Peak View – 17 January 2020

PTA Messages

Family Bingo Night

Dear Peak School Families,

Peak School PTA  is happy to invite you to the Annual Family Bingo Night that will be held on Thursday, February 13th @ 5:30pm at the school hall. Bingo Games running from 5:30-7:30pm. Doors open at 5.15pm

Early bird ticket* is $150 per person, includes 2 bingo cards, foods, fantastic prizes and fun for all.  Put this date down in your diary, and use this  LINK to order your tickets.

Family Bingo Night is a very popular event at Peak School and is a great way to spend an evening with your family and come out and support our school!  As seats are limited, order your tickets early to avoid disappointment.

* Early bird ticket sale will end on Tuesday 11th February at 10.00pm. If event is not sold out, ticket also will be available at door for $200

Volunteers Appreciated!

All event would not take place without the generous help from volunteers.  If you have time to lend a hand on the afternoon/evening of the event (ticket and food sales as well as set up and clean up) please indicate it on the order form. (We will send out a volunteer sign up form closer to date).

WAR ON PLASTIC

As our next PTA Fundraising Event is coming up, we would like to remind everyone that the PTA is conscious in finding ways to be more Green.   As one of the best way to reduce waste is to reuse and recycle: If have any unwanted toys or gifts that are suitable for Peak School Children, why not donate them to the school to use as prizes for the Bingo Night?

If you have any to offer, please kindly donate till Monday 10th February.  Anything we don’t use on the Bingo Night can be used for other events. Please note that we can only accept new/ unused items

But we are always looking for other ways to improve. Examples of measures we’ve implemented thus far are:

• Using Vegeware for all cups, plates, napkins, serving gloves etc used at our events.  The cups etc look like they are made of plastic but these items are actually made out of plant/bio materials that are 100 percent compostible.
• Selling home made baked goods and moving away from any packaged snacks such as chips, etc.
• Looking for items to sell that can be used over again, not made of plastic. like long-lasting toys with minimum plastic packaging as BINGO prizes .

All of our PTA events are to raise funds for the school.  The funds are used for materials needed in classrooms, IQ air purifiers, drinking fountains etc.  I’m sure you can all appreciate it is a real challenge to find items to sell to raise money that are environmentally friendly, interesting to the children, and happily received by the parents.  We do our best, but are always looking for input from our parent community.  If you have any ideas, please do email us at pta@peakschool.edu.hk, and we will do our best to onboard any feasible ideas.

May we also highlight that we are always aiming for a close 100% recycling event – so please always follow all instruction on how, and where to dispose of rubbish, etc.

2020 will see the Peak School’s 4th biannual upper school production (years 4-6) which this year will be a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s stormy tale “The Tempest”  to be performed on 31st March and 1st April.

This alternative production will incorporate many different elements of the performing and expressive arts so that everyone who wants to participate can be involved in some way.

There will be a lunchtime production meeting later this week for all interested students to come along and find out more. Limited speaking parts will be available for students from years 5 and 6 only, all students from years 4, 5 and 6 are welcome to participate in the chorus, (which is more than a choir) and there will be other opportunities for dancers, musicians, designers, physical theatre and stage crew.

Auditions for year 5s and 6s will begin as soon as possible and the chorus will start rehearsing on Thursday lunchtimes. There will be no audition for the chorus. A polite reminder here, that the year4s can only participate in the chorus.

Rehearsals will take place during lunchtimes and after school on Wednesdays (until 4:30pm) and there will be a whole day practice at school on Saturday 7th March. A detailed rehearsal schedule will be available in due course.

Whilst all students will be strongly encouraged to participate, it is important that they want to be there too and that they are willing to commit, check rehearsal schedules, turn up on time, put in the work and generally to exercise independence and self discipline. All too often precious time is spent following up on those who are missing rehearsals rather than on those who are turning up regularly.  If your child decides to participate in the production, please talk to them about the commitment that it involves for the entire term and that they have a responsibility to attend all the necessary rehearsals.

There will be a “Tempest” notice board on the stairs to the music room where all audition notices and rehearsal schedules will be posted.

Participants are expected to be responsible for checking the notice board so that they know when they are needed. Reminders will also be given during assemblies and by class teachers. Commitment is key and if your child does not turn up to rehearsals, or regularly misses them, we will presume they have chosen not to be involved and we will not be chasing them up.

A confirmation email will also be sent home within the next 2 weeks to the parents of the students who have chosen to join. If you do not receive any further correspondence, please assume that your child has chosen not to participate.

After School Activities