Issue No. 14 (6 December 2019)

Technology plays an ever increasing role in all of our lives and as a school we are looking to explore further how our students engage with it. By gathering information on this topic, we hope to devise further strategies to ensure that students make the most of the technological opportunities available to them, but are also protected against some potentially harmful effects. We are writing to ask that you help us with this by completing a survey on your child’s use of technology at home. We hope that this will help to provide us with a more holistic picture of our students’ technology use. 

Specifically, we would like to use this data to inform future curriculum, parent workshops and pastoral interventions. All data will be collected anonymously, and you are of course welcome to skip any questions that you feel unable to answer. 

Here is the link to the survey:  Family Digital Device Survey

We would be grateful if you could complete the survey by Friday 13th December. We really appreciate you taking the time to provide us with this useful information. Thank you!

On Thursday 6th February (5.30-7.15pm) as part of our annual E-Safety focus week,  we will be inviting parents into school for a technology and well-being event. This will include a series of workshops focusing on a healthy approach to technology, and a screening of a documentary on teenage use of social media called “Like”. More information and sign up details for this event will be emailed to you after the Christmas holiday.  

Should you have further queries or concerns regarding the Family Digital Device survey please do not hesitate to contact me. 

Kind regards,

Lucie Purves              

Vice Principal

Dear Parents,

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A group of year 8’s were fortunate enough to hear from famous wildlife photographer Paul Mackenzie, who shared some of his amazing wildlife photos from around the globe. In addition to some beautiful photography, Paul was able to explain a little about the stories behind the photographs as well as the conservation issues and dangers facing many of the animals. Paul was born in Kenya but now lives in Hong Kong and has been a professional wildlife photographer since the mid nineties. Year 8’s were captivated by his talk and asked some great questions too. Thanks to the Royal Geographical Society and to Ms ChiLe for making this possible.

It was another busy week for matches at South Island School. First up we had the U14 tennis boys playing their first ISSFHK match against Harrow. SIS won 4-0. It was Abraham Poon’s debut match and he was also man of the match.

On the same evening, our A grade girls netball had a very important match down at Wong Chuk Hang. SIS won 17-9. Well done and good luck for your next match!

The U16 girls football team played their first ISSFHK match on Tuesday. It was a strong start to the U16 girls football season as they won 5-0 against ISF. Woman of the match was: Kat Hoffman. She scored a hatrick with three long range shots outside the area. Well done ladies!

The girls hockey team had a great game. They won 9-1 with Sophie Poulton scoring 8 goals. What a great win! Congratulations!

Our U20 boys Football played against GSIS and won 5-2 in theISSFHK Cup with several Year 10 players stepping up and playing. Man of the match goes to: Sherman Wong. Great job and good luck to the rest for your season!

To close Tuesday evening, the Girls A grade basketball won their second HKSSF game, 54-18. Women of the match honours was shared between Maeve and Bethany, but it were a good game all around. Congratulations!

On Wednesday, our Division 2 tennis boys played against CDNIS in the ISSFHK league. SIS won 3-1 and have now won 3 straight matches in this league. Let’s hope this winning streak continues. Man of the match goes to Yann Zylberberg.

The girls A grade netball team played against Heep Yunn at Wong Chuk Hang. Walking into the game, the girls knew it would be a tough and tight game. SIS won 26-21 but throughout the game it was super close. Women of the match go to: Caitlin Donovan and Ingrid Lam. 

Our A Grade boys played in the HKSSF Division 1 league on Wednesday. It was a tough match for them as they played against Wah Yan HK. Unfortunately SIS lost 0:3. A great effort from the boys and good luck to the rest of your season.

It was the second HKSSF game for the A grade girls basketball this week. The girls won 73-8. The whole team played well and women of the match goes to: Caitlin Donovan and Bethia Kwok. Also, congratulations to the team as they are now onto the second round!

On Tuesday evening some of our U19 boys were selected to represent ESF to participate in the U19 international Dubai 7’s tournament. Good luck to the team and enjoy Dubai!

Mr Redding and Mr Thurbon have taken the A grade boys basketball team to Phuket for a basketball competition at BISP. Good luck to the team in the tournament as well and hopefully they’ll be back with the trophy!

Alyssa Wong ( 11N1), Samantha Cho (11S2), Sophie Langford ( 11K2) and Leanne Chan (12B2) returned to Hong Kong last Saturday after a week of Netball Matches against different countries during the 11th International Youth Netball Challenge at Singapore Sports School.  It was definitely a valuable experiences for the girls.

Here is Samantha’s report from the championships:

During the week in Singapore, both the teams had many ups and downs and at the end of the whole week there were lots of tired bodies and minds after 8 hard games against top notch competitors from across the globe. It was the perfect opportunity for us to develop together with players and set plays that we were not familiar with. This opportunity allowed us to play a lot of netball with all the intensity from games and learning how to keep going and be determined in every circumstance. Both teams went into the games with 100% focus and 110% effort. We encouraged and motivated each other in pushing through the pain and furthering our netball skills and set plays. Both teams came out of the tour extremely proud of what they had accomplished.

Well done to all.