Hong Kong school aims to help new immigrant students ease into society by teaching life lessons

Tsang Pik Shan Secondary School programme will be carried out with help from the Post’s Operation Santa Claus charity drive

School to offer activities such as cooking with the elderly, science contests and extra English lessons via Zoom to new arrivals

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Teachers Hung Kam-chuen (left), Cliff Yeung, English panel head, and Chu Yuen-ching, technology and living panel head, with students at Tsang Pik Shan Secondary School. Photo: K. Y. Cheng

Published: 10:00am, 5 Nov 2020Updated: 2:29pm, 5 Nov 2020

New immigrant pupils arriving in Hong Kong face a host of challenges when learning to adapt to their new environment.

But one secondary school hopes to help them integrate faster while also learning important life skills.

Tsang Pik Shan Secondary School in Ma On Shan intends to launch its “Simple Technical Self-Development” programme next year to reach out to new arrivals, who make up 35 per cent of the city’s school population.

Ho Pui-Sing, principal of Tsang Pik Shan Secondary School and Wong Pui-nan, project coordinator. Photo: K. Y. Cheng

“We want to encourage students to not be afraid to make mistakes and learn from them,” Wong Pui-nan, the project’s coordinator, said. “They can continue to practise these values even when they grow up.”

The two-year project will be carried out with help from Operation Santa Claus, a campaign organised by the South China Morning Post and public broadcaster RTHK to help those in need. The drive has so far helped more than 287 charitable projects and raised HK$316 million since 1988.

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