The Wah Yan Times Issue 5

8/2/2019 The Wah Yan Times Issue 5

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The Wah Yan TimesVolume No. 5 Published by Wah Yan College, Kowloon Tursday, Apr

Invesigaive Challenge: Which eacher graduaed rom HKU wih a frs-

class honours degree? By Junior Edior, Herman Lam 3W and Junior Reporer, Jason Wong 1W;Edied by Senior Ediors, Jonahan Wong and Isaac Tam

Master Chan Visiting the aer Monastryin Qinghai Province Photo: Master Chan

Master Chan is the His-tory teacher or most juniorstudents and the panel heado History. Most students in

Hong Kong may think thatHistory is not a pragmaticsubject, but Master Chanchose it as his major in uni-versity due to his love o thissubject. He believes that it canenhance ones analytical andcommunication skills.

A Diverse Student LifeMaster Chan was born in

Hong Kong, and studied in aprestigious Catholic school.He was a student leader inthe Students Association,the Catholic Society and theEditorial Board.

He went to college in theU.S. and studied Liberal Artsin Austin, exas. He wid-ened his horizons by meetingdierent people like Asian-Americans, Arican-Ameri-cans and Hispanic-Americans.Tis also gave him a chanceto learn the proper way tointeract with others. For thethird year o his Bachelorsdegree, he attended the Uni-versity o Hong Kong, wherehe spent another two yearsor his Masters degree in ad-dition to one more year orhis postgraduate Diploma inEducation. He graduated witha First-Class Honours or hishistory degree and attained ascholarship or his postgradu-ate studies.

Te Master MysteryTere are three reasons

why I let my students call

me Master Philip

Chan. First o all,during the MiddleAges, the rela-tionship betweena teacher and astudent was knownas master and ap-prentice. Second,according to one othe aims o Jesuiteducation, the rela-tionship between a

teacher and a student canbe described as a master anda student. Finally, a master re-

treats rom the material worldto a certain extent. He wantsto emphasize that he centreson spiritual instead o materialpursuits when he teaches.

He is enthusiastic aboutthe history o China and inparticular Buddhist art alongthe Silk Road - an importantgateway to the West in ancienttimes. It was through thisnetwork o trade routes thatChina communicated withCentral Asia, India, Persia,Syria, and Rome.

Love of ravellingMaster Chan believes trav-

elling can help him under-stand more about a place be-yond the knowledge in books.When conducting research orhis Masters Degree, MasterChan spent one year travellingalong the Silk Road, both theChinese section and the Cen-tral Asian section. He learntMandarin in Northern Chinaand communicated well withthe other scholars in his eldin Xinjiang and Uzbekistan.

Besides China, he has alsomade countless trips to Japan.He travelled across Kyoto, thecapital o Japan beore MeijiReorm, to okyo, the currentcapital since 1868. His mostexciting journey in Japan wasto Hiroshima and Nagasaki,the two places devastated byatomic bombs in WWII. Hetook many pictures o historic

monuments and religious sites

there.eaching Life

He became a teacher be-cause teaching is his lielonggoal and he believes the jobsaeguards a stable pension.

Prior to teaching at WahYan, Master Chan served insome other band one schoolswhere he taught EnglishLanguage as a core subjectwith History and Geographyas minor subjects. He hadbeen a panel head o Historyor three years in anotherwell-established coeducationalschool. Students selected himas one o the ten most popularteachers there.

He thinks that Wahyanitesare the best students hes evertaught. He said that his cur-rent students are extremelypassionate about studying.

Master Chan said that heappreciated the academicreedom in Wah Yan.

During his lessons, he in-sists on using English thoughits dicult to explain somehistorical terms without Can-tonese. Its simply becauseCantonese is not allowed hereas Wah Yan is an English-medium school, said MasterChan.

He accepts the reality thatthe majority o Hong Kongstudents do not like studyingHistory, but he supposed thatthey have not used the rightmethod. In order to makestudying history a pleasure, hesuggests students to transormboring texts into unnyimages, including conceptmaps, political cartoons, neart and world maps.

ErrataOops, the winner o theChinese New Year photocompetition in last issuewas Matthew Lau rom 2Wnot 5K.

he ourth extraordinarycouncil meeting was held onMarch 30 rom 4 pm to 7 pmin the Student Activity Centreconcerning the reormation othe Sports Committee and theissue o the Coach Fee.

Te Sports Committeewas seeking approval to bereormed into the SportsAssociation, stating that itwould increase eciency andenhance sports development.

Te main reason to re-orm is that communicationbetween the Liaison Boardo Clubs and Societies, theSports Committee and Clubstakes a lot o time, and by re-orming the Sports Commit-tee, the communication timecould be greatly reduced,claimed Fung Kwun Ping,chairman o Sports Commit-tee this academic year. In thePremiere Leagues, reerees areneeded rom other clubs. Werst had to contact the LiaisonBoard, then [the LiaisonBoard] contact the clubs. Tisprocess is tedious and ine-cient.

I the Sports Committeecould be reormed into theSports Association, all the

Sports Clubs wouldthe Sports Associat

munication could bliorated. Funds spesports could also bsooner, as procedube less wearisome,

Ever since the sccontroversial policlect eam Coach Fstudents has been ithere has been muccism. According toManagement, on ththe nal day o theSchool Athletics MFebruary 23, the pr

noticed six athletesnot paid the ee, soadministrators withHong Kong SchoolFederation (HKSSFOne athlete, who hcompeted, reused expressed that he wdraw. His ee was by the athletic teamand several membeteam members haddraw rom the combecause o inabilitynon-payment o th

ee, according to arom the School M(Cont. on page 2)

A HEATED DISCUSSION

By Junior Reporter, Timothy Yeung 2W

Photo Competition Winn(Topic: Biodiversity)

A dragonfy at Li Cheng Uk Swimming Pool

Photo by Michael Yeung 4C

Judges Words: Its really hard to take a still shot o ay. Tis photo shows Yeungs skills on taking dynamIt also reminds us that wildlie is always around us, n

when and where.


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(Cont. rom page 1)Te School Management

Committees Statement on theCollection o School eamCoach Fee avowed that thepolicy aims to relieve thenancial burden o the schooland to encourage better at-tendance.

