Dear Parents and Students
Looking ahead…
- Mon 23rd – Fri 27th Jan – Chinese New Year Holiday SCHOOL CLOSED
- 17th February – Year 11 Full Reports
Congratulations – Selene Lee Y10
Our congratulations to Selene for her 4th Place finish in an international art competition focused on the London Olympics. A ceremony was held recently in Hong Kong for the winners where she received her prize. Selene was one of 2000 artists who submitted works for the competition, and as you can tell from the photo below, she selected several iconic themes for her work including Abby Road. Well done Selene.
Green Power Hike
Three girls from ICHK (Team Green Warriors) Gigi Kong (7.1), June Chan (7.1) and Fiona Leung (7.2) won the 1st Runners Up prize in the Green Team Category last Saturday as part of the Green Power Hike competition. The finishing time was 1 hour 10 minutes 35 seconds, which was only four minutes behind the champions and faster than some of the winning adult teams in other categories! An amazing achievement!
From left to right, June, Fiona and Gigi.
Y11 Mock Exams Completed
Our Y11s, have just finished a full round of Mock iGCSE examinations. Nineteen papers in 8 days, plus a 10 hour practical art exam for Visual Arts students! Teachers will moderate the papers on the 30th of January to ensure accuracy and consistency of grading within a subject. Scripts will be returned shortly thereafter and a full report released on 17th February.
A special thanks to the following parents who assisted in the invigilation process: Paul Statskey, Carly Wong, Henri Olesen, Olga Quintana, Lowell Tin and Jenny Overman. They are becoming quite experienced invigilators!
We wish our Y11s much success in their grades.
Recruitment of Teachers
I am very pleased to announce that we have completed our recruitment of teachers for the next academic year. As mentioned in a previous bulletin, the last position to be filled was for the Head of English. You will be pleased to hear that we have appointed Ms Elaine Long who is currently a teacher at KGV. Futher details are included below. I am sure that she will be a very welcomed member of our teaching staff and I look forward to working with her next year.
Head of English
Elaine Long, B.A. (Hons), PGCE – British
Elaine completed her university studies at Nottingham and East Anglia Universities in the UK. She has taught in schools in the UK, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, including Dulwich College and KGV. She has extensive experience with both the IBDP and with IGCSE, and was formerly the Deputy Head of English at Dulwich College Shanghai. Elaine is a very creative and passionate educator and is looking very much to working with our students.
Song Touch Rugby Tournament Report by Song Sports Leader George Birkby, 8.2
Without exception, every player who played for Song House in the touch rugby tournament exceeded my expectations, both in team work and commitment. We had some strong teams playing, and it really showed when we dominated on the pitch. A few players that led by example in leading their teams were Sasha, Catherine, Harry Overman, Qino, Kelsie and Caroline. Unfortunately, I did not manage to watch every match we played, but I heard excellent reports! For me the most intense match of the tournament so far has got to be Year 8 Girls Song vs Ming. It truly was a nail biting performance, coming from 3-1 down to a victorious 4-5 effort. Song House should be praised for their sportsmanship and professional attitude. Well done Song!
SEAMC 2012
It is my pleasure to announce that Eva Yam (8.1), Kate Liu (8.2), Ambrose Li (9.2), Richard Yang (9.2), Ashley Kim (10.1) and Janice Hui (10.1) have been selected to particpate in SEAMC 2012, which is being held in Singapore from Thursday 23rd Feburary to Sunday 26th February this year. They will be joining other international schools in the South East Asia region for this exciting event. Thank you for those who participated in the tryout.
Pascal, Cayley and Fermat Mathematics Contests
The Pascal (Y9), Cayley (Y10) and Fermat (Y11) Contests are an opportunity for students to have fun and to develop their mathematical problem solving ability. The contests are written in school and supervised by teachers on Friday 24th February. Please email Mr Lam by Monday 6th Feburary if you would like to take part in any of these contests.
ICT
Year 8 students recently created videos as part of a unit called Remix, where students had to remix content under Creative Commons licenses to make a legal, free piece of media. The video below was made by Emma Lee and Natasha Rode-Christoffersen in 8.2 and is very good example of global citizenship.
Chinese New Year Activities Week
Calligraphy Workshop
Both teachers and students joined in the Calligraphy Workshop, including Mr White. It was Katrina Cranfield and Mrs Kramer’s first time doing Chinese calligraphy, but they did a very good job indeed.
Calligraphy Workshop
Calligraphy Charity Sale
There was also a Calligraphy Work Display and Charity Sale, which displayed and sold work donated from the ICHK Calligraphy Club. Half of the works were sold – a big thank you to all the buyers. Special thanks also goes to all the students from ICHK Calligraphy Club who donated 40 calligraphy works they made especially for this Chinese New Year Charity Sale: Connie Chan, Edison Chan, Yan Cheung, Owen Ching, Daimhlinn Darling, Alex Gibbard, Sky Kanagawa, Emma Lee, Reina Mun, Venessa Poon, Lawanya Rathninde, Temmy Santoso, Coco Tsang, Lios Van Eck, Oscar Woo, and Christine Yeung.
News just in - $523.30 was raised in total (Tang: $117.10, Ming: $146.20, Song: $260.00) That means that 10 points went to Song!
Also, many thanks to the SRC Event Leaders – Lawanya, Jamie and Ashley – who helped with the charity sale.
Calligraphy Charity Sale
Dumpling Workshop
The two-day workshop coordinated by Ms Luk, was a great hit! Charlotte, Femke, Vanessa, Nika, Emily and Ashely Kim, Janice Hui, Stephanie, Relin, Sky, Bop, Noah, Lawanija, Ananya, Natasha, Relin, Jennifer Cheung, Ben Biggs, Janice Leung, Vanessa Poon and Noah Jim donated their precious 1st breaks time to a charity cause and learnt and polished their dumpling wrapping skills. Every single handmade dumpling was sold in the second break, collecting a total of $597.70 which will be donated to charity – the St.James’ Settlement.
Anyone for a dumpling?
Dragon Design Competition
Five contestants presented their designs: Christy Liu, Yan Cheung, Selene Lee, Clare Coey, and a team formed by Paula Statskey, Nika Marlow and Lynden Chiang. After votes were cast using the whole-school online anonymous poll, Selene Lee was announced the winner, receiving a prize from Mr White on Monday’s Chinese New Year Assembly and winning 10 house points for Song!
Selene receiving her prize from Mr White.
Chinese New Year Assembly
Our special Chinese New Year assembly saw some wonderful Chinese themed performances from Year 9-10 students. Daimhlinn Darling and Edison Chan from Y8 also did a superb job as the “Masters of Ceremonies”. We were treated to a unique mini film – The Scrooge of Chinese New Year – made and performed by Year 9 and 10 students. If you haven’t already seen it, please take a look below.
Traditional Chinese-Dress Down Day
Thursday saw students wear traditional Chinese outfits in order to raise more money for the St. James’ Settlement. We are very pleased to announce that $3,001.20 was raised in total. There were many beautiful examples of Chinese clothes worn and below is just a small selection.
From left to right: Relin, Sasha, Katherine, Rosie and Kelly
And finally …. our lucky students were visited by the God of Fortune himself, who handed out red ‘lai si’ packets to everyone, although he did look strangely familiar…
