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Dear friends,
If you are a recipient of alumni email, you should be well aware of the mentorship scheme. It is a scheme for St. Paul's College and the SPC Alumni Association to join hands to provide mentoring and sharing of life experience to our F6 boys. It started in 2004 and it is the third session now.
Our new principal John Kennard is very supportive to this scheme, as he firmly believes that we are all in one big family under SPC flag. At the assembly yesterday, he openly encouraged our F6 boys to join the scheme.
We are now under the usual process of recruiting new senior mentors. Commitment is not that much - you just need to attend the inauguration at the school on 30/9 (and take the chance to visit the new school extension block), meet some F6 boys (normally 4-5 in a group) once a while (say once every two months) to have some chats or have some activities with them, and attend a high table dinner around Easter 2007. If you feel you could share your life experience with our younger St. Paul boys, do join us to help our Alma Mater.
No matter you have or have not indicated your availability before, I would be most grateful if you could re-register again by replying to this email, so that I could take stock and make arrangements. Pls also copy your reply to Mr. Darren Lam (khlamd@yahoo.com) for administration purpose.
Regards,
Vincent Fung
Chairman, SPCAA
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Some further information from Philip Cheung:
The objective is for those Form 6ers who are interested to know in advance a little bit of the working/business life they enter eventually, hopefully from the senior &/or junior mentors whose profession or business is one he is aiming for.
The school will pair the junior mentor (under 30 years old, whose job is to liaise between the students and the senior mentor, as well as sharing work experience) and the senior member. The boys will then choose the group’s profession according to his interest and preference but the school will have the final decision.
In my case, we spent time over walks (what else) and meals, and factory visits in China, to chat about garment business. They are very interested to know ours SPC days and how life was without TV.
Learning for me is a 2 way track, as I get to know the inside world of young people these days that much more. I learnt not to approach them as another tutor in order to have interesting conversations with them. They could be your friends if you try not to lecture them.
You meet students of all kinds. Some are elite and some just join for the sake of it. I have had a head prefect, and have one who never turn up. You have to be patient with them because they are, after all, young students.
They are supposed to learn table manner at the High Table dinner. A lot of them have their first zip of wine. Selected senior mentors were guests speakers the first year, Tsang Yuk-Shing the second. Do you know that chap on the third:-
Philip Cheung
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