Challenge Week 2026

Challenge Week 2026 launches this Friday

The first of our trips depart for Australia and Nepal this Friday night. Many more depart over the weekend and on Monday morning. All our local activities start on Monday November 2nd. 

Parents - make sure you know which activity your child is on and have visited the activity page in this website to get all relevant information and contact details.

Absences during CW:

• Year 7 - please use the ESF Hub absence system as usual. 

• All other year levels - please email the activity leader directly.  Do not use the ESF Hub absence system

Emergency contact: Please reach out by email to the leader of your child's activity.

If the matter is urgent, call the school reception on 27113029

In an emergency call 98660780 (for activities in Hong Kong) or 92090479 (for overseas activities)

What is Challenge Week?

Learning and growing are about struggle and overcoming difficulties.  We want our students to persevere and do things when they are challenging. With Challenge week, we go further and remind students that...

we choose to do things because they are challenging.

Challenge Week is a crucial component of our curriculum. It provides students with an opportunity to learn through new experiences outside of the regular classroom. Our activities provide engagement with Creativity, Activity, and Service, offering opportunities for students to engage in experiential learning, form lasting memories, make new connections, and challenge themselves.

The choice, opportunities, and shared experiences make this a key opportunity to address our school vision: for students to find their passions, feel a sense of belonging, develop holistically, and maybe even take a step towards being their own remarkable selves.

During Challenge Week, school buses will run as normal. Except that on Monday, buses will be at school at 3:20 (not our normal Monday early-finish time)

Challenge Week 2026

Activities have been finalised. Use the menu at the top to go to the Year you will be in for November 2026.

Students must upload a Passport/Travel card and HKID to the CW system before they can sign up for an overseas activity

Sign-up is during Tutor time. :

• Y11 - Friday March 6

• Y10 - Monday March 9 

• Y09 - Tuesday March 10

• Y08 - Wednesday March 11

• Y07 - Thursday March 12

Read a detailed description of what makes an activity suitable for Challenge Week.

Challenge Week 2025

It was an incredible week with 700 students outside Hong Kong and 1250 engaged in activities at KGV and across Hong Kong. We saw students challenging themselves to learn new skills, make new friends, work as a team, discover new cultures and engage in genuine service to others.