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CONTENTFEBRUARY 2015

Arts & lAnguAges 36-39 Art Chinese Studies Music

sport 40-41eXtrAs 42-43 Cooking Club Gardening Club

SENiOrHIgHlIgHts 44-52 Head of Senior School Student Leadership Blood Brothers History Maths Economics Business Studies English Sixth Form Year 7 Optimal Learning Science Geography Art

Arts & lAnguAges 53-55 Modern Foreign Languages Music Global Citizenship Design Technology Drama

sport 56-58eXtrAs 59 Model United Nations 2014 Table Tennis HKAYP

WHOLE SCHOOLPRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE 4Kellett neWs 5-9 Congratulations Welcome to Our New Staff Staff Leavers Annual Fund

HIgHlIgHts 10-13 What are Kellett Students Reading? Kellett Cares Orchestra, Carols by Candlelight,

Prep Christmas shows & Christmas Parties

FeAture 14-15 Performing Arts at Kellett School

PrEParaTOryPreP Across the school 16-17 Preparatory French ICT Year 6 Transition Day

Pok Fu lAm HIgHlIgHts 18-22 Head of Preparatory School School Council Reception to Year 6

Arts & lAnguAges 23-26 Music Art Chinese Studies

eXtrAs 27 Nick Cope Comes to Pok Fu Lam Pok Fu Lam Choral Concert

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HIgHlIgHts 30-34 Head of Preparatory School School Council Reception to Year 6

For ten years Dweck’s team studied the effect of praise on students in a dozen New York Schools. Their research tested the response when a child was praised for their intelligence versus effort. The outcomes of the study were dramatic and, initially, even took the research teams by surprise.

Students praised for their effort proved more tenacious, were more willing to have a go and struggle with a problem in order to seek a resolution. As the research developed, both sets of students were presented with a test designed for students two years above their grade level. Predictably all the students failed. Those praised for their effort remained upbeat and assumed they had just not worked hard enough at seeking a solution and sought to continue. Those praised for their intelligence assumed that their failure was because they weren’t smart at all. Dweck wrote, “Just watching them, you could see the strain. They were sweating and miserable.”

Recently Clarissa Farr (High Mistress of St Paul’s Girls School — a highly selective and respected London day school) addressed a workshop at the Girls’ Schools Association where she described experiencing a growing fear of student failure amongst parents in London independent schools;

“Parents have very high aspirations — they have a kind of ticking, frenetic anxiety — even the ones who are delightful to deal with are on edge because they haven’t really got enough time to have the conversation they’re trying to have with you.”

“Anything that might result in success not happening for their son or daughter, in however small an arena, they’re very frightened of.”

“Such “snowplough” parents cleared all obstacles from their children’s path and tried to boost their self-esteem at all costs,” Mrs Farr added.

“Their children were left over-protected and unable to cope with failure. “ (The Times Newspaper; 29 November 2014)

So what are the lessons to be learned from Dweck and Farr for Kellett students?

I believe they are relatively straight forward. In common with many, my twin great nephews at age three were great tower builders. Armed with a box of wooden blocks they each built tower after tower, only for it to reach a point where it tumbled to the ground. Yet, they never gave up and eventually they built towers so tall they ran out of bricks. Having achieved their objective they moved on to the sandpit.

It is important that the enormous appetite to discover and the total lack of the concept of failure inherent in young children is nurtured and preserved throughout adolescence and into further education. To get something wrong is not failure, it is the opportunity to reassess, approach a problem from another angle and, perhaps of the greatest importance, to extend learning. The process builds tenacity, resilience, confidence and a sense of empowerment. To work collaboratively is even more powerful. It is the process that Dr John Edwards first described as struggling out of the Learning Pit.

It is perhaps worth reflecting upon that Steve Jobs commented, had he not been fired from Apple and subsequently developed NeXT and Pixar before returning to the company he cofounded the iMac, ipod, iphone and ipad may not have been invented.

Ann Mc Donald Principal

Ref: Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential: Carol Dweck: 2008 Randon House

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The Inverse Power of Praise

The work of the American Stanford Research Psychologist Carol Dweck is taking UK education by storm. Not only her research relating to Growth Mindsets, shared with parents by Mr Giddings at the beginning of the school year, but also her work relating to the dangers of mispraising.

• Joanne Chan – Masters of Science in Professional Accounting and Corporate Governance

• Sam Lui – Bachelor of Arts in Business Management

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Thank you to everyone in the Kellett Community who participated in our third Annual Fund. Since we launched the Annual Fund in 2012, our community has grown significantly as we have expanded and spread across two campuses, on both sides of the harbour. What remains is the overwhelming support of our community, in all aspects of the school, and in particular to our Annual Fund.

To date our community participation rate sits at 30%. This figure is slightly higher than it was at the same time last year, and continues to increase. Although the active campaign period has ended, donations will still be accepted until the end of the academic year.

Thanks to the wonderful support, we have been able to fully fund the first three priorities, Academic Enhancement, Student Leadership and Music & the Arts. Our fourth priority, Sports, has received 50% of its funding and subsequent donations are being directed to this priority.

The Annual Fund always strives to address enhancements for the whole school with a balance of gain for students across both Prep Schools and the Senior School. The priorities for this year’s Annual Fund do just that, and there are some exciting projects coming up.

Projects under Priority 1, Academic Enhancement include;• A mathematician in residence• Mandarin Curriculum Enhancement• The Get Real Theatre Company• Prep school gardens• BookFlix• A filmmaker in residence• Kellett’s own Weather Station• Digital Literacy Residence

Priority 2 see’s the return of our ever popular Guest Speaker programme whilst Priority 3 sees an Artist in Residence, a course for students in iPad art and a number of musical instruments for the whole school orchestra, including trombones, double basses, oboes, and cellos which are already on order.

Thanks to the early support of the Annual Fund, a number of these projects have already started. Our Year 9 students have worked with the Get Real Theatre Company and will again work with them on the introduction of their text for English Literature, bringing them a new angle for contextualizing Shakespeare.

The Senior school Mandarin students worked with the band “Transition” to create their own songs in Mandarin. The band are English but sing in Mandarin and have been touring China for the past few years.

The filmmaker in residence is due to get underway at the end of January, and will work with students from Reception up and BookFlix (for Reception and Year 1) has been installed and the library staff are currently being trained on how to use it.

None of these projects would be possible without the generous support of the Kellett Community and it is because of this support that we are able to enhance educational and personal excellence amongst all of our students and further encourage them to build a love of learning and confidence for life.

As we enter the New Year, funds will be spent to further this enhancement and reports on projects will be published in the eBulletin.

Thank you again to all those who have contributed and we look forward to sharing more exciting developments as the academic year continues.

Fund total to date: HK$1,939,935Current Participation Rate: 30%

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Top 10 titles Dear Scarlett – Fleur Hitchcock*Wonder – R.J.PalacioRump – The True Story Of Rumpelstiltskin – Liesl Shurtliff*The One and Only Ivan – Katherine Applegate*Horrid Henry and The Mega-Mean Time Machine – Francesca SimonHorrid Henry’s Haunted House – Francesca SimonThe Magic Finger – Roald DahlRules – Cynthia Lord*Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald DahlWolf Brother – Michelle Paver*

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senIorThe influence of movie culture on the choice of books is evident in the Senior Library with the top three books (excluding Battle of the Books titles) all having movie adaptations:

Top 3 (excluding Battle of the Books)1. The Fault In Our Stars – John Green2. Divergent – Veronica Roth3. The Maze Runner – James Dashner

Top 3 (including Battle of the Books titles)1. The Fault In Our Stars – John Green2. Genesis – Bernard Beckett*3. The Weight of Water – Sarah Crossan*

Other popular authors borrowed during the Autumn term include the ever popular – Robert Muchamore, and Anthony Horowitz; authors with movie adaptations – Suzanne Collins and Pittacus Lore; and finally Sophie McKenzie (author of the Medusa Project series).

Top 10 titles (excluding Battle of the Books)Wonder – R.J.PalacioHorrid Henry and The Mega-Mean Time Machine – Francesca SimonHorrid Henry’s Haunted House – Francesca SimonThe Magic Minger – Roald DahlCharlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald DahlHorrid Henry’s Underpants – Francesca SimonGeorge’s Marvelous Medicine – Roald DahlDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Third wheel – Jeff KinneyDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard luck – Jeff KinneyDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Ugly truth – Jeff Kinney

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Over 26,000 books and resources were lent to students last term in our 3 libraries.1

PreParaTory lIbrarIesOur list of top books reflect the power of our Battle of the Books extra-curricular club to encourage the students to broaden their reading habits, as well as the enduring popularity of the likes of Horrid Henry, Wimpy Kid, and the classics of Roald Dahl.

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KELLETT DragON NEWSLETTEr ISSUE ELEVEN FEBRUARY 2015

Last term was busy and productive for Kellett Cares across both campuses. The pizza sales were more successful than ever, and particular thanks must go to Faust/Kidsfest who generously funded the cost of the pizzas at Kowloon Bay.

Years 5 and 6, with the help of the Art Department, created fabulous wrapping paper, Christmas cards, and Christmas candy canes, all of which sold like hot cakes. Reception made wonderful tea towels, and a new initiative, ‘Coins for a Cause’, was launched. The children really enjoyed bringing small change into class and watching the jars fill up. An inaugural Bake Sale was held at Carols by Candlelight, which was a huge success. Thanks as always must go to the fantastic team of volunteers at both Kowloon Bay and Pok Fu Lam, without whom none of this would be possible.

