An important 3 minute read…

Neurodiversity Celebration Week begins today, 17 March 2025! This global event is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about neurodiversity and celebrate our diverse community.

Neurodiversity refers to the unique ways people's brains work when learning, interacting, and experiencing the world. It recognises neurological differences such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, Tourette’s syndrome, "giftedness," and more.

At our inclusive school, we support students and staff, ensuring personalised and accessible experiences—many of which are accommodated "behind the scenes." Did you know that at least 9.7% of KGV's student community is neurodiverse? This number would be higher if we included the adults, too.

As part of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, we'll share daily information through the school bulletin and during tutor time, as well as in Science, English, Maths, and I&S classes. Please take 5 minutes each day to engage with the bulletin posts to learn about neurodiversity and promote inclusion at KGV.

During this week, we encourage you to engage with the various visuals around the school, explore our recommended reads in the LRC, and visit our art exhibition in the front office. KGV proudly stands as one of nine schools across Hong Kong collaborating with Optism, a local organisation promoting autism inclusivity through art.

Today’s ND Education Celebration:

• A fantastic video - What exactly is Neurodiversity?
• An engaging Instagram page – @understoodorg
• A recommended read from the LRC - Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

If you are Neurodivergent and have any questions or want support or a safe place to talk, please let us know here. KGV Neurodivergent Community- Expression of interest

Happy Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025!

Ms Gregory
(Fellow Dyslexic)

Well done to everyone who participated in the Pi Memorisation Contest last Friday at lunch. We had over 50 participants which is amazing!

Here are the winners:
1st Place = Arjun Sharma (Y9R09) with 649 digits
2nd Place = Isabel Esmail (Y10C20) with 209 digits
3rd Place = Rachel Wong (Y12R23) with 197 digits

Please come to Ms Tong at break time of lunch in MA506 anytime this week to receive your prizes!

Thanks again to everyone who joined us, and we hope you had a lovely Pi Day & Maths Week!

AmCham is inviting KGV to nominate one student for the captioned award.

Eligibility: Current Y12 students who combines excellence in scholarship with achievements in community service, leadership, and other related fields.  Award recipient MUST be a local Hong Kong student and a permanent HKID card holder.

The Prize:  Awardee will receive a book voucher of HK$1,000 and a book selected by the Amcham Charitable Foundation together with a certificate of achievement.

Student Self-nomination: Interested Y12 students MUST email (careers.office@kgv.edu.hk)  a personal statement of no more than 500 words listing covering the following 5 categories:

• Personal qualities
• Leadership potentials
• Academic performance
• Scholarships / Academic awards (name of scholarship/award and year awarded)
• Extra-curricular activities / Community service / Leadership initiatives (Year, student organisation/activities & post held /contribution)

Self-nomination deadline: 28 March 2025, end of school.

Carl the Kangaroo: Leonardo LI [08N05] and Sheri LEE [11C19]

Sudoku: Jocelyn HUNG [07C01] and Ethan JIANG [10N14]

Samurai Sudoku: Dip KALATHIYA [08N09]

Well done to all who had a go and already looking forward to next year's competitions!

Please refer to the attachment for details

The link to the Papercut site where you can use Web Print(mainly useful for those on non-school laptops) is now under the Students menu on the side drawer menu of Lionel.

After logging in with your Lionel username and password. To Print simply click thr Web Print button at the bottom of the list of options on the left.

Next, choose a printer to send your document to, scrolling down and clicking Next. You will then be presented some options. After selecting appropriately, scroll down and clcik Next and you will be able to upload the document you wish to print.

Carl the Kangaroo: Jaeyoung YOO 07R04!

Sudoku: Prisha Kinnar KHOKHANI of 10C13!

Samurai Sudoku: Dip KALATHIYA of 08N09!

Still more chances to win this week – check out our Maths Week Coursepage for details here: https://lionel2.kgv.edu.hk/course/view.php?id=3233

Dear Students and Parents currently in year 8. Although the Academy programme begins in year 8, we currently have a few places open for current year 8 students to join as they go into year 9. Interested students should join the Music Academy Auditions Google Classroom to submit their application/audition. Deadline for applications is Monday 31st March.

The Music Academy is an alternative arts curriculum pathway for gifted and talented KGV musicians where students have the opportunity to develop their musicianship to a much deeper level, working alongside other high-level musicians. 

Looking further ahead, students that can achieve approximately grade 5+ standard by year 11, often score the very top marks at IGCSE Music, particularly in the performance part of the course. The Music Academy is an excellent opportunity to develop many of these skills in preparation for both IGCSE and IB Music. 

