As you are aware 6B and 6C are combining their talents for this year’s PYP Exhibition. Having had guest speakers visit, watched videos, films, documentaries and discussed the issues involved in the transdisciplinary theme of Sharing the Planet. The students expressed an area of interest and groups have been formed. The students have started developing [...]

Dear Parents Preparations for the Grade 6 IB PYP (International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme) Exhibition are well underway. For students this is the culmination of their experiences working over a number of years with the PYP and is in fact a summative assessment of their understandings of the programme principles and framework. The Exhibition is [...]

Today we started the Grade 6 Exhibition! The students were given an early morning task of which resulted in the analysis of the transdisciplinary theme, selection of topics and forming of interest groups. This year 6B will be paired with 6C and already we have had our fisrt group meetings. Teams looked at the criteria [...]

A reminder that students should wear their school uniforms for tomorrow’s learning reviews. Also, portfolios will be going home with the students. Please take your time to look through the portfolio with your child and get them to explain their learning. The ISA tests have been included in the portfolio.

G5-6 Sports Day Schedule 2011 Greetings Parents, Students and Caregivers, We are planning to hold the 2011 CDNIS Grade 5/6 Sports Day on Tuesday April 12.  The staff and grade 5 and 6 students will be participating in a variety of athletic activities at the Stanley Ho Sports Complex in Sandy Bay.  We will be [...]

WWPT Grade 6 Summative Task ver 2 WWPT Unit Rubric

Dear Prep-Grade 6 Parents: You will have already received an email from the School outlining the purpose and aims for Student Led Learning Reviews (SLLR) on 29 April.  Please be reminded this is an important learning experience for your child and that student and parent attendance is mandatory on this day. The first appointment may [...]

A reminder that tomorrow is the Alan Dick walk at the Aberdeen Sports Ground. The link below will give you details of the event and an itinery for the morning. http://www.cdnis.edu.hk/news-events/highlight/353.html

Grade 5 China Trip, Guizhou Province On April 1, twenty-two Grade 5 students will travel to Guizhou in collaboration with the [ http://www.zigen.org/AboutUs/aboutUs.html ]Zigen Fund. On this trip students will pair up with a buddy from the local community as they engage in a variety of cultural activities. Each year we donate stationery to our [...]

Parents, I am sure that the students of 6B will have talked to you about the tuning activity they experienced this Wednesday morning. As we begin our Where we are in Place and Time unit we started with an experiment in how power is distributed, governed and practiced. It was extremely interesting to observe how [...]

Parenting the Net Generation – for parents of children in Grade 5 – 8 The internet and associated electronics has changed the way people operate in their daily lives, from the work place to the home and everywhere in between.  Parents often struggle to make sense of their children’s relationship to cyberspace and are therefore [...]

ADMF_DonationForm(1) Join us as we remember Alan Dick and celebrate his legacy during the 2nd Annual Alan Dick Memorial Walk. Everyone who is or has ever been a part of the CDNIS community is encouraged to attend this great event, which takes place Tuesday 22 March at the Aberdeen Sports Ground. The aim of the [...]

This week we have mixed the ‘Spring into Reading’ campaign with our classroom learning. On Monday we had a guest speaker from Hong Kong Animal Rescue who provided us with detailed information about their organization and some of the statistics of animal use and care within Hong Kong. Over the coming weeks we will have [...]

Macau parent night presentation 2011 View more presentations from J. Fenton.

Portfolios have been sent home. Included this time will be a written summary of your child’s progress. Please note, this is just one part of the reporting process and no page in the portfolio is more important than another. Together, all pages give a holistic view of a child’s achievements, improvement and challenges. If students [...]

This is also in the programme overview tag above. Gr 6 Programme Overview 2010-2011

Dear Lower School Parents, Our annual Spring into Reading literacy programme will “bloom” from 14 February to 4 March! This joint initiative is led by the Lower School teacher librarians and CISPA’s World of Words Literacy Committee.  The goal is to promote the value and enjoyment of reading in the Lower School and to improve [...]

Wishing everyone a very happy Chinese New Year. See you in the year of the rabbit! A huge congratulations to all those involved in the new year activities and performances. I am sure those who attended enjoyed the flower fair and concerts.

Students, To join the Better Blogging Battle, click the link below http://sites.cdnis.edu.hk/clubsactivities/betterbloggingbattle/

A busy week in 6B as we start a new unit and establish our student blogs. Each student now has a blog which will be used to reflect on the week as well as carry out certain assignments and inquiry work. Ms. Fung has been timetabled to join us every Tuesday for specialist lessons regarding [...]

We have a LTT Parental Control training for Gr.5-6 parents coming up on Jan. 18th from 8:30-10:30am (LLAC lobby) and 6:30-8:30pm (Library).  RSVP Priya Bharwani <priya@gexpt.com>

A reminder that the students will be taking their laptops home for the Winter break, as indicated in the letter dated 20th September. If you do not wish your child to take the laptop home, please email me.

HWOO Summative Rubric 2010 FINAL draft HWOO Summative Task-FINAL 3

The students have had an exciting week in grade 6. Obviously the market day on Thursday was the highlight and the groups were extremely engaged in the selling and promoting of their products. It was hoped that the groups learned from the previous selling day and implemented changes and adapted according with the knowledge gained. [...]

Students in grade 6 have started their Marketplace Projects this week. In groups, students will be organizing a business for two market days: Thursday, Dec. 2nd and Wednesday, Dec. 8th. For this project, they are asked to follow the Market Guidelines (see attached) as well as complete a Profit/Loss Statement (also see attached). As start [...]

Upcoming CISPA Event Brains for breakfast! 8 December CISPA wants your opinions on how we can improve our school community through our activities and initiatives. We urge you to attend a free breakfast brainstorming session on 8 December, 8:15 am, LLAC Lobby. It’s your parents’ association — be heard. We’d love to know which CISPA [...]

Please take a look at a podcast made last year. This may provide you with a clearer picture as to what our SLLR’s will look like.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Grade5CDNIS#p/a/u/0/UxJKOKTIXS8 Last year, the Lower School implemented a student-centred approach to assessment and a transition in the ways we report student achievement. As a means of supporting the development of parents’ understanding of our purpose and approach, a committee of teachers created a podcast which articulated the role of student, parent and teacher in the [...]

This week we enjoyed a trip to the Science Museum in Kowloon. Here we explored the telecommunications section and also looked at the many inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci. The students were engaged in many activities and gleaned a much from the visit. During unit work we formed ‘expert’ groups whose objective was to focus [...]

We are well into our new unit now and have started the tuning in process. The students have been looking at the vocabulary involved in the unit and sorting it out, not only in terms of definitions, but also studying the relationship between certain phases and words. Each student presented their ideas to the class [...]