to enculture inclusion in our classrooms

ADHD in Women and Girls: Friday, 12.30, D246, Tanya & Tríona: How to recognize, accommodate and include intricacies of ADHD in girls in our learning environments

 

See you there!

 

Grade 10 EXHIBITION!

Dear All,

Please find the schedule for the Grade 10 Personal Project Exhibition below – this Wednesday March 20th.

If you have a class when a particular grade is scheduled, please take your class to the PAC so they can visit the booths and ask questions of the students. However, if you already have something important to complete like an exam, then the class work should take priority. Similarly, you can give your students as much or as little time to visit within the time slot, but please ensure that you are also present in the PAC.

Thanks for your support, and see you all on Wednesday in the PAC!

PP Exhibition time on Wednesday in the PAC – 5.45pm – 7.30pm.

PERSONAL PROJECT EXHIBITION is FINALLY HERE!

Wednesday evening in the PAC – 5.45pm to 7.30pm. This is the culminating event for students to showcase their learning. Please come along to learn something new, like how black holes are made or how particular make-up colors can enhance your look! All welcome!

Evacuation Drill & Lockdown Drill in W27

As confirmed by SLT, there will be an announced Fire Drill @ 09.55AM on Tuesday 26 March and a Lockdown Drill on Thursday 28 March for the whole school.

Please find out the online survey with enclosed Procedure of Code Blue, and share your feedback after the Lockdown drill via NIS Code Blue on Mar.28 or by scanning the QR below before 4.00PM on Friday, 29 March 2024.

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

Thanks for your support!

Arek and the team

NIS DP Visual Arts Exhibition Continues until this Friday, Mar. 22!

A huge THANK YOU to all those who made the time to come out and support our senior art students at the DP Visual Arts Exhibition this past Friday night. The exhibition was a huge success and we are forever grateful to have a community that believes in the value of Art education. Our students have worked so hard for the past two years so your presence meant a lot to us.

Please kindly remember to leave a positive comment for our talented artists in our Guest Book by scanning the QR code below (this is also posted everywhere in the exhibition for those of you who are planning to visit this week).

The exhibition continues this week during school hours until Friday, Mar. 22. @ the Centre Cafe, 2F.

Lunch Bytes: MagicStudent!

As an innovator school we have been given early access to MagicSchool’s new student platform MagicStudent!  To ensure that we are thoroughly prepared to use it with our students we will be offering Lunch Byte Session on the following days and times.

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 11:30- 12:00 in room D220

Thursday, March 21, 2024 12:30-1:00 in room D220

Come learn more about how to launch a room for your students to use generative AI to assist them in their learning.

Hope to see you there!

G8 & G9 Advisors

Morning G8 & G9 Advisors!

During advisory today, please ask students to complete the GOA Interest Form. A message with the link was sent via ManageBac over the weekend to students and parents. Please ask students to go to their Grade Level Messages and they will see a message from me. A message was also placed in the Student Daily Bulletin.

Please remind students that this form is only an expression of interest in taking GOA Courses. There is no obligation to register for any courses selected on this form. We are simply collecting data to identify how many students are interested in taking GOA Courses and which GOA Courses they are interested in taking.

A list of GOA Courses with descriptions can be found HERE.

Lunch Bytes: MagicStudent!

As an innovator school we have been given early access to MagicSchool’s new student platform MagicStudent!  To ensure that we are thoroughly prepared to use it with our students we will be offering Lunch Byte Session on the following days and times.

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 11:30- 12:00 in room D220

Thursday, March 21, 2024 12:30-1:00 in room D220

Come learn more about how to launch a room for your students to use generative AI to assist them in their learning.

Hope to see you there!

IB Job-Alikes

Registration is open for the IB Job-Alikes in Beijing on April 20, 2024. There are sessions for PYP, MYP, and DP. Click here to see if your subject and interests will be represented.

Attendance is free and travel is PLA eligible. If interested, please speak with your PGP person, then complete the PLA tracking form. Thanks!