Dear Parents and Guardians,

We've had an incredible response to our Domestic Helper Support Sessions! Due to the overwhelming positive demand, we're excited to offer additional sessions on Monday, June 2nd at 2 pm, and a second date to be confirmed at a later date.

Please note: These extra sessions are repeats of the sessions already scheduled for next week. If your helper will attend a session next week, they do not need to attend again.

To accommodate the fantastic turnout, we will have 60 slots available for each of these additional sessions.

We'll send out the sign-up link for these new sessions towards the end of next week.

As always, if you have any questions or need support, please contact me directly at raffej2@g.sjs.edu.hk. I'm happy to help!

Sincerely

Joel Rafferty

Learning Support Teacher

Online ordering for June 2025 DCK lunches 

Ordering DCK lunches online through the DCK App is available from 11 - 20 May 2025 

DCK has featured 4 choices every day. Two choices (A & B) are priced at 32 HKD and two choices (C & D) or (SP1 & SP2) are priced at 44 HKD.

Ordering is done through the DCK App

THE DCK APP

To improve the meal ordering experience for parents. DCK has introduced a mobile phone App ordering system. Parents can easily order meals for each month through this app. They can also handle their refunds on the day and see their credits in the App balance immediately.

The App can be downloaded from any App store. Please refer to the attached files for more information on the ordering and cancellation processes.

For Enquiries

DCK hotline: 21266533 (Ms Jenny Yuen)

Jenny's WhatsApp number: is 55069136 (please try the hotline number first). Please also try to send all messages using WhatsApp only.

DCK Login IDs for the APP

Login IDs and passwords for the DCK App have already been distributed to the students. For any Login issue please get in touch with Jenny Xu at the numbers mentioned above. You can also check your login details with Conrad at SJS (26922721)

In order to facilitate the administrative and ordering process, paper menus will no longer be provided to process late orders.

For late orders, please contact Jenny within two days after the deadline on Whatsapps:55069136. The system will remain open for two more days after the deadline for those who need to submit a late order, but after that, no more late orders will be allowed. 

Thank you

ESF Sha Tin Junior School

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Ordering Period: The ordering period for zebratasty's meals for June 2025 will be from 11th to 24th May 2025.

The prices for 2024/2025 school year is $47 for a small size hot lunch (fixed portion size for Year 1 & 2 students) and $49 for a regular size hot lunch (Year 3-6 students can choose between small & regular size).

Meal Cancellation: zebratasty accepts meal cancellations. Please carefully review the conditions specified in the FAQ page in the link below regarding the cancellation policy as well as the steps provided to ensure a smooth ordering process.

The Ordering instructions, How to Cancel and a FAQ

Please Note: zebratasty does not provide cutlery with their orders

Customer Support

Should you have any questions or require further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact the Zebratasty's Customer Support

Phone:  3468 7285 & 3565 4120 (Catherine IP)

E-mail: info@zebratasty.com

Thank you

ESF Sha Tin Junior School

Dear SJS Families, 

Our Student Council is enthused to organise a clothing drive for Redress Hong Kong. Redress is an organisation that collects used clothing and donates it to local charities, re-sells it at their shop or downcycle the materials. Their mission is to reduce clothing waste while supporting the Hong Kong communities in need. 

Our collection period will be from 1st May to 1st June. Please bring any clothes your family has outgrown and place them in the donation boxes in the undercover area. For more information about what can be donated, please see the attached poster. 

Thank you for your support of our school's sustainability initiative. 

Yours sincerely,

Sha Tin Junior Student Council 

The ESF City Nature Challenge is now underway. It would be great if you could join and help Sha Tin Junior School.

All the information that you need is on this site 

There are some tips on these slides as well.

Competition Details
Competition Period (Photo-taking Dates): 25-28 April, 2025
Uploading and ID Period: 29 April-4 May, 2025
Results Announced: 5 May, 2025
Hong Kong Project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2025-hong-kong

City Nature Challenge (Hong Kong Region) website： https://www.hkiscnc.org/

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What is the City Nature Challenge (CNC)？

The City Nature Challenge is a large citizen science event around the globe. It was first held in 2016 by the @California Academy of Sciences and @Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. This is a competition that brings cities from around the world together. Over 4 days in April, Citizens of participating cities need to use the free iNaturalist app to record their local wildlife. After identification, the city that records the greatest number of species will win the competition！

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How to participate in the competition？
Download the free iNaturalist app and register an account.
Find out wildlife in Hong Kong and take photos of them during 25 th to 28 th April.
Upload the photos to iNaturalist and fill in information such as location and date. The observation record will be automatically included in the Hong Kong CNC project.
Species identification: Wild animals, including native and exotic species in Hong Kong; excluding human, captive or cultivated organisms
Observation records will be identified from 29th April to 4 th May and the results will be announced on 5 thMay.
Let’s take part in the competition and compete for the championship for Hong Kong!

