The Chinese New Year was celebrated at ACG City Campus on Friday 8 February.

Staff and students marked the day by dressing in red and decorating the foyer and rooms with flags, lanterns and posters. A highlight was the food market in the foyer at lunchtime. “Some students sold dumplings filled with pork or vegetables and pork buns with soy sauce in the foyer.  They were delicious and very popular with the staff and students.  Traditionally, the grandmother and/or mother of the family make dumplings and pork buns to celebrate Chinese New Year.  Sometimes parents put small coins in the dumplings too.  If you find a dumpling with coin in it, this means you will be lucky in the coming year.

ACG City Campus social soccer has been running during Term 1 at Victoria Park fields. It happens on a Thursday between 5.30 and 6.45 p.m. Soccer is open to all ACG students and all levels of expertise. For the past few weeks two games have operated, with the girls choosing to have their own game.

It has afforded a good opportunity to use the light evenings to get some exercise and meet students from other ACG courses. Games are competitive but inclusive and students who think they would like to have a go are encouraged to come along.

In 2012 ACG City Campus entered eight students in the New Zealand
Scholarship calculus examination. Chen Yu, Hauang Jiaming, Huang Kai, Peng Bo
and Wu Qi passed the Scholarship Examination and Wang Yi achieved an
‘Outstanding’ result. This was an excellent achievement by these students who have
demonstrated a remarkable commitment to their learning and are, approximately,
in the top 3% in New Zealand of the Level 3 cohort. The Deputy Chief Executive,  NZQA, Mr Thornton said, “New Zealand Scholarship is regarded as the most prestigious school award available in New Zealand”.

Are we ‘in tune’ with the needs of our students? Do we regularly rise to the challenge and reflect on our teaching practice? Do we use the increasing range of tools and techniques available to manage change in our classrooms? Do teachers and support staff work together to promote student engagement, critical thinking and student success in their studies?

ACG welcomes all new students that start this year.

To all returning students, a warm welcome back to ACG!

We wish you every success in your studies.

During one week, the ACG City Campus and the marketing staff were serving new students