Principal's Message
A message from Bob Stearns, Head of Secondary
The end of the school year should be celebrated for what has been accomplished this year. Those students who have worked hard to increase their knowledge and skills, to mature in their growth and development, to do the best that they could at all times should feel proud and fulfilled. Teachers have worked tirelessly to challenge their students and to inspire them to inquire, to learn, to care, to act. Parents have given their support and encouragement to their children to meet the challenges they faced over these past ten months. They put their trust in the school even when they didn’t always completely agree with the way things were done. The school administrators and support staff have done all that they could to ensure that the school operations ran smoothly and continued to improve, and that the teaching and learning environment of RCHK was as stimulating, efficient and effective as possible.
So it’s time to take a break for the next six weeks or so – time to relax, to read, to play, to travel, to explore, to try new things, and to consolidate things unfinished. Whatever you do this summer, I hope that you find enjoyment and fulfillment and that you are able to renew your energy to start back again in August with the zeal and determination to make next year as satisfying and successful, if not more so, than this year was for you.
Some of you of course, will not be returning. Many of our Year 13 students will be taking their first steps in their post-Secondary endeavours. Others will be taking a gap year to perform community service, to travel the world, or to take advantage of other opportunities open to them. Some of our students, not yet finished their Secondary education are moving to other schools. To all of you who are leaving us, I wish you the very best and I encourage you to stay in contact with us – with your classmates and with your teachers. Let us know from time to time how you’re doing. We will not forget you; please don’t forget us.
Enjoy the summer.
Scholarship Award Ceremony 2010
A message from Wilma Shen, Scholarship Manager
On June 10, scholarship students from Y7 to Y12 celebrated their achievements at the Scholarship Award Ceremony, joined by faculty members of the school and families of the students.
Special performance was put on at the start of the ceremony by several of our music and academic scholarship students, including Y9 students Zachary Pau, Galex Wong, Jocelynn Chu and Y11 students Kimberly Roberts, Kathleen Greene and Grace Lee.
We had the great pleasure of welcoming special guests Prof. Catherine McBride from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Prof. Andrew Smith from Hong Kong Institute of Educati
on. Each of them gave all of us a very engaging and inspirational speech.
Scholarship student Leah Birkby proudly represented all scholarship students’ thoughts and reflections in her celebratory speech. Towards the end, a special moment was dedicated to four scholarship students who will be leaving us at the end of the school year. Both Mason Lin and Kevin Leung gave the audience a farewell performance.
Mason Lin, Ryan Nam, Kevin Leung and Mei Ling Young, you will be sorely missed by all of us and we wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
Visual Arts Field Trip
A message from Bridgette Kam, Year 12VA student
On May 27, Diploma Visual Arts students visited the annual Hong Kong Art Exhibition. Apart from the usual display of paintings, photos and sculptures, there were also some unusual ones — artists using live or dead animals as a medium in their works.
While the students appreciated the great works by modern masters such as Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol as well as Chinese surrealist painter Zhang Xiaogang, one contemporary artist that stood out was Damien Hirst. He gathered a plentiful amount of colourful butterflies and placed them onto a canvas board, forming patterns.
Seeing how these artists have incorporated materials miscellaneously, though symbolically, within their artworks had made the students aware of the many possible elements in our everyday lives that could be used as a medium in art.
Congratulations...
Year 8 student James Johnston took the first place at the Macau International Dinghy Regatta over the weekend of June 12-13. This was in a two-man boat and James had to "look after" the young guy who essentially had no sailing experience. James looked after him well and they were both delighted with first place.
Year 8 student Grace Yau recently competed in the Sportscene Gymnastics Competition Cum Invitational Competition. She won the championship in both Floor Exercise and All Round events in Group GD2.
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