DBSPTA-PD Newsletter 2018-19

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Diocesan Boys’ School 

Parent - Teacher Association 

( Primary Division ) 

Newsletter • September 2019 

DBSPTA-PD 9/2019 

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Contents 

Message from the Chairperson 

Message from the Headteacher 

Message from the Vice-Chairperson 

Message from the Treasurer 

Message from the Secretary (English) 

Message from the Secretary (Chinese) 

Message from the Convenor of Subcommittees and Activities 

Traffic 

Lunch 

Sports 

Community Service 

Environmental Protection 

Social Activities 

Academic & Education Affairs 

Information Technology and Communication 

PTA Activities 

Social Activities 

DBSPTA Exco Inauguration (13 Oct 2018) 

Garden Fete & Fete Lunch (11 November 2018) 

Thank You Lunch (5 January 2019) 

DBS 150 th Anniversary Inauguration Ceremony (12 January 2019) 

Cleaning Day (18 January 2019) 

Open House & Chinese New Year Fair (27 January 2019) 

Open House Day Cafe.PEP (27 January 2019) 

DBS 150 Run (31 March 2019) 

Music Celebration Party (13 April 2019) 

PTA Outing (13 May 2019) 

Volunteers’ Tea Party (17 May 2019) 

G6 Graduation Dinner (7 July 2019) 


G5 boys visit HK Observatory (Nov 2018) 

Movie Show – Donnie Yen (21 November 2018) 

G4 Visit to 民航處航空教育徑 (25 Jan 2019) 

1 st Parents’ Seminar – Professor Joseph Sung (26 January 2019) 

2 nd Parents’ Seminar - (4 May 2019) 

SD Parent’s Seminar - Dr. Agnes Chan (18 May 2019) 

1 st talk of DBSPD Lecture Series of 粵語的價值 (7 Sept 2019) 

Lunch 

1 st lunch tasting and kitchen visit (Nov 2019) 

2 nd lunch tasting (March 2019) 

Dinner meeting (21 March 2019) 

Joyful Fruit Days (22 and 23 May 2019) 

Sports 

Soccer Fun Day (14 Oct 2019) 

PTA Sports Carnival 2018 (16 December 2018) 

Sports Team Celebration Party (25 May 2019) 

PTA Fun Sports Day (16 June 2019) 


Knitting Event (Nov 2018) 

Participation in Box of Hope activity (17 November 2018) 

Poor and Rich Meals 貧富一餐 (28 Nov 2018) 

CS Subcom visit to elderly centre (12 January 2019) 

CS Subcom food service volunteer activity at Food Angel (5 days in March) 

“Foodstep Journey” at Food Angel (23 March 2019) 

Visit 獨居長者 (15 June and 6 July 2019) 

2 nd Hand book fair (6 July 2019) 


Green Uniform (17 May 2019) 

Join PTA Football Club and PTA Basketball Team 

Parent Teacher Association Limited – Primary Division Executive Committee 2018 - 2019 

Chairperson: 

Dr. William Chan 

Vice- Chairpersons: 

Mr. Ronnie Cheng Ms. Phyllis Lo 

Mr. Joseph Wan 

Secretary (Chinese): 

Ms. Paulina Pau 

Secretary (English): 

Ms. Julissa Lee 

Treasurer: 

Mr. Kinson Cheung 

Convenor of Traffic Sub-Committee: 

Mr. Victor Lee 

Convenors of Lunch Sub-Committee: 


Mr. Ryan Chan 

Convenors of Academic & Education Affairs: 



Convenors of Social Activities: 


Mr. Franklin Poon 

Mr. Freddie Hai 


Mr. Ryan Chan 

Ms. Hilary Choi 

Convenors of Community Service Sub-Committee: 


Mr. Michael Cheung 

Convenors of Sports Sub-Committee: 


Mr. Dio Lam 

Convenors of Environmental Protection Sub-Committee: 



Convenors of Information Technology and 

Communication: 

Mr. Dio Lam 


Immediate Past Chairperson: 

Dr. Peter Lam 

School Representatives: 

Coordinator 

Ms. Natalie Ng 

Assistant Coordinator 

Dr. Nadia Chan 

Teacher Representatives 

Mr. Nick Leung 

Ms. Jen Wan 

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Message from the Chairperson 

2019 is a remarkable year to the DBS community as we 

honour our 150 th Anniversary. My warmest welcome to all 

Grade One boys and families as you join us just in time for a 

series of celebration. I am sure you are getting ready for your 

wonderful journey at DBSPD. In the coming years, you will 

be cheering for your boys when they are sweating in sport 

field, shedding tears when they make the music of angels on 

stage, getting amazed at their creative work and bursting into 

laughter when they simply do silly things with classmates. 

I have enjoyed all these in the past eight years with my two 

boys at DBSPD and for sure our school will bring these 

precious moments to your family, too. 

Having served in the PTA for eight years, I have witnessed 

the evolvement of the PTA to an active and energetic 

committee engaging in lots of school functions and students’ 

development. “Unity of home and school, life with love and 

care” has always been my motto since I started serving the 

PTA. While school plays an important role in education, it is 

only with the concerted efforts of parents and teachers that 

positive values and attitudes can be instilled effectively in 

our boys. We are the gardeners, and together we lay fertile 

soil for our boys to blossom into prosperity. 

