Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Principal Recruitment - Update #3 from Chris Geary - School Council Chair

We are inviting the Kennedy School Community to meet the three candidates on Thursday, 1st December from 6.00 – 8.00 pm at the school, with specific times to be announced next week. Each candidate will make a presentation and be prepared to answer questions. Attendees will also be able to provide online feedback on the candidates. If you would like to attend this session, please RSVP by clicking on the link below and completing the form. I would encourage you to attend to be part of this important process and thank you in advance for your participation. We look forward to seeing you there.

Click HERE to RSVP.

New School Uniform Additions

We are delighted to let you know that the uniform shop now has long sleeve shirts and blouses in stock for the winter season. They will soon be launching long-sleeved PE shirts too. As a reminder, you can access the online uniform shop at http://www.schooluniform.hk

Congratulations to our  Students

Our Year 5 students performed an inspiring Chinese assembly for their families. We loved seeing the students confidently using Chinese to communicate to their audience whilst having so much fun on stage! Many thanks to the Mandarin team for their incredible contributions to making this such a success.

Year 5 Chinese Assembly video

Our Year 4 students hosted an amazing Mini Exhibition about natural disasters. Family members who came today really enjoyed hearing about and seeing all the learning that took place during the unit.

Our Year 6s have braved the weather and are thoroughly enjoying learning new skills, testing their boundaries and supporting each other this week at Outward Bound HK.

Over the next three weeks, we will continue to have lots of exciting activities and opportunities for students and parents to be involved in learning outside and inside of the classroom. It is great having you all back in the school and on excursions, joining in with the learning and the celebrations.

Changes to Vaccination Requirements
Please note that starting from Wednesday 30 November, the vaccination requirements under the Vaccine pass for all children aged 5 to 11, will require students to have received their second Covid-19 dose.

Please click HERE for more information from the Department of Health.

Please update the latest vaccination and/or recovery records of your child to the VLE Through the ESF App so that your child is able to gain access to all venues that fall under the Vaccine Pass.

ESF Connections Programme

ESF ran a 'Connections' programme over the summer which helped support families in quarantine with learning resources for children.  Given that we still have a number of absences across the schools for various reasons, ESFC has designed a series of short videos.  These will help keep students learning at home if they are well enough to do so. Each session is around 20 minutes long and focuses on four popular themes;

•  Arts & Crafts

• Dance

• Science

• Storytelling & Drama

The video resources can be found here.

Full School Day

As per last week’s newsletter, we will return to full-days at school from Monday 5 December 2022. There will be 6 learning periods each day.

As always, if you would like to make contact with any of the leadership team, you will find us in the playground or reach out to me via email at bcook@kennedy.edu.hk.

Kind regards,

Brenda

顧仁達

Principal

Lunar New Year Card Design Competition

- Seeking student artwork for our Lunar New Year Card design competition

We are searching for student artwork celebrating the upcoming Year of the Rabbit.

WHEN: The deadline for submissions is 3 pm on Friday 9 December 2022.

FORMAT & THEME:

• Think about all the different images/symbols that remind you of the theme ‘Lunar New Year in Hong Kong’.

• Use A3 size paper.

• The art can be portrait or landscape.

• Submit artwork without a greeting message.

• Please DO NOT include ‘Kennedy School’, ‘ESF logo’ or ‘2023’ in your design (These will be added in the border later). Clearly write your name, class, age and title of your design on the back.

• Please make sure the submission is an original student artwork and does not contain photos from the internet or design elements (like Canva) that are copyright protected.

• The competition is optional and is to be completed at home by the children.

WINNERS:

2 designs will be chosen from each yearband. The 12 winning designs will be displayed around the school as part of this year’s Chinese New Year decorations.

Please send your artwork to your Chinese teacher by: FRIDAY 9th December

A Practical Webinar for Parents and Helpers: Supporting Beginning Readers and Writers at Home

30th of November, 2022

6.00 pm - 7.00 pm

We are hosting a parent and helper webinar for Beginning Readers and Writers on 30th of November from 6pm to 7pm. Our target audience are parents and helpers with children in Years 1 and 2.

Please click here for more details and registration.

Quiz Night!

Oh what a night!

A huge thank you to everyone who joined our “74th” Annual Quiz Night last week at El Charro, Cyberport. The atmosphere was electric as 16 teams battled it out over 7 rounds with team “Home Schooled” taking the coveted Kennedy School PTA Quiz Team Champion crown.

We raised HK$16,000 on the night and will use these funds to support a number of funding projects under review currently - to benefit every child at school.

We couldn’t have done it without our fabulous Quiz Masters Mr Matt King and Mr Rudi Dray, our scorers Ms Michelle Spratt, Ms Yoon-Ah Lee and Ms Brenda Cook - and the PTA support team. Superb team effort. See you next year!!

Winter Wonderland - Monday 12th December - It’s Back!

Location: Kennedy School Playground & Live Stream

Both Junior and Senior Choirs and our Orchestra will perform live at school on Monday 12th December 6.00 to 7.30 pm.

We will invite families of children in the choirs and orchestra to join the event in person - and will send a link to these families to register attendance.

Maximum 2 guests per choir/orchestra member.

After 2nd December, if we still have capacity, we will open up a final few tickets to the whole community to join in person.

We will be sharing the Livestream Link to the rest of our community to enjoy this very special and festive occasion at home.

Christmas Hampers

Each year at the Winter Wonderland, we hold a lucky prize draw with prizes of amazing hampers packed full of goodies donated by families at school.

In order to make this year a success, we (on the PTA) really need to ask for your help to send new and unopened donations to the PTA office by Wednesday 7th December.

Please see below for the full list of items we are looking for.

The items listed are guides/suggestions - parents should donate items to match the main category in their yearband.

If you have any empty hamper boxes or baskets you are no longer using, please contact the PTA - pta@kennedy.edu.hk

School Uniform - Sale Items - Final Sale

We have further reduced the prices on our remaining uniform sizes of our former uniform style.

SALE ITEMS ON WEBSITE

**Items purchased may only be used for the remainder of this school year and all items are non refundable/returnable - please order carefully**

In the New Year, we will be holding a uniform drive for second hand uniform in good condition.

PTA Christmas Merchandise

We have a bumper offering of Christmas Merchandise - and they are selling fast.

PTA MERCHANDISE ORDER FORM

Zubin Foundation Christmas Crackers

Click on the link below or scan the QR code to buy Zubin Crackers. For free delivery, select Kennedy School and enter your child’s name and class before checkout. 

BUY ZUBIN CRACKERS HERE

For more information, contact zubinshop@zubinfoundation.org

Chinese Weekly Learning for:

Year 1 

Year 2 

Year 3 

Year 4 

Year 5 

Year 6