Category: Staff

Field Test

Hi Everyone,

We had a great turn out for the first field test for the ETC 2016! Thank you all for those who came and your feedback! There are 3 more field tests coming up in Week 11. It will be wonderful if you can come and support the awesome teachers who are sharing about their presentations.

Please let me know if you can come to any of the sessions. It will be helpful to know the numbers so I can prepare the materials.

Looking forward to seeing you all there.

Thanks!

Grace

Monday (10/26) Wednesday (10/28) Friday (10/30)
Making Things Better: Design Thinking in the Classroom Time Lapse Documenting:  Student film themselves to focus and reflect Cultivating Empathy in the Drama classroom
Location: 2nd Floor Design Center Location: 2nd Floor Design Center Location: Drama Classroom
Time: 2nd Lunch (1:20) Time: 2nd Lunch (1:20) Time : 2nd Lunch (1:20)

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Language Acquisition

Each subject has its own specific writing strategies and genres.

ELL/English B (all students) have learnt to write from their English teachers, but they usually do not know how to apply these skills to other subjects. The “rules” of writing for different subjects need to be taught explicitly. Examples and templates are important reference tools.

Room Check for 3-Way Conference

3-way conference data for Nov. 4th has been generated in Veracross now. Please check if your room where the conference will take place is correct. If there is any change to the Room, please email samanthazou@staff.nanjing-school.com.

Here is how you check your 3-way conference schedule details including the ROOM:

1. Login Veracross Teacher Portal: https://portals.veracross.com/nis/

2. Under School Report, which is at right hand side of the portal page, at the bottom of the report list, please find and open “Teacher Conference Schedule“.

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3. Your schedule will open in PDF. From the schedule, you will find your conference room at the third column.

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Yours?

These containers were removed from the fridge in the Staff Lounge, emptied and washed. They are now waiting to be collected by their owners. If one or more of them belong to you please collect from the Staff Lounge.

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ETC 2016 & Field Testing

Dear All,

Attached is a flyer for the ETC 2016 coming up in March, 2016. Looks like an awesome list of wonderful speakers and workshop presenters! To make it even better, teachers at our school have also applied to present at ETC 2016! A part of the application process requires them to do a field test at school. In fact, the first field test is happening this Wednesday, October 14th during 2nd lunch. It will be great if you can come and listen to the presentation, and support your colleague.

On Week 11, there will be other field tests happening throughout the week. Please come and support your colleagues as they share about their presentations. I will send out a list of time and location soon!

Thanks so much!

Grace

ETC2016-Flyer

Sit and Chat extra long during lunch this week!

In order to make duty times work during trip week, the G1-5 students need to stay in the cafeteria a little longer than usual after eating lunch. Please ask your students how they might stay seated and wait respectfully for the cue to leave from the supervising teachers. They will need to show some patience.

Thank you to Ms Neila and Ms Dorothy who will valiantly hold the cafeteria fort down until 12:55. Ms Eleanor, Ms Cherry, Ms Anna, Mr. Lockwood, Ms Debbie and Ms Jacqui W. will be ready for the second duty when the students file out of the cafeteria calmly and respectfully.

Arden out of school

Good morning,

I will be out of school from today though all of next week on an accreditation visit. PYP Teachers – have an inspiring week on campus; MYP/DP – safe travels on your Discover China adventures.

Arden

Fridge Emptying

Please empty the staffroom fridges of your food and drink by 2 pm tomorrow (Friday), since they will be used for Pfrang Day on Saturday. Thank you for your cooperation.

DP Biology/ESS Field Trip Oct 27-28

DP Teachers,

The ESS/Biology field trip has been rescheduled and will now take place on October 27th and 28th.

The following students will be absent on those days:

Erika F
Jung Min, C
Kyana G
Jaren J
Won Hee L
Elissa M
Noor O
Jannik S
Maristella W
Diana A
Brydie D
Elena K
Jisoo K
Tara M
Anna (Emma) S
Kirsty C
Jia Shu (Michelle) L
Solange M
William W

Thank you for your support.

Luiz

Inter house Volleyball Results

Well done to everyone who took part in the Inter house Volleyball yesterday. It was a great event with some entertaining sport and close competition.

Congratulations to the winners: Xuanwu!

Results were as follows:

1st Xuanwu – won 4 lost 0

2nd Wutaishan – won 2 lost 2

3rd Taiping – won 0 lost 4

Many thanks to the referees Ms Weatherly and Mr Fischl.

The overall totals for the house competition now stand at:

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Accreditation Preparatory Visit Schedule

I am attaching the schedule for the Accreditation Preparatory Visit. If you are named on this schedule you should already be aware of your meeting times. I am aiming for minimal disruption to school life but please be accommodating if there is a need for a small change to our working week as a result of this visit.

If there are clashes or issues that I have overlooked in this schedule please get in touch.

I would love to say that this is the final version but there will almost certainly be modifications in which case I will contact you if you are affected.

Many thanks for your support with this.

DRAFT Schedule_Preparatory Visit October 19