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