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SJS Dragon Dance Term 2 Issue 2

Dear Parents and Students,

Our Chinese New Year Assembly performance was a lovely way Principal Appointment Process to end this short half term and welcome in the holiday period. The process to appoint our new Principal will reach a conclusion by The presence of so many parents and family friends, made for a the end of this month. The final 3 candidates will join us on 26, 27 warm and vibrant community gathering. And the experience was and 28 February 2019. enhanced by the wonderful student performances and celebration of Chinese culture. The programme on Wednesday 27 February will be held at school. The candidates will be interviewed by a number of interest groups, Thanks are also due to the teachers who worked so hard to pull the featuring representative parents, students and staff. From 6pm event together, especially Skye Jeynes, Ada Niermeier, Diana Choy onwards each of the candidates will make a presentation to and the Mandarin team, and to our visiting performers, the community in the school hall. All parents are invited to the College, Baptist Lui Ming Choi Primary School and Ip Tak wah Sports presentations. Details will be circulated soon after the holiday. Association. Final interviews will be held at ESF on Thursday 28 February and the successful candidate will be introduced to the community soon Kung Hei Fat Choy thereafter. Please note, the presentations clash with the STCPTSA screening of “A Plastic Ocean” on Wednesday 27 February – as advertised in this newsletter. This is not an ideal outcome, but unfortunately cannot be avoided.

Sha Tin College Baptist Lui Ming Choi Primary School Principal’s Message Influenza and Chicken Pox number of exposed roots and that damage Outbreaks to the foot path and other nearby structures is likely to increase over time. We have We have seen a small increase in the been informed that the tree will need to reported incidences of Influenza and be removed and that this will take place at Chicken Pox viruses over the last few weeks, some point over the next few weeks. Sad but thanks to the vigilance of our parents news – but necessary remedial action. and the hard work of our cleaning staff, these have been kept to a minimum. We hope the spread of the viruses will ease a little over the holiday period, but please is a well known children’s author. She is a maintain your vigilance as we return to regular visitor to SJS and is passionate about school – the influenza season, in particular, children’s literacy. The children loved her is due to continue for a few weeks more. stories and listened attentively to writing The health of our children will always be our tips. primary concern.

And finally ………. Visiting Authors We have received some sad news regarding Please enjoy the holiday week and make Last week David Greenberg entertained the fate of one of our more recognizable the most of this special time with family and the children with his poetry and his school landmarks. The large tree which friends. thoughts around civil rights. The children is located on the Lai Wo Road side of our Best wishes, were enthralled by his messages of joy for school grounds, next to the power sub- literature and care for our fellow citizens. station, was badly damaged during the The children thoroughly enjoyed their time recent typhoon. Expert advice is that the with Sarah Brennan last Wednesday. Sarah damage is serious, that there are now a Perry Tunesi

Principal’s Message Shuttle Bus to MTR and University MTR station Dates for your Diary

4 - 8 February Chinese New Year Half Term Break Service period : Jan 21 - Mar 29, 2018 Monday 25 February School Closure - CPD Day Tuesday 5 March Y5 Learning Journey 7:30 am : Wednesday 6 March Y5 Market Day Bus leaves from both pick-up points Friday 8 March Y1-3 Sports Day Friday 15 March Y4 Learning Journey Saturday 23 March Tournament of Minds 3:30 pm : Bus leaves from Mei Wo Circuit for drop-off As always, we have a number of events planned for parents. * Wednesday departure time: 2:50 pm You will be receiving separate invitations/notifications for each event, but to remind you of the programme, there are some of the events that are already in the diary. Subscribe to our School Calendar for the latest updates:

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Date for your Diary SJS Debate Team

We would like to congratulate our excellent feedback was given by the SJS Debate team on an excellent independent adjudicators. debate, as they took part in their first friendly match against Harrow The SJS Debate Team will enter a International School. wide competition in May, where they will compete in a The newly formed SJS Debate Team knockout tournament. consists of: With much research and practice Samuel, Jasmine, Audrey, Rosella, to do in the next couple of months, Eason, Macy, Donald, Cedric and we look forward to seeing how they Emily - all in Year 6. get along at the full competition later this year. The team debated the motion "All Hong Kong Primary schools should teach their children to swim".

The team spent time researching, finding evidence, collaborating and preparing for the three team members who represented SJS in the final friendly debate. As this was a friendly, there were no winners announced, however some

SJS Debate Team Screening of A Plastic Ocean Documentary Wednesday 27th February, 2019

Plastic is important in our lives, however, if it is not recycled Refreshments will be provided. properly it ends up in landfills taking up to a thousand years to decompose. Some of it ends up in our oceans killing sea life We hope that you can spend the time watching this moving and ending up in gyres. We would like the opportunity to make documentary and also join us on the mission to reduce single-use everyone aware of the effects of plastic pollution. plastics in our everyday lives.

