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| | | Island School
Redevelopment | 
Dear Parents, Island School
Redevelopment As many of
you will know Island School was opened in 1967 in the buildings across
the road from where we are now, and the present building was
constructed in the early 70s. There are lovely pictures in the book
“No Ordinary School” of the students of the day carrying the
furniture across the road to the newly completed blocks 3 and 4. The
other buildings of our current site were added during the next few
years, and the number of students increased until it reached the 1200
that has been the stable number for many years now. Our current school buildings have been very
much part of creating the unique atmosphere of the school, and
everyone who has spent time here remembers the playgrounds when they
are crowded with students supporting teams in a house competition and
feel more like an amphitheatre than a school. However there are
significant problems associated with the site we now occupy. We are
overcrowded both within many of the classrooms, but also with the
number of classrooms. Teaching styles are restricted by these
constraints and modern schools really need more flexible spaces. Of
just as much concern is the state and condition of the structures.
They are safe and solid and under constant observation, but the
technical reports indicate that the maintenance costs of the buildings
will increase steadily over the coming years. The ESF board has thrown their support behind
the project and we have now engaged the architects firm of Ronald Lu
and partners to do the feasibility study for a new school and prepare
the brief for the design stage which will start next year. In order to
make sure the new plans reflect the ethos, educational needs and
aspirations of the Island School community, we have appointed Gareth
Stevens and Matthew Smith to act as a liaison team between the school,
the architects and the ESF development office. They will have their
timetable and duties reduced significantly in the new year in order to
make sure the process goes well. Of course the big question is where the new school will be. At
the moment we are not completely sure of the government’s thinking
on this project and there are two distinct possibilities, both with
their positive and negative points. We may be given a piece of land on
Hong Kong Island where we can build a school unimpeded, and move into
completed buildings once they are finished. The advantage will be lack
of disruption, but we will have to give up our present location. The
alternative would be to rebuild a new school on the present site. This
retains our location, but will require moving off the site for some
time as it is built. Until the government gives us a direction as to
what is possible, we need to look at both possibilities equally. The
architects have been instructed to do this, and to look at the
problems and opportunities for both projects. Part of Gareth and Matthew’s role in this
is to ensure we have as much communication with the whole community as
possible. We need to hear views and opinion to help us solve the
problems, and to allow us to get the full story about that wonderful
but intangible Island School spirit. We need to be able to make sure
the new buildings will retain the spirit along with giving new
opportunities The first
step will be an open evening for parents early next term. Watch out
for announcements once we have fixed the date. I would like to wish you a wonderful holiday,
and season’s greetings to all. Chris Binge – Principal |  |
 | | FLEMING News | 
So far this has been an excellent term for
Fleming House. As always we have had students involved in many House
and school events. We have also had some individual achievements to
report. We raised HK$29,000 during Fleming charity week for our chosen
charity, Katja House in Kathmandu. During CAS Fleming students joined
others to visit the orphanage, spending the money on clothes, 2
toasters, perfume, deodorant and a bright red Fleming rubbish
bin.  
This term has seen Fleming come 1st overall in the Interhouse
swimming competition and joint 2nd in the cross country event.
Most of Fleming students competed in these events and showed
impressive commitment and enthusiasm. Well done
everyone!  
In year 7 we have seen Nicole Fong gain the first bronze award
in the school and Adrian Chui came 5th runner up in the 2011 Hong Kong
Junior Chess Competition. In year 12 Audrey Chaytor and Dickson Wong
were part of the Sedan Chair team who raced in
October.  
This term we have seen Annie Lye and Leah Metoudi both 12F
selected as co-editors of this year’s Islander, I’m sure that they
will do a fantastic job. Annie also achieved great success in a
photography competition that was organized by the HKU Museum Society
to commemorate the university’s centenary. Four of Annie’s
photographs were selected for the exhibition, well Done
Annie! 
