Lower School Learning Services
Student Support at CDNIS
From the category archives:
On May 3rd we hosted a workshop with a new target audience, household domestic helpers. The enthusiastic group of 70 helpers walked away with strategies and tools for effective communication with the children they help to raise in the household. This is a new direction of support that CDNIS is offering to our parent [...]
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In May the Lower School Guidance Team is offering two workshops free for the CDNIS community.
Helping the Helper: Practical strategies for enhancing the helper’s contribution to the household. Offered to domestic helpers. Please RSVP -robertgrantham@cdnis.edu.hk
May 3, noon to 2 in the LLAC lobby. (a light lunch will be provided)
ADHA- de-mystifying the diagnosis with Dr. Jadis [...]
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The first of a 4-week session on parenting begin this week. Among the topics of this session were
1. parenting styles
2. building mutual respect
3. allowing choices
While at times being a more authoritative or permissive parent is a reasonable approach to the situation in general practicing the skills of being an Active Parent will help your child [...]
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In anticipation of Bill Helin’s visit (the artist in residence who will be carving two totems next month) grade 5 learned about the Native Canadian Tsimshian tradition of the life crests. Many years ago the Chiefs and Elders of the tribe made a decision to give each hunter an animal identity. Through reflection the hunter [...]
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A Practical Course for Parents: ACTIVE PARENTING NOW!©
In response to a continued interest for proactive, practical information from parents to support the emotional, social and educational development of their children, we are pleased to once again offer two 4-part parenting courses for CDNIS parents.
Active Parenting Now! is a research-based resource providedby Active Parenting Publishers who [...]
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Girls In Real Life Situations (G.I.R.L.S.), is a program specifically tailored to enhance the social and emotional development of girls. In small groups, the session themes will cover a broad range of topics such as self-esteem, communication, stress, bullying, friendships and relationships. Girls are taught effective problem-solving, social skills, empathy skills, assertiveness training, physical and [...]
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Katherine Sellery & Claryss Nan Jamieson are hosting a series of effective parenting workshops in the Hong Kong area. The approach they will be using was built on the writings of Dr. Thomas Gordon, psychologist and Nobel Prize nominee; Dr. Louise Porter, child psychologist and author, and Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, a specialist in conflict resolution. It [...]
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Lower School Guidance Counsellor’s Parent Workshop
PS: It’s Part of the PYP
The CDNIS mission statement gives clear rationale for a strong academic programme at our school. But the PYP also has a core curriculum, the PSPE, which includes the Personal and Social development of all students. Come and spend the morning with Lower School Guidance Counsellors [...]
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Please refer to the registration form attached here. HFH_PYH_Parent_Permission_LetterThis year there will be further possibilites for ’service learning’ across the lower school. Service learning involves exposing children to opportunities to give back to the community in which we all share. In addition to donating money to charities on dress down days, the guidance office will [...]
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The CDNIS staff is ready and eager to welcome our students back for the 2011-12 school year. Of prime importance, particularly in the Lower School, is ensuring that all students have a positive, smooth start to the year so that they can settle in well, both socially and academically, to their new class. This paves [...]
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