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End of Year and Leaving Certificates June 2022

June 21, 2022 / / Comments Off on End of Year and Leaving Certificates June 2022

Dear Co-Teachers,

Like last year, we will give an individualized award to every student which celebrates an area they have tried hard or excelled at over the year.

With this in mind, we have prepared the award template. These awards should be shared at class parties in the last week.

You will find the templates for these certificates below (separate templates for RP and CP)

Action points

End of Year Certificates

  • Create a certificate for each student with their name and the reason for their award, by changing the names and reasons currently on the template.  You can work with specialists and EAL teachers (if relevant and necessary) to find an appropriate reason. You can use the comments from the specialists for the reports to help you.
  • Make sure you insert both co-teachers’ names at the bottom of the certificate.
  • Please ensure that the reason for the certificate starts with “For….”.
    E.G: For always being willing to ask for help when she needs it
  • The reason should be appropriate and reflect something positive they have done or worked at this year. A set of sample reasons is attached for your reference below. Possible Encouragement Award Reasons
  • The reason should not be “jokey”-e.g “For being the biggest chatterbox”. Find something genuine to celebrate.
  • Please give an individualised reason for each student.
  • Once you have typed up your certificates, send a soft copy of them to one of your colleagues to proofread. Please ensure you do not send certificates home with any errors or typos.
  • Class teachers then create a PDF version of each certificate and send this PDF version to the students via email. 

Leaving Certificates

  • Students who are leaving at the end of the school year, please can you present to them the Leaving Certificate also. This can be presented at the class party or the last Year Level Assembly.
  • These certificates will again be made into a PDF and then emailed to specific students via email.

Templates

End of Year Certificates for RP & CP2021-22

Leaving Certificate 2021-22

PLEASE CAREFULLY CHECK THE BACKGROUND FOR CP AND RP CERTIFICATES AS THEY ARE DIFFERENT!

 

Please let us know if you have any questions

End of Year & Leaving Certificates 2021

June 23, 2021 / / Comments Off on End of Year & Leaving Certificates 2021

Dear Co-Teachers,

As last year, we will give an individualised award to every student which celebrates an area they have tried hard or excelled at over the year.

With this in mind, we have prepared the award template. These awards should be shared at class parties in the last week.

You will find the templates for these certificates below (separate templates for RP and CP)

Action points

End of Year Certificates

  • Create a certificate for each student with their name and the reason for their award, by changing the names and reason currently on the template.  You can work with specialists and EAL teachers (if relevant and necessary) to find an appropriate reason. You can use the comments from the specialists for the reports to help you.
  • Make sure you insert both co-teachers’ names at the bottom of the certificate.
  • Please ensure that the reason for the certificate starts with “For….”.
    E.G: For always being willing to ask for help when she needs it
  • The reason should be appropriate and reflect something positive they have done or worked at this year. A set of sample reasons is attached for your reference below. Possible Encouragement Award Reasons
  • The reason should not be “jokey”-e.g “For being the biggest chatterbox”. Find something genuine to celebrate.
  • Please give an individualised reason for each student.
  • Once you have typed up your certificates, send a soft copy of them to one of your colleagues to proofread. Please ensure you do not send certificates home with any errors or typos.
  • Class teachers to print themselves.  Please get the nice paper from the office to do so.

Leaving Certificates

  • Students who are leaving at the end of the school year, please can you present to them the Leaving Certificate. This can be presented at the class party or the last Year Level Assembly.
  • We would also like class teachers to please take a photo of children receiving their Leaving Certificate which can be placed on Seesaw for parents to see.

 

Templates

End of Year Certificates for RP & CP2020-21

Leaving Certificate 2020-21

PLEASE CAREFULLY CHECK THE BACKGROUND FOR CP AND RP CERTIFICATES AS THEY ARE DIFFERENT!

 

Please let us know if you have any questions.

 

Thanks,

Melissa

Giving Tree 2020 – ECE & Primary

December 7, 2020 / / Comments Off on Giving Tree 2020 – ECE & Primary

Dear ECE & Primary Teachers,

Every Year the Parent Organisation Pudong (POP) helps to organise the Giving Tree, where we collect and distribute donations to chosen charities. A parent email was sent out on Friday afternoon, giving details of the items that they should bring in and which charities they are going to. They are being asked to bring them in next Wednesday or Thursday.

