Bradbury Newsletter 18th March 2016
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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE |
| Dear Parents
Greetings to you all! Wow, just one read of the newsletter shows what a busy place Bradbury has been over the last couple of weeks! It is great to see such a diversity in learning opportunities for our students. Many thanks to the parents who attended our Maths parent evenings. It was wonderful to have such a strong turn out and I trust that the information was of value to you in terms of understanding the ‘big picture’ of maths, the shift towards a conceptual approach to maths teaching, how problem solving and challenge supports this and how it looks at Bradbury School. Staff also had a valuable CPD last Friday with Professor Sullivan and we are looking forward to working with him again next year. Professor Sullivan’s presentation is now on the homepage of our website. My best to you all.
Sandra Webster Principal |
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BRADBURY YEAR 6 EXHIBITION 2016 |
| Dear School Community,
You are all invited to the Year 6 Exhibition next week. There will be scheduled dances happening in the gym throughout the day, a photographic exhibition in the P.T.A. room, and art installation on tele-tubby land. Amanda Bremner – P.Y.P. Co-ordinator |
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YEAR 2 UNIT OF INQUIRY: SPACES |
| We have been learning about the purpose and features of different spaces and how they change depending on their use, size and location. This week Year 2 went to Hillside Kindergarten. We were looking at how spaces are used and created. The children visited the kindergarten’s classrooms and play areas to make comparisons with a different school setting. The Year 2 teams took lots of notes and observations as they walked around Hillside and discovered interesting spaces, particularly the indoor sandpit!
We are looking forward to our excursion to Victoria Park this week to find out about outdoor spaces and how they are different to our school and homes. Well done to our Year 2 Inquirers! Tom Flaherty – Year 2 Teacher |
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YEAR 4 UNIT OF INQUIRY : BODY SYSTEMS |
| Year 4 students recently shared their learning about Body Systems with their parents and the community. As part of this integrated unit, the students have been learning about measurement in Maths, heart rates, taking pulses and fitness in P.E and how all the body systems function as part of a transdisciplinary science unit. |
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YEAR 4 LOST PROPERTY ACTION |
| 4H students would like to remind parents and students to ensure uniforms are named.
Over the past weeks, 4H have been sorting out the overflowing lost property bins. Over 200 items were in the bins with a majority of the items being clothes. Any named items have been returned and those without names have been washed by the 4H students and given to the PTA for secondhand sales. Older school uniforms and non-school uniform clothing was donated to charity. Ashlye was inspired to bring her old uniforms from home and donate them to the PTA for secondhand sales. “It would be easier to return lost property, if the current class was also written next to the name,” Lewi Cohen “In Maths, we worked out the cost of the unnamed clothing when it was purchased. The total was $6700,” Emma Song. “The total cost of the fleece jackets new, would be $3090,” Dakshita Kanchhal. “It took 6 loads of washing to clean all the clothes!” Adam Au. “Maybe other students have school uniforms they could donate to the PTA?” Ashlye Lo. Chris Harris – 4H Teacher |
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YEAR 6 ACTION DAY |
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Year 6 students recently held an Action Day to help raise awareness of local issues as part of the Year 6 Exhibition. Bradbury students came dressed in casual clothing and the students designed and sold various products to help raise funds for Hong Kong charities and NGO’s. The students raised $71,263.70 dollars which will be donated to charities, NGO’s or put towards buying something requested by an NGO e.g life jackets for plastic free seas, food for Christian Action. Amanda Bremner – P.Y.P. Co-ordinator |
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REFUGEE WALK – YEAR 6 EXHIBITION |
| This week, Year 6 exhibition students visited the home of a refugee leaving here in Hong Kong. The students had prepared a series of questions to ask him and had raised money to buy some Park and Shop vouchers which were donated on the day.
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LIVING LAMMA |
| Year 6 students had a visit from the NGO Living Lamma who spoke to them about reducing waste, causes of waste and possible actions they could take to help this issue here in Hong Kong.
Amanda Bremner – P.Y.P. Co-ordinator |
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DOMESTIC HELPERS MORNING TEA |
| Some Year 6 Exhibition students are inquiring into Helper Rights. The students decided to host a morning tea at school to celebrate all the great things helpers do for families in our school. They organised a variety of fun games, provided morning tea and showed a video montage of the students thoughts and feelings about their helpers and the work they do.
