Bradbury Newsletter 24 March 2017
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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE |
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Dear Parents, Greetings to our Bradbury School Community! What a fantastic week we have had here at Bradbury School. We started it off with a very valuable CPD day for staff looking at how to develop resilience in our students and a culture of ‘failing well.’ Many thanks to the parents who attended the evening session. Your feedback was so positive that I have invited Lance King back to Bradbury next year to run another parent evening. We have finished the week with an amazing assembly from 4T and 4FP, taking us on a journey of their learning around living a healthy lifestyle…and relating it all to Newton’s law of universal gravitation! In between, Monday and Friday, each class has been active and engaged in a whole variety of learning activities that are engaging and motivating. Well done everyone. Next week, we farewell Mr. Stephen Wong, who leaves us to take up family duties. Mr. Wong has been an extremely diligent and committed teacher. Stephen, thank you for all that you have done for Bradbury students and we wish you all the very best. Sandra Webster Principal |
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BOOK WEEK CELEBRATIONS |
| Book week at Bradbury School has actually been “Book fortnight”, as classes across the school are involved in a range of activities to celebrate and build a love of books right up to our Easter break. Spreading our celebrations out in this way has allowed teachers to plan activities and engagements that suit the students in their particular Year level and link to other relevant learning. We started our week off with a visit from the author Chris White this Tuesday. Chris was certainly entertaining, and his hilarious stories, readings of poems and clever illustrations had students laughing long and loud. If your child is in Years 1- 5, do ask them about his visit. We also had a return visit from Gail Clarke, a local author, visiting with Years 1 and 2 and sharing some of her recent books with us. Over the two weeks we are also running a number of story readings at morning tea breaks and lunchtimes in the library with various ‘famous’ members of staff taking turns to be the storyteller. We also have a wonderful “Reading Throne” being set up in the PTA room, which classes will visit with their teachers to hear yet more wonderful stories. Here are some other activities that our different year levels are involved in as part of our celebrations:
As you can see there are many and varied happenings. You might like to help your students further celebrate at home – find a book to share together and enjoy!
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LIBRARY NEWS : BOOK WEEK UPDATE |
CHRIS WHITE Chris White visited us on Tuesday 21 March. He gave four very dynamic and energetic performances of his poetry and how he illustrates. With a lot of audience participation, the students certainly had a fun-filled 45 minutes!
For more information on Chris White visit: Veggievampire.com
GAIL CLARKE Gail visited Year One on Thursday 23 March. She read her stories and shared information with the students about life as an author. The children loved the puppets she used to tell her stories. Gail will be back in next week with Year Two.
SHELFIES We have been asking children to take photos of themselves next to their bookshelf or a collection of books as we would like to make a gallery in the library. Email your child’s ‘shelfie’ to me at: The closing date for Shelfies is after the Easter holiday on Friday 28 March.
READING IN UNUSUAL PLACES Over the holiday we would like children to have a photo taken of themselves reading in an unusual place – under the bed, on top of the Macau Tower, sitting on playground apparatus etc. Email the photo to Mrs Thompson (include full name and class) jane.thompson@bradbury.edu.hk . or bring a printed copy into the library. The closing date for Reading in Unusual Places is Friday 28 March.
We are looking for parents who would be willing to come in at lunchtimes to read and share stories with students in their mother-tongue. If you’d like to volunteer then please email me and we can arrange a suitable time for you to come in. This week teachers have been visiting the library at break times to read to the students from their favourite books. The children have thoroughly enjoyed this storytime, spending their break in a different way. |
| HONG KONG YOUNG WRITERS AWARDS |
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Congratulations to Aiden Yeoh from 2T for winning an award in this year’s Hong Kong Young Writers competition. He is pictured here with his teacher, Ms Truman, at the award ceremony.
