25 Jan 2019

BRADBURY NEWSLETTER – 25 January 2019

Greetings to our Bradbury School community
致白普理學校家長

As you would all be aware, there have been some closures of kindergartens due to influenza this past week. Can I please urge you all to talk to your children about ways to keep themselves safe while at school:

· Wash hands before eating
· Wash hands after using the toilet
· Use a tissue to blow their nose into and dispose of
· Use a tissue to sneeze into and dispose of
· Keep their hands away from their face as much as possible.

If your child has any influenza like symptoms, please keep them at home and inform school. Nurse Lauren has provided you with further information on this topic in this newsletter.

In order to support these precautionary measures, please provide your child with plenty of tissues. If you wish, your child may wear a face mask. Please provide them with at least two mask changes for during the day and a plastic bag to dispose of used masks into and take home.

We are looking forward to welcoming in the Year of the Pig with our annual Lion Dance next Thursday. All members of our school community are warmly invited to attend. You are also welcome to attend our CNY celebrations of Friday, the details of which are later in this newsletter.

All the best to the runners participating in the ESF Hong Kong Run this Saturday at the Science Park.

Kung Hei Fat Choi 恭喜發財

Sincerely,

Sandra Webster
Principal

Important Dates

N.B. Dates and Activities may change from time to time. Please check the online calendar for the weekly updates on www.bradbury.edu.hk calendar. Thank you.

DATE	EVENT	TIME
25 January 2019 (Friday)	Year 3DB/3S Trip to ICC	9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
26 January 2019 (Saturday)	E.S.F. RUN	8:30 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.
31 January 2019 (Thursday)	Lion Dance	9:30 a.m.
01 February 2019 (Friday)	Chinese New Year Celebrations	9:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M.
04 February 2019 (Monday) – 08 February 2019 (Friday)	Chinese New Year Holidays (No Classes)	——
21 February 2019 (Thursday)	Year 3 Cake Sale	10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
26 February 2019 (Tuesday)	Year 4 Sports Day
05 March 2019 (Tuesday)	Parent Consultations 1	3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
13 March 2019 (Wednesday)	Parent Consultations 2	3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
15 March 2019 (Friday)	CPD Day (No Classes)	—-
21 March 2019 (Thursday)	Year 2 Cake Sale	10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
22 March 2019 (Friday)	Year 5 Macau Trip (Group 1 )
28 March 2019 (Thursday)	Feeding People in Need	TBC
29 March 2019 (Friday)	Year 5 Macau Trip (Group 2)
04 April 2019 (Thursday)	ESF Primary Choral Concert	7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
09 April 2019 (Tuesday)	Year 6 P.Y.P EXHIBITION
12 April 2019 (Friday)	Spring Term Ends (12:00 noon dismissal)	12:00 noon
15 April 2019 (Monday) – 26 April 2019 (Friday) – inclusive	Easter Break Holidays – No classes	—–
29 April 2019 (Monday)	School Resumes	8;30 a.m.

2018 Chen Xi Young Poet Competition

By Jenny Chen, Head of Chinese Department

Congratulations to Haruki Obata (5T) on winning the Excellent Poet in the 2018 Chen Xi Young Poet Competition (2018“晨曦杯”全国少年儿童诗歌大赛), which was held in China recently.

Haruki is the only winner from Hong Kong.

黑夜
月亮照进房间，
影子在跳舞。
我在床上发抖，
一个看着像怪兽，
一个看着像恐龙。
我悄悄跳下床，
开了灯，
原来是玩具怪兽和玩具恐龙。

作者：春树（9岁)
参赛组别：小学组
学校：香港白普理小学

Precautions Around Influenza

By Lauren Lau, Health Care Professional

If your child has any influenza like symptoms, please keep them at home and inform school.

COLD/FLU Symptoms consists of:

· Fever, 37.6 or Above
· Sore throat/ Itchy throat
· Dry Cough
· Runny Stuffy Nose/ Nasal Congestion
· Child states feeling unwell/ tired.

