Island School PTA Newsletter

Please join us for the first school fair in Sha Tin, at our Sha Tin Wai campus on Saturday, March 30th 2019, 11.30AM - 5.30PM. The Spring Carnival will bring the Island School community together for fun activities, amazing performances, great food, and getting to know each other better.

The proceeds of the fair will go towards enhancing the student’s school experience at the current Tai Wai and Sha Tin Wai campuses. We look forward to seeing you in Sha Tin Wai!

ISPTA Spring Carnival Committee

We warmly invite parents to volunteer at the Island School Spring Carnival. There are many parts of the fairs requiring parent volunteer help, and we are still looking for volunteers for several areas and time slots. Please consider signing up! Volunteer through this link.

As part of the International Food Hall at the Spring Carnival 2019, the ISPTA will have a Baked Goods stall. We need cakes, cookies, cupcakes, desserts, brownies, custard tarts, tray bakes, banana loaves, pound cakes and/or any other treats which you can whip up using your imagination.

Please use this link to Donate baked goods.

Tickets are $20, we encourage you can buy them through our advance ticketing site at TicketFlap, or at the door.

We have one bus from GPO and one bus from Elements. First come first served!

GPO at 11:10am, 12:10pm & 1:10pm

Elements at 11:20am, 12:20pm & 1:20pm

Return buses 3:30pm, 4:30pm, and 5:30pm

Or you can reach the Sha Tin Wai campus by public transportation.

Spring Carnival will be our greenest school fair ever, from getting through the door with your e-ticket down to the food waste in the compostable bins!

Purchase your paperless ticket in advance from TicketFlap and save a tree!

BYO food container, water bottle and even cutlery, or use our reusable plates, cutlery & cups available at the food hall!

Visit our recycle stations & talk to the WANBO team to see what can be recycled and check out how the Tech Department helps to build a greener community by recycling plastic bottles at the Island School Alliance table.

Don’t throw food waste in the bin! We will have bins for food waste that we will compost! The few disposable items we will have are all mostly compostable as well. Our friends at HK Community Composting will have a booth to tell you more about composting, promised to be fun and educational!

A group of students from Island School and Beacon Hill School take centre stage at the carnival to showcase their various talents on singing, dancing, drama, puppetry as well as Samba band and workshop, not to mention the lively playlist put together by our inhouse DJ!

Thanks to the cooking mamas and papas, this year, we have an amazing choice of cuisines including Chinese, Japanese & Korean. There's also the Curry Corner, Pizza, Crepes and Baked Goods in the School Hall, plus a hot favorite BBQ Hot dogs galore by ETAK and Impossible burgers (plant based) at the Terrace!

A fair is never complete without popcorn, candy floss and drinks which you can find on the ground floor. And strictly for 18 or above, pop by the Teacher's Bar for a selection of wines and craft beers!

With over 1,000 prizes to win from soft drinks to designer flask, check out the line-up of activities by six different houses for a day of fun and collect all six stamps:

Da Vinci - Sports Activities - Bus Parking area

Einstein - Face Painting and Photobooth - Ground Floor Corridor

Fleming - Children play area - Ground Floor by Entrance

Nansen - Traditional Game Stalls - Playground

Rutherford - Earth Hour Creations - Creative Hub

Wilberforce- Escape Room - AG22

Have a birthday coming up, wanna plan ahead for activity camp over the holiday, or simply want to pamper yourself? We have the perfect solution for you. Simply check-out the catalogue on our fabulous Silent Auction prizes and place your bid!

You can access the Silent Auction Catalogue here.

Make sure to utilise a promo code from one of our auction sponsors, Polly Ko Photography:

HELLOIS2019 will give you 10% off on current online prices - https://www.pollykophoto.com/prices

(Expires by June 15th 2019)

The ever popular Kitchenware Sale is back again! With great selection of high end kitchenware samples, at bargain prices from $20 and up! We have some eco friendly shopping bags, but feel free to bring your own, and your cash!

With 15 stalls at the playground selling anything under the sun from skin and beauty care to jewellery, fashion to accessories, home decor to toys, stationery to wines and gourmet foods you are guaranteed to find something to fit your taste. Bring your cash and shopping bag!

Our vendors for the Spring Carnival are Adorn Creations, Ankyra Home, CalenActive Activewear Apparel, Dudes Company Limited, handmade by B 心手作,, Haushold International Limited, Heritage ReFashioned, House of Fine Wines & Gourmet Foods, House of Pure Essence Ltd., Lavender’s Blue, Miajees Leather, Sia's trinkets, Pashlili Petit Chat Noir and Sai Kung Stray Friends.

We would like to thank the many people who have contributed to make this year’s Spring Carnival a success.

Thank you to our sponsors Chartwells, ETAK, Impossible Foods, Masterful Ltd, Santa Fe, and Vitasoy. We also thank our auction sponsors Mr Lord, Mr Coats, Dogalicious, Economist, Grace Vineyard, Grand Hyatt, Hyatt Regency Shatin, Kith and Kin, Koding Kingdom, Le Creuset, Nanoleaf, The Peninsula Boutique, Polly Ko Photography, Porterhouse, RYZE, Saaradesign, See's Candy, Soapnut Republic, SuperPark and Vivienne Tam, and our green partners Hong Kong Community Composting, Leaf Plate, Purearth & the WANBO team. The Spring Carnival is also supported by Kwoon Chung Bus, Ticketflap, Triple O and Yo Mama.

The Spring Carnival could not have happened without all of our volunteers - parents, teachers, Island School staff, site staff and students, thank you for your contribution. Special thanks to Spring Carnival Committee: Alefiyah Ebrahim, Alex Chin, Ekta Sachdev, Jennifer Seeto, Kate Sommerville, Lamey Chang, Manju Anand, Mary Lacey Vittachi, Rebecca Lucas Timpany, Stephanie Weathington, Steve Coats,Tania Shao and Tarja Joro, and to our food stall coordinators Adeline Fung, Carrian Hung, Chikako Kurata, Ellie Kim, Eunsook Seo, Kayomaz Palkhiwalla, Mika Ebihara, Stacy Tan and Will Morris for their leadership and our PTA Manager, Azeez Kasubhai for his time and support in making the Spring Carnival happen.

Island School PTA