Abacus Newsletter 13th March 2017
Abacus Kindergarten’s latest newsletter available to read now. Find out the latest news from around the school and upcoming events.
- Coming Week
- Important Dates
- Friendly Fridays
- K1 Art Exhibition and Picture Frames
- Speech and Language Therapy Services
- Joyful Fruit Month March 2017
- Links
- Class Pages
Coming Week Dates
Week Beginning – Monday 20th March |
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| Monday | K2 Small group trip Fiona sick |
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| Wednesday | K1 Arts Trips |
| Thursday | |
| Friday | Fiona out – Staff Training |
Week Beginning – Monday 27th March |
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| Monday | K2 Unit Planning Day – K2 Cover |
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| Wednesday | |
| Thursday | |
| Friday | K1 Arts Exhibition |
Important Dates
Friday 24th March – K1 Art Exhibition
Thursday 30th March -Sports Day and Last Day of Term 2
Tuesday 18th April – Term 3 Resumes
Our school calendar can be found here
Friendly Fridays
We are trialing a new playground system at Abacus on Fridays at the moment.
Instead of all of the K1’s using the playground together followed by the K2 children later we are now taking all of the Bilingual class children from K1 and K2 out together and then the English class K1 and K2 children out afterwards.
The purpose of this is to:
- Offer more opportunities for K1 peer learning from older children
- Allow K2 children an opportunity to develop their nurturing, social skills by working alongside younger children
- Allow Bilingual class children to have more opportunities to communicate in Chinese on the playground
- Allow children to develop new friendships across the yeargroups
The children in K2 have received support from teachers and discussed how to interact appropriately and be inclusive towards K1 children.
Here are some of the pictures from our first friendly Friday last week of K1 and K2 children working together.
K1 Exhibition and Picture Frames
The K1 Art Exhibition will take place next Friday 24th March. Parents will be invited in for a 1 hour session with their child to view their child’s artwork. More information will follow shortly.
In the meantime if you have any picture frames that you don’t need hanging around at home, please donate them to school as we would like some more frames for displaying children’s work in.
Speech and Language Therapy Sessions
We now have a new speech and language therapist working at Abacus during the school day. If you have any concerns about your child’s language, the therapist is able to provide a comprehensive screening to determine whether you child needs ongoing therapy.
Our new therapist is also able to provide on site therapy sessions for any children who need ongoing speech and language therapy. If you are interested or would like more information please contact allison.banbury@abacus.esf.org.hk
Joyful Fruit Month March 2017
Thank you to all those families who are supporting this initiative. the children are very excited about their stickers and we have seen some great healthy snacks.
Links
Moodle – Your child’s portfolio and reports, class news, school news and photos.
Gateway – Change personal details, sign up for events and book parent consultations on Gateway.
The School Calendar – All important dates can be found here for this year.
Class Pages
K1 English Class
Olivia Kotyck, Julie Rose and Zoe Swai (Job Share) and Sue Tyson
K1 Bilingual Class
Nicole Gouws, Susanne Liu and Michelle Chen
K2 English Class
Danielle Evans, Anita Jims and Jackie Henderson
K2 Bilingual Class
Fiona Hall, Allison Fung and Bridgette Walker
