| Language Policy |
We put a lot of efforts in developing students’ biliterate and trilingual abilities. We aim to create a language-rich environment for students to learn English in the campus. English is the medium of instruction for a majority of subjects in junior and senior forms. |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies |
A team of professional and experienced teaching staff is committed to develop our students’ whole-person education, helping them become biliterate and trilingual and competent with IT skills to meet the challenges of the future. Through the promotion of cooperative learning, e-learning, lesson preparation and multiple instructional strategies, we develop students’ self-regulated learning ability, creativity and potentials. |
| School-based curriculum |
1. Electives: 2X and 3X. he school provides various combinations of elective subjects. Mathematics Extended Module 2 is one of the elective subjects. <br> 2. Curriculum highlights: The school offers a balanced and diversified junior curriculum which covers 15 subjects including Chinese Language, English Language, Mathematics, Science and Life and Society. In senior forms, apart from the four compulsory subjects, students can select arts, science or commercial subjects. Furthermore, the school offers Positive Values Education, which incorporates Moral, Civic and National Education, Health and Environmental education, so as to cultivate whole-person development in students. |
| Approach to Catering for Learner Diversity |
1. To cater for our students’ diverse needs, the school set up the post of SEN Coordinator and the Gifted Education Team. A comprehensive information system is built up to help teachers to identify our students’ potentials in various aspects and arrange suitable courses for them, which encourages them to unleash their potentials and attain self-advancement.<br>2. Diversified extra-curricular activities for our students are organized by the Four Houses and 37 clubs with a view to creating various life-wide learning opportunities for them to unleash their potentials. |
| Approach to Integrated Education |
1. The Discipline Team and Guidance Team works closely with the resident education psychologists and the school social workers. They provide individual and professional counselling and support to students and parents.<br>2. The Special Learning Support Unit is committed to assisting students with special educational needs through a Whole School Approach. 56% of teachers have received systematic professional training on Special Educational Needs. The school engages two teaching assistants to support the team by using the EDB Grant and has the provision of the Speech Therapist Services. The team also outsources professional services, such as concentration training, social skills training and psychotherapy services. |
| Education Support for Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) Students |
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| Home-School Co-operation |
Set up in 1994, the PTA has striven to promote home-school cooperation and encourage parents' engagement and support for school programmes. PTA offers scholarships and subsidies for students' activities, and parent volunteers serve as instructors for interest groups and adjudicators for different competitions. |
| School Ethos |
With the whole-school approach of discipline and counseling, the school has created a disciplined yet caring and harmonious learning atmosphere for the students. The teachers and students maintain a good relationship. The school also adopts a wide range of learning and teaching strategies to cater for learners' diversity to enhance their academic performance. Through the Peer Counselling Programme, students have been helped to grow up in an atmosphere of mutual help and encouragement through the promotion of a caring school culture. |
| School Development Plan |
1. To enhance personalized learning strategies, to elevate STEAM education and to establish a vibrant community of extensive readers.<br>2. To strengthen the cultivation of positive values in students' minds, to develop visionary role-models as future leaders and to nurture virtuous civic-minded citizens. |
| Teacher Professional Training and Development |
The three Staff Development Days are organized each year to encourage the teachers to share their professional knowledge and boost their professional competences so as to keep up with the trend of educational development. The staff is encouraged to participate in peer and open lesson observations to enhance the effectiveness of learning and teaching. The staff members are highly motivated to develop professionally by attending courses and seminars organized by different organisations to keep abreast of the new curriculum trends and educational reforms. |
| Life-wide Learning |
The school offers thirty-seven clubs and school teams which provide a balanced variety of extra-curricular activities, covering aspects of academic, sports, arts, interests and social services. There are also programmes and competitions of different nature organized by clubs, teams, Houses, Student Association and various subjects. The Non-academic Accreditation System successfully motivates students to take part in activities of different nature so as to develop students' multiple intelligence and enrich their life experiences. The school has specially set up Life-wide learning weeks to allow students to walk out of the classroom and learn in a real situation and a practical environment to achieve the goal of whole-person development. |