Although the statement

claimed that the number oteam members with 80%attendance had risen rom42%-78% in 2009/10 to 79.4%in 2010/11, the data is mis-leading. Data in 2009/10 wascalculated dierently thanin 2010/11. In 2010/11, iabsentees have an excuse likechoir practice, training wouldnot be considered duringcalculation. Tereore, the realattendance rate remains un-known. Principal Dr John anpromised to give data with the

same calculation method later.Tere are alternative

techniques to boost attend-ance. In La Salle College,when team members reach acertain attendance rate, theyget PARKnSHOP coupons,said orm three student YanKang Hong. He asked theprincipal to consider similartechniques.

On the other hand, Ms LisaWong criticized the negativeapproach toward the policy.Why are you expecting other

people to pay everything oryou? Why cant you pay ityoursel? said Ms Wong.

P.E. teacher Mr se ChunMing said that things couldalways be considered throughtwo perspectives sense andsensibility. Tere would beno problem at all i I had toban a student rom compet-ing because he had not paidthe coach ee, but consideringmy own eelings, I could not

do so.In 2010/11, the school

collected $93,300 rom coachees, and gave out $74,100or attendance awards, onlya mere $19,200 revenue.How can $20,000 relieve thenancial burden? a studentchallenged. Te principalclaimed that $20,000 is the

whole budget o the tabletennis team, and it may not besignicant or the school, butit is signicant or a team.

But is it worth $20,000 orall the trouble it has caused?a student asked. Te principalsaid: I dont see any link be-tween the media attention andthe school, but see a rise inattendance. Te media tendsto be negative, and neglectsthe positive things that arehappening, like the increasein attendance.

Te principal promised that[the policy] was not designedto be permanent, i the coach-ing expenses in sports wouldbe trimmed or i recurrentsubsidies or sports rom theWah Yan One Family Foun-dation (WYOFF) increase toa level that could sustain theexisting level o recurrent ex-penditure, collection o coachees might be stopped. WahYan One Family Foundationwill be asked about the pos-sibility o recurrent subsidies

in sports in the next ve years(to replace the existing prac-tice o a year-by-year subsidyconrmed around Decemberin each school year), andother sources o donationswill also be explored. Te ea-sibility o resuracing the grasspitch will be explored togetherwith potential external part-ners, said Dr an.

Te principal also urgedstudents to think o ways to

help theschool.

A HEATED DISCUSSION

Edited by Senior Editor, Jerey Fong 4K

Means And EndsBy Senior Reporter,

Billy Wong 5S

As you may know, onethird o the coach-ees hasbeen paid by school teammembers since last semester.

Tere have been so many disa-greements among the schoolteam members.

On February 23, the daybeore the Inter-school Ath-letic Championships nal, sixparticipants registration cardsor the competition were heldby the school authorities. Tereason was that they had notpaid the coach ee. At the endo the day, other members oathletic team paid or theirteammates, so that they couldnally take part in the compe-

tition.Regarding this issue, some

students were heartbroken.Some were disgusted. Oth-ers disappointed. Most o thestudents were urious. Teycondemned the policy o theschool.

So what is wrong with thepolicy? Students have beentold that there are two mainpurposes o the coach eepolicy: rst, to share the nan-cial burden with the school;and second, to promote the

punctuality and attendance oschool sports teams training.

First o all, it is reasonableor students to pay to alleviatethe nancial diculty o theschool. With the developmento many new kinds o sports such as hockey, ice hockey,baseball, volleyball and gol the original resources will bedispersed, and consequently,the money spent on each teamwill decrease. In other words,you will get a smaller slice othe pie when sharing it with

more people. Tereore, itis reasonable or athletes toshoulder part o the expendi-ture on coaches.

Some may argue thatthe school should ocus onpopular sports and sports withadvantages or developing.Tese may include sports thatthe present school acilitiescan support and sports in

which school teams had pastachievements. Tis is unairand selsh. Every studentshould have the chance to playhis avourite sport. Studentsshould be glad that the schoolhas worked hard to providea wide platorm or manykinds o sports.Te school has

always worked hard to provideas many opportunities as itcan or students. Besides, ithe school only developed andput most resources on sportsthat bring medals or trophies,I believe this would not beWah Yan College, but schoolsthat buy players.

In addition, in many otherschools, coaching ees are verycommon. School team mem-bers, o course, hope or bettertraining with better coaches.Tus, the school has to hire

proessional coaches. Whatdo you think a team wouldbe without a coach? It wouldsoon collapse. So would yourather pay several hundreddollars (or have your parentsdo it) or see the school teamail?

Some students blame theschool or supporting mu-sic more than sports. Choirmembers can go to Koreaand the U.S. or only about$3000 - $4000 or two weekswhile the proposal or athletic

teams training in Mainland,which costs the whole team$60,000, was rejected. Tis is amisunderstanding. Te MusicAssociation raises unds ortheir activities. Tey hold theAnnual Concert every year toraise money.

Should we do the same orsports by separating the sportscommittee rom the StudentsAssociation and setting up aSports Association which cancontrol and manage und-rais-ing unctions or school sports

activities? In this way, theund-raising programs can beorganized in better way, andso the team can use unds thathave been raised. Te idea ostudents paying a coaching eeisnt a problem, but when thecoach ee becomes more oan admission ee, it becomesa big problem. Our athleteshave to pay or be orced to

pay in order to parthe inter-school coTis doesnt make

aking part in a tion or the school o pride or all studwork hard and traicause we all want toor our school in th

Now, let us talk asecond purpose o ee, which is to enhpunctuality and atto students in schotraining. In order tattendance rate, theare told to pay the and when they hav80% attendance, tha ull reund. Tis scommonly known payment. Studentscontent with this pthe coach ee will, i

bring about an oppon attendance.

Tis policy has mschool teams seemcurricular classes, iclasses or training cthus students lose tmination and do nthemselves to trainothers are simply upay the down paymabsences will resultthose who attend ththey will have less ction.

Comparing the oresults in all kinds in the Bank o ChinKong Bauhinia Bowthe Hong Kong SchFederation, we canWah Yan College, Khad a total o 100 p2007/08, 87 points and 84 points in 20the number droppe66 points in 2010/1coaching ee was duced.

