Buddhist Sin Tak College SIN TAK SPIRIT Volume 1, Issue 4 March 12, 2012 I N S I D E S 3 STUDENTS PROMOT E LITERACY A T T H I S I S S U E : H O N G K O N G UNIVERSITY Let’s get active!! 2-3 Below is the experience of a group of 3A students who attended the Hong Kong Reads Sports for BSTC students Book Carnival last month. Read about how they represented BSTC, organized a game booth, and promoted English literacy at the same time! News from the 4 On Saturday, February On the day of the book Before the book debate team 18, our group was invited to carnival, we were carnival, we had thought Fun with English 4 participate in a book carnival responsible for hosting a that this event would be Giggles and Riddles at the University of Hong game booth for visitors to boring. To our surprise, we Kong. This event was learn about More About Boy: had a lot of fun, and we Chocolate Truffle 5 organized by “Hong Kong Tales of Childhood . We had enjoyed it very much. We Recipe Reads”, a non-profit prepared 2 games: enjoyed interacting with the organization that promotes crossword puzzles and children, who were It’s show time! 6 English literacy to students matching. Because of some extremely cute and adorable. News from in Hong Kong. misunderstanding, the Our game booth was more the English Drama Club The reason why we crossword puzzles turned popular than we had were invited to this event out to be extremely difficult, predicted. In addition, we was that we had entered a and no one wanted to had the opportunity to video-making competition in complete them. We were a communicate with which we had to present an bit disappointed about this foreigners and fellow English book. We had because we had spent participants in English. All chosen Ronald Dahl's More around 4 days preparing the in all, we gained a variety of About Boy: Tales of crossword puzzles, but they experiences. If Hong Kong Childhood , and eventually were not popular. Luckily, Reads holds similar activities our video was shortlisted as many children liked the in the future, we will one of the 40 finalists. Thus, matching game. definitely participate again. we were invited to take part in the book carnival and the prize presentation ceremony. Participating 3A students: Hung Yee Ki Lam Ka Yee Lau Ka Po Law Ho Fai Lee Lok Sang Leung Ming Lun Lo Yat Hei Tang Sin Kit Page 2 Sin Tak Spirit NovemberMarch 28,12, 20122011 M E E T T H E B S T C SPORTS T EAM S : Football Chan Yuen Ching Basketball Hui Ka Chun Football is a popular sport among boys BSTC has boys’ basketball teams that at BSTC. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, Hung Ka Wai compete in 3 Grades. They have you can find the football team practicing Leung Lap Hin practice every Tuesday and Thursday at the Osman Tse Ka Wai in the schoo playground. Ramju football School News Reporters Our Grade C basketball teams are pitch near our currently competing in inter-school school. It is games. After playing two matches, impossible to they now have a 1 miss them win - 1 lost record. with their eye- They still have a catching few more matches electric-pink this month. uniform! S W I M , S W A M , S W U M ! Cheung Ching Yee Community News Reporter Spring is here and so is the beginning of swimming season! Have you ever wondered where the best swimming pools are located? As a swimming fanatic, I am happy to provide you with the following information about swimming pools in the Kwai-Ching district. And for those who are not interested in swimming, it’s okay… you might love it once you give it a try at these great pools! (1) Kwai Shing Swimming Pool Address: 306 Kwai Shing Circuit, Kwai Chung Cleaning day: Every Friday Facilities: Main pool, secondary pool, teaching pool, diving pool, (2) Tsing Yi Swimming Pool children’s pool and the toddler’s pool Address: Tsing Yi Road, near Tsing Yi MTR Station, Exit C Since this swimming pool is quite near our school, you Cleaning day: Every Thursday can go swimming with your friends after school! It just Facilities: Main pool, teaching pool, leisure pool takes 10-15minutes to walk there from school. The BSTC and toddler’s pool swimming team trains there before competitions. This swimming pool is near Maritime Square, where you can have some snacks after swimming. As it is near the Tsing Yi MTR station, it is quite (3)Shing Mun Valley Swimming Pool convenient to go there from Kwai Fong, Kwai Hing, Kwai Shing, Tsing Yi, or even Tung Chung. Address: 21 Shing Mun Road, Tsuen Wan Cleaning day: Every Monday Facilities: Training pool, teaching pool, fun pool/leisure pool Admission fee for all three pools