WHere To Go To GeT GreaT reCoMMendaTIonsNeed help in encouraging your child to break away from Horrid Henry, or Robert Muchamore?Visit our iLearn page “What to read next” for lots of ideas.In particular we suggest these sites for recommendations, lists and reviews:

http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/http://www.carouselreviews.blogspot.co.uk/http://www.booktrust.org.uk/#/d/books/bookfinder/http://www.hkgoldendragonawards.org/http://www.readingmatters.co.uk/https://sites.google.com/site/parentalbookreviews/home (aimed at parents of teenagers)https://www.commonsensemedia.org/reviews/category/book

Hunter, erinClare, CassandraWalliams, davidroth, Veronica

flint, shaminiChild, lauren

Wilson, JacquelineGrant, Michael

ebook PlaTforMOver 140 books were downloaded from our eBook platform in the Autumn term, with the most popular authors being;

Horowitz, anthonyfrench, Jackielandy, derek

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Morphew, ChrisMorpurgo, Michael

Webb, Holly

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The Christmas season kicks off with the Year 4 panto – oh yes it does! The teachers spend a lot of time “Kellett – ifying” a traditional script, and the class parents work on getting over 100 costumes ready between the two campuses. There have been some very talented and generous parents involved in all shows over the years and our former theatre technician, with West End experience, commented that many a small theatre company would envy our costume wardrobe – not to mention Humphrey, our life-size camel, with cameo roles in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” and “Aladdin” after being kindly donated by a parent.

Those first tenuous steps as an elf or a reindeer in a Reception Christmas show may be the beginning of a long and fruitful journey to playing a Pink Lady in “Grease” or one of the eponymous “Blood Brothers” in a senior school production, stopping off en route to be an Ugly Sister, Robin Hood or Sherlock Holmes.

How does this all happen? In the Preparatory Schools, everyone will take part in their class assembly, giving them a small taste of life on stage. These are often curriculum related, based on what the class is studying at the time, or calendar related, such as Chinese New Year or Halloween shows. One teacher confesses that it’s quite intimidating when you first see the standard of Kellett assemblies and wonder if you can match it! Often the children’s work is incorporated into the assembly, or they even write the script themselves, as with some of Mr. Lovell’s West End calibre assemblies. Emily Peters, who appeared in 5ML’s Watership Down assembly recently, says “Half way through my tour two years ago, I was so amazed by the facilities, I wanted to join Kellett as soon as possible.”

Alongside this, sometime around October, Christmas starts looming – as one anonymous staff member said, “I’ve worked in a lot of places, but no one does Christmas like Kellett!” Whilst we try to be traditional, it’s important that families with several children don’t feel like they’re watching the same show (or costumes!) every year – whether we use or tweak an existing script, or write something new, there are always Hong Kong references and some current music, along with the well-roasted chestnuts like Rockin’ Robin. In 2012, it seemed every show had a Gangnam dance – from Reindeer Style to the seven dwarves and their “Vertically Challenged Style”.

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Barely is the panto “behind you” when the Reception and Year 1 and 2 shows are gearing up, with snowmen and shepherds sharing the stage, whilst the senior school students are deep into rehearsals for their big show. We may never have another laser car that almost stole the show in “Grease”, but as you’ll read elsewhere in this issue, the recent “Blood Brothers” was a truly stunning performance.

The other big event of the prep school year is the musical – like the senior show, always a tricky decision, choosing a script that will accommodate actors, dancers and singers, with a flexible number of parts large and small. With rehearsals after school and some weekends, this, again like the senior school show, is a major commitment requiring dedication as well as talent. And like the senior show, it’s great fun to be part of! The 2015 shows will be in the smaller theatres at each campus – “The Little Mermaid Jr.” at Pok Fu Lam and “Aladdin Jr.” at Kowloon Bay. In future years, you may see the same children treading the boards in more adult roles at senior school.

There are many other opportunities for would-be performers at Kellett – but it’s not a competitive sport! For the serious older thespians, drama is offered all the way to A-level, with performance exams, workshops and theatre outings. We also have choirs and orchestras in each school, with choral and instrumental evenings showcasing their talents, reaching a crescendo with the Musical Evening in June.

With the beautiful new theatre at Kowloon Bay, inaugurated last year with “Joseph”, we have a perfect venue to make our big productions look even more professional. Book early to avoid disappointment!

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PreParatory French

The new school year started positively for students studying French and moved towards a very festive culmination in which they made Christmas decorations which allowed them to practise their vocabulary and recognised a term of hard work and great effort.

Year 3 have begun their French careers with much energy and enthusiasm. They have learnt how to greet people and count to 20. In Pok Fu Lam, students made French puppets to practice their conversations. They had a few creative lessons learning their colours Kowloon Bay students studied some Matisse artwork, which concluded with the creation of their own masterpieces in this artist’s style. Both campuses then used this knowledge to learn and discuss clothes and their colours.

Year 4 spent time studying food, working hard to develop their vocabulary and provide opinions on different foods and drinks available. They used their language skills during our French breakfast, where they asked for different foods and explained why they liked them. They progressed to learning about quantities and presenting role-plays based on shopping at the market, which were much enjoyed by all!

Year 5 began the school year by learning how to describe themselves and others using hair and eye colour. They moved on to learning about transport and offering opinions about the positive and negative aspects of each type of transport. They have now begun to learn the different rooms found within the home, in order to describe where they live and this will continue in term 2.

Year 6 is bringing together language learnt over their time at Kellett School. They have been re-using previously learnt language in different contexts whilst bringing in new concepts to help develop their grammar. They have been able to describe the area in which they live, provide opinions about Hong Kong as well as describe the location of places in town. They also described their own house and bedroom as well as their ideal home.

Well done to all on a great term’s work!

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Learning TechnoLogiesIn January 2012, the then UK Education Secretary, Michael Gove, gave a major policy speech on the then titled ICT in Schools in which he derided teachers for boring their students with Microsoft Word and Excel and urged them instead to teach them the rudiments of computer programming with “an MIT tool called Scratch.”

Thank-you Mr. Gove, but students at Kellett have been using Scratch since it was created in 2007.

Scratch has been through some exciting changes in the last year or so. Users can now access the software within a browser and it’s still completely free to use. Accounts can be created simply and work is saved automatically as changes are made. Scratch allows users to create event driven programming with multiple active objects called “sprites”. Sprites can be drawn in a simple editor that is part of the Scratch interface, or can be imported from external sources, including webcams.

By being very visual in the way it presents programming ideas, Scratch provides an ideal stepping stone to more advanced languages. It’s low-floor, high-ceiling access means that it’s

easy for young users to quickly create interesting and varied projects and animations and the Constructivist principles that underlie the platform means that students are far from bored!

During the past half-term all Year 3, 5 and 6 students have been working in Scratch on a variety of projects (Year 4 get their chance later in the year), from animating their names, to investigating the rotation of 2D shapes, to remixing and editing computer games. Many students have spent their own time accessing Scratch at home and now have active accounts where they can continue experimenting and learning.

The basics of controlling on-screen movements have been mastered and many students have gone on to look for more complex programming ideas such as iteration & recursion, remixing and debugging. These ideas, learnt within a framework of “hard fun” will hopefully encourage students to explore programming in greater depths in the future.

Preparation for life in Senior School is a big part of Year 6. Our first transition day took place in November and brought together students from both campuses to participate in a range of activities on the Senior campus. This was a perfect opportunity to explain some key elements of Senior School, whilst giving pupils the chance to have any early questions they may have answered. In DT, students learnt about the key equipment used in the workshops and designed and made their very own spinning tops. Art saw students using software on the ipads to design a stop motion video. The students were challenged to tell a story through film - using only stationary as props! Students also enjoyed applying their musical skills and learnt how to play “Drunken Sailor” on the keyboard. Year 6 returned from their day feeling energized and excited about the many exciting opportunities which lie ahead in Senior School!

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supervised by the adults in the classroom, meaning this space can be used for high quality learning activities that would otherwise have to be planned for at a different time.

The new design has been well received by teachers, students and parents. The feeling of light and spaces is often commented on and a walk around the building also gives us all a great view of the excellent levels of learning occurring in those rooms.

For my full overview of the project visit kellettch.blogspot.hk

Ciaran Harrington Head of Preparatory School, Pok Fu Lam

The Ocean Wing also received new air conditioning which was relocated to the centre of the building, new windows and some classroom remodeling including the creation of some additional learning rooms for the campus. The project was documented on my blog for those of you who wish to see the full renovation from beginning to end.

Of course a redecoration and refit makes the campus more attractive, but in addition to the additional learning spaces created, the design of the Ocean Wing classrooms for Years 1 to 3 was very much based around increasing opportunities for learning in school.

Following the concept of the transparent classrooms built into the design at Kowloon Bay, we had an excellent opportunity to re work our doors and windows internally, replacing the traditional wooden door and strip of window at the top of the wall with a large glass door and adjacent glass panel to create a glass wall across half of the classroom.

There are many benefits to creating classrooms this way. Firstly, the feeling of space that is now evident in these rooms. Hong Kong classrooms can be smaller than those in other parts of the world. Space is at a premium here, and this is reflected in the smaller spaces we have at Pok Fu Lam. The glass door and panel bring the corridor space into the classroom domain and give an overall feeling of space within those rooms.

The natural light that now flows through the school from one side to the other also brings benefits. Research suggests that natural light increases student concentration and productivity, leading to higher academic performance. In addition there is less need for artificial light, thus saving electricity, which is a huge benefit from both a sustainability and running cost perspective.

Lastly, the transparency gives opportunity for our corridors to be used as informal learning spaces. The visibility that teachers have mean that small groups of students can use the space immediately outside the classroom to undertake a piece of work that may need them to be isolated from the rest of the class; photography or video work for example. The students are still being directly

Pok Fu Lam Facelift

Summer 2014 saw a major renovation of the Pok Fu Lam campus, internally and externally. Every classroom was refitted with new floor covering, interactive whiteboards, Wi-fi, tables, chairs and a full redecoration.

We have had a great start to our School Council meetings this year. As always we have extremely enthusiastic and determined Class Representatives. We have been very lucky to have the addition of our two sixth formers, Deputy Head Boy and Girl, Cameron Taylor and Rebecca Lim, who have been over to our Pok Fu Lam campus twice this term.

We had a fantastic whole school assembly where all of our class reps were introduced and proudly wore their badges. Cameron and Rebecca attended this and gave the Reception children their Kellett dragons.

Thanks to last year’s “Just Dance” fund raiser, the garden is looking much brighter and more cheerful with

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The Reception children had the most amazing Christmas Craft Day this year. It was lovely to see so many parents in school, helping the children to learn and having great fun. It was a very festive event, full of glitter, sparkles and laughter. The end results were amazing and our classrooms felt full of Christmas Spirit by the end of the day. The preparation that goes in to an event like this is huge, so a massive thank you to the teaching assistants and our class parents.

