Day: October 9, 2025

Volunteers!

We need you!!!! On SchoolsBuddy, you will find opportunities to give back the community. Volunteering is like giving the world a high-five — you help out, make someone smile, and feel awesome doing it! 💪🌍

We need 8 volunteers for the swim meet this Friday, October 10th.

3.30 pm – 6.30 pm.

The Autumn Festival is back again and PTA needs you! Sunday, October 26th.

Check SchoolsBuddy for the shift times.

Primary House Challenge Tomorrow

Information about tomorrow’s paper airplane house challenge can be found here.

Please read it today as you will need to put children in groups and add to this form.

Children will also need to make and label their planes prior to tomorrow.

California Lutheran University Information Session Today

  • Event: California Lutheran University Information Session 
  • Date: Thursday October 9th, 2025
  • Time: 12:10-13:00
  • Location: LGR 1
  • Description: California Lutheran University is a private university in Southern California offering bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs. CLU is in Thousand Oaks, just one hour north of Los Angeles, and is ranked as one of the safest cities in the US. CLU is home to our dynamic programs in arts, sciences, technology, and business, with more than 3000 students. We provide some partial scholarships and financial aid up to about 30,000-35,000 USD per year.
  • Featured program: Business, Psychology, Communication, Bilogy, Social Science, Computer and information Science, Art, Music, Film and more.

Please RSVP through the LINK or QR code below. Thank you!

KnowBe4 Training

A friendly reminder:

As part of this effort, all teachers and staff with an NIS email address are required to complete two online tasks:

  1. Training Course (approx. 19 minutes)
    • Title: 2025 Your Role: Internet Security and You — a concise, impactful module focused on our individual roles in maintaining a secure digital environment
  2. Assessment (approx.10 minutes)
    • Title: Security Awareness Proficiency Assessment (SAPA) — designed to evaluate our understanding of key cybersecurity concepts and help tailor future learning based on strengths and areas for improvement

** Who Must Complete These Tasks:**

  • Teaching Faculty: Designated time has been allocated during PLD (Professional Learning & Development) days this week for these tasks. (However you may begin working on them once you recieve the invitation email from KnowBe4)
  • All Other Staff: Please set aside time over the next month to complete the training and assessment.

** Completion Window:**
From September 22, 2025, through October 31, 2025.

EARCOS Teacher Conference Presentations

The EARCOS Teacher Conference will be held in Bangkok 19 – 21 March 2026. The theme is ‘Elevating Voices, Enriching Worlds’ and the areas that will be the focus of the conference are: Literacy, Early Childhood, Learning Support and Special Needs, Modern Languages, Libraries, Counselors, ELL, Authors, Child Protection, Technology, General Education

NIS is able to put forward two presentations to be delivered at the conference (note: EARCOS has the final decision on all presentations). Presentations can be done individually or as a pair. NIS covers conference registration for staff that are chosen to present (flights and accommodation are not covered but can be paid with your PL fund).

If you are interested in applying to present, we will be holding applications Week 9 on Monday (12pm – 1pm) and Tuesday (12.30 – 1.30pm)in my classroom (D217).

Applicants will need to present a short (3 – 5 minute) pitch of their presentation topic, including why it is relevant for the conference and how it will provide participants with new learning in emerging trends and/or possibilities for practice within schools; and a sample activity that they would plan on including in their presentation (5 – 7 minutes). Pitches should be 10 minutes total, and will be assessed against the EARCOS Conference Session Design and Presentation Criteria.

If you would like to apply to present, please sign up with this form. If you have any questions in the meantime, please come speak to me or send me an email.

If you would like to apply to attend (and not present) as part of your PLD, please contact Sandra as normal.

School Lawn Closure

Please be reminded that school lawn will be enclosed for seed-spreading, it will be re-open from October 20.

Thanks for your cooperation.

NIS Facility Team