Category: Student

using bittorent is the best way to kill the school network

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  • Publication date May 15, 2015
  • Categories: Student

Using Bittorent on the school network isn’t allowed because it has the capacity to bring the school network to a stand still. First time offenders are given a warning. The second time you’ll be referred to your division level Principal and your computer might be placed into a restricted lock down mode.

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The image above we see the impact a single Bittorent user visiting 45,000 websites in a few minutes. For comparison a normal computer will visit about 2,000 websites in a day. Bittorent applications Vuse, uTorrent and Tranmission should not be on your computer.

 

Int. Orchestra Cancelled

Intermediate Orchestra will be cancelled for the next two weeks. In the upcoming week, we will be scheduling Advanced Orchestra instead so that they may prepare for their graduation performance. The following week is exam week.

Happy studying!

Interhouse Music Competition

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This year’s Interhouse Music Competition takes place Friday, May 15th at the start of lunch. The piece we’ve chosen is ‘Sway’ – a fusion Latin-jazz piece, made famous by both Dean Martin and recently Michael Buble.

The three houses have been working very hard on their orchestrations. This year looks to be the best year ever, with the quality of the groups so close that it’s bound to be hard to pick a winner.

Please come at the start of lunch to support your house. We look forward to seeing you there!

Keys Please

 

 

 

Are these your keys? If so, please make the walk of shame to my office ASAP. Thanks. Mr. Bratton

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Student Council President/ & Vice President Elections

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  • Publication date May 13, 2015
  • Categories: Staff, Student
Hello Grade 9, 10 and 11 students! Throughout the whole year many activities and nights have been organized and a lot of that is thanks to the student council. Now, it may be your chance to lead the student council and their activities as the President and Vice President!  If you have a partner in mind please come to the Councilors Office at 1:00 pm on Friday May 22nd for a brief meeting to discuss the process. Come by even if you are little interested, we can answer your questions. If you are running for president, you must have had at least one year of experience in student council. These roles are only for grade 10 and up (current grade 9 and up). For 8s and below, there will be plenty of opportunity to get involved in the new year as grade level reps. The actual elections will take place on Friday June 5th.

ASAs during MYP / DP Exams

MYP / DP ASAs during exams
There will be no MYP/DP ASAs from Wednesday 20th May to Tuesday May 26th.  MYP / DP ASAs will start again on Wednesday May 27th.

PYP ASAs
PYP ASAs will run as normal during exam time.
(However, some PYP student-led ASAs may be cancelled. We will contact families and students concerned directly)

C&S Volunteers Wanted

Stil some volunteers wanted for the following events.

EY Carnival Friday 15th May

Basketball Saturday 16th May

Spring Fun Day Saturday 30th May

Signup on the C&S/CAS signup link on Veracross.

Please Do Software Updates and Java Update

Recently lots of network issues have been detected, for example computer visits 50,000 website in 5 mins. It is incredible but it happens and slows down our school network without your notice. To avoid this wired network issue, please do software updates and java update. Here is how you can do it:

Software Update

1. Open “App Store”

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 2. Click “Update“, then you will see the list of updates available

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 3. From the list of updates, please find “Software Update” which usually shows up on top of the list. This update includes the security update for the system.

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4. It will require you to download and restart. Please do it. Your computer will take some minutes to download the update. After it finishes, it will restart. It is better to keep your computer charged during this process.

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5. Please check the App Store for updates again. You will get another “Software Update” which includes security update for Safari. Please finish it.

Java Update

Please download the latest version of Java and install it.

http://java.com/en/

Let us know if you have any question. We will be glad to help.

 

New Athletics Day Records MYP/DP

Congratulations to all our new Athletics Day Record Breakers. We had a total of 23 new school records in the MYP/DP Athletics Day. The record breakers were:

Jerry Yang (Long Jump), Woojin Kim (Javelin), Ato Underwood (200m), Takita Lee (400m, High Jump, Shot Put), Ati Underwood (Long Jump), Cade Wilburn (Javelin), Pauline Rogalla (800m), Lena Fuchs (1500m, relay), Meghna Ancha (relay), Gloria Bellini (relay), Marie-Sophie Mende (relay), Jihoon Lim (Shot Put), Sasha Tyoschin (800m), Cameron Young (1500m), Olivier Leclerc (Triple Jump), Johanna Rogalla (Triple Jump), Morgan Trainer (Javelin), Freja Lofqvist (Javelin), Emil Burganov (400m, relay), Aziz Burganov (High Jump, relay), Brydie Dwyer (100m), Michelle Lei (relay), Jaren Jones (relay)

Please check the Athletics noticeboard for all the current records.

Three first prizes at Flux Film Festival

NIS students submitted twelve films to the Flux Film Festival in Beijing and all twelve were shortlisted. The following three films produced by NIS students won first prize in their respective categories at the award ceremonies in Beijing at the weekend:

High School Documentary Film Category: “The Design Centre” by Kostya Tyoschin, Danique van Bremen & Willy Wang

http://video.nanjing-school.com/media/the-design-centre

Middle School Narrative Film Category: “Procrastination” by Eliza Felton, Ella Hammond & Minna Sonevang

http://video.nanjing-school.com/media/procrastination

Middle School Sweded Film Category: “The Avengers Trailer” by Daphne Burt, Lena Fuchs, Tillmann Siering & Ang Wu

http://video.nanjing-school.com/media/the-avengers-trailer

Three other films by NIS students were “Highly Commended”.

Congratulations to all participants.