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

This week, I went down to Victoria Park to attend the 30th anniversary commemoration of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Across this week, as many as 180,000 people are expected in a series of events to mark both that tragedy and to protest against the new Extradition Law that allows people arrested in Hong Kong to be sent to Mainland China: protestors say that this is unfair as Hong Kong and China’s legal systems are significantly different and this is in opposition to the terms of the handover from Britain- where the integrity of Hong Kong’s laws were to be guaranteed for 50yrs from 1997.… 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

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

A few years ago I visited The Green School in Bali. In educational terms it is an almost-mythical ‘Shangri-la’ of a school – the world’s most beautiful and ecologically aware institution.… Read more

Ray Chan is Head of PE, Activities & Deep Learning at ICHK

As I reflect upon the year, my mind naturally tends towards the Deep Learning programme that we have initiated this year.  As the coordinator of this programme, I feel privileged to have worked with staff on a wide-ranging curriculum from Ark Eden, Bamboo Creativity, Cantonese Opera to Zombies and literally everything in between.… Read more

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

The thing I appreciate most about working at ICHK is the uncommon attitude to risk-taking, experimentation, and the very real possibility of failure in the pursuit of learning.… Read more