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The aims of the Award Scheme are to encourage students to learn history through reading, and create a favourable reading atmosphere and culture in school; and to arouse students’ interest in learning history, enable them to engage in self-directed learning through the e-platform, so as to explore historical knowledge and develop positive values and attitudes.
The 2023 Award Scheme was held from April to August 2023, with about 22,200 students from 157 secondary schools participating, which is the highest in the 5 years. A total of 48 students who performed excellently received the “Merit Award”. 11 student teams with 43 students obtained the “Creativity Award”. Besides, 5 student teams with 15 students received the “Academic Award”. Lastly, as an encouragement, 78 schools received the “School Participation Award” for their participating students attained a completion rate of 75% or above.
The awarding criteria for Creativity Award, Academic Award and Merit Award are as follows:
The ‘Prize-presentation Ceremony of the Junior Secondary History e-Reading Award Scheme 2023’ was held in Loke Yew Hall, The University of Hong Kong on 13 November 2023.
The Secretary for Education, Dr CHOI Yuk-lin, officiated at the Prize-presentation Ceremony and presented prizes to awardees. She commended their excellent performance and encouraged them to explore the pleasure of studying history through reading, as well as nurture a high standard of moral values. After the Prize-presentation Ceremony, awardees and their respective teachers shared their learning experiences and insights. There was also an exhibition in the venue, displaying the winning entries of the “Creative Award” and “Academic Award”, to showcase the learning achievements of the awardees.
CHAN Xin-yi, Maxine
HOU Jinxin, Cindy
LI Yu-hing, SARAH
MAK Ho-lam, Holami
Level
Junior Secondary
Award
Creativity Award
Awarded work
The Life of Olaudah
Theme of the Portfolio
Introduction
Our creative work is based on the article “European colonial expansion and the transatlantic slave trade from the 16th to the 19th centuries” in the Award Scheme. The main characters in the video animation are Holamol and his grandfather Sarol. One day, Holamol treated a boy Freddie badly due to the dark colour of his skin. Grandfather Sarol saw what happened and told Holamol that their family also had dark skinned ancestors. He further explained in a story about his great great grandpa – Olaudah Equiano.
Olaudah Equiano was born in a black family in a village in Nigeria in 1797. At the age of 14, he and his younger sister were kidnapped and shipped to Barbados by slave raiders. He saw the sufferings of the enslaved Africans in the ship while the white people treated the people with dark skin with no respect, care or empathy. Thankfully, he found freedom in England, and eventually became the principle spokesman in the anti-slavery movement and began to help those who suffered from slavery. Holamol learnt from the story what the white people had done in the past and felt regretted what he had done to Freddie. He knew he was wrong and decided to put the good qualities and values of respect, care for others and empathy into action. We hope this video animation can encourage people to be more empathetic, show more respect and give more care and love to the people around us.
Awarded work
CHAN Tsz-lok, Andrew
KO Tsz-ching
POON Sze-yuen
SHI Wing-yan
Level
Junior Secondary
Award
Academic Award
Awarded work
Dialogue Diplomacy: Exchange of 10 Letters During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 - From Confrontation to Compromise
Theme of the Portfolio
Introduction
Awarded work
