ACG Sunderland Newsletter - Friday 28 Jan

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

ACG SUNDERLAND

WINGS NEWSLETTER Dear Parents and Friends of Sunderland

Vol 18, Term One, Week One, 28 January 2022

What a wonderful start we had on Wednesday with a huge turn out of students and parents at our first assemblies for Primary and College.

I want to acknowledge that over 90% of all students were onsite including the 20% increase in student numbers at ACG Sunderland.

I have already highlighted our wonderful results from 2021 and below these are repeated.

100% pass rate at A Level with 71% A-C grade and 39% A-A* grade 92% pass rate at AS Level with 63% A-C grade and 28% A grade 90% pass rate at IGCSE with 84% results A-C and 47% A-A* grade 100% University Entrance pass rate We have also welcomed eight new staff to Sunderland for 2022 Mr Nadeem Shafi is our new Year Two teacher. He has a Masters in Teaching from the University of Auckland with Distinction but also a Masters of Laws (LLM) with Commendation.

He has worked as a teacher at New Lynn Primary School but also as the Deputy Director for the World Wide Fund for Nature International. He has also been a stay at home dad! We are excited to have him on board with the Primary team at ACG Sunderland.

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We have also welcomed eight new staff to Sunderland for 2022 Mr Alvaro Fuente Infante is our new Sports Specialist. He is originally from Spain. He has a Graduate Diploma in Teaching but also a Finance Degree, speaks some Te Reo Maori, is a Tennis Club Professional (Club Director), has been a Spanish tutor and has worked at a number of schools introducing motor skills programmes based on teamwork and cooperation. We are excited to have another sports expert on staff.

Miss Sam Richardson is our new Year Five teacher in the Primary School. She has experience teaching a variety of year levels, including Montessori. She has a Bachelor of Education and also has a Health and Safety Diploma. She also has worked as an actress on Shortland Street, Jono and Ben, Netflix Movies, etc. We are excited to have her teach some of our Drama lessons and share her positive energy with our students.

Miss Stacey Zoutenbier has a Bachelor of Nursing and a Master of Teaching (Primary) with Honours. Stacey is a fantastic teacher with excellent experience in Year Two. She understands children well and has real skill in encouraging each student to reach their potential.

Mr Stephen Ryan is our new Year Four teacher. Stephen believes teaching experiences need to be personal for all students to encourage them to engage in and take personal responsibility for their learning. Stephen is very active and enjoys swimming, playing tennis and tramping in his spare time. He has three school-aged children and enjoys experimenting new teaching ideas on them.

Ms Natalie Doolan has had seven years of experience teaching children in the Lower and Upper Primary. She attended University of Auckland where she obtained a Bachelor of Education. Natalie is a creative, enthusiastic and passionate teacher who will foster a warm and stimulating learning environment for all her unique learners. Her interests include bush walks, fitness and dogs.

Ms Lee Smith comes to us from Massey Primary where she has taught years 4, 5 and 6. She has done a variety of jobs including cross country ski guiding and has lived in France, Norway, England and Ireland. She is looking forward to bringing her passion for dance, drama, reading and writing to ACG Sunderland.

Mrs Charlotte Edson joins the teaching staff in the College. Charlotte attended Auckland University obtaining a Bachelor of Arts – Double Major in English and Art History, Honours in Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage, Master of Heritage Conservation and Graduate Diploma and Graduate Diploma in Teaching (Secondary). Charlotte has many strengths in teaching, one is understanding needs within the classroom and tailoring lessons to suit the students.

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New Counsellor – Mr James Mayhew

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

The school has voted on Home Leaders and prospective Head Boy & Head Girl. On Thursday full sit-down interviews were conducted. These are always some of the most pleasurable interviews of the year.

Below, I am so proud to announce the following: Head Girl: Arundhati Shankar Head Boy: Anshul Sharma Findlay Leader = Vasundhara Chitti Findlay Leader = Daniela Jaikumar Fleming Leader = Anjika Sharma Fleming Leader = Amelie Villars McDonald Leader = Regan Maconaghie McDonald Leader = Jessica Liu Tong Leader = Natasha Woolley Tong Leader = Jack Sedcole Waitakere Leader = Aditya Misra Waitakere Leader = Louie Liu Whenuapai Leader = Joseph Pauling-Munro Whenuapai Leader = Erica Cai Quote for the week is: Your Time Yesterday was a great start. Today, you can do even better.

What you've done up to this point is impressive. What you can do now is phenomenal.

You've put great time, effort, pain and sacrifice into becoming who you are. Now is when you can harness all that value to become the best of who you can be.

Learn from the disappointments and build on the successes. This is your time to fulfill your best possibilities.

Aspire. Succeed. Respect.

Nathan Villars Campus Principal ACG Sunderland 3

Primary

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First Day – Primary Assembly We welcome all our Primary students back to school for what is going to be a great year. We would especially like to welcome our new Primary students who have joined us this year. Congratulations on receiving your new student certificates and badges.

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College

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College Assembly We welcome all our College students back to school. Again, we would especially like to welcome our new College students who have joined us this year. Congratulations on receiving your new student certificates and badges.

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College

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We would also like to acknowledge and congratulate our 2022 Head Girl - Arundhati Shankar and our Head Boy - Anshul Sharma

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College

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Congratulations to our House Leaders for 2022

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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.

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Notices

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Attendance If your child is going to be absent from school or you are picking up your child during the day for medical, dentist or other appointments, please email their teacher and sunderlandattendance@acgedu.com

Police Vetting Forms These forms are used when a parent or caregiver wishes to assist on any school trips where interaction with the students is required.

When forms have been completed, the parent needs to hand this into reception along with the original 2 forms of identification. Ie: drivers licence, passport or birth certificate.

The original identification needs to be sighted by reception to ensure its validity.

Bus Service Any children that require the services of the ACG Sunderland bus service need to contact Victoria Ogden at reception or by email at Victoria.ogden@acgedu.com Please be aware that if your child is new to this service, we do need at least a weeks notice to get this arranged with the bus company and to ensure that your child is aware of where the buses depart from at the school

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Notices

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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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Notices

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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 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 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.

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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 23 September 10 October to 6 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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