Charmaine Pilard is a fantastic young writer with a creative imagination. Her unique story follows the perspective of a dog named "Admiral Apollo Vasilios McGruff IV". Read the piece here.

Operation Santa Claus (OSC) is an annual charity campaign jointly organised by South China Morning Post (SCMP) and Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK). Their aim is to connect the local community to charities and raise funds by getting different organisations to organise their own creative fundraising activities.

This year, the SRC has once again decided to participate in Operation Santa. Due to the fact that ICHK won the prestigious award for most creative school last year, the pressure was on this year’s SRC to create a creative and fun fundraiser.

And this year’s Christmas fair has been a great success! Kids from ICHK and HLY primary all participated in fun activities like bottle shooting, ring toss, basketball throw, Mario Kart, and knocking cans, and there were stalls selling baked goods, mulled wine and raffle tickets. In the end, everyone enjoyed the fair and we raised around twice as much compared to last year! Huge shout out to the SRC for planning this event!

- Aaron Chu, SRC

"The exchange programme has been a tradition in our school for a while now, and this year was no exception. This year’s programme was taken place from September 19th to the 23rd in China. This was a six-day programme in which had both language and cultural focuses."

Read the full piece here.

My heart was pounding, pounding so fast it felt like it was about to fly out of my body. I’ve never felt so anxious in my life...

People were cheering and yelling but it felt like I was the only person there, my mind was clear at that moment. I didn’t know how to feel or react, since my opponents are all very athletic and talented, unlike me. I had to go second in the relay competition, I didn’t want to mess up, having the fear that I'll drop the baton and drag the whole team or I won’t be able to run fast enough to catch up, the baton had my palm sweating like never before. It was almost the end of the day but I still couldn’t relax my brain, not even for just one second, not knowing when Elaine would come and pass the baton to me.

Time went pass slower than usual, suddenly I saw a person running towards me from distance. She ran closer and closer as she yelled my name, I knew what I had to do and started jogging into the “yellow” area, putting one hand backwards trying to receive the baton, what I feared for the last whole minute actually happened! The batton slipped through my fingers towards the floor, luckily my pinky finger and my ring finger caught the baton, I finally felt relieved. I looked to my right and saw Mimi running about three meters ahead of me, I already had the negative thought we would lose to Song, but I didn’t give up…

I imagined that there was a monster behind me and wanted to catch me and eat me, I was terrified. That was the trick I used to motivate myself to run faster, I know it sounds stupid and ridiculous but it actually worked, I ran and ran it was only 100m but it felt like it was never-ending. I yelled “Saki!” as I panicked that my imaginary monster would eventually kill me, I looked to my right and realised no one was next to me, I was happy because I finally overran Mimi, I looked ahead and saw Saki all ready for me to pass the baton to her anytime, I finally put the baton in her and after that I immediately fell on the floor due to being too exhausted, but at least I felt relieved. Saki easily ran towards Rufina and passed her the baton. Unfortunately, song caught up with us, and Rufina had to run against Leonie they are both very able-bodied, everyone didn't know who would win or would it be a tie, we yelled and cheered suddenly Rufina ran and overran Leonie, I felt my goosebumps as Rufina ran past the finish line holding the baton!

Cherry Yee is a student in Y11 who embodies many of the qualities we hold dear at ICHK: she is relentlessly positive, supports her peers and is emerging as an extremely adept practitioner within various forms of media.

This video, Three Little Özils, is a pastiche of the Cannes award-winning Three Little Pigs advert for the Guardian. This project was designed in preparation for our Read and Respond Assignment 3 task for IGCSE English Language. We chose the stimuli of Mezut Özils Twitter response when defending himself for quitting the German national team due to the barrage of abuse that he suffered after being photographed next to the Turkish President Erdogan. The Guardian’s Three Little Pigs advert explores how quickly and emotionally stories can evolve in the social media age and how interconnected various events are. In our pastiche, we set out to replicate how just one small event can mushroom across the world and we set out to chart Özil’s rise and fall in the public eye due to the incident.

The original advert is embedded below.

Editors Lucia and Charlotte interviewed the imaginative director for more details on the final production.

Read the full interview here.