West Island School Weekly Bulletin 30th September 2011

Dear Parents/Guardians

Swimming Gala and Sports Festival – Henry Fok Swimming Complex and Stanley Ho Stadium HKU, Sha Wan Drive, Pokfulam
Tuesday 4th October 2011 between 9.00 am and 1.20 pm

The annual Swimming Gala and Sports Festival will take place on Tuesday, October 4th 2011 between the hours of 9.00 am to 1.20 pm.  There will be no lessons so students do not need to bring bags to the gala.  Students may come to school in PE kit and should register as usual at 8.15am.  Year 7-9 students should wear flip-flops as the preferred footwear for the swimming gala.

Students should bring sunscreen and every student is expected to wear a hat.  All Year 7 students must wear their school caps to the event.  They should also bring plenty of water and snacks with them and make sure they hydrate properly and eat breakfast before coming to school. 

There will be an opportunity for all students to ’swim for a dynasty point’ so the correct swimming costume is required. Finalists and relay swimmers are required to wear a Dynasty swim hat and marshal on time.  The programme of events will appear on the WIS website.

We are pleased to invite parents/guardians to attend this event.  There will be some keen competition and much cheering for friends, team mates and Dynasties.  If you wish to attend please send an email to freeman.lee@wis.edu.hk

School buses will collect students at the end of the Swimming Gala from the Hong Kong University site in Sandy Bay at 1.20 pm.

We hope that you enjoy this sporting occasion.

Yours sincerely

Jane Foxcroft
Principal

Swimming Gala Program

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Please see the attached letter from our French and Spanish language teachers about language enrichment through magazine subscriptions. This is a great way to improve your child’s French or Spanish language.

Letter re language enrichment

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Are you fun, firm and flexible? WIS is now recruiting Educational Assistants (EAs) to work specially with students with learning needs. The role of the EA is to support and work alongside teachers both in the Individual Needs Department and subject teachers in the mainstream classrooms: Below is a brief description of the role:

1. To support the students by working either with an individual or groups of students on specified tasks/programmes both within the school environment or around the community under the direction of the teachers.
2. To support the teachers by liaising and feeding back about student progress.
3. To support the school by working as a team in promoting the aims, ethos and policies of the School at all times.
4. To support professional development opportunities by attending courses and training days whenever possible.

There are full time and part positions available. If you wish to know more about the Educational Assistants role please contact Gail Wright on gail.wright@wis.edu.hk

Gail Wright
Head of Individual Needs

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Dear Parents

Please note that we will be running the deferred Y9 assessment during the next two weeks in the Y9 Learning for Life classes.

The assessment, called MidYIS, is an online test which measures "developed ability" in areas such as vocabulary, maths as well as other areas related to spatial and perceptual abilities. This provides very useful information to assist in the teaching and learning process. As I mentioned in my previous message, no preparation is required for this assessment and it takes less than one hour to complete. 

The students use their own laptops for the assessment and I would really appreciate it if you could remind your son/daughter to bring his/her laptop to school each day with the battery fully charged to ensure there is no disruption to the program.

Graeme Deuchars
Vice Principal

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Please see the attached calendar for details of the above programs

Ellie Tang
Higher Education Adviser

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Dear Parents

We are pleased to announce that you will now be able to make changes to the following information through Gateway online.

• Family Contacts
• Emergency Contacts
• Student Medical Information

The following links will help you with this process.

Family Contact
http://www.wis.edu.hk/node/11209/

Emergency Contact
http://www.wis.edu.hk/node/11210/

Medical Information
http://www.wis.edu.hk/node/11211/

Thanks

Jimmy Villanueva
Gateway Administrator

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STUDENT DIRECTORY

The 2011 – 2012 Student Directory has been posted to all families this week. If you do not receive your copy please contact pta@wis.edu.hk

BUS SERVICE - IMPORTANT CORRECTION  - Please note:

Monday Week 1 the bus departs at 1.40, 2.30 and 4 .45 pm. Not at 3.30 pm as originally stated.

Monday Week  2 the bus departs at 2.50, 3.30 and 4.45 pm.

Please amend your directory accordingly and apologies for any inconvenience.

PTA HELP NEEDED:

Please see below for some of the opportunities that exist for helping in the School and details of who to contact if you are interested in helping out.

Helping on an ad hoc basis

There are lots of opportunities for assisting the PTA staff such as helping to send out the WISlife magazine (produced by the PTA) or sending out other information that has to go to parents.

Helping on a weekly or fortnightly basis

The PTA uniform and book shop is often needs volunteers to fill slots when they become available.  Kindly email the PTA office directly pta@wis.edu.hk or call 2816 7222.

The 20th Anniversary Fair – 10th March 2012

In the build up to the fair and on the day if the fair, we need volunteers to help organize and/or run a range of stalls.  Information about this will be disseminated nearer the time so watch for the Weekly Bulletins or emails from school. 

Sponsorship, raffle prizes and donations – contact peppervm@netvigator.com

1. Requests will go out from Dec to bring in any second hand goods – books, toys, DVDs, CDs, anything at all!!  We can store them for the fair.
2. New items – new goods of any description (samples, unwanted gifts, factory over-runs, slight seconds) are always welcome for raffles prizes, tombola and the new goods stall
3. Donations – corporate or otherwise to purchase prizes for the raffle and sponsorship of some of the games that are hired for the fair, for example laser tag.  If you have contacts that we can approach within organisations that would be prepared to help then please let us know.

School Fair Committee

Finally there are roles available on the school fair committee.  There is a meeting on 7th October in the room next to the PTA office and everyone is welcome!!  Grab your coffee at Wisachino before you come.

Thank you
PTA

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