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 2011/2012 Issue No. 05                                                     Friday 4 November 2011  
arrowPrincipal's Message
arrowGreen Power
arrowImportant Dates
arrowWorkshop for Caregivers/Helpers
arrowReceiving a Gift from Legco
arrowP.T.A. News
arrowP.E. News
arrowUpper Phase News
arrowE.S.F. Educational Services


 

PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE

 
Dear Parents,
 
I hope that you will be able to make the official opening of our new library on Thursday night. This is a very special event for us as a school, the development of it has been a two year project.
 
Please accept this as your personal invitation. It would be wonderful to have you there.
   
Yours sincerely,
  
Sandra Webster
Principal  

 

 
GREEN POWER
We are excited about increasing our Bradbury 'GREEN POWER' this year and would like to let you know about our new recycling bins. We have large bins for recycling aluminium cans, waste paper and plastic that are located on the lower ground floor outside Nurse Lauren’s room as well as outside the staff room on the 1st floor. Please encourage your children to use these bins rather than throwing their recyclables into the regular rubbish bins. Between the staff and pupils here, just through snacks and lunches, we accumulate a lot of rubbish over one day, one week, one term, one school year. The good news is that lots of it can be re-used through re-cycling, either by taking it home and re-using or by placing it in our recycling bins- sandwich bags are a good example as lots of us use them  and they can have a very long life if washed and re-used.
 
If you and your children are taking GREEN action at home, we would love to know about it - you can show it through writing, drawing, photographs or any other way and we can share this via our GREEN POWER noticeboard. Please send children to me with anything they would like to put on display. We are proud of our school and our environment here at Bradbury, if we think GREEN, we act GREEN and together we will make a difference. Thanks for your support,
 
Aylish Franklin - Year 1 Teacher
 
 
IMPORTANT DATES
DATE
EVENT
TIME
04 November 2011 (Friday)
Year 5 Atheletics Meet in Causeway Bay Sports Ground
9.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m.
09 November 2011 (Wednesday)
Year 1 Stanley Trip (Date Change)
 
09 November 2011 (Wednesday)
4B/4M to H.K. Wetlands
9.00 a.m.
09 November 2011 (Wednesday)
Year 6 Parents’ Outward Bound Meeting
5.00 p.m.
10 November 2011 (Thursday)
Library Opening For Parents
7.00 p.m. – 8.00 p.m.
10 November 2011 (Thursday)
Year 3 Atheletics Meet in Causeway Bay Sports Ground
9.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m.
14 November 2011 (Monday) –
16 November 2011 (Wednesday)
5HT/5T Camp
All day
16 November 2011 (Wednesday)
Y1 Parent Morning Tea (Date Change)
10.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.
18 November 2011 (Friday)
Deadline of Consent/Refusal forms for Y1 & Y6 Vaccination Forms
3.00 p.m.
23 November 2011 (Wednesday)
Year 4 Parents’ Morning Tea
10.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.
24 November 2011 (Thursday)
Year 1 P.T.A. Pizza Sale
12.00 p.m. – 1.00 p.m.
26 November 2011 (Saturday)
‘Christmas is Coming’ Talent Show
3.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.
28 November 2011 (Monday) –
30 November 2011 (Wednesday)
5A/5B Camp
All day
29 November 2011 (Tuesday)
Y1 & Y6 MMR Vaccinations
All day
02 December 2011 (Friday)
Year 4 Cricket Tournament in Happy Valley
9.30 a.m. – 10.30 a.m.
05 December 2011 (Monday) –
07 December 2011 (Wednesday)
4B/4K Camp
All day
06 December 2011 (Tuesday) –
09 December 2011 (Friday)
Year 6 Camp
All day
07 December 2011 (Wednesday) –
09 December 2011 (Friday)
4S/4M Camp
All day
09 December 2011 ( Friday)
Bradbury School Winter Night Market
5.30 p.m. – 8.30 p.m.
14 December 2011 (Wednesday)
Year 1 Atheletics Meet in Causeway Bay Sports Ground
9.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m.
14 December 2011 (Wednesday)
Year 3 Netball Tournament in School
8.40 a.m. – 10.20 a.m.
15 December 2011 (Thursday)
Year 6 Cricket Tournament in Happy Valley
9.30 a.m. – 10.30 a.m.
15 December 2011 (Thursday)
Year 2 Atheletics Meet in Causeway Bay Sports Ground
9.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m.
16 December 2011 (Friday)
End of Term 1: Last day of Autumn Term 
12.00 noon (early dismissal)
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WORKSHOP FOR CAREGIVERS/HELPERS
We want to offer as much support as we can to assist our students’ learning. To this end, we will be offering a workshop especially aimed at helpers which will focus on supporting reading, looking at strategies and activities, with the view to helping to motivate children to read at home and providing your helper with skills that they can try.
 
