Scrooge is now completely sold out. We still have people requesting tickets. For safety we cannot go over our ticket numbers.
If you have a ticket for either Thursday or Friday which you do not need, please hand back to NIS reception.
It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!
The first ever RFG Christmas market will take place this weekend by the lake in Royal Family Gardens compound. The event will take place this Saturday the 28th Nov from 3pm until 10pm and Sunday the 29th Nov 3pm until 7pm. There will be presents to buy for family and friends, decorations to turn your home into a winter wonderland, live music, plenty of Christmas cheer and of course lots of scumdidilyumptious food and drinks.
Tickets are selling fast so make sure you get your tickets Thursday after school 3pm – 3.30pm, Friday before school 7.30am – 8am and Friday after school 3pm – 3.30pm. Tickets are required for all people who live outside of the RFG community. There will be tickets offered on resale at the gates on the day but this can not be guaranteed.
Kids Read and Random Acts of Reading
12:55 today, couches in the back of the library. We’re breaking into our teams and strategizing for the final competition (which is only 56 days away). If you’re interested in helping out, reading, or just want to hang out on the couch, feel free to join us!
A huge thanks to our Kids Read teams for taking a risk answering some tough trivia questions, putting up a great fight, and defeating the teacher team last week in the assembly!
If you are interested in attending the ETC, please apply through the school PD committee. We need to register by January. For more information, please check their website: www.earcos.org
Also, I received this email asking to share with you all.
The Klingenstein Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College is currently accepting applications for programs beginning in Summer and Fall 2016.
The Summer Institute for Early Career Teachers is a fully-funded two-week fellowship for teachers with two to five years of experience. The fellowship brings 75 teachers from around the world together to learn and collaborate on improving practice, creating practical curriculum and assessments, and growing as teacher-leaders. The application is due January 15, 2016.
The Full-Year Master’s Program and MA/MBA give students an opportunity to study leadership for independent and international schools. In a close-knit cohort of dedicated educators, students complete coursework in leadership, ethics, law, finance, marketing and cognitive development, conduct practical research in schools, and engage in a meaningful capstone project. The program has a priority deadline of January 15, 2016 and a final deadline of April 15, 2016.
The application for the 2017 Heads of Schools Program, also a fully-funded two-week fellowship, will open on May, 2016.
For more information, please visit our online brochures below or www.klingenstein.org, call us at +1-212-678-3156, or email klingenstein@tc.columbia.edu.
Seeing Scrooge? Write a review for Purple Duck!
If you’re lucky enough to see the NIS production of “Scrooge” the Purple Duck team would love to hear from you. Write a review of no more than 250 words and send it through to Diana or Juan.
dianaandrasyova@students.nanjing-school.com or JuanAndradeCalderon@students.nanjing-school.com
Truly Scrumptious
Hello fellow students, teachers and scrumptious food desiring people! Come down to the foyer at break and lunch to raffle and silent auction some scrumptious baked goods, candy or even some savory foods. If any of these make your taste bids buzz, Truly Scrumptious is the place for you!.
Thank You,
Kostya and Sofia
Inter House Basketball Gr 9 – 12 Results
Congratulations to Xuanwu, winners of yesterday’s fiercely competitive basketball competition. All Houses finished on 2 wins each from the competition but Xuanwu’s superior points difference brought them out on top. Taiping took second place whilst current overall leaders Wutaishan could only manage 3rd place.
Xuanwu were also the winners of the PYP Just Dance Competition last week so its been a good few days for them; are they on their way back? Only time will tell!! These are the current scores:
Next event for MYP/DP is the Spelling competition in Week 17 and for PYP it is the Jump Rope competition next week. Sign up with your House Captains if these are the events for you.
6A Life 101 in Blue Gym
6A has Life 101 with Mr. T in the Blue Gym this morning first block.
