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Nanjing EH international school is committed to ensuring a
positive learning environment for all. This commitment comes
with a focus on learning, consistent attendance and adherence to
school rules.
Attendance
-Encourage your child to get enough sleep to ensure that he/she
is able to get up in the morning.
-Leave home with plenty of time to get to school.
School rules
-Students attend school dressed in the school uniform every day
unless you have been notified about any variations due to the
nature of an event. P.E.for Year 9 is on Mondays and Thursdays so
sports shirts should be worn on that day.
Ms Alexa
School
Over the last few weeks our students have been doing
well and working hard with their projects and activities.
Y9 students really are getting a lot of practice in
developing communication skills from interviewing
people, delivering the survey, playing basketball or
football matches and hosting school assembly. They
have also enjoyed making plans on collecting data and
designing posters for their findings with wonderful art
skills in classes. Well done! Year 9
·Become a life-long learner.
·Learn by doing and
experiencing.
·Have critical thinking skills.
·Explore global challenges.
·Learn for understanding.
·Train yourself to organize
and plan your work, meet
deadlines, concentrate,
bounce back, persist, think
positively.
·Learn subjects not being
taught in isolation.
·Develop your talents.
·Prepare you for future
education.
·Have international-
mindedness.
What is an IB
MYP student?
Newsletter 2
October 15
2018
Punctuality and
School Uniform
Individuals & Societies
One important aspect of the Individuals & Societies
programme is that students develop an understanding of their
place in the world and how many global issues are
interconnected.
Our first unit has focused on global inequalities and poverty.
Students have been studying issues such as; Maslow’s
hierarchy of needs, absolute/ relative poverty, GDP,
development, NGO and government data on poverty. The
students have, for the first time, been learning how to write
reports in academic format. Thus their final assessment will
be a report on global poverty.
UNIT 2:
Unit 2 is intended to help the students develop a more
objective stance on religion. Thus we will be examining a
variety of the world religions.
MYP Year 3 student reporters
interview the school principal
September 2018
English Acquisition
The first Year 9 English unit this year has focused on looking at
how the news can be manipulated. In ‘Making or Faking the News’
students studied news stories, past and present, and examined
the use of language. They also learned important facts about the
use of bias in publication, and how slander and libel can lead to
court action for defamation of character.
For their final assessment students will produce a four-page
newspaper focusing on; sports, current affairs, politics and the
arts. Each student will be responsible for their own section.
UNIT 2:
Unit 2 will enable students to examine the history of songwriting
and they will be encouraged to use their language skills to produce
their own song lyrics.
Language&
Literature
Year 9 students have been busy in the first unit with their
projects including the social communities and their
languages, the survey about how people think differently,
and their reflections on delivering the survey. They also
produced their understanding how writers communicate
with readers through their works and how we can
understand writers’ intension in articles, which prepared
them for the summative assessment that they needed to
collect information from the survey and make conclusions
on why people think differently.
In unit 2, we will explore personality, value, belief and valuable life lessons in
personal histories’ articles. Students will inquire what character arc is and how to
write stories about their past.
MYP 3 Science! Mr. Phill
MYP 3 students have accelerated through a long trip down the road of physics during
unit
one! Through strong effort, teamwork and perseverance the
MYP 3 group has come to a speedy end of our unit on speed and
acceleration. Focusing on Communication as our approach
to learning,, we explored a new way to communicate using
graphs, tables, and text in combinations. Our start was slow,
we accelerated slowly at first also, over time, the
achievements, the growth of each student, and the increase in their confidence was
evident as we reached our speedy end! I feel confident that our MYP 3 students can
communicate well using tables, charts, diagrams, graphs of all
sorts, drawings and pictures
During unit two, the MYP3 students will explore why the motion
occurs. What are the causes of motion and what creates a change
in motion. We will also look at energy as it changes and how motion, force and energy
are all closely related. The concept of systems identification will play a vital role in
our studies of forces, energies and the interaction between the two. To achieve an
understanding of these relationships our students will need to be very organized,
principled, and neat with keeping their records. Confusion creates many mistakes, to
avoid this we will begin
slowly
and
move
more
quickly
as time
progres
ses. A
thoroug
h
understanding of the physics of motion and the causes of change
in motion will provide a base for future studies and can help
determine a students future course of action with their academics.
