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WINGS NEWSLETTER Dear Parents and Friends of Sunderland
Vol 16, Term Four, Week One, 16 October 2020
Welcome back to school for the final term of this very strange 2020. I hope, like me, you were able to at least have a couple of days away with your families. However, I am cognizant that Years Six, Nine and the Seniors did have high-stake Cambridge Examinations beginning this week, so it really was not a holiday for most. Our Lower College students also have internal examinations beginning after Labour weekend. I wish to also acknowledge the time staff gave up over the recent holidays to offer tutorials for most subject areas. I know the attendance of these seminars was almost at 100% which is again, quite remarkable. Many of you will have read the articles that have been published in the Herald over the past number of weeks highlighting the concern the New Zealand Institute has over New Zealand’s decline in the PISA results. (These are tests run in all OECD countries with 15-year-old children in Math's, English and Science). This has occurred at the same time most New Zealand schools have moved to a very skills based, student centred learning strategy. I can assure you that ACG Schools offer a knowledge contentbased teaching approach and that if the data for private schools is assessed independently,
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then New Zealand private schools rate in the top three according to OECD evidence. Our approach to the two lockdown periods in New Zealand also mirrors this strategy with our students having Zoom lessons for all their contacts. Teachers were still engaged with delivery and feedback thus, our Senior students move into the high stake Cambridge Examinations, confident and well prepared. The links to both the articles are below: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12370564 https://nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12372700
I personally welcome our fourteen new students to school this term,.Ten are starting school for the very first time in Mrs Sangprong’s class; two are starting in the Middle Primary and two in the College.
I know that all have enjoyed their first week here at ACG Sunderland.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Aspire. Succeed. Respect.
Nathan Villars Campus Principal ACG Sunderland
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Primary New Students
This term our Primary school has twelve new students! We welcome a New Entrant class of ten students with their teacher Mrs Sangprong. We have also had two new students join us in Year Three.
Oscar Wang, 3WB
Aashrith Jeevitesth, 1DS
James Cosgrove, 1DS
Jennifer Wang, 3WB
Leevin Lek, 1DS
Mira Ramadan, 1DS
Hanna Xia, 1DS
Dylan Cong, 1DS
Zane Luo, 1DS
Iris Chen, 1DS
Matilda Townshend, 1DS
Yichong Hu, 1DS
We welcome you to ACG Sunderland and look forward to seeing you grow.
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The Student Voice!
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The Chess Championships On the 26th and 27th of September a group of students from ACG Sunderland went to Tauranga to compete in the New Zealand Chess Federation’s NZ Interschool National Championships. The group of students competing in the intermediate division were Yolanda Chang (year 8), Eric Mironov (year 8), Sophia Feng (year 5) and myself. This tournament was an excellent opportunity to practise and use our chess skills and knowledge. There were 16 schools competing in total, and the major opponents were Somerville School, Auckland Normal Intermediate, Takapuna Normal Intermediate, ACG Parnell, North Cross Intermediate and Blockhouse Bay. The tournament was split across two days, the first five rounds on the first day and the critical last two rounds on the second day, with prizegiving scheduled at midday, giving competitors a good amount of time to travel back home. On the first day our team won against Newlands Intermediate (Wellington) and Pinehurst (North Shore), drew against ACG Parnell (Central Auckland) and lost to Takapuna Normal Intermediate (North Shore). On the second day the team won against Mount Roskill Intermediate and Auckland Normal Intermediate, bumping them down to second place. In the end ACG Sunderland came fourth with nine points, narrowly being beaten by Auckland Normal Intermediate and ACG Parnell, both having 10 and Takapuna Normal Intermediate coming first with 12 points. Congratulations to the chess team and may they have good luck in tournaments to come!
Written by Anya Thurner (year 8)
Talent Show & Battle of the Bands Congratulations to all the winners and to those who took time for practices and endless recordings. All performances of this year’s Talent Show and Battle of the Bands were phenomenal. Everyone loved the amazing singers, the beautiful violin players, talented dancers and the wonderful pianists. Everything was so spectacular. Due to Covid-19, the Talent Show and the Battle of the Bands was pre-recorded. However, the energy was vocal. Everyone in the room was whooping and cheering on these brave souls. We all had a blast singing along to the graduates’ lovely singing of “See You Again”. Some students were swaying at the back of the room with torches creating a beautiful loving mood for the seniors last day. All in all, it was a beautiful way of saying goodbye to the seniors. There was also a bonus of the teachers’ band of Mr O’Conner with his beautiful voice, Mr Dawson with his fantastic guitar skills, and Ms Ngoh with her amazing drumming skills. It was a fun moment to watch and cheer on these amazing teachers and all the other participants of the 2020 Talent Show & Battle of the Bands.
