Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Thank you for your ongoing support during our Challenge Week programme this week. To be honest, the weather caused a lot of trials and tribulations, especially with outdoor activities. Our students, staff and external providers have shown considerable resilience and have gained so much from the week. A special shout out to our Year 7 students who have experienced their first Challenge Week and have pushed themselves hiking, cycling and coasteering.

Thank you to VP Tim Carrell and Ian Goff for leading the Challenge week programme and all our staff involved. It takes many hours of planning and organising for each activity, and we appreciate very much the work needed to provide a range of activities for our students. Challenge Week strongly aligns with our school mission to ‘be your own remarkable’, and we hope many students got the chance to learn new skills, make new friends, and challenge themselves!

Government Grant Forms

Thank you to all the parents who have returned the $2500 Government Grant forms. We submitted these forms this week. We are emailing parents who have not yet returned the form to us to remind them so we can meet the Government deadline. Please email Kiran at kiran.budhrani@kgv.edu.hk if you have any questions.

Winter Uniform

Our Winter uniform period starts this Monday, 7 November. The only significant difference is that students wear ties during the Winter months. Please see here for our uniform policy. To avoid parents paying delivery charges for the ties, we have purchased a bulk quantity from our online supplier and will sell them to our students from our KGV Shop with no markup. However, you may also buy the ties from the uniform supplier’s website. Please explore our uniform website for winter uniform purchases. Next week is transition week as we support our students moving to our Winter uniform.

Learning Reviews

As mentioned several weeks ago, we are looking to trialing a new approach to parent and teacher interviews (called Learning Reviews) this year. We discussed the concept in some detail with parents PTSA, who endorsed our opinion that parents see the Learning Reviews with subject teachers as a most valuable type of reporting and feedback. The challenge in the past is that scheduled interviews across an evening for a specific year level never provide enough appointment slots for parents to see all the teachers they wish to see.

To address this, we plan to concentrate all Learning Review interviews on two days, Wednesday, 23 November and Thursday, 1 December and the evening of 6 December. We expect that these times will provide enough opportunity for every parent to speak to all subject teachers of their daughter and son. On the two days of interviews, students will be provided with detailed work they can access online via Google Classrooms. Interview booking processes will be emailed to parents later next week.

Have a good evening.

Mark Blackshaw

Principal, KGV School

Year 12 and 13 Message

We hope all of our students made the most of their Challenge Week experiences and look forward to seeing everyone on Monday morning.

Wishing you a great weekend.

Message from Year 7

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

What a week! Definitely a 'challenge' for all this week!

I want to thank you for your support. Your children have been amazing. It has been a real pleasure to spend the week with them. I hope they have come home each evening with stories of new friends they have made and challenges they have conquered. Please express to them how proud teachers are of them and their attitudes.

Next week,  we come back in winter uniform.  This essentially means wearing a school tie.  We will have a transition week to ensure all families have had the chance to purchase the tie. There is a small stock of ties available from our KGV shop. Starting 14 November,  all students should  be wearing a tie.

The first of our Learning Reviews takes place on 23 November. Details will be sent to you next week about how to make appointments with your child's subject teachers.

Have a great weekend.

The Year 7 Team

Year 8 & 9 Message

We hope all of our students made the most of their Challenge Week experiences and that they have come home each evening with stories of new friends they have made and challenges they have conquered. Please express to them how proud the KGV teachers are of them and their efforts this week. 

We will return next week in our Winter Uniform. This essentially means wearing a school tie.  We will have a transition week to ensure all families have had the chance to purchase the tie. There is a small stock of ties available from our KGV shop. Starting 14 November, all students should be wearing a tie.

The first of our Learning Reviews takes place on 23 November. Details will be sent to you next week about how to make appointments with your child's subject teachers.

Wishing you a great weekend, we look forward to seeing everyone on Monday morning.

Careers & H.E. Guidance

Our email address: careers.office@kgv.edu.hk.

KGV Careers Website is another platform where we share information and resources on higher education, scholarship, external events, enrichment programmes and many more.

Year 13
We hope our Y13 students managed to catch up on their H.E. applications over Challenge Week.

• 1-1 H.E. meetings. Most of our Y13 students should have met with their HE Counsellors to discuss their post-KGV moves. If they haven’t done so, they should get in touch with the Careers Team at the soonest.
• Close communication with HE Counsellors. Apart from keeping to internal deadlines, students should work closely with their HE Counsellors and keeping informed of their HE appplications. Any missed communication may result is delay in providing necessary support for applications, which may result in missed offers.
• Student official full names are used on school transcripts. We would like to ask parents to check that their children’s official full name in school record matches that on their identity documents. This is especially so when students are known in school by their preferred names which may not be their official names. Unmatched names may cause difficulties with university offers.
• Google Classroom. All resources for Y13 higher education applications are available via Google Classroom, including internal deadlines.
• Next upcoming internal deadline: 9 Nov for UK & USA regular applications. By this date, UK regular applicants should have completed their UCAS applications, while US regular applicants should have informed their HE Counsellor of the institutions they are applying to and entered the list into their Unifrog account.

University Events on the KGV Careers Calendar

Highlight of upcoming events:

On-site visits
10 Nov: University of Hong Kong, with KGV alumni sharing experience

Hong Kong
4 Nov: HKU Webinar: Tips on Writing Personal Statements & Sharing from HKU Scholarship Recipients
5 Nov: HKUST Information Day
15 Nov: HKU Sports Scholars Admission Scheme

U.K.
Nov, various dates: Cambridge Applicant Webinar Series
Nov, various dates: U of Bath webinars
3 Nov: UCL Faculty of Law: Ask Your Questions
3 Nov: U of Edinburgh: Engineering Virtual Sessions

U.S.A. / Canada
5 Nov: U of Toronto HK Scholarships In-Person Session (English)
8 Nov: Oxford & Cambridge Foundation Years Info Event
17 Nov: U of Pennsylvania: Intro to International Financial Aid

Europe
3 Nov: EU Business School webinar
5 Nov: Study in Austria hybrid education fair
12 Nov: Study @ Hanze
17 Nov: Virtual Study in Netherlands Fair

Australia
Nov: Charles Darwin University: various webinars
5 Nov: University of Sydney: Meet Sydney Virtual Information Session

Singapore
21 Nov: NUS Info Sharing & Q&A

KGV Careers Team

Friday 18 November 2022, 1:00 - 1:45pm

We are committed to supporting our parents through their journey at KGV, therefore have created several opportunities for you to engage with the school.  ‘Feedback Friday‘ is one such opportunity for you to engage in a personalised, small group online session on a Friday, to chat with the Principal, Mark Blackshaw on various topics or areas you would like to discuss.

Our upcoming session will be on Friday 18 November 2022, 1:00-1:45 pm, online.

Once you sign up for a session/s, a link will be sent to you closer to the time of the meeting.

If you would like to attend this or other sessions this term, please sign up on this form.

For enquiries contact Kiran at kiran.budhrani@kgv.edu.hk