If you are interested in your helper attending this reading workshop,  it will be run by myself, Carolyn Andrews, Marilyn Day and Anne Cano-Shearer on Thursday November 17th from 1.30-2.30 pm
 
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Regards.
 
Andy Thums - Year 3 Year Leader
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RECEIVING A GIFT FROM LEGCO
Recently we had two members of Legco, Tania Chan and Audrey Eu, visit Bradbury School. They came to visit my Chinese class. My teacher asked me to recite a poem to them and one of the members, Ms. Audrey Eu was very impressed, so she gave me a calligraphy writing of the poem that she had done. I am really proud to have received it and it is very good.
 
Joshua Wang – 6V Student
P.T.A. NEWS
UPCOMING EVENTS
 
November 26                 Christmas is Coming Talent Show
December 9                   Winter Night Market
 
TALENT SHOW - Get into the Christmas Spirit with some rockin' tunes!  There are some great updated versions of old classics that are in need of your cool moves!  Grab a friend or two and sign-up for the Talent Show!  The last date for applications is November 7.  Do not miss out on this fun event!!  Please see attached flier for more details.  If you have any questions, please contact Judy Stevenson at stevensonhk@netvigator.com.
 
WE NEED YOUR HELP
Items needed for the Winter Night Market!  
  • Prizes for the Tombola - bottles of wine or spirits or any new gift items (for adults or children)
  • Used books
  • Any parent who works for or who has a connection with a toy manufacturer - we would love to have a new toy stall for the children to spend their pocket money!!
Please drop off any items to the PTA Shop!!
 
International Food Fair for the Winter Night Market - please contact Ninin Francis (simonandninin@mac.com) if you are interested in being a part of the International Food Fair!  We are looking for volunteers to coordinate food for the many cultures represented here in Bradbury School:  Chinese, Southeast Asian, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, British, Australian, and Italian.  There is not a better way to meet people, have fun and raise money for our school!!
 
Cassie Jullienne - PTA Chairperson
 
Cassie Jullienne
jullienne@me.com
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YEAR 1 PIZZA SALE

The Year 1 Pizza sale will be held on Thursday 24 November.  Pizza will be sold during lunchtime at $15 per piece. The Year 1 parents have kindly agreed to sell these to all students (Y1-Y6), so please consider letting your child/children bring some money to school that day.

VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED:If anyone is available and willing to assist between 11:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. that day, please do not hesitate to call me at 2893 2256 Thank you for your attention!
 
GREEN TEAM REMINDER: To reduce the use of paper plates, please bring your own re-usable container.
 
Lin Gong
PTA Administrator
 
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WINTER UNIFORM
 
The P.T.A. Shop will start to sell winter uniform on 9 November 2011. The winter uniform order form is attached. 
 
Lin Gong – P.T.A. Shop
P.E. NEWS
Curriculum P.E.
 
