Good Morning!

 

Air Quality

Orange Level

 

Staff Absent

  • Michele Rowland (sick leave). Momina Sheikh is covering 6A.
  • Zoe Andrews (marriage leave). Zoe’s sessions are cancelled this week. See Sil for child protection matters.
  • Anne Peters (sick leave) – Anne’s sessions will be cancelled today.
  • Francesca Newell (sick leave) – 2C will be internally covered today.

 

 

Winter Concert Rehearsals

Please click following links to view the following information:

For today’s rehearsals, please see the following:

  • 1:00pm:  Year 1, 2 & 3 students to assemble near bus bay for departure.  Advanced violin students to bring violins with them to assembly area.  Names to be checked off student list (attached and on teams).  Bus departs RP for CP
  • 1:15pm:  Students arrive at CP and escorted to theatre.  Begin rehearsal for Do Re Mi Choir.  Violin Teachers to prepare violins for Advanced Violin students.
  • 1:45pm:  Do Re Mi sit in theatre seats & Advanced Violin rehearse.
  • 2:15pm:  Violins back in cases and pack up for return to RP
  • 2:25pm:  Bus departs CP for RP

Teacher chaperones:  Diana, Mira, Sophie +1

Please note that Diana’s, Mira’s and Sophie’s lessons will not go ahead this afternoon.

 

CCAs finish dates – please remind students

class teachers – please ensure you remind the students of the following dates through notes in the students diaries:

  • Tuesday CCAs finish this week – 20th November
  • Thursday – already finished
  • Friday – already finished

Please note that the Monday CCAs occur throughout the year, and will continue up to the Christmas holiday. For the swimming schedule, please see the Sports Blog for more information.

 

Ordering Reminders

OSO needs to be on the server by Friday.  The Christmas order extended deadline to send to Jenny Lin is tomorrow. See previous emails from John for details.

 

Planning PLCs

These take place after school today

 

Y5C Apple Store Trip

10.00-12.30

 

Chinese Culture and Chinese New Celebration Week – Mark on your calendar

As time is quickly passing, the Chinese department is starting to plan the Chinese Culture and New Year Celebration Week. We will be hosting this event for all our ECE and Primary students at Regency Park Campus from Monday to Friday on January 21st ~ 25th, 2019. It will be a great week of cultural-related activities for students and teachers to experience the joy and excitement of their host country’s culture.

One of the highlights of this event is the Chinese New Year Celebration Night which is at 6~8 pm Friday January 25th. There are a variety of exciting activities, performances and cultural-related activities will be held and run by all the teachers.

Please remember that this is an important event in the school’s calendar, which very much reflects the YCIS philosophy.  It is an expectation for all teachers to attend, so please mark this date January 25th on your calendar to avoid other plans.

 

Christmas Parties

I know that Christmas is still a little way off at the moment, but I wanted to share the following reflections that came from last year’s parties before any were starting to be organised.

  • When making arrangements for the parties, please make sure that they are in the last week of school (17th-21st Dec). Year leaders – once the dates of all parties in your team have been set, then please email me so I can add to the calendar.
  • Also, please ensure that the classes in a given year level are consistent in their approach…in other words, classes don’t need to be doing exactly the same activities, but we want to avoid the situation where one class is having a shared lunch/tea, and another is not.
  • Book/gift exchange/secret santa is fine to organise assuming it is consistent across the year level, but do not organise gifts or gift bags to go out to students on the last day (even if organised by parent rep)
  • If parents need to bring food for a party, please organise sign-up forms (paper or online) – rather than parents having to ‘reply all’ to an initial email.
  • No videos during class time – only on last day
  • If you are wishing your parent reps to help out, then please make contact with them soon.

 

Reminders

 

Upcoming Dates

  • Tuesday, November 20
    • 5B Trip to Apple Store, 10.00-12.30pm
    • Winter Concert Rehearsals – see details above
    • Fire Evacuation Drill – more info to follow
  • Wednesday, November 21
    • Winter concert rehearsals and concert (6.00pm)
    • Reports – specialist comments to Amita by end of day
    • 5D Trip to Apple Store, 10.00-12.30pm
    • Y4D Curriculum Assembly, 2.30pm
  • Thursday, November 22
    • Y2B Curriculum Assembly, 2.30pm
    • Y6 Character Assembly – Hospitality (Leo)
    • 5A Trip to Apple Store, 10.00-12.30pm
  • Friday, November 23
    • Y6C Curriculum Assembly, P6
    • Y1A Curriculum Assembly, 2.20pm
    • RP Student Council Meeting (Long)
    • Y5 trip to CP for Assembly and lunch