ACAMIS Track & Field and NUX Basketball are both going out on Friday 17th April (Day 2). Track & Field miss Blocks 2 – 5 and NUX basketball miss Blocks 1 – 5. See attached lists. They should all be sending their teachers OLFs this week. Thanks for your flexibility and support.
iPad Pilot Q&A – April 15
We need your help!
Calling all teachers/staff (PYP, MYP, DP). You are invited to an iPad Pilot Q&A on April 15 at 3:15 (location TBA).
Please come and play the role of a parent as we run through our compressed interactive iPad workshop and Q&A session. We appreciate your help as we prepare for the Parent workshop which will run on April 18.
Earth Hour Survey
For those of you who attended Earth Hour last weekend, your input on the following survey would be greatly appreciated:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/W5ZGF9T
Thanks in advance
The NIS Eco-Team
Staff- Books for the Break!
Don’t forget to stop by the library before Friday to get some books for the break. Below are some of the newly arrived fiction and professional titles.
If anyone is interested in the Overdrive eBooks please let me know, I am happy to help get you started!
PM2.5 readings in week 28
Dear all, please refer to enclosed weekly updates on PM2.5 data.
MYP SLC Sign-In Desk Rota
Reminder and thanks!
HEALTH WARNING!!!
Inspector Hound has issued a health warning regarding unfortunate new discoveries in the Black Box:
HEALTH ADVISORY: The public are warned that the reality/artifice boundaries are dangerously unstable in certain areas of the Black Box. The public is reminded that only professional actors are able to withstand the atmospheric pressures of artifice. Members of the public are advised to stay in their seats; on no account should they cross these boundaries – doing so may endanger both mental and physical health.
Oooh, how very ToK!!!
Student-Led Conferences Tomorrow!
Hello Again MYP Students,
Tomorrow we will have our annual student-led conferences! At some point on the day, between 8am-4pm, you will come to campus with a parent (or another willing adult if your parents are both unable to attend), sign-in in the Centre foyer, and pop into each of your classrooms for a student led (that means you!) activity, showing off what you have learned.
This is not a “normal” school day, but this IS a mandatory school day. You can come anytime, but you should give yourself about three or four hours to make the rounds. It is very important that you bring a charged laptop as well.
See you then!
Language Acquisition
Helping Non Native Speaker Understand Written Texts 2
Give students as much background knowledge as possible.
A message from Inspector Hound…
‘The web is closing in, like a fog when the cuckoo-beard is in bloom.’
Make of that what you will.
The Real Inspector Hound, Wednesday, 1st April and Thursday, 2nd April
— STOP PRESS!!! — Due to popular demand, a limited supply of extra tickets may be available. See the Accidental Theatre Company for further details.
The Real Inspector Hound
A pre-preview preview was held in the Black Box yesterday evening. These are some reviews of the preview (only the good ones, of course)…
No-one will leave the house! Scotland Yard Inquirer
Wonderful wallpapering! Town and Country
I almost fell asleep! John Rinker
Student-Led Conferences Wednesday This Week
Hello MYP Students,
On Wednesday we will have our annual student-led conferences! At some point on the day, between 8am-4pm, you will come to campus with a parent (or another willing adult if your parents are both unable to attend), sign-in in the Centre foyer, and pop into each of your classrooms for a student led (that means you!) activity, showing off what you have learned.
This is not a “normal” school day, but this IS a mandatory school day. You can come anytime, but you should give yourself about three or four hours to make the rounds. It is very important that you bring a charged laptop as well.
See you then!
Language Acquisition
This week the Language Acquisition post will look at helping non native speakers understand reading texts.
Helping Non Native Speaker Understand Reading Texts 1
Legibility
Students, particularly non native speakers, may have problems that are caused solely by the fact that what they are trying to understand has been poorly printed or copied, is badly set-out or is in a very small type-face.
We interrupt this bulletin for a police message…
Further to the unfortunate discovery of a dead body in the Black Box on Friday last, the police would like to announce the opening of an investigation into the circumstances of death, if, indeed, death it is proved to be, as it were. In order to facilitate this investigation, we would like to urge the NIS community to put themselves, as it were, into the hands of Scotland Backyard’s finest, Inspector Hound.
The Inspector will be present, in person and in attendance, as it were, at NIS on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Meanwhile, the Inspector urges the community not to be in the least worried – even though it seems that the killer is in our midst – and to take our minds off the matter by being on the lookout for a sinister and mysterious personage described as being of medium height and build, wearing a darkish suit and lightish shirt, and quite possibly behaving, or indeed acting, as a madman.
Further to this announcement, the Inspector has made a request for aid in identifying the as yet unclaimed dead body, described as longish, tallish and thinnish. Anyone who thinks they may know, or personally be acquainted with, a dead body that fits this description is politely, but not too politely, asked to be in attendance at the Black Box on Wednesday, 1st April and Thursday, 2nd April at 7pm precisely, when all, as is the manner of these things, will be revealed.
