Category: Student

Still some places left in the Pfrang Association trip to Northern Jiangsu Province on April 19th and 20th. The trip will be an opportunity for you to understand more about life in the Chinese countryside and for you to meet some of the students that Pfrang sponsors. Please email me for details. It will also be an opportunity for you to think more about how NIS can interact with the Pfrang students.

Don’t Forget! Signup for ACAMIS Middle School (G6,7 and 8) Cultural Convention (May 28 and 29) will close Monday at 3.00pm

You can get more information from the convention website: https://teachersh.scis-his.net/mscc15/

If you are interested please sign up on the Cultural Activities Registration link on Veracross by Monday 3.00pm. We expect the approximate cost of this activity will be 1600rmb. After you signup we will send out more information to you.

Please do not sign up on the SCIS Cultural Convention website at this stage.

If you have any questions please contact me or your arts / performing arts teachers.

A fun and exciting Friday afternoon ended with a very tight house race in the MYP Tech Challenge. The total score for each event included points from 1st to 15th place and points for participation if the challenge was not achieved.

• The grade 6 winners of the Parachuts was Taiping.
• The grade 7 winners of the Rockets was Wutaishan.
• The grade 8 winners of the Bridges was Wutaishan.
• The grade 9 winners of the Earthquake tower was Xuanwu.
• The grade 10 winners of the Pilar strength was Taiping.

Overall Winners of the points from every activity results in a with Taiping in first, Wutaishan in second and Xuanwu in third place. Congratulations to all the students for their participation and enthusiasm.

ASA Cycle 3 Online Signup is now closed. Please note that only students who have signed up for ASAs may attend. If you wish to signup now you should contact me to see if there are vacancies.

The courtyard outside of cafeteria closed today due to Tech Challenge set-up. Please enjoy your lunch in another location for today.

Today is the MYP Tech Challenge after lunch!

To avoid the long hallway being filled with MYP students and blocking the passageway for teachers and PYP students, the MYP Students will be lining up in grade levels outside of the foyer in the courtyard (under the roof). Please start lining 5-10 minutes before the end of lunch. Leave your bags in your lockers.

There will be 5 teams per house per grade level. While waiting in line, please start organizing your teams. There may be less students because of swim meet and other activities. Each house can still have 5 teams to have most chances for success.

Here are the locations for each grade:

• Grade 6: Robotics Area (Ms. Weatherly)
• Grade 7:  C154 / Drama Room (please go straight there) (Mr. Orteza)
• Grade 8: Back Courtyard area (enter via the cafeteria) (Ms. Fox)
• Grade 9: Hallway between gym and design centre (Mr. Messom)
• Grade 10: Workshop (Mr. Wiggins)

Enjoy you afternoon and represent your house well.

We’ve been hearing student’s having slow network issues. If that is the case for you, email help@nanjing-school.com and provide us with some details. Knowing time of day, web address, and location is useful is figuring out a solution.

The second Action for Service Expo will be held in Shanghai on June 2nd. The Expo is an opportunity for students to showcase NIS C&S / CAS activities and to learn about Service activities that other schools have undertaken. If you would like to attend please email me for more information. This is a 3 point C&S activity.

When?  Lunchtime…..

Come by for info on Canada generally and Trent in particular. Please check their website before you come…