Tidbits from DBSPD open house

What an eventful, educational, and fun-filled day.  The school welcomed a great turnout for this Open House even though it was raining lightly and we all have to crowd in a bit during some of the performances.  Lots of great work by the boys were displayed and enjoyed by parents and friends and guests alike.

Appointment of New Headmaster

At the School Committee meeting on 12 Jan, 2012, it was resolved to appoint Mr Ronnie Cheng as Headmaster for Diocesan Boys’ School to succeed Mr Terence Chang, when he retires in Aug 2012.

We like to thank Mr Terence Chang for his great contributions to DBS over the years and allowing our PTA to form and to work closely with the school over a wide range of matter. We look forward to working with Mr Cheng and Headteacher Ms Lo and wish them continued success at the school.

School Open House 15 Jan, 2012

Please invite friends and families to join us at the annual open house for the school on 15th January 2012 from noon to 5pm.  Our own students will be introducing their school life and school work with a wide array of their work on display.  Visitors will be able to participate in a variety of in-class subject activities.  There will also be musical performances from our orchestras. 

School Cleaning Day – 9 Jan 2012

The Annual School Cleaning Day was held on Monday, 9 January 2012. It was a function  jointly organized by the DBSPTAL-PD and the School.  Our sincere thanks to over 100 parent volunteers who came and helped with the effort.  The boys did great cleaning and had demonstrated excellent teamwork (special recognition to grade 5 boys who cleaned the toilets!).  A special health talk was also delivered with strong student interaction.  For a more extensive gallery of the events’ action  and awards, please kindly find them in our facebook post.

Pre-10Km FunD Run Photos

You can’t ask for a better day for running.  Perfect weather with blue sky, light breeze and temperature in the high teens.

Congratulations to all the runners, both students and parents, who put in an excellent performance.

A big thank you to all the volunteers and school staff too who makes today’s event a great success.

High grade after school bus arrangement

Some parents suggest to us that they prefer their high grade (G.5 and G.6) boys to take the after school bus alone without accompany person.

We had discussed with Head Teacher, Poon’s transportation and other parent subcommittees in the traffic committees meeting last week. The decision is that we will stick to our original arrangement that we request the parents to send one person to accompany the student if they want to take the after school bus.

The rationale is that: we have to guarantee the students’ safety either in the bus or in the street after getting off the school bus. If the student is alone in the bus, he may need to be taken care by other students’ relatives. Even we allocate a teacher or a nanny to each school bus; we still worry what if the family member has not yet arrived at the time when he gets off the bus. Mind you that the bus does not drop them at usual station the boys are familiar with.

So the final decision is still parents need to send a person to accompany the student when they want the after school bus service.

Thank you very much

Dr. Rocky Lam

Convenor of Traffic and School Bus Sub-committee DBSPTAL-PD

2nd Parents Forum – 17th Dec 2011

Please come and join us for the 2nd Parents Forum in Room 110 from 11:30am to 12:30am on 17th Dec 2011.  We deem a key role for the PTA to collect and voice your concerns and opinions to the school.  The session and feedback will be done on anonymous basis.

香港話劇團 x 港鐵： 鐵路安全の達人 – 8 Dec 2011

We were very happy to welcome the HK Repertory Theatre to our school for their performance of 港鐵： 鐵路安全の達人.  According to the official website:

香港話劇團於2011-12學年與港鐵公司攜手舉辦「港鐵x香港話劇團《鐵路安全の達人》學校巡迴演出」，藉此推動話劇教育，同時讓小學生認識港鐵的運作、乘搭鐵路時要注意的安全事項，以及良好的乘客行為。

50場學校巡迴演出將於2011年11月至2012年5月舉行，劇團在星期一至五上課時間內到學校演出約一小時，並與學生互相交流，營造欣賞戲劇的多元空間。此活動不僅可提升學生們對藝術欣賞的興趣及水平，並與同學分享乘搭港鐵時注意安全的重要性。

Our boys (and the teachers) have truly enjoyed the show.

