ACG Sunderland Newsletter - 10 February 2023

ACG SUNDERLAND WINGS NEWSLETTER

Vol 19, Term One, Week Three, 10 February 2023

Dear Parents and Friends of Sunderland,

I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend, and that you got out in the sunshine and your properties began to dry out a little. The Waitangi weekend is the last holiday until Easter and this year Easter falls in the front of the April school holidays in 9 weeks of uninterrupted teaching of learning.

We do have at least one break, however, with the whole school Athletics Day occurring on 28 February.

Another key date is 24 February, which is the Parents and Friends Picnic. This will be the first time in 2 years we have run this extravaganza – with food trucks, bouncy castles, face painting, and lucky dips. Most importantly, it is an opportunity to have families get together, meet other school families and connect with our wonderful community. More details will follow.

On Tuesday next week, we are going to celebrate our scholars from 2022. Students will cross stage with outstanding results in Primary & Secondary Checkpoint, IGCSE, AS and the full A Level.

It is also an opportunity to recognize our top students who have been awarded Top in New Zealand Awards from Cambridge, too.

I am proud, to announce to the community that Cedric Siriwardana was awarded Top in New Zealand for AS Physics and Jessica Liu the Top in New Zealand for AS Mathematics.

Jessica was also Top AS Student in New Zealand, scoring the best across 4 AS subjects.

I wish to congratulate all our teaching staff from 2022 and, in particular Mr Graham Gottard for Physics and Mrs Natasha Lytkina for Mathematics.

On Thursday next week, we will be celebrating these successes at Eden Park, when Cambridge representatives arrive from Singapore to present awards.

Aspire. Succeed. Respect.

Nathan Villars Campus Principal ACG Sunderland

Value for next week is:

Thoughtfulness

Consideration for the needs of other people.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and hopefully this forecasted storm does not cause much damage or concern.

Stay Safe.

Early Learning School

Under 2’s Room

This week, we've immersed ourselves in the music and enjoyed dancing and playing peeka-boo with the veils.

Junior Room

This week, the children in Junior room continued to explore shapes in their environment; making shapes with colorful sticks and pipe cleaners, hunting for shapes and learning about the names of the shapes through songs, books and everyday activities. They tried to be creative in their own ways. They were also interested in the insects and would search for spiders and flies in our environment.

6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson, Auckland

Early Learning School

6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson, Auckland

Senior Room

We joined the entire Aotearoa in celebrating Waitangi Day through painting and colouring feathers for a korowai.

This week we also learned the letter S and the sound it makes through tracing and artworks.

Primary Assembly – Week 3

This week's Lower Primary Winner was Mia Liu –

2SHA

Arrival at School

Please be reminded that school starts at 8.30am. Students must arrive by 8.15am and they will be marked absent if they are not in class by 8.30am.

Lost Property

We are accumulating an awful lot of lost property – uniforms, drink bottles, lunch boxes, shoes etc.

Please ensure that ALL your child’s belongings are labelled with their name.

Sundry Purchases

If you are purchasing sundry items from Reception like calculators, badges etc, can you please ensure your child has the correct money as we do not have change at reception. We are unable to put these on your school account.

2nd Hand Uniform Shop

A reminder that the 2nd hand uniform shop is no longer sending cheques out or able to pay into your school account for uniform items sold on behalf. If you know you have uniform items in the shop to sell, please go to reception or ring the school with a bank account number to deposit the funds. No bank account number – no payment

School Socks

We have available in the 2nd hand uniform shop, a range of brand new boys socks in a variety of sizes. Price is $14 per pair.

School Badges

House Badges $5, Sunderland Badges $8.50, Speciality Badges $12. Please ensure your child has the correct money as we cannot charge these to your school account. These can be purchased from Reception.

Dropping Off Items to Children

Reminder – when you are dropping off items or collecting your children from school for appointments – you MUST report to reception and NOT go directly to their classroom.

Notices Parents & Friends

Whole School Picnic

Date: Friday 24 February 2023

Time: 4.30pm – 8.00pm

Venue: Onsite

Bring your parents, grandparents and caregivers and have a fun filled evening.

Bring your own food and drink (alcohol permitted) or purchase from one of the food trucks.

No parking onsite. No eftpos facilities –bring cash for the activities. Food trucks will accept eftpos.

The Rolling Pin – Dumplings

Brooklyn Dogs – Hotdogs

Lulu’s – Fresh Fruit Ice Creams

Mamasdonuts – Donuts

Jays Kitchen – Burgers

Food Trucks or BYO

Lucky Dips $5

Bouncy Castles $2 Fun Activities

Face Painting $5 Family Time

Notices

Netball Waitākere are hosting a FREE Have a Go Day for all Future Ferns year 1-8 who would like to get involved in Netball and you’re invited!

All our Member clubs and schools are welcome to have a registration/information table at the event. A great opportunity to promote your club if you are planning on growing and developing in the junior grades. Space will fill up fast so contact us to book your rego/info table, by Wednesday 22nd Feb, simply reply to this email murray@netballwaitakere.co.nz

Netball New Zealand & Northern Zone will be promoting this event and it is targeted at those players wanting to give it a go that don’t necessarily play already, male & female!

