Glenealy School Newsletter
27th February 2019
Message from Brenda
Dear Parents, Caregivers and Students
Student Led Conferences
Thanks so much for attending the Student Led Conferences last week. It was lovely seeing the children taking you around the school and sharing their learning journey with you. Thanks for being encouraging, positive and focused on supporting your child throughout the day.
Having read your child’s mid-year report and having attended the SLC, if you still have questions or queries about your child’s progress or learning, please don’t hesitate to contact your child’s teacher for an appointment at an alternative time.
Evaluation and Accreditation
Our CIS/IB visit will take place from Sunday 3rd March until Friday 8th March. We will have 7-8 visitors in the school during this time. When you see the visiting team members (they will be wearing green lanyards) in the school, please do make them feel welcome.
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Assembly ‘What is a Caring Global Citizen?’
This week we continued to talk about what makes a Caring Global Citizen at Glenealy School. Ask your child about it.
This focus tied in well with the current learning that is taking place in Year 6 through their Exhibition process.
This is an important and significant Unit of Inquiry that encompasses all of their learning within the Primary Years Programme (PYP) IB. Over the last week the Year 6 students have begun taking action, both within and outside of the school.
This has included working alongside pre-schoolers at Hillside Kindergarten, doing a Kindness Walk and giving food to the homeless in Mong Kok and being Fitness Gurus in the playground to get us all energised before school!
Another interesting initiative has been students who have chosen to take action by living without their helper for a week!
We are encouraging all of the children in assembly to take action in any small way they can, e.g. being nice to a friend, showing empathy, saying no to plastics, saying thank you, doing chores at home etc. You can help encourage your child to do something small to make a difference too.
How do we describe a Caring Global Citizen at Glenealy? Here’s the definition we all came up with.
Site Staff Vacancy
We are looking for a cleaner/caretaker to work alongside our site staff team here at Glenealy. The job information can be found on our website. If you know of someone who might be interested, please ask them to contact Pam Stanley in the school office or via email
Have a great rest of your week.
Kind Regards
Brenda
Dates for your Diary
Sunday 3rd March - Friday 8th March
CIS and IB Team Evaluation Visit
Wednesday 13th March
Year 1 and Year 6 Immunisations
Friday 22nd March
Glenealy's Got Talent show 2:00 pm
Tuesday 26th March
School Council Meeting 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Thursday 4th April
ESF Choral Concert- Queen Elizabeth Stadium
Friday 5th April
Ching Ming Festival-school closed
Friday 12th April
End of Term 2 - school closes at 12:00 noon
Monday 29th April
Start of Term 3
Wednesday 1st May
Labour Day -school closed
Monday 13th May
Day following Buddha's Birthday- school closed
Kid Power Programme
UNICEF Kids Power band - Update
You should have received an e-mail giving details of the distribution, usage and settings of the Kid Power Bands yesterday from school.
Just in case you missed reading it, you may find the contents of the e-mail here.
For those parents who have responded after the extended January 31st deadline, we will try to arrange it, but do need some time to organise it. Please contact me directly on:
apattison@glenealy.edu.hk if you need any more information on this and I will get back to you in due course.
In the meantime: keep stepping!
Warm Regards
Andy Pattison.
Lost Property
Can all parents or caregivers check if there is anything in Lost Property that belongs to their child (ren) as any remaining items will be cleared and donated to charity at the end of this term.
ESF Chinese Talent Show
ESF Centre.
Important Reminder
Has your child's visa status changed?
As a reminder, all children attending an ESF school need the appropriate and valid visa status to do so. Please inform the school if your child's visa status changes. For more information refer to the Immigration section on the ESF website.
Useful School Forms
Medical Authorisation Form - required should your child need to take medication whilst at school, on a school trip or camp
ESF/Glenealy Calendar for 2018/19
Please refer closely to this calendar for any important events, (e.g . booking your holidays) for the next academic year.
Read more from the Marvellous Media Mavericks column in The Hall of Fame.
Extra Curricular Activities Term 2 2018-19
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- ESF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES - Soccer
2711 1280
- BANANA ART CLUB (Art)
Michelle - 6020 5476
- FOUNDATION ACADEMY (Film Makers)
Namrata Bindra -3107 8810
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TUESDAY
- ESF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES - Sports Clubs & Tennis
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Website: http://www.esf.org.hk/index.asp
- Brownies
Penny Donowho - 9181 7318
- CHESS CLUB
Yin Ping Ho 2884 1420 / 9215 2682
- CENTER STAGE STUDIOS (Musical Theatre)
Imogen Taylor - 5236 7960
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WEDNESDAY
- ESF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES - Basketball
2711 1280
website: http://www.esf.org.hk/index.asp
- THE CLASSROOM BY MG (Litteracy)
Mary Godridge - 9103 4378
THURSDAY
- ESF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES - Tennis
2711 1280
Website: http://www.esf.org.hk/index.asp
- APPDEV-X (Coding)
- ACTIVE KIDS (Stormy Chefs)
Elsie - 3480 4199
FRIDAY
- ESF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES - Tennis & Gymnastics
2711 1280
Website: http://www.esf.org.hk/index.asp
- MOK'S TAEKWONDO SELF-DEFENCE (Tae Kwon Do)
Charles Mok - 9494 7636
- ACTIVE KIDS (Science Adventures)
Elsie - 3480 4199
- BRILLIANT LEARNING (Sanskriti)
Geetnajali Dhar - 9830 0612
geetanjali@sanskritiglobal.org
SATURDAY
- ESF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES - Tennis & Gymnastics
2711 1280
Website: http://www.esf.org.hk/index.asp
- READ FOR MEANING (Reading)
Mary Barker - 2523 0062 / 9401 4559