Kellett Dragon Issue 5 - Feb 2013

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FEBRUARY 2013

CONTENT

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

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KELLETT NEWS The Annual Fund 2012 Kowloon Bay Update Staff Leavers Welcome to Our New Staff Congratulations Student Leadership Guest Speaker Programme

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Preparatory PE

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Senior 27-33

KELLETT NEWS Fobissea Music Kellett Cares Carols by Candlelight

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Preparatory HIGHLIGHTS Head of Preparatory School Reception to P6

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Arts & languages Library Chinese Studies French Art Highlights ICT

Senior HIGHLIGHTS Head of Senior School Global Citizenship Optimal Learning Student Council History Science Geography Maths 7 Austen’s Charity Bake Sale

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Extras Extra Curricular Activities Global Citizenship Prep - Highlights

GREASE

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Sport

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Sport Fobissea Sport

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Arts & Langauages Art English & Design Technology Design & Technology Modern Foreign Languages


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The New Year opens with the exciting news that in late December we ‘topped out’ at Kowloon Bay and save any serious unforeseen circumstances our project team advise me we remain on schedule for opening on 9 September. This is a week after Pok Fu Lam Prep opening on 2 September 2013.

Plans are well advanced for the move to Kowloon Bay. In addition to the senior and prep schools, the new campus will also home the school’s central administration function. The Pok Fu Lam students will also have access to the whole school facilities at Kowloon Bay, for example the swimming pool, running track and football pitch. Behind the scenes, various teams are working through the logistics of optimising whole school facilities. I anticipate that by April I will be in a position to advise you further of our plans. Interest in Kowloon Bay has been substantial, the Admissions Department has seen a marked increase in applications. Over two hundred students has been assessed and in some cases interviewed for places. Our ‘A’ level programme has generated substantial interest; I believe we are to offer the most comprehensive programme in Hong Kong with seventeen subject choices. With the breadth of subject choices and news that the project remains on schedule, I anticipate further significant interest and applications. The Autumn Term was unusually long this year and from day one was extremely busy. The Senior School opened with a very healthy 200 students and the commencement of GCSE /IGCSE classes.

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In addition to the traditional curriculum visits, and extra-curricular activities this year, the senior school introduced a new careers guidance programme and staged its first musical ‘Grease.’ Playing to packed houses over three nights the performance was hailed a wonderful success and was thoroughly enjoyable. Pok Fu Lam Prep opened with 525 students, 100 of these will transfer to Kowloon Bay in September 2013. The Prep programmme has been equally as busy with its traditional round of events culminating in the Christmas Shows and the hosting of ‘Carols by Candlelight’ in typhoon like winds. Having family together is always important to Kellett and at the carol evening it was heart - warming to see the enjoyment of our community, joined by grand - parents, extended family and friends. The evening raised $8,031.10 for the important work of St James Settlement. Thank you for your generosity. The Year of the Snake is rapidly approaching; may I take this opportunity to wish you Kung Hei Fat Choi; health, wealth and happiness.

Ann Mc Donald Principal


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I am pleased to report the successful conclusion of our first Annual Fund, which was launched in September to enhance educational and personal excellence in the School and to provide our community with another means to promote “a love of learning and confidence for life” for all students. The Annual Fund is off to a great start – we have seen a fantastic 34% community participation. Kellett School has always drawn great strength from the volunteer support of its community, and the contributions to this first Annual Fund provide further reinforcement of the robust developing culture of giving to the School so that our children can achieve more. Thank you to all staff members and families who supported and donated so generously to the Annual Fund 2012 which raised a very impressive HK$1,976,528. I also extend huge thanks to the twelve Parent Advocates who had the somewhat daunting role of introducing and explaining the Annual Fund to the Kellett Community; a job very well done! The aim of the Annual Fund 2012 is to help every student ‘become all he or she can be’ by helping to enhance the educational experience, foster leadership, encourage creativity and build on personal aptitudes. Over the course of the 2012/2013 academic year, the School will use the funds raised through your generosity to address the six priorities of Leaders in Learning, Academic Enhancement, Student Leadership, Music & the Arts, Language & Cultural Development & Sports.

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the AnNual Fund 2012 The Annual Fund 2012 has already been directed to these priorities, increasing flexibility beyond the fee - dependant school budget, for example, by providing students the opportunity to engage with inspirational achievers such as world famous mountaineer and author, Sir Chris Bonington, partially disabled mountaineer, David Lim, and Round - the - World cyclist, Emily Chappell. Members of staff have been invited to apply for training courses that would normally be outside the remit of the school budget and an internationally sourced Educator in Residence in music is booked for February 2013. The community will be regularly kept appraised of the benefits of funds invested in each named priority. A final Report of Giving will be published in June 2013 which will outline all resources funded and funds spent. The report will also be a means to thank all those who have supported Kellett School throughout the year, both through a volunteer basis and financially. Thanks to the 34% who contributed, the Annual Fund now has a solid platform from which to develop in the coming years. I do appreciate that the Kellett Community contributed to the School in many different ways and I wish to take this opportunity to say thank you to all who provide support of Kellett School’s mission and vision. I wish all of you a very happy and successful 2013, another very significant year in the history of Kellett School.

David Kidd Chairman, Board of Governors

Kowloon Bay site Update If you have seen our site in Kowloon Bay over the past few months, you will have noticed enormous progress. After careful review of our main contractor tenders, we appointed Penta Ocean Construction Co. Ltd. to erect the superstructure and undertake all fit - out and decoration works. Penta Ocean took over the first of two phases of completed foundation works from Tysan Foundations Limited on 23 May 2012. Since then, Penta Ocean has been enormously busy, as they currently average some 300 workers per day on site. “Topping Out”, is now complete and more and more of the temporary propping is removed, the true atmosphere of P&T’s flowing design begins to unveil itself – it is indeed very exciting. Utterances such as “Oh, wow!” have been heard even from some of the more reserved team members. Attention on site now turns to the exciting fitting out and decoration works. The entire project team remains focused on keeping us on track to complete construction in July of 2013.

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KELLETT NEWS STAFF LEAVERS

Ann-Marie Nevin P4-2 Class Teacher

Ella Hobman Development Director

Verity Gilbey P1-1 Class Teacher

Wendy Ip Secretary to the Principal

Jonathan Ching IT Support Technician

Carrie Chu Administrative Assistant

Welcome to our new staff

James Lai Laboratory Technician

Rosie Marinelli Class teacher

Sophie Raine Classroom ESA

Twiggy Wu Secretary to the Head of Preparatory School

Frederic Yue – IT Technician (PFL)

Michiyo Hughes Caley – Japanese Tutor (SKW)

Patricia Leung – Transition Manager

Amber Tagari – Learning Support Assistant,

GABRIEL CHEUNG – ADMISSONS ASSISTANT Irina Lillo – Secretary to Project Manager SyLvia Ho – SECretary TO THE PRINCIPAL

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Senior School Katie Kwong – Administrative Assistant (Development / ECA)


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Congratulations to Emma AND Matt lovell on the birth of baby Sophia on 24 September 2012

Congratulations to Joanne and Alex who were married on 20 October 2012

Congratulations to Joan and Gary who were married on 10 July 2012 in Las Vegas

Congratulations to kelvin and tina chin on the birth of baby Shennan on 13 August 2012

Congratulations to Nicola AND Steve who were married on 21 December 2012

Congratulations to rebecca and russell who gave birth to Joe on 3 January 2013

Congratulations to Frederic Yue and Clive Dawes for achieving their MSc (ITE) at the University of Hong Kong

