A gentle reminder that Term 3 finishes at 12:00 noon on Friday, 17 December.

A reminder to all our families - there are a few key communication tools we use in school to share what is happening in our Nexus community. Please ensure you have connected to these tools:

Facebook Page (click here) - a space where we celebrate all that is happening in the Nexus community.

Parent Zone (click here) - a one-stop source to find all the key information you need about life at Nexus. For example, you can view the school calendar and find out more about our CCA, Music and Sport programmes.

SeeSaw App - we offer a ‘window into the classroom’ via the SeeSaw App. This is the regular ongoing communication method we will use to share news and home learning from your child's class. If you need some help to set up the app, please email our IT team.

Every class in our Primary School has a WhatsApp Group. These groups will allow you to build friendships between families in each class. For further information on the WhatsApp Groups, please contact Learner Services: learnerservices@nexus.edu.sg

And of course, our fortnightly Newsletters are always full of exciting news. The front page has our 'live' calendar displayed and there is also a range of other sections to look out for.

During these extraordinary times, we understand that some learners may be prohibited from joining us on-site in school due to enforced Stay Home Notices (SHNs) or chronic medical conditions that dictate that they cannot safely mix with the general public. At the start of Term 1, we created an Off Campus Learning (OCL) programme for such learners. The programme, administered by Steve Gallego, utilises special OCL SeeSaw groups to provide daily activities to learners that are designed to achieve similar objectives to those that the learners on-site are covering.

Learners are able to submit work online, which is duly assessed and feedback is then provided via SeeSaw. From time to time, live lessons are organised according to need. If your child is absent due to an enforced SHN or chronic illness, please advise Learner Services who will make arrangements for your child to be added to the programme.

We also note that there may be other learners absent due to concerns about the current COVID infection rate, or because they are serving SHNs at home or in a hotel after returning from abroad. While the school strictly follows all current safety protocols and has been deemed safe, and while we do not authorise absence for holidays or family visits during term time, we do acknowledge that these are extraordinary moments.

We have prepared a special resource pack for families that elect to keep their children at home, or elect to travel during this period and may/may not need to quarantine on return. If your child will be absent in such circumstances, please inform Learner Services in advance and the pack can be provided.

We still have learners whose SafeEntry tokens are not working. Please check the token is still working by looking to see if a light flashes every minute. If the token does not have a light, you can exchange it for a working one via a vending machine at most Community Centres. The school's safe-entry check-in process is significantly delayed when we are unable to use Bluetooth technology with tokens.

With the end of Semester 1 fast approaching, we are organising the usual lost and found display with the large number of unnamed items we have collected this term.

From Monday 29th November lunchtime:

Water bottles, caps, uniforms, clothes, swim bags, pencil cases and similar items will be displayed on the Level 2 walkway, near the Grand Staircase just outside the Aquatics Gym. The items will be on display until the last day of term, Friday 17th December.

Valuable items (EZ-link cards, air pods, jewelry, watches, glasses, calculators, keyboards, to name just a few!) will be kept safe at Learner Services. If you think you have lost something valuable, please contact us at Learner Services and/or come and check with us if your lost item is there.

May we take this opportunity to remind you to name every item, so that we can easily track their owner.

EZ-link cards

We have a large number of unclaimed and unnamed cards (currently about 30!). We advise you to register your child/ward’s EZ link card with the dedicated app. This will allow you to block the card in case it is lost, view all transactions and provide us with the card number to identify it among the ones we have in the lost and found. You can see more information on the app at the following link: https://www.ezlink.com.sg/ezlinkapp/

As many learners hold similar cards (same image/decoration), we will not be able to return cards based only on the image and from now on, we will require you to submit the card number for verification. This is to avoid giving a learner a card that might belong to someone else.

We hope we can reunite as many items as possible with their rightful owners!

Please note that we will dispose or donate to charity anything that hasn’t been claimed by the last day of term.