ACG Sunderland Newsletter. 18 Feb 2022

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

ACG SUNDERLAND

WINGS NEWSLETTER Vol 18, Term One, Week Four, 18 February 2022

Dear Parents and Friends of Sunderland, The first full week of 2022 has just concluded here at Sunderland, and the school is in wonderful spirits even with the rapid spread of Omicron covering the country currently.

It is on that note that I have included below the Sunderland protocols for the Omicron outbreak.

I can assure you that no positive cases have been identified in our community to date.

However, we must plan for all eventualities and the protocols below is part of that planning.

If you or any of your family are close contacts, please contact the school straight away, so we can review how this is going to impact our community, too.

This is very important.

Please advise any changes in your address, phone or email to Sunderland@acgedu.com

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

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Any communication received about positive cases or students/staff identified as close contacts should be forwarded to the senior leadership team (Nathan, Lawrence, Leanne & Sue) immediately and they will then communicate with the family/staff member in question. Further communication with the family may then be done through deans if directed by the senior leadership team.

Anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 must immediately isolate for ten days. If they are at school they should be placed in a space away from all others, ideally a separate room but if not available a well-ventilated area at least 2m away from anyone else and wearing a mask. Family will then be contacted to have the student collected as soon as possible.

Anyone at school who has Covid-19 symptoms (any of: runny nose, sore throat, loss of taste or smell, a fever, cough, shortness of breath, headaches, muscle pains, vomiting or diarrhoea) should be placed in a space away from all others, ideally a separate room but if not available a well-ventilated area at least 2m away from anyone else and wearing a mask. Family will then be contacted to have the student collected as soon as possible. Anyone with any of these symptoms should get tested and then isolate themselves at home until they recover AND receive a negative test result.

For any Covid-19 positive case, close contacts should be identified (if there are any). A close contact will be anyone who: o Lives with someone who is Covid-19 positive. o Has had DIRECT contact with someone who is Covid-19 positive (kissing, sharing a drink bottle) o Has spent more than 15 minutes within 1.5 metres of someone who is Covid-19 positive AND they are not wearing a mask or not wearing it properly. o Has spent more than 1 hour in an indoor space with a Covid-19 positive person who is either not wearing a mask, not wearing it properly, or the room is poorly ventilated, or the room is under 100m2 (our normal classrooms are all under 100m2).

Being in contact with someone who is then deemed a close contact does not mean they will also be classified as a close contact.

Anyone identified as a close contact should get tested and then isolate themselves at home for seven days AND receive negative test results from their initial test and a day five test. The seven-day period begins from the last contact they had with the infected person.

In some situations, public health officials MAY advise household members of a close contact (secondary contacts) to stay at home and isolate as well until the close contact returns a negative day five test.

The parent of any student having an isolation period should communicate test results as they are received with a member of the senior leadership team or the relevant dean. The student should not be returning to school (even after an isolation period) without communication of negative test results to the school having already occurred from their parent.

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Any students self-isolating at home due to having Covid-19 or being identified as a close contact / secondary contact will be provided distance learning work by their teachers via our Blackboard Learning Management System. Any questions or problems with this can be directed to the relevant dean.

Below repeats the email sent out earlier this week.

ACG Sunderland – Red Light Phase 2 I wanted to touch base today with regards the phase changes with isolation! To be clear, Phase Two now requires cases to isolate for seven days rather than ten. Anyone who tests positive for the Covid virus in Phase Two will be notified by text message and be directed to an online self-investigation tool which will focus on high-risk exposures.

Household contacts will be managed by contact tracing services with close contacts requiring a PCR test on day five.

I also wish to remind all parents that anyone wearing a mask and having contact with others for less than one hour are characterised as not being a close contact.

Parents, please drop your children at the gates or front doors and do not come into school unless you have an educational meeting.

Preschool parents are requested to park in the preschool side of the school for pick up and drop off also. (When the gates are open, otherwise, please feel free to come through the main school.)