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KELLETT NEWS STUDENT LeaderSHIP GUEST SPEAKER PROGRAMME On the 1st of November, David Lim the Singaporean mountaineer came in to speak with year 10 and 11 at Kellett on motivation. We heard of the challenges he has gone through to reach his great heights and what helped him to pull through. Being a resident of Singapore, one of the flattest areas in the world, tall hills were difficult to find. With the highest point being just 164m above sea level. Being a Singaporean he was not well cut out for mountaineering as the main activities are working, shopping, eating and sleeping (not really the traits of a good climber). In 1996, he began searching, though for a team to ascend Everest with him, all from Singapore. This proved to be extremely difficult. However, in 1998 he managed it. The team was gathered and they made their ascent. Unfortunately, on the way up he suffered an injury that left him with a broken rib and forced him to abandon his try. However, the rest of the team finished the ascent, which was the first all-Singaporean climb of Everest. In June, just a week after his Everest trek, he was struck by Guillain-Barre syndrome. The syndrome, sometimes referred to as Landry’s paralysis, is a disorder which damages the nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord. Within two days of the return, his right arm was paralysed, and a week afterwards, the rest of him had followed suit. The only method of communication for him over a period of a month was with blinking. It got to a point where his breathing had to be carried out by a machine, but David kept pushing and believing in the day when the effects would lift.

In November we were lucky that Mr Zimmerman found time in his busy diary to visit the School Council. The first thing he said was that we were to call him Paul! One of Paul’s aims is to keep Pok Fu Lam clean and so that he has evidence for meetings, he takes lots of photographs. Council meetings are conducted in Cantonese so Paul wears an ear piece that translates Cantonese into English. One of his goals is to extend the promenade that runs in front of Stanley Ho to Bel Air. Paul fears it might take up to eight years to get the funding. One of his easiest jobs was to move a fire hydrant that had been blocking the pavement for twenty years. He managed to get it moved in one week! It was really interesting to hear Paul talk and to see how our job on the School Council is similar to his job! Duncan Taylor and the School Council

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As it was, he slowly regained control of his body, beginning with one of his arms, which allowed him to spell out what he wanted using an alphabet chart pinned to his chest. After forty-two days, he had been removed from the intensive care unit. To quote David’s book ‘Mountain To Climb’, ‘I looked back in wonder at what I had endured!’ He began the rehabilitation process, and slowly worked his way back onto some of the tallest peaks in the world, but to this day his right ankle remains reliant on a support. Since 1999, he has led more than15 expeditions, including another first All - Singaporean ascent, this time of Aconcagua. It takes great willpower to carry on when things hinder you, and this is what David has in plenty. William Munro-Greaves


Chris Bonington, the mountaineer, writer and lecturer, started climbing at the age of 16 in 1951, and to this day it has continued to be his passion. He made the first British climb of the North Wall of the Eiger and led the expedition to make the first ascent of The South Face of Annapurna, the biggest and most difficult climb in the Himalayas. He went on to lead other successful expeditions, including reaching the summit of Everest in 1985. He is still active in the mountains climbing with the same passion and enthusiasm as he had in 1951. On Wednesday September 12th the inspirational Sir Chris Bonington came to speak at Kellett Senior School as part of the Royal Geographical Society’s School Outreach Programme, supported by the Annual Fund. We were extremely fortunate for him to come and share his own adventure of climbing The Ogre (7285m) in the Karakoram Range in Pakistan. It was not only inspirational but extremely motivational as his story demonstrated that despite major set-backs such as severe injuries, lack of food and frost bite, his determination allowed him to over-come these difficulties. He passed on the message to all of us that with your own determination and courage one can succeed and over-come seemingly impossible tasks. Rebecca Lim

On the 11th of October Year 10 was fortunate enough to meet an inspirational woman, Emily Chappell, who is trying to complete the amazing feat of cycling around the world! After listening to her presentation about where she has gone (places like Iran, Pakistan, China, Korea and Japan) and what she has experienced, we asked many questions like “How much do you have to carry”, “How do you keep going?”

Emily Chappell’s blog so far which is regularlay updated, has won three awards. All in all Emily Chappell is a remarkable woman who has motivated us with her life experiences and endeavours. I believe that we have all been inspired and will remember this visit for the rest of our lives. We wish you every success with the rest of your travels Emily. Alex Gough

Her most surprising answer was to our question about what country she would like to return to the most. Imagine our surprise when she said Iran or Pakistan because the people there are so welcoming and kind. We learned a valuable lesson that these countries are not as violent as portrayed in the media, but are areas where people welcome strangers out of the kindness in their hearts.

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GREASE GREASE was the smash hit production at the Senior School this term, involving over 110 students, staff and parents. It was our first ever Senior production to include live band, digital set, specially designed costumes and make-up to present a new interpretation of the hit musical. Below are just a few quotes from members of the team.

‘The whole production was great, the director and all of the team were amazing.’ Danny Zuko – Sam Tuckwell

‘Grease has been such an experience for me not only in working towards a fabulous production but making close friends with the cast.’ Miss Lynch – Sophie Mortensen

‘Working as hard as the cast, the make-up and costume team have been undertaking intensive training sessions to ensure that the characters look spectacular every show night. Congratulations girls and a huge thank you for all your hard work!’ Ms Lockley and Ms Newbury Make up and Costume design

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‘Realising the director’s vision of a 1950’s style show with strong bold colours and Pop Art style imagery was an exciting opportunity for the design team to create banners and logos. The highlight of the set was the digital laser which offered a number of new challenges to the team who created many line drawings to create the laser images. The hard work and team effort really contributed to the success of the show.’ Art and Design and Technology Department

‘Working on GREASE, I have a whole new perspective of theatre and what happens behind the scenes.’ Charlotte Maynard – Backstage Crew

‘This is my first time playing in a band and performing in GREASE was amazing!’ Leo Pucci – Keyboard Player

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KELLETT NEWS FOBISSEA Music 26 students represented Kellett School at the FOBISSEA Music Festival in Ho Chi Minh in November. Students had the opportunity to sing large scale choral works or play as part of the orchestra, performing a variety of classical and popular repertoire. The junior girls also sang as a separate choir, as did the boys, and Ben Henchman was selected to sing solo in ‘Rhythm of Love’- well done Ben! All students took part in workshops and a walking tour of the city and enjoyed watching a performance of traditional Vietnamese music. Everyone took part in the exciting final Gala concert featuring a diverse mix of music from Mozart to Hans Zimmer and Lady Gaga. Some of the concert highlights included the full orchestra and choir performing a Glee - style mash - up of ‘Thriller’ and ‘Off With Your Head’ and a choral performance of ‘Africa’, conducted by our very own Lucas Cox.

Kellett Cares Kellett Cares did lots of fundraising for the nominated charities during the autumn term. The favourite project had to be the reindeer candy canes. The P6 children helped transform plain candy canes into festive fun reindeer with the use of pipe cleaners and other accessories. The P6 and P5 children then sold these to the other children at school in the run up to Christmas. This raised about $7,000 and added to the festive atmosphere at school.

Carols by candlelight

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As I write, Christmas is approaching and I am considering my holiday reading. Being a teacher, I have always been drawn to what the children are reading as well as what my peers have chosen, so my list of books looks more like a progress in reading test than anything else!