Tis shows a pos

tionship between thee policy and our rsport. Te main reathe atmosphere in grown worse becaupolicy.

O course, therereasons or the lowrate and the decreacation o students iteams. (Cont. on p

COMMENTARY

Dr an at Student Council Meeting; Photo: Ivy Zhang


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Means And Ends(Cont. rom page 2)

In parents minds, academicresults, and extra-curricularactivities can create a betterchance o university admis-sion.

Students are told, withoutany degrees, they will nevernd wealth-generating jobs.In the end, they only careabout money. Sports? Teydisregard it. It is seeminglyunimportant to their uture.Brainwashed, they wouldrather go the tutorial classesthan join sports teams. Teywould rather do revision in PElessons than play sports. Somemay even not change intotheir PE clothes. Tis mindsetis very wrong.

Besides, it is contradictorythat while the school says thepolicy is to share the nan-cial burden with students,students who meet the 80%attendance critieria will get aull reund. Tanks to our paststudents who also disagreewith the policy and who havedonated so much money orsports events, students can gettheir money back. Ten is thecoach ee really necessary?

Another problem is thesense o belonging to WYK.Students should be responsi-ble sports team members whoattend training regularly. Dothey take pride in their mem-bership?

Wahyanites should alsobe proud and grateul or theenvironment. We have a bigcampus or sports training.Although the quality o theootball pitch is not perect,our school is still better thanmany schools which do noteven have a ootball pitch.When every member devoteshimsel to training and everycompetition, sports teams willhave excellent results and theschool will be willing to givemore support.

Te school can also help inthis situation. Te school canput more eort into promot-ing sports and separatingsports into the elite and localtypes. For the elite type, or theschool teams, who will takepart in inter-school competi-tions and ght or glory. Stu-dents can join the school team

by screening, and texcellent perormaselected.

For the local typpurpose is to develinterest in dierentHolding training costudents that cost lthose oered by othzations would be ap

It is not the policbut the way that th

introduces the poliproblematic. In No2010, all school teabers were invited towhere each o thema notice on the coskind o sport. Te PDr an inormed thmembers that theyhave to pay the coabecause o the schocial diculties.

Some were poinissue while others sadly, included the

were inappropriateat individuals, and disharmony betweand the school. Tihave been avoided policy had been inta more transparentwith more commun

o make it clear,opinion, paying theing ee is reasonablthe school should nbid students to takecompetitions becauinability to pay the

rule and money thaor the pride and glschool? Te schoolthe ee afer the comWhy carry out suchthat damages the reship between studeschool? It is all aboto carry out the polend is correct but tare wrong.

I am grateul thacipal has communithe Student Councthe misunderstand

disagreement will band sports teams wto receive support school.

And, ellow studagain, please devotto all sports trainino being Wahyaniteproud to compete school.

He Says, He SaysShould Athletes Pay Coach Fees Every Year?

By Junior Reporters, Niko Tang and Matthew Lau 2W

M: Isn't that what a teacher issupposed to do? Heavyworkload? Tat's why I

suggested or them to share itwith other teachers, so youjust need may be an hourevery week, there is more thanone teacher who is good atootball in the school. Tereare more solutions to thisproblem, I'm sure we can ndother ways to und our sportsdevelopment which are betterthan requiring our students to

A Few Facts Coach ee is an annual

ee paid by students in

sports teams and it var-ies rom some hundredto $1300 (tennis team)

With over 80% at-tendance, ee will bereturned

You may receive ex-emption rom coachees, i you are an ap-plicant o subsidy romthe government

Layout by Junior Designer, Jason Chung 2W

Niko (N): I support theschool to charge studentscoaching ees.Matthew (M): I think its ahorrible idea, why would the

school do that?N: Tat is or the huge amounto money that the school paysto coaches who teach thesports teams.

M: Te resources or thatshould be provided by theschool, i not, request it romthe Wah Yan One FamilyFund. Te school pays ortrips to music competitionswhich are in excess o $10,000,I cant see why it cannot aorda bit more to help with sports?

N: O course, there are mil-

lions o dollars in the ounda-tion, but i we spend withoutcontrol, there wont be muchmoney lef. Moreover, a ewyears ago, our school wasntgood at music, but we gotgood athletic results at that

M: Tat is exactly why weneed to allocate more resourc-es or sports. I we charge stu-dents, some may be unhappyand quit the team, resultingin a loss o talent. As I said,we have a und that provides

resources or us, why wouldwe need to charge that muchrom our students then.

N: As it is named, most o theees would be the salary orcoaches.

M: Isnt it our schools visionstatement to provide a holis-tic, liberating, and transorm-ing education, in particularthe poor and the neglected?I we charge school ees, howwill the poor stay on theteams? Forget about the re-und, they cant even pay theinitial ee!

N: Poor students can apply orexemptions.

M: But the exemptions needamily income proo. Somepeople may be just out thatbracket.

N: Well, I eel extremely sorryor those who are not able toapply or scholarships. Sportsare about team spirit, and weshould care about our team-mates, and try to help themout. Moreover, many o ourcoaches do not work or ree.In act, some o them charge

very high ees because o theirhigh qualications and ame.

M: Maybe it is not necessaryor these coaches to teach hereat Wah Yan. I'm sure someparents are good at sports,and the school could askwhether any parents want tovolunteer.

For example, the swimmingteam is coached by a par-ent o an old boy, who worksvoluntarily and that is whythe swimming team does nothave to pay a coach ee. Also,the school holds student vsteacher soccer matches onMonday afer school, some othe teachers are actually verygood at soccer; they couldteach our soccer team in turnto spread workload.

N: However, there may onlybe a small number o parentswho are skilled in a particularsport, and the practice timeta-

ble may clash with their jobs.It will be very hard to ndsuch parents. I know teacherswith excellent air, but theyhave their own work to do.Tey need to teach, organ-ize sports events and otherjobs that they won't havemuch energy lef to coach theteam. Tus, there are no othersolutions to und the soaring

Matthew Lau 2W

Niko ang


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Letter to Karen By Ian Shue 5YPicture Narative: The HikeBy Curtis Cheng 1W

Last Sunday, I went hikingwith my riends through thehills near Sai Kung. I was theone who carried the map andso, I told my riends which

way to go since I was the onlyone who knew how to read amap.

