March News​letter
TRIP TO CAMBODIA
In March students will be leaving on Concordia's first ever Global Leadership trip. This year's destination is Cambodia and we will be working together with CWEF charities to help make a difference to students and children in a local school. Three projects will be worked on by our students while they are there: painting murals with the students and teachers on 3 of the classroom walls; assisting CWEF staff to teach a health and hygiene program; teaching English to the younger primary students.
HOW CAN YOU HELP
As students around the school would have noticed, we are doing a lot of fundraising for the trip. We have volunteered to raise additional money to buy water filters, paint and tooth brushes to help CWEF's worthy charity efforts. So we encourage students to buy goodies at the bake sales, take advantage of the free dress days and help us to help a local community and school in Cambodia.
Want to know more about CWEF?
Click Here and Visit their Website

​Hugs Day to Raise Money for Cambodia Project
​"Giving charity hugs in Central with Mr Garza's Drama class was a really good experience and I felt so good for doing this for the kids in Cambodia. I was so delighted by the fact that many people do actually care about others around the world! I was glad that people would stop and listen to us even if they were not planning to donate any money to us. In the future, I hope that I have another opportunity to do some charity events like this." by Jessica Wong

Google Chrome Apps of the Month
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​SAT 1200
The Google Chrome Webstore is filled with great FREE Apps to help with you at school. Grade 11 and 12, SAT 1200 helps you to learn a word of the day to help expand your academic vocabulary.



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Hang Cards
Learn English by playing the game Hangman. It can help you to build your everyday vocabulary.


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​MindMap
This app is a great tool to help you Gather Ideas for your writing assignments or to help take notes, this is a great Mindmap app.
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​Lexile Reading Program
​As most of you may know, we have launched our new reading program school-wide, three months earlier than planned. Our new lexile reading program is designed around reading comprehension testing to better able assess what the students' reading level is and to track results daily. The program tests and tracks student reading levels monthly and generates reading lists appropriate for the students' lexile reading level. Our Website link below will show you more details about the program and how we are using it to accelerate your child's reading level.

Go Here to the Lexile Reading website
​Come to our parent night, Friday, April 12th for a presentation on this program.
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New Books: To ensure the success of the reading program we have bought over 100 books within the students' lexile reading levels.
​Library Cards: We have also been setting up each student with a Hong Kong Public Library card. We will be taking the students to the Mong Kok Public Library this month and showing them how to order books online and have them delivered to the Mobile Library by Wellcome in Shek Kip Mei on Tuesdays.
​World Book Online: Our school also subscribes to WorldBook Online and students and parents may use this for free to find resources in their child's lexile reading level.
Check out Worldbook online here!​
username: concordiahk
password: 68begonia

​Student Work
Our Grade 12 Students have been doing some incredible work on our unit, "Is war necessary to maintain peace?" Their photoessays on Violence are very impressive. Click here to view a sample of student work.

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​New Website
We have finally luanched our new website. This new design will better help the students and parents of our school to see all of the activities and events going on in and around our school. All of its features are not yet live but will be fully functional soon.
​Check it out here.


​Awards​
Sir Edward Youde Memorial Prize
$1000 - Awarded to our School's top students in Grade 11 and 12.
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Marie Carmena interviewed by Nicole Raiola​

Marie was one out of the two winners for the Sir Edward Youde Memorial prize,, and she was awarded $1,000 hong kong dollars. With that 1,000 dollars, she plans to use it towards the Concordia tuition fee.. This isn’t the first time however that Marie has won a school competition. She won $30,000 Hong Kong dollars from a college in Canada by sending in her report cards. Marie is planning to become a doctor, and she’s halfway there since she got a scholarship from one of the schools she has applied for
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Eriko Ogawa interviewed by Horace Wong
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Eriko Ogawa from grade 11was one of two students to have won the award of Sir Edward Youde Memorial Prize in our school. After finishing college, Eriko wouldl like to go to another country to work,and she would like a job that would somehow connect with the use of english with her work in chemistry. She got one thousand dollars tfor winning this Sir Edward Youde Memorial Prize and she would like to spend it on SAT Text book,so she can do better in her test.

World Maths Day March 6th 2013
Our students participated in the World Maths Day at our school along with 2.5 million students worldwide.

Click here to view some pictures of the event.

​Khan Academy Coming to Concordia International
We have started the implementation of Khan Academy in three of our math classes as a trial. This program does for math what our lexile program does for English. It allows the teachers to track student progress and time spent on practicing math skills outside the classroom. It benefits the struggling student with review and also challenges our top students with additional work at or slightly above their current level.



​Global Leadership in the Local Community
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"On Nov, 23, 2012, we had a lot of fun time doing art projects and having fun with the elders. I felt so happy, giving them what I made by my hands, and I could see the happiness on their faces. Well my
work didn't really look great but at least I did my best to make them happy." by Kimberly Seh
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"The first visit to Global Leadership we went to visit a primary school in Sha Tin. I quite enjoyed the time with the primary students. I talked with four children whose names were: Sandy, Wendy, Tommy and Ivan. They were all nine years old. All of them were very lovely, creative and talkative. However, their English was not very good. Because I understood Chinese, I helped translate for my classmate Kim. We had a nice chat. At last, the children drew some cards for us, and I made a photo frame for them." by Sammi Au-Yeung
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