| Language Policy |
English is adopted as the main medium of instruction. For details, please refer to the subjects offered/to be offered in the 2023/24 and 2024/25 school years. To cater for learner’s diversity and to enhance their language proficiency, small class teaching is adopted at junior forms in both Chinese and English lessons. Public Speaking lessons are offered for S.1 students and Drama Education lessons are offered for S.2 and S.3 students in English. Putonghua is offered as a core subject for junior form students. Being aware of the language policy which aims at training students to become biliterate and trilingual, a variety of activities and competitions such as reading award schemes, reading session, debates, drama competitions, English musical, story-telling competitions, etc. are organized to motivate students to achieve language proficiency. |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies |
English is adopted as the medium of instruction. The school aims at strengthening students' motivation and abilities in learning and encouraging self-learning. The school curriculum is diversified to cater for individual students' needs and interests. Collaborative lesson preparation together with peer lesson observation is arranged to let teachers have in-depth discussions and sharing on teaching. The school also employs IT technicians and teaching assistants to facilitate multimedia teaching and other life-wide learning activities in order to raise the teaching efficiency. |
| School-based curriculum |
1. Electives: 3X. The school offers 11 elective subjects for our students. All S.4 students are required to choose 3 elective subjects from the 11 elective subjects since the 2021/22 school year.<br> 2. Curriculum highlights: The school has been providing a broad and well-balanced curriculum to all students. The Junior Secondary curriculum is ever improving, with Self-Directed Learning as a main goal, while the Senior Secondary curriculum is thoroughly planned. The curriculum integrates students’ learning with their daily lives, provides them with diversified learning opportunities, and develops their critical and high order thinking skills. Students learn through Other Learning Experiences (OLE) such as participating in English drama, variety show performances and all sorts of life-wide learning activities. |
| Approach to Catering for Learner Diversity |
A variety of scholarships and awards are offered to students to encourage achieving students and those who have improved the most. The school also recommends and subsidizes outstanding students to participate in the Gifted Students Project organized by the local universities. On the other hand, the Counseling Committee works with the Discipline Committee in implementing tailor-made programs for students with diverse abilities and special education needs. Furthermore, a peer counselling program is held to provide opportunities for our senior form students to be trained to lead or to support the juniors, especially the newly admitted S.1 students and to help them adapt to the learning environment and gain spiritual support with school life. To address to preparation for senior secondary school life, programs are designed for enhancing life skills as well as leadership skills for S.4 and S.5 students respectively. Study skills workshops are organized for S.5 and S.6 students to equip them to face the challenge of DSE with confidence and ease. |
| Approach to Integrated Education |
The Student Support Team implements a comprehensive school policy on catering for the needs of students with special education needs (SEN). The team deploys manpower and other resources flexibly to assign teachers of different key learning areas (KLAs) to attend the relevant training courses. With the help of the Counselling Committee, social workers and educational psychologist, the school would assess the needs of each student with SEN on a case-by-case basis, and if necessary, draw up an Individual Education Plan (IEP), which includes after-school learning support and social, attention and emotional management skills training. The school also provides the most appropriate counselling service on the career and life planning of these students, making necessary special arrangements regarding their promotion, selection of elective subjects in the senior secondary curriculum, as well as special time allowance, seating and venue arrangements in internal and public examinations. |
| Education Support for Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) Students |
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| Home-School Co-operation |
Our school works in close collaboration with parents to facilitate students’ academic, mental and physical development. We have built a good partnership through various channels, such as the Parents’ Day and parent-teacher workshops. Our parent volunteers also offer great assistance to the school in different activities to enhance students’ growth. |
| School Ethos |
The school advocates “holistic education”, and places emphasis on academic excellence, moral, behavioral and spiritual development of students. Students are offered ample opportunities to cultivate their interests and abilities in different areas (e.g. "One Student One Musical Instrument Scheme", solo-verse speaking training and drama training). Our school, renowned for its purity and simplicity, provides an ideal environment for students to pursue their studies. A series of Life Education, Moral & Civic Education and Religious Education activities are organized in order to nurture students’ spiritual development and positive values in life. A peer counselling program is held to provide opportunities for our senior form students to be trained to lead or to support the junior students. To cater to the diverse abilities of students, the school has been encouraging them to join a variety of supportive activities, such as Leadership Training Program, Be a Champion Scheme, Junior Leadership Training, Joyful@school and MY Partner MY Pathway Program, so that students can learn to tackle problems by themselves and establish positive values in life. Three social workers and an educational psychologist are serving our school for students in need. In addition, the Parent-Teacher Association and the Old Students' Association also frequently offer assistance to the students. |
| School Development Plan |
Major development plans:<br>1. To empower students to become active learners;<br>2. To nurture in students the seven MYC focus attributes. |
| Teacher Professional Training and Development |
The Staff Development Committee provides training on teaching and learning on Staff Development Days and throughout the year. The school also arranges mentors for new teachers to help them adapt to the school life. Training subsidies are offered for teachers to encourage them to go for further studies and attend training courses. |
| Life-wide Learning |
There are a number of societies and uniform groups, such as the Korean Language and Cultural Group and the English Drama Club, which fall into six categories: Academic, Aesthetic, Physical, Recreational, Service and Student Union. Various diversified extra-curricular activities are offered to students to develop an all-round education. Seminars on life education, moral and civic education, religious education, careers education, etc. are organized on a regular basis. Academically, our students have been actively participating in the Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival and attain outstanding results in both English Speech and Chinese Speech. Besides, students are encouraged to step outside of the classroom and actively participate in different life-wide learning activities, competitions, cross-boundary visits and trips in Asian countries, school visits by students from other parts of the world and musical performances in public to develop their full potential. |
