Today was a perfect day for soccer! And we made small history for DBS for having this PTA inaugural practice with all the passionate parents players and other parents who came out to support on our school field.  We trust that you all enjoyed these games and had great fun with the boys! Thank you Mr. Joe Ngai, Dr. Peter Lam and other PTA exco members for coordinating the event. Special thanks to Mr. Sidney Mok for coaching the boys. Hope to see you again very soon.

For those who could not make it to today’s practice but wish to join in subsequent sessions, you can still sign up via dbsptalpd@gmail.com.

For many more photos, please kindly check out

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.278887912181663&type=1

We have great pleasure to announce that the PTA will establish our own soccer team, and the first practice session/casual match is scheduled for Sunday, 19 February 2012.

Based on the previous conversations with many of the parents, we are informed that a lot of parents have great interest in joining sporting events and hope the PTA will be able to organize such events for them. The setting up of the PTA Soccer Team is therefore our first attempt to organize such activities. Parents will have fun playing soccer while their boys will also be enjoying their game on the side at the same time. Details of our first practice session/casual match are as follows:

Date: Sunday, 19 February 2012

Time: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Venue: DBS School Field

Remarks:

(1) Mr. Sidney Mok has kindly offered to help supervise and coach parents and boys.

(2) Boys are also welcome and there will be a practice session for them as well as a parent-child game.

(3) Please do not send your child to attend the event alone. Boys can take part only if their parents will be playing in the adult team.

Parents who are interested in the event are requested to send an email to dbsptalpd@gmail.com to confirm your attendance by Friday, 17 February 2012. If you are unable to attend the session this time but would like to join us in the future, please also send us an email.

We look forward to seeing you on the field!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.