The Senior School

Welcome from the Head of Senior School

Dear Students

Let me congratulate you on entering the Senior School of Sha Tin College where I believe you will experience a challenging, vibrant and exciting two years.

Whichever course you are about to embark on will test your time management and motivation and will also be intellectually challenging. You will be taught to question accepted viewpoints, to research and consider a wide range of opinions and to analyse and structure your answers in depth, all of which will prepare you thoroughly for the new challenges of higher education after Sha Tin.

There is a strong team of Heads of Year and Deputy Heads of Year in the Senior School to help and guide you through the two years. In addition, your Form Tutor will be a great support to you and the HE Counselors and Heads of ToK, Extended Essay and CAS will be on hand to give help and advice with every aspect of the requirements of your course.

Our academic results are excellent but life in the Y12 and 13 is about much more than just academic success. I hope that you will become fully involved in a variety of performance, sports, charity work and student leadership roles since it is these things that students often remember most fondly about life in the Senior School.

Albert Einstein said “Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young people who genuinely thirst for truth and knowledge”. I hope that even when you find the going tough, you will continue to thirst for truth and knowledge and that your two years in the Y12 and 13 will be the start of a lifelong journey of curiosity and the love of learning.

I look forward to meeting you all in the coming months. If you have any questions please contact me at cst@shatincollege.edu.hk

Chris Taylor
Head of Senior School

Welcome from the IB Coordinator

I would like to welcome all students to the Senior School.  You have done extremely well to get this far but now have to make some important decisions which will determine your future development.

We will be offering three distinct programmes in the Senior school, all preparing you for a future university or college education.

You must read Y12 and Y13 curriculum brochure carefully, talk with your teachers, parents and counselors and decide on a pathway which is right for you. The IB diploma programme is a rigorous, academic and world renowned qualification. It is very challenging and uses a range of assessments including examinations.
It is broad and balanced and involves a compulsory core of CAS, (Creativity, Action and Service), Theory of Knowledge and an Extended Essay. The IB Certificate programme involves elements of the full diploma and is suitable for a student who has specific subject strengths, but perhaps not across the whole curriculum. Our Advanced Diploma pathway will be new for 2011 and provides an alternative route to higher education. It suits students with an applied learning style and is firmly based in the world of work. It develops a range of life and specific subject skills and there are no examinations. Students are assessed by a range of internal assessments. This is an exciting development for Sha Tin College and we hope it will provide a relevant and useful pathway
for some of our students.

It is important that you start now to think about your future but please remember there are lots of people to help and guide you along every step of the way. I wish you all the best in your Senior School studies.

Neil Hodgson
Vice Principal