1 October 2024

We have been planning for an exciting event.  In addition to the country’s 75th anniversary of its establishment, we planned to host for 20 students and 2 teachers from Luhe High School, our sister school from Beijing for two days in early October.  We were joyful for their visit, but we learned that they missed some document deadlines, and so the visit would be postponed to the endo f November.  If you have been following our school news, you know that three of their staff members and four students came to our 30th school anniversary activities. They joined in the welcome dinner, classes, visits, gala show, sister school forum, poon choi feast, and ball games.  I am sure we worn them out. How could we not? We were so happy to see them, and must make use of every opportunity to learn from each other.

 

Here is our plan for them for later this year, with the base of maximising sister school partnership and national security education items.  We will invite our guests to come on the first day at 9am. We will begin with a mini welcome function where the school history and administration will be presented. Then each Luhe student will be paired up with a KLC student; all will be streamed into 5 senior classes, 4 in each. The pairs will have classes all the time. As for electives, they may be assigned to Chinese history, Biology, Economics, Computing, Physics, depending on what their KLC peers are taking. Ball games will be arranged for students at 4pm on that day, with parallel sessions for student leader sharing, and Chemistry teachers sharing.  On the second day, we invite our guests to raise the national flag with us and attend the morning assembly; then all students will attend regular lessons. All will then attend a farewell tea with the buddies.

 

I am sure our campus TV staff and landscape editorial will take the opportunities to interview them as well.  Nonetheless, there are two new elements on this trip: we try to fit in social ball games and national education elements to enhance the sister school partnership, if weather permits.  Unlike campuses on the Mainland, Hong Kong schools have very limited grounds and can only accommodate a small number of exchange students at one time. Likewise, most of our homes are unable to host homestay.  So, when we visit our sister schools, we always feel imposing for they do a lot more than we can do for them. For that, we are very grateful.

 

Let’s make this a big deal, because it is.  Welcome to Luhe members sometime soon.

 

Anson Yang