Emails

This is the email that we sent to the upper primary teachers to ask when we can present our presentation.

Dear upper primary teachers,

We are the homeless group from grade 5 exhibition 2012. Our names are Ellie, Alexa, Emilia, and Ruby. The reason we are contacting you is because, for our action, we are going around to the different classes of upper primary and we are going to the middle high school assembly. At the end, we are going to give each class a piece of paper with a paragraph to persuade them. At the bottom of the paper is going to be be a place for them to sign if they agree that homelessness is a problem and that somehting should be done about it.

We would like to ask if we could go to your classrooms (or perhaps have the whole grade in one classroom) and tell your students about the problem and ask them to sign it if they agree and maybe even get signatures from their moms and dads. Is it enough time if you bring it back to G5JP by the 26th of March. If so, that would be great.

Please notify us a good time to do the presentation soon.

Regards,

The Homeless Group Ellie Alexa Ruby Emilia

This is the letter that we sent to Anita, to confirm the meeting with Mr. Musco about our presentation to the middle school and high school!

Dear Ms. Anita,

I have just recently contacted Mr. Musco about booking a meeting on the 19th of March. We are free all day untill 1:00pm. Please let us know when we can meet with him.

Ruby Grade 5 Student

This is a letter to the uper primary.

Dear upper primary teachers, We are the homeless group from grade 5 exhibition 2012. Our names are Ellie, Alexa, Emilia, and Ruby. The reason we are contacting you is because, for our action, we are going around to the different classes of upper primary and we are going to the middle high school assembly. At the end, we are going to give each class a piece of paper with a paragraph to persuade them. At the bottom of the paper is going to be be a place for them to sign if they agree that homelessness is a problem and that somehting should be done about it. We would like to ask if we could go to your classrooms (or perhaps have the whole grade in one classroom) and tell your students about the problem and ask them to sign it if they agree and maybe even get signatures from their moms and dads. Is it enough time if you bring it back to G5JP by the 26th of March. If so, that would be great.

Please notify us a good time to do the presentation soon. Regards, The Homeless Group Ellie Alexa Ruby Emilia

This is a email we got from Mrs. May after we went to the soup kitchen.

Hi all,

Thanks to all who joined us today!

The men at the soup kitchen today were, let's say, a bit less reserved than usual and there were A LOT of them -- all very hungry. The girls saw a part of Hong Kong I'm sure they've not seen before and I think the morning will have a lasting impression on them. I'm very happy I was able to be a part of their experience. We talked afterwards a bit about the work that we did being "necessary" and Alexa asked me why I thought so. I replied that the men arrived hungry and we helped put food in their bellies. Very tangible and rewarding work, to be sure.

The girls were amazing indeed. I am always very proud to be out and about with HKA students -- well done, teachers and parents!

Best regards, Alison May This is a email that we sent to the editor of the HK magizine because there was an aritical about a guy who took action towards homeless people.

Dear Editor,

We are students from Hong Kong Academy, we are currently studying homeless people of hong kong.

We were recently given an online article titled, ‘Ng Wai-tung: Helping the Homeless of Hong Kong, published on Nov 15, 2007 by TC Fung.

We would like to contact Mr Ng for a interview as part of our reasearch into this issue. Unfortunately, there were was no contact details for him in the article. Could you please forawd any information to us related to this man.

Thank you for your time.

From, The Homeless Group, Alexa Ruby Ellie Emilia
 * Wed 8th Feb**

We have just foud this website on homeless people so we sent this email.

Dear Soco,

My name is Ruby Rankin and I am a grade five student from Hong Kong Academy. As part of our unit activities we do a group project on an issue that we are passionate about. My classmates and I are studying the homeless people of Hong Kong as our issue.

I have just seen your website 'Homeless 2', and was just wondering if we could organise a conference call through the school's phone. We want to ask about some of the things you discovered during youre work and if you have any suggestions on ways we could help the homeless people of Hong Kong. Is there anytime we could call you?

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

From Ruby Alexa Ellie Emilia And here is thier reply.

Dear Ruby,

Nice to meet you. I am Gordon. I am one of the social workers at SoCO. My colleague, Tung, and I are also responsible for the issue of homeless people. Would you mind telling me more about your plan.

