Welcome back after the Lunar New Year break. I hope you all enjoyed time with family and friends. The Elementary School Home Language Programme launched today. This includes a 45 minute lesson where students are supported with their home language in the areas of reading, writing, speaking and listening. Whilst the school’s medium of instruction is English, we recognise the importance of bilingualism and strengthening our students’ home languages. There were lessons in Bengali, Japanese, Arabic, Swedish, Mandarin, Bahasa, Korean, Russian, Hindi, English and Spanish. Before the Lunar New Year break, Ms. Rehu met with a small number of parents who have volunteered to help with this exciting initiative. Our intention is that classes will be run by teachers and parents together. Lessons will take place every Friday from 12:45 - 1:35pm, at school. Each home language class has a designated teacher and support person who will be working with parent volunteers to develop this programme further. If you are interested in supporting your child's home language and assisting our teachers with teaching these classes, please send me an email expressing your interest. In the current circumstances the classes will be run by teachers only and we will confirm the starting date for parent volunteers as soon as the health and safety measures surrounding the coronavirus are eased. Welcome to “Workout Wednesdays” before school on Wednesday mornings, students will lead us all in a mini-dance “Workout”. What a great way to start the day! As you are aware, some student guests were due to join Elementary School classes for a few days in January and early February. Although the students are not from Wuhan or Hubei, we have taken the precautionary measure of postponing their visit for the foreseeable future. There will be a delayed start to Semester 2 ECAs and ASAs, the proposed new starting date will be the week beginning 17th February, this will be reviewed and confirmed in due course. We are all looking forward to some new and some returning activities. Have a lovely weekend, Susan Tilney. Comments are closed.
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Susan Tilney
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