This year, there are certain logistical challenges with regards to the collection of the items, due to parents not being able to enter the campus. Therefore, for this year, each year level will be given boxes for the items to be placed. Whilst there is not an expectation to take the items to the Christmas tree, please feel free to take a photo of your class/year level with all the items.

The main action items for teachers are as follows:

For ECE Classes

  • Please click on the link below to find out more information regarding the chosen charity for your year level, and the list of items that they should bring in (all items should remain unwrapped).
  • Please discuss this with your students to ensure they know what to bring in – please refer to the parent email that was sent out on Friday.
  • Children to place items in a box located in/outside their classrooms (boxes will arrive by Tuesday)
  • Take a class photo and add to Seesaw
  • Once the photo has been taken, please ask children to pick up the item (any one will do), and place it in the relevant box in the ECE Library area
  • The boxes will be collected by the end of the week.

For K4-Y6 Classes

  • Please click on the link below to find out more information regarding the chosen charity for your year level, and the list of items that they should bring in (all items should remain unwrapped)
  • Please discuss this with your students to ensure they know what to bring in – please refer to the parent email that was sent out on Friday.
  • Add a note to the students’ diaries informing parents of the day that they need to bring the items in.
  • On the day, please have your children bring the unwrapped items and place them in the designated boxes given to each year level (These should arrive by Tuesday, and they can be placed outside the year level classrooms for RP, or within the LC for Y5-6).
  • Feel free to take a class photo with the items (does not need to be placed by the Christmas Tree).
  • The boxes will be collected at the end of the week.

 

More information regarding the chosen charity for your year level, please click on the relevant link.

Please email Roseline for any questions.

Thank you.

 

 

E-Learning Expectations and Schedules – ECE & Primary

December 2, 2020 / / Comments Off on E-Learning Expectations and Schedules – ECE & Primary

Dear Colleagues,

Having been through e-Learning before, we recognise that it is important to prepare ourselves for any emergency situation whereby we would be forced to temporarily close our school doors. We have therefore put together a set of expectations and schedules should we need to implement the e-learning programme again – please click the links below. Please take the time to look through these documents carefully in your teams, and ensure that you are familiar with all the expectations and action points:

Please let us know if you have any questions,

 

Kind Regards,

Sissy & Rob

Guidelines for Taking and Uploading Photographs – ECE & Primary

October 10, 2019 / / Comments Off on Guidelines for Taking and Uploading Photographs – ECE & Primary

Dear all,

Our CLT have been looking for ways in which to ensure quality photographs of school events are available for our School community to view. We do often have the AV team to take photos of the larger events, but quite often that is as far as we get, and nothing happens to them afterwards. We have therefore put the following system in place:

  • Key events, of which we would like photographs taken and made available to the school community, are identified.
  • A designated person (see list below), is responsible for booking AV (through support division) to take photos of that event.
  • Once the event has taken place, the staff member is responsible for liaising with the AV team, and saving their photographs onto the Year book server.
  • Only the top quality and appropriate photos should be chosen. The idea is to have quality over quantity. Please read carefully the guidelines attached for more information.
  • Once the photographs have been saved onto the yearbook server, then please inform the ECE & Primary Coordinators.
  • The ECE & Primary Coordinators will then upload the photographs onto SmugMug
  • Rob/Helen will then ensure the link is included in the weekly parent email

Please see list below of events and responsible staff member for Semester 1.

  • Founder’s Day – Rob
  • ECE & Primary Book week –Tania
  • Y5-6 Camps – Jon and Cathal
  • Y4 at CP to experience learning communities – Jen Stains
  • Y6 Science Fair – John McEnhill
  • All Christmas concerts – All Year Leaders
  • K2 Picnic – Stacey & Sheryl
  • Christmas Activities – ECE Year Level Leaders & Coordinators
  • ECE Learning Communities – ECE Year Level Leaders & Coordinators

Please view the guidelines carefully here. Included in these are sample photographs and information about student privacy and safety

Please let your relevant coordinator know if you have any questions.

