Primary Principals' Newsletter
English Version June 2025
What a year! It would be exhausting to simply list the number of amazing engagements our students took part in this school year. Our teachers, office and custodial staff have proven once again that a strong team can accomplish almost anything! Since this is the final newsletter of the 2024-2025 school year, we will keep it brief and will focus on end of year themes such as graduation, alumni news and a couple of tidbits about the 2025-2026 school year.
Year 6 Graduation and Secondary School Choices
On Friday June 13 the Year 6 students, families and teachers joined together for a heartfelt and celebratory ceremony and buffet dinner at the Members Club at the Shatin Racecourse. This year, each graduate (along with family members and teachers) packed a time capsule that they will return to open on Open Day 2035! We are looking forward to that special moment a decade from now!
And, where are our graduates heading for secondary school? We are pleased to share that out of our 29 graduates, a little more than half will attend our through train secondary school, ICHK! Beyond ICHK, there was a broad set of choices made by our graduates. This year our grads are also heading to:
Shatin College
Harrow
American Int’l School
CDNIS
Chinese International School
German Swiss International School
Kellet School
Malvern
KGV
And, of course, a couple of graduates will be heading overseas for secondary school.
Congratulations to all of our graduates! We look forward to hearing about your secondary school adventures!
Celebrations of Learning
On June 24th we had the pleasure of welcoming parents to our Celebrations of Learning! Students had the opportunity to showcase their understanding of their unit(s) of inquiry, as well as their skills in English, Maths and Chinese. Learners took an active role in planning and presenting their work for the Celebration, confidently delivering their presentations whilst engaging with questions from family members.
Upper Primary tried some new Celebrations of Learning approaches this year: Some highlights included Year 4 students presenting an exhibition on the topic of human migration, exploring its challenges and opportunities. Additionally, the Year 5 exhibition demonstrated students’ learning of energy sources, offering detailed explanations of different types of energy and interactive activities for the audience. Meanwhile, Year 6 students illustrated their understanding of physical and chemical properties through exciting science experiments and the use of microscopes.
Congratulations to our learners for your hard work and impressive presentations!
Admissions Waiting List for Kingston Primary - KIK Grads Exempted From Worry
Over the course of this school year, and especially since the start of 2025, we have noted a significant increase in applicants to Kingston Primary. Rather than turn away talented and personable children who want to join our community, we have decided to open two new classes to start off the 2025-2026 school year, one at Y4 and one at Y5. Even with the opening of the new classes, we have been forced to create a waiting list for some of our grade levels. Of course, KIK graduates will always have spaces reserved for them in our Y1 classes, so there is no need to worry about getting a space in our unique and amazing primary school so long as you register this coming December for your child’s space in August 2026!
Turquoise Sustainability Presentation for Year 5 and Year 6
Last Friday morning, we were very pleased to welcome Basel Kirmani of Turquoise Sustainability to Upper Primary to speak with our Year 5 and Year 6 students.
During his visit, Basel focused on the importance of adopting sustainable practices in daily life, emphasizing the "Three R's"—Reduce, Reuse, Recycle—and highlighting why reducing consumption is the most critical step we can take.
Through interactive discussions and thoughtful activities, our students had the opportunity to:
Explore practical ways to implement sustainable thinking in their daily lives.
Assess and reflect on their choices and actions.
Develop the skills and mindset to contribute to a more sustainable future.
Our aim was to inspire learners to think critically about their consumption habits and empower them to make small but impactful changes that would collectively benefit the environment.
We are very grateful to Basel for bringing a very profound and practical starting place for all of us to play our part in a sustainable future!
Great Achievements on both HK-wide Chinese Penmanship Contest and Chinese Writing Contest
This year Kingston participated in the Chinese Penmanship Contest and Chinese
Writing Contest from KanHan Education Services Limited. Our students achieved very good results. Congratulations to the following students:
Chinese Penmanship Competition
Lower Primary Group Champion Y3.2 CHU Ningjing
Lower Primary Group Second Runner-Up Y2.1 Jacob CHENG
Lower Primary Group Merit Y2.1 Sherry JIN
Lower Primary Group Merit Y2.2 Effy LAU
Upper Primary Group Champion Y4.1 Agnes WU
Upper Primary Group First Runner-Up Y6.1 CHEN Wei
Upper Primary Group Merit Y5.2 Andrew HO
Chinese Writing Contest
Lower Primary Group Champion Y3.1 CHAN Yi Shin
Lower Primary Group First Runner-Up Y3.1 Yanny YU
Upper Primary Group First Runner-Up Y4.1 Aaron YE
Upper Primary Group Merit Y5.2 Andrew HO
Upper Primary Group Merit Y6.1 CHEN Wei
It is June! At Upper Primary, June is also known as Alumni Month. This is because many Alumni drop in at Kingston having either just graduated from secondary school, or they are visiting Hong Kong, having finished their current term at university overseas. Or, and this is hard to believe, they have already begun their adult careers, such as Nick (Class of 2013, now working at BMW in the USA) who is visiting Hong Kong for the first time in a decade! That's him on the right. It is a great pleasure and honour to be able to spend some time visiting and catching up with our alumni, and we thought we would share a few of their stories here:
Kingston's Class of 2018 Graduates Head to Universities Around the Globe
Mr. John was recently invited to attend the secondary school graduation of a number of Kingston Alumni! Congratulations to Class of 2018 Kingston Alumni Ernest, Denis, Sanni, Arianna, Jasper and Travis! While Arianna knows she will attend Northwestern University on a golf scholarship, the other five await their final IBDP marks before deciding which of their many conditional offers on multiple continents to accept. Business, Aviation and Biomedicine and Education programs await!