We will turn lef at thenext sign. I told my riends,then I ound mysel tumblingdown the hill at blindingspeed!

Ouch! Ahhh! I cried out.Luckily, the slope was

covered in grass, so I just gotsome minor bruises and a badheadache. My riends calledme rom above. Tey told methat there was no telephone

network nearby and theywould walk to the next villageor help. Down in the valley,

I ound a wooden box. Insidethe box, I ound a satellitephone. I dialed the emergencyhotline 999 and the operatorsaid a rescue team was on its

way to help me.About hal an hour later,some remen arrived on thetrail where my riends wereand they made their waydown the hill. Te rementold me they had requested ahelicopter rom the Govern-ment Flying Service and itwould arrive in another halan hour.

Finally, the helicopter came.A man on board climbeddown a rope and carried meup to the helicopter, and then

they ew me to the hospital tosee i I had any internalinjuries. Tankully, I was not

Illustrated by Ben Chan 1J

CLASSWORKask: You need to write a letter back to Karen, a riend o yours whose amily hto Australia a ew years ago. Karen is worried about her son Jason because he iswell in school.

Dear Karen,

It has been a long timesince we last met. I am glad tohear that you guys are doingwell in Australia. We are allne in Hong Kong and daysare the same, so theres noneed to worry about us. Imsorry to hear that Jason didntwant to go to school. Maybehe has problems in school?Can I help by giving you myadvice?

I think the reason whyJason could not learn withothers there is due to the di-erences between Hong Kongand Australia. Tere are sever-al dierences, namely cultural,educational, and language.

Firstly, or the culturaldierence, I think Jason stillhasnt got used to lie in Aus-tralia. For example, Austral-ians preer outdoor activitiessuch as swimming, wind-sur-ing and sun-bathing as enter-tainment, rather than playingmahjong or singing karaoke.Also, the weather isnt thesame as Hong Kong. Austral-ians celebrate Christmas insummer while Hong Kongersin winter. Such dierencesmay make him ail to t intolie in Australia, so he couldntlearn with others there.

Secondly, the mothertongue o Australians is Eng-lish. It may be hard or Jasonto communicate with othersin English only. Tereore,

he couldnt express his owneelings directly. Besides, sinceJason may not be amiliar withEnglish, he may not under-stand the instructions givenby his teachers. Tus, he mayget rustrated and pay littleattention in class. Tis hindershis learning.

Lastly, the problems mayarise rom the dierences inthe education system in HongKong and Australia. Westerneducation emphasizes the im-portance o students creativ-

ity and sel-motivation. Teypreer students to do whateverthey want so as to developtheir own potential. Unortu-nately, in the education systemin Hong Kong, students dowhat they are told. As a result,Jason may lack creativity andbe lost.

o improve, I think Jasonshould join his peers moreofen, in order to get used tohis lie in Australia. He mayparticipate in activities heldby the locals, such as parties,

sports riendly matches orsimply hanging out with them.Trough interacting with

locals, he can makewith whom he can when they need it. Jason should nd atutor to improve hi

skills (or example skills, writing skillsskills), then he can with others.

I think you can asomething. You machat with his class tas to understand yosituation more tho

For his idea o lehome by visiting edwebsites himsel, I though its not a baVisiting such webshelp, but spending

time alone may hinvelopment o his ction skills. School iabout gaining knowalso about learningcooperate and comwith others. I Jasointeraction skills, hpersonal relationshget worse and nalbecome sel-centernot benecial to hi

Well Im sure thiimprove soon!

Your riend,Ian

Fiction: The Kidnapping By Justin Tse 2W; Illustration by Jason Chung 2WBruce ran up the ights

o stairs towards the westerngate o the school. It was usu-ally crowded and noisy uponstudents arrival in the morn-ing. It was abnormally quietand everyone seemed to havedisappeared. Bruce rolled uphis sleeves and looked at his

watch as he walked throughthe gate. 8:19a.m. It was oneminute beore the rst alarmand six minutes beore thetime Bruce usually arrives atschool. What is happening?Bruce asked himsel.

As Bruce walked towardshis classroom, he heardstudents sobbing. Suddenly,a voice boomed, Ill kidnap

all o the students and teach-ers here! I was disappointedin all o you when I wasntpromoted to the panel heado science! Wahahaha! Brucerecognized the voice imme-diately. It was Evil Lee, thescience teacher who alwayshad an evil grin. He must havekidnapped all the students inorder to take revenge. Howevil he is! Ten, an electronicvoice came through a walkietalkie in the classroom. Mas-ter Lee, this is Captain Robot13425. We have just caughtsix students. Which classroomwould you like us to put theprisoners in? Almost imme-diately, another similar mes-sage came through the walkie

talkie. Bruce acknowledgedthat there were many robotsaround the campus catchingstudents or Evil Lee. He hadto hide. Bruce knew imme-diately one place that robotswouldnt search or boys:the womens toilet. When hegot into the womens toilet,he took out his phone anddialed the police. It was eitherengaged or a recording sayingthat the police were very busy.He knew one thing in hismind, i there was no supportrom outside, he would be theonly one who would be able tostop the kidnapping.

He peeked outside througha ventilation an, and saw stu-dents being tied and dragged

by green robots which hadvines and leaves aroundthem. He thought o a tacticagainst these robots: plantswithout light cannot carry outphotosynthesis. I he attractsthe robots into the toilet andswitches o the lights, the ro-bots will stop moving. At least,he can save a ew students. Hecarried out his plan and amaz-ingly, the robots morphedback into science teachers.Tese people are saved, butthey need to get out. Bruceremembered an advertisementabout a phone which could bedialed directly to the personyou wish without any beeps.Luckily, a teacher had one othose phones so Bruce dialed

999.Bruce and the su

stayed in the toiletpolice ocers raidpus. At last, a policound them and tothat the chaos was

Since Bruce helpwhole school, he was the bravest boy science award or hscience knowledgerobots.


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Devoted to Wah YanBy Junior Reporters, David Chan 1J, Tim Fan 1J, and Arthur Lau 1J

Guess which Wah Yanteacher is nicknamed MrBean and makes studentslaugh in lessons?

