GJS MYP-DP

Exams 7-11 Mon, Tues, Weds. No School Thursday Friday Regular School PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING Monday. Grading and Marking Weds.  Grading and Marking This Week’s Message Ramadan Kareem!  Now that we have graduated our grade 12 students and celebrated the achievements of our grade 10 students, we look forward to a smooth end of the school year. Please read through the remaining details below.  This week includes exams for Y7-11 from Mon-Weds. We have no school Thursday, and regular classes again on Friday- except for students finishing language exams. Coming up we have the Y6-7 transition on June 8 and 9, and the Y 10-11 Transition activities on June 11-15. See the MYP and DP sections below. The Afterschool PD calendar for the rest of the year End of Semester MYP Grade, report writing, and exams During the week of May 8- May 12 we had ‘mini  workshops’ on determining MYP final grades. See the  GJS MYP-DP Guide Pgs. 19-23 for more

MONDAY Period 7 Ext Tutor Group: Exam Prep, Take a Stand PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING Monday. Exam Prep and Standardization for yr 7-10 teachers (Y 11 exams start today-grading and marking) Weds. Graduation for Y 12. Early release for students at 12:10. Y 9,10,11 students attend graduation. Y 7 -8 are released to go home. All Teachers attend Graduation. Thurs and Friday no school This week’s message  Welcome back, and congratulations to the DP students and teachers on the completion of the exams. Also congratulations to the Y 10 students who took part in the MYP celebration last Friday.  This week is another short week, with a half day for graduation on Weds, and Thursday and Friday off. It is still a busy week. Year 11 start their exams, and we are praparing for the 7-9 exams next week. Please see below for reminders about surveys, feedback from walkthroughs, information on exams and reports.   Surveys Coordinators survey . See communication

  MONDAY Period 7: Y 10 Assembly PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING Monday . Continue writing reports. Exam prep  and standardization for Y11 teachers Weds . Continue writing reports. Exam prep and standardization for Y11 teachers Friday . Y 10 MYP Celebration ceremony. Y 10 will not be in class after lunch and prayer. This Week’s Message This week marks the one full week of classes that we have between the start of T4 and the Semester exams. Please be sure you are collaborating with your colleagues to navigate through the report writing and semester exam bottle neck that is approaching. If we support each other through this, we can reduce stress on ourselves and the students. To help you plan, see the T4 tab at the top for information on exam dates and report writing timeline and Report writing guidelines. If you have approved generic comments from last year and you are teaching the same units, you can use them again! Remember to run comments through Grammarl

MONDAY Period 7: Extended Tutor Group Time PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING Monday. Staff Briefing. 15 minutes. Begin writing comments Weds. Continue writing reports. This Week’s Message We have a short week this week again, with the gift of time given to us on Thursday. Please remember to plan going forward as time this term will start running down, and we want to be sure we smoothly finish up our units and grading without unnecessary stress for ourselves, our colleagues or students. See the T4 tab above for information on end of term exam dates and report card writing timelines. Our PD this week is focused on report writing both Monday and Weds. Please see the GJS MPY-DP Teacher Guide for information on end of semester grades. We will have four mini-workshops this week on establishing end of semester grades in MYP. Please see information below. DP exams have begun, see below. We would like to thank all the teachers involved and all those who helped prepar