If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Leung at (melody.leung@kgv.edu.hk) 

Link to Programme Event Click here!

Mon 17th March:

LUNCH: Chamber Ensembles (x4 Performances) 

AFTER-SCHOOL: Y10-13 Instrumental and Vocal (X16)
- 2:30pm Y10-13 Solo Instrumental (X8)
- 3:30pm Y10-13 Vocal (X8)

Tues 18th March:
LUNCH: Y7-9 Instrumental (X8)

Weds 19th March: LUNCH: Y7-9 Vocal (X8)

Thurs 20th March: LUNCH: Large Ensembles (X8)

Fri 21st March:
CONCERT EVENT - Everyone to watch.
2pm/Period 5 - Highlights Concert and results for whole school

Carl the Kangaroo: Spencer YU of 07C04!

Sudoku: Ethan JIANG of 10N14!

Samurai Sudoku: Alvin LAM of 13C21!

And our last 2048 Winner, 5th target 32768 : Marin ASAKA of 13N21!

Plenty more chances to win this week – check out our Maths Week Coursepage for details here: https://lionel2.kgv.edu.hk/course/view.php?id=3233

Please refer to attachment for details.

After 4 days of great rounders, we have the following results.

1st place - Upsdell 13.5 points

2nd place - Rowell 10 points

3rd place - Nightingale 8.5 points

4th place - Crozier - 8 points

Well done to Upsdell for their second win this year.

We have a couple of big events going on at the moment with Interhouse maths and Interhouse music, both category 1 events, looking to finish over the next couple of weeks. This will have a big effect on current standings. We also have the inaugural Tour de KGV next week, which is a cycling competition for accumulative distance cycled. More details for this to follow.

We also have KGV Chef running at the moment. The results from round 1, which was based on number of entries, are;

1st place - Rowell 35 entries

2nd place - Crozier 31 entries

3rd place - Upsdell 23 entries

4th place - Nightingale 19 entries

The second round will see teams from each house compete against each other in a cook off. This will be run in the near future.

You can see the winners from round 1 below.

 Well done to all competitors across the range of events! It is a busy finish to the term so lots of house points up for grabs. 

Dear Students

We are delighted to announce that KGV will be staging an adaptation of Animal Farm for its whole school play in November 2025. The intention is that this will be performed using a mixture of life-sized puppets for the main roles, masked performers for the smaller roles, and animated backdrops.

We are really excited by the whole venture and want to make it the best we have done in years – big, loud, brash, fast-paced, hard-hitting, with high production values.

Rehearsals will take place on Wednesdays and Thursdays after school from mid-September (not during Challenge Week).  Scripts will be issued before the summer holiday, and there is an expectation you know your lines BEFORE we start rehearsals. There will also be rehearsals on Saturdays 15th and 22nd November.  You must be able to attend all rehearsals to be offered a role.

For those of you who will be in Years 12 and 13, it can be used for CAS, obviously. 

This round of auditions, which is for main characters,  will be open to Current Y9, Y10, 11 and 12. (Students in Y7 and Y8 will be invited to audition in the summer term). 

Auctions will take place on Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th March, 1.35 pm in DS402.

Please wear clothes you can move in (not your school uniform),  as this will be a physical audition.  

If you would like to audition, please complete this quick Google Form so we know which day to expect to see you at the auditions. 

Thank you

The Drama Team

Following extensive feedback, to help with your planning for this year and to ease some of the assessment pressure, we have tried to group Year 12 & 13 summative assessments and IA schedules into distinct blocks and to include periods of time with no assessments. 

The Y12/13 assessment schedule and an explanation of how it works is HERE. Please note that exact dates for assessments and IA deadlines etc should be communicated to you well in advance. Please continue to liaise with your teachers regarding these dates. However, they should be in line with this new schedule.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. 

Grab your friends and join us for a lunch time of fun playing everyone's favourite game, Just Dance! On Wednesday, March 19th in the GLT at lunchtime. 

Hey Nightingale!

Hope you're all doing great! We've got an exciting event coming up: Tour de KGV is happening this Wednesday during lunchtime 1:40 so please arrived by 1:35 in PE2 you can also bring your lunch! We really need your help to make it a success! The more participants we have, the more we can rotate and take breaks, which boosts our chances of coming in 1st place!

If we can get at least 4 people from each year group, all you'll need to do is cycle at your maximum effort for just 10 minutes. So spread the word to your friends and don't forget to bring your PE kit if you're signing up!

Here's the sign-up link: https://forms.gle/ztMnA4g9P1oQjbP39

See you there!!

Love, 

Your HCs <3

Link to SIGN UP FORM

Join, who knows you might get in...

