My
warmest greetings to you. The new academic year has started
and I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all
pupils and parents back to school for another year of enriching
experience. Your children will be engaged in programmes and
activities that will widen their scope of learning. We believe
in providing a well-rounded education for all pupils. We
need your support especially in the Character Building of
our pupils. It is my practice to remind our Partners of a
few important issues in this first letter of the year.
1.
School Theme for January
The
theme for January is to ‘Build Up One Another’.
This is to start the year right by encouraging our pupils
of the need to support each other and to learn to encourage
each other in our words and deeds. We would like to encourage
all parents to support the school in our Character Building
effort. Together we will be able to build up the next generation
of leaders with big hearts.
2.
Tsunami Tragedy – Our Response in Prayer and Support
The recent sad event has affected many of us and we are thankful to God for
the many Singaporeans who have come forward to offer help to the families who
have been affected. Let us continue to pray for them to be strengthened and
offer our assistance wherever we can.
As
a school, we will be making a collection on behalf of the
Singapore Red Cross Society. We want to encourage our pupils
to have heart for other people. If you are writing a cheque,
you may address it to the school as ‘ACSP’. We
will collate and write a combined cheque to the Red Cross
Society subsequently. The pupils can also donate their savings
in cash and hand this over to their class teacher. We would
like to do this by next Monday, 10 January, so that we can
inform you of the total amount collected by next week.
3.
ACS (International)
We
have another new member added to the ACS family, the ACS
(International). There was a dedication service for this
new school on 3 January 2005. Let us pray that this school
will also be used by God to touch many lives.
4.
Additional New Houses
You
might have read about it in The Straits Times. The ACS Board
of Governors has decided to increase the number of houses
to eight. Please read the attached Appendix for the details.
5.
Carnival ACS 1 – 26 February 2005
To
ensure that the quality education for our ACS boys is not
hampered by the lack of funds, ACS(P) and ACS(Barker Road)
have decided to organize Carnival ACS 1 on Saturday, 26 February
2005. We are thankful to our parents and staff who have started
the planning work way back in 2004. More details and how
every pupil can be part of this exciting event will be given
in a separate letter at a later date.
6.
Parking At Barker Road
We
have been facing several problems relating to the lack for
parking space for the past few years. This year, we have
allocated a new parking space for parents just outside the
school campus (opposite Chancery Court). We hope that this
new parking space will ease the problems of many parents.
The carpark lot will be opened from 1.00pm to 2.15pm daily.
Parents are allowed to park at the new parking space during
this period only.
We
also wish to remind parents not to park their vehicles at
the bus bay in the transport centre. This disrupts our school
buses from leaving or parking at the bus bay. We look forward
to your kind consideration.
LTA
has informed the school that many parents have been parking
illegally along Barker Road and Dunearn Road. We would like
parents to comply with the traffic rules as LTA will be taking
serious actions against offenders. We look forward to your
kind cooperation.
7.
Safety and Security – Visitor’s Pass
The
school will continue to implement the strict measures with
regards to the safety and security of our pupils. If you
wish to come into the school for an appointment or work-related
matters, please sign for Visitor’s Pass from the General
Office and return the Pass to the Clerical Officer at the
General Office before you leave the premises. This system
will help us to monitor visitors to the school. We want our
pupils to be safe and well taken care of. Thus, we will greatly
appreciate if all parents will support the school in our
effort to provide a safe and secure environment for our pupils.
8.
Contacting the School Personnel
If
you wish to speak with any of the school staff, just call
the General Office at 62501633. Our Clerical Officer will
assist you and provide the appropriate extension of the person
you wish to speak to. When contacting the teachers, it will
be good to refer to your child’s time-table so that
you will be able to speak to the teacher when he/she is free.
I also invite you to write a note to the teacher requesting
for an appropriate time where you can either call or meet
up with him/ her. You may also send an email to the teacher
concerned.
9.
School Dental Clinic
The school Dental
Therapist, Mdm Ong Bee Lian, is on leave and will be back
on 13 January. The clinic will be opened on Mondays to Thursdays,
from 8.00am to 5.00pm and on Fridays, from 8.00am to 4.30pm.
The clinic will be closed from 1.30pm to 2.00pm during lunch
hour. For any enquiries, please call the General Office at
62501633 or the Clinic at 62543652.
