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"To Be Continued..." Chapter 8 Part II Launched!

7/20/2022

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[20 Jul] Finally, the second part of the eighth chapter of "To Be Continued..." is released! The Old Wise Man explains everything to Bong here and the battle is over. The myth is clarified in general. Nobody could guess that Bong is given a new role in the end. The master's plan is perfectly complete...or is it?

There are certainly still unanswered questions after watching this chapter. But, not all questions should be explicitly answered in a story. There are many things that readers should explore and come up with their own theories and ideas, because this series is written for the sake of being intriguing, and being "never-ending". After all, this story is titled "To Be Continued..." for a reason.

Watch this episode again below:

Now boys, the final question time. Here are two thoughtful questions for you. Feel free to answer one or both of them:

1. Give us ONE unanswered question after watching this final episode and your own answer of it.
2. Do you think the Old Wise Man has made the wisest choice to live a normal life and pass his position to Bong?

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New Budding Poets of YWPS!

7/19/2022

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Our New Budding Poets (from left): Ambrose Wong, Roderick Yuen, Horace Chan, Edgar Tsang

[19 Jul] Hong Kong Budding Poets (English) Award (HKBPA) 2021/22, the most prestigious poetry prize for students of Hong Kong, released their lists of awardees earlier and to our delight, four of our talented poets made it into the shortlist with the following awards:

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Gold Prize – Ambrose Wong 6D
Silver Prize – Roderick Yuen 5A
Honourable Mention – Horace Chan 6A
Honourable Mention – Edgar Tsang 6B
Poet of the School – Ambrose Wong 6D

The awarded poems above will be published in the anthology of HKBPA.

This honour is particularly precious as it is already 4 years ago (2018) that we last had an awardee in this contest and 10 year ago (2012) that we had multi-awardees there! You may read the awarded pieces here, along with the pieces previously awarded.

An online award ceremony was held this evening to honour all the prize-winners. Ambrose Wong, being the Gold Award recipient, was invited to perform his poem, "An Amazing Party", too.

Let's congratulate our budding poets and we hope more and more outstanding writers will be discovered in the near future.

Dr H C Lee

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"To Be Continued..." Chapter 8 Part I Launched!

7/13/2022

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[13 Jul] The end is near... The Part I of the eighth chapter of "To Be Continued..." is here! In this episode, our three young heroes are chased and attacked by a mysterious army which they have never encountered. And then, other armies join in the fight and somehow help the heroes to approach the Old Wise Man. More secrets are about to be revealed and yet, more question marks are thrown to readers as the battle goes on. Watch the video again below and let the mysteries and excitement continue!

Now boys, question time. Here are two thoughtful questions for you. Feel free to answer one or both of them:

1. Who do you think sent the female army to attack the three heroes and why did he/she do it?
2. How would you describe Bong's personality as seen in this chapter? What can you learn from him?

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Congratulations to our LCM Speech Festival Awardees!

7/9/2022

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[9 Jul] We are happy to announce that our boys have the following achievements in the 6th LCM Speech Festival:

6th LCM Speech Festival

9-10 Years Prose Group 1
Champion – Fei Xuehanrui 4A
First runner-up – Aiden Cheuk 4E
Second runner-up – Keaton Chang 4C

11-12 Years Prose Group 1
Champion – Lee Sing Yu 5E

8-10 Years Public Speaking Group 1
Champion – Lincoln Powell 4E
Second runner-up – Fei Xuehanrui 4A

7-8 Years Verse Group 2
First runner-up – Lam Ching Pok 1D

9-10 Years Verse Group 1
Second runner-up – Yeung Ching Long Caspian 4B

7-8 Years Prose Group 1
Second runner-up – Lee Pak Ting 2D

11-12 Years Public Speaking Group 1
Second runner-up – Max Sze 6B

We are particularly happy that this competition was conducted face-to-face, which is a rare but valuable performing experience for our boys, particularly in these special days. Also, in the 9-10 years Prose category, our boys achieved a clean sweep to get all the three trophies! Wa Wa Wa!

Congratulations to all again and please be encouraged to continue to take part in more speech and drama events in the future! Hope to report more good news soon!

Dr H C Lee

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"To Be Continued..." Chapter 7 Launched!

6/2/2022

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[2 Jun] "To Be Continued..." has come to its 7th chapter! More unbelievable things happens after Chi-yin recovers from his disability...Bong's identity is in question, Na Na reveals the secrets of the Old Wise Man, and our heroes have little idea what is waiting for them next! The story is reaching its climax soon! Watch the chapter again here for all clues and mysteries!

Intriguingly, in this chapter, the boys didn't throw their dice and thus no obvious hints are given. But does it mean there won't be any clues you can find in school? This puzzle is certainly "to be continued..."

Now boys, question time. Here are two thoughtful questions for you. Feel free to answer one or both of them:

1. Na Na talks a lot about the secrets she knows. Do you think she has told the truth? What makes you believe or not believe her?
2. The Old Wise Man seems to be "inviting" the heroes to attend his "concert". What do you think he intends to do and why?

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Speech Festival Solo Winners' Series Launched

5/24/2022

[24 May] Congratulations again to our solo WINNERS of the 73rd Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival. Please enjoy below some of the selected videos performed by our solo First Place winners:

Poetry — "English Time" Episode 4

5/12/2022

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[12 May] Hello to you all! Hinson returns for the fourth episode of "English Time — presented by Forgottenland"! And this time, he brings a friend!

In this episode, Hinson, one of our three heroes in the "To Be Continued..." series, talks about four-line poetry, which he has demonstrated with a friend in Chapter 5 of the story. Do you recall that they follow the Seven Step Verse style to compose a meaningful little poem inspired by items they are holding?

