BTEC Interactive Media students are looking to connect with professionals in the Digital Media industry

BTEC Interactive Media students are looking to connect with professionals in the Digital Media industry who might be prepared to spend 20 minutes of their time being interviewed by these students on camera as part of their assessed coursework. The idea is for these students to produce a short video that could be used as a teaching tool for this course. The interview will focus on either financial issues and current market trends in the interactive media industry of Hong Kong or on contractual, legal and ethical obligations in the interactive media industry. The interviews would take place around the end of May.

If any of you or anyone you know may be able to help us out with this request we would love to hear from you. Please drop us an email or a telephone contact and we will get back to you shortly.


Mark Roper

Learning Without Frontiers Competition - 24 April

3 year 11 students from Island School, Claudia Lo , Tommy San and Lauren Engel took part and won the first learning without frontiers competition on April 24th . This competition involved 13 teams from across Hong Kong and aims to challenge students to show just what they can do with their ICT skills. The Island School team won thanks to their strong understanding of exactly what the client, in this case the Rainbow Foundation needed. They were able to show a broad range of skills based on a common theme and more so than any of the other teams they were able to construct a complete concept for the Rainbow foundation. Winning was quite an achievement from the team as they were competing against mostly teams of 5 or 6 students. What they did show, was that students are capable of producing near professional quality outcomes when given the freedom to explore ideas themselves and this fits well with the aims and objectives of our KS4 ICT course the IEAward in Applied ICT.

The current crop of Year 10 students are about to start thinking about their projects for next year and if there is anyone out there who has a need for some talented ICT students please let us know and as are encouraging all our students to work on real projects for real clients.

CAS exchange programme between students from Island School and Yan Chai Hospital No 2 Secondary School, Tuen Mun

Mr Davis, CAS co-ordinator extraordinaire, along with Mr Chris Durbin of the ESF, met with teachers from the Yan Chai Hospital No 2 School in Tuen Mun to arrange an exchange programme on 28^th April. Students from Island School gained an insight into the environment and educational system of a local school, while students at the local school had the opportunity to practise their English.

Rutherford 1976 Reunion

Rutherford 1976 Reunion

Fashion Show

On the 23rd of April, Island School held the first ever fashion show for its own charity organisation, TrunkAid. Tickets were completely sold out, raising a grand total of $40,000- solely from tickets, lucky draw tickets and merchandise sales on the night.

Gecko Maths Competition

On Monday 8^th of March, 24 Year 7 students and 32 Year 6 students competed in the Island School Hall for the Championship of the Gecko Maths competition.

Mr. Binge with the Champion team, which consisted of Claudia Lau, Ryan Yip, Justin Yim and JJ Cheung.

More photos:

http://picasaweb.google.com/Islandschoolphoto/GeckoMaths2010?feat=directlink

Island School Photography Competition 2010

Island School recently held a photography competition with the theme “My Island School”. We have received many entries. The judges for the competition were Mr. Chris Binge, Mr. Gareth Stevens and Ms Belinda Halcrow. We judges took the decision to split the first prize between two students. Amanda Zhang of 13E was awarded one prize for submitting a technically excellent photograph and Louise King of 12N for being able to communicate the ‘school spirit’ through her shot of Island School students.

Louise King

Amanda Zhang

IB Higher English - No Ordinary Lesson!

On Thursday 15th April, Ms Eves' English IB class undertook a lesson unlike any ordinary English lesson. They did cooking! Four dishes were made based on the recipes in the novel Like Water for Chocolate: Danette Chan and Adele Lee made Oxtail Soup, Grace Lant and Hannah Pho made Christmas Rolls, Evie Lant and Emi Robinson made Beans with ChileTezcucana Style and Michael To and Alex Thomas made Cream Fritters.