Daniel Lo and Jonathan Leung both of 13F
organized this year’s Rainbow Trek which is a very demanding
job but both really stepped up to the plate and did an outstanding
job, well done guys! 
In the Rainbow Trek Dickson Wong 12F came first in the
individual student event and completed the 50km trek in 7 hours and
15. Mr. Chillingworth was the first member of staff to
finish. Nigvi Tam 12F
achieved the Team Project Award for Engineering and Environment from
HKUST Summer Institute Award Presentation Ceremony. Well done
Nigvi! I would also like
to thank the House prefects in 13F for an excellent job last year and
would also like to welcome our new 12F prefects: Senior Sports
Prefects Audrey Chaytor and Dickson Wong, Senior Communication
prefects Nigvi Tam and Michelle Kung, Senior Charity prefects Sian
Robinson and Sara Kelly and general House prefects Tiffany Lau, Zoe
Lau, Tom Kim, Judy Tam, Tina Chin, Leah Metoudi, Annie Lye, Sanneke
Ros, Sakshi Bhatia, Suraj Mahbubani and Timothy
Lim. Well done to everyone
in Fleming House for an excellent first term and here's to an amazing
2011!  
Angela Worthington - Senior Head of Fleming
House |
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| | Chinese
Website | 
Welcome to Island School’s Chinese Website.
This website is made for each and everyone of us in the Island School
Community to share our achievements in the Chinese language
field. The purpose of
making this website is to create an alternative environment for Island
School students to learn Chinese in a more engaging and interesting
way. Instead of having lectures in classroom only, here in Island
School we use an interactive way to help students to learn
efficiently, which is to introduce another online platform for them to
access anytime, anywhere. Throughout this school year, we have three main themes, which
are CAS week, Chinese New Year and Chinese food. The current one is
CAS week and essays about it are currently being uploaded onto the
website. Moreover, there is an ‘Excellent creative writing
section’ to display the outstanding essays written by our students
to encourage creativity. On the other hand, a ‘Reading Section’ is coming up soon
which provides students with a large variety of Chinese literature
such as fiction books, articles and reading materials selected by
Chinese teachers to our students. In our Chinese Website Team, we have three groups, namely
Translation, Chinese Website and Tuition, which consist of around
twenty members from Year 9 to 12. We are responsible for different
parts of it, for example, in the translation team; we help the school
office to do some translation work each week such as the newsletter
and school website. We also made a video about the school and
translated most of the content on the school website into Chinese last
school year. Furthermore, for the Chinese tuition part, we have some
volunteers from Year 12 to tutor Year 7-9 students that may have
difficulties on learning Chinese. We try to use an approach that is
easier for them to learn on a one-to-one basis either during lunchtime
or afterschool. As students, we understand the difficulties that one
may encounter when they are learning and we are here to break through
these obstacles with them in order to enhance our Chinese level as a
whole. Last but not least,
we would like to express our utmost gratitude to our teacher advisors
Mr. Stevens and Ms Cheng for their continuous support and guidance.
