Evaluation - Wednesday PD Meeting Oct 21

Thank you everyone for your participation at the meeting yesterday. In particular, the feedback on the language policy and visit schedule was helpful. If you have any questions about the evaluation process, feel free to send Trevor an email. We will have one more meeting on the morning of Tuesday November 3rd from 8:00-8:25. A calendar invitation will be sent shortly.

Here are some resources/links from the meeting for reference.

Evaluation Meeting #7 Presentation

Warm-up: Get ya body movin' 

Visit Schedule

- Check the schedule. Add both 'Observation' time and the meeting time with the visitors.

Policies: 

- Policies can be found on the ES Blog with other resources.

Good luck with the conferences and have a great Fall Break!

Weekly Update, Monday, 19 October

Dear colleagues,

The past week was launched with a wonderful Sports Day, but end up being coloured by sad and heavy news. Thank you for doing your best to focus on the numerous tasks keeping you all very busy preparing for the reporting and conferencing season. Many plans changed and particularly the ES play will still have an impact on the schedules and planning this coming week. We are wishing everyone a positive start for the long week and hoping we can all pace it well and feel positively accomplished before starting the fall break. Have a great week!

Supervision

	12:15-12:40	12:25-12:55	12:25-12:55
Week	Cafeteria Tables	Playground	Playground

10/19/2015

Toyoko

Yoshiko

Celia

Progress Reports

Progress reports will be available for parents on Monday, 19 October at 4 pm.

Coordinator's Meetings

Link to ES Team Planning Meeting Schedule

PYP collab will focus on the reflections for the first UOI for KB to Grade Five.

Elementary School Drama Production

Monday, 19 October, Main Theatre

ES Drama Rehearsals I at 11:00 am - 12:00

ES Drama students will have lunch together at 12:00-12:30 pm, venue tba

ES Drama Rehearsals II at 12:30-1:30 pm

Hair, Makeup and Costumes on at 2:30-3:50 pm

ES Drama Show 1  at 4.00 pm

Tuesday, 20 Oct, Main Theatre

ES Drama Show 2, at 6:00 pm

After Fall Break

ES Drama after party (time and venue, tba)

Elementary School Parent Coffee Morning

Wednesday, 21 October at 8:30 - 9:30, ELAC MPR

Approaches to Learning in the PYP

Wednesday PD and Faculty meeting time

PYP Evaluation Visit Plan 14:40-15:35

Collaborative Planning 15:35-16:30

Heikki is out

Heikki will be out from Thursday 22 and Friday 23 October.

Future Dates

2 November, Tech Talk 3:30 - 4:30

3 November, Community Book Club 6:30 - 8:30

9 - 10 November, IB PYP/MYP Evaluation Visit

Visitors in the ES in November and December

We are welcoming Japanese Teachers from Abeno to visit the Elementary School. There will be three separate visits and each time there will be 10 teachers following lessons and learning about our facilities and organization for learning. They are particularly interested in the range of teaching practices in an international school and to see an IB PYP school in action. The visit is linked to our operational goal to build local and global connections helping us to grow and develop as a school by sharing practice and philosophy with different organizations.

Please mark the following dates into your calendars.
Tuesday, 17 November
Thursday, 26 November
Thursday, 3 December

Victoria Campbell from Abeno wrote the following as an anticipation regarding the visit:
"Canadian academy is so different from a Japanese Primary school, (No-chime,  inclusive education, the use of the library, and so on) it will surely be interesting to Japanese Primary school teachers.  And I hope this exchange will be beneficial to both your school and us."

Tomorrow's Professional Learning and Report Writing time

Just a change of schedule for tomorrow.
Teachers can start with Progress Report writing already at 2:30.
We will gather together as a school in the Black Box Theatre at 3:40.

The focus for tomorrow's Tankyuu sharing session is to connect with members of staff with similar Tankyuu, teacher goals for the year.

Even if you haven't met yet with Heikki regarding your annual teacher goal (i.e. your Tankyuu project), it would be important that you have an idea, sketch or skeleton plan of your Tankyuu before Wednesday meeting so that you can join a relevant group.

Please check the Tankyuu expectations and guidelines here.

Weekly Update October 12

Weekly Update Oct 12th

Dear Elementary School colleagues,
We are starting the last two weeks before the October break and getting ready for the Three-Way-Conferences.
Monday will be a great community day bringing all students, staff and parents together. Let's hope we will have  a great weather and a smooth flow of the day. On Friday, past week, many elementary students enjoyed the wonderful day outside playing soccer. The second annual Falcon Futsal Cup was a huge success. Over two hundred boys and girls joined the well-organized event from nine different schools. The longest traveling teams made their way to our fields from Nagoya and Kyoto. CA teams won both leagues. Congratulations to the organizers, teams, and coaches. We are looking forward to seeing everybody active and outside tomorrow!

