English Schools Foundation pupils shine in international exams
Foundation reaps three more awards in 2014 than the previous year in a wide range of categories, from drama to science
Lanky and soft-spoken, 16-year-old secondary school pupil Sampson Kwan Sui-chun is proving to be something of an all-round educational maverick.
The King George V School pupil has a penchant for English literary classics - his favourite being the poems of William Blake - and he enjoys soaking up current affairs from television and the internet.
And last week Kwan learned he had won a top award for scoring one of the highest marks in last year's International General Certificate of Secondary School Education (IGCSE) in yet another subject - additional mathematics. "I wasn't expecting it," said the modest Kwan, whose favourite subject happens to be human biology and who dreams of becoming a paediatrician.
Joining Kwan to be crowned "Top in the World" by Cambridge International Examinations, which runs IGCSE, were nine other students from two other English Schools Foundation schools - Island School and Sha Tin College.
The foundation reaped three more awards in 2014 than the previous year. And the awards came in a wide range of categories, from drama to science.
Foundation development adviser Chris Durbin said the schools valued students' varied interests. Sha Tin College Principal Marc Morris added that they encouraged students to have "a life outside school".
