Dear Parents,
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29 Feb – 4 March |
Cancelled: Inter-House Dodge Ball Competition This will now take place during the last week of Term 2.
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1 March (8.30am) |
Parent Workshop on E-Safety (Years 5 to 8) Led by our Head of Pastoral Care, David Boyd, this is an important workshop that looks at the rise of student communication online, and how we can ensure safety and appropriate behaviour. Please register with ricky.auyeung@nais.hk
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2-4 March |
Global Games Asia 2016 We’re delighted to be hosting Nord Anglia’s first regional “Global Games Asia”. Elsewhere in the world, our sister schools are hosting ‘Global Games Europe’ and ‘Global Games Americas’. Parents of our students representing NAIS have been notified.
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3 March |
Last day of Term2 ECAs We’ll email all parents about ECA choices for Term 3 soon!
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8 March (8.30am – 9am) Years 1 & 2 |
Understanding how The Juilliard Collaboration benefits your child. Led by our Director of Music, Miss Rowan, this will be a hands-on workshop using the keyboards and technology in our Juilliard Music Lab (5/F).
Limited seats are available, so please register with Ricky.Auyeung@nais.hk
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9 March (8.30am – 9am) Years 3 - 6 |
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10 March (8.30am – 9am) Years 7 & 8 |
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7-12 March |
Year 7 & 8 Residential Camp to Vietnam
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14 March |
Primary Reports to Parents
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14 March (1.30pm to 5.30pm) |
Parents Meetings with Mandarin Teachers (Primary) Appointment booking letters will be sent out next week.
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15 March (3-5pm) |
Primary Parents’ Evening Appointment booking letters will be sent out next week.
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16 March (1.30pm to 5.30pm) |
Parents Meetings with Mandarin Teachers (Primary) Appointment booking letters will be sent out next week.
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17 March (5pm to 7pm) |
Primary Parents’ Evening Appointment booking letters will be sent out next week.
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17 March |
The Great Spelling Bee Years 4-8 will enter teams of five into a knockout competition to find our school’s best spellers.
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18 March |
UNICEF Coin for Kids (Hong Kong coins only please)
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18 March |
Term 2 ends – Finish at 1pm Buses leave early. Please adjust pick-up times by 2 hours.
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Follow up on Parent Meeting on 27 January
Update from Mr Cooklin: “At last month’s Parent Meeting, an undertaking was given to issue a questionnaire to seek parental views on the funding of capital expenditure and to set up a Parent Advisory Committee. The questionnaire and information is being prepared and will follow in due course.”
On Monday, Mr Cooklin will send out details about establishing a Parent Advisory Committee. Please look out for this letter.
Global Games Asia - 2-4 March
Four international schools will be battling it out in athletics, swimming and football next week. As a reminder, here are the approximate times of events:
Wednesday 2 March, Kowloon Bay Sports Ground
9.30 – 10.30am: Opening Ceremony
10.30am: Field Events
11.00am: Track Events
3.00pm: Prize Giving
Thursday 3 March, Kwun Tong Swimming Pool
10.30am: Swimming races begin
1.00pm: Finals
2.30pm: Prize Giving
Friday 4 March, King’s Park and NAIS
9.30am: Kick off
1.15pm: Finals
3.00pm: Prize Giving
4.30pm: Gala Dinner (students only)
Please come along to cheer on our Knights and enjoy the fun. We will be LIVE STREAMING some parts of the Global Games, so keep an eye on Facebook for the links.
NAIS on Facebook, Firefly, Instagram & www.nais.hk
This week we have uploaded a record number of posts and blogs. Please click on our Facebook page, website or Firefly to see what our students have been up to this week.
Easter & Summer Camps at NAIS
We’re holding some great camps during our two-week Easter holiday. Please click here for details on:
As well as being a great way to improve your sporting abilities or design and art skills, if your child needs a little extra boost to their conversation skills, then these are fun ways to improve their spoken English. Non-NAE students are also welcome.
Introducing the NAIS Pupil Council -- click here for photos or go to Firefly
Our School's Pupil Council met for the very first time yesterday. They were elected from each class and they will have a greater say in improvements around the school.
Congratulations to our inaugural Pupil Council members:
Year 3: Eva Simmonds, Dante Griffiths, Ben Thomas, Edward Savagar, Evelyn Bowen
Year 4: Martha Lewell, Maithili Parekh, Rylan Holt, Anelotte Espeskog, William Smith
Year 5: Abbie Yiu, Carrie Stevenson, Alice Stevenson, Boco To
Year 6: Hayley Dodd, Saffron Goggins, Sunny Donat
Year 7: Elena Gonzalez, Janice Ooi
Year 8: Rebecca Chen, Ryan Chu
Primary Assembly – Click here
Thank you to all our students in 3A who reminded us all of the importance of ‘Reducing, Re-using and Re-cycling’.
We also celebrated our Stars of the Week in Music. Congratulations to:
Year 1: Corey Zhang, Maya Fukuda, Gretchun Ng, Hoffman Hirst, Annette Cheung
Year 2: Katherine Kerr, Mollie McGregor, Lisa Boschini, Odile Bruinsma, Max Smith
Year 3: Elliot Taylor, Dylan Shim, Divina Law, Sophia Xu, Cory Wong
Year 4: Martine Bratsberg, Catherine Zhu, Adrian Li, Kyle Chan, William Smith
Year 5: Abby Choi, Meisa Chi, Jack Yuen, Emily Stevenson
Year 6: Kevin Feng, Steven Wu, Matteo Griffiths
Thank you also to Ryan and Sylvia (Year 5) who played on the piano and Gu Zheng respectively, and Tiffany (Year 4) on the violin.
Secondary Assembly
Today, Head of Year 7 and 8 Mrs Reid, talked today about a very important message for our older students: what is respect and what does it look like? Our students said it's about how you treat people, friends, things (even if they don't belong to you - such as your school ipad!) and most importantly, yourself. By respecting yourself, you can gain respect from others too.
High Commendations in Music went to:
Year 7: Elena Gonzalez, Chloe Yuen
Year 8: Sophia Gong, Selina Pan
Click here for photos
Secondary Residential Trips (Packing lists & change of flight time)
Letters were sent out with a packing list for the Secondary Residential Trip. Please make sure you read this and note that the flight time from Hong Kong to Vietnam has changed to mid-day. Please contact Simone.Reid@nais.hk with any questions.
Global Campus Creative Writing Competition
Global Campus Lead, Mr Robinson, today announced the pieces of writing that we will be putting forward to the 42-school wide Global Campus competition. Well done to our winners: Beatrice, Janice, Callie, Elliot and Amaya. They all received a Creative Writing Anthology from 2015. We will be sharing their writing on Firefly shortly.
Calling all Parent Musicians & Singers!
A message from Miss Rowan: “We will be having a performance evening in June and are keen to have a performance from parents. If you play an instrument or sing and would be keen to be involved, please email me at naomi.rowan@nais.hk. I look forward to hearing from you.”
Update from the Library
If you’re looking for tips on what books your children may like to read, then our Library website is a great place to start. You can access the page through Firefly.
Currently, Miss Richardson is encouraging our students to take part in the Golden Dragon Book Awards. All you have to do is read as many of the books in the Golden Dragon list (look under Ruby, the red dragon, in the library) and tell Miss Richardson which is your favourite. She will tally the results and announce the winners in Term 3.
Finally, I hope all the Year 7s and 8s are looking forward to their Movie Night in the Hall this evening. They all voted for the movie that they wanted to watch and I expect they’ll have a great time.
Have a lovely weekend.
