Po On Commercial Association Wan Ho Kan Primary School

2020/04/26

Overcoming the Epidemic

Overcoming the Epidemic

By Headmistress Ms.Chung

一張含有樹, 室外, 植物的圖片自動產生的描述

I was delighted to see the strong green Tabebuia Chrysotricha trees back in Nam Cheong Park recently. These trees nearly disappeared over the past year and a half since the typhoon Mangkhut hit Hong Kong and I dearly missed the beautiful sight of the yellow flowers on these trees last season. I thought I might not see that beautiful sight anymore. But to the contrary, I find that these trees have borne some buds and some yellow blossoms on them. This gives me a reassurance that I will see a sea of these golden yellow flowers soon.

Now, let's think of us. Currently our classes are suspended due to the spread of COVID -19 epidemic and many are facing a difficult time. At this time of adversity, let's introspect ourselves and adopt the spirit of 'love others & love learning ' in order to blossom like the yellow flowered trees. Let us learn how to care for people around us, including their health and emotions.

While it is important to care for people around us at this trying time, it is also important to cultivate the attitude of 'love learning' in us. During this period of class suspension, our attitude of 'love learning' is key as otherwise the goal of 'suspending classes but not suspending learning' cannot be achieved and the learning progress may fall back.

In the past, you might have taken classes for granted and might not have also thought how to learn continually without teachers in person. However,in order to facilitate your continued self-learning at home teachers are providing you with learning materials, online resources and worksheets on a regular basis. In fact, we encourage you to learn using the materials that are being provided to you and go even further to learn more by searching for information by yourself. If you take such an initiative in learning you can easily achieve the goal of 'love learning'. Therefore through 'love others and love learning' attitude we can withstand the test of time, overcome this epidemic and blossom like the Tabebuia Chrysotricha trees.