When your child does contract cold/flu symptoms :

· Try to avoid antibiotics, as it does not cure the cold/ flu symptoms
· If child has a fever, let them rest at home till their fever is reduced, and take them to see a medical doctor.
· If symptoms prolong more than 7 days, take your child to the doctor.

Prevention of Cold/Flu:

· Educate the child to frequently wash their hands.
· Educate child to cover their nose and mouth, when they need to sneeze or cough.
· Try to avoid taking children to overcrowding places.
· Provide a healthy nutrition for the children.
· Educate children to have a regular exercise regime.

In order to support these precautionary measures, please provide your child with plenty of tissues. Again, as a precautionary measure, you may choose to provide your child with a face mask to wear at school. Should you make this choice please provide your child with at least two mask changes for during the day and a plastic bag to dispose of used masks at home.

Chinese New Year Celebration

By Jenny Chen, Head of Chinese Department

Dear Parents,

With Chinese New Year just around the corner, we would like to let you know about the celebratory activities that the children will participate in at school. The children have been learning about Chinese culture, particularly the customs and practices relevant to the celebration of Chinese New Year.

The Lion Dance will be at 9am on Thursday, 31 January this year. On Friday morning (9am – 12pm),1st February, all students are invited to come to school in Chinese outfits.( This is an optional choice and children are also able to wear their regular school uniform if preferred). On the day they will join in a range of activities including: making sticky rice balls, face painting and dragon dancing , to name a few! These activities will give the children a ‘hands-on’ experience of Chinese culture and help them to have a better understanding of the customs of the people in their environment. If your child has any food allergies, please contact me in advance before next Friday at jenny.chen@bradbury.edu.hk.

All parents are invited to join both events. Thanks to those parents who have volunteered to help us on Friday. Your time is much appreciated.

We would like to thank you for your continuous support. We wish all of you a healthy and prosperous Year of the Pig!

尊敬的各位家长：　

学校将于２０１９年１月３１日星期四上午九点进行一年一度的舞狮表演，２月１日星期五上午９点至１２点举行新春庆祝活动。我们为全校师生安排了包汤圆、画脸等活动。如果您的孩子有过敏等问题，请在下周五之前与我联系jenny.chen@bradbury.edu.hk。活动当天，学生可以穿唐装或校服上学。我们欢迎家长前来观赏舞狮，参与庆祝活动。

感谢星期五能来帮忙的家长，谢谢你们从百忙之中抽出宝贵的时间，为我们的庆祝活动贡献一臂之力。

我们希望通过对传统节日的系统学习，学生会对中国文化及风俗有更深刻的认识和了解。

最后，祝大家新春快乐，猪年吉祥，万事如意，心想事成！

Preparing for Action Day 2019

By Carol Farrington – Action Coordinator and Amanda Bremner – PYP Leader

This year we will, once again, have a whole school Action Day to celebrate and share the integration of action within our students’ learning experiences. Action Learning is the acquisition of the knowledge, skills and
attitudes that empower us to be socially responsible citizens, and to take authentic, sustainable action within the local and global community in order to make a difference to the world around us.

The 2019 Action Day is scheduled for the Friday the 3rd May. On this day there will be a variety of events happening, including packing bags of food. These will be distributed to some of Hong Kong’s most needy and vulnerable people with the assistance of the charity Sunshine Action. Our aim is that our students and parent volunteers will pack 4,000 of each item into food packs.

The food items we are collecting this year are:

Honey
Nutritious drinks
Cooking oil
Canned food with a RING PULL for opening, e.g. fish, meat, corn, beans, vegetables, etc.