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the addition of under the sea themed chalkboards, leaf shaped mirrors and colourful bunting. We have two new Mega Connect Fours and many children throughout the school have volunteered to help teach their fellow peers how to play and supervise the games at lunch and play times. There are more games and toys waiting to go into the garden once we have appropriate storage for them.

Charlie Henderson has successfully chaired his first meeting. There have been lots of ideas voiced already and we will be discussing these further this term.

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Year 2 have had a very busy and rewarding term. Our topics have been ‘Habitats’, ‘May the Force Be with You’ and ‘Toy Story’.

In October we went, ‘On The Buffalo Trail’ in Lantau. There the children looked at fresh water, salt water and beach habitats. It was very informative and successful except for Billy the cow who decided to sneak into Jemima Gore’s bag and eat her sandwich. Apart from that incident the children certainly became more knowledgeable about local habitats.

Whilst studying our Forces topic the children for the first time were introduced to fair testing methods and more formal science reports. The children had lots of

Throughout term one, we have enjoyed lots of exciting learning within our two topics: ‘Super Me’ and ‘Our Hong Kong’. During the topic, ‘Super Me’, we thought carefully about what makes us super, as individuals, and what makes our peers super. We also learned how we are similar and different, as well as developing our knowledge of the human body. Mr Bones, the Kellett Skeleton, taught us all about the role of bones, joints and muscles. We also learned about our different senses and how we use these in our lives, all in all ‘Super Me’ was a really interesting topic that the students thoroughly enjoyed! As part of the topic, ‘Our Hong Kong’, we visited different places around the city and learned about the different ways

In the picture above our intrepid

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fun experimenting with toy cars going down a variety of slopes and learnt an awful lot about forces.

Whilst learning about toys from the past as part of our Toy Story topic, the children and staff in Year 2 dressed up in old fashioned outfits for the day and played with toys from the past.

A finale for the end of term was the Year 2 production of Baubles. The storyline, singing, dancing, acting and costumes were superb.

that land is used. We also learned about how Hong Kong has changed from the past to the present and we thought about ways that Hong Kong might change in the future. We even developed our Literacy skills when writing a recount of our exciting trip. This has been a very enjoyable and interesting term for everybody in Year 1!

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Our Greek themed day this term was a fantastic way to kick off the Ancient Greece topic and included classroom based activities, Greek snacks and dancing. The food tasting was a particular success, with not a scrap of food being left - much to the annoyance of Mr.Hulbert! The costumes worn by students and teachers (as well as some parents!) were very authentic…certainly a fun experience was had by all!

This year, we performed ‘Aladdin Trouble’ for our pantomime, which signalled the very early start of the festive season - as Mr. Harrington commented after the show,

“Christmas has certainly landed at Pok Fu Lam!” The children really did do an excellent job and it is such a credit to them all that at such a relatively young age, they learned so many lines, for both speaking parts and songs, along with dance routines and stage cues, which they expertly combined to deliver a spectacular show. The costumes and scenery added to this wonderfully and there are so many people that we are grateful to for all of their help – we certainly could not have done it without you!

This term Year 3 have been time detectives learning all about The Great Fire of London in 1666 and life in 17th Century Britain. We have paid particular attention to the diary kept by Samuel Pepys (one of the King’s advisors) who was a crucial eye-witness to this historical event. The children took off their detective hats and replaced them with their reporters’ hats and set about writing a newspaper report about the Great Fire with a view to then broadcast a live interview with Samuel Pepys himself.

To help the children understand the best way to report into the camera, award-winning BBC news reporter and Kellett parent, Kirsten Grant, came in to give inspirational hints and tips along with a wealth of fascinating stories to set our budding journalists on their way!

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It has been a busy autumn term in Year 5. Throughout the topic of Eureka, the children delved into history and found out about some significant inventors and their inventions from the past 100 years. They even designed and presented their own inventions, Dragon’s Den style.

A homework project required the children to find out about their family history. Following on from a Remembrance Day assembly, many children chose to present to the class about the important and often eventful roles that their relatives played in the World Wars.

This term, Year 6 have embarked upon a mission to ‘Infinity and Beyond’, followed by an exciting adventure to Outward Bound.

Throughout our first topic we learnt more about the Sun, Moon and Earth, our Solar System and how Gallileo Gaillei helped us to understand more about the Universe. We became independent scientists and planned our own experiment to test how reflective different materials are. We then used our mathematical skills to record our findings and create graphs to show and compare the results.

In Literacy we discovered different fiction genres. By studying a range of genres, we were able to successfully produce our own horror, adventure and fantasy excerpts. Our teachers were thoroughly impressed by our ability to engage and interest the reader,

In Literacy, we have studied Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. Exploring characters and themes within the story provided us with the stimulus for writing across a range of genres.

Science topics of ‘Sound’ and ‘Forces’ have been covered, with both units requiring the children to plan, carry out and evaluate their own investigations.

Two classes performed their assembles last term. 5-ML followed up their study of Watership Down with their own re-telling of the classic adventure story and 5-NM scared and entertained us in equal measure with their Halloween tales.

in addition to using a variety of fantastic vocabulary. Following this, we focused on the structure and content of autobiographies and biographies. A focus on Edmund Hillary enabled us to learn more about his trek to the summit of Mount Everest. This proved to be an inspiration for finding out more about a variety of explorers and creating presentations to share with our classes.

Before the end of term we visited Outward Bound in Sai Kung. This was a great opportunity to develop our teamwork skills at the same time as becoming more independent. Outward Bound allowed us to put into practice the skills and qualities we had researched and admired in famous explorers. We enjoyed spending time with our friends from Kowloon Bay and learning new skills. This was a lovely finale to our first term in Year 6.

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It’s been a very busy term in the music department! In August we welcomed our most recent addition to the Music department – Mr O’Donnell (and his puppet friend ‘Monkey Mo’)! Then since September we’ve seen the start of many new Music ECAs, including the Clarineo Project, Infant String Project, Brass Ensemble and Flute Choir.

In October we also had the Pok Fu Lam Choral Concert, which this year also featured the string orchestra, wind orchestra and Year 1 and 2 choir for the very first time.

Here is a snapshot of some of the Reception children playing classroom percussion instruments for the first time and our Year 6 children preparing their Taiko drumming performance to open our Carols by Candlelight concert.

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Year 1 & 2How time flies when you are busy creating! We welcomed our new Year 1 students into the art studio this term and we have since got up to many exciting art projects in both Year 1 and Year 2. We have all worked on a number of different topics throughout the term, some of which have been linked to our class topics. Year 2 tackled aboriginal art as well as colour mixing investigations and Year 1 have experimented with clay, paint and have worked hard on their cutting and sticking skills.

More recently Year 1 and Year 2 have been busy getting ready for their Christmas show. We made an amazing patterned Hong Kong skyline with Christmas ornaments flying through the sky using a variety of different materials and focusing on cold colours to add pattern and detail to our work. We had great fun working collaboratively on this project and loved seeing our work up in the auditorium. It was a thoroughly enjoyable few weeks, full of sparkles and glittery designs that culminated in a Hong Kong winter wonderland! We are also very grateful to Reception for making such beautiful Christmas wreaths that made the auditorium complete. We look forward to more creating next term!

Year 3Year 3 have been looking at 3D shapes and in particular how to turn shapes into forms. We looked at the artist Cezanne and learnt about how he made his pictures of fruits and objects look realistic. We studied how to make an object look 3D and drew some spheres in our sketchbooks and worked on how to use shading to demonstrate the graduation of light to dark shading across an object, allowing it to become a solid shape. The children later drew their own sphere based pictures in the style of solar systems and we had a great time arranging the different planets into a composition. The finished results were really pleasing to see, and the children showed great progression in their drawing skills. Our Christmas clay robins were a much enjoyed sculpture project, with our finished results adorning the school Christmas tree in the dragon’s den. Well done Year 3!

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Year 4Year 4 has been mastering the skills of Ancient Greek artwork this term. We looked at theatre masks and made our own designs out of mod roc. We also studied the art of mosaics and created our own using the Greek alphabet for inspiration. Everyone in Year 4 designed their own tiled pattern and grouted different coloured tiles into position. We used a variety of tiles to ensure a decorative effect and we were careful to leave a small gap between each one. It was great to see all of our work around school, and we were very proud to have some up on display in Mr Harrington’s office! We are excited to start our new topics next term and we have really enjoyed learning about simple one point perspective as well as making magical Christmas bauble 3D paintings. Well done Year 4!

Year 5The study of portraiture has been tackled over the course of the term and in Year 5 we looked at how to produce a continuous line portrait with the relevant features of the face placed in the correct place. We experimented with hot and cold colours and divided parts of our portraits into sections. This was keeping in the style of our artist in residence Sarah Fordham who visited Kellett in 2011. The final portraits were very colourful, bold pictures that showed careful application of paint and pattern in keeping with the style of the artist. We later saw the children work on their Christmas card designs for Kellett Cares, which was a sewn Christmas felt ornament inspired group composition. The children worked very hard producing individual felt pieces which we later stitched ribbon to, creating our own hanging decorations.

Year 6Our artistic leaders of the prep school have been making all sorts of fantastic pieces of work this term. Form printed rocket paintings, to acetate portrait designs to wonderful winter birch tree paintings, we really have been trying our hardest to perfect our art skills and have really been honing in on individual processes and techniques. Our Robert Frost inspired birch tree paintings were wonderful to view when finished and we enjoyed adding on the markings with liquid paint as well as experimenting with water colours for the background.

The children thoroughly enjoyed producing wrapping paper for the annual sale for Kellett Cares. The theme this year was festive words and the children worked very hard in producing their own individual designs that looked extremely elegant when all placed alongside one another. Well done Year 6!

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chinese studies

Year 4 William learnt Chinese characters through drawing and symbols. Often with a made-up story, to help him memorise the characters.

Hok SHan ScHool Our joint schools reading activities with a local school began with our Year 4 students visiting Hok Shan School in December where Kellett students were read to in Chinese by their students. This activity provided our students with a good basis for social interaction within the local community and a safe environment to practice their language skills. Students enjoyed themselves tremendously and talked about the event excitedly.

Year 5 eSSaY writing on ScHool and SubjectYear 5 students often enjoyed writing essays by applying what they have learned.

