Peak View 17th November 2011

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Peak View

17 November 2011

Principal's Message

Special Announcement

PTA News

Message from the PTA Administrator

Healthy Snack and Lunch

MLATS Training - Professional Development for Staff

Student Council Representatives

Mandarin News

PE/Sport Update

Perceptual Motor Programme (PMP) for Year 1 and Year 2

Golden Book

Key Dates

Principal's Message

Dear Parents

Our Year 3, 4 5 and 6 children have now completed their overnight camps for the year. I have been thoroughly impressed with the attitude of the children whilst on these camps. What impressed me the most, apart from the level of behaviour expected, was the fact that the children attempted all the challenges with little fuss and supported those that needed that extra little bit of encouragement.

It is a credit to our teachers and parents that each Year group worked so well together and represented Peak School with pride. The instructors I spoke to at the different camps all talked about how impressed they were with our children and one group even thanked me as they "needed a week like this, after some of the other school groups we have had in the past few weeks". This says a lot about our children and staff and it is a timely reminder just how special Peak School is.

On Saturday was another reminder of just how special Peak School is as we celebrated our 100 Year Birthday with a Gala Dinner. It was a tremendous evening and was supported with over 200 guests made up of past and present parents, alumni, community members and current staff. Our PTA continue to work tirelessly on our behalf purely to benefit our children and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Katrina, Kate, Nicci and the rest of the team for another outstanding effort.

Have a great weekend everybody.

Bill Garnett

Principal

Special Announcement

We can now officially inform you that Catalina Abel is pregnant and will be taking maternity leave from March 9, 2012 until the end of the academic year (she will be returning for the last week of term 3 where she will team teach with her replacement). This won't come as a surprise to some of you as you may have heard through mutual friends e.g. netball or you have seen Catalina recently! I'm sure you will join me in congratulating Catalina (and her partner Jon) as we wish them all the very best for the birth of their first child.

PTA News

Dear Parents

Peak School PTA would like to say a huge “Thank you” to all the parents (past & present), alumni and staff who joined us at the Gala Dinner to celebrate our 100^th Anniversary at Café Deco last Saturday. We had an amazing evening of entertainment and the atmosphere was wonderful.

A special thanks to our fabulous class mums who gathered together 12 luxury hampers from our classes, which were raffled on the night and raised over HK$30,000. This will go into our centenary fund which provides a Specialist Artist in Residence for the children of Peak School each year.

Our next event will be hosting drinks at the Nativity Service at St John’s Cathedral 6.30pm on Tuesday 13^th December.

We look forward to seeing you all there to celebrate Christmas with the Peak School Community.

Kate Jackson & Nicci Corrado

Co-Vice Chair

Message from the PTA Administrator

Don’t forget to order your 100th anniversary t-shirts!

The T-shirt is $150 and comes in 4 different sizes (order form enclosed). The long sleeved white T-shirt is made from high quality cotton and comes with a Peak School 100 Years Badge that can be ironed on to create your own individual unique commemorative T-shirt.

T-shirt is now available for purchase from the Office.

Jackie To

PTA Administrator

pta@peakschool.ent

Tel: +852 2849 8376

Healthy Snack and Lunch

We are committed to ‘Healthy eating’ at Peak School so please ensure that you provide a healthy balanced snack and lunch for your child. As a whole school, we shall be focusing on healthy eating and monitoring what the children bring to school for snack and lunch. Please do not send your child in with Chocolate bars, sweets or candies.

MLATS Training - Professional Development for Staff

All of our staff are currently involved in some MLATS (Maths) training (professional development) held at the ESF centre. These one or two day workshops focus on inquiry based maths as well as the importance of children having strong number knowledge and strategies. The courses started last week and run until the middle of next week and each of our classroom teachers have either attended the one day or two day training modules depending on their previous experience of these workshops.

This type of training is crucial in ensuring our teachers are exposed to the latest research and techniques on how best to successfully teach mathematics.

Student Council Representatives

Congratulations to the following students who were elected as Student Council Representatives for 2011-2012

6T Max Stevens , Aaliyah Jared

6B Kathryn McGuiness, Jason Wynn

5B Aurora Corrado, Daanyal Ebrahim

5T Hamish Tong, Milly Phipps

4B/1R Tia Carrett, Owen Bramley

4M/1M Petronella Rowe, Elliot Pierce Finken

3D/2B Mimi Hoffman , Fergus Tong

3R/2A India Sparrow, Maxime Saffon

The Student Council meet once a fortnight and at their first meeting decided on the following aims:

- to make Peak School an even better and even happier place

- to become responsible members of the global community

Mandarin News

Our after-school Chinese Dance team has been busy practising new steps in class and it has been a great pleasure to see 14 of them participating with boundless enthusiasm.