Without them, this website can never be launched. Please follow the link to the Chinese
website...here Chinese website
team |
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| | Bronze AYP First
Expedition | 
A near record number of year 10 students set
out on their first AYP Bronze expedition of the year last weekend. As
we had too many students to fit into Lantau's hostels, we decided to
camp at Pui O beach, which was a new experience for us, but proved a
lovely location and the weather conditions were kind, so we had a
comfortable night's sleep. In the morning Aakarsh woke everyone bright and early so that
after a brisk breakfast, all the tents were down and we were all ready
to set off on our journey around (or in some cases across) the Chi Ma
Wan Peninsula. The students had all planned their own slightly
different routes and the aim of this first venture is to practise the
navigational skills that we have been learning in the classroom
sessions. Sure enough, it wasn't long before the first group had
'missed' their path and came running back looking for it in the
bushes. The walking was
easy under overcast skies and the groups made good progress. I was
really impressed by the efforts made by the students to learn how to
use their map and compass. My group (and Mr Irwin's) had planned to
take the now infamous 'river' route. They managed to find the path
down relatively quickly and after walking through someone's kitchen,
we descended into the ravine. This proved an interesting route and one
that I am sure we will remember for a while to come, especially as Mr
Irwin has it all on video. The next expedition is early January when the weather may be
less kind but I think the students should be well
prepared. Paul
Chillingworth, - Vice
Principal |
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| | Island Debate Team goes
International | 
The Hong Kong round of the World Individual
Debating and Public Speaking Championships was held at La Salle School
on Saturday 26th November 2011. Bianca Lee (11W) and Brian Wong (10W)
represented Island School competing against students selected from
other schools across Hong Kong. Students compete in 4 categories:
Debating, impromptu speaking, persuasive speaking and interpretative
reading. Mr Evershed
(Chair of HK Schools Debating Council) comments: "Every student
presented their speeches and readings with poise and polish. The
standard was extremely high, and every single contestant can feel
proud of their work, no matter what the ranking. It must be remembered
that to even compete on the day is already a significant achievement,
and the experience will stand the students in good stead as they
develop their public speaking skills going
forward." It was Bianca's
debut in this competition, she did very well, scoring particularly
highly in the Impromptu Speaking round. It was also Brian's debut in
the competition, and he went onto win the whole competition. He won by
a very big margin over many other older and more experienced debaters.
He is now on the National Debate Team, and will be representing Hong
Kong at the World Debate Championships to be held in Brisbane during
Easter 2012. This is a
significant achievement for Brian, and a well deserved achievement. He
is a very talented debater, often described as energetic, articulate
and humorous.
Well done to both Bianca and Brian for working so
hard, and representing Island School so well! Daniel Trump - Post 16 Curriculum & IB
Coordinator |
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| | Parent Notices/ 家長通訊/ Award
Winners/學生成就 | | Parent
Notices For
information on important dates and reminders please visit the
parents’ notices page on the school website...here Forthcoming
Events...here 家長通訊 有關本校重要資訊,
請查看港島中網站的家長通訊頁…按此 活動日誌...here Reminder: Early Closure 6 Dec due to Y13 Parents'
Consultation We
would like to remind all parents and students that the school will
close at 1:10pm on Tuesday 6th December for the Year 13 Parents’
Consultation process. Lessons 1-4 will continue as usual, but
there will be no lesson 5 on that day. Buses will take students home
at 1:10 pm. If your child does not take the school bus, please
make sure that arrangements are made for them to be picked up at
1:10pm. 告示 -
12月6日Y13家長諮詢日提早放學
我們想提醒所有家長和學生，本校將於12月6日星期2，舉行Y13家長諮詢日，並於下
午1時10分提早放學。當日的Lessons 1-4如常進行，lesson
5將會取消。校巴會在下午1時10分接學生離校。如果你的子女沒有參加校巴計劃，請各家長為子女作出交通安排，或在下午1:10分到校接子女離校。 Award
Winners/學生成就
Congratulations to the following
Student Award Winners!