Our Y12 CAS group are raising awareness of single-use plastic in our school and they would like to spread their message to our Regards, community. They have raised money to show the short version of A Plastic Ocean in our GTS lessons by selling environmentally- Mike Chiu and Kimberly Ryou friendly bamboo toothbrushes. Our PTSA too think that it’s an STC Environmental and Sustainability Coordinators issue that everyone needs to address, and so they have kindly paid for the rights to show the long version at STC.

We invite you to a free screening of the feature length version at 6.30-8.00pm in the STC hall on Wednesday 27th February. In attendance will be a guest from The Nature Conservancy who will help facilitate discussions in addition to our Y12 CAS team.

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Parenting course run by Anson in Chinese

The following programme is an opportunity for parents who would like suggestions for supporting their child with social, 最好的时光( ) emotional and / or behavioural difficulties. The presenters are The Incredible Years Ms Anson Lam (SJS school counsellor) and her coworker. They 家长课程 will provide parenting tips, role play and one on one individual 周五上午10:30-12:30 二零一九年三月开始共十一堂 discussion and support. The course will be conducted in Chinese 名额有限: 每组可有8 名家长，两位富经验的心理咨询师担任导师 and will start on 8th March, 2019 till 31st May. Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet

(T) 25634800 (E) [email protected] Unit 1006 Global Trade Square 21 Wong Chuk Hang Road www.sproutinmotion.com 课程形式 课程概览 1. 以小组形式进行，每组6-8人。 针对以下儿童常见问题提供策略： 2. 课堂共11节，每周一节，包括a)8节小组课堂，每节2 小时；b)2节1对1电话或 过度活跃 视象跟进课堂，每節30分钟；及c)第11节小组重聚课堂讨论2 小时。 专注力不足 3. 课程形式包括讲授、影片观摩、小组讨论及分享、角色扮演和家课等。 情绪调节困难 4. 课程开始及结束时均要填写问卷，以评估课程的成效，内容绝对保密。 社交沟通问题 5. 课程完结后，出席率达七成五(75%)的家长将获发证书。 固执或缺乏弹性的思维方式 6. 本课程鼓励孩子的父母及袓父母或其他主要照顾者同时参加，以达致理想的进 展。 课程好处包括： 加強社交技巧（交朋友，分享，等待） 每周课程大纲 增強自尊心 第一节: 三月八日 介绍正面的亲职教育及孩子主导的游玩，强化亲子关系。 改善亲子关系 第二节: 三月十五日 指导子女的学业和持续力，继续增强亲子关系。 減少问题行為（改善课堂学习表现） 第三节: 三月二十二日 引导子女了解情绪从而学习如何控制情绪。 提高自控力 第四节: 三月二十九日 社交指导。 改善家庭互动（建设性沟通，正面参与，新观点） 第五节: 四月一日至十一日期间，我们会个别约定时间进行一对一电话跟进，以落实 亲职常规。 最好的时光（The Incredible Years）是： 第六节 四月十二日 赞赏、鼓励与奖励。 科学证明有效的家长课程，已通过超过25年的随机试验 : 已获得美国，英国，新西兰和挪威的政府和社会服务机构 第七节: 五月三日 建立生活常规与规范。 采用 第八节: 五月十日 压力管理和行为管理策略。 体验式学习确保每堂课学习的策略，可以立即应用在孩子 第九节: 五月十七日 培养解决问题的技巧。 身上 第十节: 五月二十日至五月二十四日期间，我们会个别约定时间进行一对一电话跟进 ，以落实亲职常规。 导师及费用: 第十一节: 五月三十一日 课程评量并颁发证书。 由两位富经验的心理咨询师教授 （若学员不能如期出席部分课程，我们会为该学员分享该课节的录像片段，导师会为 费用: $12100 港币(共11堂), 需于2月28日前付50%作留位 该学员提供一次三十分钟的问题讨论及指导，以协助学员跟进。 所有录制片段全部保 费（不设退款） 密。 

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• The Social Warrior uses the Second Step curriculum and Social Thinking concepts to teach children age 8-10 to be warriors by promoting their skills for learning, emotion management, situational awareness, and academic achievement. Children are expected to develop an understanding of a social thinking toolbox and learn to be responsible for their actions.

• Second Step is an award winning methodology that is research-based, teacher-informed, and classroom-tested to promote the social- emotional development, safety, and wellbeing of children.

• Through games, children are taught the connection between expected and unexpected behaviors, how others feel, and ultimately how they Social Warrior feel as part of a behavior loop. Social Skills Solver Group (Age 8-10) • An important process in facilitating effective groups is for children to be grouped together based on their skills and needs. Our instructors will Promote social-emotional development, conflict management, conduct initial screening in order to personalize individual learning and wellbeing of children approach to meet each student’s uniqueness and design program that Thursdays 4:30-5:30 pm Wong Chuk Hang Starting Feb 21st, 2019 fits each of their learning style. 10 sessions, maximum number of 6 students How to sign up? Wong Chuk Hang Centre: • Email [email protected] or call us at 2563 4800 for more information Unit 6, 10th floor, Global Trade Square 21 Wong Chuk Hang Road, • Fees: $11,000 per child for 10 sessions Wong Chuk Hang (T) 25634800 (E) [email protected]