Swis Roc Radio

This morning before I even managed to get a chance to have a coffee, our esteemed Athletics Director brought Bhumija, Aayush, and Oliver to the Makerspace to record our weekly Podcast. We heard about Swimming, Volleyball, Basketball, and MUN at SWIS. Bhumija spoke about the Model United Nations (MUN) Program that she is part of with her advisors Mrs Chaytor and Ms.April. Aayush and Oliver offered some excellent advice to their fellow students as to why they should join a sports team. We hope you enjoy the show. SWIS ROC RADIO Listen, Like, Learn --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message

Vicky and Eve recorded this wonderful podcast this morning explaining the background to the Double Ninth festival in both English and Chinese. Here is a little background to the Double Ninth Festival 重阳节 It is held on the 9th day of the 9th lunar month, Chongyang Festival is also called Double Ninth Festival. In Chinese, nine is regarded as the number of Yang (which means masculine as opposed to Yin which is feminine). The ninth day of the ninth month is the day that has two Yang numbers, and 'chong' in Chinese means double which is how the name Chongyang was created. It is a day for people to eat Chongyang cake, drink chrysanthemum wine, climb mountains, and pay homage to chrysanthemums. We hope you enjoy the Podcast. SWIS ROC Radio --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message

This week's Podcast hears from Brian Kasper from Ohio and his wife Lena Thomson from California. Brian and Lena have been at SWIS for two years. Lena is the Head of the EAL department while Brian is a homeroom teacher in Grade 3. We hear about their past experiences in Mozambique and Vietnam. The main topic of conversation is Professional Development. We hear of Brian's latest PD in Bangkok entitled 'Developing Service Learning' and how he plans to implement what he has learnt at SWIS. We also hear about the COETAIL course he is half way through and how he integrates technology at SWIS. Lena is also completing her EAL Certification with Teachers Training Center and she shares this experience with us. Lena also tells us about a recent #PUBPD session they attend in Phuket during the last holiday. Finally, Brian shares with us his experiences with the Captivating International Charity, of which SWIS is one of the main sponsors in Shenzhen. https://captivating.org/meet-our-shenzhen-captivating-team/

JD and Arthur are joined by our Rookie Host Mr Youngman to discuss the SWIS Sports Teams, their sporting heroes and favorite managers! We discover that baldness is the key to managerial success - all the greats are bald....Zidane, Guardiola, Topovic, Hatt, Lill...... An awesome podcast with the boys. Well done JD and Arthur. Great Ambassadors for SWIS. SWIS ROC Radio Listen, Like, Learn --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message

Edwin and Ella discuss their roles within the volleyball and soccer teams, their coaches, ways to improve and their goals for the upcoming season. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message

Scott Hatt, our American Soccer Coach is joined in the studio by Yaqing - Superstar Player from the MS Girls Soccer team. Both of them were in great form as their respective teams were triumphant this week with Yaqing telling us about their epic 6-5 victory over QSI Shenzhen and Scott telling us about the boys teams excellent victories yesterday. As always, Athletics Director, JoshUA Youngman was present keeping an eagle eye over his coaches and players and even adding a word or two when they both forgot the name of the coach of the girl's football team! Sorry Dan! Yaqing and Dan both encouraged more students, teachers and parents to attend the games and maybe Malcolm in Music will be in attendance at the next game with some musicians/drums/trumpets to raise the atmosphere! Josh may even volunteer to become the official SWIS ROCS Team Mascot. Let's hope the teams continue to do well and bring Silverware - or trophies as Scott calls it - back to SWIS IN 2018/2019. Best of Luck to all the sports team

We were honored this morning to have in the SWIS Makerspace Nemanja Topovic, the Superstar Coach from Serbia hoping to lead our soccer teams to glory this year on the green fields of China. He was joined by Devon Moore - High School Volleyball Coach. During the podcast Devon confirmed live on air that his father Ronald Moore (co-coach) is much more fun than him! We knew this already, of course. The boys are very optimistic about the upcoming season and the Athletics Director has already given them a vote of confidence and expects to see them deliver silverware to SWIS. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message

This week on SWIS ROC Radio we are entertained by the Milhollands; two new and very interesting and amusing members of the SWIS Staff. Mori who was born in Israel to American parents moved to the US when she was 14 and has lived in Paris, Brazil, Costa Rica, Australia and now China. Well Greg is from Australia and used to support Carlton but has changed colors to Western Bulldogs. This doesn't sit well with unnamed members of the Drama department! We'll leave it at that! It's all on the show. They tell us about their smooth transition to life in China, their professional background, and goals for the year. It's a very informative podcast. Mark Tymchyna in Singapore gets a extra special shout out as he is missing us. Our good friends at http://www.nogogo.cn get a special shout out for delivering my order earlier than scheduled and sending in another 200 bars for the teachers. Available Monday! Mori and Greg will be signing up for https://www.shenzheneat.com to order their food after learning ab

