17 Mar 2017

Newsletter #26

Beacon Hill School latest newsletter available to read now. Find out the latest news around the school and upcoming events.

Other News

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Dear Parents, Family and Friends,

The raffle tickets are selling very well for our International Food Fair which is on Friday 24th March, but there is still time to sell even more. Remember the two classes that sell the most tickets will win a prize – a day out for the whole class! All proceeds are put back into improving Beacon Hill School, so please do what you can to help. This is a community event so please bring along family and friends and neighbours.

IMPORTANT DATES

This week has been another busy and exciting week of learning. On Tuesday our Year 2 classes travelled to various locations around Hong Kong to experience a range of different types of transport systems. Thanks to all the parents who came along to make sure the trip was successful and safe.

As part of our programme to ensure a smooth transition to secondary school for our Year 6 students, teachers and students from KGV, Sha Tin College and Island School visited us on Tuesday afternoon. The children had chance to ask questions and allay any worries they may have about the move in just a few months time. A group of Year 6 children also visited Island School this week to enjoy their annual Art Exhibition.

Yesterday our Year 5 children demonstrated their entrepreneurial business skills with the Big Business Market Day. They have worked hard for several weeks to be ready for the event and any profit they make will be donated to a charity we have supported for the last few years in Sudan which helps a local kindergarten – http://www.immanuelkindergarten.org/305391271 . Thank you to all the children who brought in their pocket money to buy goodies – their purchases will help to make a difference to children who lead less privileged lives to ours. Photos can be found HERE.

On Wednesday afternoon we hosted a group educationalists from Wales and Northern Ireland who are part of the International Professional Learning Community. This visit was organised by the British Council in Hong Kong. The purpose was for the group to witness first-hand our approach to the teaching and learning of technology at Beacon Hill School. Mr Lowe spent the afternoon with them and they were highly impressed not only with our Learning Technology programme and facilities but also with our students.

Yesterday I attended the annual Basketball Tournament at KJS organised by Mr Teahan. We had one team entered, who have been coached by Ms Jane Wu. A report on this event will be shared in the newsletter later.

This morning 2K shared their class assembly and despite having to contend with intermittent absences of students recently due to sickness, they presented us with a wonderful assembly., sharing their learning about materials. Well done to 2K and their teachers and thank you to the parents for coming to watch.

Action

Starting this week we have been celebrating books and reading in our annual ‘Book Week’ which has grown into ‘7 Days of ABCs and 1 2 3s’, including Maths too. We have had author visits this week and exciting lunchtime activities for the children to take part in. As part of this event we are supporting the Heifer organisation and their ‘Read to Feed’ programme. You can find details about this, some resources and a sponsorship form to download later in in this newsletter. I hope that you can encourage your child to read more books and help foster a love of reading whilst helping those less fortunate than ourselves.

BHS 50th Anniversary – ‘design a logo’ competition

We will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of BHS throughout the 2017-18 academic year. We have a planning committee who are already working on some special events to mark this milestone. One important feature is to use a special BHS 50th anniversary logo which will be used on publicity materials, communications and items linked to the anniversary. We are opening this up as a competition – anyone may enter; students, parents, ex-students, teachers, educational assistants, site staff; in fact anyone with a connection to BHS. The only criteria is that it is represents BHS 50th year. Entries may be submitted in any medium and either electronically or by hand. Please send entries to:

james.harrison@bhs.edu.hk

or post to Beacon Hill School, 23 Ede Road, Kowloon Tong

or hand in at Reception.

The closing date for entries is Monday 8th May.

Home Learning at BHS

We are reviewing our Home Learning policy (you are probably more familiar with the term ‘homework’) to ensure it aligns with our philosophy. We value parental input into our policy formulation so would appreciate just a few minutes of your time to complete this very short survey.

https://goo.gl/forms/ZrGQKRrsvGi3BjFm2

Heifer Read to Feed – Reading for Empathy, Reading against Poverty!

We are delighted to inform you that BHS is participating in the Heifer Read to Feed program, an educational fund-raising program that fosters a love of reading in students while empowering them to make a difference in rural China. We hope you can support your child to join this meaningful program. The sponsored programme will kick-off on Monday 13th March, the first day of our Book Week and run until Tuesday 18th April, the first day back at school after the Easter holiday.

Students taking part are encouraged to read while collecting sponsorship from parents, relatives and friends based on the number of books read or a single donation. Funds collected this school year will be used to assist impoverished families in Wadu Township of Baoshan City in Yunnan Province. The money will be used to help them become self-reliant by providing livestock and training with the ultimate goal of helping more families in the community from “Passing on the Gift” – that is recipients donate their animal offspring and pass on their new animal husbandry knowledge to other villagers.

We appreciate your encouragement and support of your child while he or she participates in Read to Feed, allowing them to enjoy reading and helping others for a better world. Thank you!

Please click below to download a sponsorship form

Read to feed Sponsorship Form.pdf

Please click below to download a Reading Record sheet

Read to Feed Record Sheet.pdf

Tonight is the ESF 50th Anniversary Primary Choral Concert. I look forward to seeing some of you there at what promises to be a wonderful evening.

Best wishes,

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James Harrison

Principal

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BHS Dance Off Winners

Last week we had two fabulous lunches watching our highly talented dancers perform at lunchtime. The standard was incredibly high and a panel of teacher judges laboured over the very hard decision of selecting 6 winners. This proved too difficult so we decided to have seven winners who are listed below. All of these will perform at the BHS Talent Show at the International Food Fair on Friday 24th March. More information will be given nearer the time. I would like to finish by thanking all the participants for their hard work and talent.