Among those on the list for this year are some from the Hong Kong “Battle of the Books” competition which runs from September to May. Whilst looking around at other reading lists for children, I came across a new initiative for schools in England, Read for my School, aimed to encourage reading for pleasure among students in Years 5 and 6 (nine to eleven year olds). Launched in October, a reading list of ninety titles has since been revealed. Eight genres are included in total and have been grouped into child friendly themes; Historical Hits, It’s A Mystery, Keep It Real, Laugh Out Loud, Out Of This World, Stars Of The Screen, Thrill Seekers and Wild Thing. The project, unveiled by author Jeremy Strong, is running in the UK from January until March, taking in World Book Day along the way. Strong, a former teacher himself says. “It is a well - established fact that regular reading enriches and increases a child’s chance of success later on in life. Children will reap the benefits of becoming enthusiastic, life long readers – a passion that will excite, delight, educate and develop their understanding of the world we live in.” This is a view supported by sociologist Mark Taylor who analysed 17,200 questionnaire responses from people born in 1970, who gave details of their extra - curricular activities at the age of 16 and careers at the age of 33. For those who read for pleasure at age 16, there was something close to a 10% increase in attending university and getting a professional or managerial job by the age of 33. (Figures were slightly higher for women). Here in the Preparatory Library we have a good number of the titles included on the Read for my School list, but also have our own guidance on great reads for the students. A look at the “Great Websites” link on the Library webpage will give you

access to a wealth of different lists and resources for reading books. Links to the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, Books for Keeps, Booktrust, Lovereading4kids, Guys Read and The History Girls are all currently active, and are updated throughout the year when our library team find more useful sites. The Guys Read site is particularly useful for finding texts for boys, who perhaps need a bit of direction to the kinds of texts that they will enjoy reading. It is not just the internet that can help. Who Next? A guide to children’s authors is available as a reference text in the library. Sophie in P6 showed me how it worked. She is currently reading Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery. We looked up Montgomery in the index, followed the instruction to page 84 and found that similar authors to look out for were; Louisa May Alcott, Jeanne Birdsall, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lois Lowry, Johanna Spyri and Laura Ingalls Wilder. This is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to broaden their repertoire whilst still engaging in reading for pleasure. Of course there is also the “Battle of the Books” list, which was my first stop in compiling my own list. These resources are not only available to the children. We encourage you as parents to join our library here in PokFulam. As adults you may borrow up to ten books for a two week period. With the power of the internet, reading lists, reference books, the online Oliver library system and of course our most valuable library team Bernadette, Lisa and Beth, together we can inspire our children to achieve all the aspirations Jeremy Strong has for life - long readers.

Ciaran Harrington Head of Preparatory School

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PREPARATORY HIGHLIGHTS Reception All of the Reception children have had a fantastic first term at Kellett Preparatory School! A big thank you to Sue, Abigail’s mummy, and Annie, Muru’s mummy, who came in to deliver an assembly to the children about Diwali. The children listened to the story of Rama and Sita, smelt incense and looked at beautiful saris. In the classroom the children created colourful Rangoli patterns and made their own Diva lamps. It was great to see so many parents at our Sports Day. The children actively participated in running, hurdles and relay races. The children demonstrated their throwing skills using the tee balls, javelins and frisbees. The highlight of the day was the fun races where the children had a go at the fancy dress race, egg and spoon, and jumping in the sack race. It was a brilliant day and we were really proud of all of the children!

p1 This term in P1we have been very busy. It all began with a teddy bears’ picnic. We loved looking at Mr Funny Bones and learning about all the bones in our body. We also investigated the life cycle of a frog and butterfly. We were very lucky to have the bubble man visit us, and were amazed how he could put a whole child inside the bubble. Finally we ended the term with our Christmas show where we were all stars! Our ‘Under the sea’ topic has particularly inspired us in our non - fiction writing. We have enjoyed learning about all the amazing deep sea creatures and playing on the Wii game ‘Endless Ocean’ to stimulate our writing.

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In the covered area the children have had the opportunity to role - play different scenarios, including the bakery. The hospital and delivering letters to our Kellett Post Office. The children have made lots of wonderful models with a variety of different construction materials. It is lovely to see the children using their imagination and sharing with their friends. Our Christmas show ‘Ralph the Reindeer’ was a big success! Thank you to all of the parents who helped out with costumes and make-up- the children looked fantastic! All of the children’s singing and dancing was brilliant and it was an amazing way to end the term.


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p2 Comic Strip The children have really loved using the iPads to learn about using spoken language in their writing. They started by looking at and creating comic strips, and writing speech bubbles. They read play scripts and searched for speech marks in stories. Now they are beginning to include speech marks in their own writing.

Ark Eden We had a great time visiting Ark Eden on Lantau Island. The children thoroughly enjoyed seeing buffalos, crabs and mudskippers in their natural environment. They learned about how habitats change and the effect people can have on the lives of plants and animals. Our outing also made us think about how we can help protect our world, and we even gave our Christmas Show an environmental theme! Remember children, look out for the ‘Blind Your Eye Tree’!

P3 Investigating Authors This term in P3 we have been investigating and examining the works of some of our favourite authors. In Literacy, we explored Roald Dahl’s character descriptions of Aunt Sponge, Aunt Spiker, Grandma from George’s Marvellous Medicine, Miss Trunchbull, and the three infamous farmers from Fantastic Mr Fox. We analysed these descriptions, identified common themes within his writing and we were able to begin to create our own ‘power of 3’ wow word phrases to describe these characters. To develop our writing further, we incorporated interesting and varied openers to start our sentences in a variety of ways. Numeracy was also linked to our study of Roald Dahl through his story of The Twits. To assist this battling pair and to develop our skills of measuring length and weight, we made and measured worms of different lengths for their wormy spaghetti, life-size and half-size scary skeleton models of ourselves, and we baked exploding biscuits to make Mrs Twit’s head pop!

own evil character to fight against Captain Underpants and wrote, illustrated and published our own cartoon strips in the style of Dav Pilkey’s. Finally, we examined stories written and illustrated by Doug Cushman. Our investigation showed that Doug writes humourous mystery stories with characters that are animals. The Mystery at the Club Sandwich was a definite favourite of ours and we really enjoyed solving the mystery by extracting key information and clues from the story. At the end of this unit of work, each class was able to enjoy a session with Doug Cushman in the Library, where we could learn more about the skills of being a writer and an illustrator. Doug certainly inspired us to write and illustrate our work, showing us that we too could create interesting characters and settings for our stories.

Following on from Roald Dahl, we went on to explore Dav Pilkey’s Adventures of Captain Underpants. Our comparisons highlighted just how different these stories are compared to Roald Dahl’s. We focused particularly on the cartoon strip within these stories and the vocabulary and openers included. Having compiled the features of these cartoon strips, we created our

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PREPARATORY HIGHLIGHTS P4 P4 children worked hard to deliver an outstanding pantomime this year that was greatly enjoyed by all. Following on from this, they wrote their own theatre reviews of the production. The best way to share the delights of this year’s panto is to hear directly from them. Here are some snippets from their reviews: “P4’s latest performance is full of new jokes, fabulous singing and a witty script, all of which will get you in the mood for Christmas.” “In this splendid show, the wicked witches scramble up the fairy stories hoping to rule Pantoland, but five Kellett school children step in and try to fix everything. The good fairies do help to get the magic back, but can Pantoland ever be normal again?” “This gloriously irreverent panto must not be missed. It is full of hilarious jokes that send you rolling with laughter.” “It is a very heart - warming and unbelievable show.” “The strongest part of the show is when the humorous dwarfs dance to the beat of the infamous, Gangnam Style in their own version, Vertically Challenged Style.” “I loved it when the Prince ripped off his shirt to show everybody his long, hairy, untrimmed chest. It is forever stamped on my memory.”