The returning Majella Dowling just fresh off the boat from Ireland is joined in the SWIS Makerspace by Amanda Shepherd and Kelly Mc Bride who are new members of the SWIS Staff. Amanda and Kelly discuss their transition to life in China and their aspirations for the new year as well as professional growth goals. Summer Holidays are discussed - including a very funny incident involved a lada and a mountain! This is a very light hearted first podcast to the school year and is a good way for people to learn a little bit more about each other. As always - we are always asking for staff to volunteer to present, and take part in podcasts at SWIS ROC Radio - with fellow members of staff or with your students. We hope you enjoy. SWIS ROC RADIO LISTEN, LIKE, LEARN --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message

Due to popular demand from our international audience the enigmatic Joshua Youngman makes his long awaited return to SWIS ROC Radio to discuss the SWIS Athletic Teams and their talented bunch of coaches. In his own words "Coaching a team is a very rewarding experience and we have a great existing group of coaches and wonderful kids" He explains the concept of 'SWIS Pride' even going as far as modeling some of the awesome merchandise on sale to support SWIS ROCS. I have no doubt that the teams under the stewardship of Mr.Youngman will thrive under his astute leadership! Enjoy the Podcast and we can look forward to hearing a lot more of Mr.Youngman as he will be presenting and recording podcasts with members of the sports teams on a regular basis. SWIS ROC RADIO Listen, Like, Learn --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message

Justin Barrett, the MYP Drama Teacher is joined in the studio with Olive, Katrina and Oscar to discuss the upcoming MYP Drama Production which takes place next week at SWIS. A great hosting job by Mr. Barrett....we look forward to the follow up podcast reviewing the production next week. Unfortunately the sound quality was not the best for this podcast. We hope you enjoy the podcast and the performances by the students in 'Murder in the Knife Room' by Jonathan Rand. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message

A Beautiful Mother's Day Podcast including a song from the Grade 2 children at SWIS. Happy Mother's Day to all. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message

In this Unit, the children have been learning about Ancient Chinese Poets and their poetry as well as traditional Chinese culture. In this episode, the G4 boys speak about a number of poets. Well Done Boys. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message

In this Unit, the children have been learning about many Chinese Ancient Poets and their poetry as well as traditional Chinese culture. The G4 girls speak about one of these Chinese Poets. Enjoy the show. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message

Our G4 girls talk about a famous Chinese Poet Xue Tao who lived in 768AD during the Tang Dynasty. They were pretending to be Xue Tao and described what her life may have been like for her. Our very first Podcast in Chinese at SWIS live on SWIS Roc' Radio; A place to Listen, Like and Learn. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message

Vanessa interviews a number of students and teachers in the first part of the show...she is clearly a little nervous! We recorded live while the children were setting up in the Makerspace so it's a little rough around the edges. Part 2 of the show has Deepayan as host and Lion and Ruhi join him. We ran out of time and never got to part 3....! Enjoy the show! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message

Our three new podcasters from G5 confidently speak about the upcoming exhibition on the 25th April. I think you will agree that they did an amazing job in planning, recording and publishing this episode in 40 minutes. Awesome work girls. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message

G5 Students speak about the week they just had at SWIS : Spirit Week included Creativity Day/Book Character Day and several other events which the students discuss. They then discuss the G5 Exhibition. A new presenter this week and 3 students who have never recorded a podcast before. They did a great job. #SWISrocRadio #SWISroc --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message

Mark Tymchyna is joined in the studio by Joanne Anderson. Mark gives a detailed analysis of the last UOI where the G3 classes made excellent use of the SWIS Han's MakerSpace. Click the links to see some videos of their time in the Makerspace. https://blog.seesaw.me/ictintegration/#!/item/item.3cefd392-2004-406d-8e7b-3862bf984b41 https://blog.seesaw.me/ictintegration/#!/item/item.8b449151-e28c-4ab2-8e23-e9e7265ddb46 https://blog.seesaw.me/ictintegration/#!/item/item.4e09be1a-793d-4135-8801-5f93fc081c19 https://blog.seesaw.me/ictintegration/#!/item/item.6d11cc9c-cce7-4a84-ad08-45da959ca3e9 https://blog.seesaw.me/ictintegration/#!/item/item.efe605f8-0544-490b-8c92-9e265b18604e The G3 classes had a great time during the UOI and produced outstanding work. They had a lot of fun in the process especially witnessing the video of Hurricane Leonard (the hurricane that swept through their community destroying it). To conclude Ms.Anderson and Mr.Mark had a brief discussion about the project. SWIS' ROC RAD

Ruhi, our host, speak to Anne and Hannah about the third week of the exhibition. They discuss the role of the Mentor, their feelings at this stage of the process and the opening ceremony of the Exhibition. A great job by the G5 girls this week who as always record their thoughts and ideas unscripted and live on SWIS ROC Radio, a place to Listen, Like and Learn. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eugene-leonard/message