恭喜以下獲獎學生 Silver
銀獎
Maaz MILFER
8F
William BEAVES 8F
Kabir BUBNA 8F
Max DENMARK
8F
Christine WONG 8F
Max SCHEMUTH 8F
Shauna DASWANI
8F
Olivia SEWELL 8F
Munyaradzi MUZARIRI 8F
Darcy HORNE
8F Bronze
銅獎
Karla DODDS
7W
Madeleine BORCH 7W
Kaela-Mei TOWNSON 7W
Lily CAINES
7W
Wing Kiu CHAN 7W
Melodie KARBASSIAN 7W
Karen NG
7W
Olivia BRAY 7W
Stephanie CHEU 7W
Matteo POMA
7F |
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| | 港島中學重建 |
親愛的家長， 港島中學重建 正如你們許多人都知道港島中學成立於
1967年，我們現在使用的建築物是建設於70年代初的。你可在本校刊物“No
Ordinary
School”中找到不同年代的照片，例如學生協助運送家具橫過對面馬路新落成的第3和第4座的圖片。直到目前，我們以為本校加建了不同的建築物，學生人數增加至1200名,
而多年來都保持著的穩定的學生人數。 本校自創建以來，校園獨特的建築物已成為標誌，每一位到訪過本校的人，都記得操場擠擁的學生，為自己團隊打氣的熱鬧氣氛。可是，我們正面臨各建築物重建的重大問題，例如課室數目不足等。這些限制和現代教學所需要的靈活空間教學風格不相符。多大的關注是，本校建築物的結構狀態，我們一直進行安全觀察，但技術報告表明，建築物的維修費用將在未來幾年內穩步增加。
英基董事會已表明支持本校的重建計劃，我們已和Ronald
Lu的建築公司研究新校舍重建的可行性，將於明年發表簡報。為了確保新的計劃合乎教育需求和切合本校社區，
我們已委任Gareth Stevens和Matthew
Smith代表本校，跟建築師和ESF發展部相合作。他們將定下時
間表，並顯著地減少來年職
責，以確保重建過程順利。 當然，最大的問題是，新校舍的地址。直到目前，我們並不確定政府對這個項目的想法，有兩種截然不同的可能性，正面和負面的。我們可能會得到一幅在港島區的地，在那裡我們可以建立一所新學校，並移動到落成的樓宇，但我們將不得不放棄我們目前的位置。另一種方法，將現址上重建一個新的學校。這將保留我們的位置，但將需要一些時間，因為我們將要明對流動校舍的問題。直到政府給我們一個方向，我們對兩種可能性同樣期待。建築師們已明白我們的方向。 Gareth Stevens和Matthew
Smith的角色是確保我們與整個社會的溝
通。我們需要聽取意見，幫助我們解決問題，使我們能夠保持港島中學的精神。我們需要確保新建築物將保留的
了本校精神和賦予不同的新機遇。 第
一步是下學期的家長晚會。請大家觀看公告。 祝各位有一個美好的假期。 Chris Binge –
校長 |
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| | FLEMING
社快訊 |
FLEMING社這一學年至今成
績斐然。一如以往，我們的學生參加了多個校積極校內的比賽。我們同時也有很多卓越個人成就。在佛萊明慈善周中，我們為我們位於加德滿都裡的卡佳樓籌
到了HK$29000。在
戶外體驗週期間，我們的學生與眾人曾探訪該樓：一間孤兒院，為他們買了衣服，兩個多士爐，香水，香味劑及一個紅色的佛萊明垃圾筒。
在過去這個學期中，FLEMING社在
社際游泳比賽中奪得冠軍的佳績，並在越野比賽中與其他一社共同勇奪第二名。大部分我們的學生都有參與這些比賽並在其中取得驕人
成績，
表現出無比的熱誠。恭喜各位！
在七年級，FLEMING佛萊明的Nicole
Fong取得了全校本學年第一張銅獎狀；Adrian Chui
在香港初級象棋比賽中得到第六名的榮譽。在十二年級，Audrey
Taylor 及Dickson Wong
亦是十月時候參加賽旦抬橋比賽本校的代表隊之成員。
這個學期以來，我們目睹Annie Lye 及Leah Metoudi -
都是12F的學生- 成為了聯合校報的編者-
我肯定他們定當勝任。 Annie
亦在港大博物館社會舉辦的照片比賽中創下驕人成績。
Annie
四張照片都獲選以作展覽用途。恭喜您，Annie!
13F 的Daniel Lo 及Jonathan Leung
共同統籌了今年的彩虹慈善步行。儘管工作極具挑戰性，他們都勝任有餘，做得非常出色，恭喜，恭喜！
在彩虹慈善步行當中，12F 的Dickson
Wong在個人學生項目中以七個小時十五分鐘完成了50km的步行。
Mr.