Amanda Bremner – P.Y.P. Co-ordinator |
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AUTHOR NOBLEMAN VISITS SCHOOL |
| As part of our Literacy Week Bradbury was delighted to welcome Marc Tyler Nobleman to school. Marc is a non-fiction author who recently has been specialising in writing graphic novels. He captured the children’s imagination showing them how important and exciting in depth research is when writing this type of book. The children were full of questions afterwards with some being inspired to write their own stories!
Sue Bousfield – Teacher Librarian |
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P.T.A. NEWS |
| “A Memento of Your Child’s Year”
Dear Parents, The PTA, with support from the School, will produce a Bradbury School 2015-2016 Year Book. The Year Book is a beautiful memento of the school year and records the variety of activities your child has and will continue to experience at Bradbury school. The book will be predominantly a colour publication in A4 size. It will feature photographs and pictures with a contribution from every class in the School. The book is due for release in June 2016. Each of our Bradbury families will receive their first copy of our Year Book for free. If you would like to have any extra copy, please complete the form below and return it to your class teacher by Friday, 29th April 2016 so that the print run can be arranged. The cost of each extra copy of our Year Book is HK$150. BRADBURY SCHOOL YEAR BOOK ORDER (2015-2016)
NAME OF CHILD: CLASS:
I would like to order ___ extra copy/copies of the Bradbury School 2015-2016 Year Book at HK$150 for each copy.
I enclose a cheque made payable to “Bradbury School PTA Limited” for HK$ .
Name of Parent: Signed:
PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM & CHEQUE TO YOUR CHILD’S CLASS TEACHER BY Friday, 29th April 2016.
Thank you Bradbury School PTA |
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FOOD PACKAGING AND DISTRIBUTION |
| Sunshine Action will be packing and distributing food for Mothers and Fathers Day as well as the Dragon Boat Festival and Buddha’s Birthday. We hope to have some Bradbury school families/staff involved in this event. Please find the details below;
When: Saturday 7 May (Packing) Saturday 14 May (Distributing) Families/staff can opt to do one or both events Where: Wong Wan Tin College Shatin Time: 8.50am to 1.00pm
We will be doing a collection for tinned fruit and vegetables to take to this event closer to the time. If you are interested in participating, please let Ms. Fritzi know in the office and more details will be sent out closer to the time.
FEEDING PEOPLE IN NEED Our next Sunshine Action community feed is Monday the 30 May and this will again be held in Nam Cheong from 6 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. If you are interested in joining this event, please also let Ms. Fritzi know. Amanda Bremner – P.Y.P. Co-ordinator |
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CHINESE READING RESOURCES – MANDARIN MATRIX (P3 PUBLISHER) |
| Over the past few years, ESF Center have sponsored an online Chinese reading program for students at Bradbury School. However, the program stopped this year due to the cease of central funding and we decided, because of a relatively low pick up rate and high costs, that funding it ourselves was not a feasible option. Thinking that some parents might find this programme to be a useful tool to support your child’s Mandarin, especially if you are not a Mandarin speaker, P3 publisher will come to school on 19 April 2016 at 5:00pm to offer you more details.
Please note: Bradbury School has no direct involvement in this company. It is parents’ decision whether or not the program is useful to assist your child in learning Chinese and there is no obligation or expectation that you will purchase it. Lynette Pang – Head of Chinese Department |
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TERRACOTTA WARRIORS: THE EMPEROR’S ADVENTURE By: Yelena Bracovic – Class 3C |
| Today in modern China everything was okay. The weather was sunny and it was a beautiful day. I went to a museum to learn about the terracotta warriors. There were 8000 soldiers staring with beady eyes at tourists at the museum.
