Living in Hong Kong working alongside able children from good families from all over the world is a great education in itself and will offer a considerable advantage to Island School students when they take their place in the increasingly multi-cultural world of the next century. The vitality of the school, the richness of its activities, the open and courteous staff/student relations, the emphasis upon rational explanation for all things, will all educate children in equal measure with the more formal curriculum.
In a civilization as complex and as changing as ours no school can hope to teach all knowledge. Schools can only make a wise selection from our culture. Schools must prepare children to take advantage of the sources of knowledge available; teach them how to use libraries and data banks, how to use teachers and lectures, how to use their colleagues; in fact to prepare them so that they can make full use of the opportunities on offer to them in the coming forty or fifty years. The emphasis of the curriculum at Island School is not on cramming and learning great tracts of information but on teaching children how to question and how to find out.
ACTIVITIES
Extra-curricular activities are an essential part of the school's work. A wide selection of activities (between 70 and 90 per week depending upon the term) is available during lunch hours and after school. Many of these activities are of a sporting nature, for example, football or hockey. Others are of a cultural nature, such as the school orchestra's tour of the Peoples Republic of China a few years ago. Others are of an outdoor nature like sailing or the 'Out and About' activity, whilst still others include such indoor hobbies as chess and computing. The school has a very popular Zoo which seems to attract the interest of many of the younger students. Activities vary from year to year according to the talents of the staff and the interests of the students.
Shakespeare.
The Orchestra.
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