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Edwin Chan awarded at The Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2017

3/22/2017

Edwin Chan (1st from left) receiving his trophy at The Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2017 ceremony

Congratulations to Edwin Chan (6B) receiving the Highly Commended Award at The Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2017 today (22 march). Edwin entered the Fiction Group 2 of the competition with his story "The New Tale Of The Old City Of Shanghai", which fits the theme of the competition this year "New Tales of Old Shanghai".

The Hong Kong Young Writers Awards attracts a thousand quality competitors yearly from different schools across Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Macau, including reputable international schools. The competition is always very keen and that is why every award in this contest is highly regarded. And it is particularly interesting to know that Edwin is the only male awardee in his category this year! Who says that English is a girl subject? Boys are disadvantaged in learning English? Well, it doesn't happen in YWPS!

Edwin's awarded story is now published in the anthology of The Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2017 and it will be available online soon. Once again, congratulations to Edwin and I hope our boys will continue to write beautiful English stories because it is a beautiful language for everyone in the world to learn and appreciate.

Dr H C Lee

Edwin with the anthology!

Father and son!

Edwin on the stage

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YW Education Foundation Scholarship for Cambridge Junior Programme 2017 - Results

3/13/2017

The English Department is delighted to announce that the judging process of our applications of the titled scholarship is completed. 13 winners have been recommended by the judging panel and approved by the Headmistress. The WINNERS are:

6A Chan Ho Ming
6A Chan King Hang
6A Chan Long Kiu
6A Chan Tsun Lok
6A Loi Sheung Yu Jason
6A Wan Ho Long Hugo
6A Wong Ching Hang
6C Cheng Hok Him Daniel
6C Ng Tsz Nam
6C Wong Kai Toa
6D Chan Ho Tak
6D Cheung Jerry
6E Cheung Luca Tin Yau

Congratulations to the above students who will receive HK$5,000 from the YW Education Foundation later this year.

Regardless of the scholarship results, we are very sure that all our Cambridge Junior Programme participants will enjoy the 2-week programme and gain more than they expect.

I am looking forward to this summer already. Will surely update everyone on our boys' learning progress in Cambridge through this website. Stay tuned!

Dr H C Lee

Story Pilots: Law Ting Pong Secondary School × YWPS

3/10/2017

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Story Pilots shared reading (Photo courtesy - Law Ting Pong Secondary School)

Dr Lee presented souvenir to Principal Tam.

Another warm and joyous shared reading session was held in the English Room this afternoon (10 Mar) as Law Ting Pong Secondary School's Principal Ms Lancy Tam brought her staff and a team of wonderful storytellers to read intriguing English books to our English captains.

Our captains were divided into 4 small groups each led by a Law Ting Pong Story Pilot. Interactions were rigorous and one of the teams even finished 4 books in the short session (and they seemed not to have had enough)!

Story Pilots from Law Ting Pong came to us last year to show us how shared reading could be done. Since then, the English Department of YWPS has established our own team of pilots. We owe this meaningful activity to Law Ting Pong Secondary School. And today, we are even more thankful that these amazing secondary story pilots came again to share stories with our boys again! I just loved the reading environment we built together.

Thanks to Mrs Paul and Ms Jenny Ho for arranging English activities as meaningful as such for our boys. In the near future, we will surely see more sharing of our English Captains as Story Pilots.

Dr H C Lee

P.S. Check out our gallery for more photos!

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One-minute Video Challenge Vote Results

3/1/2017

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Thanks to all who have cast their votes for their favourite videos of the Primary Six's One-minute Video Challenge! The top FIVE winners (in no particular orders) are:

6A Oscar Chan
6B Ming Wong
6C Hermes Iu
6E Jonathan Chan
6E Matthew Chan

Congratulations to these creative budding video-makers. Their clips will be subtitled and broadcast in our campus TV "WA Square" as well as on this website. You can always go back to revisit the shortlisted clips here: http://www.englishywps.com/news/one-minute-video-challenge

See you soon in another short video challenge!

Dr H C Lee

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Edwin Chan awarded at The Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2017

YW Education Foundation Scholarship for Cambridge Junior Programme 2017 - Results

Story Pilots: Law Ting Pong Secondary School × YWPS

One-minute Video Challenge Vote Results

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