The Island School Trust To Be Launched
Tuesday, 24 April 2007
Message From Michelle Hughes, Principal of Island School
The Island School Trust has been set up as a charitable trust with the
primary objective of educating and assisting students attending Island School
to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities so that they may
grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society. This Trust Fund
is formed alongside the school’s existing Nicola Myers and Kenneth McBride
Memorial Fund which was founded in 1985 in memory of two Sixth Form students
who were tragically killed. The funds raised for Nicola Myers and Kenneth
McBride Memorial Fund are solely used annually to provide scholarships for
local P6 students who otherwise could not continue their Sixth Form
education. Island School has as its aim, the development of all the talents
of its students: intellectual, academic, imaginative, physical, moral and
social. To develop all these talents a student needs access to the
curriculum in school, to extra-curricular activities and sometimes to trips
out of school in Hong Kong and beyond. Not all of our parents can afford the
full range of opportunities that they, and we, would wish their child to
access. The Island School Trust would aim through scholarships and
bursaries to allow students to take advantage of the opportunities that would
help develop their talents.
University and college education costs can also be beyond the reach of some
parents. The Trust would aim to provide four scholarships in 2007/8, two to
Y13 Island School students and two to Form 7 students from a local school
who have been past beneficiaries of the Nicola Myers and Kenneth McBride
Memorial Fund to help with their university education. There will be an
expectation that these students will return to work in Hong Kong in the
future and thus return their investment to the trust and to the Hong Kong
community once they are working.
Island School is about to embark on the International Baccalaureate Diploma
Programme. We are aiming to develop students who are amongst other
qualities, principled, critical thinkers, risk-takers, well-balanced, open-
minded and caring. We hope that some of these internationally minded
learners may want to take these qualities and skills and work on humanitarian
projects abroad for a year between school and university. Four scholarships
will be available in 2007 for students who wish to pursue this path.
More information on the school trust will be added to this site soon - ISAA Administration.
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