Yes, it is Mr Percival Ho.Mr Ho said it was in 2008when his 2Y students calledhim Mr Bean during historylesson. He said he has neverbeen angry about it.

Mr Ho said he joined WahYan in September 1996 byaccident. One day, he haddinner with his old class-mates rom Wah Yan, andthe ormer school principalMr Norman So invited himto come back to Wah Yan toteach. And he did.

He has been teaching inWah Yan or many reasons.He said that the campus islarge and he also enjoys thereedom o teaching in WahYan. By the time I became ateacher, I could prepare myown material or classes, saidMr Ho, I enjoyed the workand most o the students likedme, so I continued. Mr Hoteaches both English and His-tory. Whenaskedwhichsub-ject hewouldchoose ihe couldonlyteach one

subject, he said that he wouldchoose English because hestudied Linguistics as a majorsubject in university.

Mr Ho believes teaching isnot only about course content;

its more about preparing stu-dents lives in the uture.

Furthermore, Mr Ho hasbeen managing the CALroom, where students gainaccess to links on globalteaching and learning Eng-lish through dierent typeso media, since 2000. "Mr Howas always very polite and hasbeen treating us quite well. Hehelps us whenever and wher-ever we are in trouble," YeungChun Him, a CAL roompreect rom 4W said.

When asked i he had anyspecial experience in WahYan, Mr Ho said, wo yearsago, one day afer school, Iwas in the Sta CommonRoom. Tere was a phone call.When I picked it up, a studenttold me hed ound a vetbecause he knew one o theteachers pet was very sick.Tis is just wonderul, saidMr Ho, Its not about home-work, or complaints. It eelslike it is not just teachers whocare about students. Students

also care about teachers!

Mr Ho in 1Jclassroom;Photo: Arthur Lau

Edited by Senior Editors, Jonathan Wong 5K and Alister Wong 5S, and Junior Editor Mathew Ho 2W

TEACHER PROFILE

Teachingismoreaboutpreparingstudentslivesin the

future.

Jesuit Heritage By Junior Editor-in-Chie, Ronald CForm six graduates reect

on the education they havereceived at Wah Yan.

Students enjoy the JesuitEducation oered by ourschool, which aims at mak-ing its students progressively

competent, committed, com-passionate, spiritual, and ethi-cally discerning. AlthoughI have no religious belies,it is still an honour or meto receive a Jesuit educationrom Fr Naylor, said MickeyMa, a F6 student. Te men-tion o Jesuit education stirsup memories o his F3 schoollie, when he was taught by Fa-ther Naylor, a dedicated Jesuitather teaching in Wah Yan orover 40 years.

Wah Yan emphasizes

sel-discipline. Our vice-principal, Ms Eva Chau, onceremarked Freedom is not oreverything, you need to takeresponsibility or your ownchoices. Tats what reedomtruly is. Gavin Chan, anotherF6 graduate, said, Our schoolhas done well to cultivate sel-discipline.

In addition to sel-disci-pline, students o Wah YanCollege, Kowloon also learnthinking skills. Cri tical think-ing is widely taught in our

school. Claudio Alan Ip, an-other F6 student, said, I havean interest in debating. Onething I learned is to distin-guish act and ction, and touse my own thinking skills.

Ms Cecilia Chow, theadvisor o the Men or OthersOrganizing Committee, saidJesuits ollow the example oJesus.

each us to give and not tocount the cost. St. Ignatiuso Loyola. Te Jesuits havealways aimed to lend a help-ing hand to those in need,especially the poor and theneglected. Missionaries weresent out across the globe in alarge number o regions acrosssix continents.

Te Jesuits have had a longhistory o helping others. Teynever hesitated to help others,whatever the cost. Duringthe Holocaust in WWII, Jewswere rounded up to be killedby Nazi Germany. Te Jesuitspriests risked their lives torescue the Jews. Yad Vashem,Israels ocial memorial tothe Jewish victims o theHolocaust, has ormally ac-knowledged the Jesuits eorts

to save the Jews duHolocaust. In ApriRockhurst Universuniversity, located City, Missouri, a plmemorating the 15priests, who sacriselves during the Hwas laid down.

Our school is a Jwhich belongs to thTe Society was oryears ago by St. IgnLoyola, who was itcreator and initial SGeneral.

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Class 6Y with Mr Seto on their last school day

SCHOOL NEWS

Why Form

Ones SleepLate?By Junior Reporters, Jason

Wong 1W, Joseph Wu 1Y,

Brian Yeh 1Y, and Arthur

Lau 1J

In March, a total o 64orm one students were sur-veyed and 47 (73%) said they

went to bed at 10:30 pm orlater every day. Among thesestudents, 21 (45%) said it ishomework that keeps themawake late and the rest saidother things like tasks romextra-curricular activities(ECA) or their own interestsand hobbies keep them busy.

Tey may have some chatsor meetings with their girl-riends, or they would surthe net, worry about the nextschool day, or have stress,said Mr Daswani, an English

teacher in Wah Yan, whenasked the cause or studentssleeping late, students shouldcareully plan their days sothey might sleep early.

Ms Choi, however, saidthat its hard to dene what is

late or evaluate the reasons be-hind, because how could youdene too much homework?And when is too late to sleep?For some people, 10:30 maybe late, while or others, 12:00am is still acceptable.

Also in this group ostudents who go to sleep late,16 (34%) spend one hour onhomework every day while18 (38%) use two hours and

11 (23%) need three hours.However, students who go tobed early tend to spend lesstime on homework. Amongthe 17 students who sleep at10 pm, seven (41%) o themspend one hour on homework

every day, eight (47%) o themspend two hours while 2 othem need three hours ormore.

As or ECA, eight (12.5%)o all surveyed students saidthey dont join any or only oneECA, 23 (36%) have two tothree, another 23 have our tove, while the other ten saidthey participate in more thansix activities.

Asked i tutorialhelpul, hal o themit is while the othernot think so. Amonstudents who thinkclasses are useul, hattend one to two t

every week, eight ato our while our oto more than ve aour do not go to anthose who think thneed or orm one go to tutorial classemajority o them dany and only eight or two a week.