This week marks the end of the Years 4, 5 and 6 athletics, or track and field units of work. Hopefully some of you had a chance to attend the athletics meets. Photos of each of these meets and a list of the winners can be found on the P.E. page of The Buzz. These children are now moving on to their outdoor and adventurous unit. This unit focuses on teamwork and the work that is covered here will be continued throughout their various camps.
 
Year 3 have their athletic meet next week, I hope to see some of you at that. Once again the photographs and results will be on The Buzz. Year 3 will then move onto their Karate unit with Heyton Tze. Years 1 and 2 will continue with their athletics units of work until the end of term
 
After School Activities
 
Once again may I remind you that although after school activities are outside of school hours we do expect a certain level of commitment. The sign up period is for the term. During these sessions teachers are both training teams for inter school matches and we have a number of other schools come to play us during these sessions. Both our staff and staff at other schools put a lot of effort into the organisation of these events. It is very frustrating for the staff involved and for the children who are present to have to waste a considerable portion of the session rearranging teams and the way the afternoon will run. On Tuesday alone we were missing 6 children from soccer who were in school that day, none of whom had informed anyone that they would not be attending. This meant we were a complete team short for the competition we had arranged against Carmel School that evening.
 
As the famous phrase points out 'there is no 'I' in team'. A sense of responsibility and commitment are things that we should be teaching our children as life skills. Games activities are ideal ways to do this.
 
Marie Farry – P.E. Leader
UPPER PHASE NEWS
Upper school student council

Recently, students in years five and six voted in their two class nominated student councillors. I am very happy to announce the students voted in were:

Aran Garreta Cutrina
5A
Feike Coppens
5A
Jonathan Yeung
5B
Charlotte Goldman
5B
Lily O’Reilly
5HT
Louie Langston
5B
Charlotte bird
5T
Nell Zarrella
5T
Shawn Simon
6H
Izzy Watts
6H
Jinna Lee
6S
Zaheu Jacota
6S
Justin Mak
6T
Cindy Kim
6T
Aiden Soo
6V
Isabella Schonfeldt
6V

Our fantastically enthusiastic student council has already started some great work around the school. Last week we travelled around the playgrounds at break time and identified areas that they would like to develop. Some of these included more lost property bins; nominating benches as 'Friendship Areas' for anyone to meet at, who would like to meet new friends to play with; posters reminding and explaining to students about our guiding statements including the school vision and mission and our rules of respect and also signs reminding students to leave spiders alone! 

Congratulations to the student council on a great start and don't forget that if your child has some ideas about how we can continue to make Bradbury school a fantastic place to be, and they are not a student councillor, they can discuss these ideas with their class representatives and the council will see what they can do!

Upper School Camps

Camp season is well and truly upon us! This beautiful weather is helping to further enthuse our already over excited students and staff in looking forward to our upcoming camp experiences!

5HT and 5T go to their water sports and outdoor activities camp on the 14th November and 5A and 5B will attend the same camp on the 28th November.

Year 6 will be travelling up to Outward Bound in Sai Kung on the 6th December to experience many exciting and adventurous activities.

All of these camps continue to build upon the experiences that we give our students at school including team building activities, working cooperatively, self management skills and, of course enjoying our learning in a variety of exciting and stimulating ways.

We hope that both sets of parents have received their emailed invitations to the information sessions about these camps. The Year 5 information session will be held between 4:30pm and 5pm and the Outward Bound presentation will be at 5:30pm. Both of these information sessions will be held in the school hall.
 
Steve Fennelly – Upper Phase Leader
E.S.F. EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
 TIME TO HIT THE COURTS!
Fantastic fun was had by the ESF tennis campers that joined the ATA ESF coaching team at South Island School last week for the mid term break. For those that missed this opportunity the next tennis camps will take place during the Christmas holidays at South Island School and KGV. 
It's now perfect weather for tennis.... so if you are interested in registering your son or daughter into the after school or weekend tennis programme at your school please visit www.esf.org.hk or contact the office on tel: 2711 1280.
 
Bradbury School | 43C Stubbs Road, Hong Kong