Chillingworth是第一名教職員到達終點。 Nigvi Tam
12F在夏季舉行的香港科技大學工程及環境項目比賽中，
贏取了群體合作獎。在此, 我們要給Nigvi
一些掌聲鼓勵! 我亦想向我們十三年級的社屬風紀，為他們上一年出色的表現道謝。同時，我亦欲歡迎我們新任，十二年級的社屬風紀。他們分別是：高級體育風紀-
Audrey Chaytor 與Dickson Wong； 高級通訊風紀- Nigvi Tam
與Michelle Kung; 高級慈善風紀- Sian Robinson 與Sara Kelly;
及普通風紀- Tiffany Lau, Zoe Lau, Tom Kim, Judy Tam, Tina Chin,
Leah Metoudi, Annie Lye, Sanneke Ros, Sakshi Bhatia, Suraj
Mahbubani和Timothy Lim.Well done to everyone in Fleming House for an
excellent first term and here's to an amazing 2012! 所有在FLEMING社里
的同胞，你們過去這一學期表現出色，我們在此熱烈地期待一個更加美好的2012！
Angela Worthington -
FLEMING社高級社長 |
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| | AYP
Bronze考察團 |
Year10的同學於上週AYP
Bronze考察團作出了大突破。由於大嶼山旅館的宿位早已爆滿，於是我們決定在貝澳海灘露營，這是一次全新的體驗，幸好海灘的地理環境和當日的天氣狀況十分好，所以大家都有一個舒適的晚上。
在清早時份，Aakarsh已把大家弄醒，接著我們都分別預備早餐和收拾帳篷，並準備往芝麻灣半島出發。同學都各自計劃出不同的路線，這是他們第一次實踐，把從課堂上學到的導航技能應用出來。不出所料，出發沒多久，第一批同學已“迷失”了他們原來的路徑，並跑回起點找尋足印。
由於天氣良好，令行山活動十分順利。同學們都掌握了使用地圖和指南針的技巧，這一切都令我留下了深刻的印象。我和（and
Mr
Irwin's）的小組計劃前往已經昭著臭名的“河”路線。同學們都十分快速地找到可行路線。這是一個有趣的路線，我相信這將會是我們的美好回憶，尤其是被錄影的Mr
Irwin。
接下來的探險隊在一月初出發，那時的天氣不會比現在的好，但我認為同學都應做好充分的準備。
Paul
Chillingworth, -
副校長 |
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| | 辯論隊進軍國際 |
The Hong Kong round of the World Individual
Debating and Public Speaking Championships於2011
年11月26日星期6在喇 沙中學舉行。Bianca
Lee（11W）和Brian
Wong（10W）代表港島中學與全港學校的學生競爭。比賽以4
個準則分勝負: Debating, impromptu speaking, persuasive speaking
和 interpretative reading。 Mr
Evershed（香港學校辯論會主席）評論：”每一位參賽者的演說和朗讀都有相當高的水準，我認為每一位參賽者都應為自己感受自豪，不管比賽結果是什麼排名，大家必須記住，完成比賽已經是一個重大的成就，大家都已擭得了豐富的比賽經驗。” 在這場比賽中，Bianca的表現非常好，她在Impromptu
Speaking部分得分最高，這是Bianca的首次參加辯論比賽。而Brian在整個辯論比賽中都表現良好，他在經驗更豐富的辯手下贏得十分好的成績。他現在已是全國辯論隊，將代表香港於2012年復活節期間參加在Brisbane舉辦的世界辯
論錦標賽。 這是Brian的顯 著成就，當之無愧的成就。他
是一個非常有才華的辯手，經常被描述為精力充沛和富幽默感。 辯論比賽相當精彩，感謝港島中學
的Bianca和Brian！ Daniel Trump -IB課程協調員
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