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Number o Chrisians Decreased in Wah Yan By Junior Reporers, Timohy Yeung, Jusin Tse , and Mathew

United in Brotherhood By Junior Reporters, Ronald Chiu 3W and Karson Yu 2W

"Brotherhood represents thebond between brothers acrossgenerations," said Mr LesleyChan Ka-Hei, the Conductoro the Senior and Intermediate

Choirs. Tis year, the Home-coming Concert, Brother-hood was named so as tohighlight the special relation-ship that exists between peersand alumni.

Te Old Boys Choir wasthe rst to appear on stage.Tey sung Stand by Me and'One Voice' in a cappella style,which is solo or group singingwithout musical instruments.

Te Senior Choir per-ormed "Over the Rainbow,"a song made amous by Judy

Garland. Te IntermediateChoir perormed "Felszal-lot a pava," an adaptation oa Hungarian olk song. TeJunior Choir perormed "AndTis Shall Be For Music" by

Robert Louis Lightoot andMary Lynn Lightoot, and"Rhythm o Lie" by Cy Cole-man. Te choirs used theconcert or practice beore thecompetitions in March.

In preparation or theHomecoming Concert, theSenior, Intermediate and Jun-ior Choirs practiced harderthan ever.

Junior Choir memberswere excited and we workedvery hard practicing the twosongs. Te second song, Te

Rhythm O Lie, in particular,was really a challenge or theJunior Choir because it was adicult choice or our level.However, we memorized thelyrics within a short period o

time and we tried our best togo through all the details othe song. We also learned tosing while enjoying our ownmusic so people enjoy ourmusic, too. We aim at singingwith our hearts and passion,and to communicate with theothers through music. Wetreasure the precious riend-ship that we built up withinthe past several months andI can tell you a little secret:our Junior Choir boys have adream - to become the best

Junior Choir in HK! said Ms.Agatha Fung, the Conductoro the Junior Choir.

Te Cake S Ensemble,ormed by several alumni whoplayed string instruments,gave a wonderul perormanceo Paul de Waillys "6 Piecesor wo Violins and Cello."

Te Greener's Sound,a mixed choir ounded bymembers o the choir inBelilios Public School andWah Yan College, Kowloon in2010, then proceeded to sing

"Afer that were Come Away,Death." Te group was namedafer the colour o our schooland Belilios Public Schoolsuniorms.

Our principal, Dr. an sang

"Funiculi, Funicula" with anold boy. It is a amous Neapol-itan song written in 1880 tocommemorate the opening othe rst unicular cable car onMount Vesuvius in Naples.

Te Pop Music Society hadtwo bands perorming twodierent songs. One consistedo old boys and one withcurrent students. Althoughone o the main vocalists losthis voice towards the end o"Blackbird," their perormanc-es were still outstanding.

Mr Lin, a talented tenor,then sang "Te Night on thePlain" and "O Sole Mio." Hisperormances were nothingshort o amazing. Accordingto the introduction by theMaster o Ceremony, he wasa parent o a student, so themeaning o "Brotherhood"can extend to the relationshipbetween parents and sons.

Last but not least, the Sym-phony Orchestra perormed"Pictures at an Exhibition"by Mussorgsky. Teir peror-

mance o "Te HuLegs" and "Te Bogwere excellent thathave been mistakenessionals. Tis waso their labour thro

year. Despite their even strenuous praOrchestra memberthemselves very muCheung, a memberString Orchestra anny Orchestra, said,the practice sessionheld almost every lcause a lot o inconto me, I still enjoy tmensely."

Te School Hymthe end o the HomConcert. o conclu

year's HomecominBrotherhood, was esuccessul and provchance or the audienjoy dierent genrom rock to choir,cappellas to orches

Te Homecominwas held in the SchFebruary 25, with aprogrammes by 13perormers and groorganized by the Padents Association.

Intermediate Boys ChoirPhoto: Joseph Wu and Brian Yeh 1Y

SCHOOL UPDATE

Christianity is currently thedominant religion in HongKong, and is growing. Tenumber o Christians in HongKong has prolierated rom670,000 in 2009 to 833,000in 2010, an increase o 25%,according to the Hong Konggovernment Yearbook.

Despite the overall growtho Christians in Hong Kong,the numbers are decreasingin Wah Yan. According to MrChing Wing Kee, a Scienceteacher in Wah Yan, in thepast, about 15% o all studentswere Catholics. However, inthis years F.1 the number

has ebbed to 11%. Mean-while, Christian Fellowship,a Protestant group that meetsweekly, has diminished rom14 students to a mere sevenstudents in just three years,according to Mr Yep, the pas-tor o Christian Fellowship.

Facing the declining num-ber o Christians, PrincipalJohn an stated that Promo-tion o Christianity is not just

the work o the principal, butthe duty o all the sta. Pro-motion o Christianity shouldnot promote just Baptism, butalso the core values o Chris-tianity: reedom, hope andlove.

Te principal believes thatthe decrease is more or lessin line [considering the totalnumber o students], and that

the cause o the huge declinein Catholics in the currentorm one is not understood.Meanwhile, the Pastoral Com-mittee, which is made up odevoted Christians, continuesto hold a number o services,including a service trip to thecity o Luo Ding during theEaster Holiday.

Te city o Luoding is thehometown o Mr Wan, one o

Wah Yans janitors. In the trip,feen studentsgave out learningmaterials, oodand drinks tostudents o variousprimary schools inthe city. At Luod-ing CentralPrimary School,Wahyanites played

math and number the pupils. Te studvery dedicated to wgame and the prizerom 2Y, a studenton the trip, said Tvery inspiring. I reaenced the lie o thethere. It was un plgames with the stuschool. Most imporlearnt how to nd l

god in all things.

Te St Ignatius Chapel; Photo: I

Te Pastoral Committee meets students in Luo Ding duringEaster. Photo: Mr Ching Wing Kee


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he Inter-School AthleticsChampionship took place inmid February. Our school hasbeen in Division One (the topclass) or the last 27 years.

Te competition held atthe Wan Chai Sports Groundwas split into three days. Lastyear, our school beat anotherschool by just one point and

saved our place in DivisionOne. However, most o lastyears athletes have eithergraduated or lef Hong Kong.

