Island School team comes up with a winning promotion for charity project

When Island School student Claudia Lo Wai-yu entered a competition to created a marketing plan for a charity organisation, she knew she was in for a one-of-a-kind experience.

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Junior inter-house debate competition

For the past month students from all Houses have been battling with words in the junior inter-house debate competition. Discussing such motions as; the computerisation of education has gone too far, sporting heroes/heroines make poor role models and TV has a malign influence on society all Houses performed very well and the Final between Rutherford and Einstein was a closely fought debate.

The final standings were 1st Rutherford,2nd Einstein,3rd Nansen,4th Wilberforce,5th Fleming, 6th DaVinci. Congratulations to Louise Hannaford ( Captain ), Daniel Lancaster and Sophia Rommel the Rutherford winners and thanks to Alex Li, Eric Vestervall, Ernest Leung and Mr Faulkner for officiating.

Year 8 Technology Challenge Days. 3rd and 4th June

Congratulations must go to 8W who were the undisputed winners of both of the Year 8 Technology Challenge Days on June 3^rd and 4^th this year. This was a new event for Island School aimed at giving year 8 students a unique experience combining all subjects in the Technology Curriculum Area (Design & Technology, Food Technology, Textiles Technology supported by ICT) in an extended learning opportunity. Students were unaware of the challenge that they were to undertake and in the space of about 4 hours had to produce a food product, a packaging concept for their food with a striking logo, uniforms and a point of sale display.

The contest was judged by external judges who are all working professionals in either branding, catering or the food and beverage industries, and the prizes were sponsored by Noon Copenhagen. We would like to extend our thanks to Ken Wathall, Liz Seaton and Lone Hesselbjerg Morup for their expertise and time on these days.

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The 6th HKFA Annual Tournament

On 30th May, Island School entered two teams into the 6th HKFA annual tournament, a seven a side soccer competition. Our teams were composed of year seven and eight players taking part in a competition that featured mostly club teams and which went up to year nine age. The two teams each played 6 games in their group, some of these consecutively.

Island School 1 came second in their group having not conceded a goal. Indeed the only goal conceded came in their semifinal match when the opposition King's Park scored in the very last minute of the game.

Island School 2 consisted mostly of year 7 players and the size difference between them and other teams proved difficult to overcome. But they showed great determination and really held their own, the most memorable game being their 2-0 win over HKFC in their last game.

The players were: Alfred Poon, Jeff Chan, Colin Ross, Adrian Leung, Erik Vestervall, Matthew Mortimer, James Chan, Tony Cho, Rohit Daswani, Jonathon Turnbull, Adam Chillingworth, Joseph Stuart, Ben Sargant, Louis Reed, Michael Slavin, Lucius Hatherly, Thomas Cooper, Lucas Socha,Kenji Ichikawa and Daniel Cavalante-Chung. Daniel and Erik were awarded the player of the tournament for their respective teams.

Congratulations!

Paul Chillingworth

Group IV Project. 31 May to 2 June 2010

For three days the science labs and technology rooms were even busier than usual, as our Year 12 students threw themselves into the Group IV Project. The purpose of the project is to work in interdisciplinary teams were everyone brings different skills and knowledge to various projects and individuals are assessed on their teamwork, motivation, communication and their ability to reflect upon their learning. Most students were involved in environmental projects stemming from fieldwork carried out in Quarry Bay Country Park whilst others were involved in Food Technology projects (which strangely enough were over-subscribed!). The project is compulsory for all IB students, but our teams were enriched by also having BTEC students add their skills and abilities to the teams.


The three days culminated in an exposition, in which team B6 were judged to be the final winners for their work on how leaves are adapted to disperse water, cope with varying light intensity and the density of their stomata.

Congratulations to Sarah-Jane CULLINANE, William HOWARD, Vivian LEE, Belle LEUNG, Ernest LEUNG, Zahid MUGHAL and Marsha TEO.

Paul Bayne
Head of Physics

Romeo and Juliet

Mr Oliver's Year 10 English group were given a short film project to complete on any aspect of 'Romeo and Juliet' they wanted. They had only two weeks to compete all the planning, filming and editing. This is one of the winning films, judged according to the following criteria: entertainment value; educational value; technical skills.