Life-Long Learning

Three teachers from the SEN (Special Educational Needs) Department, Mrs Bird, Ms Szafran and Mrs Valavicius, attended the course ‘Processamento Auditivo para Educadores’ on Saturday, August 14th. The whole-day course was presented by Maura Ligia Sanchez, Fonoaudióloga Clínica - Mestre em Ciências Otorrinolaringológicas pela UNIFESP who is responsible for central auditory processing dysfunctions for FLEURY laboratories. It gave many new insights into how to deal with auditory processing disorders within the school environment.
Towards the end of last term, Mr Hitch participated in the IB (International Baccalaureate) online workshop ‘Web 2.0 in the classroom’. The workshop looked at a wide range of collaborative learning environments and hands-on activities with Web 2.0 tools (e.g. micro-blogging, wikis etc.) for meaningfully collecting and sharing resources and ideas.

Year 11 e Year 12, ATENÇÃO!

As inscrições ao Enem 2010 poderão ser feitas a partir da próxima segunda-feira, dia 21, até o dia 9 de julho. As inscrições serão feitas exclusivamente pela Internet(www.inep.gov.br)e será exigido o número de CPF do participante.

A taxa de inscrição é de R$ 35,00.

A redação e as quatro provas do Enem, cada uma com 45 questões, serão aplicadas nos dias 6 e 7 de novembro. No sábado, dia 6, haverá prova de ciências da natureza e ciências humanas. No domingo, dia 7, deverá ser feita a redação e haverá prova de matemática, linguagens e códigos. O participante deverá optar por uma língua estrangeira, inglês ou espanhol, no momento da inscrição. Em ambos os dias a prova terá início às 13h. O encerramento ocorrerá às 17h30 no sábado e 18h30 no domingo.

LAHC Orchestra

Tomohisa Takeda was invited to join the LAHC Orchestra that played 4 concerts in Buenos Aires this May. There were three musicians representing Brazil, Tomohisa and two musicians from British Rio.

Tomohisa, who joined the school in August reports, I went to BA to play violin in LAHC orchestra which was composed of musicians gathered from different countries, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Peru and Colombia.

My biggest concern was language since most of the other members of the orchestra spoke Spanish. If I were the only English speaker I knew the trip would be very hard for me. I quickly discovered that all musicians studied at IB and LAHC schools and could speak English.

Even though everyone could play their own instrumental individually very well we needed to practice as an orchestra. It was just horrible at the 1st session and we realized that we needed to create team work. As a result, we improved by ourselves before the final concert which was the most important one because our teachers came to listen to us.

- Tomohisa Takeda (Y10)

LAHC Annual Members Conference

This May, Nick Thody represented St Nicholas School at the 14th Latin American Heads Conference Annual Members Conference. The conference was held at the Marriott Plaza hotel in Buenos Aires and the theme of the conference was Education for Sustainability; Education was led by two Peruvian based speakers, Tom Jolly and Dave Bruggers. Tomohisa Takeda of Year 10 joined the 90 strong international LAHC Orchestra that entertained the heads and delegates at the formal dinner. Nick serves on the LAHC executive committee and was heavily involved in the organisation of the conference and is now very glad it is over so he can dedicate himself to leading St Nicholas School. At the AGM, after two years as chair, Nick left the position and accepted the role of Student Activities Officer on the executive committee. Constitutionally Nick can serve for a further two years on the executive committee before his maximum term of six years is reached.

Action Committee - Projeto Semente do Amanhã

"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."
- Flora Edwards

One of the projects that the Action Committee supported in the year of 2009 – 2010 was “Projeto Semente do Amanhã”, co-ordinated by our dear friend Poliana who most of us know as Polly.

We are very pleased to say that many of the actions we took as a community were able to help her continue with her Sunday school where she helps children from her community in many different ways.

We surely learnt that there is certainly more happiness in giving than in receiving!