School News

This year our musical ‘Scrooge’ was adapted from Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella ‘A Christmas Carol’ and performed by F.1 to F.4 students during the Arts Night 2022. It was a great success thanks to all devoted English Drama Club members, including the actors and backstage crew, and the teachers. With the help of a streaming platform, we had a good time with both live and online audience. We would like to express our gratitude to everyone who came to support the event — ‘Love is all that matters!’ 

As an annual highlight, our Arts Night was successfully held on 10 August 2022. Our thanks go to the Organizing Committee for their diligent preparation, students for their keen participation, and parents as well as teachers for their unconditional support.

The show included various music and dance performances, drama, together with Chinese and English speeches. Each performance was an amusement to the audience and was well received and applauded. With the closing speech given by Ms Chiu, our Principal, the show came to a beautiful conclusion.

With our goal to showcase students’ multitude of talents, the Arts Night will continue to be an anticipated event for all members of the school and at the same time a happy occasion for our alumni to reunite and rekindle their friendship and memories.

Our FloorCurling Day organized by the PTA was held on 14 August 2022 (Sunday) to train students’ cognitive strategies and concentration as well as help them strengthen their family bonds, build interpersonal relationships and teamwork through games.

Our Art Exhibition of Graduates was held at the Foyer Exhibition Area of Hong Kong Cultural Centre from 22 to 24 July 2022 to showcase our F.6 students’ artworks. Many visitors expressed their appreciation and shared their opinions.

We are proud of our students’ creativity and grateful for VA Department’s hard work in organizing this event. Our thanks also go to teachers, alumni, parents and friends for their support.

While there are no boundaries in the world of art, the occasion has been a precious milestone signifying years of devotion as our talented graduates embark on their next stage ahead.

Our 5th Staff Development Day was held on 12 July, consisting of two parts:

•  a workshop on the identification and prevention of potential student suicide cases
•  a team-building group activity

Hosted by an educational psychologist, the workshop offered us a precious lesson on the issue.

The team-building session, on the other hand, was a long-awaited opportunity for our teachers to have a relaxing, fun time as a cohesive team. Limitations have been inevitable amid the pandemic over these years, but communication and unity are timeless.

It was a fruitful day indeed.

In order to enrich students’ knowledge on landslide prevention and mitigation in their neighborhood, our Geography Department arranged a field trip to study slope stability as a lesson activity on 6 July 2022. Our F.4 Geography students conducted site observation on the man-made slopes near our school.

Assessing the effectiveness of sub-surface drainage along a slope in Shek Kip Mei Park

Students analyzing the slope stability along a cut slope adjacent to recreational land uses

Walking around the perimeter of our campus to check the maintenance of the slopes

Our school-based field study manual

The Ho Koon Nature Education cum Astronomical Centre (HKNEAC) offered a half-day field study course to our F.5 Geography students on 24 June 2022. The course aims to enrich our students’ knowledge in Hong Kong’s woodland ecosystem and to better equip them for DSE fieldwork-based questions (FBQ).

Field study introduction by Ms. Kelly Cheng, the course instructor

Students locating the fieldwork site as advised by the course instructor

The first stage of our field study: planning and preparation

The second stage of our field study: data collection Students familiarizing themselves with the fieldwork plan and the sampling methods

Using an abney level and a measuring tape to find out the height and width of trees

Placing a quadrat on the sampling sites along a transect to collect the litter

The third stage of our field study: data processing, presentation and analysis Returning to the field centre to examine the samples of litter and invertebrates

The fourth stage of our field study: interpretation and conclusion Drawing a woodland profile to illustrate a high biodiversity inside the natural woodlands

The fifth stage of our field study: evaluation Students evaluating the possible sampling errors related to the data collection processes

Group photo of all our F.5 Geography students with Ms. Hui Ming Kuen and Mr. Ng Wing Chun

For more information about Geography field study courses offered by HKNEAC, please visit: http://www.hokoon.edu.hk/en/lesson_2.html

15 of our elite Chemistry students attended an electroplating workshop organized by our Chemistry Department and the Chow Sang Sang Precious Metal Laboratory on 23 June. They applied and integrated their Chemistry knowledge in making their own gold-plated crafts.

Students doing the preparatory work

Instructions given by a professional from the Chow Sang Sang Precious Metal Laboratory

The craft before the gold plating process

Some of our students’ creations

Ta-da! Product complete!

Each student getting a certificate after their hard work

A form-based hybrid English Assembly was held on 2 June 2022 to further strengthen students’ language awareness, enrich their thematic vocabulary bank, and promote positive values. Inter-class gamified competitions were hosted by English teachers and run with the assistance of class teachers to encourage students to answer and ask questions in English in an authentic fun context, and mime for their classmates. It was also an occasion for them to showcase their creativity and class spirit after the extended period of online lessons and special vacation.

The winning classes include 1A, 1D, 2C, 2D, 3B, 3D, 4A, 4B, 5B, and 5D. They were each awarded for their enthusiastic participation.

Speed Dating Harry Potter, a cross-unit activity aiming to promote positive values and reading was jointly organized by our school library, social workers and NET recently on 1st and 2nd June 2022. Students were engaged in a range of Harry Potter-themed activities, including a book exhibition of the Harry Potter series in both Chinese and English, an English vocabulary-building booth game, and a 24-character strengths photo-taking and awareness counter run by our social workers. Students had some great fun with our Harry Potters and have definitely been enlightened to explore more about the contemporary English classic!