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“Lucas Cox returns as Singing Director to make the show sophisticated.” “All the songs were excellent and sung with great expression. The unrivalled costumes add to the professional character of the production.” “This show will thrill you with its amusing jokes, clear singing, dazzling dances and outstanding costumes.” “Moo’s fake crying had to be heard to be believed.” “The audience cheered and clapped like mad for the adorable chicken and rooster as they posed in front of the mirror. The chicken was so surprised to see his reflection that he laid an egg.” “The actors’ talent and enthusiasm gave the show a little zing.” “This hilarious crowd - pleaser was a great start to the festive season.”


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It has been a busy Autumn term in P5. We started by studying the Ancient Greeks, where the children became historians and found out what life was like in Greece over four thousand years ago. This topic was linked to Literacy where we read a range of Greek myths and legends. The children then created their own mythical beasts and stories, which were produced using Photoshop and an online myth creator. We have recently studied The Highwayman, looking carefully at all the themes and features of the poem. Using iMovie, the children created their own movie trailers to transform the poem into a potential Hollywood blockbuster.

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P5 We ended the term with our DT project of Moving Toys. The children designed and built their own toys with a crank handle, axle and a cam mechanism to transfer rotary motion to linear motion. They used a range of tools, including drills, saws and glue guns, and we were very pleased with the end products!

In Science, we looked at Forces in Action. This involved many practical experiments, including the children planning their own fair test to investigate the effects of air resistance on falling objects. They made parachutes of varying sizes and had great fun seeing how long each one took to reach the ground.

P6 From the 10th of December till the 14th, P6 attended the Outward Bound camp in Sai Kung. The camp specialises in providing a range of team - building exercises to challenge individuals and groups. We had an amazing time and worked hard on our teamwork and survival skills. The instructors were highly skilled and we enjoyed many challenges, such as the rope course, dragon - boating, overnight camp, rock - climbing, pontoon - jumping, raft - building and the tunnel challenge, to name just a few. Buzz words for the week were “team - work”, “comfort zone”, “responsibility”, “independence”, “organisation”, “perseverance” and “motivation” and we whole - heartedly accepted the Outward Bound motto “To Serve, To Strive and Not to Yield” throughout the week.

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ARTS & LANGUAGES Library Knowledge is power! Students from the Preparatory School recently entered the Jeri Telstar Writing Competition 2012. They had to complete any of three Jeri Telstar stories in no less than 300 words, with the philosophy of Jeri Telstar - “Knowledge is power”- in mind. The competition aims to promote creativity and writing skills in preparatory students and give them the opportunity to see their stories published. The winner receives 20 bound copies of their fiction story, and all participants receive a certificate of entry. The winning entries are published in the January 2013 issue of Playtimes. We would like to congratulate the participating Kellett students on their enthusiasm and creativity in producing some great endings to the stories. Mitchell Anderson

Sophia Grandolfo

Malin Leven

Poppy D’Abo

Isabel Henchman

Alexandra Paulus

Lana Davies

Olivia Jordan-Willis

Abigail Riggs

Tabitha Grandolfo

Meona Khetrapal

Sofia Schwarzwalder

Author and illustrator Doug Cushman visited the Preparatory Library on 9 November, 2012 to talk to our P3 students. He has illustrated and/or written over 120 books for children. During the day Doug talked to the students about how he had begun illustrating and writing stories as a young boy (showing them his sketches from his very first book, written when he was eight, called “Space Cat”) and how to create stories from very simple ideas and beginnings. Then he put his words into action, and began drawing. Asking students to draw a random squiggle and the initial of their name, he then magically created characters, plots, subplots, evil enemies and heroes through his sketching. The students then produced their very own sketches and stories, with some very imaginative and creative results, and hopefully they have been inspired to continue writing and illustrating. We have several of Doug Cushman’s books in the Preparatory Library, or please visit his website www.doug cushman.com if you wish to learn more about the author.

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Chinese studies Chinese Studies P 4 recently visited Hok Shan School, a local primary school, where they enjoyed having Chinese stories read to them and ‘chatting’ in Chinese to the local students. The following week, P 3 and P 4 Hok Shan students visited Kellett, and our enthusiastic P 6 students read to them in English. Both schools benefited from such language acquisition activities, and a great relationship has been established between the two schools. Martha Keswick, a famous bilingual author, visited our P5 Chinese Studies students. The students enjoyed listening to a Chinese story read to them in both Chinese and English, followed by a lively discussion and question time. Thank you to PPP Publishers who kindly helped organise the event.

French On Saturday 3 November, Kellett School hosted the 3rd Credit Agricole French Speech Competition for the P 5 - P 6 Boys and Girls’ Solo Poetry Speaking. A total of 81 students competed in the event, representing five schools from around Hong Kong; St - Margaret’s School, Po Leung Kuk Camões Tan Siu Lin Primary School, Singapore International School, St.Paul’s Convent School Primary Section, and Kellett Preparatory School.

a creative interpretation of her poem “La petite fille” by Maurice Carême, and Anahita Kaman was congratulated on her excellent role-play of the characters in the poem. Last, but not least, James Barber also impressed the judges in the P 6 Boys Solo Poetry Speaking with his colourful and expressive interpretation of “ L’ogre” by Maurice Carême. Congratulations to the students who represented the school in this fierce competition!

Well done to the five students from Kellett who participated in this challenging competition; giving up numerous break times, and spending hours at home memorising their poem and working on their speech interpretation. In P 5, Saskia Robbiati was praised for her expressive interpretation and Tabitha Sweeney for her determination and effort when delivering “Le nounours et l’esquimau” by Corinne Albaut. In P 6, Alessandra Walsh gave

On Saturday 10 November at Po Leung Kuk Camões Tan Siu Lin Primary School , it was Georgie Fleming’s turn to represent Kellett school for the P3 Girls Poetry’s Speaking Competition. Georgie received an honour mention for her expressive interpretation of “Le Nounours” by Corinne Albaut. Congratulations and well done for taking part in the event!

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ARTS & LANGUAGES Art HIGHLIGHTS P1 Mrs Spizziri and the children in P1 have had a lot of enthusing and challenging projects this term. This has included creating beautiful clay fish with intricate imprinted patterns and painted detail which coincided with their ‘Under the Sea’ topic. These formed part of the wall display in the P1 corridor and looked really colourful and eye - catching. As well as creating some beautiful textured robins for the Christmas show backdrop, P1 have been introduced to the work of Jasper Johns, as well as trying their hand at some textured paper sculpture in the design of a pin wheel.

P2 One of the focuses in P2 this term has been ‘Famous People’, so we have been looking at a variety of famous artists and, in particular, Claude Monet. We looked at the Impressionist style of Monet and created our own interpretations using the dabbing technique. Our results were very exciting and our mixed media lily paintings in particular were a triumph! The patterned and painted ornaments created for the Christmas show formed an exciting hanging display in the auditorium, and looked fantastic.

P5 Grecian Urns were created this term using an old favourite artistic technique of papier mache balloon sculpture. The children really got absorbed in this project and we had a busy four week period of building our various shaped vases out of card, masking tape and balloons. We then started the challenge of a two - layer papier mache coverage, and finally we painted them with planned designs of myths and gods as well as classical Grecian patterns. As well as this we have took inspiration from last year’s artist in residence Sarah Fordham, and created some exciting continuous line self - portraits with auto - biographical lettering and numbers. The children experimented with fluoro and neon - coloured paint to really make their work ‘pop’.

