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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.
2021
Deep Learning Studies
Another amazing two days of Deep Learning have been enjoyed, after last month’s programme was cut short by bad weather. Students completed their studies into a range of creative units, including food and culture, pottery, climbing, sports kit design and board game design. Year 7s finished their...
2021
Sports Kit Design
ICHK students have been busy designing sports kits which they hope will be selected for use in school. One of the new Deep Learning units offered this year was ‘Sports Kit Design’, led by sports enthusiast Richard Barnes. Over their three day experience, students learned about the sports kit...
2021
Yong Zhao Endorses ICHK Programme
We are delighted to share an endorsement of ICHK’s innovative Free Learning programme by world renowned educationist Yong Zhao. He has written the foreword for the new book, Free Learning: A Student-Directed Pedagogy in Asia & Beyond, which has just been published.
2021
The Social Dilemma
Jon Rees is Head of Year 12 / 13 and a Teacher of English In Y12, Theory of Knowledge students have been investigating the core theme: Knowledge and the Knower in connection with Knowledge and Technology. Plato’s Cave Allegory pointed out that the world as we know it is essentially like the...
2021
Why not 50+1?
In September 2015, ICHK Secondary adopted the 5+1 Model. As its name suggests, 5+1 is a way of conceptually modelling students in order to support them better as learners in the school environment. Again, as the name suggests, it has five core parts, plus one additional component. The five parts...
2021
Student Research Paper
We are delighted that a group of our senior students are to have a research paper published in academia. Year 13 students Laamie Chung, Eunis Yeung, Aaron Chu, Titan Juels, Constantine Asinas, Giulia Gobbi, Eric Schaefer, Sophia Lamond spent the summer working on the paper, as part of a global...
2021
Science Learning
Senior students have been working with research scientists as part of a pioneering science initiative. A group of Year 13s were invited to work with Dr. Lindsay Porter and Naomi Branna, the lead researchers from SEAMAR in hopes that we can create a joint project. SEAMAR investigates the viability...
2021
Deep Learning
An amazing day of Deep Learning was enjoyed this week, before the programme was cut short by the weather. Students began their studies into a range of creative units, with Year 7s continuing their PERMA unit, focusing on wellbeing and positive thinking which underpin everything we do at ICHK....
2021
Kingston Chinese Programme
Strong progress continues with our innovative Kingston Chinese Programme. A total of 13 students joined in Year 7 this year. Year 8 and 9 students continue to make good progress, and are learning well through a well-balanced combination of traditional skills and interactive activities. Our...
2021
Spirit Week
A fantastic week of activities has been enjoyed at ICHK Secondary as part of Spirit Week. Students joined together to celebrate Pyjama Day, Hero/Villain Day, Wacky Wednesday and House Spirit Day. A range of fun filled activities were organised by the SRC, including a screening of a Pixar film,...