Being a parent member in DBS family is a unique experience. 

At DBSPD, parents are encouraged to be involved in our 

boys’ learning and development at school. Not only the boys 

are busy in various learning opportunities, but parents also 

have a share in most school events. In the past year our PTA 

had a busy schedule in various vibrant school events and 

PTA-organized activities. Cheers and happiness were with 

us in many of these activities and there were also challenges 

along the way. We are grateful to have received lots of 

positive feedbacks and it is certainly the dedicated work of 

all parties that makes the school academia, environment and 

programs to move forward. 

This newsletter has summarized our work in the past year. 

To me it is a collection of happy memories with my fellow 

parents and PTA executive committee members. The job 

would not be accomplished without the unrelenting support 

from Ms. Phyllis Lo and other teachers. Credits also go to 

the parent volunteers who have squeezed their precious 

time serving in PTA activities. I sincerely hope that you 

have enjoyed the year with PTA as much as I have. As my 

little boy steps into the Secondary Division, it is time for me 

to bid farewell to you all. I am confident that the DBSPTA- 

PD will continue the mission of serving the school, students 

and parents. Hong Kong is in a very challenging time. It is 

everyone’s duty to safeguard our home and advance forward 

to a brighter future. “Learners today, Leaders tomorrow”. With 

the faithful nurturing environment of DBS, we look forward 

to seeing a new generation of leaders for a better Hong Kong. 

May I wish you all a fruitful journey as part of the DBS family 

in the years ahead. 

Dr. William Chan 

Chairperson 


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Message from the Headteacher 

The year which marks the DBS 150 th Anniversary has been a year of blessings. Many successful and memorable 

functions were organized in collaboration with parents, and all events have been well attended. 

I hope all parents would share my joy to see our PD boys benefiting from the events organized throughout the 

year funded and supported by the PTA. The service learning programmes namely the Box of Hope, Famine 

Programme and Visit to the Elderly Centre that the PTA helped organize this year offered valuable learning 

opportunities for our boys to learn the virtues of being compassionate and considerate to those whose needs 

are different from our own. 

In addition, I am pleased to report on the Annual Giving Programme of the 2018-2019 school year. With the 

generous support offered by our PD parents, we were able to raise over HK$12,700,000 to meet the school’s 

needs! Money raised was used to purchasing new iPads, installing new drinking fountains, providing STEM 

learning kits for our boys, and sponsoring learning programmes such as the Outward Bound Experiential 

Camp and Extended Learning Weeks. Besides, on-going curriculum development, staff development, and 

landscape maintenance work are also made possible. 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all members of the DBSPTA-PD, especially the Chairman, Dr. 

William Chan, for their excellent work in organizing the PTA activities and their continuous support in all 

school events. The forth-coming academic year will undoubtedly be another exciting and challenging year, 

and I look forward to our continued partnership and your full support! 

Ms. Phyllis Lo 

Headteacher of DBSPD 

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Message from the Vice Chairperson 

Being a DBSPD parent reminds me how it was like being a student here decades ago: there is no room for 

complacency. Just when you think you are “getting the hang of it”, the bar is set higher. If not for the wisdom of many 

of my classmates and “big brothers”, my DBS experience would have been very different. Similarly, if not for the 

helping hands of so many parents, my wife and I would not have survived the first two years. In both cases, strong 

bonds were formed; bonds that would last a lifetime. 

Indeed, one of the main goals of the PTA is to foster and facilitate bonding between parents. As you can see from 

this newsletter, the PTA organizes a rich program of activities each year intended to bring us all closer together and 

to help families get more out of the DBSPD experience. We treasure your participation and we thank you for your 

support throughout the year. 

None of our initiatives would have been possible without the active support from the School Faculty. We are most 

grateful to Ms. Lo, Ms. Ng and all the teachers who have been involved in the PTA in the past year. Thank you for 

your invaluable support and guidance. You have made a real difference in our work and it has been a true pleasure 

working with you all! 


Vice Chairperson 


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Message from the Treasurer 

My older boy Jasper is heading to Grade 6 this 

academic year which means this could be very 

well be my last year serving the PD PTA if I 

have the opportunity. Looking back at the past 

four years of serving the PTA is filled with fond 

memories and I am extremely pleased. 

As Treasurer, I have to make sure I provide 

supports to all PTA events with smooth and clear 

transactions. The responsibilities were high, and 

again, thanks to my wife, Paulum, I managed to 

get all the jobs done in a good way. 

Events Photography 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank my 

PTA Photography team including Eric, Wallace, 

Carmon, Hang, James and Victor, the list goes 

on…for their tremendous support to our PTA events over the year. Without them, we couldn’t have captured all the 

exciting moments. Huge appreciation to everyone on the PTA Photography team! 