We acknowledge these are challenging times and your attention with these new protocols in going to be hugely appreciated.

Have a great weekend.

Aspire. Succeed. Respect.

Nathan Villars Campus Principal ACG Sunderland

Value for the next week is: Resilience The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

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Preschool

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Preschool had a fantastic week playing and learning altogether. We planned many literacy and numeracy-based activities that are focused on children learning and development.

Preschool enjoyed many activities like number games, letters, cutting, painting, messy play, music and movement, physical fitness, use of technology and family play.

We teachers always encourage the children to participate in all activities and it is good for their over-all development 4

Primary

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Primary House Shield McDonald

1BTR – Jeremiah Locksam for settling into school life well.

1CAR – Allison Wang for showing determination to complete all her tasks for achieving 100% in Basic Facts and 99% in reading test.

1GLC – Alice Philips for always trying her best and showing the value of determination.

2SHA - Shayaan Nath for always paying attention in class and trying his very best!

2ZOU - Jacob Li for being a focussed, hard-working and helpful member of 2ZOU. 3HAS -Katie Ziyan for always having a positive attitude to her learning and consistently presenting a high standard work.

3YAN - Stella Chen for displaying fantastic manner to everyone, especially to the teachers.

3SEA - Oliver Barnes for showing great determination in all his work and learning in class.

4RYN - Claire Wang for being an outstanding role model and settling into the school year well.

4SMI - Yanyi Shao for his commitment to all his subjects and for helping others whenever he can.

5BAK - Kenton Tan for improving his writing speed and neatness.

5RIC - Veer Sharda for being a conscientious, hard-working student.

6LIM - Tina Zhang for her excellent work ethic. Tina always tries her best and takes pride in the presentation of her work.

6DOO - Yuli Tang for being an excellent role model in our class, through his focus and fantastic work ethic. Well done, Yuli!

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1BTR - Chloe Zoe 1GLC - Ian Huang 2ZOU - Hridhya (Hazell) Trivedi 3YAN - Alice Meng 4RYN - Georgia Mu 5BAK - Jennifer Wang 6LIM - Mark Lu

1CAR - Annie Chen 2SHA - Marco Zhao 3HAS - Johnny Zhao 3SEA - Lucas Li 4SMI - Anna-Sophia Hu 5RIC - Isabella Yu 6DOO - Freddy Fan.

Congratulations to Gordon Jin – 5BAk for winning the snowboarding race on Saturday.

He’s took out first place in U10 group

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Primary

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Year 1 & 2 were so happy in designing and decorating bouquets for their mums and dads on Valentine’s Day in Visual Art class with Mrs Carillo 💕💕

Year 3 & 4’s impressive cupids and love hearts designs for Valentine’s Day.

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College

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Leaders Camp - 2022 The 2022 Student Leaders took part in a camp at the end of Week 2. As well as building on individual and group skills the camp provided valuable opportunity for the leaders to start planning for the House, school and charity events which take place over the course of the year. Leaders shared their ideas with Mr Villars over dinner on the Friday evening.

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College

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My name is Kylie Tan. I’m currently in Year 13 and taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award.

I am wanting to make a chip packet blanket to be able to donate to the homeless, for my service project as part of the Duke of Edinburgh Award. To be able successfully create the blanket, I will need to collect 25 cleanly-opened (not ones that have been ripped open) foil packages (from chips and other foil-wrapped products) of any brand and size. Chip packets are what most creators use to make the blankets. I would greatly appreciate if you could please donate your cleanly-opened foil packages to the box left at reception.

Donating chip packets to me, in order to be able to create something for homeless is a great idea, as one chip packet takes 8 decades to decompose but donating them can bring out good use and help others, instead of going to the landfill.

Thank you very much for your donations!

To find out more about the chip packet project, feel free to email me at 260003754@acg.ac.nz.

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College

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The Student Voice’s New Series It’s week 4, and the Student Voice is back up and running! This year, instead of only having articles about current events, outside and in school, we are introducing a new series!

