Today is the final day of the first semester. We will be starting on Monday January 12 with Day #1.
I have an interview at 8:30 AM. Ana will be distributing exams and be the contact person this morning as Bojana will be away. In the afternoon I will be at the Middle School for their Christmas celebrations.
Final Exams:
Today is the final, final exam mathematics.
The Daily Bulletins this semester have been posted on the secondary chatterbox. It will be good to check them next year to see how we can improve.
Things I have learned for the next time we do exams.
• Give explicit instructions for the students who have accommodations. Separate their exams from the others immediately. Make a separate schedule for them.
• Remind students to take their calculators to the science and math exam days.
• Do not schedule exams on big slava days.
• Put the major Slavas on the school calender for 2009-2010.
• Use Independent School Management’s 10 Commandments for Exam Scheduling when making the exam schedule.
• Identify and remember the students who are taking HL exams. Do not make announcements during the HL exams.
• Make a form to put on the envelope with all of the information. Student list, HL students, proctor name, classroom, date, session, etc. can be put right on the envelope holding the exams to make it easier for the proctor and administrative assistant.
• Meet with the students who take school transport to set changes in times with the bussing.
• Remind HOD’s to estimate the time of their department’s exams. We had several that ran a bit short.
• Meet briefly with teachers before the start of exams to review the proctor guidelines and discuss clarifications.
Krsna Slava Sveti Nikola: Congratulations to the many Serbians who are celebrating today. On the staff, Nevena, Katarina, and Bojana are home today with their families. Sveti Nikola died on this day in 343 AD. He was the Greek Bishop in the city of Myrna in Turkey for many years.
Humanitarian Organization Divac: The Christmas Card Drive is ending today and Vladamir reports between 50,000 and 60,000 dinars have been sold. He will be coming out with the exact amount later today. Congratulations to him and the CAS students for their work. The visit with student leaders to the Collection Center has been postponed until next year.
Second Semester Schedule / Report Cards: Our IBO Coordinators Liz and Branka have been hard at work with schedules and report card preparations. Branka will re-send the report card schedule.
SPACES: Paul McKenzie has done some excellent work on the SPACES Interdisciplinary Project on the Moodlic web page. Teachers involved in the project are now asked to set deadlines for turning in the students’ material for posting. The big SPACES exhibition will be January 30th. Mark your calendars. Also, I would like to congratulate Natasa Skoric and the Grade 10 students on the completion of their epic film for the project.
ISB IB Theatre Arts DP Class and The ISB International Thespian Society 7335 present:
24 HOUR THEATRE
Saturday January 17, 2009 7:30 p.m.
Tickets RSD100. On sale from Thespian Society Members or at the HS Reception from January 12.
The students will arrive on Friday January 16 and begin to work on original theatre pieces. The audience is asked to join us on Saturday evening the 17th to see the presentation of their original work that they devised over the 24 hour period (with sleep in between).
This is a curricular event enabling IB theatre students a chance to combine numerous components of their IB syllabus into a real production experience, supplemented by the ISB Thespian Society.
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