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Speech Gala 2020: A Decade's Brilliance

1/24/2020

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[21 Jan 2020] The 10th episode of our annual speech and drama event “Speech Gala” seems to have displayed to the audience a new stream of energy flow with our new School Principal Ms Sylvia Chan officiating the event for the first time, with HKU’s Senior Lecturer Miss Nicole Tavares adjudicating the competition for the first time, with twin winners in the P.6 Public Speaking category for the first time and so much more.

Personally, I feel that this year
’s Speech Gala is extraordinarily special because I finally had the chance to meet Miss Tavares after over a decade since I last met her in HKU where I completed my teaching diploma. Miss Tavares was my teacher and mentor. Her professionalism, cheerfulness and positiveness have been staying in my mind. She carried on with all these precious qualities to my school and appreciated and supported our boys to the fullest. Seeing her at work made me feel like a student all over again!

While the Gala gives all the boys equal opportunity to take part in the learning and training of the language arts materials, I am surprised every time by the different ways the finalists employ on stage to give a distinctively new life to the piece they perform. So much effort and innovation is shown year after year!

I congratulate all participants in the finals and thank all my English Teaching teammates for making the event educational and entertaining again.

I am already looking forward to witnessing the next Speech Gala!

Dr H C Lee

Check out the event’s photos in here.
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Great Experience for Our Great Speakers

1/19/2020

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GOOD NEWS from some of our great English speakers!
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Jadon receives his trophy and certificate on stage.
[18 Jan] Jadon Lee (6E) was awarded FIRST RUNNER-UP at the prestigious 21st Century Cup – National English Speaking Competition (Senior Primary Section, Hong Kong Region). Guests of Honour such as the Secretary for Education Mr Kevin Yeung JP and former President of the Legislative Council Mr Jasper Tsang GBM JP officiated the event.

Jadon went through the video submission stage, a semi-final and a final to receive this tremendous result. This speaking contest required him to do a prepared speech titled "Colours of the World" with a question-and-answer part for the semi-final and final. This is the first year that a Primary Section was introduced in this competition and we are glad that two students of YWPS reached the finals. Congratulations to Jadon again and hopefully more of our boys will experience this next year.

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Lincoln (3rd from right) receives his certificate of Commendation from Ms Tong Po-chun along with other awardees.
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Good job Lincoln!
[17 Jan] Today, the Prize-winners' Recital of the Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival was held in our own School Hall. This was an amazing experience to our teachers and students.

Congratulations to Lincoln Kong (6C) for being invited to perform in the occasion as he was commended by judges as one of the most outstanding English performers in this year's Speech Festival. His Verse Speaking performance of "Daddy Fell into the Pond" earned him 90 marks. Good job Lincoln!
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Dr Lee Awarded Champion in "Love Is All Around" Writing Competition

1/12/2020

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Moment of awarding the Champion of the English Open Section
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All awardees of the English Open Section
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Dr Lee with Mr Jasper Tsang GBS JP, an Honorary Director of the competition
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Dr Lee and a Merit Prize recipient, Ms Janice Getzlaf
[11 Jan] By Dr H C Lee

This afternoon was memorable in many ways. I was unbelievably fortunate to be granted winner in the English Open Section of "Love Is All Around"
– The 2nd Chinese & English Essay-Writing Competition.

The writing task was an interesting one. We were asked to review/respond to a 6-min animation known as "The Last Knit", which is a popular video created by Laura Neuvonen. I wasn't sure if poetry would be a good idea for this writing contest but still decided to try regardless of the result. I submitted a 1300-word poem titled "Cocoon" in response to the video as I thought that the video was poetic in the first place. In my acceptance speech, I thanked the judges for recognizing my use of poetry and wished all people to have the wisdom not to live in an invisible cocoon.

The award ceremony was held in a hotel in Wanchai. I was happy to bump into a friend, Ms Janice Getzlaf, whom I knew from the Speech Festival. I also got chances to speak with my fellow awardees and guests in the ballroom. It was a great atmosphere in the occasion and I thought it was too good to be true.

​For those of you who are curious about my winning piece...well, you need to watch that video first to be able to make sense of my verse. While it may not be the best poem I've ever written, it's certainly the longest one. Hope it brings some inspiration to you all.

You may download the poem here:
cocoon.pdf
File Size: 1800 kb
File Type: pdf
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