Vanguard Student Visit
To provide an excellent opportunity for our students to develop their English and Global communication skills, seven students from Vanguard College of Canada visited our school from 8th March to 17th March. This is Vanguard’s ninth year visiting our school and it has always been a rich sharing between our two schools for the benefit of all involved.
This year was the second year we had the opportunity to provide Homestay for the seven Vanguard students, so that they may spend more time with our students developing friendship and the cultural exchange as well as modeling the speaking of English in real world situations with our students.
The Vanguard Students worked with our students all week and had a wonderful time getting to know our students.
“We just want to work hard and serve the YHKCC community. We want to make friends with the students and help them to know that they have friends in Canada!” exclaimed Vanguard Team Leader, Ms. Jillian Greig.
We had collaborated with many departments in the school to come up with an enriching activity week. These include: Form 5 student-led tour trips, discussions in PRS classes, Form 2 PSE lesson on Canadian school-life, English Assisted Language (EAL) tutoring, Form 3 Canada City career training event, Form 2 Canada English Language Olympics, Form 1 Introduction to Canada programme, and an all-school Assembly with Vanguard performances.
“I really liked how the Vanguard Students were passionate in working with our students. They wished they could stay longer and get to know our students better. Some even cried as they were leaving,” expressed Jessica Choi, Deputy Head of The English Department. It was a great time of teaching and learning during Vanguard’s visit. We can’t wait until they come next year! I want to thank the Vanguard students for coming and visiting our school. In my four years of meeting these students, all of their activities were very creative and fun! I hope I can meet them next year!” said Yau Mei Lam, a student in Class 4Y.
