Dear colleagues,
The last week of February is here. This week brings us the first assembly of the year including few performances and the Pink T-Shirt Day launch focusing on raising awareness against bullying. The Core Planning Team had the opportunity to hear about the IB PYP evaluation visit and the rest of the faculty will hear about it on Wednesday. Additionally, the CA Leadership Team will meet to discuss the status of CA content standards to ensure that we can effectively design teaching and learning from the standards as well as communicate the standards to parents. Enjoy the week!
Time
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12:15-12:40
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12:25-12:55
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12:25-12:55
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12:15-12:40
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Week
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Cafeteria Tables
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Playground
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Playground
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Healthy lunch guide in the cafeteria line
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Shunsuke
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Kaho
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Emi
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Not applicable at the moment
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Gearing up for Exhibition
Grade five students have been tuning-in for the Exhibition since the beginning of January. They have been developing an understanding of the theme - Sharing the Planet, and investigating key issues that connect with it. This Wednesday we will review the purpose and process of the Exhibition, as well as outline how mentoring students will work this year. In brief, teachers who wish to mentor will be able to visit a Google Doc with the student's name and their key issues. Mentors will be paired with students based on their specific knowledge or expertise of the topic, or based on mentor's ability to meet the learning needs of particular students.
In addition to mentors, we will continue to build on our Staff Inventory of experiences, expertise and talents. To this end, please update the Staff Inventory document. During the Exhibition, students might call upon you to share your knowledge. This is separate from the mentoring process and is meant to be more on a one-off basis.
Building Professional Capital:
25th and 26th -Aimee and Rose attending and presenting at SENIA conference in KL
26th- Teacher visiting CA from NIST to see our reading and writing workshops in action
Articles, Chapters, Videos
Morning Math Fun, try this:
Watch this 5:47
- Number Talks and Jo Boaler
Watch this 5:47
- Number Talks and Jo Boaler
Coordinator's Meetings
- Literacy Meetings as scheduled (Kim not attending Thurs meetings)
- UOI meetings as per the schedule
Wednesday Professional Learning and Faculty meeting time 14:35-16:30
14:35-15:10 Exhibition Presentation and call for mentors in the MPR
Please be prompt as meeting will begin on schedule
15:15-15:40 Feedback from the Evaluation in the BBT - all staff
15:40-16:30 Collaborative Planning
This Week 15 - 19 February, 2016
Monday, Tech Talk
Grade 5 parent workshop (languages in secondary)
Wednesday, Exhibition presentation, IB evaluation visit results
Thursday, Leadership Team meets to discuss the status of CA Content Standards
Friday, Weekly ES Leadership Team Meeting
Future Dates:
March 3rd- Exhibition Parent Coffee Morning
March 5th - CA Fund Raising Gala
