Year 9
Water and Rock Outdoor adventure - with Asia Adventure Sport
-This is a mask-off activity
-This is a mask-off activity
Cost: HK$5,340 per student
This week-long activity will feature activities such as Coasteering, Kayaking, Canyoning and Water filtration, raft building, plus orienteering and team activities. You will work as a team as you embrace the challenges and expeditions put in front of you. Team work will be of the essence in this truly amazing outdoor experience.
Physical Challenge Excitement
Drama with Faust -This is a mask-on activity -school based
Cost: HK$2,380 per student
Faust International Youth Theatre will bring acting, directing and production challenges
to students in a week long course! Students will be staging a play using devising and scripts based on students’ preferences and create a performance that can be streamed live, videoed and or performed live based on guidelines provided by the school. Specific skills range from devising, directing and creating performance pieces, vocal and body expression, script writing, marketing and backstage work.
Pottery in Peng Chau -This is a mask-on activity -
Cost: HK$1,820 per student
During this activity, you will visit an artist's studio and learn how to use the wheel.
Every day you will take the ferry to beautiful Peng Chau and work alongside others in a beautiful rural setting. At the end of the week you will fire your creations to be able to keep them forever.
Creative Writing and Book Publishing -This is a mask-on activity -school based
Cost: HK$4,970 per student
The topic for this Horizons Week:
What would a caveman do on the MTR? What would a knight think about mobile phones? In this creative writing and book publishing workshop, the past and present collide as characters are suddenly transported to the future. Besides describing the chaos that ensues, students will learn to utilize historical information to show how people from the past interact and cope with today’s world.
Are you a budding author?
Ever dreamed of publishing a book? Join Elephant Community Press's creative writing and book publishing workshop during Horizons Week to study a particular genre of story, and then plan and write your own to be published in an anthology with other students. Students will learn to draft, revise and edit a story like real authors do, and the final books (published in Jan 2023) will be sold to raise funds to support a charity and are also circulated in HK Public Libraries.
Baking Maniac - During this activity at Baking Maniac's studio in Wong Chuk Hang, students will cover a variety of baking techniques and learn how to frost, sculpt, layer and decorate. -This is a mask-on activity and students need to be vaccinated
Cost: HK$7,700 per student
Creating
Collaborating
Team Work
Learn a variety of delicious recipes and baking techniques to make macarons, cake pops, cupcakes, cookies, fondant sculpting and fondant designer cakes.
Baking with success
Take home your delicious baked goods everyday.
Golf Clinic -This is a mask-on activity ***Participants of this activity MUST BE fully vaccinated as required by the HK Vaccine Pass.
Cost: HK$5,230 per student
Enjoy Sai Kung Golf
For golfers with experience on a golf course. Play a round of golf on the Kau Sai Chau Public Golf Club courses in Hong Kong every day during Horizons Week. Experience the many courses and perfect your golfing prowess.
Improve your technique
This week is an opportunity to really improve your technique as well as develop your patience, resilience and focus; attributes which are key to a successful life beyond West Island. Hong Kong is blessed with the climate and the courses which will make for a fantastic week.
Stand up Paddle Board Adventure & Water Games -This is a mask-off activity
Cost: HK$4,830 per student
Watersports
Want to develop your abilities with unique and meaningful challenges? Professional instructors will guide participants to the Sai Kung marine area using SUP (Stand Up Paddle Board), teach them how to use the SUP properly and safely, explore the “Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark“ and other unique landscapes, as well as improve their awareness of ocean conservation and environmental sustainability.
Beautiful Sai Kung
Throughout the camp, youths will also have many opportunities to interact with other participants, develop life long social skills, build confidence and improve their personal developments.
Challenge and Fun
Join us now if you are looking for a fun, sweating and challenging week!
It promises to be lots of fun, helping you to develop your understanding of conservation as well as enjoying your time with your friends.