Dear SJS Families,

We are writing to share the Term 3 ECA Catalogue with you.

You’ll notice some exciting new activities, including Y1 Coding Club, Y2 Drama, Y3 Lunchtime Japanese Club, Y4 Table Tennis, and Y4-6 Cantonese Club, to name a few.

Our teachers and EAs have developed a wide range of extracurricular activities for our current term (Term 3) that will take place at two different times depending on the activity:

• During the lunch break time (30 minutes)

• After school (approx. 60 minutes)

In order to give more students an opportunity to engage with a lunchtime ECA, some activities will only run for three-four weeks, allowing two cycles of the same activity to take place over the term. However, given the limited number of overall spots, not all students can be guaranteed an opportunity each term. As such, those students who did not participate in an ECA yet this school year will be prioritised this term.

For those students interested in joining an ECA this term (Term 3), it is important that they do their research beforehand and decide on their top five choices of activities. Please review this catalogue with your children and have them decide on their 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th choices by Thursday, 24th April. Teachers will support students with sign-ups in the classroom.

Please note that some activities are taking place at the same time, so students can only engage with one of them (e.g. After-school basketball and Y4-6 Choir).

Please note:

• Some activities are “drop in” and do not require sign-ups. In this way, students are not expected to attend each week, but can attend when they so desire and when space is available.

• For all after school ECAs, the sign-up process is different. Families are required to sign-up or show interest via the Gateway eNotice. Registration for these ECAs will be available on Thursday, April 24th at 4pm. Also: families are required to organise pick-up for children at 4pm.

Registration for ECAs will be confirmed next week by teachers (either in class or through email) and then activities will begin the week of May 6th.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Mr. Aaron Van Borek (aaron.vanborek@sjs.esf.edu.hk), who is helping to organise these activities.

Thank you for your continued support from home,

ESF Sha Tin Junior School

Dear Year 6 Parents,

Dedication note to Y6 students

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity!

We would like to invite you to write a short dedication to your child for inclusion in the Yearbook. This might be something like, ‘You made us so proud, especially with your participation in the Exhibition / Sports teams / School Achievement.’

Please click here to submit your dedication message.

This is totally free of charge, so let’s join in and enter your dedication note. 

The Deadline is Friday 11 April 2025 (at 12 noon).

Character limit includes spaces, letters, numbers and punctuations.

Dedication Header:  30 characters (If you leave this blank, we will put your child’s preferred name as the header)

Dedication Comment:  290 characters

Please avoid any special symbols, e.g. @#$%^&* and in English language ONLY.

Please note, the school remains the right to edit your comment if necessary. If you want further assistance, please contact our Office Manager, Alex Chu, at info@sjs.esf.edu.hk.

Best regards,

Rehana Shanks

Principal

Dear Parents,

For our Year 6 Graduation Teddy Bears this year, the PTA is collaborating with Dress Green; Dress Green will help to repurpose students' old school uniforms into a uniform for students' graduation bears. The PTA will sponsor the bear workshop and production.

Year 6 students will attend a workshop in school on the first week of Term 3 to help make a uniform for their graduation teddy bear using their old uniforms. We ask students to bring in a top (red & white shirt/blouse) and bottom (navy shorts/skort/trousers) to school by Wednesday 26 March 2025. 

* Please label the old school uniforms. 

Regards,

Sha Tin Junior School Parent Teachers Association Limited

Dear Parents,

With the new DCK App, cancellations can only be done through the App before 08:30 am on that day and not through WhatsApp.

For example, if a parent needs to cancel the lunch order on 19 February they can only do it between 0:00-8:30 am on that day, the lunch cancellation button only appears during this time i.e. from (0:00-8:30).

Please refer to the attachment for the procedure

Thank you

ESF Sha Tin Junior School

Dear Parents,

Seasonal Influenza Outreach Vaccination

The Department of Health will arrange a vaccination team (by DH or through a public-private partnership) to provide 1st dose of seasonal influenza outreach vaccination at our school on 29th November 2024.

*Children under 9 Years old who have never received any seasonal influenza vaccine (SIV) are recommended to have two doses of SIV with a minimum interval of 4 weeks. The second dose will be on 10th January 2025.

The consent form has been sent out, please kindly note the following remarks:

1. Complete and return the signed consent form or refusal form before 4th October 2024
2. Inform our school immediately if your child has received the 2024/2025 seasonal influenza vaccine after 1st September 2024
3. Remind your child to have breakfast on the vaccination day

Should you have further questions, please feel free to contact the Department of Health at 2125-2128 or our school nurse at 2602-2827.

Joyce Yam

School Health Professional