Student Life

Zahra Brady April 28, 2024 Anybody who’s ever been late to school will be familiar with this sight: a traffic jam at the roundabout, a...

Every year, during course registration, students struggle to select their classes for the coming year. They have to consider their...

Ava Parekh and Jocelyn Tong February 7, 2024 Note: this interview was conducted in October of 2023. —------------------------------------...

Raghav Bhatnagar February 7, 2024 From January 22nd to 25th, HKIS high school students experienced their first-ever advocacy week....

Victoria Kong January 22, 2024 During the recent Gratitude and Giving Week at HKIS, an event aimed at raising awareness about period...

James Ellis January 22, 2024 After three years of piloting standards-based grading in select courses, HKIS fully transitioned to the new...

Chris Yin Feb 7th, 2023 If opening the “grades” tab on your AP World History schoology class makes you want to write an email to your...

Aria Tahilramani Febuary 2nd, 2023 This school year marked the beginning of a new bell schedule, one met with a lot of negative opinions....

Katelyn Liu November 14th, 2021 There’s a common belief that music is the closest thing that we as humans will ever come to magic. In the...

Emma Pang February 12, 2022 HONG KONG, HK - students are describing this incident as an all around traumatising event after another...

Katherine Ashley Chen and Sanaya Parekh January 3, 2022 [No return address] Hong Kong International School High School Division 1 Red...

Justin Sau December 2, 2021 The PE swim unit is the one thing students fear more than anything else in the school year, a recent report...

Emma Pang December 2, 2021 After sixteen students slipped on plexiglass, flailed perpendicular to the ground, resembling cartoon...

Michelle Lau November 20th, 2021 MD Junior, a new club at HKIS this year, is part of a non-profit organization that aims to unite...

Katelyn Liu November 20th, 2021 On Friday, November 6, the HKIS combined choirs held their first concert of the year. Wavelength, their...

Gracie Chung November 20th, 2021 Six thousand miles. That’s the distance between Brighton and Hong Kong, or the distance Ms. Mok had to...

Chloe Tse November 20th, 2021 The Wizard of Oz was a magical show that transported the audience to the land of conniving witches,...

Chloe Page November 20th, 2021 Between spending hours laboring through math equations, poring over minute details in essays, and cramming...

Stanley Sau November 20th, 2021 It’s AP season. Students are fretting about their inability to live up to their standards of study...

Alex Gandhi November 20th, 2021 On Saturday, November 5, the Zonta Club held its annual Dinner in the Dark, a fundraising event targeted...

Rysa Tahilramani November 20th, 2021 During the September 28-29 weekend, the HKIS Forensics team participated in the Hong Kong Senior...

Kaylin Chong November 20th, 2021 Mr. Chadwick Hamilton is a math teacher hailing from Portland, Oregon. Coming from Korea with his wife...

Chloe Tse November 20th, 2021 Interim. When you hear that word, what emotion does it spark in you? Eagerness to bond with the people on...

Katelyn Liu November 20th, 2021 Last Friday, student members of the Quiz Bowl team faced yet another loss as the Humanities teachers...

Adit Gorawara November 14th, 2021 Let’s start by getting to know Mr. Leo Tseng - that's Mr. Zen’s real name. Although we know it as Mr....

Ryan Argetsinger November 20th, 2021 With every new year comes a new sense of community. At HKIS, we've laughed, socialized, and learned...

Gracie Chung November 20th, 2021 On December 3, 2016, HKIS held its first Winter Formal in five years at the Middle School gym. Complete...

Joy Chan November 20th, 2021 Led by Ms. Heatherly Stephens, a rotating cast of high school students took the stage from the 8th-11th of...

Yoonjung Choi November 20th, 2021 HKIS hosted its 2nd HKISMUN conference from October 12th to 13th, with almost a total of 100 attendees...

Katelyn Liu November 20th, 2021 On January 12, 2018, Hong Kong International School hosted the annual China Cup Forensics competition,...

Gracie Chung November 20th, 2021 Game Theory, Number Theory, Medical Problem Solving, and Poetry Writing are just a few of the online...

Hebe Yiu November 20th, 2021 The Irish brought the Halloween tradition of pumpkin carving to the USA, just as this HKIS Pumpkin Festival...

Daniel Sheremeta November 20th, 2021 February 1 saw the inaugural event of the Global Issues Network Club (GIN): The GINcredible Charity...

Michelle Ahn November 20th, 2021 On September 27, the Global Issues Network (GIN) club hosted its second annual GIN Carnival to promote...

Hebe Yiu November 20th, 2021 “Poems begin in a million different ways.” Just as poems may begin in a million different ways, Luka Lesson,...

Aujin Kim November 20th, 2021 On September 21, the HKIS Quiz Bowl team gathered at German Swiss International School to compete in Mind...

Emma Pang November 14th, 2021 Students at HKIS took the term ‘sucking up to teachers’ a bit too far last Friday, having to be surgically...

Hebe Yiu November 14th, 2021 Nine years ago, Mr. Mike Ross visited this school as a teacher from ICS to observe the band classes and...

Iris Lee November 14th, 2021 From the 16th to 18th of November, HKIS choir members took part in the 2017 APAC Choir festival hosted by...

Bowen Zhu November 14th, 2021 After an eight-month market research program involving lengthy surveys and involuntary interviews, Sodexo...

Henrietta Ko November 14th, 2021 HKIS hosted its very first HKISMUN conference from October 13th to 14th, with 80 attendees from HKIS,...

Kathy Tse November 14th, 2021 On the evening of November 28th, 2017 students grabbed the audience's attention as soon as they began...

Lina Chen November 14th, 2021 Mock Trial is a new initiative club that emulates courts and is competed infant of real Hong Kong judges....

Stanley Sau February 6, 2021 In every class, there always seems to be at least one student known for their otherworldly abilities in...

Emma Pang January 13, 2021 With the pandemic and online school leading to an all time high with disconnect between students and teachers,...

Emma Pang November 11, 2020 All around the globe, the first wave of scores have just been released from this school year’s first SAT in...

Stanley Sau October 20, 2020 The near-100% acceptance rate that Honors Geometry boasts is the greatest representation of our school’s...

Chloe Tse May 6th, 2020 This year, the HKIS VEX robotics team won the excellence award at the Hong Kong VEX Regional Championships. They...

Rysa Tahilramani April 28, 2020 Classes in the traditional form have been suspended indefinitely, but the Rowing Club certainly hasn’t....

Jaeryung Park April 7th, 2020 Since the Coronavirus outbreak, HKIS and most schools around the world have switched their learning...