Year: 2025

Please find the list of students who will be absent from school @12:30pm on Tuesday, 9th December for the ISNAC Santa SKINS Swim Meet.

Best wishes,

Participant registration has just opened 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. 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.

As well as the EARCOS Teacher Conference, EARCOS also has a range of great PL opportunities coming up in December and January.

• Language A/Humanities
  • Rising from the Ashes: A Conversation with Author Paula Yoo (6th December, Online)
• UDL
  • Thinking Like a Universal Designer: Dr Lee Ann Jung (2nd December – 13th January, Online)
• Middle School
  • EARCOS Middle School Leadership Conference (23 – 24th January, In-person @ South Saigon International School)
• Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction
  • Navigating the Path to Success Through Instructional Coherence (30 – 31st January, In-person @ NIST International School)

If you have any questions about any of these opportunities, please come chat to me or send me an email.

On Wednesday we will have some visitors on campus from Shanghai Community International School and Singapore Suzhou International School for a job-alike with counsellors, librarians, student support and SET. If you see them out and about please feel free to introduce yourself and give a warm NIS welcome.

Here are minutes for the Monday Briefing.

Week 16 – Dec 1, 2025  (Web view)

We are in our final push to clear all of the Giving Tree cards from our stock. There are still 40+ remaining, so if you are one of those folks who prefer to wait until the last minute… congratulations, your minute has finally arrived! 😀

As before, you are welcome to scan the QR codes here, send an email to Mike M with a shot of your payment screen, and just wait for the cards to arrive in your box. Or, look for the table at the Centre Foyer before and after school this week (except Tuesday) to purchase in person.

For those who have already made their donations this year and returned your cards with those messages of support and encouragement for the Pfrang students, thank you very much! We hope to make this year’s drive another big success, and appreciate the support of our community always.

Best,

Mike McHugh

Please find the list of students who will be absent from school @ 8:45am on Friday morning, 5th December for the ACAMIS Senior Swim Meet.

Participant registration has just opened 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. 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.

As well as the EARCOS Teacher Conference, EARCOS also has a range of great PL opportunities coming up in December and January.

• Language A/Humanities
  • Rising from the Ashes: A Conversation with Author Paula Yoo (6th December, Online)
• UDL
  • Thinking Like a Universal Designer: Dr Lee Ann Jung (2nd December – 13th January, Online)
• Middle School
  • EARCOS Middle School Leadership Conference (23 – 24th January, In-person @ South Saigon International School)
• Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction
  • Navigating the Path to Success Through Instructional Coherence (30 – 31st January, In-person @ NIST International School)

If you have any questions about any of these opportunities, please come chat to me or send me an email.