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January 24, 2013

Kudos to AMC-8 Champions Mr. Wong's Liang Heng Zheng with 18 points (top 5% worldwide) Mr. Wong's Sally Lai with 16 points Mr. Wong's Jason Ng with 15 points Ms. Yeung's Jerry Wong, Tsz Ying Yung, Mindy Fan with 14 points

Concerns Raised & Addressed

Parents requested having more practice assessments before the real assessments. Teachers will post practice assessments on the assessment wiki (click on the grade level of your child to the left) when there is an exam style assessment, especially for criteria B or D assessments. If you would like more than we have put there, feel free to ask your classroom teacher. Keep in mind that for criterion A we cannot put practice very similar to the exam because it must be unfamiliar and for criterion B the general rule will be different for the actual assessment. For project based assessments, checkpoints with task specific checkpoint rubrics will be used.

The issue of textbooks (MYP friendly __Haese & Harris__ vs. strong math background __New Trends__) was brought up. We are trying both together in year 7. Parents said they would prefer having both textbooks as required books next year instead of choosing one.