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Respect Our Teachers English Essay Contest
Senior forms students of all secondary schools including special schools, schools of the English Schools Foundation and international schools are invited to participate in an English essay contest.
"The contest, jointly organised by the Committee on Respect our Teachers Campaign and the Education Department, aims at arousing the awareness of respecting teachers and promoting their positive image," the chairman of the committee, Mr Fan Kam-ping, said.
The contest is classified into two categorics:
Group A: students of Secondary Four to Five, or equivalent
Group B: students of Secondary Six to Seven, or equivalent
In not exceeding 2,000 words, students are invited to express themselves in forms of prose or fiction either on "A memorable encounter with my teacher" or "A tribute to my teacher".
"The panel chairpersons of English may incorporate these topics into the list of composition topics proposed for senior forms in the 1996/97 school year," Mr Fan said.
Prominent academics of English, lecturers of the Hong Kong Institute of Education and inspectors of the Education Department will form the judging panel of the contest.
Each winner of the contest will be presented with a trophy. In addition, the champion of each group will be awarded with cash prize of $2,000 while the first runner-up and the second runner-up will be presented with $1,500 and $1,000 respectively. Five merit prizes of each group will be awarded $400.
"Every school can only send in two entries for each group," Mr Fan said.
The entries, attached with entry forms, should be type-written, of double-line spacing on an A4-size paper.
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