Dancers performing at the BHS Talent show at The International Food Fair at BHS on Friday 24th March

1L – Christie, Chloe and Sharon

2M – Kaelyn

3M – Savina

4F – Lara

4F – Alegra

5M/5Y – Conor and Brandon

5P – Krisheena

Student Continuation 2017-2018

Dear Parents,

We are now making plans for the 2017-2018 academic year. In order to help our future planning we would like to determine the existing number of current students who will continue at Beacon Hill School next year. This will help us organize the classes and plan for new intakes for next year. Your assistance is greatly appreciated and helpful.

We have sent home with a letter of Student Continuation 2017-2018 on Wednesday 15th March 2017 for Year 1 to Year 5 and the deadline will be on/before Wednesday 29th March 2017.

Many thanks!

Barbara Woo

School Office Manager/Admissions

Student Continuation Ltr 2017-2018_Y1 to Y5 only_1.pdf

Road Race

Well done to all the students who participated in the Discovery College Road Race on Saturday 11th March. Each student ran their best and represented the school to the best of their abilities. Well done to Jotaro (6H) who won our first ever medal in the road race by finishing first in the under 12 race. Thanks to Cameron’s Mum and Kaeli’s Mum for providing the photos. Photos can be found HERE.

Results:

Under 8 Girls		Under 8 Boys
27^th	Crystal	47^th	Alexander
40^th	Sakurako	50^th	Karan
46^th	Yvaine	51^st	Ethan
		53^rd	Nathanael
		55^th	Maxi
		TEAM	9^th

Under 9 Girls		Under 9 Boys
24^th	Kaeli	47^th	Joshua
38^th	Cameron	57^th	Andy
52^nd	Andrea	58^th	Justin
60^th	Sophie

Under 10 Girls		Under 10 Boys
27^th	Mia	24^th	Marcus
47^th	Avina	43^rd	Alvin
50^th	Tammy	60^th	Ronny
62^nd	Nysha	61^st	Sho

Under 11 Girls		Under 11 Boys
52^nd	Bernice	22^nd	Kaden
53^rd	Katie	41^st	Isaac
		46^th	Jovan
		51^st	Omar
		56^th	Darryl
		TEAM	8^th

Under 12 Boys
1^st	Jotaro

Basketball

On Thursday 16th March, Ethan Y, Isaac, Jotaro, Noriyasu, Janice, Kirsty, Avina, Kwan Yin and Ryan from Year 6 were selected to participate in the annual ESF Basketball Tournament hosted by Mr Teahan at Kowloon Junior School. The team played a total of 4 games. They lost against DBIS 1-9 and won their next games against CWB 16-2 and KJSb 10-2. The team qualified for the quarter-finals and lost against KJSa 3-6. They worked well as a team offensively and defensively and displayed great sportsmanship on the day. Ethan Y was selected as an All-Star player of the tournament. Thank you to Mr Teahan for organising the tournament and all the parents who came to watch the games.

Inter-School Gymnastics

Well done to Kirsty, Janice, Poppy and Hena who represented Beacon Hill at the Inter-School Primary novice competition. As a team they placed fifth overall and narrowly missed out on winning a trophy. Well done to Poppy who finished 2nd in the floor and will go on to compete at the inter school finals. Good luck to Chantal and Connor who will be competing in the Junior competition during the Easter holidays.

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As we make final preparations for our annual International Food Fair, please complete selling the 2 sets of Raffle Tickets (totalling $400.00 worth) and have your child return tickets/stubs & matching monies for the Grand Raffle Lucky Draw and Audit counting for Friday 24 March 2017 at 8:00pm.

If every child sold 2 sets of Raffle Tickets we could hit our $200,000 target.

Reminders:

BHS PTA Uniform Shop will be closed 20-24 March 2017 as we prepare for the IFF.

Beacon Hill School International Food Fair & Grand Raffle Lucky Draw! Friday March 24th 2017, 5 – 8:30pm, Lucky Draw @ 8:00pm

Fantastic chance to win One night stay at the W Hong Kong Fantastic Suite & breakfast for two at Kitchen restaurant, iPhone 7, DSLR Camera, Playstation, 2 sets of 4 tickets to May and June ABA show and many more Grand Raffle prizes (HK Lottery License #4581)
Delicious homemade cuisine & treats
Talent show
Hall Games & prizes
Bouncy Castle
Karaoke
Shopping bazaar
Great family evening & friendly atmosphere open to the community!

23 Ede Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Inquiry contact BHS PTA Co-ordinator pta@bhs.edu.hk / 2337 8932

Tuesday 18 April 2017 Y6 Pizza Lunch
Thursday 20 April 2017 BHS PTA ExComm Meeting
Tuesday 25 April 2017 Y4 Bake Sale
The BHS PTA Uniform Shop has a limited quantity of 20 Red Vests in size 12, sales while quantities in stock.

Mark your calendars and invite your friends to our BHS International Food Fair!

Rowena Chow

Chair, BHS PTA

Health

Head Lice

We would like to inform you of the fact that one child has head lice. The child will complete the treatment at home and to return to school in due course.

The eggs of the head lice are usually found near the root of the hair and there is the sensation of an itchy scalp. Nits are tiny and whitish, yellowish or brownish in colour.

How do you catch it?

Via direct head to head contact with the infested person.
The lice crawls.

If you suspect that the child has head lice, please have it treated by using medication lotion or shampoo prescribed by the doctor to destroy the head lice. The use of a fine-toothed comb may help to remove the nits and please throw away the eggs properly.

Please check your child’s hair regularly for head lice.

Please check your eyebrows or beard, if you have one.

Anyone may catch it.