Te rst day (16/2) wasquite disastrous. One o ourC grade 200M runners ellbeore the nish line. Luckdidnt change in the afernoon.All 4X400 teams ailed to

reach the nal and there wasone controversial judgement.Our B grade team accidentallyexchanged the baton withanother school. Our schoolwas disqualied but the otherschool was not. AlthoughWahyanites complained, theocials didnt change theirjudgement. At the end o therst day, Wah Yan ranked

12th out o 16 schools with 34points.

We had more luck on thesecond day (22/2). Mosto our athletes reached thestandard (1 point) and someo them advanced to the semi-nal or nal. At the end o theday, we were still ranked 12th.

Te last day (24/2) was the

most exciting. Since it was aschool holiday, many non-athletic team students came.Te principal was also thereto show his support. Some oldboys came to support us too.We were determined not to berelegated. Te Students Asso-ciation produced some towelswith our school motto Inhoc signo vinces. Wahyanites

were united and it that nothing could

All o the best yoathletes around Hogathered in the spoto help their schoopoints. Cheers romschools were deaeNearly everyone hathroat. At the end,

ranked 14th with 7and we kept our plDivision One. Te crazy and athletes tteacher, Mr. se ancaptain, Felix Cheucontribution over tWYK will competebrothers in Wah YaHong Kong in Divinext year.

Cosmos Chan 4K in the Inter-school Athletic MeetPhoto: Jeremy Lam 5S

Build the Time MachineThe Drama team members share their experience in Hong Kong Drama Festival.

Afer practicing or morethan two months since theend o the Christmas Ex-amination, the Drama eam,presented ime Machineon February 17 or the HongKong Schools Drama Festival.

Te story is about a boyIan Chan (portrayed byony sang, 3W): who likesto dance but is not good atstudying. He even wishesto join the dance competi-tion with his riends, but hisather (portrayed by imothyWat, 3W) reuses to let himgo because o his bad peror-mance on a Mathematics test.With help rom the janitor(portrayed by Ivon Sit, 1J), Ianis sent to the 70s by the timemachine, when his ather isstudying in the same school.Ian then learns about the pastschool lie o his ather

It was dark in the SchoolHall. Lights were up on thestage with a wooden cubiclesat on the centre stage. Teaudience rom Class 1J and 1Ssat and waited.

Tere were a ew highlightsin the drama. First and ore-most, there were a lot o dancemoves in the drama. Someo the actors, like ony sangand Jason Wong, had neverdanced beore.

At rst, as expected, thedance moves were terrible

and not up to par. Fortunately,Derek Lum, a past studentwho is an expert in hip-hop,volunteered to teach us danc-ing. Te actors then spent a loto time practicing with DerekLum during the Chinese NewYear Holiday. Our movesimproved a lot.

Although some may saythat its oolhardy to perormwhat we are not good at, Ithink that our courage shouldbe appreciated. I we never

try new things, we can neversucceed.

Te curtain was drawnand all the stage-lights weredimmed. Te only thing lefwas silence. We, all the crewmembers, were very nerv-ous since we wanted to knowthe response o the audience.Afer a ew seconds, applauserom the audience could beheard. At that moment, we elt

relieved.Although we are still wait-

ing or the result o the HongKong Drama Festival 2011-2012, we are all pleased al-ready. For us, being supportedby teachers and schoolmates ismore important than a trophyor a medal. As Ms de Leonsaid, I enjoy practising withyou guys, and Im proud oyou. Its a bonus or us i wewin a prize.

(Update: Results o Hong

Kong Drama Festival wasannounced on April 18 andour drama team won threeprizes: Outstanding Script,Outstanding Coorporationwhile imothy Wat and JasonWong got the titles o BestActors.)

Drama ime Machine Photo: Ms de Leon

By Junior Reporter, Timothy Yu 1Y;

Edited by Jonathan Wong 5K

On March 10, the Jun-ior Boys Choir aced rivalschools, DBS, Kings College,and St Pauls at the Hong KongSchools Music Festival. WahYan was awarded rst runner-up in the competition while StPauls took the championshipand DBS was third.

Tat was a big day oreveryone in the choir, includ-ing their tutor, Ms AgathaFung. Ms Fung had variousexperiences in other compe-

titions, but the Hong KongMusic Festival was not a gameabout technique. Actually, it'smore like a game o luck, asMs Fung said, It is 70 % oluck, and 30 % o technique.Our choir was surely scaredalthough we had practiced thetwo songs or many months."And Tis Shall be or Music"is a song about nature. Teother song is "Rhythm o Lie"by CY Coleman, a ast andrhythmic song.

Wah Yan was the seventh

team to sing, but the showafer the interlude startedrom the sixth, so it turnedout that we were the secondto perorm. Te rst team

did not sing well, bwith great emotionsong, the boys cleanatural and beautio the song. In the o Lie," the boys dijob o saying the ain a dymanic way. Bknew St. Pauls Colsing much better th

St Pauls chose amore complicated Wah Yan. Tey sanunison, and when tthe harmony echoehall. When the judgmented on Wah Yawe need to improvnotes. Well, that's tIY.

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27 Years, Still Conquering By Junior Reporter, Karson Yu 2WEdited by Senior Editor, Isaac am 5K

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Football Players Not Easy JobsBy Junior Reporter, Timothy Yu 1Y; Edited by Senior Editor-in-Chief, Alister

Wong 5S

When you think o ootballplayers, do you think they havethe best job on earth? Do youthink they earn a lot o money,and can be very amous, justlike Wayne Rooney and DavidBeckham?

Now thats wrong. Foot-ball is a high risk proessionand players do not always getenough medical care or check-ups.

As you may know, FabriceMuamba, a midelder or Bol-ton Wanderers in the EnglishPremier League, ell down in aquarter nal match with ot-tenham Hotspur on Saturday,March 17. He had suered asudden heart attack.

Several hours later, the 23year old player was uncon-

scious in the London ChestHospital, accompanied byteam captain Kevin Daives andmanager Owen Coyle. Luck-ily, two days later he started tobreathe independently again.Other players rom BoltonWanderers like Jermain De-oe, David Luiz and Phill Nev-ille had sent their prayers toFabrice.

Tere is another case. Span-ish player Antonio Pueta su-

ered a similar heart attackand died in 2007 at the age o23. He collaspsed in the pen-alty area while playing orhis club Sevilla. Tree days

later, he was ocially report-ed dead. Te doctor said hedied o multiple organ ailure.Some may wonder: did theyreceive medical checks beorethe match or i they did so asmany major matches actuallyrequired, why did the tragedystill happen?