Chick Kui Wai, Gordon Community Organizer Society for Community Organization (SoCO) Tel: 2725 3165

So we have got his phone number and hope to call Gordon for an interview soon.

This is an email that we sent to Mrs. May to ask her is we could interview her about her organization that feeds the homeless.

Dear Mrs. May, As you may know grade five has started exhibition! We are the homeless group, and we thought that we might be able to interview you because we know that you are the organizer of “American Woman's Association”! Would it be okay if we made if we a date that is suitable for all of us to meet? We are available any day. Thanks, The Homeless Group! Alexa Hipp, Ellie Smith, Emilia Dolling and Ruby Rankin This is a email that Mrs. May sent to us confirming our feild trip that will take place on the 28th of Febuary.

Just to confirm that the "Homeless" group for exhibition (as copied above) will be joining Hannah Smith, Jeannine Hipp and I, along with their mentor -- please forward to her -- to prepare and serve food at a soup kitchen in Sham Shui Po next Tuesday morning. (Hannah and I are regular volunteers at the kitchen and can assure you that it is safe.) The plan is for the girls to meet up at Dynasty Court at 8:00 A.M. and we will travel together on the Tung Chung line (please send Octupus cards) to and from the soup kitchen. Their mentor will return to school with them no later than 11:45. Please feel free to call or email me with any questions. Thanks, Alison May Since, we are trying to recieve as many signatures as possible we've done loads of presentations! Recently, we've done a presentation to the middle school and high school! We organized this with Mr. Musco. Here is the letter he sent to us after the presentation: Hi Grade 5 Team,
 * [[image:http://mail.hkacademy.edu.hk/Icons/0 width="10" height="1"]] || Hi all,

Extra large KUDOS to your 4 kiddos (I forget their names!). They did a fabulous job with their presentation this morning.

They got up on stage, walked us through their slides, and answered questions. They were poised, confident, and clearly enjoyed the stage time.

It is refreshing to see, and we will reap the benefits of this type of leadership and service next year when we get them into MS.

Well done all,

Doug

This letter (the letter to the parents) about confirming our fied trip to Pacific Place:


 * Dear parents,
 * As you probably know, Grade Five have started Exhibition! Alexa, Ellie, Ruby and I are in the Homeless Group. We are trying to receive 2,000 signatures for our petition! Recently, we have done presentations to try to receive more signatures! Then we realized we need to do more! So, we are planning to go to Princes building on Friday the 23rd of March after school (whatever time is most suitable) to collect more signatures from the public. Then we want to go to Causeway Bay (Times square) on Saturday the 24th of March (whatever time is most suitable) . We were wondering if a few parents could come, since we can’t go by ourselves! If any of you would like to come, feel free! Please reply ASAP!
 * Thank you! Help us help the homeless!
 * Kind Regards
 * Emilia
 * Kind Regards
 * Emilia
 * Emilia
 * Emilia

A while ago for action we decided to spread some awarness so we did some presentaitions! As you may know, we did a presentations to the Grade Fours, this is the thank you letter that Ellie sent to the Grade Four teachers:


 * Dear Grade 4 teachers,
 * We can not thank you enough for letting us do our presentation. Like we said, we will come and collect the signatures on Monday the 26th of March. We hope you will have many signatures!
 * Thanks again!
 * The Homeless Group
 * Ellie
 * Alexa
 * Ruby
 * Emilia

Kindly, Mrs. Anthea (our mentor/Grade Four teacher) and Mrs. Suchi (the other Grade Four teacher) replied to us. Here it is:

This one is from Mrs. Suchi:

Dear Eleanor, Emilia, Emily, Alexa and Ruby, That was a very thoughtful email. We enjoyed having you in our classroom and look forward to helping you collect the signatures that you need.

Each one of us can make a difference. You have taken the initiative .. Well done. Ms. Suchi.

Obiviously, here is the reply from Mrs. Anthea:

Hi Girls,

Well done on your presentation this morning. The grade 4 students are all very excited to see how many signatures your get and learn more about the difference you are making.

I am very impressed with how enthusiastic you have been about getting the signatures around school and in your neibourhood.

Keep up the good work and I will meet with you Tuesday morning!

Anthea Harris ||