Treasurer 

Event Photography Coordinator 

Message from the Secretary (English) 

Welcome back to DBSPD. I am extremely honored to be PTA Exco 

member for 3 years. Apart from being a lunch convenor of lunch subcommittee, 

I’ve also helped to be a secretary in the committee. This is 

my first time to be a secretary in the committee and I feel very excited 

to work with each of the Exco. It’s been a pleasure to help prepare 

the committee administrative work with Paulina. Thank you Paulina 

for her support to me in the past one year. I also have the opportunity 

to organize and work with other Exco of the PTA for the many of the 

events including Garden Fete, Cleaning Day, G6 Graduation Dinner, 

Café PEP in Open House, two Parents’ Seminars, PTA Sports Events, 

Parents’ Tea Reception and all the lunch events and activities. 

As the lunch sub-committee convenor, I would like to thank Ms. 

Phyllis Lo who has brainstormed a very good idea of delivering 

fresh veggies pilot scheme to different classes starting in June. The 

pilot scheme was very successful and supported by parent helpers. 

Moreover, I would like to say thank you to Mr. Kelvin Lau (SD) who 

lead us through many of the challenges for lunch service, Mr. Sammy 

Ho (PD) who worked hand in hand with me on some of the pilot 

schemes as well as with the lunch tastings and meetings. Moreover, 

I would like to say thank you to chairman, William who explored my 

potential and encouraged me from organizing lunch events and handled most of the regular lunch issues. 

In conclusion, after organized and participated all the PTA activities and school events, I’ve witnessed that our boys 

and parents are extremely super talent in different areas. Not only smart in academic and work, but also excellent in 

working well with each other. I would like to take this opportunity to share one inspiring quote, “Great minds discuss 

ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” - Eleanor Roosevelt 


Secretary (English) 

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Message from the Secretary (Chinese) 

Hi everyone, I am Paulina Pau, and my two boys are in G8 

and G6. It’s my honour and great pleasure to serve in DBSPD- 

PTA for seven years! Thanks for School’s recognition, trust and 

appreciation, my family’s and many parents’ support in the past 

years. These elements always motivate and drive me to serve 

with passion. My sons are also very happy to see me at School as I 

actively participate in many events throughout 2018-19. 

Through organizing School Garden Fete, Café PEP on Open Day, 

Parent Volunteers’ Tea Party, leading Community Service Subcommittee, 

and working with other ExCo members on sports 

related events, Cleaning Day, Lunch Sub-committee activities, my 

involvement in PTA and interaction with School and parents is 

even more solid and reliable than before. Not only have I witnessed the growth of my sons and many PD boys, I have 

also learnt a lot from the work of PTA and witnessed changes and improvement achieved each year. 

The signature event Garden Fete was successfully held on 11 November 2018. It was also my seventh year to help 

organize this big annual event. Every year I was amazed by the heartfelt and holistic support from over a hundred 

parent volunteers. We all sweated out during the day but I saw lots of smiling faces around me. It’s also a good and 

happy experience to work with Franklin that took care of Fete Lunch. 

With the great support and trust from Ms. Lo, Ms. Natalie Ng, Dr. Nadia Chan, Mr. Nick Leung, Ms. Jen Wan, all 

teachers, staff of General Office, William, Joseph, Kinson, Julissa, Peter, ExCo members, parents, boys and my family, 

my passion in PTA can be sustained since I am a DBSPD parent seven years ago! I am also very happy to see that a 

variety of PTA events could be launched smoothly and with great success! 

This newsletter shows our work in the 2018-19. Teamwork is always essential and necessary. I am glad that I am 

surrounded by love, blessings, care, and support for most of the time and I am sure that I can continue to embrace 

challenges and overcome difficulties. I humbly look forward to the opportunity to serve School and our community 

in the years ahead. 


Secretary (Chinese) 

Message from the Convenor of Subcommittees and Activities 

Traffic Sub-Committee 

It has been my great pleasure to serve in the Traffic 

Sub-committee with a group of helpful teachers and 

volunteer parents. In 2018-19, 636 boys chose to take 

our school bus service, which was roughly 70% of total 

student number. PD roundabout has limited space 

for our buses to park there at school dismissal, hence 

it is difficult to expand the current fleet of 31 buses. 

Our Sub-committee has been working with Poon’s 

to handle all inquiries and suggestions from parents 

on our bus routes. I would like to thank all parents 

who have contributed in the discussion and their kind 

understanding on the matters. Safety is the top priority 

and we always remind parents and boys to avoid 

walking on car path inside campus. We also need the 

help of parents to avoid parking along the Access Road from Argyle Street to school. 

We also had the tendering process for our school bus service and Poon’s came back with the best proposal among 

all bidders, especially the ability to provide extra 5pm ECA bus service. We had three Traffic meetings this year with 

Poon’s and we are thankful of the precious time from many teachers who joined our Traffic meetings, including Ms. 

Phyllis Lo, Ms. Natalie Ng, Mrs. Vivian Chu, Ms. Jenny Lo, Mr. Anthony Lau, Mr. Ryan Li and Mr. Calvin Chan. 


Convenor of Traffic Sub-Committee 


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Lunch Sub-committee 

Lunch matter is very important indeed for our DBSPD boys, and it is our tremendous pleasure to have worked with 

Mr. Sammy Ho (PD teacher), Mr. Kelvin Lau (SD teacher) and the staffs from Asia Pacific Catering Corporation 

(“catering company”) this year. 

