When I was small, I thought the Principal was the most powerful person in the world because even my mom and my stern Mathematics teacher were afraid of her. Now after a year’s bumpy ride at BPS, I know how naive and wrong I had been.

As a mother, I used to cheer up my daughter and told her things like: “Every cloud has a silver lining”. As a teacher, I used to pat my students on their shoulders and told them, “Look ahead! After all, tomorrow is another day.”

How easy it was to say such words of consolation when you now realize that each day has to be lived with fortitude and wisdom and courage – and grace from above.

Just like all old girls do, I am concerned about safeguarding the “core values” of BPS. They are the pillars of the school and from them we build our fine heritage and reputation. As Principal, I would defend those values at all costs in the same way a samurai defends his honour.

But amongst all the core values, nothing is more important to me than Respect.

              Respect that each child is unique.

              Respect that each person has a choice.

              Respect that other people have the right to think differently.

Respect that all children deserve the best of education, however undeserving you may think they are.

Hong Kong is an integrative society. I hope that respect for other people would be the first lesson a child learns at BPS.

                                                                                                            HO Fung-ping, Wendy

                                                                                                                                         Principal