We would be hosting meetings every Wednesday to spend time working on your specific roles. 

Role Descriptions:

1. Researcher: you will need to research one topic every 2 weeks (should only take roughly 30-40 minutes only). You will also need a passion for global issues and niche topics.
2. Writer: Use the research provided to write a short script that can be used in a podcast 
3. Editor: Edit 5-20 minute video clips. Experience in any video editing app is fine and it doesn't need to be sophisticated. 
4. Speakers: you will be starring in our videos! This will however be done virtually so it only requires minimum time commitment

Link to sign up: https://forms.gle/HbSpj4ypCgoDvBo89

Encourage your younger siblings and friends to join the Easter Cards Making Workshop on April 5 from 2 PM to 4 PM in Kowloon!

This is a wonderful chance for them to get creative and make beautiful handmade cards, which will be handed to elderly in the Hong Kong community. All materials provided.

Sign them up today: Registration Form

Hi everyone!

We are thrilled to announce that we are recruiting Charity Committee Ambassadors for our upcoming Terms 2 and 3 events!

We are looking for around 10 enthusiastic students from Years 9 to 10 who are dedicated to raising charity awareness at KGV. As an Ambassador, you’ll have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with our charity initiatives and make a positive impact in our school community.

Possible roles include:

• Collecting donations during dress casual days
• Selling charity products during lunchtime
• Assisting in organising charity events

Don’t miss this chance to get involved and contribute to a great cause!

If you’re passionate about charity and ready to make a difference, we want to hear from you! Form here: https://forms.gle/GthAXJc2DKddn2AX8

Deadline: Sunday, March 23rd, 23:59
Teacher Supervisor: Ms Fawdry - fawdrs3@kgv.hk and Ms Lau - laup14@kgv.hk

Attention all student CAS leaders:

Want to promote your CAS group in a printed newspaper? Well, the school newspaper is the solution for you! Fill in the form below and you can have your CAS group (and its upcoming events) featured on our monthly printed editions!

Don’t miss out on this golden opportunity to spread the word of your cause, and submit your entry before the school year ends!

https://forms.gle/uM9q537S1zEoR5Qy9 

If you are chosen, your team will be emailed for further details or a short interview. 

Feel free to email caglii1@kgv.hk or leer17@kgv.hk if you have any questions. 

Hi KGV! We’re the school’s I&E Prefects! We’re currently launching our first initiative of the year, working to increase awareness about our school’s behaviour policy as well as address any student concerns towards it. If you’re interested, please sign up using this form to become an Inclusion & Equity Ambassador. 

Sign up form: https://forms.gle/h6SH7oxxv3ExyBiE8

Even if you don’t wish to work on this initiative, the I&E team has meetings every week where students discuss their own experiences with school and can pass on feedback to the school’s leadership team. Please note that this Ambassador role is not a requirement to join these meetings, and has no bearing on our discussion sessions. Feel free to come to EN201 every Wednesday Lunchtime, or email any of the 4 of us to have a chat outside of these meetings. We’d love to hear from you to see how we can make each student feel more safe, known, heard and successful. 

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at damodm1@kgv.hk, zhangz3@kgv.hk, yanc1@kgv.hk, shahd3@kgv.hk, or our teacher supervisor Ms Maggie Chan at chanm75@kgv.hk. 

This is a survey for our English Summative about gender stereotypes. The impact we wish to have is to break down stereotypes and social norms to create a more inclusive society for all genders. 

The link to our survey is here: Survey Link

Our teacher supervisor is Ms Pearl SUN. 
Class Code: 09108

Hi, everyone! We are a group of Year 9 students: Anna Choi, Ellie Choy, and Vito Lau, and we are working on clothing consumption and textile waste for our community project.

We want to understand your clothing habits and how you dispose of your clothes. It’s a quick survey with all multiple choice questions, so it won’t take long! Your responses will help us identify trends in our community. The survey is completely anonymous.

Take the survey here: https://forms.gle/86qoYRSWrBSNhKi56

If you have any questions, feel free to email choyc5@kgv.hk. Thank you for your time :)

Teacher Supervisor: Mr Mitchell

Dear KGV, 

Please help us complete this Google form about gender stereotypes for our English project. We would truly appreciate it! 

Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYCZDXCtGA6kNHeIvXYO25ZzW2g_XzTlggUnV3HhnGiDJyLg/viewform?usp=header 

Free candy or chocolate! (Email kwoka7@kgv.hk)

Thank you so much! 
Alex Li, Aidan Yip, Alex Kwok, Kimberley Broughton and Hitomi Takeuchi (Permission given by Mr. Counsell)