Category: Staff

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.

PYP Assembly today

Good morning!

Please head directly to the PAC this morning as we have a longer-ish assembly and would like to begin on time. The programme is as follows:

1. Paul Johnson and his gardening club.

2. G6 students performing a poem about recycling.

3. K1s stealing the show with their assembly on How We Express Ourselves.

4. House Point update

5. LOTW certificates

Language Acquisition

At the end of a lesson give non native speakers key vocabulary to review.

Murder in the Black Box!

The Accidental Theatre Company is sorry to report that a murder has taken place in the Black Box. It’s really rather annoying – there’s blood everywhere! Have you ever tried getting blood out of a carpet? It’s no fun, believe me.

Anyway, the body is as yet unidentified. In fact, it’s still lying there. We’re not entirely sure what to do with an unidentified dead body, actually. Suggestions on a postcard, please.

‘The Real Inspector Hound’, Black Box, 7pm, Wednesday 1st April & Thursday 2nd April. Tickets (the few that are left) available from the receptionist in the Centre lobby.

Language Acquisition

Linking homework directly to classroom instruction will help non native speakers gain a deeper understanding.

Early Years Event Friday

Early Years Story time & Movie–March 27th 3:00-4:00

The PTA invites students in PreK, K1, K2 and Grade 1 to an after school story time & movie.

Please come to the PAC directly after school on Friday the 27th of March. Students will each receive a juice box and some pop-corn after the movie. No food or drinks are permitted into the theatre. All students will need to be brought to and picked up from the theatre by an adult. The movie will be finished at 4:00pm.

 

‘Profoundly superficial, deeply shallow…’

These are the latest reviews to come from those lucky enough to have discovered the top secret rehearsal space of the Accidental Theatre Company as they prepare their ground-breaking, genre-hopping, confoundingly confusing production of Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Real Inspector Hound’.

Tickets are disappearing fast! They are only available from the receptionist in the Centre lobby. Do not be fooled by touts – no other outlet is licensed to sell tickets except this one! Don’t miss the greatest show since…er…since 7th March when the real Ed Sheeran played Chennies! Get your tickets while you still can!

Shows begin at 7pm on the evenings of Wednesday, 1st April and Thursday, 2nd April!

Grade 3 “The Past Influences People’s Lives” exhibition

Grade 3 students will be displaying their posters and model artifacts about Ancient China in the PAC, periods 7 and 8 on Thursday, 26th March. If you are not teaching at that time and are free to come by the children would love to see you. We have invited the parents to come in but there will be some that cannot make it. If you see a “lonely” looking child please ask a few questions about his/her work. We have models of working crossbows, bags of gunpowder, an earthquake detector – it’s worth a visit! Debbie Mills
Olivia Bratton
Jesse Douma
Anna Yuen

Language Acquisition

Encourage non native speakers to talk about what they have learnt in their home language with family and friends.

Support for JIS community

Dear NIS Colleagues, on behalf of friends and ex-colleagues at JIS, thank you, thank you so much for the support you showed yesterday afternoon for Neil and Ferdi as well as the cleaners already serving sentences. Our photo with so many people is greatly appreciated. This interview with the wives is worth a read if you have time.

The Real Inspector Hound

STOP PRESS!! Quick! There has been an unprecedented run on tickets in the last 24 hours! Half the available seats have been taken already! If you don’t want to miss this star-studded, ground-breaking, hilariously tragic and miserably comic production, get across to the Centre lobby as soon as you possibly can to claim your free ticket!

Special shows are on Wednesday, 1st April and Thursday, 2nd April, at 7pm in the Black Box.

Grade 8 Displaced People Experience

Dear Teachers of Grade 8, just a quick reminder that there will be no Grade 8 classes on Tuesday 31st March as all of Grade 8 will be participating in a displaced people experience as part of a Design and Humanities IDU. All class teachers are welcome to come over and see what is happening throughout the day. We will be on the far side of the running track.