Miss Scarlett & Playgroup I!

Dear Parents and Friends, June, July & August 2015

Little Cosmos Language & Art Centre / tel: (852) 3162 3168 / 3162 3188

We hope that you have had a relaxing summer break! We have had a very busy summer here at Little Cosmos. Our classrooms and corridors were filled with excited faces, ready to get creative and learn something new in our English, Putonghua, Art, General Studies and Magic Cooking classes!

New Teachers We were extremely sad to say goodbye to Miss Anita, who has been with us for 4 years. We know that our art students will miss her very much, but wish her all the best for the future. And with every goodbye there is a new addition to the Little Cosmos team! We are excited to welcome Miss K and Miss Jayne to our Art and English departments.

Miss KMiss K started drawing and painting when she was young, and has always been fond of art and making crafts. She graduated from the Hong Kong Design Insti-tute with a Bachelor Degree in Creative Media & Design, and learnt how to create special clay flowers following a Japanese tutor. Miss K joined the Little Cosmos team in June, and hopes to bring creativity into her students’ lives with her artistic passion and energy.

Miss JayneMiss Jayne joined Little Cosmos at the start of our Summer Programme, in July 2015. She graduated from the University of Newcastle with a Bachelors degree in Law, and completed her TEFL certificate shortly after. During her studies she spent a summer volunteering at an orphanage in Cambodia, which sparked her desire to work with young children. Miss Jayne is really excited to be a part of the Little Cosmos team, and to launch her teaching career in Hong Kong.

Dragon Boat Festival This year, the Dragon Boat Festival fell on Saturday 20th June. In the week lead-ing up to this important festival, our playgroup and pre-K students learnt a little bit about the history of the festival in our English and PTH classes. We even had our very own Dragon Boat and Little Cosmos paddles to play with whilst we sang ‘Row Row Your Boat’!

Miss K

Miss Jayne

Row row your boat Miss Vicki!

Newsletter

June, July and August 2015

Fathers Day In the week surrounding Sunday 21st June, our playgroup and pre-K students created heart-felt gifts for their Fathers and Grandfathers in our special themed classes. We hope you made your Father feel extra special, and gave him your beautifully decorated ties and medals. We certainly had lots of fun making them. Our Little Art Explorers worked really hard on some pictures and clay models for their Fathers too. Wow, lucky Daddy!

Summer SchoolOnce again, Little Cosmos’ classrooms and corridors were filled with the sound of excited students! We were delighted to see so many new faces coming through our doors. We are sure our existing students made you feel welcome.

Miss Grace, Charlotte and Andrew learnt about Fathers Day in PTH!

Beautiful Agnes!

Chloe & Stella stirring the mixture together.

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Miss Lilly showed Hazel, To To, Kiki & Halia how to decorate ties.

Our Little Art Explorers Halia and Gavin with their creations!

We made lots of new friends during the summer months!

Edmond, Hailey and Miss Scarlett loved playing fair ground games!

Hi-5! We did it! Miss Scarlett reading a big animal book to our K1-to-be Story students.

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Hei Lok enjoyed learning about Hong Kong in General Studies class.

Fantastic work Esther!

Using the ewhiteboard is so much fun!

This year Little Cosmos offered a wide range of language classes. Our students could focus on developing one particular skill, such as speaking or writing, in our specialized classes. We also offered Summer Fun and Summer Theme Park programmes, which incorporated a whole range of fun activities for all round development. Over the summer months, we learnt new songs, created beauti-ful arts & crafts and read funny stories. It was wonderful to watch all of our English and PTH students’ progress over the summer – particularly our K1-to-be students, whose confidence grew so quickly!

Mickey Mouse arts & crafts with Miss Grace in PTH class!

Miss Jayne and her super K3-to-be pupils.

What’s the weather like today? It is sunny!

Our K2-to-be PTH class learnt about delicious food!

Miss Jayne, Sky & Kylie getting creative with their �amingo pictures!

Is that a pride of scary lions? No! It’s Kevin, Celia, Ki Ki, To To, Isolde, Hayden and Miss Scarlett!

Our art students came out from their classrooms with ever more colourful and imaginative creations! We thank Miss Joyce, Miss K and Miss Ying for putting so much hard-work into designing and creating such fantastic projects. Our Little Painter students worked hard on detailed pictures of starfish, lavender flowers, papaya fruits and other exciting objects. They also experimented with collages, to add another layer of excitement to their creations.

Our Special Creative Art & Crafts students made a whole range of mouth-watering foods, such as dim sum, fruit waffles and ice cream sundaes. They looked good enough to eat! The Summer Clay Fun programme was also food-themed. All this delicious art made our tummies rumble! Our talented art team showed us how to mould and shape the colourful, soft clay into scrumptious donuts, yummy burgers and tasty macaroons. Our other projects included fairy wings, violins and money boxes!

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Those watermelons look delicious enough to eat!

Thank you for showing us how to make these beautiful collages Miss Ying.

Tsz Long & Tsz Chung hard at work.

Hayden putting the �nal touches to his dim sum.

Celia and Yat Nam with their yummy ice cream sundaes.

Miss K, Charis and Sophie with their detailed mango artwork.

Too delicious to resist!

Beautiful money boxes to keep our pennies safe!

Sophie, Hayden, Austin and Nicas were very hungry after art class!