Afer this incident , the in-ternational ootball governingbody FIFA has already en-couraged clubs to have moreheart screenings beore games.However, clubs could not pro-

vide medical checkups re-quently due to the high costs.Believe it or not, even check-ups cannot eliminate 100%risk, so there is still a high riskor ootball players. Muambawas saved this time mainlydue to the immediate healthcare he received in a hospitalspecialized in heart diseases.Moreover, the medical care orheart diseases has advancedgreatly in the past ten years.Londoners who have suereda cardiac arrest in public are

six times more likely to survivethan 10 years ago, Dr AseemMalhotra wrote in an articleon the Guardian website.

Football players are playingor their passion in ootball, soclubs and teams should giveexcellent medical treatmentplus checkups or players sothat they can be in top ormwhile playing.

Illustrated by Junior De-signer, Austin Ng 2W

Te Wah Yan imes thanks the ollowing students or theirhard work: Senior Editors-in-Chie Alister Wong and Paul an,Senior Editors Isaac am, Jonathan Wong, and Jerey Fong,Chie Photo Editor Jeremy Lam, Junior Editors-in-Chie Ron-ald Chiu and imothy Wat, Junior Editors imothy ung andJames Lo, Junior Fiction Editor Mathew Ho.

Te Wah Yan imes thanks Dr John an, Principal, Ms EvaChau, Vice-Principal, and Mr Ashok Daswani, Panel Head oEnglish.Publication oTe Wah Yan imes is supported entirely by theEDB Rened English Enhancement Scheme Grant.

Analysis on the UEFA Champions League - Who has the biggest chanBy Junior Reporter, Timothy Yu 1Y; Edited by Junior Sports Editor, James Lo 3W

Every year , the Union oEuropean Football Associa-tion (UEFA) holds the UEFAChampions League. It is acompetition or all the top Eu-ropean ootball clubs. It is theworlds greatest ootball com-petition. Last years nal wasbetween Barcelona (Spain)and Manchester United (Eng-land). Both are amous andpowerul teams. Most ootball-ers agree that Barcelona hasbeen the strongest team onearth in recent years and theydidnt disappoint anyone. Teydeeated the Red Devils (Man-chester United) 3-1 in Wemb-ley Stadium. Tis year , thingshave changed. Te Red Devilswere eliminated early whileReal Madrid, Barcelona, Bay-ern Munich rom Germanyand also Chelsea rom Eng-land entered the semi-nals.Te semi-nals are Real Ma-drid vs Chelsea and Barcelonavs Bayern Munich, and thenal will be on May 19. Nowlet me analyze the qualities othese our teams.

BarcelonaWinning rate : 90%Key players: Lionel Messi,

Cesc Fabregas, Andres Ini-esta, Xavi Hernadez, AlexisSanchez.

Barca has the biggest op-portunity to win as their pastresults are great. Tey mainlyrely on ground passes, whichplayers in the opposite sidemay nd it hard to get posses-sion and then counter- attack.With Messi, the worlds top-striker here, the opponentsgoalkeeper will never have achance to catch his ast shots,while deenders Xavi, Iniestaand also Fabregas will be extra

tired! Anyway, they have beenthe champion o this toura-ment or our times in the pasttwo decades, so they have moreexperience in the nals. Teyhave already won ten games ina row just now, so they have alot o condence to deeat theBlues (Chelsea). Tey seem tobe unbeatable, with wonder-ul ootball skills and amazingshort passes.

Real MadridWinning rate: 70%Key players : Cristiano Ron-

aldo, Kaka, Karim Benzema,Mesut Ozil, Gonzalo Higuain.

Real Madrid is one o the

best teams in Europe and ithas many skillul players. Teyare good at both attackingand deending. Tey usuallyrely on C.Ronaldo and Ben-zema to score. Teir counter-attacks are ecient and ast.With numerous world-classplayers, they all have excellenttechniques and can usuallyoutclass opponents deend-ers with their dribbling skills.Teir shots are powerul too.In addition , their team man-ager Jose Mourinho is a ully

experienced and witty man. Heofen lets his assistant managermanage the rst hal, while hewould write notes on the oppo-nents perormance, and in thesecond hal, the players wouldollow his new strategies towin the game . However, RealMadrid has never deeatedBarcelona in 90 minutes, evenunder Mourinhos leadership.It is their weakness. Tey havea great chance getting into thenal as well as Barcelona butmost ootballers dont think

that they can deeat Barcelonaand win the tourament.

Bayern MunichWinning rate : 40%Key players: Mario Gomez ,

Tomas Muller, Frank Ribery,Arjen Robben, Bastian Sch-weinsteiger.

Tey were once the win-ner o the UEFA ChampionsLeague. Tey won the UEFAchampions in San Siro, Milan,in 2001 and entered the nalagain in 2010 but the historyis not likely to be repeated in

Allianz Arena, their homestadium and where this yearsnal will take place. Althoughthey have many great Ger-man players like Muller andGomez, it is dicult or themto deeat an all-rounded teamlike Real Madrid. Tey usuallyrely on their wingers, Robbenand Ribery (also called Rob-bery as a combination o the

two names.) Tey long shots to the mthe corners to the ront o the goal. Mtheir key striker, isand cannot stop

will surely cause tReal Madrid in theand ght or the n

ChelseaWinning rate : 3Players to watch

Fernando orres, pard, Didier Drogberry.

Te Blues dithe Premier Leagunobody believed thclassed Napoli in nals, afer losing 3-leg. Ten, they k

Benca with a satismance in both legster-nals, even thwas injured. Now thto the semi-nals, ing to play againstWell, orres must to Barca. When he or Atletico Madrihe scored a lot o ever his team plaBarca. Moreover, Cdeeated by BarcUEFA, only by a the reeree, so old t

Drogba, Lampardto deeat them tounhappy memorialways relies on tack, and ast-runers and owards to their back has ironand newcomer Gar

Branislav Ivanoscore as he has scpast ew games. our teams, will ththe other three teammanaged to win Tis is surely a clou

the Blues. All thehoping so but we athey dont stand a gthis year.

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