Written by Krisha Prasad (year 10)
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The Student Voice!
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Senior Music Concert On the last Wednesday of Term Three, we had our annual Senior Music concert, in which the Jazz Band, the Chamber Orchestra, and our IGCSE students took part. Within the audience, we had many parents of our performers watching, which was great to see. For the IGCSE students, the performance contributed to their overall grade for the year, so it was understandably very important for them. The Jazz Band opened our concert performing “Have you met Miss Jones”, and “Like Someone in Love”, with Sophia Yeoman from Year Nine singing. As expected, they did a remarkable job, which I’m sure they should be proud of. At the same time, this was also quite saddening, as it was the last time that they performed together, considering that some players from the Jazz Band will be graduating this year.
Following them, we had the IGCSE students perform, which was very inspiring as they are clearly very talented at what they do. These were also recorded for marking, which is something they can look forward to. Afterwards, the Chamber Orchestra, performed, visibly grown from when they first began. They performed “March in G”, “Rondo e capriccio”, “Hungarian dance”, and “Hornpipe”. Despite none of us being a Senior, apart from our pianist, who is our IGCSE student, the Orchestra performed really well, which was a great experience for the group. The IGCSE Music Class Band performed to close the concert. It was thrilling to watch. We can all agree that their teamwork was impeccable, and it was very much enjoyed by all of us. The concert was very amusing and fun, so we anticipate participating again next year.
Written by Jessie Wu (year 8) 5
Starship Charity!
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Last term our leadership team chose Starship Hospital as their nominated charity. It was a resounding success with $2,281.70 being raised. This is a truly amazing effort from the entire school. With Lower Primary constantly donating gold coins to compete in the colouring competition our leaders had a challenging time choosing the winners. This led to the Leaders having to announce two winners: Georgia Mu in 3SB and Ryan Kueh from 4LC. Thank you primary for all your wonderful works of art! The Leadership Team would like to extend a heartfelt thankyou to all students & families of ACG Sunderland for your amazing support of this term’s charity: Starship. This term we held a Movie Night, a Primary colouring competition, a space-themed mufti day and the school’s very first virtual Talent Show/Battle of the Bands. We have had wonderful participation and entries in all of these events. We have managed to raise a great donation for this most-worthy charity.
Thank you all so much!
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Ground Crew
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Lenco School Wear Shop
Sunderland Second-Hand Uniform Shop
40 Patiki Road Avondale Auckland Tel 09 838 6164
The shop is open. Please ask at reception for access.
We will continue to use the entrance at number 44 Patiki Road to access our shop site at number 40 Patiki road until further notice as the site works are taking longer than anticipated– note access is very clearly sign posted to avoid any confusion.
Lost Property
Winter opening hours Monday 8.30am – 4.30pm Wednesday 8.30am – 4.30pm Friday 8.30am – 4.30pm Saturday 9.00am – 1.00pm
We are taking good quality uniform items for the second-hand shop. Blazers must be dry cleaned.
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 students homeroom teacher.
As a reminder all school uniform continues to be available for purchase online on our Lenco website https://lenco.space/schoolwear/. .
Contact Details
Kids at School Care
Email:
sunderland@acgedu.com
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.
Attendance:
sunderlandattendance@acgedu.com
Web:
www.acgedu.com
Contact Haydee Cos on 021 161 6256 for enrolment and fees information or email haydeecos@yahoo.com
Staff Emails Email format for staff is: Firstname.Surname@acgedu.com
School Office: Phone: 838 7070 Address: 6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson Waitakere 0610
2021 Term Dates Term 1: Term 2: Term 3: Term 4:
25 January to 16 April 3 May to 2 July 26 July to 24 September 11 October to 7 December
School Office Hours During the term break ACG Sunderland office hours will be 9.00am – 3.30pm
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