Thanks,
Ms. Bezzerides
Skip Skip Skip To My Lou
Wutaishan will be hosting our PYP skipping competition on Friday, November 27th from 8:10 to 8:40 a.m.
PYP teachers please remind our students to wear their house shirts on Friday.
Grade 1 to 5 teachers will need to be in their houses before you head to the blue gym.
Aim to be in the gym for an 8:10 start.
House groups will be skipping together.
Please sit on the bleachers with your house teams.
Stay light on your feet and keep on skipping.
Scrooge! run through after school
A reminder of our final run through after school today (Wednesday)!
This will be our last chance to rehearse, so ALL CAST AND CREW please arrive on time at 3:05 – straight after school. We will go over the Fezziwig Party scene, the Portly Gentlemen scene and Marley’s Face technical first and then straight into a run through.
Please do not be late! We will not begin until everyone is present.
Scrooge! Friday Sold Out!
This year’s MYP/DP Production of Scrooge! will be a promenade performance. This description from the Scottish Arts Council explains what this means:
In Promenade the staging or performance area may be set in various locations in a venue. There may even be no distinction between the area the audience sit or stand in and the space for action. The audience inhabit, not just watch, a space.
Seating will be extremely limited! But you’ll not want to sit down as you are swept into the action and become part of the world the old miser Mr Scrooge inhabits!
Performances: 26 & 27 November, 7:00pm
Tickets available from reception free of charge.
FRIDAY SOLD OUT!!!!!
A handful of tickets remaining for Thursday.
Language Acquisition
Here are some comments from non native English students from around the world on increasing comprehensibility
Please use easier words.
Explain important words with smaller words.
Please speak slowly and clearly.
Please write more clearly on the board.
Don’t give difficult words in test questions.
Repeat what other students say when they ask a question or give an answer.
Let us explain things in our own language to people who don’t understand something.
Staff Christmas TGIF Friday, December 11th
If you would like to participate in a gift giving game at the staff Christmas TGIF on Friday December 11th there are 2 options (see below.) If you don’t want to participate in a gift giving game please just turn up to enjoy a drink and some snacks. The sign up lists are on the board in the Staff Room.
1. “Yankee Swap” (like the previous 3 years)
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle …. Regift!
- Sign up (by Thursday 10th December at the latest)
- Find something in your home that someone else could use – something worth around 80 rmb if bought brand-new.
- No live animals !
- Attach a note to the wrapped gift which gives a clue who the gift is suitable for.
- For example: ‘for some quiet time’ (and it might be tea and a book) or ‘for a romantic evening’ (candles and bubble bath…)
- Bring your wrapped gift for an unknown recipient to school on December 11th and place under the tree. The rules of the swapping game will be explained on the day.
or
2. Traditional Secret Santa
- Sign up below by the end of the day on Thursday 26th November.
- You will be asked to complete a short questionnaire detailing your favourite colour, favourite drink, favourite snack etc.
- On Friday you will pull a name out of a hat to find out who is your Secret Santa.
- Buy that person a gift (value about 80RMB).
- Wrap the gift, write the name of the recipient on the gift, and put it under the tree on Friday, December 11th
- The week beginning Monday, December 7th you can leave little gifts or clues in your Secret Santa’s mailbox (for example a candy bar, a can of soda)
New Structure, 2015
Dear all,
Please refer to the message below from Laurie.
Lucy
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New Structure Team 2015
Pedagogy and Curriculum Leaders –
Kath Adams, Katie Ham, Luiz Melo, Tom Johnson
Strategy Projects Leader –
Joanne Andrews
Inclusion Advocate –
Sarah Thawley
Co-curricular Co-ordinator –
Danny Clarke
Thank you to all the teachers who applied.
Laurie McLellan
Director
Message for PYP/MYP/DP Student Council members
You are very welcome to attend the lunch committee meeting on Tuesday 24th October at 12:45 in the board meeting room (room H303- third floor in the centre) so that you can share and discuss your ideas about our school food.
Lunch will be provided.