tinshuiwaidorothy: 12月 2013

2013年12月26日星期四

"Button Your Lip"

We had a nice reading time together using books from the Green 'Everyday Book Box" - Scholastics.

Venice recommends this little book to those who are interested in idioms:

There are 11 idioms. They are put in the column to the left. Can you find their meanings?

2013年12月22日星期日

Dongguang Yu Tim Primary School 東莞常平豫添（民工子弟）小學

28 October 2013

This is a primary school transformed by a Hong Kong industrialist in Dongguang to provide education for children of immigrant workers.

The campus is located in Shang Peng County, 20-minute drive

from Zhang Mu Tau Railway Station,

surrounded by a mix of low-rise factories and residential blocks.

It has a main building with four floors, more than 20 classrooms, designated special rooms, a reading room, a computer room, a canteen, two basket-ball courts and a garden.

The library is badly in need of children's books,

furniture and equipment.

The canteen is closed because of leaking roof.

Students enjoyed serving their classmates lunch

and cleaning up.

Major income from the tuition fees per student -1400 RMB per half year can hardly cover the costs of staff salary, maintenance and daily operation, let alone refurbishing and developmental projects.

The Principal, Ms Li, who had more than ten years' teaching experience as a math teacher and 8 years serving as a restaurant owner, is confident that the school is very much blessed and will improve in two years.

「當餐廳老闆我滿有信心，當校長我完全沒有經驗，只能靠上帝。每天五點半起來和宿舍內幾位基督徒老師一齊祈禱。」

2013年12月21日星期六

Yu Tim Primary School - towards a three-star school

the FRUIT of the SPIRIT: LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS, SELF-CONTROL

Ms Li- Principal on the right

This was my second visit to Yu Tim, to present the books and a set of world map donated by Joyce, a blog friend, who has read about the needs of the students from one of my blog posts. Thank you very much Joyce.

The school campus is undergoing major improvement: a new optical fibre computer network, a new computer room, a fully equipped library, display boards, new sets of sports facilities.

The whole school assembles for morning exercises, announcements and moral education.

Vice Principal - Mr. Ip has been with the school since it was founded in 2002.

The school has applied for 'three-star' private school; and these facilities are part of the basic requirements, as instructed by the Ministry of Education.

A team of six consultants appointed by the Ministry of Education will conduct a thorough review of the school administration, campus facilities as well as classroom teaching the following week.