"CAIS is a tight-knit community where students are always encouraged to be the greatest version of themselves."

Each year, Kindness Week is held as a meaningful and fun-filled celebration for us to learn about the value of kindness and being caring to others.

A student at CAIS from Grade 10 to 12, Wendy Fung has truly demonstrated that learning often takes place beyond the classroom.

A Grade 9 student at CAIS, Yat Au started learning the cello at the young age of six. Read on as he shares his musical journey with us.

Twelve-year-old Vinci Chan (7A) has been interested in life science, biology, paleontology and zoology since he was 3-4 years old.

Chantel Yiu, a grade 9 student at CAIS enters herself in a TV singing contest.

“I don’t think... I can take it anymore...” Queen Aquarius, the connoisseur of magic struggled to say.

Like sports, art has long been a unifier. The artworks at CAIS’s campus at Butterfly Valley have not only given colours to the school’s interior spaces, the messages behind these creative works have…

There was a little bit of a music culture in our family. My uncle played the violin as an amateur and from a very early age, I heard him practicing and I was fascinated by the instrument...

In Hong Kong I think that parents want their children to cultivate their creativity and they look to music and art to help cultivate it but sometimes the decision is then imposed on the child.

I did not start out with the bassoon. I started out at age 6 playing the violin but after a year, I gave up. I found that the posture to play the violin to be too awkward for me so I gave up. At age…

I am Izumi Nikaido and I am a flutist. I was born in Kagoshima City, Japan and started to play the piano when I was 3 years old.

When I graduated from High School, I enrolled in the Senior Program at APA and spent the next 4 years there. In 1993, I was recruited to be the associate principal Horn for the Korean Symphony…

I was born and grew up in Taiwan. When I was a child, my mother strongly encouraged my two sisters and me to learn playing piano. One day she discovered that I was able to play all the pop songs…

She is an acclaimed young virtuoso of the new generation started learning the cello when she was ten at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

As a father of four children (youngest is now 24!), I think I can say with experience, that we don’t always get parenting right.

I am sure we all know the story, “Goldilocks and the 3 bears”. It is a lovely story that has an excellent parenting and teaching technique hidden within it.

Earlier this week the English Language Learning (ELL) Department shared with staff their expertise in working with students for whom English is a second language.

This week I have enjoyed reading to all the Preparatory children, Max Lucado’s book “You are Special”. This storytelling has become a tradition at CAIS where every Preparatory child is gifted a copy…

Recently I was listening to an audiobook from one of my favourite authors, Jim Collins, who wrote “Good to Great” and “Built to Last”.

Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “A leader is a dealer in hope.” In my opinion, so too, “Teachers are dealers in hope.”

Recently I received an email from an airline company informing me that they were ‘elevating my benefits’! That surprised me considering I have not travelled in the past 18 months!

In 1991 American scientists began an amazing experiment, the world’s first ‘Closed Biosphere’ enclosure.

In ‘pre-covid’ times, many churches would hold two Easter services, one on Good Friday and one on Easter Sunday.

One of my favourite Christian hymns (song) is one titled, “It is well with my soul”, written by Horatio Spafford in the 18th century.

As I follow the news about Coronavirus and its impact on people, and communities, it is easy to begin to despair. Questions quickly rise, such as ‘when will this end?’, ‘Is the vaccine safe?’, ‘When…

A number of years ago, I read a book that had, and still does, an impact on me and I would like to share some thoughts from it with you. The book, by Bill Hybels, is called ‘Simplify – 10 practices…

This Sunday is the second Sunday in advent as we celebrate the coming of Christ as Saviour.

When our children were very young, we lived in a different part of New Zealand to where their grandparents lived. I can still remember their reaction when my wife and I would say ‘Grandma and Grandpa…

Last Saturday, if the Parent Teacher Interviews were taking place at school, I was to give a talk on “The heart of Christian Education.”

This coming Monday, 12th October, Canadians will celebrate Thanksgiving Day. (Jour de l'Action de grâce).

“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.”