In addition to the regular activities organized by the Lunch Sub-committee throughout the year, as listed below, a 

meeting was specifically organized with the catering company management team on March 21 st , which was attended 

by Mr. Tommy Cheung (DBS Committee Member), Mr. Lau, Mr. Ho, PTA Exco Members and Lunch Sub-Committee 

members. All parties have frankly exchanged their views at this productive meeting and afterwards, the catering 

company released a much wider list of lunch choices to our students, to their huge delights. 

We are confident our boys are already looking forward to our Lunch in the coming year with plenty of excitement! 

Below is a recap of the activities held throughout last school year. 

1) We organized the first Lunch Sub-committee meeting on 30 th October 2018. One to two class reps from each class 

were nominated soon afterward, in order to collect and reflect comments about lunch issues. 

2) First Lunch Tasting and Kitchen Visit were organized during the week of November 19 th . Thank you for all the 

parents who joined and gave constructive comments. 

3) Second Lunch Tasting was organized during the week of March 11 th 2019. The feedbacks received were quite 

satisfactory, which is a testament to the good efforts put in by the catering company. 

4) Joyful Fruit Day 

5) Regular Tuck Shop and Kitchen Committee Meetings 

There had been 4 such regular meetings with Mr. Lau, Mr. Ho, staffs from the catering company, SD boarding 

school representatives as well as SD prefects for broad discussion about food quality at DBS. 

6) Fresh Veggies 

Recruited parent helpers to deliver fresh veggies to each class in June. 

Ms. Julissa Lee and Mr. Ryan Chan 

Convenors of Lunch Sub-Committee 

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Sports Sub-committee 

It is always a great honor to be part of the DBSPTA. We are delighted to 

be assigned as the convener of Sports Sub-committee. We have hosted 

several amazing sports activities over the past year. This include Soccer 

Fun Day, Sports Carnival, and Fun Sports Day! 

It was grateful to have the great support from other PTA Exco members 

and fellow parents’ helpers. The PTA sports events cannot be so 

successful without their tremendous contributions. 

Below is the list of Sports events. Please refer to the PTA activities 

section for the details of each events. 

a. Soccer Fun Day – 14 October 2018 

b. PTA Sports Carnival – 16 December 2018 

c. Fun Sports Day - 16 Jun 2019 

We have also formally set up the PTA basketball team and make a new 

team jersey this year. 

We would like to once again thank the PTA Exco teammates and parent 

helpers from the bottom of our heart. We wouldn’t have succeeded 

without their help. It is an honor to work with everyone in the PTA. We 

wish everyone has a wonderful year. See you around! 

Mr. Kinson Cheung and Mr. Dio Lam 

Convenors of Sports Sub-committee 


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Community Service Sub-committee 

Established in 2015, Community Service Sub-committee to encourage 

DBSPD students and their families to participate in community 

service activities and help people in need. The happiness I gained 

is very precious and I am glad to work with ExCo member Michael 

Cheung to launch a variety of activities throughout the school year. 

We are blessed that many parents helped wholeheartedly to support 

us, and are touched when we saw lots of smiling faces and received 

appreciation among parents. 

In Community Service subcommittee, we strive to connect our boys 

and parents to better serve our local community and those in needs. 

The last twelve months have been fun, rewarding and educational for 

me. I get to know the DBSPD family better and make a lot of new friends with a shared purpose. I would strongly 

recommend all our fellow students and their parents to join our events in the coming year. As a first year PTA exco 

member, I am thankful to my fellow convenor Paulina and other experienced members in organising and managing 

events smoothly and attending to fellow parents needs and enquiries. 

Michael and I wanted to introduce new community service activity to parents and students in 2018-19. Thanks our 

Vice-Chairperson Joseph for introducing the organization - Food Angel to us. 

Below is the list of Community Service events. Please refer to the PTA activities section for the details of each events. 

a. Scarfs Knitting Event (Nov 2018 – Jan 2019) 

b. “Little Box of Hope Hong Kong” (17 Nov 2018) 

c. Elderly Centre Visit at Ngau Tau Kok (12 Jan 2019) 

d. Food Serving for Elderlies at Food Angel (March 2019) 

e. “Foodstep Journey” at Food Angel (23 March 2019) 

f. Elderly Centre Visit at Lam Tin (15 Jun and 6 Jul 2019) 

g. Second Hand Book Fair (6 Jul 2019) 

Look forward to joining a new round of community service activities in 2019-20! 

Ms. Paulina Pau and Mr. Michael Cheung 

Convenors of Community Service Sub-committee 


Environmental Protection Sub-committee 

The Green Sub-committee was formed last year to help with furthering 

the school’s environmental protection agenda. Working very closely 

with Ms. Phyllis Lo, Ms. Michelle Ng, Mr. Sammy Ho and leveraging on 

our student ambassadors, we managed to achieve quite a few impactful 

changes. 

1. Installation of new water fountains/Reducing single-use plastic in 

tuck shop 

One of the first changes in the year was the installation of new water 

fountains. After the fountains were installed, our student ambassadors 

proposed to the tuck shop that we should stop selling bottled water. 

In addition, our ambassadors also recommended ways in which the tuck shop can reduce styrofoam containers and 

other single-use plastic utensils. These recommendations were promptly accepted and rolled out. 