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| REGISTRATION FOR EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES TERM 3 |
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Registration for Extra-Curricular Activities in Term 3 will open on Gateway on Monday 27 March 2017. These activities are exclusively available for students from Year 3 to Year 6. The registration system will be open until 17 April 2017. Following this, you should log onto Gateway from 18 April 2017 in order to answer any e-Notices confirming that your child has been accepted onto the activity. Please note that registration for activities will not be successful until you have responded to the e-Notice and paid for the activity (where applicable). Thank you. John Ainsworth – Vice Principal |
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So far the response has been awesome from all Bradbury families. So far we have managed to get over 1450 packs which is absolutely tremendous. Next Friday will be the deadline for the cheques as we then need to submit the order. As we enter our final week we are still appealing for as much assistance as possible as we try to reach our goal of 3000 packs by 28 April 2017. If parents still want to donate a cheque (titled to ‘Bradbury School’) for $67 will enable us to purchase one pack. Should you wish to participate, please submit to your child’s class teacher. If parents prefer to continue purchasing in store the following brands and sizes have been amended to make this process easier:
Thanks in advance for your tremendous support. Our whole school Action Day, is scheduled for Friday, 28 of April. On this day we will have a variety of events happening, as well as packing food bags with Sunshine Action for some of Hong Kong’s most needy and vulnerable. On the day, up to 3000 food bags will be packed by student and parent volunteers. 8:15- 9:00am – Assist with set up of tables for packing. 9-10am We will be coordinating and packing food bags with student volunteers 10:30-12pm we will also be continuing with this process. From 1pm we will be loading the packed goods for dispatching. We will need a significant amount of parent volunteers to assist with all aspects of the set-up, packing, loading and tidying up at the end of the day. Please wear comfortable clothing and shoes as there will be some lifting involved. If you are able to volunteer to work with the students on this please contact Ms Fritzi in the office to register your name and time. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Clayton Heggie – Year 5 Teacher |
| HIKE FOR HUNGER PICTURES | |
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Parents, students and staff participated in the Sunshine Action Hike for Hunger on Sunday 12 March. Bradbury raised $7,800 for minority children and helped to raise awareness of disadvantaged and marginalised children’s needs. Thanks to all the families that helped make this Bradbury Community event a success
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| MINDFULNESS EXTRA CURRICULA ACTIVITY, TERM 3 | |
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At Bradbury, we support not just our students’ academic needs, but also their emotional and social needs. Mindfulness is an experience-orientated training that brings about awareness from within rather than from correcting behaviour through external guidance. Practicing automatically changes behaviour, not immediately but little by little, over many months and years. Just like learning to play a musical instrument it takes time and there is always more to learn about oneself!
What do the children learn? · To concentrate and notice when they are not concentrating
There will be a mindfulness Extra Curricula Activity next term for students of Years 5 and 6. We’ll use the well researched method developed by the Academy for Mindful Teaching, popularly known as Sitting Still Like A Frog.
Carol Farrington – P.S.E. Leader/Year 5 Teacher |
| H.K. FLOWER SHOW DRAWING COMPETITION 2017 | |
| Congratulations to Kirsty Donovan, a Year 5 student and Praise Lo, Year 1 student for being 2nd runner up and Certificate of Merit awardees respectively in the recent H.K. Flower Show 2017. Amanda Bremner – P.Y.P. Co-ordinator |
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| P.T.A. NEWS | |
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SAUSAGE SIZZLE IT IS SAUSAGE SIZZLE TIME AGAIN!! Order forms will be sent home in your child’s diary today. Sausages are $30 each and a vegetarian option will be available. Please return your competed form and payment to your class teacher by Friday 31 March. We need lots of VOLUNTEERS for the morning of the Sausage Sizzle to help with the cooking and delivering of sausages to the classrooms. If you can spare any time during the morning please email the PTA at PTA@Bradbury.edu.hk or contact your Class Parent. A BIG thank you in advance for those of you that can help. This would not be possible without you!!
YEARBOOK COVER COMPETITION As always, if you have any comments, ideas or suggestions for events or spending plans, or if you are interested in joining the PTA committee pleaseemail pta@bradbury.edu.hk. Julia Dunn – P.T.A. Chairperson Email: pta@bradbury.edu.hk. Website: https://www.bradbury.edu.hk/pta-2/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BradburyschoolPTA/ ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Sausage Sizzle – Thursday 27 April 2017 Delicious good quality sausages, grilled on the BBQ and wrapped in fresh bread delivered to your classroom. Childs Name ___________________________________ Class ________ Number of Sausages (pork) _______ x $30 = ____________ Number of vegetarian sausages _______ x $30 = ____________ CASH payment only – No coins or Cheques please. Please return order form and money to your class teacher by Friday 31 March. No plates provided so please bring your own on the day of the sizzle. ★★★★★★VOLUNTEERS NEEDED PLEASE!!★★★★★★ If you can help to cook or deliver to classrooms please contact the PTA Tel: 28932256 email: pta@bradbury.edu.hk |
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| THIRD PARTY AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES | |
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The following companies are currently hiring our facilities to provide extra curricular activities for students. You may browse the school website under “LIFE AT BRADBURY” for their programs and enrol your child directly to the company: ESF Educational Services Ltd. – Language and Sports Programme, contact Candy Leung at 2760 3900 or cleung@esf.org.hk website: www.esf.org.hk Smart Kiddo Education Ltd. – Easter Camp: Coding for Smart Robots & hands-on experience with physics, A.I. and more , contact Emma Luk at 2399 0117 or emma.luk@smart-kiddo.com website: www.smart-kiddo.com/courses/Bradbury Adventure Sports Academy Ltd. – Soccer & Basketball Training, contact Eilis Cheung at 3998 4042 or info@adventuresportsacademy.com website: www.adventuresportsacademy.com Backershagen B.V. (LanguageOne) – Global Mother Tongue Education, contact Leandra Lok at 5501 5262 or leandra.lok@languageone.nl website: www.languageone.nl website: www.sport4kids.hk facebook: @sport4kids.hk N.B. Bradbury School is not responsible for the quality and safety of programmes offered by third parties. However, please note that all hirers are required to provide third party liability insurance. Parents are urged to take steps to ensure that they are satisfied with any and all aspects of the after school programme(s) they elect to opt in to. |
