Starting from 14th September until further notice, students of Form 5 to Form 7 are only allowed to consume their lunch inside the canteen or the spectator stand besides the sand pit. When the situation becomes stable, Form 3 and Form 4 students will join the practice.

1. Parents are advised to take the temperature of student and record it in the student handbook everyday. Teachers will check records of body temperature randomly.

2. Students showing symptoms of flu or fever should stay at home until they are totally recovered. Be alert and considerate to our Wahyan brothers!

3. All students are to tap their student identy cards at the terminals when they enter the campus. This measure is effective starting from 1 Sep 2009.

4. Kennedy Road entrance will reopen on that day.

It is with immense pleasure on behalf of Mr. and Mrs Lee and the Department of Music and the College that we announce student Lee Yi Wei Angus from 4K came 1st in the Instrumental solo for 16 and over. Angus is one the youngest competitors in his group and was sponsored by the HK Schools Speech and Music Association. Llangollen Music Festival is one of the most prestigious music competitions in the world. You can share Yi-wei's great performance via accessing the link: Angus Lee Yi Wei performing in the Instrumental Solo 16 and over competition. The clip will only be availabe for viewing until 10 August 2009

各位家長： 為方便大家瀏覽和響應環保，節約資源，家長教師會的會訊由本年度開始將改為網上電子版，歡迎各位到下列網頁瀏覽：http://www.wahyan.edu.hk/shwong/pta/newsletter09 本期精彩內容包括： 學生任子匡、冼耀麟和家長大使李太的投稿，通識教育專題及各次活的留影。 歡迎瀏覽。

家長教師會副會長 王鄧麗明啟

The Star 2008-2009 Thanks to everyone’s support and generosity, sales of the school annual THE STAR 2008-09 have been encouraging since its publication. There are still limited copies for sales at just $100 each, and purchases are welcome. If interested, please contact Ms. Jenni Li of the school office. To collect copies ordered, a counter will be set up at the school entrance in the first week of September for receipt and student ID holders.

The Wah Yan Dramatic Society will be performing a Cantonese Opera in English namely "A Lizard is No Dragon (鴉雀如何變鳳凰)" to raise fund for the school development project (Phase III). The cast includes members of the Wah Yan Dramatic Society, Wah Yan studetns and parents. They have already started the rehearsals. We are confident that the Opera will be appealing to you and your family members.

The activity details is as below
Date: 22 and 23 October 2009
Place: Drama Theatre, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts

Ticket order form and activity details

Last year, the Association of English Medium Secondary Schools and The Summer Exchange (TSE) co-organized a summer programme for EMI school students. 56 students took part in the English enhancement modules taught by scholars from Harvard University. They are now writing to invite our students to enrol in this year’s programme. Their committee member Mr. Chan Hon Ling, Principal of Kiangsu-Chekiang College (Shatin), will be hosting this programme at his school. He will be working with Ms. Michelle Chen Meiling, founder of Institute of Beautiful Life and The Summer Exchange Programme with Harvard University Students and Alumni.

The information sheet sent with this letter gives details of the programme.

Students who would like to apply for the program, please download the application form from either www.csef.org.cn or kcc-st@school.net.hk. The completed forms should be sent to Mrs Sharon Hui, our school secretary on or before 27th May.

Invitation Letter

Information Sheet

Application Form

Due to the public examinations taking place in the campus, and the need to clean up afterwards for the students and teachers next Monday, the campus will be closed for all users, including those ball-game lovers, on 8th & 9th May.'

Angus Lee (4K), one of our senior music scholars, did us proud by winning his richly deserved award at this year's 61st HK Schools Music Festival.

Following his last year's staggering successes in winning the Pikes Peak Composition Award for Young Composer's (USA), and the Wind Concerto Class at the HK Schools Music Festival, he has become the 'winner of the winners' at this year's Music Festival.

Through winning the Parson's Scholarship for Wind and Percussion (Open Group), he became one of the finalists invited to an audition conducted by the Committee of the HK Schools Music Festival, whereby the successful candidate would represent Hong Kong to take part in the Llangollen International Music Festival. Angus has succeeded in the audition and now would represent Hong Kong this coming July. Our hearfelt congratulations to him!

As a preparation to the coming 90th Anniversary of the College, as well as the 85th Anniversary of Wah Yan College Kowloon, the Art Department of the two Colleges have jointly organized a Logo Design Competition in March. We are very happy to have 6A Yeung Pui-hei, 4Y Cheung Kai-shing and 4W Cheung Kai-cheong to win the first, second and third (shared with Ng Cheuk Hay of WYK) respectively. Congratulations to them, and also enjoy their beautiful design attached.

Champion design, by Yeung Pui-hei, WYHK 6A

First runner-up, by Cheung Kai-shing, WYHK 4Y

Second runner-up, by Cheung Kai-cheong, WYHK 4W

Another second runner-up, by Ng Cheuk Hey, WYK

Thanks to the hard works of our Ming Pao Campus Reporters, Chan Sai-ho & Choi Chung-yau of 6S2, under the guidance of Mr. C.F. Wong, won the Outstanding Report Award amongst the hundreds of reports, allowing us to know more about our community responses to the current financial tsunami - congratulation to them!

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26 March 2009 MingPao