newsletter september 2014

Middle Years Programme
Spojena skola Novohradska, Bratislava, Slovakia
September 3, 2014
MYP THE NEXT CHAPTER IN SCHOOL YEAR 2014/15
The IB currently reviewed the design of the
Middle Years Programme (MYP).
The changes to the MYP seek to enhance the
underlying strengths of the program, enable
more schools to offer the program within
national and state systems and align it more
closely with the other IB programs in order to
provide a coherent educational pathway for
students. The MYP has always been
characterized by a focus on the development of
conceptual understanding through relevant
contexts; this will continue to underpin the
curriculum planning process.
The new MYP Model
Dear parents, students, colleagues,
We hope that you took the last 2 months to relax
and enjoy the summer.
We welcome all of our MYP studentss back to
school and, we wish them a lot of success.
In short, is that AoIs are transformed into Global
Contexts. Allll 6 of them will be covered in every
subject group. Global contexts are aligned with
Key concepts and Related
elated concepts to provide
both an organization and an extension of
learning within and across the subjects, through
the exploration of real
real-life issues.
Last school year we prepared for changes in MYP
called Next Chapter. All teachers worked really
hard to cover all changes in all subjects. Most of
them took part in In-school
school workshop at the very
begging of summer holiday and all started new
school year at the workshop at the end of the
August. All teachers are looking forward to apply
all new knowledge they gained.
All subjects have new subject guides with
improved subject criteria (4 per every subject).
Some subject groups changed
change their names:
Humanities into Individuals and Societies,
Technologies into Design, etc.Some changes will
come into Personal Project and we are start
starting
with a new Community project.
This school year will bring some changes into
i
the
teaching staff, as well ass the organization of the
school year. You can read
ad about these changes in
this issue of the newsletter.
For
or more info, please visit the official IBO
website: www.ibo.org
In case you have any questions regarding the
changes, feel free to contact the MYP Coordinator,
Coordinator
the Head of the Departments or the homeroom
teacher.
STAFF CHANGES IN 2014/15
As it happens everyyear, there is a slight turnover
in staff – we welcome our new Biology teacher
Inez Truppová and also for Biology coming back
after two years in USA Lenka Prieložná. For
Physical and health education we welcome Martin
Vašš and for more classes in both Geography and
Computer technologies already known Miriam
Černá.
Most of the new teachers can be reached via
school email, but just in case, check out the
Student Agenda for more precise email addresses.
As for the leadership, the Community and Service
(C&S) leader is Ms. Zuzana Popelkova and the
Personal Project (PP) is completely covered by
Mr. Milos Kmet, our Arts and Design Technology
teacher. The Approaches to Learning (ATL) leader
is for this school year again Ms. Beata Peckova,
Language and Literature teacher.
HOMEROOM TEACHERS
Pre-MYP homeroom teacher is Ms. Katarína
Fischerová, MYP1 is led by Mrs. Ivana Bojnanská,
also new homeroom teacher in MYP2 Alena
Boboš, MYP4is led by Ms. Andrea Záhorská, while
MYP5 homeroom teacher is Ms. Jana Fraasová.
DATES AND ORGANIZATION OF THE YEAR
The most important dates can be found on the
school website as well as the MYP website:
http://www.gjh.sk/myp/index.php
There have been changes in the organization of
the Personal Project. This year’s FINAL FAIR will be
held on March 25th 2015. All parents are heartily
welcomed. For MINI FAIR we set the date on June
18th 2015.
The first Parent-Teacher Conference takes place
on September 10th. Homeroom teachers will
contact all parents through the mail.
For other dates precise info, please refer back to
www.gjh.sk later.
Gymnazium Jura Hronca, Spojena skola Novohradska
CONTACTS
Mrs. Eva Zitna
Head of the International Department
Email: [email protected]
Ms. Gabriela Markusova
MYP Coordinator
Email: [email protected]
Mrs. Renata Nemcokova
School psychologist
Email: [email protected]
Mrs. Zuzana Munkova
School Principle
Email: [email protected]
Spojena skola
Novohradska
Novohradská 3,
821 09 Bratislava
Phone
02/5557 6396
Newsletter written by Gabriela Markusová,
MYP Coordinator

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