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Voting Results for P.6 One-min Show-and-tell Video Challenge!

4/27/2019

Our top 3 P.6 video-makers! (From left: Hanson Fung 6E, Ian Chong 6A, Derrick Chung 6A)

Thanks a lot for taking part in the voting and enjoying the videos made by our P.6 boys!

The voting ended on 26 Apr and the results are displayed here.

A total of 278 people have voted. The top three videos are:

1. Hanson Fung 6E
2. Ian Chong 6A
3. Derrick Chung 6A

Congratulations to these top video-makers as well as the shortlisted ones! These 3 will be subtitled and re-launched!

Stay tuned and thank you! ^^

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P.6 One-min Show-and-tell Video Challenge 2019

4/15/2019

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Hello to all! Here are the Easter gifts to you – the 15 newly shortlisted 1-min show-and-tell videos from our creative P.6 boys. Please enjoy them all, login to e-class and the vote for you favourite one(s).

The voting begins now till 26 Apr (Friday). We will announce the top 3 videos after the Easter holiday! Happy viewing and Happy Easter! ^o^

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Spelling Bee Competition 2018-2019

4/15/2019

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YWPS's Spelling Bee Competition 2018-2019 was successfully held for all levels in March and April at the School Hall. After lunch, hundreds of enthusiastic “bees” were buzzing in the competition hall striking for one goal – spelling the right words to win the Spelling Bee Competition!

After rounds of spelling, all classes have achieved excellent results and here are the winning classes for different levels.

Congratulations to all our “bees” and we will play again next year!

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Congratulations to Our Budding Actors!

4/15/2019

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Four actors are awarded this year:(From left) Calvin Tong, Nicolas Tam, Andrzej So, Jay Mui

Hong Kong School Drama Festival 2018/19 announced their lists of awardees and the English Drama Team of YWPS is happy to be awarded the following awards for the comedy “When Fairy Tales Collide...”:

AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING STAGE EFFECT
AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING COOPERATION
AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMER

Calvin Tong 5C
Jay Mui, 5B
Tam Ho Hin, Nicolas, 4C
So Yu Chun, Andrzej 5C

Congratulations to our drama team, the awarded boys, our teachers-in-charge Mrs Paul, Ms Cheng and Ms Yau, and our remarkable assisting parents!

The show will be performed once more at our Drama Fiesta in June. Surely they will bring down the house!

Dr H C Lee

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Story Pilots' Second School Visit

4/8/2019

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Group photo of YWPS and Chan's Creative School

20 P.6 Story Pilots practised what they have been trained in story-reading and visited Chan's Creative School this afternoon (8 Apr).

Our boys were happy to be given 130+ P.3 boys and girls to be entertained during their lunch hour. Each pilot was to take care of around 5 junior listeners. Each of the pilot brought a book from the English Room and read out the story in the way that would interest their audience. Of course, our boys needed to exercise interactive skills to make their reading session interesting to their young friends.

We were glad to see so many engaged and attentive listeners. When a book was finished, our story pilots swapped places. While our pilots were feeling fatigue for their throats in the end, they started to understand how difficult it was to become a teacher!

Many thanks to the Principal and staff of Chan's Creative School to allow our boys to visit, and of course, to their adorable P.3 students for being so nice too!

Dr H C Lee

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Story Pilots’ First School Visit

3/21/2019

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A big group picture of the 2 schools

Our Story Pilots had their first school visit yesterday (20 Mar)! 25 P.4 Story Pilots went to Christian Remembrance of Grace Primary School and shared their stories with 120 P.1 students.

Our pilots were all very excited and welcomed their little listeners with great passion and smiles. The sharing experience was definitely an extraordinary one for them as throughout the whole process, our pilots faced a lot of challenges. They observed the responses from their little listeners and quickly made adjustments to their plan. They used a lot of body language to help the little ones understand the story and some of them even rephrased the little kids’ ideas and taught them how to express them in English. In the end, all the kids enjoyed listening to the stories and they all gave a big round of applause to our pilots.

This was definitely a rewarding experience for the pilots and we are all looking forward to the next visit to another school!

Ms Jenny Ho

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When Fairy Tales Collide...

2/27/2019

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What will happen if fairy tales collide? Well, extraordinary things will definitely happen! And it did!

This morning, our senior English Drama team performed in the School Hall for The Hong Kong School Drama Festival 2018/19. They performed a comedy "When Fairy Tales Collide" written by Charles Alverson. The play did live up to the title! The story put together Gretel, Hansel, Queen, Witch, Wolf, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and two princes and form a fun-filled story on an unexpected party at the Witch's house!

The more fun thing was, half of these characters were female and thus our professional actors needed to do cross-gender acting! And, perhaps not surprisingly, everyone's acting was marvelous! And of course, thanks to the spot-on costumes and sound effects and set decoration that helped to bring the story alive.

My salute to our boys and "girls" and our talented teaching team, particularly Mrs Paul, Ms Yau and Ms Cheng for the training and design of the entire play. Thanks to all those who helped during the process and thanks must also be given to the actors' parents for their selfless support.

