6 Nov

 

  • For this Week

  • ESF Photoshoot Update

  • Fire Drill (Monday, 13 November)

  • EA Term 1 PRD Check-ins 

  • Upcoming Free PD Opportunities

  • Staff Calendar

Good morning team. We have a few items for this week; please take a few minutes to go through today's comms. 


For this Week

Monday - Teacher meeting around PDP 12:15 @ staffroom. Agenda here.

                - Island School Quest Week starts 

Tuesday - ESF Ed Psych Steff Ho visits for ARP

Wednesday - Chinese Advisor Tina Tian and School Improvement Advisor Natasha Williams visit to learn more about our Chinese provision and will meet with Yammi & Joey during Open Play.

Thursday - ESF Photoshoot AM

Friday - Island School Quest Week finishes


ESF Photoshoot Update

The ESF marketing team/ photographers will come for the morning session on Thursday, 9 November. Barbara will kindly assist them in moving around that morning. The photos will be used for internal or external use, such as celebrating accomplishments, professional development materials, visual content for campus materials, or general marketing and communication.


Please do not wear name badges this morning, and we will have a list of the non-participants/ no photo consent children. These children will have a giraffe sticker to help the staff identify and move them around if needed. 


Fire Drill (Monday, 13 November)

A heads up that we planned a fire drill in both the AM and PM sessions on Monday, 13 November. Please make a note of this date and review our Evacuation Procedures. The times will be around 9:10am and 1:20pm. For this first one, we will evacuate out to our playground and line up by class. 

It costs a few thousand dollars to set off the actual fire alarm for the drill, so we will likely use the whistle instead or play the audio somehow.


EA Term 1 PRD Check-ins 

Laura and Brenda will be meeting EAs next week. Please check your time slot here. We will meet in the vault, and a floater will come to your class to cover you. In advance, please have a think about the following reflection questions:

  • How is your well-being? What would be transformational for your well-being for the coming year?
  • How do you aim to professionally develop over the next academic year and what support do you need in this area?
  • Which part of your current role do you enjoy the most? In addition, which part is most challenging?
  • How is working at ESF adding value to your career?
  • What is important for us to know and understand about you?


Upcoming Free PD Opportunities

HK PYP Network PD Event 

Thursday, 16 November, 4:30pm, all online via Zoom/Google Meet.


Please take a look at the workshop descriptors here. If you're interested, you can sign up here by Thursday, 9 November. Topics include AI, bridging kindie and primary in an IB context, and assessment for PYP Chinese teachers. 

  • If your desired workshop/job alike is full, you can add your name as 'waitlisted', but this will not guarantee a place - the decision will be the presenter's. It will be 'first come, first served'.
  • After the sign up deadline, presenters will be given email lists of participants and will be responsible for contacting them. If you have any questions about the workshop/ job-alike session, please feel free to contact the presenter directly. Their email is on the workshop descriptors document.


TeachMeet

Thursday, 16 November 5:30-8pm, Steelcase (15/F, Kinwick Centre, 32 Hollywood Road)

Register here.


Participants gather to hear short presentations and network with educators from a variety of schools in Hong Kong. This is the perfect opportunity to share, network and learn with your peers in an informal setting. TeachMeet's aims are:

  • To inspire each other with interesting and useful ideas
  • To develop and maintain a network of partners in teaching and learning
  • To share ideas and strategies to use in the classroom and beyond


Upcoming Dates

Please check our internal calendar below, as we might forget to remind everyone of odd dates. We will continue to add events to the calendar as soon as it's confirmed. Here's the full 2023/24 Calendar 


Thank you!