2. Composting 

We generate hundreds of kilograms of food waste each week. After evaluating the feasibility of having a composting 

machine on-site, we decided to use a third-party composting service provider instead. Now, all food waste from lunch 

are composted. 

3. Green uniform 

Thanks to the great support from our parents and boys, PTA Green Uniform programme collected around 400 pieces 

of used uniforms. We were grateful to many parent volunteers who helped us in sorting and screening on 16 May, 

and distribution on 17 May (Parents’ Day). Most of our used uniforms found new home among our boys. With the 

remaining 50 uncollected pieces (mainly PE uniforms), we shipped them to an Orphanage in the Philippines. Our 

school started as an Orphanage itself 150 years ago and it is meaningful that our used uniforms can find new masters 

in another Orphanage. 

4. Promoting Green in school events 

Working with parent and student volunteers, we started recycling stations during the Open Day. We also reminded 

parents and guests to bring their own reusable utensils and water bottles. However, the results were mixed. We will 

learn from our experience and aim for better results next time. 

5. Teaching Green 

The Sub-committee worked closely with Dr. Nadia Chan and Ms. Michelle Ng to introduce a Green program for G5 

students during the Extended Learning Week. Over 30 parents volunteered to help develop and deliver the weeklong 

program that culminated in many bright ideas to save the environment and a presentation to the Secretary for 

the Environment Mr. Wong Kam Sing. 

I want to thank Ms. Jennifer Wang who has done most of the heavy lifting from the parent end; Mr. Victor Lee and 

Ms. Hilary Choi for leading the Green Uniform effort and to the many parent volunteers who have given us so much 

of their time and ideas. 

Special thanks to Ms. Lo for your leadership, Ms. Michelle Ng and Mr. Sammy Ho for your dedication to Green and 

the extra hours you put in. We would also like to thank Dr. Nadia Chan for giving us the opportunity to work on the 

ELW program. 

Mr. Joseph Wan and Mr. Victor Lee 

Convenors of Environmental Protection Sub-committee 


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Garden Fete Lunch 

The Fete Lunch is another annual DBS tradition held along with the Garden Fete in early November. While it is part 

of the overall fund raising activity, it serves a special purpose. Only G1 and G7 parents are invited as volunteers, as 

the idea is for new members of the DBS family to get familiar with the school as well as among themselves. 

Preparation work started two months ahead of the event in September. Looking back, the active volunteer enrolment 

on day one had already foretold great teamwork. Thanks team leaders for their planning and organization, and 

parent members for their selfless contribution. 

This year, we echoed the school’s environment-friendly theme by reducing use of plastic. Some guests even 

supported the theme by bringing their own utensils. By setting a precedent, the Fete Lunch has encouraged all 

subsequent PTA events to adopt the 3R principle, and we hope teams in the future to carry the theme further in the 

years to come. 

PTA committee would like to take this opportunity 

to express our deepest thanks to all volunteer parents 

and the school, making this year’s Fete Lunch 

another great success. Not only had we raised more 

funds this year than the past year, more importantly, 

parents have become more acquainted with each 

other via the ever-strong bondage to the school. 

In January, a thank you lunch was held for fete 

lunch volunteers, joined by the Headmaster and the 

Headteacher. It was a big happy re-union, filled with 

joys and laughers. The selfie by the Headmaster 

(who surprisingly climbed onto a chair for the best 

shot) with all parents at the end of the lunch was 

definitely the highlight of that day, if not for the 

overall Fete Lunch event. 

Cleaning Day 

Mr. Franklin Poon 

Convenor of Social Activities 

This year’s School Cleaning Day went through a gripping rollercoaster 

ride of last-minute thrills and rushes : two weeks prior to the 

planned event, which had been advanced to the chilly late-winter 

of 18 January as opposed to the customary February, an outbreak 

of “Influenza A” swept through Hong Kong sending havocs to 

schools and families. Although the School had already been on high 

vigilance with extra precautionary measures, cases of students fallen 

ill continued to edge closer to the alert level as the countdown to the 

School Cleaning Day ticked away. Then on just three days before the 

actual event, the inevitable struck! With more than 20 reported cases 

of sick leaves accumulated, the Centre for Health Protection had to be 

notified. The traditional Grade-5 toilet cleaning event was cancelled. 

Students were advised not to congregate at the School Hall to avoid 

cross-contamination. The guest speaker for the planned Health Talk and Quiz had to be apologetically turned away. 

The exhilarating final prize-announcement was much water-downed through televised broadcast to the respective 

classrooms. All such decisions were made and revised in the final two days. 

Sweating thrills aside, the fun and joy of the cleaning craze on the day for the students and parent helpers were not 

diminished by the re-arrangement disappointment. It was nevertheless a good life lesson for everyone to get a firsthand 

experience of the importance of personal and environmental hygiene, as well as to show gratitude to the school 

janitors who have been working behind the scene to keep us safe, which is the very purpose the School Cleaning Day 

is meant for. 

My special thanks to Headteacher Ms Lo, Event-in-charge Ms. Natalie Ng, PTA(PD) Chairman Dr. William Chan 

and Dr. Peter Lam, who had given their enormous supports and professional advice on outbreak control to pull off 

the event. Also my gratefulness for the 100-plus voluntary parent helpers to make this event possible with touching 

positivism. 

