organized by the Service Learning Committee, which aims at nurturing students’ respect towards others. It is also hoped that students could take this opportunity to pay tribute to the very hard working unsung heroes, particularly our janitors, for their love, care and hard work in providing a healthy learning environment to them.
Janitors’ Day is a new whole-school event organised by the Service Learning Committee. The programme aims at nurturing students’ empathy and respect towards people around them, particularly our school janitors.
As educators, we strongly believe that respect is to be nurtured instead of taught. Thus, the education programme we designed starts with Life Education lessons in February that encourage the two parties — janitors and students, to know more about each other through interactions and communications. The S4 and S5 classes were then asked to prepare a self-selected / self-prepared gift and bulletin board to dedicate thanks to our fellow janitors.
The afternoon session on 30th April was dedicated to our janitors as student-led thanks-giving sessions. With students of junior forms as audience. S4 and S5 classes went on stage one by one to show their videos prepared for our janitors, give their cards and gifts to the janitor assigned to their class, and explained to all the reasons behind the choice of their gifts and the design of their boards. Our janitors were overjoyed and touched by the recognition and gratitude given by students. Many of them said they were particularly moved by our students’ sincerity and the genuine bonding built. It was also hoped that the respectful act of the senior forms sets a good example for our fellow students and helps junior form students to empathise with other individuals at school, and hopefully expand that to others in society.
We also took this opportunity to celebrate the retirement of two of our respectable janitors — Janitor Kwan and Janitor Ming, who have served at our school for 10 and 12 years respectively. We wish them both all the best for their retirement and hope their time at our school brings them fond memories to think of in the future.
We sincerely hope that our students can keep up with their respectful attitude and carry it on to other people around them.
Ms. Cheryl Fung
Head of Student Guidance and Mentoring