Year 6 tHe end product of project workYear 6 students worked as a team to research on the weather of each season of a city of their choice. They then typed them up for their portfolio.

reception – lion danceLion dance came early this year for Reception as they began their exciting topic on Lions. What a way to start the topic with a lion dance from the Chinese Studies department!

Year 1When learning the Number unit, Year 1 students had lots of fun playing Bingo games using their listening, reading and writing skills.

Year 6 Year 6 students were busy getting the ‘Seasons and weather’ project ready for presentation. They worked collaboratively as a team through google docs.

Mooncake Making During Mid-Autumn festival, besides watching videos and listening to the legendary stories associated with the festival, they also hand-made rabbits, lanterns, fans with Tang dynasty poem and the delicious moon cakes.

Year 5 Veronica and Jasmine were trying out GoAnimate, an online resource that allows students to create cartoon animation with Chinese voice over or typed characters to consolidate and enhance their learning of Chinese. This resource was purchased from the generous donations to the recent Annual Fund.

Year 2 Year 2 students had a great time rapping, singing and dancing to help their speaking skills.

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On Friday 28 November, Year 1, 2 and 3 had a particularly special treat when the famous children’s songwriter Nick Cope came to Pok Fu Lam to put on a special concert for the children. It’s fair to say that all the children (and the adults) who watched Nick perform had an absolutely fantastic time singing along with all the actions and energy that he brings!

On the 16 October all three choirs performed at this year’s Pok Fu Lam Choral Concert. This was not only the first time that the Year 3 and 4 choir and Year 5 and 6 choir had performed together, but we also heard the brand new Year 1 and 2 choir, as well as pieces by the string orchestra, wind orchestra and Jake and Tomas on the recorder. In total over 160 children were involved in this concert.

All the performers did exceptionally well and demonstrated energetic and committed playing and singing, which the audience thoroughly enjoyed. The children worked especially hard to achieve this high level of playing early in the year as they had to cope with cancelled rehearsals due to typhoons and protests!

The comperes, Jack, Eva, Georgina and Brij also did a fantastic job of keeping the audience entertained and informed throughout the evening.

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Term One has seen a busy start to the academic year in PE.

Our Key Stage 1 students have worked extremely hard in lessons to improve their ball skills with a focus on football and basketball and the development of small sided games. In Key Stage 2 we started the year with a unit of fitness which involved baseline testing for our Year 5s and 6s and a focus on the different aspects of fitness for our Year 3’s and 4’s. Lots of theory work regarding muscles and the skeletal system alongside the practical components enhanced the students learning even further.

Our athletics unit throughout the term ensured that we were raring to go and well prepared for our sports day in November.

Year 6 have embarked on the Playmaker award, they are learning about leadership and communication skills and beginning to think about planning basic sport and activity lessons that they will be delivering to some of the younger children in the new year. The Playmaker award was made possible by the generous support of the 2013-14 Annual Fund.

FooTbaLL newsThe boys’ and girls’ football teams have been training hard this season, with weekly training at the Hong Kong Football Club and Happy Valley pitches. With 60 boys and approximately 20 girls training it has been great to watch all the students improve their skills and their game play.

The Year 3 & 4 boys enjoyed a trip to Harrow International School, where they enjoyed an afternoon of friendly matches. Unfortunately, the return visit with Harrow coming to the Valley had to be postponed due to transportation issues. The Year 5 and 6 boys have been participating weekly in friendly matches against Glenealy School at the Hong Kong Football Club. The boys have participated in various competitions throughout the term and worked extremely hard getting some great results along the way.

The girls have also been training hard and improving on a weekly basis. They participated in the ICHK Girls tournament and went from strength to strength.

sPorTs DaYsThe Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 classes worked well in their groups completing the various sports and activities. Lots of wonderful attempts at throwing and jumping!

Year 3 and 4 Sports Day had a more competitive edge with children working in teams in their classes and scoring points at each event. Particular favourites were the 100m sprints and the long jump!

Year 5 and 6 Sports Day saw the second year of the new format, with Pok Fu Lam and Kowloon Bay coming together. Excellent sportsmanship and teamwork was present on the day. It was great to see people supporting each other and sharing in each other’s successes. Well done to all those involved.

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Year 5 boys2nd James Han 3rd Johnathon Aagaard

Year 5 girls 1st Jacky Moorrees

Year 6 boys 1st Finn Bremner 2nd Ben Edwards

Year 6 girls 3rd Pia Walker

cross counTrY newsFriday morning has seen 65 children running frantically down at Stanley Ho. The energetic bunch have been pushing themselves with lots of enthusiasm. We have introduced the club for Year 3s this term and have had a great response with some very impressive performances!

We enjoyed a Cross Country meet at Chinese International School which also involved our fellow runners from Kowloon Bay. Some results from the event:

neTbaLL newsThe netball girls have gone from strength to strength. We have had a great group of girls training hard on Mondays and playing Wednesday matches.

We have had lots of matches against other schools including FIS, CDNIS, Bradbury, GSIS and Glenealy. Both teams entered into the pre-season tournament did an excellent job and were unlucky not to take the top spots. At the Island School tournament in November, the girls finished in 3rd place, missing out on 2nd by only one goal! The Kellett Annual mixed tournament was an excellent event with 10 other International Schools competing for the Kellett Trophy which dates back to 1998! The team finished off an impressive 2nd in their pool and went on to play Glenealy in the semi-finals. Unfortunately the goals went against us but we were raring to go to try to win bronze in the 3rd/4th place play off, where we played against Clearwater Bay and gained a comfortable victory. A great team performance!

KeLLeTT saTurDaY soccerAlmost 60 children, from Year 1 to Year 6 and evenly split between boys and girls, have been participating in “Saturday Soccer”. This continues the long tradition of Kellett providing a relatively informal setting for the children to learn and enjoy the game.

Our Under 9 team took part in the 2014 Operation Santa Claus Junior Soccer Tournament on 30 November. Amid the intensity of often back-to-back games, the team came back from a heavy defeat at the hands of the eventual winners of the Cup competition HKFC 1 to secure two draws and lastly a victory against HKFC 3, before narrowly losing the semi-final of the Bowl competition to Tai Tam.

Parents and siblings offered much encouragement from the touchline, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Many thanks again for the support of the coaches and other parents who make Saturday Soccer so fun and rewarding for all involved.The Saturday Soccer season will restart in early February. Marcus Woodger (Kellett Parent)

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HIGHLIGHTS - KOWLOON BAY

At Kellett School we employ over 45 Teaching Assistants across the three schools, with 18 of those based at Kowloon Bay Prep. The roles they take are varied and include supporting our prep classes as well as being assigned to specific subject areas such as art, music, IT and languages.

In essence, a Teaching Assistant is an invaluable extra set of eyes and ears for the teacher and an extra set of hands to keep up with the demands of a busy curriculum. Their role is varied to say the least; each day is a combination of playground supervision, administrative support and most importantly, support for groups or individual students with their learning.

For a Teaching Assistant, the variety is endless and in any week could include accompanying an outing, working with a small group on a learning objective, mounting a display, helping at a rehearsal, gathering the items for a science experiment, marking a spelling test or leading a cooking session. Our Teaching Assistants are nothing less than adaptable!

Realising the potential of our students goes hand in hand with realising the potential of our Teaching Assistants. We run regular training during the year to support them and enhance their skills. Our school couldn’t run without the commitment, versatility, talent and passion of this group of staff. Every teacher knows that a talented Teaching Assistant is worth their weight in gold!

Jo LauferHead of Preparatory School, Kowloon Bay

Teaching Assistants

Teaching Assistants have sometimes been referred to in the press as the ‘unsung heroes’ of education. Given that they make up more than 25% of the workforce in schools, it is surprising that the contribution they make to the academic attainment and social and emotional development of students does not attract greater recognition.

The first term in Reception is always a particularly special one as we welcome a brand new cohort of students into their classes and a number of new families into the Kellett community. Once strangers, now friends, time has passed swiftly and our children are well settled. Their progress has been marked with a huge development in their motor skills, creative language and ability to learn with others. We are stronger for the challenges we have faced and overcome together and can look back with real pride upon all that has been accomplished.

It therefore seems timely to offer our warm and sincere thanks to each member of our burgeoning community. Staff, students and parents alike have bonded quickly to form supportive and mutually respectful relationships that have, in turn, helped to ensure an increasingly refined interpretation of our curriculum. The proliferation of regular opportunities to share and learn together has exemplified the clear and mutual benefits. From information evenings to seasonal celebrations, cooking groups and class performances, we feel enormously privileged to share our path with such a wonderful group and are very much looking forward to further growth next term.

Kowloon Bay Prep School Council has got off to a flying start! We were quickly up and running with our newly elected representatives from each of our classes, who have all held class meetings gathering ideas from their peers. We are starting to think of different ways we can make our school council more visible and a great opportunity arose towards the end of last term. Kellett Cares asked us for their help to come up with some ideas of food and gifts to sell at Carols By Candlelight. We gathered ideas from our classes, decided on the most popular, calculated amounts we would need and wrote emails to class parents asking for their help. We then helped to sell the food and gifts on the night! Please let us know if you need the help of the School Council - we are up for the challenge! This term we will be thinking about events we could hold to try and raise money to buy two friendship benches as requested by the children. Any ideas are welcome; please let our School Representatives know.

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Crossing the threshold between Reception and Year 1 can prove a daunting experience. In recognition of this, careful consideration and close collaboration as to the initial experiences of our younger students is imperative as we hope to deliver a reasonably seamless journey – we have been thrilled by the response of our current group.

Our first unit, entitled ‘Super Me’, supported this transition directly, encouraging students to consider key aspects of their own life and make comparisons to the lives of those around them. It was indeed initiated towards the end of their Reception year. Highlighting and celebrating the significant growth and development already experienced by our students, it provided the foundations for a shared understanding of the considerable expectations we continue to hold.

Moving beyond our own personal experiences and interests, we have since begun to explore the history of Hong Kong in recognition that places are just as prone to change as people! We have made initial observations and taken great inspiration from the continual evolution of our surroundings, reflecting as they do our own continued growth. Change is afoot and with the end of term now complete, we can reflect with great positivity upon the progress we have made together.

