Hong Kong Academy students have been busy presenting the culminating products of their learning for the past few weeks. Through the arts, the students have explored identity, observation and imagination, artistic expression and the power to influence responsible action and change. We have been delighted by a variety of work including forum theatre pieces, physical theatre, paper puppets, monochrome ink landscapes and stencilled and sprayed artwork.
Visual Arts
By Zoe Coughlan and Sophie Oxford, Secondary School Visual Arts Teachers
G6s worked intuitively on a large scale with ink, wax, salt and oil pastels, before working in small groups to create sea creatures. Working with Mr. Scully, one of our Secondary School Performing Arts Teachers, they learned how to perform their paper puppets in an immersive underwater environment for their peers.
G7s have been investigating landscape art and how artists create a sense of place. They explored the drawings of Vincent Van Gogh and got the chance to ask questions of visiting landscape artist Stephen Wong Chun Hei. With these skills, they created layered monochrome ink landscapes, using texture, value and layering to create a sense of space and depth.
G8s investigated how artists can influence their audience to make sustainable changes through their exploration of street artists and their techniques. Students explored how metaphors and symbolism can be used in their artworks and created a stencil and spray painted final artwork for a specific context and audience.
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Performing Arts
By Laura Scully, Secondary School Performing Arts Teacher
This is the first year of G6 students doing drama work in performing arts, and they inquired into the basics of stagecraft, group choreography and using individual voices to construct a meaningful and thought-provoking piece to an audience. They investigated the people, places and moments that forged their identities and experimented with dramatic techniques to tell these stories. The culminating presentation was a montage of movement and dialogue, representing childhood games, memories from their families about growing up, and moments of fear, pride, and vulnerability, all to represent their pasts and ever-changing present lives.
The G7s explored verbatim theatre focussed on the experience of feeling trapped, whether mentally, emotionally or physically. By interviewing family members and each other, they collected material to work on imitating every vocal inflection, pause, and fluffed wording in order to faithfully convey another’s experience and personality. Inspired by the story of the Afghans stuck outside the Kabul airport in August, the G7s produced a sequence of tight choreography and verbatim pieces that examined the “trapped” experience in its various forms.
The G8s used intense character-building work to create a dark series of scenes that explored a “what if” question: What if a rumour was spreading about someone you knew? Would you jump to conclusions? Whose opinions would you listen to? Would you make a compassionate decision, or would you prefer to insert yourself in the drama? How does it feel to be misunderstood by others? What is the experience of teenagers at the centre of suspicion? Students constructed improvised scenes, relying on their characters’ contexts to guide them in telling their part of this imagined story.
At HKA, learning in the Arts isn’t just about the Arts.
It’s also about learning the skills and shaping values that help young people thrive in today’s world. In a global community that is changing so rapidly, with more information available than ever before, we believe it is vital to help young people develop the critical thinking skills necessary to discern and synthesise information, while at the same time building strong and compassionate core values they can bring to all aspects of their lives.
*Co-curricular activity, choose from:
Navigation & Campcrafts workshop, STREAM Plastic Waste Identification and Upcycling for 3D Printing Workshop, Rubber tip Archery and Indoor Climbing
Thank you for your interest in HKA Exploration Day, registration for this event is now closed. We offer school tours Monday through Friday every week and encourage you to visit us, explore our award-winning campus, meet our faculty and learn about our unique educational programmes.
Thank you for your interest in HKA Exploration Day, registration for this event is now closed. We offer school tours Monday through Friday every week and encourage you to visit us, explore our award-winning campus, meet our faculty and learn about our unique educational programmes.
Please choose either the morning or afternoon session for you and your child to attend.
Thank you for your interest in HKA Exploration Day, registration for this event is now closed. We offer school tours Monday through Friday every week and encourage you to visit us, explore our award-winning campus, meet our faculty and learn about our unique educational programmes.
Day 2: Half the class come in for 1 hour 30 minutes 8am – 9:30am with the other half from 10am – 11:30am. There will be an 8:00am and 11:30am bus available.
