Newsletter 37/2015-16
Quarry Bay School’s latest newsletter is available to read now. Find out the latest news around the school and upcoming events.
Principal’s Comments
End of Year Report
New Qoodle
Home Readers
Gecko Maths Competition
Award for 2016 Chinese Online Step Reading
PTA News
Principal’s Comments
Important dates for your attention:
- Please click here for all the key dates in Term 3 at QBS
QBS Celebration of Learning Day
On Friday we held our student led learning journeys at QBS. The students enjoyed being in charge of sharing their learning with parents. It was great to be able to observe parents enjoying time at school and being able to see first hand the learning progress of their child. Thank you to parents for supporting this important student led conference.
QBS End of Year Reports
I am in the process of reading and signing all student reports from Year 1 to Year 6. Reading and signing all reports gives me an overview of all students, their areas of success and important next steps in learning. The reports will be posted to families before the 24th of June. All reports will be live on Gateway for parents to access on the 17th of June at 12.00pm.
I am particularly interested to read about the resilience of students when learning tasks are challenging. This is an important long-term learning habit (and life skill) which needs to be nurtured both at home and at school. As mentioned in last week’s ENews, QBS staff will be focusing on PSPE (Personal, Social and Physical Education) aspects in the curriculum next year. One area of consideration within PSPE will be the raising the awareness of the child to be ready for learning, focussed and concentrating. These aspects develop the child’s ability to respond to tasks with resilience, determination and confidence.
Meet the Teacher
Next Wednesday the 15th of June all students will meet their new classroom teacher for the coming academic year. An email will be sent to parents at 12 noon on Wednesday with new class details.
QBS 2016/2017 calendar
Please click here to view the QBS calendar for next academic year. All public holidays have now been gazetted by the Government.
Regards,
End of Year Report
Dear Parents,
Your child’s End of Year Report will be available online from 12.00pm (Friday the 17th of June) on the Gateway. A signed hard copy will be posted to you on Monday 20th of June.
For instructions for accessing the End of Year Report, please click here.
You should already have your Gateway login details. Your password will be the one that you have chosen previously when you have logged in to make appointments for parent consultations. If you need assistance with these details or in accessing the information on Gateway please contact Mr Ken Lee ken.lee@qbs.edu.hk
New Qoodle
A new version of Qoodle will come online on 20th June. We hope that the new Qoodle will provide a safe online environment to support our students learning both at school and at home.
On the 20th June, Qoodle will be temporarily unavailable whilst we switch over. Students can still access their Google Apps for Education accounts directly from here.
Setting up the new Qoodle platform has been a very time-consuming process at QBS as it is not possible to simply upgrade our existing Qoodle. We have had to recreate all the courses on the new platform and will gradually move the content across. The new Qoodle will have basic content for Maths, English, Chinese, Learning Centre, Expressive Arts, Learning Technologies and the first Unit of Inquiry for the coming school year. Content for other Units of Inquiry and areas of the curriculum will be added throughout the new school year.
On the new Qoodle, all home learning in all areas of the curriculum will be accessed via the Year Group course. We hope this will be provide a more consistent experience for students and will reflect the school’s updated Home Learning Policy.
A few pieces of information on the old Qoodle which were aimed at parents and staff will be moved to the Gateway. Parents will receive further information about this early in the new school year.
Home Readers
We are currently reviewing our Home Readers and would be very grateful if everyone in the community could double check shelves and book baskets at home for any Quarry Bay School Home Readers. They usually have a ‘QBS Home Readers’ sticker on them, plus some kind of colour band sticker on the spine near the top.
Please return these with your children as soon as possible so that we may take stock of what we have. These books are expensive and sourcing can be difficult so your help in returning any spares is much appreciated.
Anna Trunkfield
Gecko Maths Competition
Gecko Maths is a team competition, where teams of 5 tackle some difficult mathematical problems
Eight QBS teams participated in the triangular Gecko Maths Competition between; Q.B.S., South Island School Yr 7, and Bradbury School, held at SIS on Wednesday 8th.June.
There were 2 competitions:
- Overall (SIS v QBS v Bradbury)
- Primary School (QBS V Bradbury)
In the Overall Competition, two very strong SIS teams placed 1st and 2nd with 28 and 27 points respectively. Two QBS teams placed joint 3rd with 26 points. An excellent effort, especially when considering that the SIS students are, of course, one year older.
In the Primary School Competition, QBS teams finished 1st., 2nd., 3rd., to claim a clean sweep.
Congratulations to all 8 teams (40 students) who won through to SIS competition, and in particular to our two (joint) winning teams.
Award for 2016 Chinese Online Step Reading
Our students have been consistently reading Chinese articles online on 21 May 2016.
A award ceremony (by Commercial press Ltd)was held in CCC Ming Yin College, Shek Kip Mei. Students and parents attended the event to celebrate the achievement of the students.
Congratulations again to the students who won the following award:
Outstanding avid readers in QBS
1st Andrew Luo (4 caring)
2nd Carolyn Chen (3 Humble)
3rd Marcus Lau(5 caring)
Readers with Highest scores
1st Marcus Lau (5 caring)
2nd Ryo Chan(3 caring)
3rd Hayden (3 Humble)
PTA News
Events
2016/2017: PTA Events Committee
Your PTA looks forward to planning and organising more fun-filled, and exciting events in the new academic year. If you would like to join our Event Organising Team in the upcoming year, then please send an email to mona.diwan@qbs.edu.hk expressing your interest NOW!
Paddyfield’s Spring BookClub
All orders are due to be delivered before the end of this academic year.
PTA SUBSCRIPTION FEES 2016/2017
Since the inception of the ESF Ordinance (2008) – all parents have been required to join and become members of their child’s School PTA.
To facilitate ease of payment of the PTA subscription fees, parents can now pay this fees together with the bus fees as stated on the bus application form. This fee is a one fee per family annual payment.
In the event that you do not subscribe to the school bus service you will be required to send a cheque to ESF centre directly, upon receiving their invoice in June.
We will liaise closely with ESF to avoid duplicate receipt of payment. All duplicate payments will be refunded back to the parents.
PTA Shop
Shop closure for summer break
The PTA Shop will close for summer break commencing 17th June 2016. The shop will re-open 1 week prior school on: 8th August 2016 [9:00am-12:00noon]
Feedback or Suggestions
If you have any feedback or suggestions you would like to give on our event or services provided, please email directly to: ptasuggestions@qbs.edu.hk. Your email will directly be received by our Chairman who will reply you at the earliest available moment.
HELP US – IN OUR DRIVE FOR A GREENER ENVIRONMENT
We request all parents to support a greener environment by BYOB “bring your own bag” when you come to purchase items from the shop.
[With immediate effect the PTA Shop will no longer provide any shopping bags].
Please contact us on 2566 4242 (ask to transfer to PTA), or 2887 1004 for further queries, or by email to pta@qbs.edu.hk, during operation hours.
“Click here for PTA Office and Shop Operation”