Edition 3 - October 10, 2018
Important upcoming dates
Oct 11 - Public Holiday
Oct 18 - 23 Fall Break
Oct 31 - Halloween Party
Nov 9 - Parent Teacher Conferences
Nov 22 - 23 No School for students
Dec 9 & 10 Winter Performance
Dec 21 - Winter Break starts
Jan 14 - School resumes
Dear Parents,
It was great to see so many parents in the EMS Cafeteria this morning to hear the Head of School, Mr Viktor Novakovski give a presentation about professional learning for teachers. This is an important area that all schools need to focus on in order to ensure that teachers are fully trained and up to date with the latest research and teaching practices.
Uprising Day
As I am sure you are aware, tomorrow October 11, will be Uprising Day and will therefore be a public holiday. We look forward to seeing everyone back at school on Friday. I hope you enjoy the extra day to spend with you family and take in what could be the final weeks of perfect weather.
MAP Testing
Thanks to all the staff and students who have been engaged in MAP testing these last few weeks. We have now completed these tests and the results should be available to parents at our upcoming "Parent Teacher Conferences" on November 9. More details about the Parent Teacher Conferences will come out later from either your child's Homeroom or TAG Teacher. Thanks especially to Ms Elena Guceva for her efforts in coordinating the process.
Winter Performance
The dates for this year's Winter Performance have been set for December 9 and 10. Sunday December 9 will the the full dress rehearsal and Monday December 10 will be the show. More details will be made available, including this year's exciting theme, at a later date.
Writing Pearls
NOVA International School is holding its short stories contest titled 'Nova Writing Pearls'. It is open to all young writers from grade 6 to grade 12. Stories can be from any genre and between 300 and 1,000 words. -Write what is in front of you: Fiction, Non Fiction, Narrative and Personal Eye! Finalists will have their short stories published in NOVA Pearls, Edition of 2019. Work should be submitted to: Ms. Julija L. Krstevska at: julija.krstevska@nova.edu.mk by November 30, 2018 Please click here for the promotional poster.
Skopje Sluggers
"The Skopje Sluggers baseball team traveled to Budapest, Hungary Oct. 4-7 for a tournament competing with teams from Hungary, Serbia, and Croatia. With two wins and three losses, the team came in 4th place out of six teams in the tournament. Nova students Peter Buttemere, Daniel Buttemere, Filip Angelovski, Justin Boyett, and Ellie Kate Buttemere represented the school well with excellent team spirit and sportsmanship. Peter and Daniel were the team's main pitchers, with a combined 49 strikeouts over 22 innings pitched, while Filip did well as a relief pitcher, with two strikeouts in two innings pitched." Please follow this link to see some of the wonderful photos of the students in action.
From the Counsellors
We are looking forward to being a part of your child’s social and emotional growth this year. In the ES, we will be visiting classrooms once or twice a month teaching students how to make good choices during times of conflict using Kelso’s choice. We will also be teaching them about the 8 personal goals found in the IPC. In the middle school, we will be teaching life skills to help them understand the personal, social and emotional changes that occur throughout these years. As counselors, we coordinate together and work as a team to help all of the students in school.
Oct 11 - Public Holiday
Oct 18 - 23 Fall Break
Oct 31 - Halloween Party
Nov 9 - Parent Teacher Conferences
Nov 22 - 23 No School for students
Dec 9 & 10 Winter Performance
Dec 21 - Winter Break starts
Jan 14 - School resumes
Dear Parents,
It was great to see so many parents in the EMS Cafeteria this morning to hear the Head of School, Mr Viktor Novakovski give a presentation about professional learning for teachers. This is an important area that all schools need to focus on in order to ensure that teachers are fully trained and up to date with the latest research and teaching practices.
Uprising Day
As I am sure you are aware, tomorrow October 11, will be Uprising Day and will therefore be a public holiday. We look forward to seeing everyone back at school on Friday. I hope you enjoy the extra day to spend with you family and take in what could be the final weeks of perfect weather.
