Here are minutes for the Monday Briefing.
EARCOS Teacher Conference
Participant registration is open for the EARCOS Teacher Conference, which will be held March 18 – 21 in Bangkok.
The theme is ‘Elevating Voices, Enriching Worlds’ and the focus strands for this year are: Early Childhood, Literacy, World Languages, Children’s Authors, Libraries/Media Tech, Technology, ELL, Learning Support, Counsellors, Child Protection, and General Education.
If you would like to attend the conference, please put through a PLD request as normal through the PLA form by Thursday 12 December. We are able to send a limited number of people, so please make it clear in your application how this learning will enhance your teaching and the learning of students. We will also be prioritising people who have not previously attended an EARCOS Teacher Conference.
If you have any questions about any of these opportunities, please come chat to me or send me an email.
Grade 8 and 9 Exam Rewrites Start Monday
Students who missed exams in grades 8 and 9 will begin rewrites on Monday. Their names can be found here. They will rewrite the exams in the order they are missed, so if the first exam they missed is English, they will write it first. If the first exam they missed is science, they will write it first, etc.
- The first exam will be block one (8:00 am) on Monday in LGR 3. Learning support students will go to C142.
- The second exam will be block four (1:00 pm) in D220.
- For those students who missed 3 exams or more and can stay after school, there will be a third time slot at 3:05 in D220.
- After this, students who still have exams will write at 8:00 am in D220 on Tuesday.
If this conflicts with assessments in subjects, let Jade know, and she will do her best to accommodate. If you teach these students and they arrive during your class, please check with them to see if they should be in an exam.