The Little Cosmos team looks forward to the Magic Cooking classes every summer – we can’t get enough of the delicious smell of baking! Our students love getting their hands stuck in, whisking the eggs, stirring the mixture and carefully decorating their baked goods. This summer, Miss Kathy showed us how to make marshmallow banana toast, chocolate molten lava cake and heart shaped pastries …to name just a few!

Miss Kathy taught us how to use piping bags.

We loved baking delicious fruit tarts! Annabelle putting the �nal touches to her banana marshmallow toast.

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Impressive work from our K1-to-be Clay Fun students!

Miss Joyce & her K2-to-be fairies!

Hailey and Lorcan hard at work painting and sticking!

Yat Nam, Ngo Kwan, Isabel and Ka Ka with their ice cream cones.

In addition to our language, art and cooking classes, we also offered our students the chance to develop their Chinese Calligraphy skills. The characters our students drew so studiously were very neat, well done everybody! Our General Studies course, with Miss Antonia, was also very popular. Students developed their logical thinking skills and confidence speaking in front of others. The purpose of the course was to help prepare students for any upcom-ing school interviews. Of course, we created an exciting curriculum to run alongside this, with our students discussing aspects of our dynamic city and also our traditional culture. Finally, Little Cosmos offered a free course in table manners to all students, to show them how to set the table correctly using traditional Chinese crockery and students can learnt the prepare way in hold-ing chopsticks as well!

Chocolate mu�ns are our favourite! Yummy!

Rachel, Nicole and Tsz Ching couldn’t wait to eat their mu�ns!

We practiced using chopsticks, and other table manners, with Miss Antonia.

Cheuk Hin and Kwan Yau focused really well during Calligraphy class.

We can see you! Cyrus, Lok Yin and Chiu Chiu are hiding behind their aquarium pictures!

Miss Joyce made beautiful and unique Decoupage place mats with her summer students.

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Fresh out of oven! Yum!

Roaring rockets with Miss Joyce!

Boris concentrates so hard on his painting.

Thank you to everyone who attended our summer classes, and helped us during the busy summer months. We had a wonderful group of Teaching Assis-tants and some familiar faces helping us on Reception too! Over the course of 7 weeks, we all made lots of new friends and learnt many new things too. We hope to see many of our summer programme students returning to us in Sep-tember, when we resume our regular programme.

Examinations In June and August, 13 of our PTH students sat the KPCC spoken language test. We are proud to share the results of this examination - with 7 of our students receiving distinctions and another 3 passing with merit. Congratulations to everybody who participated!

Similarly, some of our English students sat the Trinity spoken language test in July. Little Cosmos is delighted to report another successful set of results, with two students receiving distinctions and the other two receiving merits. Well done to our Trinity students, your hard work paid off! Art Exhibition On 30th August, Little Cosmos proudly presented an artwork exhibition at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. This was the third time we had been involved with this particular exhibition. The creativity of our students and the masterpieces they produce is something we are very proud of. We hope you got chance to admire all the wonderful creations which were displayed down at HKCC!

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Angela gives the opening speech at the Art Exhibition.

We are so pound to be able to present the student’s work.

Hei Lok smiles in front of her cupcakes that she made out of clay.

The afternoon tea themed art and crafts look delicious!

We pesented the award winning pieces from art competitions throughout the year.

We displayed our students’ fantastic creations in Park Central in September.

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SelectedArt Pieces

Ho Kit Ying, KellyLeung Evangeline

Li Ling Yan Ku Ho Yin, Horus

Ko Cyrus Ip Yan Yu, Yannes

Xing Xing Hei Competition In June, some of our Little Cosmos artists were entered into the annual Xing Xing Hei art competition, hosted in Beijing. We are delighted to announce that 147 of them get different graded awards including 1 Outstanding award, 42 first-rank awards, 67 second-rank awards and 37 third rank awards Fantastic work everybody!

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Miss Scarlett showed the K1-to-be class how to make and wear a monkey mask! You all look so cute!

Yat Yin and Sabrina stir the ingredients in cook-ing class.

We made a famous Hong Kong snake into art with Miss Joyce!

We coloured in Fro-Yo with Miss Grace!

Summer Fun with Miss Jayne and the P1-to-be class!

What a beautiful vase of �owers!

Snap Shots of Summer lessons

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Ethan and Lok Kwan making drums. They look super!

Samuel, Constance, Hailey and Gabbie whisking the mixture.

Story time with Miss Jayne! Table work time in Miss Vicki’s K1-to-be class. Well done Matt!

The whole centre smelt incredible after these came out of the oven!

Story time with Miss Grace in summer PTH.

Snap Shots of Summer lessons

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Splash! Playgroup level I students enjoyed play-ing with the water sensory box!

Parachute play time in playgroup!

What is your name? My name is Renee! Nixon, Tsz Ching and Elly with their impressive self-portraits!

Purple and Caridee have a discussion with Miss Jayne.

Good morning Mr. Bear! Hello Karson!

Page 14 of 14Snap Shots of Regular lessons

Gabriel reading to Miss Scarlett. Parachute play with Miss Vicki in Playgroup II! So much fun!

Miss Lilly teaches a special Father’s Day themed lesson.

Tao Tao and Karson paint a fox in Playgroup II.

We trace the letter X with our magic �nger! Clayton, Karl, and Eugenie made a Japanese �sh.