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Convenor of Social Activities

PTA Outing 

It’s my honour to help organising the PTA Outing this year. We had about 

532 people joining the event in Jockey Club Tai Tong Holiday Camp on May 

13 . We were blessed with a beautiful day, after days of rain, which made it 

perfect for outing! 

At the campsite, boys and families enjoyed many activities such as cycling, 

swimming, go-kart, archery, trampoline, air hockey, bouncy castle and all sort 

of ball games, etc. 

We also added an Orienteering program as an additional fun of the PTA 

Outing . Through this activity, our boys can learn to be more self-reliant 

and develop individual skills in navigation and problem solving by locating 

each control point and finally reaching their destination. We are delighted 

that over 80% of the families decided to join the orienteering program. 

Participants started with a 75-min training session in the morning to learn 

and practice basic orienteering skills. They were then divided into 3 age 

groups to have a 45-min competition in the afternoon. It was an exhilarating 

race! Parents were eagerly awaiting and cheering at the finishing line for their 

boys. Winning medals and completion certificates were awarded at the end. 

We are so thrilled that we got many positive responses from parents for this 

new venture. Boys also asked if they can do it again in the near future. It was 

indeed a fun and memorable day! 

I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. 

William Chan and all the wonderful PTA Exco members for their timely 

support before and on the event day. Special thanks to my teammates, Victor 

Lee and Ryan Chan for their unreserved sharing and seamless collaboration 

throughout the process. Last but not least, this event could not be successful 

without the excellent support from Ms Lo, Ms Ng and all related school staff. 

I am very grateful to be part of the PTA team this year to help to facilitate the communication between school and 

parents through different incidents and occasions. By helping out in many school events as an Exco member this year, 

I slowly got to know the school better and became more appreciative of its unwavering determination to make it a 

better school for our boys. I am proud of being a DBSPD parent! 

Ms. Hilary Choi and Mr. Ryan Chan 

Convenors of Social Activities 


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It was exciting to have two insightful speakers for our Parent 

Seminars during 2018-19. The first Seminar was held on 26 January 

2019 by Professor Joseph Jao-Yiu Sung ( 沈祖堯教授 ) on the topic 

of “This is the Me Me Me Generation”. Professor Sung was Vice- 

Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) during 

2010-2017. Around 200 PD and SD parents joined the Seminar and 

Professor Sung shared his thought about the challenges facing our 

next generation. The second Seminar was held on 4 May 2019 by 

Dr. Annis Lai Chu FUNG ( 馮麗姝博士 ) on the topic of “The Art of 

Parenting: Self-centredness and Aggression of Children”. Dr. FUNG 

is an Associate Professor of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the 

City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and she gave our parents her 

professional advice about anti-bullying. PD parents were also invited 

by DBSPTA-SD to join their Parenting Seminar on 18 May 2019 by 

Dr. Agnes Chan ( 陳美齡博士 ) and our parents learned a lot from the talk. 

We also tried for the first time to arrange some Educational visits, including Visit to Hong Kong Observatory for some 

G5 boys, Visit to Civil Aviation Department - Education Path for some G4 boys. We may arrange more of these visits 

in future if we find good opportunities. 

Mr. Joseph Wan and Mr. Victor Lee 

Convenors of Academics, Culture & Education Affairs 


Information Technology and Communication 

I am greatly honored and privileged to have taken part in the DBSPTA 

Exco 2018-19. I am mainly responsible to revamp the DBSPTA-PD 

website and assist to organize PTA sports events. A new PTA website 

(https://www.dbspta-pd.com) was launched before Open House Day. 

The new PTA website has adopted the latest responsive web design and 

was mobile friendly. 

With the help of the DBS secondary division, we can record the video 

for Professor Joseph Sung’s 1 st parent seminar and streamline the videos 

through an online video streaming platform. Parents who cannot attend 

the seminar can still watch the video of the talk through the Internet. 

We have also set up the IT sub-committee and recruited several 

members to help. Last but not least, we have redesigned the PTA 

newsletter which you 

are reading now and add 

more photos and pages. 

The new design also included a new photo gallery and a video. 

Thank you for the support of Schools management team, headteacher 

Ms. Lo, Chairperson Dr. Willian Chan and other PTA executive 

committee members in the past year. Special thanks to parent helpers 

- Chung Kim Hang and Venchilli Leung for helping to revamp the 

DBSPTA-PD website and design the PTA Chinese New Year e-card and 

PTA newsletter video. We cannot make it without their dedication. 

Mr. Dio Lam and Mr. Freddie Hai 

Convenors of Information Technology and Communication 


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PTA Activities - Social Activities 

DBSPTA Exco Inauguration (13 Oct 2018) 

The Inauguration Ceremony marked the new term of the recently elected PTA Exco. The inauguration ceremony was 

conducted together with the DBSPTA SD Exco. 