WHERE IN THE WORLDWe started our year with a journey around the world! The children shared tales from their travels and their past and we collected information about where we had all lived using ICT. We learnt about the continents of the world and studied maps of all kinds and then focused on different climates whereby the students created an amazing array of their own climate boxes! The children then researched and wrote about penguins and made incredible information texts about them.

To end the term, we planted our own seeds to investigate what was needed for them to grow best. This was the students’ first science experiment that they had written up properly, everyone really enjoyed themselves especially as we could even eat the results at the end of it!

TOY STORYAfter half term, we started our study of toys with a visitor. She told us about toys from the past and we also looked at the toys we played with in the past. The children loved seeing photos of each other as babies with our favourite toys! We learnt about how toys have changed and used timelines to order different toys. In science, we thought about how toys move and how forces work together.

We also learnt about traditional Chinese tales and recreated our own versions of them. To help us tell our stories, we used the characters from the traditional tales to design and make our own puppets learning lots of new stitches in their creation!

VISITING WATER BUFFALOAs part of our study of habitats, we travelled to the wet marshlands on Lantau Island. The children loved seeing the water buffalo, egrets, fish and other wildlife. It was great fun bird watching (and classifying), crab spotting and fishing in the river. We learnt about habitats and how animals and plants all fit together as well as having a great time too!

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TImE DETEcTIVESThis term, Year 3 travelled back in time to explore significant events of the 17th Century. Brushing up on their timeline skills, they zoomed back nearly 400 years to gain a better understanding of what life was like at this time. Detectives used a range of skills to find out the who, what, when, where and why of key events. Piecing together evidence and becoming keen reporters.

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From Kellett Dragon’s disappearance to investigating a diary and buried precious items from the Great Fire of London, detectives were constantly kept on the case. Later work required them to try out some crazy cures and remedies for a serious disease called The Plague and even show off their fine research skills by preparing digital projects about The English Civil War, the building of the Taj Mahal and even the Gun Powder Plot. This term’s work was topped off by two historical class assemblies, all about the Great Fire of London and Remembrance Day.

If you are ever in need of a Time Detective to solve a mystery, you can call on Year 3 at Kowloon Bay!

This term, Year 4 have enjoyed learning through the topic, “Let the Games Begin”. We have explored how Ancient Greece was the birthplace of Western civilization and have enjoyed finding many links between our lives today and the lives of the Greeks in the past. We were amazed to discover that Western society has borrowed many ideas from the Greeks, including a variety of inventions, theatre design and architectural features. We even spotted some buildings in Hong Kong, which look very Greek like!

To capture the children’s interest at the beginning of term, we held an Ancient Greek day where we explored Greek civilization. We all dressed up in Greek costume, tasted Greek food, learnt how to write our names using the Greek alphabet and created our own Greek pots. We listened to Greek music and even practiced our Greek dancing!

Year 4 got ‘PANTOTASTIC’ and produced a brilliantly entertaining version, of ‘Robin Hood’ titled ‘Robin and the Sherwood Hoodies’! We danced, we sang, we squished and we were successful in making the audience roar with laughter. The children, staff and parents worked together to create fabulous props, sets and costumes and the night was an evening to remember.

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We have had a fun filled learning experience in our first term in Year 5. Children were hard at work straight away exploring artifacts in our in-house ‘Museum of Inventions’. They enjoyed finding out about ancient inventions such as a cassette tape, floppy disc and a pager!

Before we knew it, they were preparing for their class assemblies that took place in October. One showcased our learning in literacy where we used the book Kensuke’s Kingdom as a starting point for our own stories. The other reflected our main topic this term: ‘Eureka’ where we studied inventions, old and new, researching the development of significant inventions and their impact on our every day life.

Possibly the highlight of our Eureka topic was the second annual ‘Kellett Dragon’s Den’! Children pontificated about an everyday problem, and designed their own invention with the aim to solve it. They undertook market research, wrote explanations and used many other different skills for their projects. They then braved the ‘dragons’ (Ms Laufer and Mr Keeling) and presented their final project ideas to them. Watch this space for future business entrepreneurs!

Linked to this topic we have explored the science behind changing sounds and how we hear. We have also been looking at different forces in science and enjoying experimenting with them.

We kicked off the academic year with lots of new and exciting learning experiences. Literacy lessons saw us investigating the features of different Literary Genres- from action, adventure, horror and fantasy, we covered them all! We designed our own book covers and wrote extracts and blurbs to accompany them. We then turned our heads towards non-fiction in our Biography and Autobiography unit. We produced autobiographical anecdotes about our own lives and delivered oral biographies about each other! As well as all of our writing, we had a busy start to the year preparing and performing our class assemblies, visiting the Space Dome, making rockets, as well as investigating shadows, the moon, seasons and the reasons for day and night in our “Infinity and Beyond” topic lessons! More recently,

we have enjoyed learning about different explorers as part of the “Outward Bound” unit. We’ve worked hard on our research and presentation skills to deliver an in-depth and thorough presentation to the class on a chosen explorer.

Year 6 ended the term in the style of true Outward Bounders – at camp in Sai Kung. We had the opportunity to do a range of exciting activities from hiking, to jetty jumping, camping to raft building. It was lovely to come together with our friends at Pok Fu Lam and develop our independence, resilience and teamwork skills too!

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We have made a few changes this year, with ‘Artist of the Week’ being announced every week on the blog. Follow us to see who gets a certificate and a Kellett point for excellent artistic progress at www.kellettartstudio.blogspot.hk

YEAR 1 What a lovely introduction to the art studio we have had in Year 1! We started with the work of Jasper Johns looking at layering media with our lettering work. More recently we have been busy getting ready for the Christmas shows. Traditionally at Kellett the early years’ classes all contribute to a gorgeous backdrop to play the part of the scenery in the 3 shows for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. Following introductory work on our overlapping Hong Kong collages we went large scale and made an amazing Hong Kong skyline with Christmas reindeers flying through the sky using a variety of different materials. We have finished the year with a unit on texture using both paint and collage to create gorgeous Christmas robins.

YEAR 2We have worked in several media already this year and are building on our skills and vocabulary we learned in Year 1. The students have created gorgeous collage portraits this term, we also extensively looked at the art of Kandinsky, creating versions of his dot paintings as well as a dot paintings linked to our classroom work on Aboriginal Art. We had great fun working collaboratively on the Christmas backdrop, learning the mathematical side of art to create perfect snowflakes for a fantastic Hong Kong winter wonderland! We all loved seeing our work up in the auditorium.

YEAR 3Year 3 have been looking at 3D shapes and in particular still life paintings. We studied how to make an object look 3D and drew some spheres in our sketchbooks. We also worked on how to use shading to demonstrate the graduation of light to dark across an object, allowing it to become a solid shape. The children later drew their own spheres in the style of solar systems and had a great time arranging the different planets into a composition. We also looked at the work of Picasso and created self-portraits with a difference!

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YEAR 4 The Year 4 students have been mastering the skills of Ancient Greek artwork this term. We took inspiration from the story of Medusa to explore different lines and created our portraits with crazy hair. We looked at Mosaics and created our own designs using the Greek alphabet for inspiration. Everyone in Year 4 designed their own mosaic and created it, using tile cutters and glue and grout. We later built on the work we did on gradients and shading in Year 3, drawing and painting magical Christmas bauble 3D paintings. Well done Year 4!

YEAR 5 Year 5 began the year with a look at the work of Kandinsky inspiring us to create our own paintings with line and gradients of colour in different values. We tried our hand at sculpture, creating a wire armature and building a bird from modroc, painting these in bright acrylics. We later worked on textiles for work on Christmas card designs for Kellett Cares, which was a sewn Christmas felt ornament which we put into a group composition for each class card.

YEAR 6In Year 6 we have been trying our hardest to improve our watercolour skills, really honing in on individual processes and techniques. We started by looking at the ancient traditions of illuminated lettering, and then created our gradient watercolours for the collaborative wrapping paper for Kellett Cares. Our Robert Frost inspired birch tree paintings are absolutely beautiful. We have also worked in porcelain clay, creating tiny Christmas decorations in this delicate medium.

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ChINESE STudIES

Kowloon Bay Prep children have been happily engaged in Mid Autumn Festival celebration activities this term, and learnt about the Chinese cultural values and beliefs. In KS1; children enjoyed listening to the legend of the Mid Autumn festival story. They could retell the story of the ‘Moon Lady’, the ‘Magic Potion’ and the ‘Ten Suns’. In addition, the children made play-dough moon cakes and paper lanterns. In KS2, the children explored festival related artefacts. Year 4 children worked in pairs and made 3D Jade Rabbits. Year 5 children recited a Tang Dynasty poem called “Jing Ye Si” and decorated Chinese paper fans. In Year 6, children researched the significance of eating moon cakes whilst also collaborating to create their own edible moon cakes.

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On the 16 October, we had our first KLB Prep Ensemble Afternoon. Due to unforeseeable circumstances, including a typhoon day, some of our ensembles had less than four rehearsals before our concert. The ensembles had worked hard to produce very pleasing performances. The Choir performed “Swingin’ Samson”, accompanied by Mr Jones, and the orchestra performed, “Marching Through the Mud” and “Yellow Bird”. There were also first performances from our Clarineo Club, led by Ms Thornton and the Recorder Consort, led by Ms Tam.

A very big well done to everyone involved in the concert and also a big thank you to the parents who provided a lovely tea for us all.

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INTERNATIONAL ScHOOLS FOOTBALL TOURNAmENT On Saturday 27 September a strong squad of ten players went in search of winning the International schools football tournament held here at Kowloon Bay. Having had two friendly matches previous to this, the boys looked in good shape going into the tournament. Some strong wins against Chinese International School, Kellett Pok Fu Lam and German Swiss International School set up an exciting final with Discovery Bay International School. Unfortunately, it was not to be, and we came off second best to a very good side. This placed us in second position overall. As a first tournament together the boys did very well and showed their ability to never give up.

DIScOVERY BAY FOOTBALL TOURNAmENTTwo teams from Kowloon Bay Prep entered the DBIS football tournament on Friday 31 October. Having already had a good handful of fixtures we were placed in strong groups consisting of some very strong schools. The ‘A’ team was drawn against Beacon Hill, Glenealy, Hong Kong International School and Kennedy School. The group stages resulted in three draws and one loss. This did not give us enough points to go through to the next stage of the competition. The boys learnt a harsh lesson about small margins in sport, and the focus level needed to perform well at the tournaments. Some very good football was played, however we couldn’t seem to put the ball in the back of the net! A very good effort from all.