Here they talk about this topic with interesting examples from different boys!

Now, after watching this episode, can you make a similar poem? Instructions are straightforward: 4 lines, rhyming, based on an item, and has a message to send.

Relax...you don't have to complete it in seven steps! Try it yourself and share with us your poem here! We teachers are looking forward to reading your work! Have fun with English poetry!

Dr Lee

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"To Be Continued..." Chapter 6 Launched!

5/9/2022

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[10 May] "To Be Continued..." returns after the special holiday and here is the sixth episode where the heroes find themselves in another dimension! They goes into a room with many doors! Interestingly, they have access to different places across the timeline. What do they see and experience in this new chapter? And how are they going to find the last sacred item? This chapter ends with a happy surprise! Watch it again here for all the intriguing twists and the thought-provoking experience!

The dice this time predict the following:
fake, betrayal, manual, seven, feeding, truth

Now, all seven sacred items are found! However, Gauwa is not seen and Bong is missing. What should our heroes do next? Stay tuned and this story is "To Be Continued"...

Now boys, question time. Here are two thoughtful questions for you. Feel free to answer one or both of them:

1. The room of many doors seem to give you access to anywhere in the timeline. If you were in such a room, where would you want to visit when you opened a door? Please explain your answer.
2. What do you think make Chi-yin able to walk again? If you have such an experience, please also share with us an instance when you were suddenly able to do a thing you thought you couldn't do previously.

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(30 Apr) CONGRATULATIONS to our Speech Festival Winners!

4/30/2022

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Our WINNERS of the 73rd Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival, holding their pennants.

[30 Apr] Congratulations to all our 26 solo English winners in the 73rd Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival! The winners are:

1B Cheng Yat Long
1C Lo Cheuk Nam
1C Hsu Kei Hang Kaden
1D Lai Moses Abraham
2B Hon Yat Long Adrian
2D Poon Yik Shun
2D Lee Sze Chai
3A Lee Cheuk Him
3B Law Hong Ming Arvon
3C Chan Ching Hei Bill
3C Yeung Shun Yi Isaiah
3C Lam Yick Lai Ivor
4A So Yu Hang
4A To Hei Wai
4B Li Kwan Nok Arthur
4B Wong Harry Sin Lok
4E Tang Cheuk Yiu
5A Wai Chun Yin
5A Yuen Hei Wang
5C Wong Ko Ching
5E Ngai Chun Ching Ethan
5E Lee Sing Yu
5E Yang Cheuk Hei
6B Leung Kwan Yat
6C Choy Tung Lam
6E Cheng Wing Lun

What a fantastic group of brilliant performers! Later, we will show you some of their videoed performances for your reference. We certainly hope that their work inspire more of our boys to take part in many more speech contests to train up their confidence, presentation skills as well as artistic sense!

In this Speech Festival, we also have 30 second places and 24 third places! Clearly, our boys have had so much fun and competence in practising and performing through the Video Submission Mode of the Festival. And we are glad to say that this is our best result among the recent four Speech Festivals!

Thank you for all of you boys joining the event and trying hard for it. And I thank our teachers for heavily involving in the training process for many students. “Speech and Drama” has been an important subject of the English learning experience in YWPS. Keep up your great work and you know what? Our Speech Gala is around the corner...We will certainly see more inspiring speech acts very soon!

Meanwhile, may I invite all our Speech Festival awardees, present or past, to share with us some tips on how to do well in the Festival? Thanks to you all again!

Dr H C Lee

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CONGRATULATIONS to our DRAMA TEAM!

4/13/2022

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Screenshot of our Drama Team with Principal Chan right after their adjudicated performance

[13 Apr] Big CONGRATULATIONS to our Drama Team who performed brilliantly for the Drama Festival 2021/22. The Festival was held in the form of an online Reader's Theatre. Our Drama Team had been trained for months for the play "The Frog Prince Continued" and had their live online performance for adjudication on 11 March. And we received the results from the Hong Kong School Drama Festival yesterday. We are thrilled to be awarded as follows:

Award for Outstanding Script -- Mrs Abanty Paul
Award for Outstanding Director -- Mrs Abanty Paul, Ms Peggy Yau, Ms Jackie Cheng, Ms Kei Yip
Award for Outstanding Performer — Yuen Hei Wang Roderick (5A); Lo Kai Tik Anson (6A); Lincoln Du Powell (4E); Choy Tung Lam (6C); Yeung Ching Long Caspian (4B)
Award for Outstanding Audio-visual Effects -- Ying Wa Primary School
Award for Outstanding Cooperation -- Ying Wa Primary School
Adjudicators' Award -- Ying Wa Primary School

This is our second time winning as many as six awards in the Drama Festival and it is also our second time getting the highest prize, "Adjudicators' Award"! (Refer to our previous Drama Festival achievements here.) In the pre-pandemic days, we would have been invited to perform our play for public as an Adjudicators' Award winner. Now, understandably, this arrangement cannot be made, but we are delighted and excited all the same for our achievements!

Thank you to our drama teachers and drama boys for their hard work to achieve this beautiful feat. We look forward to showing all of you our recorded drama later in our Drama Fiesta 2022! Stay tuned!

Dr Lee

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"To Be Continued..." Chapter 8 Part II Launched!

New Budding Poets of YWPS!

"To Be Continued..." Chapter 8 Part I Launched!

Congratulations to our LCM Speech Festival Awardees!

"To Be Continued..." Chapter 7 Launched!

Speech Festival Solo Winners' Series Launched

Poetry — "English Time" Episode 4

"To Be Continued..." Chapter 6 Launched!

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