MAP Testing
Thanks to all the staff and students who have been engaged in MAP testing these last few weeks. We have now completed these tests and the results should be available to parents at our upcoming "Parent Teacher Conferences" on November 9. More details about the Parent Teacher Conferences will come out later from either your child's Homeroom or TAG Teacher. Thanks especially to Ms Elena Guceva for her efforts in coordinating the process.
Winter Performance
The dates for this year's Winter Performance have been set for December 9 and 10. Sunday December 9 will the the full dress rehearsal and Monday December 10 will be the show. More details will be made available, including this year's exciting theme, at a later date.
Writing Pearls
NOVA International School is holding its short stories contest titled 'Nova Writing Pearls'. It is open to all young writers from grade 6 to grade 12. Stories can be from any genre and between 300 and 1,000 words. -Write what is in front of you: Fiction, Non Fiction, Narrative and Personal Eye! Finalists will have their short stories published in NOVA Pearls, Edition of 2019. Work should be submitted to: Ms. Julija L. Krstevska at: julija.krstevska@nova.edu.mk by November 30, 2018 Please click here for the promotional poster.
Skopje Sluggers
"The Skopje Sluggers baseball team traveled to Budapest, Hungary Oct. 4-7 for a tournament competing with teams from Hungary, Serbia, and Croatia. With two wins and three losses, the team came in 4th place out of six teams in the tournament. Nova students Peter Buttemere, Daniel Buttemere, Filip Angelovski, Justin Boyett, and Ellie Kate Buttemere represented the school well with excellent team spirit and sportsmanship. Peter and Daniel were the team's main pitchers, with a combined 49 strikeouts over 22 innings pitched, while Filip did well as a relief pitcher, with two strikeouts in two innings pitched." Please follow this link to see some of the wonderful photos of the students in action.
From the Counsellors
We are looking forward to being a part of your child’s social and emotional growth this year. In the ES, we will be visiting classrooms once or twice a month teaching students how to make good choices during times of conflict using Kelso’s choice. We will also be teaching them about the 8 personal goals found in the IPC. In the middle school, we will be teaching life skills to help them understand the personal, social and emotional changes that occur throughout these years. As counselors, we coordinate together and work as a team to help all of the students in school.
Not all unkindness is bullying. Here’s why we need to teach kids to differentiate.
I suspect most parents have felt something similar. In this state of heightened parental emotion, it’s easy to define the offensive behavior as bullying, particularly because it provides a narrative structure with a clear-cut villain and victim. But it’s important for parents to resist, or at least question, our use of the term.
After I calmed down a bit I realized that this incident didn’t rise to the level of bullying. None of the criteria above was really present, particularly the power imbalance. Someone can be insensitive, thoughtless, immature, mean and even aggressive without it being bullying. And it’s important to make sure children understand that. Here’s why: For the rest of their lives, our children’s happiness at home and success at work will be determined by how well they can navigate relationships and resolve difficult issues. If we write every unpleasant encounter off as bullying, we don’t prepare them well. At a minimum, we are modeling misdiagnosis. To read the full article please follow this link.
It's Ok to get mad - Helping kids to express anger without hitting or biting. I remember the first bite. My kids had just entered a blissful stage where they could play together for stretches of time. I was quietly congratulating myself when I heard a 2-year-old’s howl of anger followed by a 4-year-old’s shriek of pain. The older sister ran over to show off the fresh teeth marks on her arm. The cause? She had thrown her brother’s beloved stuffed tiger across the room.
Kicking, hitting, biting, throwing. It can be upsetting when our kids act out physically. It’s also normal. Little kids may feel angry, afraid or frustrated, but have limited language — so they often use their bodies to express themselves. Sometimes this looks like stomping feet or falling to the floor in the check-out aisle. Sometimes that looks like running away and hiding. And sometimes that looks like biting your sister when she takes away your favorite toy.A big part of parenting is helping our kids understand their emotions and then respond in a way that does not hurt themselves or others. To read the reast of the article please follow this link.