The ‘B’ team produced some wonderful performances to finish top of their pool. They swept aside DBIS, Glenealy, and CIS during their pool games scoring four goals in the process. The team then faced DBIS ‘B’ team in the semi final of the cup. Unfortunately, we had given everything we could in the group stages and ran out of steam. What a fantastic result to go all the way to the cup semi final, the boys can hold their heads up very high.

INTERNATIONAL cOLLEGE HONG KONG TOURNAmENT On a very crisp Saturday morning KLB Prep football team boarded the bus at 7am in anticipation of an all day tournament at ICHK. The tournament got off to a good start with some fantastic performances, with just the final touch not able to find the back of the net. A draw against Bradbury, a convincing win against Clear Water Bay and a very close game against eventual winners Kennedy saw us finish second in the group. We were through to the plate semi final, and had been drawn against Kellett Pok Fu Lam; a team which we had not lost to this year. However, it was not meant to be and after copious amounts of pressure during the game it finished as a draw. The rest is history.

The fantastic thing about this tournament is the way we matured and grew into a real team with every player putting the team first and showing a great deal of selflessness.

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cROSS cOUNTRY AT cHINESE INTERNATIONAL ScHOOLThe running club have been working incredibly hard in their quest to be the best runners they can be. All this hard work paid off when we visited CIS on Thursday 6 November. We were outstanding. The course is a difficult one with steps, narrow paths and a section of road. However, our work on employing tactics during a race paid off, we paced ourselves at the beginning and finished strong. Well done to the following students:

KOWLOON NETBALL TOURNAmENTA squad of 10 players was taken to the annual Kowloon Junior School Netball tournament on the 13 November. We started with a fantastic win against Kowloon Junior B team. However, we then came off second best against a very strong Harrow team. In the final group game, we handed out a very convincing win against RCHK. That placed Kellett second in the group and gave us an opportunity to play in the semi final of the plate. Unfortunately it was not to be as we fell just short of beating Shatin Junior School. A very good effort in their first tournament, well done!

On Wednesday 19 November Year 5 & Year 6 students from both Kellett Prep Schools descended on Stanley Ho sports that centre for a day of running, jumping and throwing. It was clear to all that attended, our Kellett students showed an abundance of effort and determination to do their best. There have to be winners, and Kowloon Bay classes 5VA and 6SB came home with trophies! Well done to all involved!

The Reception and KS1 sports day was a real celebration of what students have been studying during their PE lessons this term. There was plenty of evidence of their fantastic progress. The brilliant support from parents gave the whole event a real celebratory feel, and lots of students went home very tired! The Year 3 and 4 sports day followed in a similar vein in the afternoon, with the distance race stealing the show providing spectators with an exciting finish to watch. Well done to all who took part, it was a very enjoyable day for all involved!

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cOOKING cLUBCooking club on Fridays has accomplished a lot this term. Children have experienced measuring and preparing ingredients whilst exercising basic cooking and baking skills, along with knowledge on kitchen and food safety. Children have had fun making delicious and healthy dishes and desserts, such as dumplings and sweet and sour pork! They were all excited when bringing the dishes home to share with families!

GARDENING cLUBThe three intrepid gardeners from Year 3 and Year 5 have valiantly tried to transform the garden on the Sky Pitch. They have tried growing avocados from the pit, and tomato plants from seeds, they have taken cuttings, planted flowers and have created artistic bird scarers!! New exciting opportunities will soon be available to the gardening club thanks to the generous donations to the Annual Fund.

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Lastly, the conference noted the increasing popularity in HMC Schools of International GCSEs, the IGCSEs and the International A Levels (all of which

If you wish to read in more detail about the changes I suggest the following links:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/reform-of-as-and-a-level-qualifications-by-ofqual

http://www.edexcel.com/Aboutus/press-room/press-releases/Pages/ofqual-a-level-update.aspx

http://www.edexcel.com/Aboutus/press-room/press-releases/Pages/ks4-announcement.aspx

are not directly affected by the new education reforms). Kellett runs a number of these qualifications already and they give the benefit of being stable and well understood in times of change.

The Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC)

HMC (the Headmasters’ & Headmistresses’ Conference) is a professional association of Heads of some of the world’s leading independent schools. HMC has 270 members in the British Isles, a further 61 international members and 8 associates.

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ConferenCe AgreeMenTSo it was against this highly turbulent backdrop that Dr William Richardson (HMC General Secretary) gave the opening address ‘Examinations and Curriculum Change: The state of play in 2015 and beyond’. His succinct tour of the host of challenges facing schools, universities and examination bodies certainly focused the conference.

Over the next two days many schools shared their plans and vision for the future. There was a noticeable easing of tension across the conference as it became apparent the majority of schools are in agreement on the approach to implementing and then managing the changes. There was also an acceptance that schools will need a mix of A levels (linear or modular assessment) over the next few years and a recognition that all schools are different and need to adopt an approach that best meets the needs of their particular students.

KelleTT’s ApproACHKellett’s plans lie squarely in line with this approach. Some subjects will remain with their current syllabi until they are phased out, others will move to the new syllabi sooner and a number will move to the International A levels. The International A Levels remain modular and maintain their equivalence with A levels.

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As a membership organisation, HMC has been providing support and advice to Heads for more than a hundred years. It is the oldest and most influential association of its kind in the English speaking world. HMC today is a thriving, pro-active association of leading figures in school education. http://www.hmc.org.uk/about-hmc/

The November HMC Conference in Leeds was attended by over 100 of the top UK Independent Schools and a number of leading British International Schools. Mr Martin (Head of Sixth Form) and I represented Kellett.

plAnning for THe fuTureThe conference title ‘Planning for the Future’ was carefully chosen. All schools are currently preparing for the British government’s new policy on education which includes revised GCSE and A Level qualifications (GCSEs, graded on a 1 to 9 scale rather than A* to U and A levels, decoupled from AS, are going through their biggest revision in 15 years). The preparations schools have been making to accommodate the new policy dominated the conference and conversation.

CHAnges To eduCATion poliCyFor better or worse, change has been synonymous with British education for the last 20 years. Over the next three years, schools in the UK and around the world will again, be adjusting to new government policy. This time the speed at which the government has conducted consultations, formulated new education policy and rolled out the GCSE and A Level reform has been breath-taking. The inevitable result is considerable pressure being placed on all organisations affected by the changes. The pressure is magnified by the current opposition party being committed to freezing the changes if they take office in the next General election.

universiTies, exAMinATion BoArds And THe offiCe of QuAlifiCATions And exAMinATions regulATion (ofQuAl)University Admission Offices are adjusting to the new policy either by clearly stating their position in admission guidance or, rather unhelpfully, sitting on the fence and adopting a wait and see approach. The examination boards (Pearson (EDEXCEL), OCR, CIE, WJEC, AQA) are furiously updating their syllabi and assessment models and Ofqual, which regulates qualifications, examinations and assessments in England are doing their best to hold on to the reins tightly as time runs out to approve the new syllabi.

Having just completed our first term as a school which now reaches from Reception all the way through to Year Thirteen, it feels like an appropriate time to reflect on the important role that our Student Leaders play in our community, and to share with you the excellent job that they are doing. Our ethos has always been to provide leadership opportunities for students of all ages, with their opportunities and responsibilities growing each year, and our now-complete student leadership model is driving much of what we do each week.

The Senior School Council meets every fortnight under the leadership of Andrew Howorth and Susanna Kidd, our Head Boy and Girl. This alternates weekly with the House Councils, which are made up of representatives from all years, led by Alex Mortensen, Praew Chanteeraded, Maya Rolston and Sandra Zamora, the House Captains for Bowen, Clementi, MacLehose and Youde respectively. This structure allows us to feed information in and out of the School Council, and into the Tutor Groups; it provides an excellent structure for student voice.Ensuring that our Student Leaders work with students of all years, Thomas Cooper, Freya Darnton, Cameron Taylor, Rebecca Lim (Deputy Head Boys and Girls) have really enjoyed spending time in our Prep schools, giving out Kellett Dragons to new students and I know that they are looking forward to spending more time at the Prep School Councils.

The recent Student Leaders conference in Singapore enthused and motivated our Student Leaders who, upon returning from it, decided that their first aim would be to develop the profile of charity work that we undertake. Working in consultation with both Kellett Cares and the student body, our students have decided to adopt Small Group Homes as their chosen charity for the academic year. Small Group Homes is a wonderful Hong Kong Based charity which provides a home-like environment for needy families who cannot take care of their children, either until they can return to their families or a long-term alternative living arrangement is achieved.

The School Council devised what we hope will become an annual event – the student Christmas Fair. Designed to support the Carols concert, be a lot of festive fun and raise money for Small Group Homes, the Christmas Fair raised over $25,000 through candy cane deliveries, bake sales, the screening of a Christmas movie and a ‘guess the teacher’ Christmas song. We hope that all Kellett Students will look at our Student Leaders and be moved to take up one of the many opportunities for leadership open to them. The whole community should look at our Student Leaders of all ages with great pride. They are articulate and confident young adults who are leading and inspiring others within the student body. We are really looking forward to working with them as they develop even further.

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The Kellett Theatre recently underwent a dramatic transformation and over the course of two captivating hours, transported its audience to Liverpool, England, with our version of ‘Blood Brothers’. It was the first Senior School production to be staged in the new Kowloon Bay campus and cemented the school’s reputation for outstanding musical theatre.

‘Blood Brothers’ is a powerful musical that highlights the journey of two brothers who are separated at birth and who grow up with a different destiny and very different opportunities. Although inextricably drawn to one another, their connection leads to their ultimate downfall.

This was truly a whole school event with over sixty students involved in all aspect of production including: filming for trailers, make up, costume, back stage, set painting and technical elements. All these roles were vital to the success of the production, but it was the performers on stage who received the ultimate accolade of a standing ovation on the final performance. This will be an enduring memory for all of those involved and for the audience who were lucky enough to be a part of it. The months of preparation by the production team and the months of rehearsal with the band and cast all paid off, it was a remarkable whole school event that has been described by many as a meticulously professional production.