Then I saw the coffin. When I opened the coffin a beautiful person made out of jade was lying inside. When I touched it , the jade cracked open and I saw a real man inside. He said “Who are you?” I said “My name is Yelena Bracovic. What is your name?” The Emperor said “What is that big pink thing you are wearing?” I said “They are my trousers! Are you crazy?” He said “Yes”. So I taught him about modern China. First, we got in a taxi and he said “What is this thing like a fast horse, and where are its’ legs?” I said, “Silly Emperor it is a taxi.” When he looked out of the window he saw people on bikes and he said, “Ha ha they have two wheels taxis. Ours is much better than those.” I said “Dumb Emperor they are not two wheels taxis, they are BIKES.” We stepped into a nice restaurant. He tasted the restaurant’s food. He loved the snake meat. When he saw his brown drink he shouted “Why are these bubbles in my tea?” I said, “Dumb emperor, it is Coca Cola! “Who is that man with long hair?” “You are ridiculous Emperor, it is a lady and she is beautiful.” The Emperor said “I want to marry her”. Then she said “I will not marry you because you look like a tyrant.” Then, she slowly walked away. After lunch I took him for a haircut. He looked silly in the end. He had pink dyed hair and it was all spiked up. I laughed when he was angry. After the haircut he went outside and everyone laughed at him. The more the people laughed the angrier he got. A man gave him a newspaper to make him joyful. When he saw the newspaper he was happy because he learned that China was rich. He read the newspaper again because he liked it. Then we stopped at a big opera house. The Emperor wanted to go inside because he wanted to hear some fantastic singing. He went inside and bought the tickets. When the show started an elegant lady who was from China sang in Chinese. I didn’t understand the language but the Emperor enjoyed it. After she stopped singing, we left. I said to him “I didn’t like it”, but the Emperor said he loved it. The emperor said “Thank you for teaching me about modern China. I can go back to my coffin and sleep”. I will never forget what happened that day! |
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EARTH HOUR |
| Each year the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) organises Earth Hour.
Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007 and has now grown to include 7000 cities and towns across the globe. Individuals, families and communities are encouraged to switch off their non-essential lights for one hour. It would be great if members of the Bradbury School community could also take action to save electricity and show their Earth Hour commitment to Climate Change. Saturday 19 March 2016 8:30 – 9:30pm Lorinda Thomas – Environmental Leader/ Year 4 Teacher |
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TERM 3 AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES |
| The after school activity costings for Term Three are online via the Bradbury Gateway for you to register your child for Term Three after school activities.
Costings will include the hiring of coaches, pitch booking costs, equipment and transportation. These activities will begin on the week beginning Monday the 18th April and will end on Friday the 17th June 2016. Enrollment closes on the Wednesday 23rd March and you will receive confirmation when your child has been accepted to participate on an activity. If payment is not received by 6th April 2016 then your child will be unable to participate in this activity. Once enrollment has been confirmed, then please be aware we will be unable to refund any fees paid. Amanda Bremner – PYP Coordinator |
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YEAR 2 SPORTS DAY |
| On Tuesday, 15 March, it was the Year 2 sports day which was held at school. Students participated in a variety of activities to showcase the skills that they have been learning in P.E. throughout terms 1 and 2.
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CIS ROAD RACE |
| Well done to all the runners who took part in the CIS Road Race, last weekend. A special mention goes to Octavia Peel for winning her age group and dominating a very competitive field.
Ally Maclay – P.E. Leader |
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EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES BY THIRD PARTIES |
| The following companies are currently hiring our facilities to provide Extra Curricular activities for students. You may browse the school website under “Community” for their programs and enroll 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 Adventure Sports Academy Ltd. – Soccer & Basketball Training, contact Eilis Cheung at 3998 4042 or info@adventuresportsacademy.com website: www.adventuresportsacademy.com/#!basketball-schedules/c1ovn Brilliant Learning International Ltd. (Sanskriti) – Sanskriti/Hindi Language Class, contact Geeta Dhar at 3563 4300 or sanskriti@sanskriti.com.hk website: www.sanskriti.com.hk HoYinPingChess / Hong Kong Junior Chess Club – Chess Class / Junior Chess Tournament, contact Yin Ping Ho at 9215 2682 or hoyinpingchess@gmail.com website: www.HoYinPingChess.com / www.hkjuniorchess.org Primary Matters – Writing Workshop, contact Marion McNally at 9465 4468 or primarymattershk@gmail.com website: www.primarymattershk.com RugBees Ltd. – Rugby Play Programme, contact Kit Wong at 2117 3055 or kit@rugbees.com website: www.rugbees.com Starlit Company Ltd. – Drama Programme, contact Clarissa Evans at 2108 2182 or info@starlit.hk website: www.starlitvoice.com/site2/voice/home/page.html?cid=5&aid=137040132800913 World All Styles Martial Arts Association – Martial Arts Class, contact Ka Lok Ho at 9120 4689 or wamakfyip@yahoo.com website: www.wama-karate.com |
