2018-05-11 EDB-NESTA Liaison Meeting
Another great liaison meeting at Wu Chung House hosted by Mrs. Anissa Wong, Principal Education Officer.
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2018-04-28 NESTA PD – Building 21st century learners: using everyday technology and culture
An awesome group of teachers came to the EDB Kowloon Tong Education Services Centre to attend the NESTA professional development on Saturday 28 April, 2018. There were two sessions with great guest speakers. The first was Using technology in a low-resource context with Dave Gatrell, and the second was Teaching intercultural learning on the primary […]
2018-04-28 NESTA Primary Pop-up Book Prizes Giving Ceremony
Saturday 28 April was the big day for the prize winners of NESTA’s Pop-up book competition. A big thank you for all the wonderful submissions, and congratulations to the amazing winners! A special thank you to Scholastic for supplying the great prizes.
2018-04-20 Charity Quiz Night
It was another great night in SoHo for the NESTA Charity Quiz Night. The big turnout meant 4 large teams competed for glory, and the competition was fierce! In the end, the Uncommonwealth team took home the wine and chocolates with a ‘slow but steady’ strategy. And by popular demand, the teams even played a […]
2018-03-28 Paired reading? Yes we can!
Form 4 students paired up to read aloud to each other, and develop a love of English reading. Low-level books for primary grades 2 to 4 were used to ensure low frustration and high enjoyment. 🙂
2018-03-23 NET Café :)
Another lovely NET Café, hosted at 42nd Davis in Kennedy Town. Big thanks to all the friends old and new who attended!
2018-03-16 NESTA Primary Pop-up Book Winners!!
So many great submissions! A BIG thank you to all the schools and students that took part in this wonderful competition.
2018-02-09 Quiz Night
With Chinese New Year just around the corner, what better way to celebrate than another NESTA Quiz Night? NETs came and got their brain trivia picked for another evening of laughs!
2018-01-12 NESTA GM
On 12 January 2018, the NESTA Executive gathered at the Sai Ying Pun Conference room to attend the first NESTA GM of 2018! Many topics were discussed and voted on by the members in attendance. Thank you to all who came out! 🙂
Puppets in class? Yes!
In January, the EDB held a workshop on puppetry. Attendees were all able to make their own puppets and practice performing with them. Later, some attendees’ students used simple paper puppets to bring to life a short drama in class! Very exciting stuff! 🙂