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Year 7 students produced fantastic posters as part of the Year 7 Local History Poster Competition. Once again, the standard was very high and the judges eventually chose these posters as the top three. The Noon Day Gun came first, followed by the Tai Tam Waterworks Heritage Trail, closely followed by Hullett House. Congratulations to all of our entrants on a job well done!

This year is the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. During the week prior to Remembrance Sunday, Year Nine students led the Senior School’s focus on the First World War Centenary in the following ways:

• Delivered House assemblies on the theme of Commemoration• Displayed “Did You Know?...” facts about the First World War around the Senior school• Led workshops on the First World War at lunchtimes• Gathered students’ reflections on what they had learnt about the First World War• Issued students participating in the workshops with a small handout to help them complete their certificate of attendance.

Even the Kellett staircase and the library commemorated the First World War.

SliverArthur Hui, Yan To Or, Tomson Pong, Markian Benhamou, Yi Ting Liong and Donald Leung

Bronze Michael Lau, Sally Chan and Tiffany Wu

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senior MATHs CHAllenge – 6 noveMBerThe Junior and Intermediate Maths Challenges have been a regular feature of the Senior Mathematics calendar for many years. Now that the school has increased in size with its first cohort of Year 13’s, we could finally enter our first students into the Senior Challenge. An elite group of 11 students from Year 11, 12 and 13 took the challenge which follows a similar format of 25 multiple choice questions which steadily increase in difficulty. The students acquitted themselves very well with a vast majority achieving a certificate but, unfortunately, no Gold Awards this time around. The award winners were:

Congratulations to all the award winners listed above but in particular to Donald who achieved the Best in School accolade with a score of 75 – beating all the students older than him!

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i/gCse Business sTudiesYear 10 students had the opportunity to demonstrate the benefits and drawbacks of specialisation and the division of labour with a practical exercise to make paper boxes in class. Surprisingly the outcome of the task did not back up the theory that productivity and production output should increase. Nevertheless, it was an interesting activity that they enjoyed!

A-level Business sTudiesYear 13 students have been studying international business throughout the autumn term. Students explored possible reasons why businesses have increasingly explored and targeted foreign markets as a means for growth and diversifying risk. They all participated in a class debate discussing the potential benefits and drawbacks to a business of being part of a trading bloc, using a UK business either in or out of the European Union (EU) as the context.

i/gCse eConoMiCs sTudiesYear 10 students have been studying how markets work, how they fail and how governments intervene to prevent this market failure. They have discussed the benefits and drawbacks of the division of labour in relation to the production of paper aeroplanes! Year 11 have been looking at how the economy is measured and the macroeconomic objectives and policies of governments.

A-level eConoMiCs sTudiesYear 12 have been studying how markets work, how they fail and how governments intervene to prevent this market failure. They have completed a series of Harkness discussions looking at how to solve air pollution in China, binge drinking in the UK and inefficiencies in the NHS. Year 13 have been looking at international trade, development and macroeconomic policies to promote growth and developments.

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21sT CenTury sCHools projeCT This term has once again seen Year Seven and the English department hosting a ‘Schools for the 21st century’ showcase. Students worked in teams to investigate the requirements for an ideal education, before using their research to design their own schools. They worked collaboratively and used their persuasive writing skills to create a pitch in an attempt to persuade the judges that their group’s proposal for a new school was the most innovative and imaginative. The showcase was held in the Senior School Atrium with parents and staff attending to admire the pupils’ work.

pAul THeroux Kellett had the great privilege of inviting Paul Theroux to talk to a number of our students about writing and travel. He shared his ideas on the importance of adventure in finding a true sense of ourselves and how life’s vicissitudes help to formulate our identity. He was eloquent and captivating in describing some of his own experiences and the inspirations for his writing, which began with letters home during his time spent living in Malawi. The students were also given the opportunity to ask questions.

What a start to the academic year of 2014-2015.

Notably our Year 13 students have begun their university applications and many have already received offers from the UK and USA.

In October, the Year 13 students went to either Thailand or New Zealand. The two countries could not be more different, however the nature of trips served the same purpose: to explore the great outdoors and contribute to local communities.

In November our Head Boy, Andrew Howorth, organised a charity golf day for Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children. A total of HKD18,000 was raised.

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year 7 Optimal learninG

Kellett students live in a fast paced dynamic world driven by ICT; they need a range of personal and interpersonal skills as they enter the work place and undertake their learning within all of their subject areas. Optimal learning is designed to equip students with a range of skills that they can apply to their learning in other curriculum areas.

Recently, Year 7 students have been working on research skills and using these to research an area they are interested in. Alongside this, they have also explored presentation skills and what makes an effective presentation. Putting these two skills together students have created presentations based on their research and developed their presentation skills by presenting to the rest of their group.

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Year 7: Digestion. Students studied digestion and the breakdown of food, mimicking the role of teeth slicing and grinding food up in preparation for the action of enzymes and then absorption in to the body.

Year 10: Displacement Reactions. An old Kellett favourite – the Thermite reaction. Molten iron is produced from a mixture of iron oxide and aluminium powder. The reaction is started using a magnesium fuse. At it’s peak, this reaction generates temperatures of up to 2500

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Year 11: Acids and Alkalis. As we approach the end of the IGCSE courses, our Year 11 Chemistry students learn about the role of acids in salt formation, and brush up their knowledge of a few purification techniques such as filtration and crystallisation.

Year 13: Oscillations in a Spring. This equipment can be used to time the frequency of the ruler vibrations to find out the stiffness

of the spring. Our now complete and wonderful technician team are showing flair for building and constructing equipment to support Science learning across all three subjects within the Faculty.

Year 13: Titrations. Our A2-Level Chemists are now expert level lab practitioners, in this photo they are undertaking a Chemistry titration to discover the makeup of an unknown substance, as part of their ongoing practical skills assessment.

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yeAr 8 fieldTrip The Maekok River is home to fantastic flora, crawling crabs and scuttling scorpions, and for one week in November it was also home to Year 8 Kellett. As well as deliberately delving into the water for the river study, there were plenty of accidental dunkings during the confidence course and kayaking. Hiking through the forest to reach remote hill tribe villages gave a new perspective to life in our own concrete jungle and was an unforgettable experience. Kellett students had a great opportunity to experience a teachers view of the classroom when they taught English to local children. The trip concluded spectacularly with a celebration of music, Thai dancing and the stunning release of lanterns into the night sky. No doubt students returned to Hong Kong with plenty of new skills and many fabulous memories but we hope all the scorpions remained in Thailand.

yeAr 10 fieldTrip On the 25 and 26 September, all Year 10 Geography students took a walk from the Peak to Central in Hong Kong to study the urban geography of the area and compare it to standardised urban models. Both groups had fantastic weather and enjoyed the scenic views from the Peak, taking in a well-earned rest and ice-cream prior to the journey down to the CBD. The students visited 12 sites where they measured the sound levels, building height, environmental quality, traffic levels and services available. They also took photos and learned about the history of the area and how it has changed over time. The results have since been used to complete their IGCSE coursework which is worth 27.5% of their final result and was handed in at half term. A successful and enjoyable trip was had by all!

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Year 11 Art students have concluded their GCSE Unit 1 course work and are awaiting their examination paper due in January. They have created a wide range of works exploring the themes of Fractures, Natural Forms and Containment.

Year 11 GCSE Mock Exam completing Unit 1 coursework.

A Big Draw event was held in the senior atrium as part of a worldwide campaign to promote drawing in the community. Students drew on a 10 meter length paper with a theme of fish, to highlight the issues of sea pollution and over fishing.

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It is a difficult task to highlight the huge number of excellent events and achievements that have filled this term for the Languages Faculty and Kellett students. The inaugural FOBISIA Language Perfect Championship, proudly hosted by Kellett School, was not only ground-breaking as a concept, but also produced some staggering statistics - 17 schools spread across 9 countries participated, 7,400 FOBISIA students answered in excess of 8.5 million questions over the 10 days, which represented 42,000 hours of independent language learning. Whilst ABC International School Vietnam led their students to victory over Kellett, it was an excellent event for everybody involved and one that we hope will be repeated on an annual basis. The following students received gold, silver and bronze awards for their excellent participation:

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Another first was our students and staff engaging with the Hong Kong French Film Festival, organised by L’Alliance Française. Students from Years 9 to 13 attended showings of Les Vacances du Petit Nicolas, La Belle et La Bête and La Cour de Babel at the IFC Palace. This was a fantastic opportunity for students to access contemporary French cinema in HK – much fun was had by all.

Generous contributions to the Annual Fund allowed us to invite the British band ‘Transition’ to Kellett School. The artists from Bristol have found wide spread success throughout Asia performing songs in both English and Mandarin. They sang their biggest hits to Years 7, 8 and 11, before leading a series of workshops for Years 9 and 10. Students had great fun using Mandarin to create their own lyrics to the bands’ acoustics.

In November, Kellett School was visited by students from HKWMA Chu Shek Lun Secondary School, a local school in Hong Kong. Year 10 Mandarin students were given the opportunity to put their language skills in both English and Chinese to use. It was an eye-opening opportunity to befriend so many other language learners, while being able to listen and speak about topics ranging from hobbies to favourite foods. The hour was split into two sections; each dedicated to activities in one group’s mother tongue. Photos were taken, emails were exchanged, friendships were developed and memories were made.

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William Hicks Charlotte Bird

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Rose Duckworth Mia Hornett

Anandita Malhotra Wassim Bermak Gabrielle Roper Abigail Riggs

Hunter Bannigan-Davis Viren Hirani

Victoria Leung Keith Cheung Alex Hussey

Molly Hammond Anahita Kaman

Tara Trinh Long Long Turner

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Box of Hope Over 200 Kellett Senior School students put their Global Citizenship skills in to action this term and produced a ‘Box of Hope’ filled with exciting educational gifts for less privileged children in Asia. Well done to MacLehose House who collected the largest number of boxes! Year 7 have continued to focus on the concept of ‘Hope’ in their lessons and have been enjoying fantastic class discussions and debates.

CAreers liTerACy Year 9 and Year 11 have been focusing on Careers Literacy this half term. We were extremely grateful to a large number of parents who volunteered their time to hold careers talks for Year 9 and conduct mock job interviews for Year 11.

