ACG Sunderland 09 838 7070 6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson, Auckland
ACG SUNDERLAND
WINGS NEWSLETTER Vol 17, Term Four, Week Two, 22 October 2021
Dear Parents and Friends of Sunderland, You will have received an email from me earlier this week outlining a proposed testing week next week for Years 0-10. This is not at all an examination cycle but just a data collection process for students and staff. Staff have begun the report writing process and these will be available for all year groups at the end of the year. The Government announced on Wednesday that Senior students from NCEA schools would return next Tuesday, ready to sit their exams at the end of this academic year. To be clear, this change does not affect our strategy for our Cambridge exams and our students will continue to sit their assessments at school as they have done for the past two weeks. To date, the process has been extremely smooth, and I wish to acknowledge Mr Stephens' work and organisation to make this process so positive.
VIRTUAL OPEN DAY – 30 OCTOBER 2021 10.30am
ACG Sunderland 09 838 7070 6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson, Auckland
The one change the Governments policy has generated is that our tutorials may now be able to take place face-to-face. There will be documentation circulated about these tutorials very soon. At this stage, we do not have a recommencement date for our students in Years 010. Potentially, this date may be announced next Tuesday. With the rhetoric from last week, it may be early in December? As soon as I hear any news, I will be informing the community. In the short to medium term, please prepare your children to continue receiving online lessons for at least the next few weeks. I know this is a challenging time for everyone, but in general, the process has been very successful. I do hope you all enjoy this upcoming long weekend and I look forward to catching up very soon.
Aspire. Succeed. Respect.
Nathan Villars Campus Principal ACG Sunderland
Value for the next week is: Compassion Sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.
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Preschool
ACG Sunderland 09 838 7070 6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson, Auckland
Preschool Online Learning Our programme planning for preschool is Marine Science and Gardening. We have been doing activities on zoom lessons.
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Preschool
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Preschool Online Learning
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Preschool
ACG Sunderland 09 838 7070 6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson, Auckland
Preschool Online Learning Over the years, gardening has always been one of Preschool's favourite activities and Spring is the best time to do it. Preschool children are well-known in ACG school as someone who would bring in all sorts of interesting fruits and veggies!
While we enjoyed eating them, we have also saved seeds from our fruits and veggies. We have successfully sowed many different kinds of seeds in our garden bed as well as Primary school's garden beds and the little seedlings are doing really well. We would like to share our love for gardening with the wider school community.
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Primary
ACG Sunderland 09 838 7070 6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson, Auckland
Primary Student of the Week 1JH - Elena Shi for good participation during our zoom meetings and for completing her work with confidence. 1CS - Serena Xia for amazing artwork from our class trip to the farm. 1NC - Lucy Goh for showing diligence and creativity in during online learning. 1NG - Connor McNeil for working hard learning his sight words. 2AV - Aaron Sang for great focus and enthusiasm in Maths. 2SB - Gleb Emelyanov for attending all zoom lessons with a positive attitude 3MH - Ehsaan Gandhi for completing all the tasks to a high standard. 3BR - Natanya Locksam for her perseverance to complete all given tasks. 4CF - Veer Sharda for detailed work in his writing about the school holidays. 5WB - Angela Zhou for amazing bubble work 5CW - Tina Zhang for her continued high efforts with her work during lockdown. 6SL - Sophia Feng for the attention and detail she applies to all tasks
Class Captains – Term 4 1JH - Allison Wang 1CS - Chloe Yang 1CS 1NC - Mira Ramadan 1NG - Livia Gao. 2AV - Amelia Lee Cutler 2SB - Alan Li 3MH - Mila West 3BR - Yanyi Shao 4CF - Esha Liu 5WB - Madeline Yeoman 5CW - Mark Lu 6SL - Zi Jun Wang 6
Primary
ACG Sunderland 09 838 7070 6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson, Auckland
Primary Online Learning 1CS went on a field trip on Friday to Ambury Farm. Don’t worry it was on Zoom with Miss Sealy as the camerawomen. The children loved going for a hike to find all the animals and watched Miss Sealy get licked by a cow and running away from the mean chickens. Good fun was had by all with lots of learning and fun during lockdown.
