ACG Sunderland Newsletter - 19 November

ACG Sunderland 09 838 7070 6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson, Auckland

ACG SUNDERLAND

WINGS NEWSLETTER Vol 17, Term Four, Week Six, 19 November 2021

Dear Parents and Friends of Sunderland I’m sure by now you will have digested our plan for the school re-opening to all students from Year 1-10 on Monday. We also appreciate there will be some anxiety and concern in the community as society in general begins to free up over the next number of weeks. To be clear, these changes are all directed by the Government and the Ministry of Education.

Please also note that, on Thursday this week, we completed all our Cambridge examinations without a hitch. Our entire senior student body entered and exited the buildings at least ten times each – some for over 30 hours. We managed what is a highly complex set of protocols for our seniors. Therefore, please have confidence that we can manage it for the remainder of our student body too.

Mr Stephens, Mrs Chartrand, and myself have developed the plan that is workable, sensible, meeting all the Health Order protocols, and which generates an environment that children will enjoy coming back to school.

The entire staff is looking forward to seeing your children back on Monday.

Some parents have asked whether online lessons would continue. In short, it will depend on the number of children in each class who turn up for face-to-face lessons.

TERM 4 2021 ENDS 6 DECEMBER 2021

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In most cases, some posted material will be available online, plus Zoom lessons where appropriate. However, staff will be delivering their lessons outside when available so Zoom classes are not always going to be available.

Again, we do look forward to the school reopening.

We are very excited with our new preschool as it grows from our carpark. It looks like it will open in February 2022 – probably with around 45 children. It really will be a state-ofthe-art complex with some wonderful initiatives. The playground is so impressive with a huge slide coming off the deck.

I have integrated a link to a fly-through that will give you some appreciation of the new structure. https://lsg.shapespark.com/acg_sunderland_childcare/ If you are interested in the preschool for your children, please email Mrs Linda Storey, our Enrolments Manager on linda.storey@acgedu.com for more information.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Aspire. Succeed. Respect.

Nathan Villars Campus Principal ACG Sunderland

Value for the next week is: Enthusiasm Intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.

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Preschool

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Preschool Learning The Preschool children are learning the letter sounds ‘p, i, n’ this week. We explored a variety of activities indoors and outdoors and we had great ‘Day with numbers’ when introducing the letter sound ‘n.’ The children enjoyed number games which included number hunt around the room, matching and identifying numbers up to 10 as well as singing number songs during group discussions.

Mason and Aiden helped at making the scarecrow for our vegetable garden and we named it ‘Jessie.’

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Primary

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Primary Online Learning Students of the Week 1JH - Iris Wang for being dedicated to attending zoom lessons and presenting quality work.

1NG - Jacob Li for turning in work of outstanding quality.

1CS - Shayaan Nath - for making a great speech for the Mayor of Auckland about litter in our riverways 1NC - Hanna Xia for showing excellent effort in creative writing, spelling, basic facts and for making artistic projects in Visual Art. 2AV - Yannis Lee for making good progress in Mathematics 2SB - Austin He for his fantastic participation in remote learning classes. Well done!

3MH - Leah Francis for a great effort and improvement in her online learning. Keep it up!

3BR - Max Whittle for submitting high quality work every day.

4CF - Maran Googan for his growth in confidence in sharing in front of his classmates 5WB - Melody Bai for showing enthusiasm for online learning 5CW - Tina Zhang for her beautiful poetry please 6SL - Aikya Jeevithesh for working well and applying herself to all tasks through zoom.

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Primary

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Primary Online Learning 1NC’s Cooking/Baking and Fun Activity with Mum and Dad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY_hYsVLG1c Ingredients 250g butter 1 ½ cups white sugar 1 tsp vanilla essence 1 tsp baking powder ½ cup chocolate drops

½ cup cocoa powder 4 eggs 1 cup standard flour ½ cup chopped raspberry liquorice 1 cup chocolate cookie chunks

Method Preheat oven to 180°C bake. Line an 18 x 28cm sponge roll tin with baking paper. Melt butter in a saucepan large enough to mix all ingredients in. Mix in cocoa, remove from heat and stir in sugar.

Add eggs and mix well, then add vanilla essence. Sift in flour and baking powder and mix to combine.

Mix in chopped raspberry liquorice, chocolate drops, chocolate cookie chunks. Pour into prepared tin.

Bake for 25-30 minutes or until brownie springs back when touched lightly.

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Primary

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Primary Online Learning Christmas is just around the corner. Our young artists in Year 1 & 3 had a great time in Visual Art online lesson with Ms. Carillo. They had fun designing 3D pop up cards and finger stamped cards for their families and friends.

Stella Chen– 1NG

Livia Gao – 1NG

Anna Hu – 3BR Georgia Mu – 3BR

Luca Wang – 3BR

Chelsea Ataya – 3BR Eva Sun – 3MH

Hanna Xia – 1NC

Chloe Li – 1NC Ada Liu – 1NC

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Primary Online Learning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=hpusLi0ihhM&t=16s

Congratulations also to 1CS who enter competitions every week as part of their learning and so far have won quite a few of them. The best competition was the Zoo one and the children have won free tickets for their families to the Zoo, goody bags and special secret videos and access for Miss Sealy to take them there on Zoom.

