NAIS Rotterdam - Weekly Newsletter

This week, as the Virtual School Experience continued, our teachers have also been working hard to write and finalise progress comments for all NAISR students from Pre-K1 through to Grade 12. An email will be sent to all families once the Semester 2 Progress Reports become available via the Parent Portal.

Today marks the beginning of the Spring break! Students may take a break from their distance learning for the coming week. The Virtual School Experience will then resume on Monday, 20 April.

During the first week back after the break, the PTSA will be hosting a fun 'Sharks Week' with different Shark challenges each day. All NAISR students are welcome to participate in this great initiative to bring our community together during these times of social distancing, so be sure to check out the PTSA Corner below for more details.

Remember to keep your eyes glued to our Instagram and Facebook as we release some results from the Parent Satisfaction Survey, conducted back in December. The links to our social media channels are at the bottom of this email. We are so pleased with the results and will be sharing them all with you in due course.

We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy Easter and a relaxing Spring "staycation". All the best from our family to yours.

Teaching Heroes
We would like to thank and celebrate the incredible work of our NAISR teachers since we moved to virtual school learning last month. Check out the latest video that we recently shared on our social media platforms, celebrating just a few of our many wonderful teachers. Check out the hashtag #TeachingHeroes to see other amazing teachers around the world. View Video >>>

Engage, Create & Connect
Looking for ways to engage, create, connect, move or relax and need a break from online learning? Try one of these great ideas!
Useful links >>>

Let’s stay connected by sharing our skills and talents. Send in a photo or a short video (no longer than 1 minute) of you doing something really awesome! Send your entries to: communications@naisr.nl or tag us on Instagram @nais_rotterdam. Then we will select the best pics and videos to share with our school community.

Britannica School is a safe, up-to-date, and age appropriate online resource for Elementary, Middle, and High School student research. NAISR students can log in with the following ID: aisrnl. Online Britannica >>>

Moving the entire NAISR community to distance learning has been an exciting and challenging project. With almost four weeks of experience behind us now, we are keen to learn what is working and what could be improved. Over the past week, a parent survey was sent out and we thank you for all of your valuable feedback! We have reviewed your comments and will be adapting our next phase as a result. Expect an update after the break and thank you once again for completing the survey. We have also been working on a student survey, which will be issued via email directly to students from grades 3-12 later today.

Marlon Devonish's Elite Performance A-Z
Former Olympian Mr Marlon Devonish, a teacher at our sister school The British International School Shanghai, is sharing his tips for achieving elite performance and guidance on maintaining mental wellbeing and positivity in this A-Z series over on the Nord Anglia Education main page. Check out 'A' here >>>

May Early Dismissal
The early dismissal date in May 2020 will be held on May 28th (rather than May 7th as indicated on printed calendars).

Shark Week brought to you by PTSA
During the first week after the break, the PTSA will be hosting a fun Sharks Week!
Monday, 20 April: 'School of Sharks' - Send a picture of your shark doing school work
Tuesday, 21 April: 'Shark on a Shelf' - Send a picture of your shark doing something silly around your house
Wednesday, 22 April: 'Shark out of Water' - Send a picture of your shark enjoying the outdoors/nature
Thursday, 23 April: 'I Spy a Shark' - Send a picture of a room with your shark hiding somewhere in it...can we spy your shark?
Friday, 24 April: 'Shark Spirit Wear' - Send a picture of yourself wearing your Sharks spirit wear clothing

Over the break, try to find a shark that you can use for this fun Shark Week. Your shark could be a stuffed animal, a toy shark, or it could even be a picture of a shark that you have made yourself, etc. Please make sure that all photos are school and social media appropriate. Send photos to ptsa@naisr.nl by 14.00 each day and they will be posted on the P TSA Facebook page that same day, so be sure to like the page!

Book Club - Click here to browse the latest books, orders can be made online up until April 24th and should then be delivered by May 8th.