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ConfliCT presenTATions Year 10 have been focusing on the topic of ‘Conflict’ and worked in small groups to produce an informative and interactive pop up display about a conflict of their choice. These were presented in the atrium and received a lot of attention from staff and students who voted for winners in various categories.

digiTAl CiTizensHip Year 8 and 9 both attended a Digital Citizenship workshop this half term, where they considered the nature and impact of their digital footprint.

Students represented Kellett Senior at the FOBISIA Music Festival at Harrow, Beijing in November. Students participated in both the orchestra and choir in combined repertoire such as ‘Zadok the Priest’ by Handel and ‘For the Beauty of the Earth’ by John Rutter. Viren Hirani was selected to sing solo with the ska band, well done Viren!

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MACBeTH WorKsHop The Year 8 English students were involved in a drama workshop where they completed various activities intended to develop their understanding of character and plot. They explored the opening of ‘Weird Sisters’ and focused on different movement and other performance skills.

Students began the Macbeth Unit of Work with an engaging drama workshop. This was aimed at introducing the text as a play and focussing on elements of performance. The students used a number of dramatic devices in order to explore the central characters, language and themes.

reAlly useful THeATre WorKsHop The Drama students from Year 10 to Year 13 were involved in a movement based workshop intended to enrich their curriculum drama studies. They worked with Fiona Kaka from the Really Useful Theatre Company and experimented with Anne Bogart’s techniques developing an understanding of kinaesthetics, tempo, space and viewpoints.

The Year 6 students had great fun learning how the laser cutter works and making their spinning tops. They produced some amazing designs influenced by their recent space topic. See you next year!

The Year 10 students are producing some outstanding work this year with Mr Smith and Mr Hughes-Caley. For their initial coursework project, students have been developing and making a light based on a specific design theme/movement or influenced by the work of a famous designer. They are now selecting the design task for their final piece of coursework.

The Year 11 students are producing some outstanding work this year with Ms George. For their final coursework project (Controlled Assessment Task), students chose a brief and have developed a design based on a given theme for a specific client. They are now using all of their workshop time for practical work and are in the final stages of making their designs. Their clients are eagerly awaiting the delivery of their products!

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Jo Rabey 1st Grade C Boys

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The Kellett Cross Country teams have had a fantastic season, with more students than ever taking part, competing and succeeding. The two major events of the season were the International Schools (ISSFHK) and Hong Kong Schools (HKSSF) Championships with the highlight being the Girls HKSSF squad coming 1st and achieving promotion to Division 2. Other notable achievements:

fooTBAll u14 The U14 footballers have had a fantastic season. The U14 girls narrowly missed out on the HK Island and Kowloon crossover play-offs by a goal difference. The girls clocked up 3 wins out of the 5 matches and played some brilliant football throughout the season. The U14 boys however had a truly memorable season, whereby they qualified 2nd in their Kowloon group stage, missing out to ICS who came 1st. During the finals held at Kings Park, Kellett faced a tough West Island side. In a nail biting game Kellett proceeded through to the finals with a fantastic 2-1

semifinal win. Kellett now came up against ICS in the ISSFHK finals, in a tense affair with Kellett knowing what they had to do to avenge their previous meeting, the boys went on to snatch a 1-0 lead. With great football being played by both sides and the woodwork been rattled at each end, Kellett held strong and came out 1-0 winners and champions of Hong Kong. Well done boys, what a fantastic achievement.

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B1 neTBAll The Kellett B1 Netball team dominated this years competition with an unbeaten season and claiming the title of ‘B1 Netball Champions’. Strong attacking play by Harriet Adams, Eliza Kidd, Sophie Krantz, Millie Richardson and Emily Harber have given the opposition defense a torrid time. The Kellett team has been unstoppable scoring 253 goals in 7 matches. This could not have been done without our formidable defense of Emma Baghurst, Jenny Jones, Holly Farrall, Gemma Kershaw and Erin Winstanley. Their hard work continually hindered the opposition in their attempts to chase down the lead taken by Kellett. An outstanding season for the girls. Well done!

grAde A neTBAll A committed squad of 10 entered the HKSSF A grade netball competition. Along with 12 other schools we were divided into 2 pools, with the winner and runner up going through to the play-offs.

As this is the top age group in the schools’ competition the standard was very high and competition fierce! We had some great performances from the whole squad and nail-biting games. We played South Island School as our third fixture and needed to win. With a slow start and low score card we were 2 behind going into the final quarter and in need of a plan to get those goals in. Guest coach Ron gave us the answer with Lauren holding her position in the circle as Goal Shooter and Jess and Maya expertly feeding balls into her. With 5 minutes remaining we had equaled the score and looked strong. Final score had us 2 up with a win and a great game.

Our final fixture, against Island School was the decider. With both schools on equal points, whoever won would make it through to the finals! Island School started strong and their National level shooter made sure the score was high, we were 7 behind and needed to chase. At half time we were looking better after much tighter defending and better movement in the circle. We were in the game but needed to work hard and concentrate. The third quarter was ours!! A tremendous effort by Catherine in defence to take out their good shooter allowed us to catch up and even lead by 1. So, we were down to the final quarter again and needed to hang on to the lead. With that switching changing hands every couple of minutes it was anyone’s game. Sadly though, it went to Island School who pulled away in the final minutes to secure the win. This was a fantastic effort by the team and a great game to end the season on.

Group round results

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Semi Final: 4510 v HYS

Final: 3318 v IS

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grAde A This year was another first for Kellett rugby with the school’s first ever Grade A rugby team. The team competed exceptionally well against Hong Kong’s more well established rugby schools with a handful of games being decided in the last few minutes of the game. A huge thank you goes out to Mr. Lynn (Year 1 Class Teacher) for helping guide the team through their first season and of course well done to those students who committed to representing Kellett School on the rugby field.

grAde C Grade C rugby comprises of our Year 8 and Year 9 students and once again this year was a first for this team as well, this was their first season in the 15 aside HKSSF league. Through the pool games we competed very well and produced some fantastic rugby producing 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. The most impressive result came towards the end of the season when the team faced West Island School, a nail biter of a game with outstanding displays of school rugby from both teams finishing with a

u15 foBisiA sporTs TournAMenT – jAKArTA noveMBer 2014 The event comprised of 4 schools; Dulwich College Beijing, British International School Jakarta, British School Ho Chi Minh City and Kellett.

Kellett started strongly in the simming pool with Kate Donowho and Ryan Whittington winning the 200m Individual Medley. Kellett continued this good form winning 33 medals, which meant they finished in second place overall. There was no time to dwell on our success in the pool, it was straight onto Athletics. This did not disappoint, with Kellett dominating on the track. Josh McGovern won the 100m and 200m and Kate Donowho matched this with a double in the 800m and 1500m. Due to poor weather the field events were completed inside. This did not stop the momentum of the Kellett athletes and the students continued to add to their medal tally. The final medal haul from the athletics was pretty impressive and led us to take team gold. Football

10 – 10 draw. This game then saw the team qualify for the semi-finals of the leagues knock out competition where the top four teams competed for the rights to be called Hong Kong Grade C Rugby Champions. We were pitted against West Island School in our semi-final and once again it proved to be a tough battle, 3 quick tries in the first 10 minutes were the difference between the two sides. Kellett camped out on West Island School’s try line for lengthy periods of both halves but failed to come away with points. The game finished Kellett School 0 – 17 West Island School.

A BIG thank you goes out to all those students who put in the hard work and committed to the team throughout this season and also a huge thank you to the teams captains, Max Cowley & James Chalk, who led the team by example when they were required to do so.

was up next and after our triumphs on the track we were a team full of confidence. The Kellett boys fought hard in all their matches but unfortunately finished on the wrong side of a penalty shootout but still came away with a well-deserved bronze medal. The girls were not at their best for the football tournament and only managed a 4th but were determined to turn this round in the last event of the games, basketball, and what a thriller it was. Despite a slow start from the girls with a loss, they then went on to win all their other groups games fairly convincingly. The final was a replay of the first match, when it counted the girls switched on and put on an excellent show of basketball skills and experience to win by one point and take the gold. The boys fought hard on the basketball court and finished a very respectable 4th place.

Thank you to all the parents who travelled to Jakarta to support the team.

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Model uniTed nATions 2014 This was the first M.U.N. delegation from Kellett School to attend Victoria and Shanghai Academy’s Junior Model United Nations held last year on 15 and 16 November. Our students represented Iraq on the Security Council, Iran on the Human Rights and ECOSOC Committees, and the Maldives on the Human Rights and Environment Committees. All the delegates worked hard to prepare for this conference, putting in a lot of research and then confidently entered the debate with eighteen other schools. The delegates were: Year 10: Matthew Bennett, Cleo Kwan; Year 11: Chloe Ng, Isabella Mann, Catherine Martin, Claire Coon, Max Rosgen; Year 12: Kelly Donohue.

Tiffany Wu

TABle Tennis Table Tennis has been an amazing, fun and informative ECA which I recommend trying. Throughout the term we have covered everything under the sun such as serving techniques, ways of holding the bat, different techniques and how to add power to shots. There were many participants ranging from Year 7s to Year 9s. It was a great way to socialise with some of the other students and get to know them better. We were put into groups so we could learn to the best of our capabilities. I think that the Table Tennis ECA is a great way to improve your skills.

Harry streatfield

HKAyp Bronze The HKAYP Bronze participants have successfully completed their day walk and overnight training expeditions and now have their sights set on the assessment expedition at the end of January 2015.

silver The Silver participants enjoyed perfect weather conditions for their first overnight training expedition in Sai Kung. They are now preparing for the 40km training expedition in Lantau where their route will take them from Tai O in the West over Lantau Peak and Sunset Peak to their final checkpoint of Mui Wo in the East of the Island.

gold In October 2014 the Gold participants successfully completed their assessed exploration in the South Island of New Zealand. They chose to explore the Nokomai region searching for evidence of the 1860’s gold rush. Guided by local expert and explorer Taz Dawson, they found the remains of houses built by Europeans and large steel pipes used for bringing water down the valley for sluicing operations. They also searched for the graves of Chinese gold miners who found their fortune and settled in Nokomai.

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