Gourmet Specials -This is a mask-on activity and fully vaccinated
Cost: HK$5,990 per student
Cooking in style
In this practical course, students will visit TownGas cooking center where they will learn how to cook many different cuisines across the week from Thai food, to Japanese cake making and Italian specialities.
Hollywood Hong Kong -This is a mask-on activity, school based and Filming outdoors around HK
Cost: HK$4,980 per student
In this activity, students will be challenged to identify and race each other to a shooting location featured in an iconic movie shot in Hong Kong, and produce an original short film at the same location over 5 days.
Film-Making
Want to take part in a unique filmmaking challenge? Students in Hong Kong may not realize this, but our city’s landscape has inspired numerous filmmakers from around the world featuring often in Hollywood blockbusters like Dr. Strange, Godzilla vs. Kong, and The Dark Knight. Students will be guided by experienced filmmakers from Babel Film Workshop, and learn about the professional filmmaking process to create their short films based on creative prompts. Students also have the option to sign-up as a production group of 3-5 if they’d like to be in the same crew. Completed films will be screened and considered for a Best Film and Audience Award.
Hiking Hong Kong -This is mask-off in the country parks
Cost: HK$350 per student
Hiking in Beautiful Hong Kong
Ever wondered what the Wilson or Hong Kong trails are? ever seen the view of Hong kong from one of its highest peaks? ever walked the Dragon’s Back? Find out more about your own backyard and how green it really is.
Get outdoors and experience the real gems of Hong Kong. Each day will be a different hike along the many trails this wondering land has to offer. The hikes will begin gently and become progressively more challenging as you get accustomed to the walks. We will be meeting at different starting points each day, ready to hit the trails.
Breathtaking landscapes
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Packed lunches are needed as well as a charged up Octopus Card to use the public transport as students need to travel independently to and from hike meeting and finishing locations.
Students travel independently to start and finish locations therefore need to have money/octopus for ferries and buses.
Photography - This is a mask-on activity (***Students can use their SLR's, Hybrids or phone cameras.) School based and outside in HK
Cost: HK$3,240 per student
Exploration and design
Students will end with an impressive physical and virtual exhibition, that they will present to viewers, emotionally and technically.
The week will consist of understanding where influences come from, how idea form and how to get to the end image. The students will start to create their own stories and bodies of work through the lens, eventually working toward a final piece to display and discuss.
You will see the students research and experiment with photography, creativity and find influences, unfolding through a sketch book of ideas.
Learning new techniques
The course will have support booklets to refer to throughout and at later dates when the student wants to strengthen their new found skill.
Technical knowledge of the cameras working will cover shutter speed, iso, aperture, light metering, lenses and how shape, colour, mood, story and relevance of subjects create images.
The workshop will cover the main elements of photography needed to gain the knowledge of a photographers working world, from ideas and influences to technical knowledge, to discussions of each other’s work, through to framing their own piece and presenting it at an exhibition.
Art Attack - School Based Activity - This is mask-on activity, school based
Cost: HK$550 per student
Print Making
During this art activity you will take inspiration from local nature by visiting a local beach and taking photographs and collecting shells and rocks to use in the week. You will then create your designs and print them using a variety of techniques.
Use Nature for inspiration
Whilst enjoying time with friends, make something long lasting and environmentally friendly
Diwali Dance Show This is a mask-on activity, school based
Cost: HK$250 per student
Be part of the Legend
Diwali celebrations have a longstanding tradition at WIS. After a Pandemic hiatus, this year Horizon's week gives performers a chance to rehearse and create a show worthy of Bollywood itself.
Public performance on Friday
Enjoy learning Indian dances and being part of this iconic show throughout the week. There will be a public performance in the Auditorium at the end of Horizon's week.
Football Camp - Open to all --This is a mask-off activity, however to enter the premises you would need to be fully vaccinated'
Cost: HK$2,990 per student
Improve your skills
Players undergo intensive training on the field, each day gaining an understanding of the attacking and defending principals of play. All practices incorporate Game Related Sessions and Conditioned Games to help players improve their decision making and problem solving.
