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14 March weekly: ESF Connections

24 March: Parent Webinar "Promoting children’s self-regulation during the pandemic – where do we start?"

30 March: Parent Webinar “Strengthening family wellbeing”

4 -18 April: Easter Break

24 June - 22 August: Summer Break

Dear Parents

I hope everyone continues to stay safe and well during these uncertain times. Although things are challenging in Hong Kong right now, the children continue to amaze me with their enthusiasm during zoom sessions. After being unwell for last week, I was delighted to see all the smiling faces and children greeting Stripey and me during assembly on Friday. 

We cannot thank all our families enough for all the support our parents and carers provide at home and the dedication each child shows to learning. As mentioned before, it is important to remain agile, sensitive and responsive to the needs of our community. We will continue to be flexible with our provision, but sometimes things may change due to unforeseen situations or due to the moods of the children! Some days, we just need to shake things up and have a bit of fun :)

Stay positive, and test negative!

Take care
Audrey
 

ESF Parent Partnerships Webinar Series last month were well attended. For this month, we are organising two webinars on different topics, registers will be shared in due course:

• 24 March, 6-7pm – “Promoting children’s self-regulation during the pandemic – where do we start?” by Dr Kean Poon, Associate Head, Department of Special Ed and Counselling, Education University of Hong Kong
• 30 March, 5.30-6.30pm – “Strengthening family wellbeing” by Coolminds, an advocacy arm of MindHK

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Starting on Monday, 14 March, the ESF community will have access to a series of synchronous sessions via ESF Connections [Web Link]. You are not required to sign-up. You just need to select the session and time to hop onto Zoom directly.

The sessions are available from Monday - Friday, during these timeslots:

• Dance 8:30-8:50/ 13:30-13:50
• Wellbeing/ Arts 10:00-10:20/ 15:00-15:20
• Storytelling 11:00-11:20/ 16:00-16:20

We are pleased to see the differentiated age groups and time options to allow families flexibility throughout the day. There will be new topics and sessions over the coming days to enrich experiences further.