Weekly Newsletter 11 December 2020

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11 December 2020

CHRISTMAS CONCERTS AND PERFORMANCES VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS STUDENTS

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Alice Gwak (5CD)

A Letter From The Principal Dear Parents, Students, Staff and Friends of NLCS Jeju The term has not ended in the way we had planned for or hoped for - as our very large campus was asked to go to two thirds capacity in terms of student numbers for our final week. Due to the particular needs of our very youngest, and the examination and academic needs of our students in Years 10 - 13 this has impacted this week on Years 3 - 9 who have returned to partial online learning. Should the two thirds capacity limitation continue into the new year then we will adapt this further as presented in the provisional schedule for the first two weeks back. We hope that we will be back fully in school on January 4 but we are faced with two further possibilities - a complete class closure (reverting to full online learning ) or a further reduced campus capacity to one third of numbers. Special arrangements will be put in place whatever happens so that the IGCSE and IBDP Mock Examinations will definitely happen as planned. We will keep you updated in the holidays about arrangements for the whole school for January 4 2021.

More importantly, the term has ended as planned with our students attending and contributing to celebration assemblies ( following guidelines on capacity so some students are online in their classroom). Our usual music concerts have been streamed and recorded and there have been wonderful drama events such as Victorian Ghost Stories (also streamed). The campus has had busking at lunchtimes for those students present which has been a delight to hear and all around the campus we have displays of student art. Student societies have been working on their publications including the recent issue of INFLUENZA. I do reiterate the importance of keeping up to date with all the health requirements regarding COVID-19 presented by KCDC and Republic of Korea’s guidance on levels across the country and how different levels have different requirements as well as restricting travel. This completes keeping up to date with all travel surveys.

I hope that all of you have a wonderful winter holiday and have the opportunity to spend time with your families. May I wish you all happiness, health and a safe New Year for 2021.

Lynne Oldfield Principal

Term Dates Due to the current situation and examination schedules for the summer we have had to enact a small change to the term dates and holidays for this year. Next academic year’s term dates are published on the website. This affects only the Summer Term of 2021.

Spring Term 2021 Sunday 3 January - Boarders Return Monday 4 January - Day Students return and the new term begins Thursday 4 February - Half term break begins with Day Students and Boarders leaving at the end of school on Thursday Sunday 14 February - Boarders return Monday 15 February - Day Students return Wednesday 24 March Founders’ Day and Term ends Summer Term 2021 Sunday 11 April - Boarders Return Monday 12 April - Day Students return and the new Term begins Friday 28 May - New Short Half Term - School finishes at the end of day Tuesday 1 June (evening) - Boarders return Wednesday 2 June - Day Students Return Friday 18 June - Term ends

CHRISTMAS WINTER CONCERT

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DIVERSITY WEEK CONCERTS CHRISTMAS AND PERFORMANCES

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Last Friday was the highlight of the term for the Music department.We saw some exceptional performances from singers, musicians, conductors. Students formed ensembles, played in orchestras and the Drum Line and also in rock and jazz bands. Every single person on stage was a star! Well done to you all. If you’d like to know more about joining our orchestras, bands and more then contact Mr John Herbison. This time next year it could be you! If you’d like to watch again then you can use the link HERE

WINTER CONCERT

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CHRISTMAS Junior School Christmas Cracker

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CHRISTMAS CONCERTS AND PERFORMANCES

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It has been difficult for Ms Cristyn Draper, Head of Music to deliver the Junior School Christmas Cracker as planned - as COVID Guidelines have meant that students have not been in together. But we have been innovative and each item has been recorded and shared with parents and a whole concert film produced which will be shared with parents. From beautiful ballerinas to the Grinch at Christmas to classical ensembles it has been amazing. We hope you’ve enjoyed it and you can see it HERE.

CHRISTMAS Junior School Christmas Cracker It has been difficult for Ms Cristyn Draper, Head of Music to deliver the Junior School Christmas Cracker as planned - as COVID Guidelines have meant that students have not been in together. But we have been innovative and each item has been recorded and shared with parents and a whole concert film produced which will be shared with parents.

From beautiful ballerinas to the Grinch at Christmas to classical ensembles it has been amazing. We hope you’ve enjoyed it and you can see it HERE.

Ms Cristyn Draper

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CHRISTMAS Junior School Christmas Cracker

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CHRISTMAS First School

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There is nothing as lovely as our youngest children in their first Christmas concerts. Thank you very much to Head of First School, Peter Evans and his team of teachers who presented a fabulous concert - and filmed and edited it to share (safely)with parents. Thank you to all our young Christmas stars! Watch the film HERE.

Christmas Art inThe Junior School

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Our Junior School has produced some exceptional Christmas art. There are so many wonderful pieces and we can only highlight a few. We’ll keep sharing the best of our art as the weeks go on. In the meantime Happy Christmas from our Junior Artists! Snow, baubles, trees, reindeer and so much more‌

ASSEMBLIES Throughout the week students enjoyed House Assemblies and Year assemblies celebrating achievements this term. It was incredible to see the awards and accolades won by our students. We’ve seen students praised for academic studies, for Sports and Arts‌ They were also highlighted for being polite and cheerful, for looking smart, being helpful and a good friend. Every student is special and each teacher makes sure they all know that.

BABIES

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We have lovely news from the Junior School. On Sunday 6 December, a beautiful baby girl, Seoul Sangoro Freeman was born to Akinyi and Jeremy Freeman. She is healthy and well and weighed 4.3kg. We wish them all a very happy life together. What a wonderful early Christmas present!

BEDTIME STORIES

Every year our teachers create a storytelling event for our students so they can enjoy a range of wonderful stories before Christmas.