• • • • Congratulations to Daniella Wang – 1CS for winning the Auckland Parks competition

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Shayaan Nath won a shirt and jumper in the Kiwi Guardians Scavenger hunt.

1CS won 5x rash vests and a book for Miss Sealy – Sir Peter Blake Trust conservation heroes.

Chloe Yang won a DOC Competiton Macpac backpack and books about the environment.

Miss Sealy won the class a set of cricket bats and balls from the ICC Womens World Cup Team.

1CS keep collecting and winning Kiwi Guardians Medals on our weekly walks.

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College

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Year 9 & 10 Time Capsule

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College Art

Giga-Pet Support Duck

By Madison McDowall – Year 8

Fire Graffiti

By Savera Sidhu – Year 8

By Harry Zhang – Year 8

By Nicholas Qin – Year 8 10

Students Voice

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"Good Riddance 2021" 2021 has been a whirlwind of a year, and to kiss Term Four and this school year goodbye, The Students Voice is doing a series on 2021 called “Good Riddance 2021.” Members of the Students Voice will be expressing their opinions of 2021 and how they felt being in lockdown for such a long period of time.

This series will continue until the final newsletter and explore many different viewpoints on the rollercoaster ride that was this year. After all, through the good, the bad, the exciting, the boring, and the traumatizing, we had words to sort our thoughts, we had pages to fill with emotions and we had each other. So now, we are sharing our words with you, but we can all agree, the main message is “Good Riddance 2021”!

By Amelia Lee - Year 9

Aileen’s Thoughts on 2021 I am very certain that 2021 has been a very rough year for most of us. The COVID-19 situation became worse throughout the year, as the numbers of cases grew each day as well as lockdown getting extended.

This year, we weren’t able to attend school as much as we had planned, which disappointed me. I still remember the time when COVID cases suddenly started to appear again in New Zealand during term 3. I doubt anyone had expected this plot twist in our lives.

At first, I couldn't believe we had to restart lockdown because everything was going great.

I had no idea something like this could happen. Unfortunately, lockdown began, and we started our zoom lessons online.

Despite the uncertainty, I did my hardest to put out my best effort in my subjects as I was still working towards achieving my 2021 goals. I could tell I was getting used to this new lifestyle as the days passed, and things started to loosen up. I even tried a lot of new things, and I suppose I've discovered my new hobby. Lockdown, in my opinion, isn't always a terrible thing. I think lockdown gave me opportunities and time to try new things and helped me discover new things that I enjoyed doing.

Overall, I think 2021 has been one of the worst years and I hope nothing similar to this will happen in 2022. I hope everything will turn out perfectly fine for next year with no COVID cases or lockdowns. Let’s hope for the best for 2022.

Dear 2021, you will not be missed but you will be remembered.

By Aileen Yim - Year 9 11

Students Voice

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Akarsh’s Thoughts on 2021 2021 has definitely been a difficult year, especially with our unexpected 3-month lockdown. I have mixed feelings for this lockdown. On the good side I got to be more relaxed and sleep more, but on the bad side I had to be on a laptop for a long time every day because I had online classes for school. There were some small lockdowns in the beginning of the year but those were only one weeklong, so it wasn’t that bad compared to the current lockdown.

I also had my birthday during lockdown. I really wanted to make the most of it, so I had a small online party, and it was so fun! I got to meet my friends after a long time and play some games which is also what I get to do more with my family now. In the weekends we like to play games and watch movies and since I have no classes because we are in lockdown, I can do anything the whole weekend which is something I love.

Other than the lockdown, 2021 has been a great year for me. It was my first year in ACG Sunderland and I am really stoked to be at this school and a part of the community.

There were some great highlights of this year for me at school; such as the athletics day, cross country and swimming sports. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to play my last part of the cricket season due to the lockdown, and I missed out on a bit of my badminton season as well.

Overall, I think 2021 was an incredible year, let’s hope 2022 is just as good and better!

By Akarsh Shankar - Year 7

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Students Voice

ACG Sunderland 09 838 7070 6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson, Auckland

Nicholas’s Thoughts on 2021 A few years ago, I attended a mates birthday party. It was held at Rainbows End; it was my first time there, and my first time going on a roller coaster. Don’t ask me anything about that trip, all I could say is that my whole day was ‘BILIOUS.’ There’s a new word for you; look it up. However, I’m not getting off topic here: 2021 for sure felt like a roller coaster – I’m sure you have heard of this metaphor before, it’s one of the most basic sentence starters.

Regarding the weeklong lockdown at the start of the year, I was prepared. We went through this last year; the procedure and guidelines are set - everything is expected. I used this time to go through my plans for the year - a trip to Europe maybe? Uhm, that might not happen, but that didn’t stop me from exploring different locations around my suburb by foot or on my bike. My physical wellbeing has patently improved throughout this period, nothing beats being athletic!

