XN000022-1982-10-15 — Page 6

5

-

FRIDAY, OTO... 12,

THE SPS ALSO EXPECTS TO HAVE A PURPOSE BUILT TAIL-LIFT VAN SHORTLY TO TRANSPORT PEOPLE IN WHEEL-CHAIRS FOR JOB INTERVIEWS.

ANOTHER MEASURE IS TO PURCHASE TWO WORK-SAMPLE KITS, WHICH ARE VALUABLE INSTRUMENTS IN HELPING SPS PLACEMENT OFFICERS TO ASSESS THE SKILL LEVEL OF JOB-SEEKERS AND TO PLACE THEM IN JOBS MATCHING THEIR ATTRIBUTES.

MR HENDERSON STRESSED THAT DESPITE THE PROGRESS BEING MADE, THE SPS FACES AN UPHILL BATTLE.

+WITHOUT THE CO-OPERATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF EMPLOYERS IN PARTICULAR AND THAT OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL, IT IS GOING TO BE A LOSING BATTLE. I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE COMMUNITY, AND ESPECIALLY OUR LARGE BODY OF EMPLOYERS, WILL ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN, HE CONCLUDED.

MR HENDERSON THEN PRESENTED SOUVENIRS TO REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT, THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT, UNI-ART PRECISION PRODUCTS LTD., CEGE CO. LTD., HONG KONG SECURITY LTD., SUMMIT METAL FINISHING LTD., REMEX INTERNATIONAL TIME LTD., TINDUX ELECTRONIC LTD., ROYAL HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB AND THE AMERICAN CLUB.

LEARNING FROM EACH OTHER HAYE

*****

TEACHERS LEARN ALMOST AS MUCH FROM THEIR PUPILS AS PUPILS DO FROM TEACHERS, MR COLVYN HAYE, DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION SAID TODAY (FRIDAY) AT THE SPEECH DAY OF KGV SCHOOL.

WHEN HE FIRST CAME TO KGV SCHOOL 29 YEARS AGO, HE SAID, HE WAS NOT MUCH OLDER THAN SOME OF THE SENIOR BOYS AND GIRLS HÉ HAD TO TEACH; BUT HE HAD ALMOST AS MUCH TO LEARN AS HIS PUPILS.

+APART FROM THE OBVIOUS THINGS, WHAT WAS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT LESSON LEARNT? THE FUN OF LEARNING, I THINK, THE TEAMWORK BETWEEN PUPIL AND PUPIL, PUPIL AND TEACHER, CLASS AND TEACHER, THE CAMARADERIE OF EDUCATION IN A SCHOOL LIKE THIS, MR HAYE SAID.

+WHAT WAS SO NOTABLE ABOUT KGV IN THOSE DAYS,+ HE SAID, +WAS THE SHARED FUN OF LEARNING TOGETHER. STAFF AND PUPILS COMBINED TO HAVE A VERY HAPPY TIME, AND THIS INCLUDED THE ANTICS OF A NUMBER OF VERY ECCENTRIC HEADMASTERS.+

MR HAYE THEN WENT ON TO DESCRIBE SOME OF THE MORE HILARIOUS EPISODES WHICH HAD ENLIVENED HIS YEARS AT THE SCHOOL. +BUT THEN THESE ECCENTRICS HAD SOMETHING TO TEACH ME,+ MR HAYE SAID.

SCHOOL DAYS MIGHT NOT BE THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF SOME CHILDREN'S LIVES, HE ADDED, BUT THEY WERE CERTAINLY AMONG THE HAPPIEST HE HAD SPENT IN HONG KONG.

+KGV VAS A HAPPY MULTI-NATIONAL FAMILY, WHERE WE LEARNT TO COUNT OUR BLESSINGS AS MUCH AS OUR PRIZES, + THE DIRECTOR SAID.