Messages from Brenda

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

We Are Nearly There!

Wow! What a jam-packed term full of the most amazing experiences for the students. This week, we enjoyed lots of fun and celebrations, which the children loved.

The PTA Winter Wonderland evening was sensational. The children performed with joy and energy and sang beautifully. Our orchestra also showed talent playing challenging pieces. Many thanks to the PTA and volunteer parents for helping with the organisation and logistics. Thank you also to the staff who assisted with musical items, sound and lighting, set-up and the clean-up of the campus!

Merry Christmas, everyone! We hope you have a relaxing break. We know that the children and staff will enjoy recharging their batteries before the start of the new term, that’s for sure!

 

School Uniform for the Winter Weather

As the weather is chilly, please purchase your child’s additional uniform items here. Please remember to name all uniform pieces.

 

Possibility of New Kowloon Bus Route

If you are interested, please click on the links below:

Kowloon Bus route Information

Kowloon Bus Survey form

 

Possibility of Hot Lunch Meals

Many thanks for filling out the survey organised by the PTA indicating whether you would be interested in utilising a service like this for your child’s lunch. We are processing the information and reaching out to lunch providers and will be able to update you after the Christmas break.

 

Vaccine Pass Arrangement for Parents and Visitors
From 14 December 2022, the Government has lifted the requirement of scanning the LeaveHomeSafe venue QR code before entering school premises. Schools are no longer required to display venue QR codes for scanning purposes. However, the current Vaccine Pass arrangement remains unchanged.
EDB has stipulated that temperature screening and scanning of the vaccine pass to our school device are required for all visitors to school. If you are visiting the school for shows, meetings, classroom visits, exhibitions, etc, a RAT test is also needed before visiting the school.
 

Covid-19 Monitoring for Students
EDB/ESF have also confirmed that daily RATs, updates on the VLE and mask-wearing will continue for the students. We thank you for continuing with these anti-epidemic measures and please continue to upload your children’s vaccination and/or recovery records to the VLE.

 

End of Term 1 Reports

Please find the Kennedy assessment and reporting schedule as follows:

• End of Term 1 Reports - released on Friday, 13th January 2023

• International Schools Assessments (ISA) Year 4 to 6 - released on Wednesday, 11th January 2023

• Interactive Computerised Assessment System (InCAS) Year 3 to 6 - released on Friday 3rd February 2023

If you have any questions or queries about this, please contact Rudi Dray, our Vice Principal at rdray@kennedy.edu.hk

 

School Closure for The Holidays

As a reminder, tomorrow (Friday) is the last day of term. The school will close at midday on Friday. Timings are as follows:

11.50 am	Dismissal for students taking the school bus
11.57 am	Dismissal for all other students.

We would like to invite everyone to dress in festive dress tomorrow if they wish.

If you want to contact any leadership team member, you will find us in the playground or email me at bcook@kennedy.edu.hk.

 

Kind regards,

Brenda

顧仁達

School Dates
9 Jan	First Day of Term 2
16 Jan	Chinese New Year ‘Fun Fair’ for Students
20 Jan	Dress in Chinese clothing for Chinese New Year CNY Assembly for parents of the performers 8.30 to 9.15 am
16 Jan	After School Staff Run Activities begin this week
23 to 27 Jan	ESF School Holidays - Chinese New Year
30 Jan	Back to School

 

 

General

Dates for Year 4
10 Jan	4W Eco Walk to Lantau
12 Jan	4C Eco Walk to Lantau
13 Jan	4R Eco Walk to Lantau
31 Jan	4O Eco Walk to Lantau
2 Feb	4J Eco Walk to Lantau

 

Term 2 Staff Run After School Clubs

Sign Ups for Term 2 Staff Run After School Clubs remain open till 13 January 2023. Please note the EDB requirement that students with 2 COVID-19 vaccinations are eligible to participate in staff-run after school clubs.

How to sign up for an After School Staff Run Activity

 

House Points

At the end of Term 1, here is where we stand in our annual challenge for the title of House Champions of the Year.

1st place: Unicorns (2033 points)

2nd place: Lions (1899 points)

3rd place: Dragons (1812 points) (2021/22 Champions)

4th place: Phoenix (1759 points) (2020/21 Champions)

There are still 2 more terms to the year so there is still plenty of time for each house to take the lead.

Keep up the good work, everyone! May the best House win!

 

Tetra pak Collections

Thank you for bringing in clean, dry beverage cartons or tetra paks for recycling at Kennedy School. In Term 1, we saved 175 kg of cartons from the landfill. Well done everyone!

We will resume our Monday morning collections on 9 January 2023.

The end of the first term is upon us and we look forward to a few weeks of rest and reuniting family and friends.

I’d like to express my delight at what the PTA have been able to achieve for our community this term. Parent activities included Quiz Night, class parent get together and our first parent coffee morning. Children got to dress up and participate in our first ever Chinese-A-Thon and our annual Winter Wonderland Concert. Relive these moments in the photos and live stream links here.

PTA Winter Wonderland live stream

PTA Winter Wonderland Photo Album

We also warmly congratulate Brenda Cook with her appointment as Principal.

Many thanks to everyone on our PTA and class parents for all your hard work this term and we wish all of our community a wonderful festive season and we look forward to seeing you all in the new year!

 

Natasha Petit O’Connor

Chinese Weekly Learning for:

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

 

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