Photos this week
In Pre-K3 this last we have been focusing on personal hygiene, such as washing hands, brushing teeth and taking baths. So naturally when it was time to paint we decided to add soap into our paint and explore painting with bubbles. As you can see we had lots of fun and made masterpieces.
Grade 5 pics Games of Longitude and Latitude Battleship as well as playing Kahoot before making our own.
2R class had a wonderful opportunity to learn about the Mid-Autumn festival in China and the way it is celebrated through an interesting craft project and stories - legends about how people in China began celebrating the holiday and worship the moon. Children enjoyed making paper lanterns.
Jeder Schüler aus der Anfängergruppe Deutsch hat ein Comic und passende Fragen zu seinem Inhalt erstellt. Die Schüler haben die Comics von ihren Klassenkammeraden gelesen und die gegeben Fragen beantwortet.
Every student from the beginning group German created a comic with questions that are linked to the content. The students read the comics of their classmates and answered the given questions.
These 3 students earned 55,000 points between them in a single week! Defne joins the 10,000 club and Meehan and Arun joined the 20,000 club. These amazing results pushed 5 Odbert to 5th place on the European Leaderboard ! See the photos below.
Russell O'Neill
EMS Principal
I suspect most parents have felt something similar. In this state of heightened parental emotion, it’s easy to define the offensive behavior as bullying, particularly because it provides a narrative structure with a clear-cut villain and victim. But it’s important for parents to resist, or at least question, our use of the term.
After I calmed down a bit I realized that this incident didn’t rise to the level of bullying. None of the criteria above was really present, particularly the power imbalance. Someone can be insensitive, thoughtless, immature, mean and even aggressive without it being bullying. And it’s important to make sure children understand that. Here’s why: For the rest of their lives, our children’s happiness at home and success at work will be determined by how well they can navigate relationships and resolve difficult issues. If we write every unpleasant encounter off as bullying, we don’t prepare them well. At a minimum, we are modeling misdiagnosis. To read the full article please follow this link.
It's Ok to get mad - Helping kids to express anger without hitting or biting. I remember the first bite. My kids had just entered a blissful stage where they could play together for stretches of time. I was quietly congratulating myself when I heard a 2-year-old’s howl of anger followed by a 4-year-old’s shriek of pain. The older sister ran over to show off the fresh teeth marks on her arm. The cause? She had thrown her brother’s beloved stuffed tiger across the room.
Kicking, hitting, biting, throwing. It can be upsetting when our kids act out physically. It’s also normal. Little kids may feel angry, afraid or frustrated, but have limited language — so they often use their bodies to express themselves. Sometimes this looks like stomping feet or falling to the floor in the check-out aisle. Sometimes that looks like running away and hiding. And sometimes that looks like biting your sister when she takes away your favorite toy.A big part of parenting is helping our kids understand their emotions and then respond in a way that does not hurt themselves or others. To read the reast of the article please follow this link.
Photos this week
In Pre-K3 this last we have been focusing on personal hygiene, such as washing hands, brushing teeth and taking baths. So naturally when it was time to paint we decided to add soap into our paint and explore painting with bubbles. As you can see we had lots of fun and made masterpieces.
Grade 5 pics Games of Longitude and Latitude Battleship as well as playing Kahoot before making our own.
2R class had a wonderful opportunity to learn about the Mid-Autumn festival in China and the way it is celebrated through an interesting craft project and stories - legends about how people in China began celebrating the holiday and worship the moon. Children enjoyed making paper lanterns.
Jeder Schüler aus der Anfängergruppe Deutsch hat ein Comic und passende Fragen zu seinem Inhalt erstellt. Die Schüler haben die Comics von ihren Klassenkammeraden gelesen und die gegeben Fragen beantwortet.
Every student from the beginning group German created a comic with questions that are linked to the content. The students read the comics of their classmates and answered the given questions.
These 3 students earned 55,000 points between them in a single week! Defne joins the 10,000 club and Meehan and Arun joined the 20,000 club. These amazing results pushed 5 Odbert to 5th place on the European Leaderboard ! See the photos below.
Russell O'Neill
EMS Principal