Garden Fete & Fete Lunch (11 November 2018) 


Garden Fete - 

Thank You Lunch 

(5 January 2019) 

DBS 150 th Anniversary Inauguration Ceremony (12 January 2019) 


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Cleaning Day (18 January 2019) 

The School Cleaning Day is a traditional parents' frenzy who are just as excited as the competing boys. Without 

exception, this year's enrollment for parent helpers had exceeded 200, twice the amount of manpower needed for 

supervision assistance. Many parents enjoyed seeing their boys' complete absorption into rubbing and dusting, a 

rare view to many but certainly a funny one to all. The joys of the families made no escape from the camera lenses. 

DBSPD was once again filled with laughters and brave faces to give it's best to prepare for the upcoming Open Day 

despite the looming flu threat. 


Open House & 

Chinese New Year Fair 

(27 January 2019) 

Open House Day Cafe.PEP (27 January 2019) 


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DBS 150 Run (31 March 2019) 

Music Celebration 

Party (13 April 2019) 

The PTA was delighted to support 

the party to celebrate a year of hard 

work from our talented musicians. 

What an astonishing result they 

have achieved in the year 2018-19! 

Well done! 


PTA Outing (13 May 2019) 

We have introduced an orienteering program as a main activity for this year PTA Outing, which turned out to be very 

welcome by both parents and kids! At the campsite, boys and families enjoyed many other activities such as cycling, 

swimming, go-kart, archery, trampoline, air hockey, bouncy castle and all sort of ball games…… and let’s look 

forward to another fun day next year! 

Volunteers’ Tea Party (17 May 2019) 


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G6 graduation dinner (7 July 2019) 

“Learners Today, Leaders Tomorrow” is the slogan of the Graduation Class 2019 . Teachers, parents, students and 

family members had spent a wonderful evening at the Kerry Hotel, bringing back happy moments they have for the 

past 6 years. The class performances were fantastic which has pushed the event to a climax. This memorable event 

would not be successful without the greatest help of all OC members who contributed their valuable time, effort and 

expertise. Special thanks to Dr. William Chan, Ms. Ceci Wong for leading OC and parent helpers to arrange and 

proceed to different tasks over eight months. We would also like to thank Headteacher Ms. Lo and Dr. Nadia Chan 

for their assistance, guidance and spending out time to attend the meetings. 



G5 boys visit HK Observatory (Nov 2018) 

Movie Show – Donnie Yen (21 November 2018) 

G4 Visit to 民航處航空教育徑 (25 Jan 2019) 

1 st Parents’ Seminar – Professor Joseph Sung (26 January 2019) 

The first Seminar was held on 26 January 2019 by Professor Joseph Jao-Yiu Sung ( 沈祖堯教授 ) on the topic of “This is 

the Me Me Me Generation”. Professor Sung was Vice-Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) 

during 2010-2017. Around 200 PD and SD parents joined the Seminar and Professor Sung shared his thought about 

the challenges facing our next generation. 


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2 nd Parents’ Seminar - (4 May 2019) 

The second Seminar was held on 4 

May 2019 by Dr. Annis Lai Chu FUNG 

( 馮麗姝博士 ) on the topic of “The Art 

of Parenting: Self-centredness and 

Aggression of Children”. Dr. FUNG 

is an Associate Professor of Social 

and Behavioural Sciences at the City 

University of Hong Kong (CityU) and 

she gave our parents her professional 

advice about anti-bullying. 

SD 2 nd Parent’s Seminar - Dr. Agnes Chan (18 May 2019) 

The SD PTA invited Dr. Agnes Chan 

( 陳美齡博士 ) to share with us on 

the topic: How do parents equip 

themselves to walk alongside their 

children as they advance to the next 

stage of life ( 父母如何裝備自己 , 陪 

伴孩子走進另一個人生階段 ) . T h e 

Primary Division (PD) parents were 

also invited to attend this talk. 

1 st talk of DBSPD Lecture Series of 粵語的價值 (7 Sept 2019) 

1 st talk of DBSPD Lecture Series of 2019-20 粵語的價值 will be held on coming Saturday afternoon (7 Sep) 2pm to 

3:30pm. Speaker is 黃樹堅老師 . 

Lunch 

1 st Lunch tasting and kitchen visit (Nov 2019) 

First Lunch Tasting and Kitchen Visit were organized during the week of November 19 th . Thank you for all the 

parents who joined and gave constructive comments. 

2 nd Lunch tasting (March 2019) 

Second Lunch Tasting was organized 

during the week of March 11 th 2019. 

The feedbacks received were quite 

satisfactory, which is a testament 

to the good efforts put in by the 

catering company. 


Joyful Fruit Days (22 and 23 May 2019) 

Similar to last year, in order to arouse students’ interests in 

Fruit Consumption, the Fruit Day Party was organized by the 

GS Department, PTA and catering company on May 21 st and 

22nd 2019. More than 40 parent volunteers helped us prepare 

fresh fruit tarts, strawberry and banana crepe, fruit jelly and 

fruit skewers on these two days. Special thanks to Ms. Jackie 

Lau for coordinating this wonderful event. 

It is thoroughly satisfying to see pretty much all our DBSPD 

boys so enthusiastically longing for different kinds of fruits 

during the event, and one has to admire this ingenious idea of 

effortlessly enticing our boys to partake such healthy food! 

