Announcements

• School Calendar 2026 - 2027 (Version 1) is now available on the school website here. 

• Monday, 23 February 2026, will follow the Day 2 timetable. 

• Sports Team Kit Orders will close on Monday, 17 November 2025. To order kits for Badminton (all ages), U20 Football, U12 Netball, Athletics and Cross Country, please refer to the details here. All orders will be delivered to your designated address by 4 January 2026. 

Ticketing Information

• Christmas Concert will take place on Wednesday, 10 December. We invite you to join us in celebrating the festive season with our talented student performers. Please purchase your tickets through this ticketing link.

• School Musical - Into the Woods Junior is a masterful blend of storytelling, musical theatre vocals and movement, brought to life through a truly inclusive and collaborative effort across the whole school community. Please purchase your tickets for Into the Woods Junior for Wednesday, 3 December and Thursday, 4 December.

Find Your Purpose, Realise Your Potential 

• Know-vember Book Trailer Competition is a creative opportunity to read, reflect through Theory of Knowledge (TOK) and present learning outcomes using multimedia. Find the full competition details via this link and submit by Tuesday, 25 November 2025. 

• WIS Bazaar Poster Design Competition is open to all students. Unleash your creativity and submit your design via this form before Thursday, 27 November 2025.

• First Aid in Sport course, generously sponsored by our PTA, is open to students aged 14 or above and their parents. There are only 16 spots available. Please register via this form before Sunday, 30 November 2025.

• WIS Bazaar is recruiting parent volunteers. To join the volunteering team and contribute to the event on Saturday, 14 March 2026, please sign up via this form.

Kindness is a daily hallmark of the West Island School community, and Kindness Week provided a wonderful opportunity to focus that spirit. This week brought our community together through small gestures of appreciation and significant charitable efforts. 

Our students showed outstanding generosity across all charitable initiatives, while also embracing the daily activities with enthusiasm. They shared positive messages across the campus and directed their kindness toward the planet by participating in the Sustainable Swap Shop. 

Yoga instructor Garima, a WIS parent, shared her passion for yoga through a session full of energising movements and mindfulness with our staff. 

A group of enthusiastic Year 10 students showcased their contribution by interviewing staff members, while our Head Students and Post-16 students organised delightful treats for a tea party honouring our support staff.  Please read their quotes to see how much they enjoyed and appreciated the gesture. 

Thank you to everyone who took part and made this such a memorable week of community spirit. Congratulations to the students who received the Kindness Certificates for going above and beyond to demonstrate empathy and kindness this week.

On Wednesday Evening, our Auditorium welcomed parents, students, staff and ESF representatives for an open rehearsal of the School Musical: Into the Woods Junior. Participants fully immersed themselves into the creative processes and are looking forward to the shows on Wednesday, 3 December and Thursday, 4 December.

This week, our Music Department welcomed bass player Mr Marcel Pusey from Bassistry Music, London. With expert guidance, our Year 7 students explored Latin American music, while Years 8-13 collaborated on songwriting. Students were greatly inspired, learning about global music and composition. 

WISustain started the week with full passion for sustainability. They visited Kennedy School to present environmental issues to Year 6 and Year 3 classes and confidently covered diverse topics, including Fast Fashion, Ocean Pollution, Fossil Fuels, Deforestation, Food Waste and more. 

Our students were delighted to welcome Professor Kathy Cheah from HKU’s School of Biomedical Sciences and gain insightful knowledge in developmental genetics, bone development and regenerative medicine. Professor Cheah also spoke about the importance of making meaningful connections and shared her journey of researching around the world. Students are keen to work on their research skills and global networking after this talk. 

After more than a year of planning and preparation, our first Horizons Week trip—the South Africa Conservation Team—has departed. Eighteen students are off to South Africa to participate in a vital conservation project in the Kruger National Park.

No matter the activity our students are participating in next week, we hope they embrace the challenge, find their purpose, and return inspired to realize their potential.

Our first Thursday Throwdown featured our U16 and U20 basketball teams in action against visiting opponents on the court in the Sports Hall. Well done to all players for showcasing such passion, sportsmanship and dedication. 

Congratulations to the U14 Boys on finishing as runners-up in ISSFHK Season 1.