Dear All,
Please find attached the SLT meeting minutes of week 35 for your information.
2025 End of Year Staff Party Sign Up
The sign-up form of 2025 End of Year Staff Party is now available in the staff room. Please register by Friday, June 6, 2025, to confirm your attendance.
Date & Time: 4pm, Thursday, June 12, 2025 / Venue: NIS PAC
We can’t wait to celebrate with everyone – see you there!
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
- Anything on the file server or locally hosted server will not be accessible.
- 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!
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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
- Anything on the file server or locally hosted server will not be accessible.
- 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.