 

Pre-10Km FunD Run – 8 Jan 2012

This is a school event tailored-made for our primary students who are too young to participate in the 10Km FunD Run.  For full details, please see our Information on Pre-10Km FunD Run 2011-2012

The Pre-10Km FunD Run aims to:

- provide a parent-child sporting activity;
- promote active participation in sports mentorship and coaching support will be provided by the School;
- Generate sponsorship for the 10Km FunD Run 2011-2012 and, particularly, for our teachers who will be running for the School

Parents’ Seminar 親子「正」策及精神健康

(for those parents who might have missed the seminar, please kindly find the presentation slides in our “Parents Only” sessions. You can also find some photos of this event in this link[require Facebook login])

Photos

All parents want their children to grow up healthily and be able to develop their ability and potential in life. However, we are facing tremendous pressure in our society to push our children to attain academic excellence and other non-academic achievements. If we manage the pressure properly, it can be a tool and work toward our advantage. If not, it may affect our children’s quality of life and values. We all need to learn how to develop our children’s physical, mental, psychological, spiritual health and social well being to the full.

Details of the seminar are as follows: -

We are honored to have invited Ms. Annie Ho (Registered Clinical Psychologist)and Dr. May Miao (Specialist in Psychiatry) to be our guest speakers. Both Ms. Annie Hoand Dr. May Miao have extensively experience working with children, adult and familieson various psychological issues and would give us valuable advice on how to bring up ourchildren with good psychological health.

Date: Time: Venue: Fee:

Saturday, 3 December 2011 2:00 – 4:30 p.m. Assembly Hall, DBSPD HK$20/head for PTA members HK$30/head for non-PTA members (Please note that the seminar is open to current DBSPD parents ONLY) Free for PD students. Refreshment will be served after the seminar

Medium: Cantonese

何念慈

資深臨床心理學家,曾於政府服務十多年,累積豐富臨床經驗,並於沙士期間參予抗禦非典型肺炎,獲特區政府頒發嘉許狀。同期出任香港大學及香港中文大學臨床心理學督導,兼顧前線治療及教學工作。十多來年,何念慈曾處理各種成人、青少年及兒童的心理個案。曾隨情緒焦點治療始創人萊斯利格林伯格博士(Dr. Leslie Greenberg)學習,獲情緒焦點治療師資格(Emotion-focused Therapy Practitioner),能以真摯、耐心及專業的態度引領患者脫離情緒困擾,並發展出更有效的情緒管理能力,開展愉快人生。

何念慈亦為本港著名的親子專家,熱心推動家庭教育,熟識兒童及青少年成長心理,對家長的教養困難和壓力感同身受,對處理各類型婚姻及家庭問題極具經驗,曾隨情緒焦點婚姻治療大師蘇珊莊臣博士(Dr. Susan Johnson)及劉婷博士深造,赴美國參予遊戲治療國際會議,亦為3P 正向親子治療師,經常被媒體邀請就社會現象及家庭生態提供專業意見。即極參與傳媒及情緒健康推廣活動如:

• 香港電台《訴心事家庭》節目嘉賓主持
• 親子專欄見星島日報教育版《嗲 Dee 媽咪話》
• 親子專欄見星島日報親子王《給爸媽的心理課》

苗醫生 1988 從香港大學醫學院畢業。由 1989 到 1994,苗醫生在葵涌醫院、青山醫院和瑪 麗醫院任職精神科醫生,並正式完成專科培訓。自 1994 到 2006 這 12 年間,苗醫生在東區尤德 拿打掃醫院任職高級醫生,負責處理香港島和九龍東的病人。因為有不少病人都是「非自願」 性的,屬於頗複雜棘手的個案,苗醫生因而累積了很廣闊和豐富的臨床經驗。自 2006 至今, 苗醫生在基督教聯合醫院,聯同衛生署、兒科部門、婦產科部門和社會福利署,開展了:「兒 童身心全面發展」。目標是以兒童為中心,家庭為基礎,一項跨部門、跨專科的嶄新服務。而 特區政府將於 2011-12 年度,把服務擴展到全港各區。

苗醫生被邀請到不同的機構和場合,培訓和演講有關婦女的精神健康的專題,和促進親子 關係。為了培育更健康的下一代,她亦積極發展促進父母親職角色的服務。這段時間,苗醫生 開始在港台的「訴心事家庭」節目,擔任客座嘉賓,並在星島日報的親子專欄,攢寫文章,也 在頭條日報的 Blog,定期撰寫文章。