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ICHK is a community school, which prides itself on the strength of its relationships. We value our strong partnerships between parents, staff, students, governors and the wider community.
2017
The Non-Mystery of Examination Inflation
Coming from the UK and working in secondary education, I have grown accustomed to the annual media storm that centers on the release of the IGCSE and A Level results in the late summer. It’s a perennial British pantomime of which, happily, we get only a mild version in Hong Kong. It’s a...
2017
Escaping The Factory School
There are a number of well-established, even taken-for granted, features of school structure and organisation that seriously hold back education, particularly at secondary level. In each case, they are quite clearly inadequate, even damaging of learning, and yet in each case they linger on in the...
2017
International maths challenge
Congratulations to the ICHK students who competed in the prestigious South East Asian Mathematics Competition in Jakarta last weekend. Katie Leung, Ivan Choy, Harry Cai, Evita Chan, Gabriel Nelson and Gemma Ball joined hundreds of international school students from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand,...
2017
The Legacy Challenge Award
Brendan Lee is a Year 6 Teacher at ICHK Hong Lok Yuen, and runs the Legacy Challenge Award. “It is time to make your mark. Your contribution. It is time to leave a legacy. Your legacy. It’s your time.” James Kerr The Legacy Challenge Award was developed in 2015 with the aim of inspiring,...
2017
Exchange programme success
Another successful exchange programme has been hosted at ICHK. We have been delighted to welcome students from Nengren Middle School in Jiangsu Province to our school this past week. The focus has been on language immersion and cultural learning, with a packed programme of excursions and...
2017
Learning on the slopes
A hugely successful ski trip has been enjoyed by ICHK families . A group of students, parents and staff visited Shiga Kogen, near Nagano in Japan. They enjoyed winter sports, as well as cultural excursions and the opportunities to enjoy new food and language immersion. Organiser Ray Chan said:...
2017
Shredding school
Ben Blain is Head of Year 7 and Teacher of Physical Education at ICHK Any parent who has sent their child on ICHK’s annual Snowsports trip will have become used to receiving the nightly email telling the story of each day. Among the descriptions of the weather and the progress updates on...
2017
Students celebrate speech festival success
ICHK students celebrated excellent results in the prestigious HKIEACA Speech Festival. Four students competed in the event, which attracts students from across Hong Kong. Kaisla Majapuro and Charli Haddican from Year 9 took part in the Teenage Group Mandarin Tongue Twister. Alron Chan Yung Long...
2017
Individual Differences and the Learning Environment
Perhaps the most effective way of exploring how ICHK aligns with the fourth of OECD’s transversal conclusions is to step outside of the South East Asian educational environment for a moment and to invoke the principles that have catapulted a European nation, Finland, to the forefront of the...
2017
The Battle Face
Ben Blain is Head of Year 7 and Teacher of Physical Education at ICHK “Your battle face is calm, relaxed, fixed, determined. Your battle face is grave and still. It doesn’t show enmity, hostility or struggle, but acceptance. Your battle face understands the task ahead, has imagined...