The transition from lockdown to school was rather easy for me, it was simply like a holiday. Except, masks were put on, sanitizing procedures and social distancing was introduced (although, no one followed that). Making sure I would study and revise for the exams in Term 4 was something I had in mind, but I wasn’t really motivated back then, and, in the end, they didn’t even go ahead! Luckily enough, I had the opportunity to represent the school in badminton. Being the captain of the Junior-Boys’ badminton team, I could say we were loaded with talented players and I’m extremely proud of how everyone’s dedication had a huge impact on how we played!

Overall, I would say those times were the unforgettable moments of 2021, not knowing if it could be your last time seeing your friends and teachers in real life in 2021. I hope people can get vaccinated ASAP and try stop the spread of the virus; instead of protesting and throwing riots!

By Nicholas Qin - Year 8

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Notices

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ACG Sunderland is opening its new Preschool early in 2022.

There will be three main rooms that we are looking to name.

Infant Room Junior Room Senior Room We are running a competition and giving the students the opportunity to name these rooms similar to how the onsite Wings Café was named The theme is AVIATION You can email your room name choices along with your name and class for one or all three rooms to linda.storey@acgedu.com. Entries close Friday 17 December

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Term 4 Service Norwest Care Trust - Foodbank

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Immunisation School Based Programmes Lockdown restrictions have interrupted this year’s school-based Boostrix and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation programme in the Auckland region.

It is important to keep your children vaccinated so that they are protected against tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis and HPV. Vaccination is free and we encourage you to have your child vaccinated through your GP. GP practices have COVID-19 infection prevention control measures in place.

Talk to your GP at the time of booking if you have any concerns.

Anyone who has questions, or is having difficulty accessing their GP, can contact a public health nurse (PHN) by phoning (09) 486-8996 ext 2.

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Library Book & School Team Sports Uniforms Returns

If your child has any library books or team sports uniforms that they have borrowed from the school, please return these before the end of Term 4.

You can drop these off in a plastic container that will be left outside the School Reception on any school day during the hours of 9.00am and 3.30pm.

Please DO NOT bring these in on the weekend and leave them outside.

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https://www.scholastic.co.nz/media/5721/book-club-student-issue-72021.pdf

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Senior Tutorials

Tutorials are offered to students as a means to give extra support and guidance. The key to tutorials is be prepared.

Examples of what you could get help with and what you should bring but not limited to • • • • •

Review past exam questions Specific questions related to the course Practice essays Questions on your coursework Teacher is reviewing a specific area you are not confident in.

The key is being specific, remember staff like it when you are proactive. The tutorial is the opportunity to look closely at the requirements of a piece of work with the guidance of a staff member.

ACG Sunderland Students Invoices As mentioned in January, we moved to a new finance system at the start of the year. The implementation has gone smoothly and we’d like to thank parents who have amended their reference when making payment by bank transfer to the Communication Ref No. A small number of parents have not recognised the noreply-jde@inspirededu.com address that the invoices have been sent from, or have found that the emails have gone direct to junk. If you can please check these points if information is not coming through and, as always, please contact Mandy Allen at mandy.allen@acgedu.com or 09 838 7070 if you have any accounts questions.

No Cheque payments from 22 June 2021 ACG Sunderland will not be accepting or issuing cheques from Tuesday 22 June 2021. Payments need to be made online or over the counter with Eftpos or Credit Cards (2% surcharge).

Please note that both the café and reception cannot provide any cash-out services.

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UBIQ has taken the decision to not proceed with second-hand buyback purchasing for the 2022 academic year.

This is not a decision they have taken lightly as they feel it is a valuable service to provide to the students, and families attending ACG. However, in light of recent and ongoing outbreaks of the highly transmissible Delta variant of Covid-19 in the community and subsequent alert level changes, they strongly feel the need for ongoing caution and care. Even more so given the size of the campus we are based on, and recent cases that created exposure events on campus.

For this reason, UBIQ are uncomfortable putting their staff, ACG students and their families in a position of risk.

UBIQ sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this will cause and look forward to a safer 2022.

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ACG Sunderland Ball Committee are fundraising – please support them!

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Ground Crew L School Wear Shop 40 Patiki Road Avondale Auckland Tel 09 838 6164

2021 Open Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 8.30am to 4.30pm Saturday from 9.00am to 1.00pm 2022 Open 10 January to 12 February Monday to Friday from 8.30am – 5.30pm Saturday from 9.00am – 3.00pm From 12 February Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 8.30am to 4.30pm Saturday from 9.00am to 1.00pm Closed Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday and Public Holidays As a reminder all school uniform continues to be available for purchase online on our Lenco website https://lenco.space/schoolwear/school-wear-acgsunderland/

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

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.

ACG Sunderland 09 838 7070 6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson, Auckland

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.

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

2021 Term Dates Term 4:

11 October to 7 December

2022 Term Dates Term 1: Term 2: Term 3: Term 4:

26 Jan to 14 April 2 May to 1 July 25 July to 24 September 11 October to 7 December

Traffic- Safety Please note that numbered car parks are for staff.

Please do not park in the 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.

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