School News

Students from our Community Youth Group visited the Wetland Park and explored sites like Pui Pui’s Home, Riverside Hide, Butterfly Garden, and Fishpond Hide. Through this visit, they learned more about biodiversity and cultivated an interest in observing ecology. It also raised their awareness of the importance of conservation.

Our 45^th Aquatic Meet was successfully held at Kowloon Park Swimming Pool recently.

Our swimmers’ efforts and the house cheering performance well impressed the audience. We were also delighted to have five fellow schools’ participation in the invitation relay, where our team reaped the Second Runner-up.

Special thanks go to Miss Camille Cheng, one of the representatives winning the First Runner-up of 4 × 100 m women’s 4 strokes in 2018 Asian Games, for joining us as our guest of honor and giving an inspiring speech.

Hats off to our swimmers, whose dedication and hard work truly paid off, and all our staff and student officials for making the event a success.

Results are as follows:

Cheering Competition

Champion: Blue House

First Runner-up: Red House

House Champion: Yellow House

Boys House Champion: Red House

Girls House Champion: Yellow House

With 160 participants, our annual PTA Parent-child Cultural Tour was successfully held recently. Visiting Central Market, Tai Kwun, Stanley Street, Stanley Plaza, Stanley Promenade and Murray House as well as enjoying a buffet lunch in Wan Chai, students, parents and teachers all had a great time. This trip provided an opportunity for them to bond with one another. The stunning scenery added color to the experience, allowing families to explore nature and appreciate its beauty. It was an amazing occasion with communication fostered and cultural knowledge gained.

We look forward to another rewarding cultural tour next year!

Arranged by our BAFS and Economics Departments, three of our students participated in the 13th “Junior Financial Secretary” project co-organized by the Education Bureau and The Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs Association of Hong Kong.

Apart from learning some essential financial knowledge and good investment attitudes as well as enhancing their sense of public finance in the training programme, they also had a chance to meet the Financial Secretary, Mr. Paul Chan Mo-po, at the Government Secretariat, proposing a host of suggestions on the Budget from the youth’s perspective.

For details, please refer to Mr. Chan’s blog entry on Budget Consultation:

https://www.fso.gov.hk/eng/blog/blog20240107.htm

To promote a vibe of harmony, positive class ethos and students’ sense of wellbeing, we have made good use of the “One-off Grant for Mental Health at School” by purchasing for each class various board games, which students enjoy during lunch break.

Our thanks go to our Student Union, Fantasia, for planning this initiative that offers their schoolmates a fun time to relax and bond with each other.

Promoting a healthy lifestyle and learning environment is one of our top priorities. Our Red Cross Youth Unit organized a series of activities in January and February 2024 to serve this goal.

A Healthy School Day was held in January with a theme on ‘Support, Education and Empowerment: Ignite the Change for Physical & Mental Health’. 4C Lin Huiyan and 4B Leung Nok Kin, our School Health Ambassadors, provided students and staff with professional health services, measuring their blood pressure, pulse and blood oxygen level (SpO2), body fat and Body Mass Index (BMI). Health advice was also given. Participants had a better understanding of their health status after the activity.

Members joined a Basic Life Support (BLS) training course and learned how to perform CPR and AED accurately as a pre-hospital treatment. They all passed the assessment and obtained a first aid certificate recognized by the European Resuscitation Council.

During our Aquatic Meet in February, 4B Feng Lee Ki, our First Aid Team Leader, together with 15 members provided first aid service to their schoolmates. Some senior members shared their experiences with the leaders-to-be. Meanwhile, 3A Chow Zifeng and 3A Zeng Tsz Ching briefed fellow members about the importance of manpower deployment, triage and record on site.

Our Chinese Cultural Day was held on 2 February 2024. Apart from writing spring festival couplets and making paper cutting, students and teachers did the traditional annual clean up and decorated classrooms in preparation for the Chinese New Year.

Students also enjoyed the Chinese juggling performance as well as the lion dance, learning about these Chinese cultural elements while celebrating the start of a new year.

We wish everyone a prosperous and fruitful Year of the Loong.

To demonstrate our love and care for the elderly in the community with a belief that giving is more rewarding than receiving, we collaborated with The Neighbourhood Advice-Action Council to organize an event named “Build Our Homes With Our Neighbours” on 2 February 2024, promoting the values of benevolence, filial piety, and empathy.

Over a total of a hundred student volunteers participated in this initiative. They visited 258 elderly residents of Mei Ying House and Mei Yue House in Shek Kip Mei Estate, delivering gifts and engaging in warm conversations with them.

This program was subsidized by the Heart to Heart School Neighbourhood Project of the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups and our Parent-Teacher Association.

Our school library organized a wood carving workshop on 2 February 2024, our Chinese Cultural Day. The activity was meant to promote traditional Chinese craftsmanship and related readings.

28 students had the opportunity to practice low-relief carving techniques in the making of feather bookmarks. With the tools and principles well introduced, they were able to grasp the skills and produce lovely art pieces.

A joint-school DSE oral practice, co-organized by our Student Union, Fantasia, TWGHs Chang Ming Thien College Student Union, Cheung Sha Wan Catholic Secondary School Student Union and St. Mary’s Canossian College, was successfully held on 27 January 2024.

It was a great opportunity for the participants to learn from each other. Besides getting more familiarized with the speaking exam setting and procedure, they had their examination skills and confidence well boosted. Our thanks go to the teacher examiners and student helpers, and we wish all the candidates good luck for their exam!