On 1st April 2019, the P4 students went to the Hong Kong Museum of History for the Social Studies Learning Journey. Each student had been paired up and handed a booklet to complete during their museum visit. We first began our visit in Gallery 5. The first thing we saw upon entering the gallery was a statue of Lin Zexu, an important figure of the first Opium War. Lin Zexu’s goal was to stop the British from smuggling opium into […]
On 1st April 2019, the P4 students all went to the Hong Kong Museum of History to learn more about the life and struggles of the Hong Kong people. In pairs and with our parent helpers, we visited Gallery 5, 6, 7, and 8. We began in Gallery 6 where we witnessed the life of Hong Kong people after the opium war. In this gallery, there was a street we could walk down showing different shops of the past and […]
In our Social Studies lessons for Semester 2, we are looking at the history of Hong Kong, focusing on its more recent history as a British colony. To help bring some of the stories we are reading of the events leading up to Hong Kong’s cessation to the United Kingdom as well as its development into a modern city, we took a trip to the Hong Kong Museum of History in Tsim Sha Tsui. Shepherding five classes of students in […]
The Italy Art Experiential Learning Journey was an opportunity for me, as a IB Visual Arts student, to visit great works of art from both past and present. The art we were so fortunate to be able to see transformed from images on our computer screens to something very tangible and awe inspiring. The learning journey to significant Italian cities which brought about the Renaissance enabled us to better understand the context in which da Vinci, Michelangelo and other greats […]