January 13th

 

Happy National Sports Day! Have a lovely active or restful day off tomorrow, colleagues.

If you are thinking of something to do, here is a list of activities planned by QF. Here are some other suggestions

Important dates - February

• 12th - Week 4 T2 Continuous Reporting
• 13th - Assembly 1-4 and 3-3
• 14th - Sportsday (no school)
• 15th - Sportsday UP
• 16th - Sportsday LP
• 16th - Early Release 1.15 pm
• 19th - Classroom learning observations start
• 19th - Week 5 (final week) T2 Continuous Reporting
• 19th-20th-21st- KG Admissions
  

Important Docs

• Cover Document Template
• Cover Document Example 
• Sunday Morning Meeting Slides
• Newsletter English
• Newsletter Arabic
• Break Duty Roster
• Term 2 Report Timeline

Actions

• Sign up for the day and time for your observation
• Send Lewis pictures for the Pulse by 11 am Thursday
• Send in your POP Awards on Tuesday
• Schedule your "coupons" 

Refinement to illness cover requirements

We have taken feedback from your Team Leaders, and as such will remove the requirement for individual staff to arrange cover for their break duties off they are off ill. This is effective immediately.

Please note that if you are absent under predictable circumstances, for example, a course, meeting or medical appointment, it remains your responsibility to ensure that any cover is swapped with a colleague and covered.

The Google Summit will be a fun, high energy, two-day event where teachers and trainers who are Google for Education experts run sessions for educators on the best use of Google tools across schools. 

The sessions cover a full range of subject areas; that provide the latest updates and application of tools that benefit classroom teachers, IT staff, school administrators and clerical assistants. We have a full range of sessions for beginners, intermediate and advanced users, and everything we cover is laser-focused on the application of the tools in the classroom, based on leading best practice.

Artificial Intelligence and Education

Artificial Intelligence Tools and Programs are transforming education. Although rapid technological developments inevitably bring multiple risks and challenges, AI has the potential to innovate teaching and learning practices. Having that in mind, I would like to introduce and new tech tool: Curipod.

Do you struggle to find time to create slide decks to support your lessons? Would you like to introduce interactive activities but don't know where to start? 

Give Curipod (curipod.com/ai) a topic and a grade level, and it will generate an interactive slide deck for you in seconds, including Polls; Word clouds; Open-ended questions; Drawing tools, and more.

But wait there's more!!!!

Google Form reading log - Celebrate reading month in March setting a reading goal for your class. Use this Google form to track your classes progress all month long!

Using Chat GPT as a teacher - Getting useful content from Chat GPT is all about asking the right question in the right way. This blog post from Erin Flannagan provides some helpful tips for getting better responses from Chat GPT to help with common classroom tasks.

Amazing Student Artwork - Canadian art teacher Emma Cottier has been sharing fantastic artwork created by her students in Google Drawing. If you want to be impressed, give Emma a follow!

 Earthquake Relief 

Should you wish to donate to charities supporting earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria, information is included on the posters below:

Fancy the Theatre?

Our own EMS thespian, Mr. Lewis, is gracing the stage Thursday, Feb. 16th, and Friday the 17th in the evening in Blood Brothers...if you like theater, you can get tickets here.