Every second week, we will have one person writing about an environmental issue, surrounding the school, Aotearoa specifically, or something important to them personally. Be sure to look out for these special pieces every fortnight, and if you want to contribute send me or Ms. Tyler an email.

Everyone is welcome to join The Student Voice, we write about current events, creative pieces and, obviously, environmental pieces. We hope to see some new faces, wanting to write for us!

By Amelia Lee – Year 10, Editor of The Student Voice.

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College

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Start of School 2022 Wow, what a way to start the year! A few days before school started it was announced we would be moving to the red light in our new COVID-19 protection framework, which cast a lot of doubt on what the school environment was going to be like when we started the academic year. However, information was quick to be sent out and we started the year as close to normal as we could in our circumstances.

Personally, I was feeling very excited to be returning to Sunderland for my second year because of how much I enjoyed the first. While the restrictions in place were different compared to those we had when school opened again at the end of last year, I still felt safe and comfortable going to school, and all of my worries and doubts were silenced the second I walked in.

Sunderland was lucky in the way we started school as we were slowly phased into it due to the Wednesday start and public holidays in the following two weeks. My holiday was laidback, so I appreciated the ability to ease into a new routine. It has taken a bit of time to adjust to the fact we’re now in another year and 2021 has passed with such speed. I still find it hard to believe we’re already halfway through February.

Being a Year 10, there have been a few opportunities thrown at me, and the rest of my year group; such as the Duke of Edinburgh and Model UN. There have also been a few things presented to the rest of the school like a new Debate Club which I can’t wait to see.

Overall, I would say this year has started really well and while I don’t want to jinx anything, I think 2022 is starting to show some great promise at Sunderland.

By Isheeta Lal - Year 10 11

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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Trophies If your child received a school trophy at the prizegiving at the end of 2021, please ask your child to collect their trophy if they have not done so already from the Library. They are all named and ready for collection.

Primary School Lunches A reminder that Primary children are not able to order their lunches directly from the cafeteria. All primary lunches must be ordered from our online lunch ordering system via our website. https://www.sunderland.acgedu.com/school-information/lunch-nutrition

Pick Up and Drop Off Parents, please drop your children at the gates or front doors and do not come into school unless you have an educational meeting. Primary children are to be dropped off in the carpark area by the primary/preschool gate.

Please do not park in the numbered carparks as these are for staff parking only.

Lost Property We have been collecting an awful lot of lost property. Please ensure that all your children’s clothing is named along with their lunch boxes and drink bottles. The lost property can be found by the double glass doors that lead out to the primary deck area.

Scholastic Book Club The last day for ordering anything from the Scholastic Book Club is Thursday 24 February. All orders with the correct money must be handed into Mrs Davies in the Library by this date.

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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

Masks If your child is in year 4 or above, there is a requirement for them to be wearing a mask while in school. Please ensure that you child comes to school with a mask and a spare one in their bag in case it is lost or broken.

Please ensure that your children dispose of their masks in the rubbish bins provided around the school. We are finding a lot of masks just thrown around the school grounds.

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: driver's 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 week's 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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Students Lunches and PE Uniforms Please ensure before you leave home that your child has packed their lunch, drink bottle, PE uniform & shoes and other uniform requirements in their school bag or you have ordered their lunch online by 8.30am. We are having a lot of lunches and bits of uniform dropped off at reception which can be quite disruptive to the classes when these are dropped off or students asked to collect from reception.

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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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

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

Sunderland Second-Hand Uniform Shop

40 Patiki Road Avondale Auckland Tel 09 838 6164

The shop is open. Please ask at reception for access.

2022 Open 10 January to 12 February Monday to Friday from 8.30am – 5.30pm Saturday from 9.00am – 3.00pm

Lost Property

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/

We are taking good quality uniform items for the second-hand shop. Blazers must be dry cleaned.

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

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.

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

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.

Traffic- Safety Please note that numbered car parks are for staff.

Please do not park in the numbered 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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