Impact of screen devices – What We Know and What We Need to Learn

The world is currently grappling with the COVID-19 and everyone across various age groups has been impacted by it- medically, emotionally, physically, socially and economically. The pandemic has led to the world’s largest work from home as well as an online home-schooling experiment. Since their closure in January, almost all schools in Hong Kong switched to online teaching methods. The …

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Educating in the times of COVID 19

Schooling has faced an unusually difficult period since January of this year. The learning community, as a whole, has gone through a strange time, and I’d like to THANK all the teachers in Hong Kong, and around the world. Each one of you has persevered in this challenging time, and you can’t be thanked enough for your service. As an …

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The importance of music at school

Plato once said, “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” I couldn’t agree more. There is something that many people don’t know about me. I am actually a Grade 8 pianist and a Grade 7 clarinet player. It is not something I deliberately try to keep a secret …

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Resilience

Schools often talk about resilience and how important it is for a child to develop it from an early age. From building it, growing it and learning from it, resilience is one of those buzz words that are on top of a schools’ agenda. But why is it so important? When I was in school, we didn’t talk about mistakes …

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To Board OR Not To Board

Some of the most interesting stories I’ve heard over the years are from people who have spent their school years in a boarding school. Lifelong friends, dorm room adventures, creating families with peers when one’s own is far away, and developing independence from an early age are just some of the experiences that are unique to a boarding school education. …

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