Kind Regards,

Rob

ECE & Primary End of Year Tasks June 2019 – Important

June 21, 2019 / / Comments Off on ECE & Primary End of Year Tasks June 2019 – Important

Dear all,

Coming to the end of the year, there are always a lot of tasks/jobs to complete. To aid you in this process, we have created a checklist. Please click on the following link and read through carefully. I realise that the list is quite lengthy, but hopefully it will be very helpful when packing up. Team Leaders –  please run through this list with your team to ensure all team members are aware of what needs to be completed.

 

One of the main tasks is to pack up your classroom. Please see the Staff List, Room Usage documents and Moving Plan to find out where your classroom will be next year.

 

Please take note of the following important points:

  • The K4s classrooms will be on the ground floor of the ‘Primary’ Building (where the current Y2s are)
  • Due to this move, we will move away from the terminology of ECE and Primary Buildings. We will now call then A Building (currently ECE) and B Building (Currently Primary).
  • All student desks and chairs in Primary will move with the class, so please label them with the ‘new’ classroom number – see room usage document.
  • Year 5 classes will need to ensure that their labels clearly state CP. Would be good if the labels are printed on different colored paper for CP
  • Shelving will stay in the current classrooms. The only difference is that the Y2s will label their shelving as ‘storage’ – as the K4s will bring their own shelves.

Due to the number of teachers that will be moving classrooms, it is extremely important to ensure that everything is correctly labelled, including all boxes, desks, chairs, furniture etc…

Boxes and tape are available in the ERC, and you may collect up to 6 per classroom at first…you may collect more afterwards if necessary. Please print the following bilingual label:

Label

Please do not start packing up your room until Wednesday 26th June, in the last week (after all class parties have been finished).

Please note that all rooms will be painted and floors will be polished, so all resources will need to be boxed up.

For Primary – if there are items in your classroom that needs to be fixed, please email Hayes directly. If you would like to replace/purchase anything (e.g. whiteboard), please fill in a  purchase requisition form, and place on Rob’s desk.

For ECE – please see Coordinators for any matters arising

 

If you have any questions, then please do not hesitate to ask.

 

Thanks,

Rob

Primary Daily News – Wednesday, November 14 (Day 1)

November 14, 2018 / / Comments Off on Primary Daily News – Wednesday, November 14 (Day 1)

Good Morning!

 

Air Quality

Orange Level

 

Staff Absent

  • Lingling Sheng is away today (sick leave). Mary Tan will cover her class.
  • Andrea Griego is away this week (Accreditation Visit). Please see Kathleen or Christine for matters arising. Erin will cover Andrea’s EAL today.
  • Clair McEnhill is away this morning (sick leave). Anne Peters will cover her English class 10.00-11.00.

 

Staff Meeting

This afternoon’s staff meeting is the follow up on data driven discussions, in year level teams, for international and Chinese co-teachers. International leaders have been sent the details.

 

Y4-5 Character Assembly (Leo)

Hospitality, 2.30pm, Auditorium

 

Year 2D Field Trip

1.00-2.30pm, Century Park.

 

Secondary Drama  Performance 

6pm – CP Theatre

 

Y6 Musical Auditions

2.30pm CP Theatre

 

Table Tennis CCA Reschedule (CP)

Could you please let the students know that this week’s Table Tennis CCA is rescheduled to Thursday Lunchtime (12:45 to 1:10pm).  Back to normal time next week.

 

Reminders

  • YCIS Christmas Dinner: Deadline: Nov 23  sign-up here
  • CISSA Floor Hockey Sign Up (Y6)  
  • Overseas Orders (Team leaders) – Deadline Nov 23
  • Mid Year Reports – see guidelines Report Guidelines
  • Coffee Pods – click here

 

Upcoming Dates

  • Thursday, November, 15
    • Y2-3 Character Assembly (Leo), Hospitality, 2.30pm
    • Y5 Trip to Jinshan Painting Village (whole day)
    • PBL PLC
    • Y2E Field Trip, Century Park, 1.00-2.30pm
  • Friday, November 16
    • Teacher In-Service Day – No school for students (please send a reminder in the students’ diaries this week
  • Saturday, November 17
    • CISSA Soccer CRE
    • DCSZ Swim Meet

 

STAFF LOUNGE

Count down to Christmas with some treats for a good cause! 

Our Parent Organization has paired up with online supermarket Epermarket again this year for a Christmas countdown. If you would like to buy an Epermarket chocolate advent calendar, please scan the QR code below (or on the poster) and place your order directly. Orders are open till November 18thand calendars will be delivered to Nadine’s office on November 28. Payments are made directly to Epermarket and 15% of all proceeds go directly to Heart to Heart – a Shanghai based charity that provides heart surgeries for poor Chinese children.