P6 We started off the year with glittery gusto as we designed and painted guitars for the P6 class project ‘Guitar Hero’. These looked fantastic when finished and the children put a lot of work into making their designs as individual as possible. As well as this, we were busy working in ceramics creating 3D gargoyles. We looked at the history of gargoyles and the reasoning behind their open mouths, and tried to create our own creatures with glass beads pressed into the clay for extra dramatic effect. We were also busy with assembly work, and P6 - 2 earlier in the year dabbled in the art of face - painting with the theme of ‘Seasons’. This was a really exciting project which allowed them to paint on a new material, the skin! 20

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P3 We have looked at the art of still life this term and particularly focused on shape and line. This has seen the children work hard at achieving well - proportioned drawings from direct study with added shading and colour. We looked at the artist Paul Cezanne and drew our own bottle - inspired pictures with overlapping shapes. We were challenged by this project but produced some great pieces of work that really display careful looking and understanding of proportion and depth. We also enjoyed creating Van Gogh - inspired sunflower pictures using oil pastels and inks. We created marks on our paper by scrunching our pictures into a ball and watched how the ink fell into the creases creating an antique effect.

P4 The art of perspective has been our main challenge this term and we looked at a variety of ways that this can be achieved. We created our own optical illusions inspired by the likes of British artist Bridget Riley, and used computers to continue this project using a variety of colours and lines to achieve the desired effect. We also experimented with tonal illusion, and the children created their own painted landscapes with a variety of tones fading away into the background. These were particularly beautiful and formed part of a fantastic display clearly showing off their colour - mixing and painting skills.

ICT Our newest set of MacBooks has now been here for nearly a term, and it has been fantastic to see how much the laptops are being used. Two weeks ago I tried to book out some laptops to use with a class, but all five trolleys were in use! It is clear that the addition of the Macbooks has not only enabled students to access a range of technology tools, but also allowed them to work much more quickly and efficiently.

their latest equipment; from video conferencing systems, CCTV, to server solutions and interactive whiteboards. It was an interesting day and helped the team in developing their ideas. The KB Team pictured with Kevin McLauglin (Sales Manager, Huawei) and Nick Weild (KB Project IT Consultant, Network Vision).

As the term winds down, the Tech Department is working hard preparing for an overhaul of the ICT suites during the last week and throughout the Christmas holidays. On their return, our students will find that the ICT room has been completely revamped with the addition of new iMac stations. Whilst this will be a great step forward for us as a school there is much work to be done in the background on installation and deployment, and I am very grateful to all the team for their hard work in this area. Preparations for technology implementation at Kowloon Bay also continue at a fast pace. The KB Project Team recently travelled to Shenzhen to meet with tech giants Huawei to look at some of

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SPORT Preparatory PE Netball We have had a very busy netball season this year with friendly matches every second Wednesday for our P5 & P 6 girls. We have had a record number of girls participating in the netball and have seen great improvements in skills and games play. We were runners up in the Island Schools Netball Tournament and were able to enter two strong teams in the ESF Netball Tournament, unfortunately due to the wet weather the tournament was cancelled and will be rescheduled for the New Year. Our P5 girls did very well in the B &C team end of season tournament. They had convincing wins against Bradbury and CIS and finished 4th place over all. Our P3 and P4 netballers have also enjoyed some friendly matches against FIS and ISF.

Football Our footballers have had an impressive run in tournaments and events this year. Again, we have had huge numbers of boys (74 boys) and girls (38 girls) attending Wednesday training sessions. All P5 & P 6 boys have enjoyed weekly competitive matches against Glenealy. The Boys Football team have been very successful, winning the GSIS tournament, DBIS and ESF tournaments this year. The boys won the ESF tournament without conceding a goal!

Cross Country and Aquathons The standard of running and swimming continues to strengthen within the Preparatory school. We started our Cross Country season earlier than previous years and have 46 keen runners turning up for training on a Friday morning. This will continue next term, as we look forward to the CIS Road Race which happens in March. It has also been great to see our last year’s P6’s competing at senior level and achieving success. We had lots of Aquathons and Cross Country competitions against HKIS, with some impressive podium finishes!

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P6 Swimming Gala We had our P6 swimming gala this term and it was great to see 100% participation from the students! An enjoyable afternoon was had by all with an array of certificates across the classes. Well done to P6 -1 and P6 - 2 who won the participation and class awards.

Sports Day Sports Day was a great success! The Reception children all did very well on their first sports day. The KS1 and KS2 pupils worked hard to throw, jump and run as well as they could.

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EXTRAS Extra curricular activities Girls Football It has been another great term for girls’ football. The girls have turned up each week full of enthusiasm and wanting to play a game as soon as we arrive at the Happy Valley pitch. We entered an U11 team into the GSIS football tournament in November and got to the semi - finals. The girls played well and the full time score was 1-1. It went to penalties and the score was 3 - 3 after all the penalties had been taken. It went to SUDDEN DEATH… but we lost! The team that beat us in the semis won the tournament.

P3 & P4 netball This term P3 and P4 girls have been developing their skills on the netball court. They have learned a lot about different passes and the different positions that players can play on court. Friendly games were arranged with ISF and FIS, and this really helped to put these skills into practice. There were smiles all round as our girls became more confident playing the game, and as they began to make new friends within the community.

Kellett Saturday Soccer Fifty children, from P1 to P6 and evenly - split between boys and girls, have been participating in “Saturday Soccer”. This continues the long tradition of Kellett providing a relatively informal setting for the children to learn and enjoy the game. The P3s and P4s took part in the 2012 Operation Santa Claus Junior Soccer Tournament on 2 December. The highlight was the P3s semi - final of the Bowl competition, which saw parents and others jumping up and down with excitement as Kellett took the lead, only to concede the equaliser in the last minutes and then bow out on penalties. Both teams put in committed and sportsmanlike performances, and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Many thanks again for the support of the coaches and other parents who make Saturday Soccer so much fun and rewarding for all involved.

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P2 Science Club We have been very busy exploring and investigating in P2 Science Club. The children have enjoyed making slime, marshmallow structures, erupting volcanoes and many more exciting activities! It is a very hands-on club and the children enjoy the practical activities and making lots of mess! “My favourite activity was when we did the exploding volcano because it was quite cool.” Killian Featherstone “I liked Henry the Hat because I enjoyed learning how it went up and down like a submarine.” Emilia Dunn “My favourite thing was the slime because it was gooey, and the parachutes.” Daanyaal Apabhai

P3 Science Club During the course of the program the children made marshmallow structures, paper airplanes, parachutes, paper helicopters and fire water rockets. They also experimented with baking soda, vinegar and balloons, and made an electrical device for drying washing.

CHINESE PAINTING CLUB The students learnt about the Chinese brush and Chinese ink. They used simple strokes to create the effect of bamboo, grass, pandas, hedgehog and cherry blossom.

Hobby Club The children had a great time in Hobby Club. They made pots and tiles out of clay, mosaic picture frames and coasters, masks and sparkling Christmas trees.

Battle of the books This year our Battle of the Books group is welcoming a number of ‘special’ and ‘surprise’ visitors to our Tuesday morning meetings. Principal, Ann McDonald was our surprise visitor recently and talked with the children about a book called Shakespeare’s Secret by Elise Broach. In the past we have had Mr Giddings, Nurse Justin and other keen readers to come to our meetings to share a particular book. There are more surprises in store for 2013!

