The Long Rally: How a Campus Programme Built a Tour Player
Shi Han lost the first set in Wuhan, then won seven games in a row against a top-20 opponent. The training came first.
Arts & Sports
Arts and sport are part of the curriculum at HFLA. Engagement develops coordination, confidence and the ability to work as a team; performance and competition teach students to prepare, take risks and learn from the result.
Our teams and ensembles represent the school at festivals and competitions, supported by specialist coaches and purpose-built facilities.
Athletics
Sport at HFLA runs from a first pony ride to a place on a national team. Our athletics programmes sit inside the school day: coaches, timetables, rehabilitation, and academic plans built around a competition calendar.
These are the stories behind the results — the training blocks, the seven o'clock mornings, and the ordinary practice that produces them.
Dream Realized: Golfer Signs with YaleThirteen years, a planner, and a game played against yourself.
Two Golds, Two Silvers: Sailing to the WorldsA first season in a new class, and a place at the world youth championship.
More from Athletics
Two Sisters, One Stable: Notes on Positive Pressure
Fourteen subjects, two arenas and a seven o'clock start: how a bilingual equestrian class balances a horse and a timetable.
One Centre, Two Sites, Three Years
The equestrian training centre opened in 2021 with one brave six-year-old. It now has fifty horses and two campuses.
Snow Day: Inside the School's Ice and Snow Festival
A rink, a ski slope, two dragon teams and several hundred children on the snow at Jingbei.
Performing Arts
The stage at HFLA is part of the timetable. Five orchestras and bands, a dance company, a theatre club and a choir rehearse through the week, and the school year is built around their calendar: the winter concert, the spring festival run, the graduation play.
These are the nights behind that calendar — the tenth-anniversary musical, the class that staged three plays in five days, the tour that ended at the Musikverein, and a competition that fills the hall with confetti.
Ten Years of The Message: The Alumni Who Came HomeA tenth-anniversary musical, nine earlier casts, and one stage at Jingbei.
One Night at the Summit: The Seventh Voice of HFLATwo campuses, forty singers, and a Grade 10 winner in a hall that stopped behaving like a school.
More from Performing Arts
Roots, Then Wings: A Primary Graduation in Five Languages
Six years, five languages and one argument: plant the root first, then open the window.
Lucky Stiff: The Class of 2024 and the Luck They Made Themselves
A corpse, an inheritance and a musical built to survive its own chaos.
Before the Curtain: Three Plays That Taught a Class How to Leave
In five days in 2020, a graduating class staged Blind Mountain, 2021 and Dear Yelena Sergeyevna.
Spring Voices: The Road to the Golden Hall
From the National Library concert hall to the Musikverein, with a new commission waiting at home.