Dear colleagues,
Welcome back! We trust that everyone has had a wonderful fall break and that you survived the typhoon without major damages or delays in your travels. All students are surely excited to return back to school and learning, although some may suffer from jetlags or otherwise holiday tiredness for the first couple of days.
This week’s highlights include the preparatory visit from CIS/WASC. This will require some extraordinary arrangements for allowing different teachers to meet the preparatory visiting team.
The actual visit coming next year will be an excellent tool for assessing and evaluating our functions and operations as a school. Let’s welcome to preparatory visiting team welcome to our school this week and learn from them how to best prepare for next year.
On Wednesday, everyone with a literacy role in grade level as well as PreK-Gr 2 and Gr 3 - 5 levels will have a professional learning meeting as a group with Kim and Trevor. Those who are not meeting this time will have a brief introduction to Cognitive Coaching. The second hour of the Wednesday Professional Learning time is designated for your Tankyuu goal investigation and connection making.
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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12:25-12:55
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Duty
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Cafeteria Tables
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Playground
/ Gym
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Playground
/ Atrium
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Cafeteria line
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Indoor recess ELAC Gym
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Oct 30th
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Karen H
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Ellen
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Joy
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Maiko, Kaight
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This week's schedule:
Day
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Morning
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Afternoon - After School
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Mon
30th
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ES Day 1
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Tue
31st
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CIS/WASC Preparatory Visit begins
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14:30-15:30 ES Leadership Planning Mtg
15:40-16:30 CIS All Staff Presentation in the main theatre
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Wed
1st
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14:40-13:40 Cross grade team Literacy Leaders and grade-level reps meetings
OR
What is cognitive coaching - A short introduction to cognitive coaching for those who are not attending the Literacy meeting.
(This session will be repeated on Wed, 15 Nov)
15:45 - 16:30: Tankyuu Projects Investigation Time
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Thu
2nd
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Fri
3rd
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CIS Visit Ends
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Professional Learning:
Wednesday Professional Learning:
Jan 27-28 HKIS Literacy Institute with Matt Glover, Kathy Collins and Peter Johnston **Sign-up info coming soon
Future Dates:
Oct 31-Nov 3 CIS/WASC preliminary visit
Nov 11 Food and Fun Fair (Saturday)
Nov 13 ES Clubs Session Two begins (Monday)
Dec 1 Report Card: Comments due
Nov 13 ES Clubs Session Two begins (Monday)
Dec 1 Report Card: Comments due
Dec 2 CA Faculty Party (Saturday)
Dec 8 Report Card: Progress Indicators Input into the system due
Dec 12 Report Card: Uploaded to the system