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EXTRAS Global Citizenship Kids Ocean Day - Connecting kids to the beaches and oceans The Hong Kong Ocean Recovery Alliance collaborated with the Malibu Foundation to bring awareness to the children of Hong Kong to protect and look after the ocean and our beaches. A poster competition was held, and on 9 November a display of human art was formed on the beach at Repulse Bay of the winner’s poster. The winner was nine year old Leung Man - Hin, of Kwai Ming Wu Memorial School. Key Stage Two entered the poster competition, and the winner of the Junior Prep. category was Kiran Desai - Kinvig, and Senior Prep winner was Seiya Peacock. They each received a beautiful book, Water Margin - Hong Kong’s Link to the Sea. Well done to you both and to all who entered the competition.

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SENIOR HIGHLIGHTS Senior School Development

In only seven months we move to the new Kowloon Bay campus. The campus offers us more space, improved facilities and most importantly, a school which has been built to our requirements. I wish to take this opportunity to update the school community on senior school development which will take advantage of our new campus and our growing student and staff numbers.

Student NUMBERS Year 7

92 students (4 classes)

Year 8

69 students (3 classes)

Year 9

69 students (3 classes)

Year 10

46 students (2 classes)

Year 11

20 students (1 class)

Year 12

30 to 60 students

Total

300 to 330 students

The Admissions team has been busy testing students throughout Term 1 and offering places when applications are successful. This will continue all the way through until September 2013. We already have a wait list in a number of year groups.

Houses There will be four houses extending from Year 7 to Year 13 and a second Head of House has been appointed to work alongside Matt Seddon. The names of these houses are currently being discussed. House points will continue to acknowledge and celebrate the effort our students make in a wide range of endeavours, from academics to sport, music, student participation and student leadership. House centered activities will be brought more and more to the forefront of everyday student life and the roles and responsibilities of students who have leadership positions within their house will be clearly defined and utilised.

Teaching Staff We continue to recruit high quality teachers, with a very good track record of examination success from successful schools both in the UK and around the world. In 2013 - 2014 we will have over 40 dedicated senior school teachers and numerous educational support assistants to work with our 300 to 330 students. We are moving to a faculty organisational structure within the Senior School with Heads of Faculty being in place next year in English, Mathematics, Science, Languages and Physical Education. In addition to the new Head of Faculty positions, we will be welcoming a Head of Sixth Form to lead our first Sixth Form students to academic and personal success. As the academic and support team continues to grow, the drive, energy and ambition of the team is palpable and the outstanding education our students are receiving will only continue to reach new heights.

Setting in Subjects We will be setting classes by academic attainment in English, Mathematics, Science, French and Mandarin from Year 7 up to Year 11. The Curriculum Leaders for these subjects use clear guide lines to arrange the students into sets and to support the movement of students from one set to another as required.

Student Uniform The Individual student lockers in the new campus have considerably more space than the current lockers and include space in them to hang a blazer and tie and to store a sport bag. The lockers are located around the Senior School atrium on the second, third and fourth floors. We are currently working on improving the consistency and sizing of the Year 7 to Year 11 uniform. There is a purpose built uniform shop next to the stationary shop located near the main reception and coffee shop. Sixth form students will be wearing business dress. The details of the sixth form business dress and the incorporation of house colours into elements of the uniform are currently being discussed.

Student Technology The ‘bring your own device’ model for next year continues to be developed. Students will be required to bring their own device (currently it is a laptop) which meets our minimum specification and software requirements. We are anticipating having arrangements with an Apple supplier and Lenovo supplier to offer students a number of devices which meet our minimum requirements. I will be guiding students and parents on the minimum specification and software requirements and our links with various suppliers in the Summer Term.

Languages Year 8 students will be studying two languages next year, choosing another language to add to their current Year 7 language, from Spanish, French, Latin and Mandarin. The plans for the introduction of another language for Year 8 are well developed and in the Spring Term current Year 7 students and parents will be asked to choose their new language.

The Sixth Form The launch of our Sixth Form is attracting a lot of interest. We have already tested and offered places to over fifteen external students and expect more applications as the year progresses. If you would like to read more information about our Sixth Form, please download the Senior School 2013 - 2104 Information Booklet from our website.

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SENIOR HIGHLIGHTS Early Entry Mathematics IGCSE A number of our Year 11 students will be sitting their Mathematics IGCSE this January and their Further Mathematics IGCSE this June. I look forward to congratulating them on excellent results and celebrating the Senior School’s first IGCSE examination results.

Model United Nations Model United Nations will be added to our extra curricular activity programme and I am sure it will generate significant interest. There are three extra curricular activities which are particularly held in high regard by universities; the Bronze, Silver and Gold Hong Kong Award for Young People (equivalent to the Duke of Edinburgh Awards), the Sports Leadership Award and the Model United Nations. All make significant demands of students including long term commitment and allow students to demonstrate resilience and perseverance.

Curriculum Guide The ‘2013 - 2014 Senior School Curriculum Guide’ is now avaliable for download from our website. It is to be read alongside the ‘2013 - 2014 Senior School Information Booklet’ and gives an overview of each curriculum area from Year 7 to Year 13 and includes detail for

the first time on elements of the Year 7 to Year 11 Global Citizenship programme including ‘Digital Citizenship’, ‘Sex and Relationships Education’ and ‘Careers Education’. The next seven months will fly by and Kowloon Bay will soon be a reality. Yet students and staff will remain firmly focused on the present, ensuring that everyday, good academic progress is being made. The major academic milestones of the Student Led Conferences, the Year 9 and Year 10 Internal Examination weeks and the Year 11 Mock examinations and final GCSE and IGCSE examinations lie ahead of us in the Spring and Summer Terms. It is with our feet firmly planted in the here and now that we ensure that our students continue to love learning and develop confidence for life.

Simon Giddings Head of Senior School

Global Citizenship To mark the start of the new school year and a new Global Citizenship unit all about Buddhism, Year 8 set off in search of the Big Buddha at Ngong Ping. In between swapping summer holiday stories and trying to stay out of the scorching heat, the students enjoyed a range of interesting and informative activities. These included experiencing the fantastic Path to Enlightenment, which allowed them to follow the life of Siddartha Gautama –

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the man who became Buddha. They also toured the Po Lin Monastery and tackled the 260 steps up to seek inspiration from the Big Buddha! Following their beachside lunches, the students commenced a beach clean-up before flopping down to enjoy the shade of the trees and reflecting on both their day on Lantau and the year to come.


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During the first term of Kellett Senior, all of Year Seven have been taking part in the Optimal Learning Programme and really getting to grips with life at Kellett Senior. The course is designed to help the students settle into life at Senior school and introduce them to a range of skills and resources that they will need to use throughout the next five years! The students took part in an electronic treasure hunt on iLearn, to help them to navigate their way around the system, and to discover what it is all about and how it can be used in the future. The treasure hunt ended on the Optimal Learning subject page. This is a fabulous resource that

Student Council Congratulations to the following students who have been successfully elected to the School Council following a presentation to their peers and an election. We would like to particularly say ‘well done’ to Rebecca, Amelia and Alex in Year Eleven, who wrote a letter of application and were put through a grueling interview in order to secure the post of House Captain, which will be a permanent member of the School Council.

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Optimal Learning

students can continue to use after they have completed their first term. It contains alternative search engines geared for students, a guide to sensible research, hints on how to connect to the network and senior schools printers and much more. The end of term saw an ‘eggs - iting’ team challenge where students really had to get to grips with what it means to work as a team, and within a tight time - frame with no possible chance of a deadline extension! We will have to wait until next term to find out who the winners were!