Day 3: Half the class come in for 1 hour 30 minutes 8am – 9:30am, with the other half from 10:30am – 12noon. There will be an 8:00am and 12:00pm bus available.
Day 4: All students in, 8am – 10:30am. Arrival and Dismissal bus available.
Day 5: All students in, 8:00 – 10:30am. Arrival and Dismissal bus available.
For children applying to Grade 2 and up, current grade level will also be a factor in grade placement decisions in addition to age.
Kindergarten
Day 1: First Day of School 8am – 12noon. Students will have scheduled group sessions of 30 minutes with the teachers and parents (3 students in a group). No bus available.
Day 2: Half the class in school morning and other half in an afternoon session without parents. 8am and 3pm bus available.
Day 3: All students attend half-day 8am – 12noon (including eating snack in the classroom). Arrival and Dismissal bus available.
Day 4: All students attend half-day 8am – 12noon (including lunch at school). Arrival and Dismissal bus available.
Day 5: All students attend half-day 8am – 12noon (including lunch at school). Arrival and Dismissal bus available.
Grade Level Equivalencies
For children applying to Grade 2 and up, current grade level will also be a factor in grade placement decisions in addition to age.
For other country grade level comparison inquiries please see here or contact our admissions team.
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Our Secondary School students have many opportunities to pursue their interests during lunchtime and after school clubs. Faculty and staff offer a variety of activities such as Math Competitions, Young Investors Club, and Student Media Team. Students can also join student-led groups and leadership teams that are supervised by faculty. These include Action for Refugees, Project Plastic, Sai Kung Stray Friends, ImpactHK, Dragonfly Council, Student Council and GCD Student Leadership Team.
ANNUAL FUND
The Annual Fund is a general fund that supports HKA’s operational budget. Unrestricted gifts to the Annual Fund help us realise additional innovative school projects not fully covered by tuition and the operational budget. Giving to the Annual Fund is a powerful way to support creative ideas and initiatives that bring HKA’s mission to life.
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LEARNER SUPPORT
HKA’s Learner Support programme caters to a wide range of students with diverse learning styles and needs. Inclusive education is at the heart of our mission, and HKA’s leadership in this area is known throughout the international school community.
15% of the student body is supported by this programme.
The Learner Support programme operates on an 80% recovery model. HKA is committed to subventing the remaining 20%.
HKA’s Learner Support programme is designed to ensure that all students can thrive in our rigorous learning environment. Inclusive education is at the heart of our mission, and HKA’s leadership in this area is known throughout the international school community. The Learner Support programme operates on an 80% recovery model. HKA is committed to subventing the remaining 20%.
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion includes socio-economic inclusion. Families may apply for a range of means-tested scholarships. HKA also offers financial assistance to families experiencing short-term challenges.
HKA offers scholarships at the 30, 60 and 90 percent levels.
The school will offer as much scholarship support as funding allows.
CAPITAL PROJECTS
HKA seeks to stay ahead of the curve by investing in capital projects that enhance our capitivative learning environment. We strive to implement a new learning initiative capital project, community artefact, or renovated building infrastructure on an annual basis. These multi-phased, costly projects are not included in the annual operating budget. They are critical to the long-term viability and sustainability of the school.
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HKA is committed to diversity and inclusion, including socio-economic inclusion. Families may apply for a range of means-tested scholarships. HKA also offers financial assistance to families experiencing short-term challenges.
HKA offers scholarships at the 30, 60 and 90% levels.
The school offers as much scholarship support as funding allows.
How to Get Here
The following information will assist you in arriving at our campus. If you have any issues while travelling, feel free to call our Main Office on 2655 1111 for more advice.
“Sai Kung Rocket”: Mong Kok <-> Sai Kung ‘red-top’ from Dundas Street
MTR & Taxi
The nearest MTR stations are Wu Kai Sha, Choi Hung or Hang Hau and all are approximately 20/25min away by taxi. Click here for an image to show the taxi driver with the school address in English & Chinese (香港新界西貢惠民路33號).
Private Car
There is no parking on campus but there are 2 public car parks, one opposite and one behind the campus.