We are very happy to share with you that Annie Huang our new Chinese EA has just joined our team. Now with a team of 5, I am sure that our Chinese program will continue to flourish and meet the needs of our children. Thank you for all your support over the past years.

We are currently seeking for help in our Chinese classes and if you can spare some time out of your busy schedule, please contact either Mary Liu at lium@peakschool.net or Ganlo Williams at williamsg@peakschool.net. Further details of arrangement will be sent to you afterwards. Thank you in advance for your consideration.

The bi-weekly Chinese newsletters are ready for your viewing. Please check them in the Planet Peak.

PE/Sport Update

Netball Club

Congratulations to all the girls in the netball club so far. Our Yr 5 girls were very competitive against their match vs Kellet School and I wish the A team the best of luck in the Island School Tournament. We are attempting to reschedule the game against Carmel School but no date is set yet. Miss Bloomfield will be continuing the netball club next term and invites all Yr 5 and Year 4 girls to join. A sign up sheet will be sent around at a later date but please discuss the opportunity with your child. Wednesday afternoons 3:15 - 4:15.

Football Club

It was a great game by the A and B teams against Bradbury school on Thursday 10th November. The overall score after 6 x 10 minute games was 2-1 against Peak. Thank you to all the parents for your support, the children are really enjoying playing and training.

Upcoming events:

Tuesday 22nd November - A/B Team vs Glenealy

Thursday 1st December - B/C Team vs Carmel School

Saturday 10th December - A Team ESF Tournament

Running Club - Term Two

Save your Wednesdays 3:15 - 4pm

All students in Yr3-6 are invited to join the Peak School running club. Our running club will aim to complete the distance of a marathon (42km) over a 10 week time frame...aprox 2-3km a week. A sign up sheet will be sent around at a later date but please discuss the opportunity with your child. Parents are also invited to run with us as the staff will also be involved. Assistance will be needed each afternoon to help supervise the track around the Peak loop. Further information to come later.

Sports Day- Friday 25th November

Students are encouraged to wear suitable "extra attire" in the colour of their house. Eg Yellow ribbons in your hair, blue socks, red hats, green streamers/signs. I would like to extend this invitation to parents and staff as we cheer on our respective houses. Parking is always difficult at Stanley Ho Sports Centre. The advice to those driving is to park at Cyberport and walk back to Stanley Ho (10mins). We look forward to seeing as many parents as possible at the sports day this year. Sports Day - Start 9:45am, End 12:20pm.

Katie Bradstock

Physical Education Teacher

Perceptual Motor Programme (PMP) for Year 1 and Year 2

PMP is an activity based program that develops a variety of skills in a safe, organised environment and any support given will be gratefully received! There will be one more session on November 24th.

If you are able to help Rose as volunteer on any of the above dates please either email her on nimrod@hkstar.com and she will be delighted to hear from you.

1M PMP will be from 8.45 - 9.30

1R PMP will be from 9.35 - 10.20

2A PMP will be from11.00 - 11.45

2E PMP will be from 11.45 - 12.30

Golden Book

Every week teachers nominate children to be included in our ‘Golden Book’ assembly. In addition to this, the children nominate one another for the ‘Brolga Award’ which is given to someone who has demonstrated attributes of the Learner Profile. Please find the nominees on 7^th November and 14^th November in the Peak View.

Key Dates

Fri 18^th Nov	CPD Training day (No school for students)
Thu 24^th Nov	PMP for Year 1 and 2
Fri 25^th Nov	Year 3 – Year 6 Sports Day
Mon 5^th Dec	Carols at Hong Kong Club – Senior Choir (6pm-7pm)
Wed 7^th Dec	Year 1 – Year 2 Sports Day
Wed 8^th Dec	Carols by candlelight at Matilda Hospital –Senior Choir (6pm – 8pm)
Wed 13^th Dec	Nativity Service at St John's Cathedral – Senior & Junior Choir (6.30pm onward)

Peak School | 20 Plunketts Road, Hong Kong

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100 t-shirt order form.pdf	208.41 KB
golden book November 7 2011.pdf	510.83 KB
golden book Novemer 14 2011.pdf	506.77 KB