Rebecca Lim

11 Hawks

Amelia Brady

11 Hawks

Alex Mortenson

11 Hawks

Oscar Hocking

10 Leopards

Chloe Ng

9 Magnesium

Annabelle Lucas

9 Zinc

Ethan Sherry

8 Stuarts

Rose Ewins

8 Windsors

Erin Winstanley

8 Tudors

Rei Lindemann

7 Austen

Lucy Watson

7 Golding

Nanou Sabourian

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History Year seven motte and bailey models Year Seven students have been studying the Norman Conquest and examining how King William I kept control of England after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. One of the ways in which William kept control was to reward his loyal Normans with Saxon land and build motte and bailey castles on it, so his followers could keep the countryside under control. Here are the miniature models that Year Seven built to show their understanding of motte and bailey castle features. They have also written an authentic and cunning plan of attack for this type of castle in their exercise books. Have a read if you dare! Every year, I am extremely impressed by the quality and ingenuity of these models, and this year’s castles are no exception. A huge range of materials were used, from toothpicks, to Lego, plasticine, and lollypop sticks and I congratulate the students (and perhaps the odd parent/helper?!) on their efforts.

Year nine History students entered the Reg’s Trench Model Competition earlier this term and the results are in!

9 Magnesium 1st place

Rosie Howl

2nd place

Ethan Hart

3rd place

Joseph Chua

9 Zinc

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Clara Peirce - Finken

2nd place

Dylan Reilly

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SENIOR HIGHLIGHTS Science Mission Impossible? Tom Cruise at Shau Kei Wan? Mission impossible or not, Year 11 IGCSE Physics students set out to calculate the muzzle velocity of a pellet gun, making use of a ballistic pendulum and ideas about momentum and energy transfer. The determined result of 75 km/hr. indicated that the spring-powered firing system was probably due for an upgrade!

Violet and red and blue and yellow… Year 10 students worked out the identity of a range of unknown substances using a variety of colourful pH indicators in IGCSE Chemistry.

Hair-raising experience… Year 10 students witnessed the hair - raising effects of the Van der Graaf apparatus on a particularly dry day.

Pardon? Year 8 students display home-made ear defenders during a lesson on Sound & Hearing.

Yummy cell models… Year 7 students display models illustrating the various parts of a cell. Some models were particularly delicious, being made of cake and icing.

Have a heart… Year 9 students dissected a pig’s heart to enhance their understanding of the circulatory system.

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Geography Year 8 Visit Nothern Thailand Year Eight enjoyed a fantastic trip to Northern Thailand this term! The trip provided students with the opportunity to apply their Geographical Enquiry Skills, which are an important part of Geographical education in the Senior School. Enquiry skills allow students to ask questions about the world around them according to the theories that they have learnt in the classroom, as well as handle data and draw conclusions, offering reasons as to why the data may not follow the theory. The students also learn skills which are transferable to ICT, Mathematics and Science. Geography was not the only academic focus of the trip. It had a broad Humanities focus; students experienced the Buddhist culture and saw day to day Buddhist practices that they have learnt about through the Global Citizenship Curriculum. The students were also exposed to History as part of a visit to the Hall of Opium, where they experienced an exciting and interactive exhibition about the Opium Wars. One of the main focuses of the trip was to build on the ethos of the school, ‘Confidence for Life’. This year the students’ confidence was really put to the test. In addition to the usual English lessons taught by our students, they were also required to teach the local Sham students to play the guitar. This was a real test for all, as Thai and English are in fact the 3rd and 4th languages spoken by many of the hill tribes children. Never - heless, the year eight students rose to the challenge with some very impressive results and big smiles all-round at the end of the session.

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Throughout the week, the students were faced with many challenges that tested their confidence. Some experienced climbing for the first time and everyone took part in a complex cooking class, which resulted in a fantastic green curry, following much chopping and sweating in the afternoon heat. All the students (and staff!) took part in the confidence course, an assault course over water which many would rather not take a swim in! The courage and determination of all the students saw them achieve something that they had not done before. Well done Year Eight! As many of you are aware, the Thailand trip is also about raising money and returning something to the local community that welcomes us with open arms. The 2012 - 2013 fund raising project for Northern Thailand focused on bringing music back to the area. Music is an important part of Thai education and culture. Many of the Thai students are very talented musicians, but sadly the schools do not have enough musical instruments for them to play and practice on, and those that they do have are in poor condition. Mok Cham School has a well - known local music teacher. He desperately wanted new instruments to enable him to continue to teach the students music as part of their school day. Thanks to the Thai Themed Dress Casual day, Year Eight raised 15,000 HKD which enabled us to purchase six guitars. Additional money will fund two talented students who cannot afford the school and travelling fees, to ensure that they remain in school and further their education. A fantastic outcome!


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Maths Olympics Project

Manga High

Year 7 and 8 started off the new term with some Olympics themed lessons to celebrate Team GB’s success this summer. As well as Olympic themed starters (can you solve the one below?) students also did a statistical investigation into the medal table to see whether USA, China and Great Britain really did as well as they thought when other factors like population and wealth were taken into account.

In addition to MyiMaths, students have been lucky enough this term to use another great interactive online resource with Manga High. The website has many curriculum based activities, challenges and games. Kellett Senior has already defeated two schools in “Fai - To” competitions, where points are accumulated in 5 rounds over 5 days by how many challenges the students complete. Special mention must go to Kimberly Sham and Charlie Lucas (Year 7) who have regularly been the star performers and have already attained 49 medals between them!

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The numbers 1 to 9 are placed inside the Olympic rings logo. Each ring sums to 11, fill in the missing numbers.

Hong Kong Joint School Mathematics Society Kellett Senior has for the first time signed up to the HKJMS which is an organisation in Hong Kong which aims to help schools to stretch their most gifted students in Mathematics. Andre Hui and Arisa Ogiwara in Year 9 have been chosen to be the school representatives; many thanks to Arisa in particular, who attended the society’s AGM on Friday 23rd November. There will be more events in the near future including some inter - school competitions.

Maths Club Maths Club has gone from strength to strength this term with a new cohort of Year 7’s enjoying the stranger side of the subject not often seen in lessons. Since September the students have been investigating Binary and different base (i.e. not 10) Number Systems, the Four Colour Theorem, Dimensions (including the 4D Hypercube and the 1D Moebius Strip) and the Golden Ratio.

7 Austen’s Charity Bake Sale 7 Austen organised a two-day bake sale to benefit Operation Santa Claus 2012. The most delicious Brownies, Cupcakes, Rice Krispie Treats and Chocolate Chip Cookies were on sale and a grand total of $6020 was raised. Well done 7 Austen!!

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SPORT Fobissea Before moving to Hong Kong my school trips were limited to within the country, so when I joined Kellett I was over the moon about FOBISSEA; I knew it was my last chance to do this, and on the 21st of November I found myself at the airport saying “goodbye” to my Dad and jetting off to Dulwich College in Suzhou, China. The next few days were some of the most exhilarating and demanding days I had ever experienced. The support was amazing. In every race or game that took place, I could hear the screams and cheers of parents and other students, but I am sure that Kellett cheered the most! In basketball we played to our best, but at the end of the day we had to face defeat and fourth place, but ‘in order to really

appreciate a victory you must face defeat’, or so they say! The next day the girls played their hearts out in the Football and we took the bronze home with us with massive smiles on our faces. I would like to thank our fantastic teachers who have trained and supported us from the very start; so thank you very much Ms. Hill, Mr. Garvey and Mr. Ridgeway - you have inspired us all. I would also like to thank the whole of the FOBISSEA team This has been an unforgettable experience and I am glad to have shared it with you. For some of us, including me, this was our last FOBISSEA, but I am sure that we have all enjoyed this experience. Well done Kellett! Alex Gough

FOBISSEA STATS Gold

Silver

Bronze

Overall

Swimming

1

8

6

5th Place

Athletics

10

6

6

5th Place

Team Bronze

3rd Place

Girls Football Boys Football

1st Place 4th Place

Boys Basketball

4th Place

FOBISSEA 2012 The FOBISSEA games this year were definitely one of the best experiences of my life. This was my first FOBISSEA because I only joined the school in January 2012, and unfortunately it is also my last. As soon as I found out that I had got into the team, I couldn’t wait for the 21st November to come. As soon as we touched down in a freezing cold Suzhou, I quickly established that this was going to be a fantastically fun experience, as we were told that we had to buy our snacks and drinks for the week from a nearby shopping mall. We were also told that we had to balance it out so that we had healthy snacks as well as the biscuits and crisps. We somehow forgot the whole healthy genre of the task and came back an hour later with a 60cm long receipt which displayed all the rubbish we had bought!

