| Language Policy |
The School primarily adopts mother-tongue teaching and focuses on enhancing our students' English. The English department strives to promote an English learning environment, such as organizing English Immersion Programmes in Vancouver and UK, English Summer Camps to provide more opportunities for students to be exposed to English. Putonghua lessons are offered in junior forms to nurture the students’ Putonghua fluency and raise their confidence in communicating with others. |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies |
A student-centered approach is adopted as our school prioritizes students' abilities and interests to boost their academic achievements. The S1-S3 curriculum caters to diverse needs and explores potential. The school offers various subjects in senior forms, including Applied Learning, to match learning interests. Extensive Reading programs foster a love for reading, enhance language abilities, and broaden horizons. Reading reward coupons are available during school book fairs for students to obtain their favorite books. Chinese, English, and Mathematics feature small-group teaching to facilitate learning. BYOD is promoted to enhance teaching and learning effectiveness through technology, fostering interaction, autonomy, problem-solving, and collaboration skills. |
| School-based curriculum |
1. Electives: 2X. (Art, Science and Commerce subjects are provided for students to choose from)<br> 2. Curriculum highlights: <br> (1) Junior form curriculum is diversified and enhancement lessons are provided to cater for students' learning diversity.<br> (2) Senior form curriculum not only offers core subjects and electives, but also OLE and Applied Learning. |
| Approach to Catering for Learner Diversity |
Our school provides comprehensive support for students at different stages of their education. <br>S1-S3 students receive English and Maths group tutoring, after-school support, and access to iPads for e-learning. S4-S6 students benefit from scholarships, grants, and subsidized academic exchange tours. <br>After-school and weekend courses are set up for help students excel academically and prepare for future studies.<br>In senior forms, we offer medium-class and small-class teaching to accommodate diverse learners. Students can choose senior secondary subjects based on their interests and abilities, ensuring optimal learning outcomes. <br>We have a Speech Therapy Team and Social Skills Group to assist students with language difficulties and enhance their interpersonal skills. <br>Our school provides guidance and counseling services through social workers, induction programs and English courses for newly-arrived students. |
| Approach to Integrated Education |
Our school provides various support and services to foster an inclusive and harmonious campus culture. External services, including speech therapy and social training groups, are available to meet diverse student needs. The Student Support Team, consisting of a Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO), counseling supervisor, trained teachers, educational psychologist, social workers, and teaching assistants, collaborates with frontline teachers to enhance teaching standards.<br>We employ a school-based approach with flexible resource allocation to support students with special educational needs. Core subject teachers adapt the curriculum, emphasize key teaching points, and utilize flexible teaching strategies to support students in Tier 1 and consolidate their foundations. Home-school cooperation is highly valued, with counseling teachers maintaining close communication with parents to understand students' needs. We offer adaptation courses for new students and conduct parent workshops to exchange educational ideas and gather feedback. Parents are involved in formulating individual study plans and evaluating their effectiveness. This collaborative approach ensures a shared vision and effective cultivation of students' learning habits and routines. |
| Education Support for Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) Students |
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| Home-School Co-operation |
The school has developed a partnership of trust and openness with parents. In order to let parents understand more about the learning situations of children, they are encouraged to participate in the School's administration. The Association organizes various kinds of forums, including S.1 new students and parents' orientation day, PTA Annual General Meeting and breakfast meetings with the principal. To coordinate with the development of Other Learning Experiences (OLE), a number of diversified activities are organized for parents and students. For example, family day trips, Christmas gathering, educational talks, and different types of interest courses and workshops. Apart from giving out scholarships and financing students' extra-curricular activities, the PTA also prepares cards and gifts for teachers during Teachers' Week. Furthermore, a volunteer team is set up by the PTA to organize charity events and assist other school functions. |
| School Ethos |
The school fully implements a disciplined, yet caring school campus culture with a harmonious relationship between teachers and students. With the student-centred mission in mind, all teachers, social workers and an educational psychologist cooperate together to provide the most suitable support for students. |
| School Development Plan |
1. Promote academic and Diversity Learning Development (such as aviation and drone technology education, Metaverse education, entrepreneurship education, Chinese medicine garden) to create successful experiences. <br>2. Promote positive education to enhance self-confidence and resilience. |
| Teacher Professional Training and Development |
The teacher professional development committee aims to enhance teachers' continuing professional development. To fit in with the curriculum reform, all teachers actively participate in seminars and workshops held by EDB, Sponsoring Body and other education organizations. In addition, each year the school has a number of professional development days for various training activities, and invites education experts and EDB staff to give talks and workshops to enhance teachers' professional knowledge and skills. The school also emphasizes collaborative teaching. The subject panel heads will hold meetings to co-design lesson plans and share teaching materials. The Teachers' Professional Development committee encourages intra-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary peer lesson observation, and to facilitate teachers' exchange of experiences in teaching, so as to increase teaching effectiveness. |
| Life-wide Learning |
The School is committed to promoting different activities to cater to students with learning diversity. We hope to broaden students' horizons and inspire potential. Yet, let students try more to build self-confidence and hope for success. Activities are divided into religious, academic, service, sports, art, fun, and growth, such as Metaverse Media Creation, Golf, Commercial Photography, Joint Interact Council.<br>The School has included there diversity learning activities in the regular timetable, and students need to participate in at least two activities in the diversity learning period. In addition, we actively promote life-wide learning days, with different themes at different levels, involving Chinese, Mathematics, humanities, life planning and volunteer services. This enables students to explore their potential, plan their lives as early as possible, and cultivate their dreams. |