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College
ACG Sunderland 09 838 7070 6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson, Auckland
Checkpoint Exams For many students, this lockdown couldn’t have been timed worse. With mock exams for seniors and normal internal exams for the entire college coming soon, I know that many people have been very stressed, especially about the fact that some exams might even have to be cancelled. No matter if you’re a junior or senior, it’s been a time of uncertainty for all of us. As most of you know, every year, the year 9s and 6s sit the Cambridge Checkpoint exams. These are external examinations in math, science and English, and are sent to Sunderland from Cambridge, once completed, they are sent back to England for marking. I know that many of my classmates have been studying for these exams for a very long time and, as I’m writing this, I’m sure that at least a few are looking over old notes or doing practice exams or summarising notes. Personally, my favourite way to revise is to write things like math formulae and science notes in a book as its more convenient to read from the notebook than my books throughout year 7-9. Writing it down also makes it easier to remember the information. As lockdown was slowly nearing Checkpoint week, some of us realised that the exams might be in danger of being cancelled. A sentiment which received mixed reactions. Some of us were devastated that we might not be able to sit the exam we had studied so long for, others were ok with perhaps not sitting them, even relieved, as they are an enormous amount of pressure and stress. Despite the uncertainties – many of us continued to study and revise and now that the cases are going down again, we’ll probably be able to sit our exams. Giving us all a good use for this holiday in lockdown. By Anya Thurner – Year 9
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https://www.scholastic.co.nz/media/5721/book-club-student-issue-72021.pdf
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ACG Sunderland 09 838 7070 6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson, Auckland
School Trophies & Cups If you were presented with a school trophy or cup at last years prizegiving, it is time to dust them off and bring them back to school. 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.
All trophies and cups must be returned no later than Friday 29 October
Please DO NOT bring these in on the weekend and leave them outside.
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ACG Sunderland 09 838 7070 6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson, Auckland
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.
Day
Level
Monday
AS IGCSE, AS
IGCSE
IGCSE, AS
Tuesday
Mathematics
Physical Education English literature Music
IGCSE, AS, A2 AS, A2
Physics Business Studies
AS IGCSE, AS, A2 IGCSE
Thursday
A2 IGCSE, AS IGCSE A2 IGCSE, AS, A2
Friday
IGCSE AS
Wednesday
Subject
Mathematics Chemistry Biology Mathematics
Time
Location
3:15pm – 4:00pm 3:20pm – 4:00pm
B14 L08
12.45 – 1.20 pm 1:00pm – 2:10pm 3.15pm -4.00pm 3.30pm – 4.30pm
7:30am – 8:30 am 3.15pm -3.45pm 3.15pm -3.45pm
M03 M07 L14 T07 L02 B14 B14
Design & Technology
8:00am – 8:20am 12:45pm – 1:25pm 12:45pm – 1:15pm 8:00am – 8:20am 3:15pm - 4:30pm
M01 B01 B14 M01 L07
Mathematics Mathematics
12.45pm – 1.20pm 12:40 - 1:15 pm
M03 L02
Physical Education Physics Mathematics
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. 12
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ACG Sunderland 09 838 7070 6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson, Auckland
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 Lenco 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
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
From 12 February Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 8.30am to 4.30pm Saturday from 9.00am to 1.00pm
School Office: Phone: 838 7070 Address: 6 Waipareira Ave, Henderson Waitakere 0610
Closed Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday and Public Holidays
Email:
sunderland@acgedu.com
Attendance:
sunderlandattendance@acgedu.com
Web:
www.acgedu.com
As a reminder all school uniform continues to be available for purchase online on our Lenco website https://lenco.space/schoolwear/.
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.
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. 15