Mathematics
As Unit 1 draws to a close Year 9 students are busy applying what they have learned
about Proportional Reasoning to the task of making a model of the solar system,
carefully scaling everything to manageable proportions. It’s been a very productive
inquiry and it is fair to say students have learned a considerable amount about the
benefits of using a multiplicative strategy when changing proportions. The
construction of the solar system model will be the unit’s summative assessment and
will provide an opportunity for students to demonstrate their considerable
knowledge and understanding of proportional reasoning. Looking ahead towards the
middle of October 2018 we will commence our second unit of inquiry which will
focus on the very important area of Circles. Our inquiry is underpinned by the
importance of Circles as reflected in the variety of situations in which they are used
to model physical phenomena. We will be inquiring into this and asking among other
questions: why are Circles so important?
Design
The Year 9 class have been busy planning, sketching
and concepting their designs for the 3D toys and
models that they will create later in the year. They
have learned about the importance of scale, and
how the use of symmetry within model and toy
design can drastically simplify the design and
development process. They have developed a
portfolio of design images ready for the process of
turning these designs and concepts into 3D digital
models, and then later 3D printed toys.
They are a very artistic group of students as you
can see.
So congratulations to the students on all their hard work. They
have made a great start to the year, and begun the process of designing and
developing their own digital creations, from games and apps to 3D models. Keep up
REFLECTION OF THE PREVIOUS UNIT… Students have been working hard over the past 8 weeks exploring the theme of Biodiversity. Students used drawing techniques and skills
that taught them about composition and expression, to create their own art piece. They then added colour to their work by using a range
of different art mediums. The students used water colour paint, pastels, chalk pastels and water colour pencils. The students relished the
opportunity to use their own chosen art mediums. Their art work displays strong messages of how technology can help protect our
biodiversity. The students will now continue to use these skills during our next unit, whilst adding more in depth painting techniques and
skills.
Visual Art – Year 9
UNIT TITLE: Nature with a View
KEY CONCEPT: Aesthetics
RELATED CONCEPTS: Composition Expression
GLOBAL CONCEPT: Orientation in space and time
STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Many cultures consider balance and
harmony found in nature to be the
cornerstones of aesthetics.
‘Nature with a View’
For the next unit the students will focus on paintings of
nature settings. We will be exploring various types of
paintings and respond to them using artistic language.
We will view paintings from different cultures and
reflect on them using a compare and contrast theme.
We will be paying close attention to the balance and
harmony found in nature settings. We will also be
learning the techniques and skills of famous Paint
Artists.
From here the students will then create their own
nature scene providing evidence of the skills and
techniques that they have learnt about during the Unit.
This will be the students summative assessment task.
CURRENT UNIT:
The Pentatonic Scale
UNIT TITLE:
Chinese Traditional Music
KEY CONCEPT:
Change
RELATED CONCEPTS:
Narrative and interpretation
GLOBAL CONCEPT:
Time place and space
STATEMENT OF INQUIRY:
Empathy towards a historical period in time and space, conjures an interpretive narrative of nostalgia and change.
During the previous unit, Students have learned the origin and the story behind some musical instruments. They have made themselves more familiar with the sound, pitch, image and the ways on how to play their chosen musical instrument.
In unit 2, students will be learning the basic of pentatonic scales and the some example of pentatonic tunes frequently use in Chinese traditional melodies.
Year 9- Theory of Music session
Year 9 String ensemble
PE
MYP PE hs completed their first PE unit focusing on Dance. Students were
asked to research dance styles, decide on a style they wished to perform
and design a dance that included an illustrative diagram of their dance.
The unit proved to be an interesting challenge as students needed answer
questions as to why they had made the choices they had, including music,
tempo, and style. Additionally they needed to design their diagram in a
manner that made the steps clear to anyone who might wish to perform
their dance, never having seen it before.
For our physical activities we have concentrated on Balance, and on the
importance of ‘understanding how a game/sport/ works tactically, not
simply on ‘developing skills’.
Currently we are look at Healthy ways to relax when stressed [A useful
study skill] and learning the skills, tactics and rules of basketball.
Library Research
In the Library with MYP….
Our MYP students have been coming to the library for a lesson each week. These
students
have been learning all about how to research effectively online. Students have learnt
some
Boolean Logic techniques to ensure that they are finding the exact information that they
need. Students have also been learning how to create a ‘works cited’ (reference) page
for
their assignments. Each student will continue to work on these skills as the year
progresses. Our next focus will be around Cyber safety – keeping safe online.
Until the next newsletter, keep safe,
