Dear all,
We hope you all enjoyed the mid-week day off! Now have a wonderful
weekend! The Middle School play, Mystery on the Orient Express
opens today at 4pm in the FAC theatre with shows tomorrow also at 4pm and 7:30
pm. Be sure to try catch this train dining car mystery experience!
Thank yous!
- Thank you to Valar, Esther, Fiona and Hilary
for doing a wonderful job of teaching the students of 4MG whilst I was
away. You all are very appreciated! Marcus.
- Jack, Velin, Sobha, Lawrence and all of the
EY5 - G2 teachers and teacher assistants who helped out with today’s swim
gala
- Thank you to the Library staff for helping us
amass resources for Vision Week read-alouds.
- Thank you to the PE team for being flexible
and covering for each other during these busy weeks
- Thank you to Uma, Leontheen, Alex, Fiona,
Seema, Salome, Preetika, Chandini and Sarah Sahr for your hard work in
WIDA testing
- Congratulations and thank you Barbara and
Leontheen from the Grade 1 team and
students for the Roots and Shoots combo fundraiser. You have really
modeled taking action with our kids, and in such a fun and creative way.
- Mary Kelly and Melissa for leading the ES faculty meetings on Vision Projects and Tier 2 interventions on Wednesday
Upcoming Week at a Glance
Monday 22nd April
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Earth Day - Nothing New
Clothing swap at AISC
WIDA Testing 3 - 5 (22nd - 26th)
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Tuesday 23rd April
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PCA Faculty Appreciation Day
Lunch from 11:30am - 1:30pm in the Madras Hall |
Wednesday 24th April
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Early Release / Professional Learning - Faculty Wellness
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Thursday 25th April
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ANZAC day
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Friday 26th April
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Dubai invitational swim meet
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Saturday - Sunday 27th - 28st April
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Monday 29th April
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No school (April Long weekend)
MAP Testing begins
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Monday April 22 - Nothing New Day - Clothing Swap
Don’t forget that you
can bring up to 20 items to the Clothing Swap on Monday. Thank you for
bringing items in excellent quality without holes or stains to swap. Please sign up here.
Environmental Responsibility Update
In the last two days, we saved the
production, transport, consumption, and trash made, from over 500 plastic
bottles, and 300 cartons of juice. Thank you.
Thank you for bringing a reusable
bottle, for using a cup, or for choosing juice from our juicers.
Thank you for making a few small, but
powerful, changes to your habits and thinking.
Your efforts in a single day do make a
difference, and your choice today can too. #Plasticban
An awesome read for all of us!
Are any of these myths getting in your way of implementing PBL? We would
welcome a conversation to debrief any of these!
Semester Two Report Cards (repeat announcement)
Please find below the timeline for writing our final report cards of
this academic year. These will be printed as per other report cards this year,
so proofreading remains an ongoing focus to ensure these are error-free
going home. Therefore, everyone, please ensure to
familiarise yourself with the style guide and
proofreading process. You will also find the proofreading assignments
here.
This time around, please note two differences in proofing process from
the progress reports. First, each homeroom teacher has been assigned
a colleague proofer. This is due to the volume of reports being much
higher and the challenge of making an equitable distribution. Secondly,
we’d added to the reporting process to ask that teachers check their own
character count before sending to proof reader (500-800 characters per
comment). First round proofers will also check, but it will go much more
smoothly if we check our own.
One streamlining suggestion is once you’ve written the first comment and
know this is between 500-800, count the number of lines in this comment and aim
for near that number of lines for all others.
Wednesday 1 May
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Fri 10 May
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By Weds 15 May - 8:00 a.m.
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Monday 20 May - 4:00 p.m.
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Wed 22 May - 8:00 a.m.
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Friday 24 May
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Monday 27 May
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Wednesday 29 May
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Have a wonderful weekend!
Appreciatively,
Keryn, Dave and Calley
Keryn, Dave and Calley
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