To date the totals collected are:

HONEY	COLLECTED: 44	TARGET: 4,000
NUTRITIOUS DRINKS	COLLECTED: 40	TARGET: 4,000
COOKING OIL	COLLECTED: 35	TARGET: 4,000
CANNED FOOD	COLLECTED: 75	TARGET: 4,000

Each class has a target number that they are working towards collecting so the students can take the food items to their classroom and increase their class total!

We will keep you informed of the progress towards our goal as we move closer to our special day of action.

We’re off to a Great Start! Students have begun to bring in food items for donation but it’s just the beginning. Please keep up the good work!!

Library News

By Jane Thompson, Librarian Teacher, and Connie Leung, Librarian Assistant

READING IN UNUSUAL PLACES: REMINDER

Don’t forget that we are running the Reading in Unusual Places competition again this year. We thought we would give the students plenty of notice so they can submit photos taken during the Christmas break or Chinese New Year Holiday. The competition opened on Monday January 7th and will close on Friday 15th March. The three winners will have their photos published in the Bradbury School Yearbook. All entries will be displayed in a photo gallery in the library. Please note that you can only submit one photo per student. We recommend that you do not alter the image in any away e.g. cropping or re-sizing. If you are sending the photo from an iphone then select ‘original’ on the size options drop down menu. We will endeavour to acknowledge your entry via return email. Please check if you don’t receive this email.

Email entries to me at jane.thompson@bradbury.edu.hk.

P.T.A. News

By Kelly Xu, P.T.A. Chairperson, and Lin Gong, Bradbury School P.T.A. Limited

Thank you for all the parents and staff support in the past few months. We had some great PTA events and activities. The PTA are supporting the Artist on Resident Program and Move For Life which will begin this term. The PTA Committee is also looking into a number of exciting upgrading options around the school and all students and staff will benefit from them. Also the PTA has step up and put into special measures to minimize the use of plastic for PTA events/activities.

Upcoming events:
Year 3 Cake Sale on February 21, 2019
Year 2 Cake Sale on March 21, 2019
Sausage Sizzle on May 16, 2019
Year 1 Cake Sale on May 30, 2019

* The PTA Committee has two vacancies open. Parents who are interested to join the PTA committee as a member, please contact PTA at pta@bradbury.edu.hk

Environmental/Sustainability Expert

By Amanda Bremner, PYP Coordinator

WANTED!

A parent or member of the Bradbury School Community with expertise in Greening, Sustainability or Environmental knowledge to help lead the school forward in their efforts to become a green school.

Please contact Ms. Fritzi in the school office if this is something you are interested in helping us coordinate.

Third-Party Organised After School Activities

Dear Parents,

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 enroll your child directly to the company:

ESF Sports, contact 2711 1280 or sports@esf.org.hk website: www.esf.org.hk

Soccer & Basketball Training – Adventure Sports Academy Ltd, contact Eilis Cheung at 3998 4042 or info@adventuresportsacademy.com website: www.adventuresportsacademy.com

Fabric Art, Fabric Design, Crafting & Creative Sewing – Alifya Kasubhai, contact at 9281 5290 or contact@fabricart-hk.com website: www.fabricart-hk.com

Sanskriti/Hindi Language Class – Brilliant Learning International Ltd., contact Geetanjali Dhar at 3563 4300 or info@sanskritiglobal.org website: www.sanskritiglobal.org

Singing, Acting, Dancing – Ballet, Jazz, Tap Dance – CentreStage Studios HK Ltd., contact Imogen Taylor or Kaijah Bell at 5236 7960 or 2689 2272 or admin@centrestagestudioshk.com website: www.centrestagestudioshk.com

Chess Class & Camp – HoYinPingChess, contact Yin Ping Ho at 9215 2682 or hoyinpingchess@gmail.com website: www.hoyinpingchess.com/index/lesson.html / www.hoyinpingchess.com/index/camp.html

Swedish Language and Culture – Swedish Cultural Society, contact Linda at 9316-6599 or
svenskaskolanhongkong@hotmail.com Website: www.svenskaskolan.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.