Merry Christmas

I would like to wish you all a Happy Christmas Holiday - enjoy being with your families.
Nick and I are flying home to England tomorrow so we can not only celebrate Christmas with our family, but also celebrate my parents' 60th Wedding Anniversary. A milestone indeed for 2 wonderful people who have shaped my life and made me who I am. I love them dearly and can't wait to celebrate this wonderful event with them.

Thank you all for the continued support you show me both personally and professionally, you will never really know how much it means to me.
Ruth

Helping parents to find black shoes

The PTA have been working very hard to offer support to parents in sourcing black shoes. I am now pleased to announce that the PTA have found a vendor who is willing to offer what I think is a great service to parents. The Uniform shop will hold one pair of shoes in each size for the 2 styles of shoes you can see on the poster. If the parent than wants to buy the shoes, they will be able to order them and they will be delivered to school.

A huge thank you to the parents who have been working on this initiative, especially Angela, a great project for the parents of the school, and of course I'll be happy because all the children will be wearing the correct black shoes!!

Reports and Enterovirus

Progress Reports

All children between Year 1 and Year 6 will be bringing their progress reports home on the last day of term. Can you kindly note that because the Primary Section is so large now, I have asked my Deputy, Duncan Millward to help me with the reading of the reports. So, this time round, you will see my comments and signature on the reports of the children form Years 1, 3 and 5. and Mr Millward's comments and signature on the reports of the children from Years 2,4 and 6. In June we will reverse this.

Thank you for your understanding with this.

Enterovirus

We are continuing to hear from parents about their children being confirmed with enterovirus, but I do need to inform you, that we only suspend classes of the younger children where there are 3 or more confirmed cases. We follow the guide lines from the Health Authority, and their advice is that as children pass 6 or 7 years old, the disease gets less and less complicated with fewer serious symptoms, so classes can usually carry on as normal. However, it is absolutely critical that even the older children are fully recovered before they return to school. 

Again, another thank you for your support and understanding with this sensitive issue.

The Reverse Christmas Tree and Harmony Homes

We had 2 amazing Reverse Christmas Tree assemblies this morning, one led by Jeni Wong, and the other by myself. This is my favourite school event of the year, and today's assemblies were as moving as last year's! We had some surprise little visitors from Harmony Homes who brought the assemblies and the importance of giving to life as the following photos show:-
First the Infant Assembly:-

 And secondly the Junior assembly:-

Our little visitors stole our hearts, and we raised a huge NT$182,472 for them to take back to their home with them. All these children are affected by HIV, and the money we raised will go towards giving them a normal life as possible.
THANK YOU for your continued generosity, this too touches my heart.

Wearing our PE kit in the colder winter months

As the weather becomes colder, we would like you to dress the children according to the photo:-
Thank you to Maxine and Brenden for being such lovely models!

Please do not put layers  underneath the PE kit as the children can not take under garments off easily when they feel hot or when they are working on the apparatus during PE lessons. 

The Uniform shop now offers you choice of items to put ON TOP OF the PE kit so please visit the shop!

We now stock a light v necked jumper:-

 an improved quality warmer zip up jacket:-

 AND track suit bottoms. The tracksuit bottoms can be worn with either the jumper or the jacket, or both if and when the weather gets really cold. 

SO, PLEASE, NO MORE LAYERS UNDER THE PE KIT!

Many thanks

Key Stage 1 Christmas Show

Dear Year 1 and 2 parents
Because there are so many children in Year 1 and 2 now, we are going to do 2 performances of our Christmas Show this year. Year 1 parents will be able to come on Tuesday 9th December at 1:40, and Year 2 parents will be able to come on  Wednesday 10th December at 1:40. We will send home a ticket with each child this Friday. The Tuesday performance tickets will be yellow and the Wednesday tickets will be red. Each ticket will be a family ticket allowing 2 adults and up to 2 children to come to the show. Parents must remember to bring the ticket to the show on the day, because we will be asking to see them.

If you can not come to the allocated performance, please come to see the office staff who will try to arrange another ticket for you.

Please do not try to bring a third adult with you because we simply do not have the room.
Many thanks for your support.

A couple of 'news falshes'

 Winter Uniform Items Arriving Next Week

Many more winter uniform items will be arriving next week, so Sophie has agreed to open the shop Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th November between 7:30 and 4:00 to enable more parents to come in to purchase the items we have been waiting for - thank you Sophie!

Next event requiring children to wear Tribe t-shirts

Please note that the children do NOT have to wear their Tribe t-shirts this week  (Friday 21st November), but they do need to wear them next week (Friday 28th November).

Sorry for the confusion, but we had to make some calendar adjustments due to some visitors who are coming in to school to work with the children.