Sean McDermott is Deputy Head of School at ICHK and writes for The Future Learning Project

One of the key reasons why The Future Learning Project exists is because of the gap between how rapidly the world is changing when compared with often outdated learning experiences in many schools and education systems.… Read more

Ross Parker is Director of Technology and Assessment at ICHK

In 2011, Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and co-founder of the venerable Netscape, observed that “software is eating the world”. His observation was intended to reflect the way that computers, and the software they run, were flipping the business world on its head. … Read more

Dave Addis is an Experiential Educator at ICHK

So, what happens when a group of nine Yr8 and 9 boys are given the task of leading themselves around southern China?

During December’s Deep Learning, a team of boys were given a 5-day itinerary to follow taking them from Hong Kong, up to the Longji Rice Terraces and finally to the limestone karsts of Yangshuo.… Read more

Phil Morgan is Director of Creativity, Head of Human Technologies at ICHK

As a serious student of ‘Creative Thinking’, few things interest me more than the mental state that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi christened ‘Flow’.

If you’re not familiar with the term, you’ll certainly be familiar with the experience.… Read more

Jamie Holden is a Teacher of Mathematics at ICHK

As 2018 started to come to a close, I reflected on the previous year, as most people do, and started to think of the year ahead. Like most years, I was thinking about New Year and setting a New Year’s Resolution.… Read more

Harry Merrett is an ICT Assistant at ICHK

As you go through secondary school, people are going to start telling you about a magical place called university. This applies doubly if you don’t like school very much. They’ll tell you it’s the light at the end of the tunnel, the be-all and end-all, the place you’re Supposed To Go.… Read more

Jamie Holden is a Teacher of Mathematics and Outdoor Pursuits Coordinator at ICHK

I had just completed a PSHE session with my Year 7 form group and the outcome was too powerful not to share.

We had been asked ito share a message with our students and I decided that I wanted to to use ‘Community’ as the main driver, but where the conversation went was much more than that.… Read more

Phil Morgan is Director of Creativity and Head of Human Technologies at ICHK

I used to have a poster on my classroom wall exhorting my students to “Think Outside the Box!”

I’ve taken it down and I’m not putting it back up.… Read more

Jon Rees is a teacher of English, Human Technologies and Theory of Knowledge at ICHK

In the last 11 months, Jon Rees took up the challenge of learning to ride a horse so that he could participate in the first ever Hong Kong Polo Beginners Cup in Tianjin, China.… Read more