Newsletter Issue 38
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
Splash and Dash Race 2 – Results
ESF Aquathon Event
ESF Cricket Finals
Year 6 GECKO MATHS
Parents as Partners
PTA News
Principal’s Comments
2014/2015 End of Year Report
Your child’s End of Year Report is now available via Gateway. Please click here for details on how to access the report. Please also be reminded that all End of Year Reports for the 2014-2015 school year will be posted home to parents from Friday the 19th of June.
Year 6 Graduation Events
The Year 6 students have had a special week with their year group lunch and final assembly. It was lovely to have the Year 6 parents join us on Thursday during the assembly. This year the students listened to a guest speaker – Mr Jamie Atkinson. Jamie is a former QBS student and he spoke fondly of his time as a student here. Jamie is the Captain of the Hong Kong Cricket Team and he travels the world playing cricket. He spoke very well to the students and encouraged them to work hard. It was good to be able to welcome him back to QBS.
1S and 1D Class Assembly
We had our final class assembly for the year today. The students from 1D and 1S entertained their parents and the whole school with their dancing, singing and sharing of important facts about people in our community. We look forward to more of these assembly moments next year too.
Year 6 Action
A group of Year 6 students have been busy working on ways to raise the community’s awareness about Christian Action and the work this charity does to support refugees in Hong Kong. This week they have promoted Dunk the Teacher and with the $10 contributions made for this event the students have raised over $4000.00 to support the food program. I have been mildly nervous about my chances of being ‘dunked’. As expected, I will be ‘dunked’ by the students next week.
Wear Crazy Hair – Friday the 26th of June
Next Friday will be the end of a busy and productive year at QBS. We will farewell wonderful students and their families and some valued staff so let’s wear crazy hair. All students may wear free dress and crazy hair next Friday.
Staff Farewell
This academic year we will say farewell to Doug, Karen, Carrie and Amy and the school would like to recognize and thank them for their hard work and support. We wish them well in their future.
Regards,
Splash and Dash Race 2 – Results
A huge congratulations to all the QBS athletes who took part in the Splash and Dash race. We were thrilled to find out that QBS had in fact finished in top spot from all the Primary Schools and have been awarded with some prizes and goodies from Escapade Sports. These will be shared amongst all our athletes from the race.
| Primary School | ||
| Position | Group Name | Score |
| 1 | Quarry Bay School | 44 |
| 2 | Australian International School Hong Kong | 19 |
| 3 | Kennedy School | 19 |
A special mention to Lily Sheary who finished on the podium for her age group in 3rd place.
All results can be viewed here.
ESF Aquathon Event
A huge congratulations to the 3 QBS Teams who took part in the ESF Aquathon at KGV. All our athletes gave 100% to push themselves to the finish line on a hot day. This race marked the end of all our aquathon events in term 3 and we have been very proud of all our students achievements throughout the season.
ESF Cricket Finals
Congratulations to the QBS cricket team who were entered into the Cup Competition after their impressive qualifying round. The day ended with 2 wins and 2 loses and a proud 5th place overall finish after winning a very close playoff match against Kellet Kowloon.
If you would like more information about getting your son/daughter involved in cricket we have excellent links with some community cricket programs at Kowloon Cricket Club and Hong Kong Cricket Club. Please contact Mr. Schroder for more information.
Year 6 GECKO MATHS
Parents as Partners
A Story in French
Thank you Mrs Yee for reading us a story about a Dad who is so big, he is like a giant! The Year 1 and 2 students enjoyed listening very much. Thank you to the French speaking students who also helped.
Last Story of the Year
A big thank you to Clara for reading our very last story of the year.
Our Y1 and 2 students have been so lucky to have so many amazing stories from all our wonderful parent volunteers.
PTA News
Upcoming events – Please mark your diaries:
22nd, 23rd & 24th June 2015: QBS Staff & Student Appreciation Days
As we near the end of this academic year, we will be seeing a lot of our staff and students (especially our year 6 students) leaving us. We would like to end this academic year with appreciating all those within our community (i.e. teachers, staff, students, parents or families) who have “Made a Difference” to us this year.
For the first time ever, the PTA is organising another debut event:
“Appreciation Days at QBS”
on 22nd, 23rd and 24th June,
and welcome all of you to participate.
Event Details:
- The event is absolutely free;
- All you have to do is to drop your “appreciation card, letter or gift” into the mail boxes located outside PTA Office on the above days. [Please mark clearly: the name of the recipient, and class number/department (if applicable) to send to parents and families, please state the child’s name of the family and class number clearly.]
- Our parent volunteers will deliver these to the respective students, staff or families on the same day. [If you would like to help out as a parent volunteer – please let us know.]
Please click here for the poster.
Who are QBS Staff?
These people can be anyone from:
Principal, vice principals, teachers, office staff, EAs, amahs, school nurse, PTA staff, special training staff, lunch mums, to bus mums and bus drivers.
Don’t Forget
- To put the full name of the staff or student you want to appreciate, on the note or envelope.
- To put your full name and class number in the message.
- ONLY thank you messages please!
Parent Volunteers:
If you would like to assist with the organising of this event – please email us at mona.diwan@qbs.edu.hk with your child’s name / class number / your name and mobile number.
Bus Mums Curry Lunch
A bus mums curry lunch was organised and held on 15th June, by the PTA, to thank all the bus mums for their hard work during the year. They were also presented with tokens of appreciation by our principal, Ms Mina Dunstan.
School Buses – on 26th June 2015
School will close at 12:00 noon. Please refer to the School Bus Time Schedule here.
School Buses – 2015/2016 ACADEMIC YEAR
School Buses will be available for those students only who have subscribed for the bus services commencing on the first day of school, Monday, 17th June 2015. Confirmation may be obtained by email only to pta@qbs.edu.hk, before 25th June 2015 (Confirmation via phone will not be given).
PTA Office – Summer Holidays
The PTA Office will be closed from 12:00noon on 26th June 2015 to 16th August 2015.
- The Office will re-open on Monday, 17th August 2015, at normal office hours.
PTA Shop – Summer Holidays
The PTA Shop is closed for year-end stock audit followed by summer break.
- The Shop will re-open on 10th August – 14th August 2015, from 9:00am – 1:00pm.
- Normal shop hours will resume from 18th August 2015.