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Chan's Creative School

30/04/2019

Building a foundation with inspiration and creativity (21/02/2019)

Caring coach puts students first for football fun (Updated on 30/04/2019)

Learning through play, youngsters embark on a football journey (Updated on 02/07/2019)

 

Building a foundation with inspiration and creativity (21/02/2019)

Chan’s Creative School values students’ academic development and promotes learning through activities. Classroom learning takes place in the morning and activities happen in the afternoon. The school’s interactive learning approach has developed students with outgoing and proactive personalities. Nick Chan and Wenmy Lung, the school’s teachers and football team coaches, participated in JC School Football Development Scheme this year to help their students explore knowledge beyond textbooks through football, which takes the school’s traditions and ethos one step further.

  • A big football fan himself, Nick Chan took over the school’s football team eight years ago.
  • Nick Chan (left)and Wenmy Lung (right), the school’s teachers and football team coaches, participated in JC School Football Development Scheme to enrich coaching experience.

A big football fan, Nick joined Chan’s Creative School eight years ago. When the school’s football coach resigned, he took over the team. He enjoys spending time with children, and pointed out that primary school students have lots of homework and need to attend after-school tutorials – their academic development occupies most of their time. Nick thinks that childhood is just too short. If children are allowed more time to happily learn through participating in interactive activities, they can learn more effectively and achieve better results. In view of this, Nick hopes to introduce the students to the Manchester United Soccer Schools training approach that is taught in the Scheme: “Primary school passes in the blink of an eye and I want to leave my students with good memories when they grow up. I also hope to equip myself with some football knowledge and enrich my football teaching skills so that I can give them back to my students.”

  • Chan’s Creative School adopts an interactive teaching approach. It has developed a group of outgoing and proactive students.
  • Nick hopes to introduce the Manchester United Soccer Schools training approach to the students to give them good memories.

Chan’s Creative School promotes five educational values: love, care, patience, sincerity and childlike innocence. The interactive and academic teaching at school also helps to inspire children’s potential. After joining the Scheme this year, Nick realised that these values are embodied in the Manchester United Soccer School’s way of teaching, which also promotes a “happy” element that he thinks can be part of the five values of the school. “The easy and happy way of teaching helps to promote students’ interest in and motivation for learning football. Their interaction with the coach also helps to sharpen and cultivate their communication skills.”

Through the Scheme, Nick hopes to enrich his coaching experience and help Wenmy Lung, the newly-joined football coach who used to be a handball coach, to pick up her new role. He hopes to further promote the culture and standard of football at school and create wonderful memories for his students.

Caring coach puts students first for football fun (Updated on 30/04/2019)

The second school visit offered the students and Nick the chance to further experience football’s “happy elements”. Yeung Nok, a Primary Four student, describes himself as a football enthusiast who simply cannot live without football. He expressed that the activity learning approach at Chan’s Creative School (CCS) has helped him to forget the pressures of assignments and examinations, and allow him to be fully devoted to football and other activities. This year’s School Football Development Scheme has given him a deeper experience of what happy football means.

  • During the Scheme’s school visit activities, Nick (right) injected more “happy elements”.
    During the Scheme’s school visit activities, Nick (right) injected more “happy elements”.
  • Primary Four student Yeung Nok is a football fanatic.
    Primary Four student Yeung Nok is a football fanatic.

During the school visit by Manchester United Soccer Schools (MUSS), Yeung Nok realised that both Coach O’Brien and Nick are advocates of “happy football”, and that they share the same MUSS belief: “MUSS training is obviously more professional than what we usually do, with different tools and formats. But Coach O’Brien and Coach Chan share the same football coaching ideas – they always remind us that the joy in football does not come from winning a game because playing football is already a source of enjoyment.” He added that under Nick’s leadership, he feels no pressure and can always enjoy playing football wholeheartedly: “One time at an inter-school football competition, Coach Chan showed no sign of nervousness, but instead told us that it was just a game and we should relax and enjoy it, because he knew that the game itself was much more rewarding than the result. Now during the school visit training, he also encourages us to try and to play confidently.”

