Dear students, parents, and friends of the UISZ community,
We welcomed all students and teachers back this week after restful break. We also thank all parents who actively participated in the UPAZ meeting this afternoon. Your suggestions and comments were extremely appreciated. The coming weeks shall be filled with activities as we complete the first half of our first semester: summative exams (secondary), Costume celebration, Festival of the Arts, Student-led conferences are all coming up, and of course, our upcoming Week without Walls (WWW).
Speaking of Week without Walls, we are closely monitoring the current covid situation in the area and to better prepare all eventualities, we have booked an additional backup week in case the covid situation persists.
WWW dates:
Plan A: October 30-November 4
Plan B: November 14-18
Locations.
Below are the locations chosen for this year. More details will come next week:
Year 3-4: Guangzhou OR Huizhou (3 days/2 nights). The provider is confirmed but the site is to be determined.
Year 5-6: Qinyuan (3 days/2 nights)
Year 7-8: Kaiping (3 days/2 nights)
Year 9-10: Huizhou (4 days/3 nights)
Year 11: Heyuan (4 days/3 nights)
Events ahead
IBPYP
This month we are focused on the Learner Profile attribute of INQUIRY. This week in Primary students have been busy exploring, discovering, questioning and learning… Students worked together in groups on a House challenge, and have also been doing a lot of experiential learning in classes.
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IBDP
Year 12 CAS Class
As we all know, CAS is at the heart of the Diploma Programme. CAS is not only designed to strengthen and extend students’ learning from the PYP and MYP, but also provides opportunities for students’ self-determination, collaboration, accomplishment and enjoyment.
The first learning objective is to recognize and consider the ethical issues in CAS experience in our Year 12 CAS Class this week. The seventh CAS learning outcome is often one of the most challenging of the CAS learning outcomes for students to identify and understand. Therefore, we had this discussion about it in order to provide our students with more guidance in developing appropriate responses to situations involving ethical issues.
The second learning objective is to enhance students’ CAS reflection ability. Though our students’ own CAS portfolio and other IB students’ portfolio samples，the students have demonstrated more deeper understanding of the four elements of CAS reflection，and the meaning of CAS reflection.
HKDSE
This week’s economics class mainly learned three basic economic problems: what to produce? For whom? How to produce? As well as production and division of labor, production cycle flow chart, and types of different items. In order to make students more fully familiar with and memorize relevant knowledge points, this week’s homework is to let students draw a mind map according to the knowledge points they have learned. Each student’s mind map is completed very carefully, with different styles, and gives full play to their own advantages. Secondly, the students showed the small entrepreneurship plan in the form of groups based on the knowledge points in this chapter. After sharing the plan, the students commented on the parts that each member is responsible for. They learned to appreciate others, learn from each other, and make progress together!
Scheme of mutual
Mind mapping
Topic speech
BOARDING
Primary Boarders building learning in the evening study lab.
The October 7D Outing will be on October 23, 2022, to the Baiyun Scenic Park in Guangzhou. Sign-up by October 18th.
Have a wonderful weekend and see you all this Monday!
Warmest wishes,
UISZ School & Boarding Community
