Thank you all for participating in the raffle. We received 226 entries and did a digital raffle (on wheelofnames.com) to randomly select five winners.

The winners are announced below. Each of them will receive two E-tickets to the Hong Kong Palace Museum through email.

Brian Lam (10T2)

Hayden Ang (12T2)

Daniel Cheung (10S2)

Shannon Harrison (13H2)

Aishani Singh(11Y1)

This week, WIS students organized Shark Week, three days of shark-related advocacy and fundraising activities in order to bring awareness to the importance of sharks in marine ecosystems, how human disturbance has negatively affected sharks, and what students can do to protect them. The activities included a shark-themed Kahoot quiz, to a dress casual day on 22 Jan. During lunchtime, students ran a variety of stalls such as bake sales and the dunk tank, all to raise money for the Hong Kong Shark Foundation (HKSF). 

Most of the students that were involved in the fundraising project in the weeks leading up to it were part of the HKSF CAS activity, including one of the student leaders, Annette Ho. 

“We’re all about raising awareness for shark conservation.” She said, stressing the importance of having a balanced marine ecosystem and stable aquatic food webs.  

Anette said that of the biggest setbacks she faced while organizing the event was task delegation, and the delayed shipping of shark merchandise sold in the fundraising stalls. Hence, she emphasised the value in being balanced and principled. 

“Learning from my mistakes is very important.” 

Gwen Munn, who organized the shark merchandise stall which sold plushies and keychains, added onto this. Gwen said that raising awareness through selling merchandise was effective because of the appeal that these goods had on students. 

“It's like a mutual two-way street where you get a cool item and the charity gets profits.” 

Gwen also talked about how time management skills were crucial when setting up the stall. 

“I had to put in conscious effort in order to get things done at the set time and up to standard. Such as the profile picture I drew that was displayed on one of the boards.”

Jonathan Huang and Caiel Singson, also shared some behind-the-scenes information about organizing the event. Their job involved making posters in order to advertise the different stalls, as well as providing information about shark-fin soup. 

“We supported the stalls by running them and collecting money.” Jonathan said. Like Gewn, he also highlighted the importance of fundraising for HKSF, citing that people can educate themselves on sharks by seeing the posters placed near the stalls.  

“This is so more people will know about it and contribute to change.” He said.

Jonathan also talked about how partaking in this event improved his communication skills, as he and Caiel had to both inform the audience about sharks, as well as empower them to make change. Moreover, the process of serving the community helped him to reflect. 

Before the HKSF CAS activity was student-led, it was headed by Ms Goodwin. She was also there to support some of the students with running stalls, as well as helping them contact Andrea, the director of the HKSF. 

“I started my contact with Andrea when I was head of year 7, about 8 years ago.” She said, “Luckily, it became one of the student charities.” 

Ms Goodwin highly recommended for students to join this CAS activity, underlining the importance of participating in service and charity events. 

“It’s quite a sporty school, West Island,” she said, “sometimes students find it hard to find a service activity to devote their time to.” One of the biggest reasons for this was that many local charities require students to be over the age of 18 to volunteer. 

“But for the Hong Kong Shark Foundation, I think it’s really accessible,” she said, “they can help on the weekend in their own time with the events that Andrea organizes… and they can revisit year on year in their whole (academic) career.” 

-Text by Eli Sim (Year 13)

This week saw the second round of the Head Student race. Shortlisted candidates were tasked with building  towering structures to support an egg and planning Year 12 induction activities, in teams, against the clock. The students displayed teamwork and collaboration.

The school delivered an assembly to Year 7 students on the creation of deepfake/AI generated images and how students can protect themselves online.

There were some clear messages which included the consequences should a student create a deepfake/AI generated image and what a student should do if they are ever approached by someone with an AI image of them.  

If you are interested in learning more, please click here for the assembly presentation.

Students in Year 8 and above have already listened to this assembly and a follow-up to this will be presented over the coming weeks.

We're excited to announce that the 2024-2025 yearbook is now available for all parents to order. You have until 11:59 PM on March 31 to place your order, giving you plenty of time to secure your copy.

If you'd like to order one or more copies, please fill out the form sent to all parents on Gateway before the deadline. Unfortunately, we won't be able to accept any orders after this time.

After March 31, you'll receive an Epayment invoice for your order.

This year's Year 13 and Year 11 Graduations are to be held on the same day.
Please refer to the posters below for more details. We look forward to celebrating with you!