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ECS Update Term 2, Week 6 – Friday 2nd June 2023
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Kia ora Parents and Caregivers,
Welcome to the Term 2, Week 6 Newsletter.
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This newsletter contains information on the following:
- Important Dates
- King’s Birthday Public Holiday
- International Languages Week
- Samoan Language Week
- Music Opportunities at ECS
- Year 3 & 4 Zone Cross Country
- Mufti/Pyjama Day for our Sponsored Child
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Monday 5th June – King’s Birthday Public Holiday
Thursday 8th June – Mufti/Pyjama Day
Thursday 22nd June – School Photos
Wednesday 28th June – Final Day of classes for Term 2
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King’s Birthday Public Holiday
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Monday 5th June is a public holiday. Enjoy your long weekend.
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International Languages Week
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We are celebrating International Languages Week in 2023 from Tuesday 6th to Friday 9th June. International Languages Week is an annual event held in New Zealand to promote language and culture from around the world.
This special week provides an opportunity to showcase, learn, and promote the diverse languages and cultures in our schools, communities, and nation.
To celebrate this week, we would like to invite whānau (family members) who speak another
language to come to school as guest speakers (to share about heritage language or to teach simple phrases) or to read books in heritage languages.
If you are interested to volunteer for either week, please contact Christine Ng (Liu) at
christine@emmanuelchristian.school.nz
Also as part of the international Languages week, we have a display of posters in the library. The posters show how to write and say phrases in a variety of language from around the world.
Our school community has a growing number of languages that are spoken at home and not all of these languages are represented in our display. We are asking if there are any parents who would be able to help us with some of the missing languages.
Languages that we do not have are: Arabic, Dutch, Russian, Hindi, Cantonese, Burmese,
Visayan, Swahili, German and Sinhalese. If you speak one of these languages, and would be
happy to help, please email Bronwyn on bronwyn@emmanuelchristian.school.nz
Thank you,
Bronwyn van Mechgelen and Christine Ng (Liu), ESOL team
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This week for Samoan Language week we had a few of our senior students go to a local preschool to teach some counting, demonstrate some Samoan dancing and help the students with print making. They did an awesome job!
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Music Opportunities at ECS
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Please click on the link below to read about all the amazing opportunities students have to get involved with music at ECS this year. Music Theory Classes, Junior and Senior Choirs, Strum, Strike and Blow, Christchurch Schools Music Festival, Junior and Senior Recorder groups, Ukulele group, Marimba group and Worship Band!
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Year 3 & 4 Zone Cross Country
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We took a small team to the Year 3 & 4 Zone Cross Country on Tuesday at Avonhead school, our runners did really well, in some very competitive races!
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Mufti Day/Pyjama Day for our Sponsored Child
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On Thursday the 8th of June we will be having a Mufti day to raise funds for our sponsored child. We sponsor Happy Nelson, who lives in Malawi, through World Vision.
Students can wear their Pyjamas or normal mufti clothes.
Please bring a gold coin donation.
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English
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Maori
Portuguese
Russian
Samoan
Spanish