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After our first night we woke up early in the morning to compete in swimming and athletics against 5 other schools. Kellett came 5th overall in both the swimming and athletics . This was slightly disappointing but on the bright side we exceeded our medal target for the day by quite a lot, so we can look back on that day with pride. The only bad point for that day was the weather . At one point it got to 4 degrees celsius with rain and strong wind; I hadn’t felt this cold in years!

The next day was the basketball. We managed to do well as we achieved our target of getting into the semi-finals. We finished 4th overall but the quality of basketball from all the schools was outstanding, especially Taipei European School who finished head and shoulders above anyone else. Kellett therefore did well to finish in the top four, narrowly missing out on a medal. We felt almost unbearably tired at this point, but were still unhappy that we had to come back to Hong Kong the next day.

The second day was my favourite as it was football. By the end of the day the boys all came back to the hotel happy, as we won gold in the tournament, winning all seven games and only conceding 4 goals. The quality of football we played was fantastic as well, so it ended up to be a very successful day as we only thought we would make the semi - finals.

Unfortunately for half of us, this was our last FOBISSEA and we are bitterly disappointed that we won’t be able to do it again. We can only hope that the FOBISSEA board meet together and organize an U16 and U17 tournament. We, however may be able to help out next year, as Hong Kong will host the FOBISSEA games next year. I can’t wait! Charles Orchard

SPORT Football • U12 boys Football through to play offs, knocked out at this stage (think Champions league second group round), best U12 performance to date. • U12 girls Football out in first round, showing promise. • U14 boys Football out in first round, a young team looking good for next year. • U14 girls Football Division 2 Champions.

• U16 boys competed for the first time at Kellett with Henry Salmon, Charles Orchard and Rory Atkins leading the way. Charles picked up 15th in the Championships. • U16 girls once again performed for the first time with their championship course also not going to plan, pending a rerun in December.

Cross Country

• Our Swim team continues to grow in size and success, a good crop of new swimmers in Year 7 has upped the competition, breaking many school records, and will push the years ahead of them in U14’s next season. • Championship medals for Jack Robinson and Athina Zodl both in butterfly.

• U12 boys showing great improvement, with James Orchard and Ben Henchman picking up top 10 places in the Championships. • U12 girls lacking numbers but making up for it in quality with Ela Moss, Jemima Abate and Kendall Dees all in the top 16 of the championships. • U14 boys have had their ups and downs (sorry that wasn’t a running pun), with the championships race not going to plan and some students running up to 4k more than the actual course! Notable runners for the season, Jack Robinson with a 2nd place in Ma On Shan and Leo Pucci. No places but many almosts! • U14 girls had a fantastic season picking up 3rd place in the championships, another Kellett first with Jenny Jones and Athina Zodl placing in the top 10, and Athina narrowly missing out on the top spot, coming in third.

Swimming

Basketball • Has just started with all bar one of our teams winning their first game, with the U14 boys narrowly going down by 2 points. It looks to be another exciting season.

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ARTS & LANGUAGES SENIOR

Art Year 7 In preparation for their next painting, 7 Golding went out to Shau Kei Wan to capture the array of colours and bustle at the market. The students will be creating one large painting with reference to the Impressionists’ use of light, colour and paint application.

Year 8 Based on the Cubist’s use of multi - perspective, 8 Stuarts created sculptures using mod - roc, card and wire. They used musical instruments as their subject matter to help develop the forms for their final sculptures.

Year 11 Year 11 GCSE Art Students have now completed Unit 1 of their GCSE course. They will receive their examination theme in January, and start their 20 hours of research and preparation for the final 10 hour examination in April.

English & Design Technology Kellett Dragons’ Den Inspired by the popular TV show, the English and Design Technology department, in collaboration with Business Studies, hosted the ‘Kellett Dragons’ Den’. In groups of 4 and 5, Year 9 were tasked with creating and marketing this year’s Christmas ‘must have’ item for young people their age. They were then asked to pitch their idea to ‘The Dragons’ to see who could claim the most ‘investment’. ‘The Dragons’ came in the form of Ann Mc Donald, David Kidd, Richard Walker and Alex Dickson - Leach – a huge thank you to them for the help!

With 6 weeks to prepare, the pupils were given a realistic and fun introduction to the pressures of working towards deadlines, working collaboratively and delivering confident and persuasive speeches in public. The students were judged on three separate criteria: The innovation of their product design, the quality of their business model and the persuasive power of their speech. After they had finished, they each had to deal with a real Dragons’ Den-style ‘grilling’ on their product! The pupils learnt many valuable lessons and produced some excellent work in the process – it seems we may have many budding entrepreneurs in our community! “I was really nervous before hand – but once we got in front of the Dragons, I knew we could convince them that our idea was the best. I hope we win!” Yr 9 student. The winning group was • • • •

HARRIET ADAMS MAX CHALK ELIZA KIDD EMMA BAGHURST

Their product was a sports head phone named “Theme - Fit.”

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Design & Technology Y7: Lumine Year 7 designed and made a polypropylene plastic lamp that follows an architectural or natural design style.

Y8: Biopen Year 8 designed and made an ergonomic pen that follows the ‘Biomorphic’ design style.

Y9: Minimalite Year 9 designed and made an LED lamp that uses minimalism as its theme.

Y11: GCSE Projects The Y11 students are currently making their prototypes for their final GCSE projects. Storm is basing her jewelry design on Tibetan culture Henry is designing a chopping board that is height adjustable for his client who has no right forearm Arthur is designing a docking station that follows the deconstructivism design influence. Richard is designing a docking station that is influenced by the Art Deco design movement. KELLETT DRAGON NEWSLETTER

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Modern Foreign Languages European Day of Languages – 26 September, 2012 This is an initiative set up by the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, with the aim of encouraging life - long language learning and promoting the rich linguistic and cultural diversity of Europe. To celebrate this event at Kellett Senior, the students enjoyed a Languages Assembly focusing on the importance of Languages. It included a special edition of “Who wants to be a Millionaire” with a Year 11 student representing each House by answering a number of multiple choice questions and using their one lifeline where needed. Thomas Cooper won this quiz for Amber House; well done Tom! This was then followed by a Languages

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Quiz which was completed in Tutor Groups with House Points awarded for the winning House; The Red house! The overall winning Tutor Group, whose members were awarded with a trophy for their efforts, were Year 8 Stuarts – congratulations! On the day itself, students moved from one lesson to the next, completing cross - curricular Language - themed starter activities, and in their Mandarin or French lesson that day they learnt about the influence of Chinese characters on other Asian languages and French - speaking countries around the world. This action - packed fun Languages day was enjoyed by staff and students alike!


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