17 SHI JIE MAGAZINE – SPRING
Giving Students a Charge
2017 H ighlights – G iving students a charge
Year 12 Student Council representatives, Chris Kwok and Rachel Telford, along with the Year 12 Ambassadors, submitted a proposal for two secure charging stations for the Diploma Centre. With many students working there up to 8pm and over weekends, there was a need to provide a place to charge laptops, with the cost coming from the annual PTA Grant to the Student Council. Rachel and Chris met with Mr Tibbetts (ICT Manager) to go over the design and logistics. A prototype was built by Mr Veilleux (Design Technician) and presented to the students for comment. Everyone was delighted with the proposal, so much so that the school is actually going to make four stations so that we have two extra to place in other areas around the school. Thanks to Rachel, Chris, Mr Tibbetts, Mr Veilleux, and of course to our wonderful PTA for the money to get this done.
MYP Curriculum Analysis Tool (CAT) Discovery College secondary staff have been working in collaboration with ESF Centre, West Island School, Island School, South Island School, Shatin College and King George the Fifth (KGV) to build a Middle Years Programme (MYP) Curriculum Analysis Tool (CAT). As the only authorised MYP school in the group, Discovery College staff have played a prominent role in the development of the CAT. The CAT will become these schools’ MYP curriculum development and mapping tool. It includes a broad range of functionalities designed to support the collaborative development of both subject and interdisciplinary planning. Michael Fraser, Head of Design, describes the benefits: “The CAT will allow us to work in an online and collaborative environment. Units will be easier to access and easier to update. The CAT tool will have built in-prompts and search
functions that will also improve the quality of our planning.” The migration of planning documents from our previous planning platforms into CAT has been executed in exemplary fashion by one of our DC alumni, Eleanor Udall, who has worked
at the College on a short internship. As a former MYP student, Eleanor’s understanding of the MYP has made this transfer exceptionally efficient and we’re grateful for her fine work. Adrian Gan Vice Principal (MYP Coordinator)