Be the winning team
This is supplemented with classroom sessions to develop knowledge around other key aspects of being a professional athlete and leading a healthy lifestyle.”
Participants to bring own packed lunch and plenty of fluids (water)
Coding - There are 3 different workshops on offer: This is a mask-on activity, school based
Cost: HK$3,460 per student
Mobile Game Developer
In this intermediate course, students will learn to use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build games that can be played on both desktop and mobile devices.
This course is designed for students who have had prior experience with HTML, CSS, andJavaScript.Using the BSD Online learning platform, students will build a total of five different games — a platformer, a trac game, a nonogram puzzle game, a battle game, and a jumping game.
Students will develop fundamental skills in programming, learn about game development and design, and explore how to add further customizations to their projects.
Code Your Own World with VR
Working with BSD , This course is designed for students who have had prior experience with HTML, CSS, andJavaScript.Using the BSD Online learning platform, students will build a total of five different games — a platformer, a trac game, a nonogram puzzle game, a battle game, and a jumping game.
Code the Future with Artificial Intelligence
AI is a part of our future. There is no better time to start learning the inner workings of how it functions and powers the world around us.
Students will learn about the design and programming behind modern digital assistant softwares like Alexa, Siri, and Cortana and explore the technology powering in-car navigation.
Students will use Machine Learning and code to develop and train their own AI personality that can answer questions, complete requests, and chat about topics of their choice
Icons of Hong Kong -A study of HK's cultural identity -This is a mask-on activity, school based and outside in Hong Kong.***Participants of this activity MUST BE fully vaccinated as required by the HK Vaccine Pass.
Cost: HK$1,000 per student
Icons of Hong Kong
“What is Hong Kong and what does it mean to be a Hong Konger? Fall back in love with Hong Kong by joining us to explore what make Asia World City so special. We will travel to the beating heart and far corners of Hong Kong, explore the most iconic places and discover how they continue to define our great city.” Students will move around Hong Kong on a study of Heritage buildings, iconic food, transport methods old and new, redevelopment and a visit to some of hong kong's finest buildings to hear from experts.
Discover India in Hong Kong -This is both mask-on and mask-off according to the daily activities, fully vaccinated only
Cost: HK$1,500 per student
How are Hong Kong and India connected?
India and Hong Kong have been trading with each other since the middle of the 19th century; relations between the two countries have always been warm and cordial and, Hong Kong has for long been home to a large Indian community. See how their influence has shaped the culture of Hong Kong.
Rowing and Sailing - RHKYC -This is a mask-off activity, however to enter the premises you would need to be fully vaccinated'
Cost: HK$4,830 per student
Held at the iconic HKRYC Middle Island at Deep water Bay, this is a stunning spot to immerse yourself in sailing and rowing throughout the week. You will be led through drills and training by a set of instructors who will help you to improve your skill s throughout the week.
***Please note that the minimum age for sailing is 11 years old and that for rowing/paddling is 12 years old. You must be able to confidently swim 50 meters to take this activity
Horse Riding & Stable Management at Lo Wu -This is a mask-off activity, however to enter the premises you would need to be fully vaccinated'
Cost: HK$6,770 per student
Learn new skills
In this very popular activity students can learn to ride or improve their skills at the Lo Wu Horse stables.
For those more experienced, you will gain further skills and knowledge in both horse care and riding. You will have the chance to develop your knowledge on how to care for a competition horse; you will also get the chance to develop your flatwork and jumping techniques to a higher level. Show these off at our end of week competition!
Interact with Horses and ponies
For new riders, learn the basic skills needed to handle and ride horses with confidence in a fun friendly atmosphere. You can learn how to groom, lead and care for your horse developing a firm bond with these incredible animals. You will also learn to ride them, with a chance to show off your newly learnt skills at the end of the week!