Supervision
Let's make sure that students will put all the equipment back to the shed after the lunch recess. We can see balls and frisbees and some other equipment being used by the students after school. Thank you!

12:15-12:40 Cafeteria	12:25-12:55 Playground	12:25-12:55 Playground
Kyle	Jenny	Page

Wednesday Oct 14,  Professional Learning and Collaboration Time 2:40-4:30
 link to schedule

2:40-3:15 探究 (Tankyuu) Self-Directed Professional Learning Projects ideas

3:30-4:30 Progress Report writing

Coordinators meetings

Link to ES Team Planning Meeting schedule

Sports Day is on Monday!

Please follow the link for the schedule and details of the event.
An e-mail has been sent by Karin Przygocki directly to you regarding your role in the day.

In and around the school this week:

Mon 12 October: Sports Day  Rainy Day Plan: October 13
Thurs 15 October: 7th/8th grade string concert in green space outside G1 classrooms (9:00am) 

Fri 16 October: Running Record Data Due (K-5)

Fri/Sat 16-17 October: ES Drama Production
Sat 17 October Walk-A-Thon (Community event at CA) See e-mail from Rob Smailes for details.

Future Dates:
19 October: Progress Reports due
21 October: Parent Coffee 8:30-9:30, IB PYP 
22-23 October: 3-way Conferences
23 October: End of 1st quarter/Fall Break

Wed Oct 7th Word Work Group Meeting

Welcome back to our group PD focus on Word Work/Word Study

This Wednesday (Oct 7th) self selected groups will reconvene to discuss the articles and resources they have accessed.  Please meet from 2:35 - 3:35 in the same spot in the school as you did last Wednesday, unless another spot is/was agreed upon.

The full hour will be given to group discussion and critical thought.  There will then be more than a month (Nov 25) before the group meets formally again to present how the research can inform our practices at CA. During this meeting (Oct 7th) it will be important to take notes on discussion points and begin to narrow down and summarize the research.

Reminders:

• This is meant to be a quick quest for research 
• Focus is on what might be considered "typical" for learning/classroom practices not yet focused on ESOL or children requiring additional learning support
• Focus is still on research,  rather than teaching practices or program (although link may be clear)

Please access the slide presentation from last Wednesday for reminders of the process or instructions. 

Please also access your group folder for a place to access research and collect your ideas

Weekly Update Oct 5th

Weekly Update Oct 5th

Dear Elementary School colleagues,

Yet another busy week is behind us and another one to tackle. Thank you for all who helped out with the wonderful Elementary School assembly last week. The faculty listening conferences with Heikki are soon all done and we will start another round of meetings focusing on the Teacher Goals.  Let's all have an energizing and joyful week!

Supervision

12:15-12:40 Cafeteria	12:25-12:55 Playground	12:25-12:55 Playground
Keesha	Jenna	Joy

Wednesday Oct 7,  Professional Learning and Collaboration Time 2:40-4:30
 link to schedule

2:35-3:35   Reconvening with the Word Study Group

3:40 - 4:30 Team Planning

Falcon Cup at Canadian Academy 

Football tournament, please check the website

Coordinators meetings

* Kim will be away at a network meeting Tuesday Oct 6
* Trevor will be working on the Evaluation Report. 

Link to ES Team Planning Meeting schedule

Sport Day 

Please follow the link for the schedule and details of the event.

PYP Update
This is just a quick reminder for everyone to send Trevor your class/teaching timetables if you haven't already. This is an example in case you need a template to work from. They are due by next Wednesday at the latest.

Also as a reminder, please make sure that displays in the hallway show how they are connected to the units of inquiry or stand alone units. This could be a unit poster with the relevant parts highlighted or the particular thing being focused on with a connection to the unit. For example, noting the concept or skill that is being focused on.  

In and around the school this week:
Mon Oct 5: Tech Talk (3:30 Library)

Tues Oct 6: Strings concert for ES (2:50 in grass area near grade 1)

Thurs Oct 8: PTA meeting 

Fri  Oct 9: October ES Soccer Tournament  

Future Dates:
12 October: Sports Day  Rainy Day Plan: October 13
16 October: Running Record Data (K-5)
16-17 October: ES Drama Production
19 October: Progress Reports due
21 October Parent Coffee 8:30-9:30
22-23 October: 3-way Conferences

Sports Day, GoNoodle and Pop See Koo

Sports Day Schedule is here.

Follow the links to see the videos showing GoNoodle and Pop See Koo.