This year many of the teachers in the Junior School and their special guests have shared their stories in the Christmas grotto! Some treats so far have been Ms Tamlyn reading Dot in the Snow; Ms Gill Hawkins reading Last Stop on the Reindeer Express and Ms Eun Mi and Ms Grace shared Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus read in English and Korean. There are more stories to come all the way to Christmas! https://www.youtube.com/channel/ UCYFmhq6PR7ksd3Y8wmpq1hQ

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS OF THE TERM

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Thank you to Mr Dex Masrey and Mr Christopher Chang who work tirelessly behind the scenes of all our productions. Without them there, we could not showcase our students’ talent and achievements as we do.They organise sound, lighting and electronics - everything from the safety announcements, to the credits on the livestream. They work closely with the Music and Drama departments, all the teachers and of course our Marketing team.

Mr Dex Masrey, Theatre Manager, is in a unique position to see everything that goes on in the PAC and we asked him to pick his highlights of the academic year so far. Here’s what he says The start of this year was especially challenging. The school had to deal with COVID-19 and social distancing, and I was all alone to run the Theatre Department for the first two months of the term. Working in the theatre is definitely not a one-man job, and it takes a village to create quality performances. Here are my top 5 performances so far, and why I feel that way.

1. Cherin Kim playing Isn’t She Lovely (14 Sept 2020) https://youtu.be/uIJWBn-iSjg Cherin’s choice of a more recent popular song brought a refreshing atmosphere to the performances in the Monday Morning Assemblies. She truly showcased her talent with the piano, and it was one of the first recordings done this term.

2. The Jumblies by Edward Lear, performed by Y10 students (15 Oct 2020) https://youtu.be/Ur7AvJCbUYo The Year 10 students had prepared this drama piece with the guidance of Mr. James Hamilton-Scott, as an introduction to the skills required for the GCSE course and as their first formal performance assessment. The piece was rehearsed and recorded with minimal technical requirements, but the end result was simply amazing.

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3. 2020 Senior School House Dance Competition (28 Oct 2020) https://youtu.be/VPT2UeHGMfw The House Dance is one of the highlights of each year. This year, I had the opportunity to plan out the show’s order, and I was quite happy with how it turned out. It was also an opportunity to improve on the PAC’s branding, presence, and quality, which I couldn’t do previously. This was also the first major event for our new Theatre Technician, Chris.

4. First School’s Dance - Under The Sea (29 Oct 2020) https://youtu.be/lyS8TQZUoKs This performance was planned well by Ms. Carolyn Moran, and she made sure there were enough rehearsals with the Year 1 kids. Chris and I designed the lighting, and it was quite a challenge since both of us are new at lighting design.

5. 2020 Senior School Winter Concert (4 Dec 2020) https://youtu.be/QLhJvx9EkKY The “grand daddy” of performances in the first term, this massive undertaking was very challenging for all of us due to the fluid situation regarding COVID-19, with multiple changes to the schedule at the last minute. Without the hard work of the students in the tech team, we wouldn’t be able to pull this off. I can’t wait to work with the amazing tech team again.

CHRISTMAS TREES

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We’ve made our School very festive with lights and decorations and beautiful trees in Senior School, Junior School and First School. They were all decorated by the students thank you very much to you all for your help!

CHRISTMAS MUFTI DAY Well done to Toweraid and to the Mufti Day coordinator, EunJu Seo who organised a very successful Christmas Mufti Day last Friday. Eunjo says “Thank you for participating in this week’s Mufti day!. We raised 1,849,550 KRW in total.

Special thanks to Mulchat for raising 312,000 KRW. We would also like to show sincere gratitude to all the support staff and teaching staff who participated! Funds will be donated towards Happy People to provide masks for less fortunate children and Movember.

Thank you again for your participation. Have a great holiday and an early merry christmas! “ Please get in touch with Toweraid or Mr GwangHo Im or Mr Douglas Machin if you are staff, student or parent and would like to contribute in any way.

MUSIC

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More good news from our Music Department. Ms BoEun Kim has let us know that two piano students have won a Special Prize in the recent National Students Music Competition.

Na Young Son

Freesia Kim

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Arin Lee

Na Young Son (Y13 Halla East) - Special prize. Category: High School (piano) Freesia Kim (Y9 Sarah) - Special prize. Category: Middle School (piano) Well done to Na Young and to Freesia and to all our young musicians who take the time to practise and to enter competitions on top of their busy academic schedules.

Arin Lee in Year 5 also won the top prize(학년 대상) in the Music Newspaper Jeju Branch Concours. Last Sunday, she gave a beautiful cello performance at Halla Art Hall and got a great result. We are very proud of you, Arin!

MATHS COMPETITION PREVIEW

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Our Maths department have some exciting news about next year. Mr Will Hebbron tells us “The World Maths Championship is a prestigious competition held all over Asia, with finals in Australia. The Senior level is for Years 11, 12, 13 and bring together teams of elite High School mathematicians for a wide variety of problem solving tasks over several days. Our Year 9 and 10 students participated online in the Junior event earlier this term, bringing home 14 gold, silver and bronze medals! We are proud to announce NLCS Jeju will host the Senior event for the first time in March 2021. Due to COVID restrictions this will be a hybrid online and live event, but we are working hard to welcome and include as many in person competitors as possible. “ We’ll keep you updated and let you know how you can be part of this event.

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2020 IN NLCS JEJU

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2020 IN NLCS JEJU

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2020 IN NLCS JEJU

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2020 IN NLCS JEJU

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2020 IN NLCS JEJU

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CHRISTMAS FUN

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