Ashley Koh (S1L) and Yuxuan Meng (S1L) This year’s reading week was my first at SIS, and it was definitely a fun one! At the start of the week, during Teacher Dress Up, teachers from the English Department of SISHK dressed up as characters from books and students were tasked with guessing who dressed up as what, and from what book. Some of the ones we saw were Mary Poppins, Geronimo Stilton and Miss Havisham. That lunchtime, the Treasure Hunt […]
On 11 November 2020, students, parents and teachers gathered virtually to attend the Secondary Student Leaders’ Investiture. At the event, Athletic Council, Community Council, Student Council, Audio-Visual Committee, Muzé Committee, Heads of Houses and House Representatives have been appointed as a student leader in our SISHK Family for the Academic Year 2020-2021. You can meet the student leaders and learn about their vision for the respective councils with the video below:
Wong Yifeng Gavin (S3M) STEM Week is an annual event at SISHK which aims to promote and involve the school community in the world of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Throughout this week, we held various activities exploring different fields within STEM: from experiments showing the effectiveness of masks, to simple coding activities and learning about the mechanism and applications of 3D printers. With the overarching theme of pandemic this year, we decided to tie in aspects of the current […]
Danny Toh UNITED AS ONE: Teamwork, resilience and effort that go into achieving a common goal — these stories show the spirit of unity in our schools. SISHK -Together, Convicted to Fight a Good Fight 1,768 entries from 248 schools were received for the competition this year– that’s a record-breaking number of participants for the Our Schools, Our Stories (OSOS) photo contest. 30 entries were eventually selected for the various awards. For the second consecutive year, our staff Mr […]
Cheuk Fung Jethro Yau (S1M) It was about five years ago that I first set foot in the secondary school grounds. I was fascinated that I recently got to completely explore this award-winning building with aesthetic suites, a large sports hall, spiral staircases and the like. Now, five years later, my wish of learning at this exquisite campus is finally granted. As I began the third part of my educational journey here, I got the first impression of a busy […]
Ms. Virginia Castro – Spanish Ms Castro is from Spain, she graduated at the University of Córdoba with a Bachelor in Linguistics and Spanish Literature, and a Spanish PGCE. She also has a M. Ed. in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language. She is an examiner of DELE and IB. Ms Castro incorporates new technologies in her classes, and she has just finished a post graduated course in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Education. She has been in Hong Kong […]
Boey Jun Xin (S3M), Gavin Wong (S2M) and Ethan Long (S2L) In the AY19/20 school year, the Athletic Council organised a variety of different events for the school community. These events were inter-house volleyball, signup netball, inter-house dodgeball, Christmas events which included grade games, celebrations and santa-sleigh. The Athletic Council also organised inter-house sport quizzes, AC Fitness Challenges and finally, the End of Year event (EOY). The End of Year event was held in the last week of school, shortly […]
Ethan Long (S2R) S2 Kitchen Science is a signature programme of the secondary two science curriculum. The students worked in groups of 4-5 to come up with an open-ended science investigative project related to what they observe in the kitchen. Although the class was introduced to Kitchen Science before the home-based learning period, it was only after a long delay that we were able to materialise our investigation in the school laboratory. We were all looking forward to it immensely! […]
Audrey Ho (DP1B) On 24 June 2020, we held our annual Teachers’ Appreciation Day Event via Zoom. We had started to plan for the Teachers’ Appreciation Day in October 2019, and were feeling optimistic about the event we would hold at the end of the academic year. We came up with many ideas of how we could show our gratitude to our teachers and enthusiastically worked together to get ready. All of us had high hopes and expected that we […]