  • Yeung Nok (left) enjoys school and football time with his classmates.
    Yeung Nok (left) enjoys school and football time with his classmates.
  • Through playing football, CCS students gain a type of knowledge and happiness that cannot be found in textbooks.
    Through playing football, CCS students gain a type of knowledge and happiness that cannot be found in textbooks.

Compared to most students in Hong Kong who are under tremendous pressure from studying, Yeung Nok said that he enjoys going to school and learning with other students: “Teachers give us little homework and they provide us with the scope of revision for tests and exams. I feel free and relaxed going to school.” He said he is lucky to be a CCS student because his childhood play time is not overwhelmed by studies. By participating in extra-curricular activities and football, he has learnt teamwork; made friends with a group of schoolmates, and explored knowledge outside of textbooks, all of which has given him a memorable school experience. He hopes Nick will continue to use the varied football training approach taught by the Scheme to enrich other students’ school lives.

Learning through play, youngsters embark on a football journey (Updated on 02/07/2019)

On the day of the last school visit, Christopher O'Brien was joined by members of the Kowloon district HKJC Youth Football Leadership Scheme who assisted him with the training and had lots of fun with the students of Chan's Creative School (CCS). The pitch was filled with the 'happy elements' promoted by Nick at the start of school year; and he revealed that the Scheme has exceeded his expectations, rewarding him in ways he could not have imagined.

  • The pitch was filled with the ‘happy elements’ promoted by Nick at the start of school year.
  • The entire series of events have given Nick’s teaching concepts and approach new inspiration.

The entire series of events, including the theory and practice classes, as well as the inter-school friendly matches and School Development Day, have given Nick’s teaching concepts and approach new inspiration. The result of introducing the MUSS training approach taught by the Scheme, as well as the “Happy Football” idea to CCS, was ideal: “In the past, students refused to attend training; but now if the training is cancelled due to bad weather, they will ask why or even demand to continue as usual. Obviously, they all look forward to every training.”

What delights Nick the most is that the Scheme has enabled him to extend the “activity approach” promoted by CCS to the football field: “The MUSS approach suggests that match time should be extended while training time should be shortened. If we say that the small-scale training is ‘homework’ and the competitions are ‘activity classes’, instead of completing your ‘homework’ according to instructions, it is better to allow students to enjoy the free play during the ‘activity classes’ and play to learn.” Nick added that since students have been able to find happiness during training sessions, the team has become more harmonious, with more laughter and fewer disputes.

  • The girls performed just as well as the boys with one of the girls named the ‘Star Player’ at the third school visit.
  • After this unforgettable and pleasant learning experience, Nick decided to continue to put the “happy football” and “activity learning” concepts into action.

Usually, the boys’ and girls’ football teams are trained separately, but during three school visits, Nick purposely put both teams on the same field, and to his surprise, the girls performed just as well as the boys – if not better – with one of the girls named the ‘Star Player’ at the third school visit. “If not inspired by the Scheme, I would seldom hold a co-ed training and would never have discovered the potential of our girls. In the past, the boys more or less looked down on the girls. After this training, they finally came to know that girls can be as brilliant, and this has given the boys stronger will and motivation to fight and to prove their strength.”

Nick said: “I hope that the Scheme and the MUSS training are something they will never forget and that they can apply what they have learnt in the future.” After this unforgettable and pleasant learning experience, Nick said he will continue to put the “happy football” and “activity learning” concepts into action, and combine what he has learnt from the Scheme to create a unique journey of growth for the students through football, helping them to unleash their potential in the days and months ahead.

Featured Activities

Featured Activities

Sharing happiness with school teachers, coaches and students through various football activities

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Participating Schools

List of schools participating in the programme

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Photo Album

Snapshots of School Coaches