March 27
Be a Learner
Be Responsible
Be Respectful
Be Safe
- events this week,
- Important dates for Q4, including end of year timeline
- Link to minutes from last weeks secondary meeting
- a link to the Weekly Family update
- and the Sunday Morning Announcements
- PD Opportunities for April
- Sunday. Cross Campus IB meeting Predicted Grades
- Tues. Secondary meeting/ DP ATL meeting
April
April 4-8 Spring Break
April 11-15 ACA IB in school tests (Formerly known as Mock Exams)
April 13 Ramadan Begins (School hours remain the same for MS and HS)
May
May 9-13 Eid Al Fitr Holiday
End of Year Timeline
There are no cumulative exams at the end of the year. The regular school timetable and schedule will continue until May 27, the last day students are in school.
The following timeline of the final few weeks is to help you plan, organize, and manage the final few weeks.
Aim to complete your Curriculum and Teaching by the week of May 2-6. (HS)
No New assignments/quizzes/tests/assessments after May 20. (MS and HS)
Reports are due May 27 on the last day students are in school. (All)
June 1 is the teacher’s last day.
May 2-6 (Aim to Finish Teaching)
Finish teaching and curriculum by May 6 if you plan to have a final in-class assessment next week
As in any week, assessments can be done, including final assessments for the quarter if the curriculum is complete
Contact any families of students who are failing with specific tasks to be done for them to be able to pass the class
May 9-13 (Holiday)
Eid holiday no school
May 16-20 (Last week for Assessments or assignments)
We are not requiring you do a final assessment this week. But we do want to make sure they are all done by May 20 so there is time to follow up on students
Final in-class assessment/test/ quiz/assignments. Can be weighted as a regular assessment. Does not have to span the whole semester like a final exam. There are no cumulative final exams.
Use test calendar to avoid too many tests on one day
May 23-27 (No new assessments or assignments. Instead use the time for make-up work, communication with families)
May 23-26. Review the results of the final assessment with students
End of year review/ student reflection/ preview of next year's curriculum
Communicate with families of students failing or needing work
Makeup tests and work.
May 26 aim to have all makeup tests or work done
May 27 last day of school for students
May 27 Reports Due
Review the ‘one point away’ from the next grade. (It should not be 92, it should be 93. Etc)
June 1
Reports sent out
Last day for teachers! Secondary Staff meeting 10:00 am Dr. Lori
We are also trying to keep families and students involved with the 'Weekly Family Update'. We are stressing the importance of students communicating with teachers and using office hours, and of parents seeing NEO and grades on NEO on a regular basis.
PD Opportunities:
a few PD opportunities for you during the month of April.
Mandatory
Arabic COVID Training, April 1st 9:00am -11:30am (Kuwait time)
Free
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.
ECIS
Paid
(PD will be at teacher's expense)
Harvard Graduate School of Education
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