Dinner meeting 

(21 March 2019) 

Sports 

Soccer Fun Day 

(14 Oct 2019) 

A “warm-up” sports event to 

welcome everyone back to school. It 

is free of charge with food and drinks 

serving. It is a fun family activity 

which drew hundreds of DBSPD 

families to participate and the fathers 

has fun playing soccer against each 

other. 

PTA Sports Carnival 2018 (16 December 2018) 

A traditional PTA sports event in DBSPD. The Sports Carnival was a highly participated 

sports event of each academic year. The PTA has been actively promoting different types 

of sports to The DBSPD families. Besides the traditional sport activities such as: Soccer and 

Basketball. We have also added Field Hockey and Fencing this time. 

A lunch buffet was served followed by a cake-cutting ceremony to celebrate the 

anniversary of the event. Our head teacher, Ms. Phyllis Lo and DBSPTA-PD Chairperson, 

Dr. William Chan, have helped to present the awards at the award ceremony. 


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Sports Team Celebration Party (25 May 2019) 

The PTA was delighted to support the party to celebrate a year of hard work from our enthusiastic sportsman. 

an astonishing result they have achieved in the year 2018-19! Well done! 

What 

PTA Fun Sports Day (16 June 2019) 

This is our end of year sports event. For the first time ever, we offered water gun games, plus traditional Chinese 

activities such as: Chinese billiards and foot shuttlecock games. The kids should have a wonderful day enjoying 

different kinds of sport activities together. 



Knitting Event (Nov 2018) 

The meaningful event was launched for two consecutive years. We encouraged parents and teachers to participate 

and complete the knitted scarfs at home. We aimed to deliver these handmade items to the elderlies during winter 

season. With a very strong collaboration with teachers and parents, together we produced over 120 knitted scarfs in 2 

months’ time! 

Participation in Box of Hope activity (17 November 2018) 

Community Service Sub-committee greatly supports School to encourage students to donate stationery items, books, 

small toys and/or hygiene items and put into shoe boxes and donate to the organization “Box of Hope”. We received 

over 400 nicely decorated boxes and parent helpers helped to conduct quality check and re-packing before we sent the 

boxes to children in need before Christmas. 

Poor and Rich Meals 貧富一餐 (28 Nov 2018) 

This event is organized by 基督教勵行會 and school/ G6 parents of PTA’s Community Service Subcommittee 

participated in this event to help. Some G6 boys had experienced taking the poor meal - plain bread. Others tried the 

rich meals. All boys visited the subdivided flat made by G6 parents. 


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CS Subcom visit to elderly centre (12 January 2019) 

With all the scarfs that was made by our fellow parents in last November and other goodies we have prepared, we 

visited the elderlies in Proactive Concern Centre for the Elderly in Ngau Tau Kok run by Po Leung Kuk with 40 fellow 

students and parents together with Ms. Lo and other teachers. Most of the them live alone and are in their 80s or 

above. We hosted a 2 hour party with them singing and playing games celebrating the new year. 

CS Subcom food service volunteer activity at Food Angel 

(5 days in March) 

We successfully reserved timeslots and invited G4 to G6 parents and students to serve dinner to elderlies at Food 

Angel centre at Sham Shui Po. 

“Foodstep Journey” at Food Angel (23 March 2019) 

After the food serving experience for our older boys with Food 

Angel, we arranged a visit to their unique Foodstep Journey 

showroom on Saturday, March 23. Ms. Ng, Ms. Lau and some 

30 students joined us to this enriching and educational visit. 

They were explained about global and HK issue of food waste 

and poverty. The boys enjoyed so much about preparing meal 

with food waste, squeezing into the subdivided units and 

collecting cardbox with their bare hands. 


Visit 獨居長者 (15 June and 6 July 2019) 

After the final exam, we organized a visit for our subcom members to single elderly home at Lam Tin on June 15 and 

July 6. About 30 families participated and each family visit two elderlies to learn more about their daily living and 

how they lived by themselves and looked after each other. It was so touching that one of the elderlies gave each boy a 

package of self-made bean bag and sharing how this is being played when she was young. 

2 nd Hand book fair (6 July 2019) 

This event was widely received by parents and students since 2016. Our goals are to 

promote the joy of reading, enhance environmental awareness and encourage students 

to donate old textbooks and leisure books that are no longer in use to benefit other 

boys who love to read. Many parents and boys came to the classroom to read and buy 

happily on the event day! 


Green Uniform (17 May 2019) 

PTA Green Uniform programme collected around 400 pieces of used uniforms. Most of our used uniforms found 

new home among our boys. With the remaining 50 uncollected pieces (mainly PE uniforms), we shipped them to an 

Orphanage in the Philippines. 

Our school started as an Orphanage itself 150 years ago and it is meaningful that our used uniforms can find new 

masters in another Orphanage. 


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Join PTA Football Club and 

PTA Basketball Team 

DBSPTA has set up the football club and basketball. We will organize friendly matches regularly. Please send your name, 

mobile number, your son’s name and class to pta@dbspta-pd.com if you are interested to join. 

Address : 131 Argyle Street, Mongkok, Kowloon 

Telephone : 3159 4200 

Fax : 2624 7292 

Web site : https://www.dbspta-pd.com/newsletter2019 

Email : pta@dbspta-pd.com

DBSPTA-PD Newsletter 2018-19

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