For any questions please contact Nadine.

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Marathon – Alex Hemley

Alex Hemley will be running in the Shanghai Marathon in just over a week’s time. He will be running for Cancer Research as his mother is a breast cancer survivor.

If you are wishing to find out a little more about this, and have a chance to donate, then please click the following link:

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Alex-Hemley

Please note that, as it is an English site,  people will not be able to  donate with WeChat or Union Pay  – but if you prefer, you may directly pass Cash/WeChat to Alex, and he will happily forward on any donations.

Seesaw Launch 2018

August 24, 2018 / / Comments Off on Seesaw Launch 2018

Good Afternoon,

Next week we will be relaunching Seesaw to all our families. A letter will be sent home on Monday to inform families that further information will be shared at PIE and that they will be given their personal family login details in order to access their child’s Seesaw journal. Please print a copy for new families and check which returning families still need to register. Please use this link below to find out how to access your family login details if you are not sure. You can either watch the video on the link or click how do I invite parents. If you need any further assistance, please see your Year level Leader.

https://help.seesaw.me/hc/en-us/articles/203012019-How-do-I-invite-parents-and-families-

As part of the PIE presentations, you will share the Seesaw video and a slide about why we use Seesaw. We would like you to then show them the family login sheet and give a quick explanation of how they can sign up to Seesaw. Amita and Alex will also be in the cafeteria for any tech. support if needed.

Before we launch Seesaw, it will be important that teachers have posted some photos. We know a number of photos over the first week of school have been taken, and so this would be a great opportunity to start by posting some of these. No more than 10 photos is really needed as long as they show a few different parts of the week.

Please make sure that you review the Seesaw Guidelines for posting photos.

SeeSaw  Guidelines 2018

Please can we ask that Seesaw posts have been completed by Tuesday at the latest before PIE.

 

Any questions, please let John or I know.

Thanks!

January 2nd In-Service Day – ECE & Primary

December 7, 2017 / / Comments Off on January 2nd In-Service Day – ECE & Primary

Dear all,

 

Please note the following arrangements for the In-Service Day on January 2nd, 2018:

  • 8.00am – Arrival at School – Coffee/Light refreshments
  • 8.15am – Admin Meeting (Primary Auditorium, ECE in 202)
  • 8.30am – Technology Workshop
  • 9.30am – Technology Mini Sessions
  • 10.30am – Break – refreshments
  • 11.00am – Wellbeing Curriculum (Primary Auditorium, ECE Staffroom)
  • 12.30pm – Lunch
  • 1.30pm – New Staff Retreat/Training (new staff only).

 

Please note the following points:

  • International Teachers – Please ensure you have emailed Jenni if you would like School lunch on January – please see Jenni’s email dated on 4th December.
  • The staff bus schedule will be amended for this day. Information regarding this will be sent out shortly.
  • Detailed information regarding the IT sessions  is on the blog (click here ). It is important you read this carefully as you will need to sign up for various sessions in advance (the workshops registration needs to be done by Monday 11th December)
  • For all ‘non-new’ teachers, the afternoon is designated for class preparation/planning time.
  • Casual Clothes may be worn on this day.

 

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

 

Thanks,

Rob

 

 

Insurance for Business Trips and School Trips

October 6, 2017 / / Comments Off on Insurance for Business Trips and School Trips

Dear Colleagues,

YCIS has insurance for groups who travel for school (such as school trips) and also for staff who go on business trips (which includes those who travel for conferences, workshops etc…).

Please find attached below an e-card which contains the contact number(s) for the carrier of our group travel insurance:

Travel Card – Word Version-2bygabw

The insurance does not replace health insurance as the cover for that is much greater, but it would cover you in case of an unforeseen accident or event when you are traveling on school business.

For more information of the coverage, please take note of the following:

Travel Insurance _1718-168x4oc 旅行险服务手册

Travel Insurance Handbook 2017-12eg283

Please keep the Travel Card handy when on a school trip or business trip.

If you have any further questions, contact Jennifer Jiang in HRD – jenniferj@sh.ycef.com

Regards,

Damien and Mary

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