Last but not least, thanks to Mrs Lam for supporting us during the competition. We were all glad that she said the drama "almost blew her away!"

The adjudicators seemed to be as impressed as was the audience. Let's keep our fingers crossed for the good news from the competition organisation in April.

Dr H C Lee

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P.5-6 Singapore Study Tour 2019 - Day 5 (Closure)

2/17/2019

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Astonishing view from SkyPark

[17 Feb 2019] Feels like a dream these five days and four nights...I may not be the only one feeling like the student participants of this tour. But, anyway, it is time to say goodbye to Singapore.

The cancellation of a museum visit was not what we desired but we needed to respond to some unforeseeable situation. However, the surplus of time in the morning meant we could explore more at the Marina Bay Sands Observation Deck - SkyPark. And that was quite a good wrap up of the country's green and modern cityscape. The SkyPark was built at 200 metres high and shaped like the front of a large ship. We could see all the famous landmarks of Singapore from there. Our boys were all busy finding the best spots for photos or selfies or trying their last effort to spend the remaining money on drinks, ice-cream and sourvenirs up there.

Before the airport, we had a brunch at Lau Pa Sat, which was a perfect place for local food. The children were getting nosier and nosier towards the end of this journey, but who could blame them? They are children, they are boys, the trip was stimulating, and after all, they were noisy in English only.

The five-day-four-night exploration in Singapore has brought us serious learning from local schools, friendship with Singaporeans, knowledge of the history and success of Singapore, an experience of their national spirit, and importantly, a chance for our boys to be fully emerged into an English-speaking environment (I suspect that many of them also communicated in English in their hotel rooms!).

We are thankful for the great weather, the healthiness of all of us, the smoothness of traffic, the professionalism of our tour guide, the hospitality of Anglo-Chinese School (Junior) and Fairfield Methodist Primary School, the amazing talent of Ms Mary Ann Tear's drama team, our boys' high involvement in all of the activities, our leading teachers' great care and helpfulness, our school's support and last but not least, the trust from the parents.

Headmistress Mrs Lam gave a perfect end to this journey by showing up at the Hong Kong Airport when we walked out to the Arrival Hall. Surely, Ying Wa Primary School creates endless unforgettable memories in our children's hearts, but this trip for our senior boys should deserve a very special place in their childhood which should be remembered and looped for many many years. At least, it is the case for me.

Dr H C Lee

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P.5-6 Singapore Study Tour 2019 - Day 4

2/16/2019

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Presenting a souvenir to Ms Mary Ann Tear

At Gardens by the Bay

[16 Feb 2019] When we thought that the two-day learning at a local Singaporean school would be memorable enough for our student participants, they were given a stunning and daring drama workshop today by British Speech and Drama expert Mary Ann Tear and her invited guest teacher Charlotte (Salad d Clown), who was known for her clowning work.

Our boys learnt some exciting skills to improve their confidence and proficiency in acting on stage. Besides, students were instructed to put on makeup for clowning. A lot of our boys were reluctant at first, but once they started to do it, they're all engaged in it! Our boys might still be far away from being professional actors given such a brief learning time, but their getting out of their comfort zone touched us all. While they have learnt to be bold on stage with their character, they also learnt to respect the profession of acting.

Also, another highly anticipated location Gardens by the Bay did not fail to impress us all, as expected. The scale of such enchanting gardens and the messages they want to send out were memorable. We may not be plant lovers, but it was difficult not to be attracted by the carefully designed gardens and the endless views of beautiful foliage.

The Marina Bay Sands Observation Deck got swapped with tomorrow's Chinatown. So, we had a convenient arrangement of visiting the Chinatown after dinner. The ending was...children returning to the coach with filled bags.

The children have done their luggage packing, but no one seems to be excited about returning to Hong Kong tomorrow - is the success of this tour a good or bad news in this regard?

Dr H C Lee

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P.5-6 Singapore Study Tour - Day 3

2/15/2019

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At Anglo-Chinese School (Junior)

At Fairfield Methodist Primary School

[15 Feb 2019] Our School Headmistress Mrs Lam extended her warm surprise as she visited Anglo-Chinese School (Junior) on the third day of our tour for the P.5 participants.

Today is a very special day - 15 February is the Singapore's Total Defence Day. It is a day to remind the people of Singapore of their fall to the Japanese during WWII and that the country needs a united spirit and stronger protection against different challenges.

Both Anglo-Chinese School (Junior) and Fairfield Methodist Primary School had special assemblies for the event and they demonstrated perfectly to our boys what citizenship, national identity and the love to one's country are all about. This added so much value to their trip on top of what they have learnt from the different lessons offered by the two esteemed schools these two days.

In the afternoon we went to the Science Centre, which was again a very highly rated spot among our boys. Who wouldn't love science when it's learnt in such a fun and interactive way?

It is said that "Learning is at its best when it is deadly serious and very playful at the same time". I think we have been doing just that these couple of days in Singapore.

Let's look forward to tomorrow's drama workshop and the very highly anticipated Gardens by the Bay!

To be continued...

Dr H C Lee