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ACG SUNDERLAND
WINGS NEWSLETTER
Vol 15, Term One, Week Term One, 3 April 2020
Dear Parents and Friends of Sunderland
I am sure like us, you and your family have swung into the routine of ‘lockdown’ life within the confines of your home – only venturing out for exercise and perhaps to risk the queues at the supermarket. Since my last newsletter, the overwhelming feedback from students and parents with regards the ‘virtual lessons’ has been positive. Students seem to be really enjoying the experiences of ‘school at home’. We did take on advice from some quarters, with the staff scaling back some of our expectations of workload when we got into the work patterns and expectations. Thank you for that. With regards feedback, staff will be carrying out little surveys within class time to gain further understanding with regards making the experience more positive for all involved. This week, I wish to highlight our Preschool, Sue Revill and her team of teachers have also been delivering online lessons to the under five-year olds – very successfully. At the time of lockdown, Sue’s team had prepared packs of material to take away, including paper, pens, glue sticks and paint too. They are including this material into these lessons and to give a full experience for the children at home. I know this period of time maybe distressing and particularly for children. I hope you can appreciate our intention to continue with the routine of teaching and learning straight away, rather than going into the school holidays as the state schools did. Our intention is to give parents some reprieve, give you time to continue with your work cycles at home and have the confidence that your children are continuing with their learning.
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We will almost certainly be pushing the examinations out further in Term Two, and once we get back to school more details will be released about these changes. I am aware that some cycle testing has taken place during our virtual lessons and I encourage assessment of this nature to continue. In some cases this is run in Blackboard and in others, it is run with a high trust model. As an organisation, we will continue to experiment with some online testing programmes, to continue to inform staff, students and parents with more rich data moving forward. I wish to personally thank you again for your continued support in this very trying period, that the whole world’s population is finding themselves in. Take care everybody.
Aspire. Succeed. Respect.
Nathan Villars Campus Principal ACG Sunderland
A Summary of Important Dates Virtual Teaching Mode: Wednesday 25 March – Tuesday 7 April [see the Virtual School Guide] School Holidays: Wednesday 8 April – Wednesday 22 April Term Two will begin: Thursday 23 April. We are hoping for face to face learning from this date, however, if this changes another communication will be sent to the school community.
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HOUSE WARS
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Tik Tok House War As some of you may already know, ACG Sunderland’s student leaders announced a challenge for all Sunderland students on the Sunderland Houses’ Instagram page (@Sunderland Houses) on Monday. To bring people together during the quarantine period, we would like people to spend some time creating a Tik Tok. Students are encouraged to submit a short video of themselves (or edit their friends in as well) dancing to the Sunderland Houses’ Instagram page which will be judged at the end of the holidays. This contest generates house points and the winners will be contributing to this year’s inter-house competition, therefore we highly recommend students participate to give their House the best chance of winning. The criteria for these Tik Toks can be found on the Sunderland Instagram page or on Blackboard under announcements. Videos can be submitted through direct message to the Sunderland Houses’ Instagram page or they can be sent to this email: Sunderlandhouses@gmail.com We look forward to seeing your Tik Toks.
Good Luck!
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Primary
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Student of the Week
Honours Certificate Chelsea Ataya, 3SB
1NC- Henry Guttenbeil - for completing tasks on time 1NG- Enzo Li - for finding material outside of his home 1RW- Lois Cao - for her excellent effort in her online learning 2AV- Luciano Luo - for positive comments 2/3SB- Sophia Omar - for reading all her GetEpic books 3WB- Alexander Child - for excellent standard of work 4LC- Arabella Endersby -Grant- for putting up her hand, answering questions and giving it a go 5KB- Jayana Prasad - for adjusting well to Remote Learning
6SL- Lukas Wahl-Olsen - for high quality of work and helping others
Message to the Primary Community ➢ You are all doing really well on remote learning, a huge thank you to wonderful supportive parents in the Primary School ➢ Remember how you behave in the classroom is how you behave on Zoom. The teachers want to see you still raising your hand and respecting the teacher’s rules around using the chat button, and being sensible in front of the camera.
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Ground Crew
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ACG Sunderland Contacts
If you or your child have any questions, suggestions or concerns, then please contact your form teacher / class teacher in the first instance. Email format for staff is Firstname.Surname@acgedu.com Main reception: Sunderland@acgedu.com Admissions (for new enrolments): Lauren.Fraser@acgedu.com Accounts (for fee enquiries): Mandy.Allen@acgedu.com ICT Support (for technical difficulties of any kind): Sunderland@acgedu.com Senior Leadership: Nathan.Villars@acgewedu.com(Campus Principal) Lawrence.Stephens@acgedu.com(Campus Deputy Principal) Leanne.Chartrand@acgedu.com(Head of Primary) Sue.Revill@acgedu.com(Preschool Manager)
Communication to the Community
All communications from our Senior Management Team is sent via1-2-All, if you are not receiving the weekly newsletter or the CODIV-19 updates, please email catherine,ferguson@acgedu.com
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