Netball Waitākere Future Ferns Year 1-8 Have a Go and registration Day. NO experience needed and ALL future FERNS levels welcome (Year 1-8)

• Sunday 26th February

• 11.00am-1.00pm

• FREE

• Games & activation stations

• Meet your favourite MG Northern Mystics Players

Sausage Sizzle

Parents and Friends Committee

Dear Parents and Friends of ACG Sunderland, ACG Sunderland is an independent school whose students are of incredibly diverse ethnicity. From pre-school to senior college the school strives to help their students achieve their full potential. The Parents and Friends Committee works alongside this aim of the school.

Parents and Friends is a committee run by volunteers all, unsurprisingly, are friends or families of the school! The committee raises funds to cover items of benefit to the students that are not covered by school fees. In the past this has included such things as donations to the school ball, shade sails over playgrounds, cricket nets, and the planting of a hedge for privacy at the front of the primary playground.

All activities run by Parents and Friends are fun, social activities that help to instil a feeling of belonging throughout all families attending the school. Meetings take place on the first Thursday of every month at 8.30am in the staffroom. Please let Mrs Sonya Eldridge know if you are interested in joining the committee by email: sonya.eldridge@acgedu.com

The next meeting is Thursday 2 February 2023.

ACG Sunderland Parents and Friends Committee Scholarship

Parents & Friends Committee would like to let all parents know about this scholarship for 2023.

The purpose of the ACG Sunderland Parents and Friends Scholarship is to assist an individual or group of current students to participate in an activity that extra finances are required to allow the activity to take place. These activities may include (but are not limited to) representative sports, music, the arts, or sponsorship.

Criteria

 The student/s must be currently enrolled at ACG Sunderland

 A full application Form must have been completed and signed

 At the discretion of the Parent and Friends committee a maximum of $1000 may be allocated each academic year.

Application forms can be requested from Linda Storey at linda.storey@acgedu.com

Sunderland on Service at ACG Sunderland

Dear parents and students, as you maybe knowing service is a crucial value that should be practised by all ages. Here at Sunderland we want to recognise those who already do active selfless service at home or in their community, but most importantly we would like those who don’t really do active service to be given a chance and to be educated about service, and this can be reached through Sunderland On Service (S.O.S).

What is our Mission statement?

To develop the values of service and respect by helping others in our school and community.

To actively contribute within our communities, display values of selflessness, enthusiasm and determination.

How to get involved or get your badge?

We will be putting up information about different activities that can be done on our notice board and will be posting more information soon. You can collect a sheet at reception to fill in with your hours or find it on blackboard, and it can be handed back to reception so that we can award you for your outstanding service.

Anything you want to count as your hours should be done as a volunteer, meaning you shouldn’t be paid for doing it. Remember to keep the service age appropriate.

Below is the information for the badges:

Ground Crew

Freedom2Play School Wear Shop

40 Patiki Road

Avondale

Auckland

Tel 09 838 6164

Open

Tuesday, Thursday from 9.00am to 5.00pm Saturday from 9.00am to 1.00pm

Closed

Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Public Holidays

As a reminder all school uniform continues to be available for purchase online on our Freedom2Play website freedom2play.co.nz/collections/schoolwearschools-acg-sunderland-school

Kids at School Care

Kids at School Care operates in G02, Monday to Friday, from 7.00am to 8.20am and 3.10pm to 5.45pm. They also run a Holiday Programme.

Contact Beth Rivero for enrolment and fees information by email beth.rivero@gmail.com or Phone: 022 394 5743.

Staff Emails

Email format for staff is: Firstname.Surname@acgedu.com

Sunderland Second-Hand Uniform Shop

The shop is open. Please ask at reception for access. We are taking good quality uniform items for the second-hand shop. Blazers must be dry cleaned.

Lunch Orders – From Libelle

You can order your child's yummy and healthy lunches at www.lunchorders.co.nz. Cut off time for ordering same day is at 8.30am. If you have any questions, please reach out to the Lunch Orders team via email on lunchorders@libelle.co.nz or flick a message on the Lunch Orders FB Messenger. Happy Lunch Ordering!

No cash-out service available.

6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson, Auckland

Lost Property

All lost property can be found by the Second-Hand Uniform Shop.

For your best interest, please name all clothing, lunch boxes and drink bottles, as we will return all named items to the student’s homeroom teacher.

School Contact Details

School Office: Phone: 838 7070

Address: 6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson Waitakere 0610

Email: sunderland@acgedu.com

Attendance: sunderlandattendance@acgedu.com

Web: www.acgedu.com

2023 Term Dates

Term 1: 26 January to 6 April

Term 2: 26 April to 30 June

Term 3: 24 July to 22 September

Term 4: 9 October to 8 December

2024 Term Dates

Term 1: 25 January to 12 April

Term 2: 29 April to 27 June

Term 3: 22 July to 27 September

Term 4: 14 October to 3 December

Traffic- Safety

Please note that numbered car parks are for staff. Please do not park in the numbered carparks.

Contacting School Bus Drivers

Please do not ring or text the drivers after 7.15am as they will not be checking their cell phones while they are driving. Thank you for your support.