Back to School Night (F.1 - F.4) cum PTA AGM
This year, the Back to School Night for Forms 1 – 4 parents was held on Thursday, 8th September, after the PTA Annual General Meeting held earlier also on the same evening.
The PTA AGM was successfully held at 6 pm in our school hall. Mr. Kelsey Dawson, Vice Chairperson of the PTA 2015-2016, presented the PTA Annual Report and Mr. Evans Mendonca presented the PTA Financial Report of the 2015-2016 school year.
7 new Parent Executive Committee members were elected by the parents for the PTA 2016-2017 Parent Representatives. They are -- Mr. Ornan Abouhatsira, Mr. Kelsey Dawson, Ms. Gurung Tika Maya (Jhona), Mr. Michael Johnson, Ms. Bee Lui, Mr. Evans Mendonca and Ms. Deepa Swaminathan. Also, Mr. Kelsey Dawson was elected Parent Manager to represent parents in the School Management Committee (SMC). The name will be forwarded to the School and SMC to be registered with EDB in due course.
Please join us to congratulate the parents above and continue to support PTA events in this school year!
After the PTA AGM, parents were able to meet with teachers and had refreshment before they actually went to different “lessons” which started at 7:25pm. Mr. Dion Chen, Principal of the school, introduced to parents the core values of the school and encouraged them to help students to learn and live their daily lives with these values. Mr. Higgins then shared with parents the outstanding achievement of some of our students in their public exam results.
Lessons of the evenings started with Class Teacher Periods at 7:25pm and parents met with class and subject teachers in different classrooms for subjects such as English, Mathematics, Chinese, French, Sciences, History, Geography, Economics, Business Studies, PE, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, etc. Each “lesson” was 10 minutes and in the lessons teachers explained to parents how their subject was taught, what was expected in the syllabuses, what was expected of students in the subject and how parents might help in their children’s work at home. Parents were also able to “experience” how students move from one lesson to another during the 5-minute period changing time. Each parent was given a booklet containing the basic information of subject contents, expectations and teachers’ contact information.
Parents appreciated that the school had organized this event and provided opportunities for them to know the teachers who teach their children, and got to ask some questions about teaching and learning in the subjects. They had nice and positive comments about the school and how teachers had been working with their children. Parents left the school at about 9:15pm in confidence knowing that their children have been put in good hands of dedicated teachers.
Parents who have not come to the event can download the Subject Contents and Expectations Booklets from the VLE on our school website (www.yhkcc.edu.hk).
