On Thursday, May 4, 2023, 2B parent of Sarah Austin, Nalini, volunteered to be our guest cook to hold a cooking class for our parents. Nalini started the class by taking our parents to go shopping for the ingredients. Then, Nalini demonstrated how to prepare the Indian cuisine, Butter Chicken, steps by steps. 

    It was a fun and collaborative experience and we all enjoyed working together and learning from each other. Overall, the Indian cooking class for parents was a fantastic experience. Nalini was an excellent teacher.

   The cooking class is a bridge to make connection in our CMS community. No matter who we are and where we are from, with Jesus’s love, we share, we care and we love one another.

    Under the protection of God, we gave thanks to him for guarding our school since it was built. The school is making great strides in development. The Thanksgiving Mass for the 55th School Anniversary was held on 21st April (Friday) at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Central, officiated by Rev. Dominic Chan Chi-Ming, Rev. with the School Supervisor - Pierre LAM Minh, MEP., and Fr. Gabriel Altamirano Ortega, MG. concelebrated the ceremony. There were 459 teachers and students, 105 parents and 56 guests attended the event.

    On that day, a total of 8 teachers were awarded the long service commemorative medals from Rev. Dominic Chan Chi-Ming.

    CMS Home-School Academy aims to work closely with our parents to support our children’s and development with positive engagement in learning and social aspects both at home and school. In addition, it is important for parents’ personal growth which brings a good impact to the family as well.

    A positive psychologist expert, Mr Carl Chung, Director of Teengineer.HK, ran a series of workshops for training up our parents to be our future trainers to train other CMS parents. The Positive Parenting Workshops that we held in the first term and second term were successfully completed. Altogether 38 parents joined and 2 parents from the first batch attended the second cohort as our trainers.

    These workshops were designed to provide some basic knowledge about positive emotions management and parenting skills through various interactive activities which allowed parents to apply the concepts that they had learned in a simulated training environment.

    The feedback that we received from the participants was overwhelmingly positive, with many expressing their gratitude for the opportunity to improve their skills and knowledge.

    Overall, we consider the Positive Parenting Workshops as well as the Train the Trainer Program are the seed we have planted in our CMS community. The program will have a positive impact on the quality of training within us.