Month: May 2025

Auditions …

Please sign up with Ms Philip or Mr Brown if you are interested in joining next years production

Huge thanks

JB & I would like to thank everyone for the help and support for making Thursday night’s production such a success. It truly takes a village, and ours is a wonderful one! From helping students learn their music to giving up tons of classtime to keeping students’ energy level high (but not too high), you all rock. Know that we appreciate you and it couldn’t have happened without you!

Upcoming Summer IT Work – Server Migration Project

This summer, the IT Department at NIS will complete critical final work on our new server project. Below is a detailed schedule of tasks and impacted systems:

  • June 28: Initial preparation work (no expected disruptions).
  • June 29 – July 2: Optical fiber lines will be cut and reconnected, and firewall configurations will be updated. This may cause temporary disruptions to internet and IPBX telephone systems.
    • No phone on campus
    • No Internet Access on campus
  • June 30: Migration of network switches to the new Cisco Core will affect both internal and external networks, including printing services, finance systems, internet access, and telephones.
    • No access at school.
    • All cloud-based services will be accessible at home
      • Office 365 (Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint etc…)
      • Faria Systems (OpenApply, ManageBac, SchoolsBuddy)
      • Veracross
    • Anything on the file server or locally hosted server will not be accessible.
      • Times HR
      • Financial Server
      • Large File Storage
  • July 1 – 4: Data from the NAS server and part of the Hyper-V virtual machines will be migrated. Some file storage systems may be briefly unavailable.
    • Anything on the file server or locally hosted server will not be accessible.
      • Times HR
      • Financial Server
      • Large File Storage
  • July 5 – 6: Final equipment checks and full system testing. No impact is expected during this phase.

If you have any questions about this timeline, please coordinate with our Network Engineer & Systems Security Administrator, York Zha.

Thank you for your understanding and support as we work to enhance our infrastructure and ensure a smooth experience for the upcoming school year.

The NIS IT Team!

Notice on Closure of Running Track & Football Field

On June 1st and 2nd, school will conduct tree branch trimming on the southwest side of campus. Large machinery will be in operation during this period. For safety reasons, the running track and football field will be fenced off and remain closed.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your understanding!

Facility Team

Primary Production – Today is the day!

Thanks to teachers for supporting students in bringing positive  energy and volume  (except backstage – where we want quiet – they have been great at that!)

Please remember, classes should be barefoot on stage. Grade 4 students can wear shoes for the finale when they are in the audience. 

Here is a link to the livestream so you can show it on your screens to try to keep kids calm yet excited for both shows.  

https://nis.school365.org.cn/live/watch?id=304&status=1

Morning Performance

We plan on starting at 8:40 Thursday morning. The show should end around 9:50, and we will have our whole cast photo right after.

Teachers, please have students get into costumes and hair and makeup so everyone will be ready.

Evening Performance

PTA is providing one juice box and mini-pretzels for each student in grades 2-5. Students can get one from the PAC foyer from 5:00-5:35 (before costumes and makeup).

Main cast will arrive at 5. Classes should arrive by 5:30 to the classroom. PAC doors open at 6:15. Showtime is 6:30. The show should finish around 7:40, we’ll dismiss classes to get changed, and hopefully you’re heading home around 8pm!

Notice on Closure of Running Track & Football Field

OnJune 1st and 2nd, school will conduct tree branch trimming on the southwest side of campus. Large machinery will be in operation during this period. For safety reasons, the running track and football field will be fenced off and remain closed.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your understanding!

Facility Team

Apple PD & Field Trips

If you’re interested in becoming an Apple Distinguished Educator here’s the link. The institute will happen Summer 2026.

https://www.apple.com/education/k12/apple-distinguished-educator

Also if you’re interested, you can book field trips to the Apple store and kids can learn various classes like coding, drawing, photography, garage band, podcasting, etc for free. Here’s the booking details.

👉 Here’s the link for Group Reservations. (You can use the translate webpage feature to see resources in English).
Contact here in Nanjing is Angel Chan angelchan@apple.com.

CMB Notice

CMB Qixia Branch will CLOSE on May 31, June 2 and OPEN on June 1, 2025 during Dragon Boat Festival.
Any application for telegraphic transfer and foreign currency exchange will NOT be processed at CMB from May 31 to June 2, 2025.

Cafeteria Food Survey for Wednesday Advisory

Hi everyone, I’m Octave, a grade 7 student, and I’d like to invite you and your advisory to take a survey about your lunches last week. I will collect the results and send them to Aden Food. My aim with this survey is to improve the quality of the food and remove from the menu unpopular dishes that our community doesn’t like, but also to create new menus and have more often a la carte dishes that our community likes more. If you’ve had a home-cooked dish for the whole week, you can still take the survey. Teachers can also take part in the survey. It would be great if you could do so during Wednesday’s advisory. https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=6uQay-F6SkCIg5HQRu5GRnqxtLZBRzhCiurRaxxo09BUREFSNEhPR1lHMEtCUVAyTEExS1dPTFpJTi4u

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=6uQay-F6SkCIg5HQRu5GRnqxtLZBRzhCiurRaxxo09BUREFSNEhPR1lHMEtCUVAyTEExS1dPTFpJTi4u