This swimming pool is perfect for the swimming fanatics Monday – Friday: $8 for students as it opens all year round, even in the winter! One Saturday, Sunday, and public holidays: $9 for students disadvantage of this pool is that it is quite far away from There are no weekly / monthly/ annual entry passes available. the closest MTR station (Tsuen Wan station). Opening hours : Summer hours for all pools: April to October, 6:30am-10:00pm Winter hours for Shing Mun Valley: November to March, 6:30am-9:00pm NovemberMarch 12, 201228, 2011 Sin Tak Spirit Page 3 Badminton Our badminton team is quite Outstanding BSTC mysterious to students as they don’t athletes in Track and Field/ Athletics usually have practice at school. They 2011/2012 have regular practice in Tuesday and In the Inter-School Athletic Competition Thursday in the Osman Ramju held in February, Wan Chi Kwan (5C) Memorial Sports Centre near BSTC. became champion in triple jump with his record-breaking jump of 12.81 metres. This distance broke BSTC’s triple jump Chan Pui Ying (6A) school record. BSTC athletes also achieved good results in the high jump • Member of the BSTC and relay competitions. swimming team Volleyball • Good results in The volleyball team of our school is competitions this year well-known in the district. They have practice every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday in the school play- ground. The Grade C girls’ team will have inter-school games this month. The Wan Chi Kwan (5C) Grade A Boys’ team recently won an invitational tournament that involved three other Buddhist secondary schools. Congratulations! Table Tennis Congratulations to the Grade C table tennis team, who won an inter-school competition in early February. • BSTC record holder in triple jump • Participates in several Swimming sports The swimming team has practice early in the school year, just before their competition. If you are interested, you may go to see them at the Shing Mun Pang Chun Ho (3E) Valley Swimming pool! I'm ready to get active! So how do I start? BSTC has six basketball hoops for students to play basketball. Students can borrow basketballs from the Student Union office. You will need to leave your student card at the office as a deposit, and you may get back your card when you return the ball. You can also use the space around the basketball courts to play volleyball. BSTC girls, please remember that you are not allowed to play basketball in your • Member of the uniform dresses, but you may choose to play volleyball instead! basketball team Opening and closing hours of the playground: • Participates in track Our school opens at 7:30am and closes at 5:00 pm. All BSTC students can use the and field competitions school’s outdoor and covered playgrounds during these hours. In addition, you may play ball games during recess and lunchtime. Page 4 Sin Tak Spirit March 12, 2012 Kong Wai Yan BSTC DEBATE TEAM School news reporter Just the beginning In the past few months, eight S5 students have been participating in a series of friendly and competitive debates. After having won the first two rounds of the 27 th Sing Tao Inter-School Debating Competition, the BSTC team lost to South Island School, which is an international school as well as last year’s champion of this competition. On the day of the competition, Principal Ho came to support the debate team. “The advantage that our opponents have is that they are native speakers. We have to admit that our English level cannot be compared to theirs. However, I’m still happy to see that our students can have this sort of On February 25, members of the BSTC Debate Team, under the experience,” said Principal Ho after the result of the debate guidance of Mr. Dunlea, Miss Ng, and Miss Wai, debated about public funding for private universities. Principal Ho witnessed their intense was announced. battle against South Island School. Experience is more valuable than prizes. From participating in debates, the debate team members acquired self-confidence, The personal experience of a Debate Team member critical thinking skills, as well as the skills to Debating: ‘Arguably’ the most unforgettable event in my fifth year of secondary school immediately respond to questions. Last October, I agreed to join the debate team as I have always enjoyed discussing In addition, we social issues with others. The first debate that I participated in was against Yew Chung congratulate the debate team International School on October 26. We were assigned to argue in support of the for defeating Ho Fung abolishment of the death penalty in mainland China.