| Language Policy |
English has been adopted as the medium of instruction in our school except the subjects of Chinese Language & Putonghua, Chinese History, Life/Moral Education (including Career Planning), Citizenship and Social Development, HMSC, Physical Education (HKDSE) and Visual Arts (HKDSE). The well-tailored curriculum helps students switch to English-medium learning. |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies |
In order to promote active learning and reading culture, our school has developed a series of parallel curriculums including Project Curriculum, Extensive Reading Scheme, Reading Celebration, Activity Curriculum and Student Profile. Our junior secondary curriculum aims at fostering students' whole-person development; enriching students' learning experiences; strengthening students' biliterate and trilingual ability as well as STEM education. The junior curriculum is tailored to consolidate students' foundation and ensure smooth transition to their senior secondary curriculum. |
| School-based curriculum |
1. Electives: 3X. All F.1 to F.3 students study all the subjects listed. F.4 to F.6 students have to study English Language, Chinese Language, Mathematics and Citizenship and Social Development with other elective subjects.<br> 2. Curriculum highlights: English has been adopted as the medium of instruction. Moral Education and other learning experiences are embedded in the curriculum. |
| Approach to Catering for Learner Diversity |
Elite classes, split classes and resources classes are set to cater for learning diversity. SEN coordinator and SEN social worker help to take care of students with special learning needs. |
| Approach to Integrated Education |
Our Student Support Team includes Vice-principal, Guidance Head, Special Educational Needs Coordinator, Academic Department Head, Discipline Master, Special Educational Needs Support Teacher, Representatives from Chinese, English and Discipline Departments, social workers and Po Leung Kuk educational psychologist. With the support of the Learning Support Grant from EDB, our team offers speech therapies, and clinical psychological services to equip our special needs students with reading and writing skills, social skills, attention training and counselling sessions. All teachers will regularly be informed of the SEN students’ condition and if necessary, our school will make special examination arrangements for students. |
| Education Support for Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) Students |
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| Home-School Co-operation |
Home-School cooperation is strengthened by our efficient and devoted Parent-Teacher Association established since 2004. A rich variety of activities have been organised, notably including parent campus day tours, parenting talks, local tour, interest classes, cooking class, parents' night and voluntary work etc. |
| School Ethos |
Our school adopts a whole-school approach to discipline and guidance. Students in general behave well with good self discipline. School prefects and guidance prefects help to maintain a good and healthy learning environment. We have a fair and consistent discipline policy, with rules clearly spelt out and made known to all staffs and students. |
| School Development Plan |
Major Concern 1: To further enhance students’ academic performance: Through more students’ engagement in learning, strengthened students’ learning strategies in different subjects and enriched school learning environment, students’ academic performance would be further enhanced.<br>Major Concern 2: To empower students to achieve physical, emotional and intellectual wellness: With the creation of the supportive social and physical school environment, together with teaching students about health and wellness, students’ wellness would be cultivated.<br>Major Concern 3: To enhance learning, teaching and school administration by upgrading school campus and IT facilities: By upgrading school campus and IT facilities, learning and teaching productivity can be improved & efficiency in school administrative work can be enhanced. |
| Teacher Professional Training and Development |
The Principal and teachers attended overseas exchange programs and local training courses actively. In 2022-23, the average hours attended were far more than that required by EDB. |
| Life-wide Learning |
1. To emphasize learning beyond classroom, the CCA bodies have been restructured into 5 tiers system with around 60 units, namely, 4 Houses, school teams, academic societies, uniform teams and interest clubs. There are clear expectations on different forms of students. F.1 and F.2 students have to choose two teams or clubs as whole year training and exposure. F.3, F.4, and F.5 students are offered executive posts for leadership training.<br>2. To enrich other learning experience of students, our school also organized different activities during the whole year. For example, life wide learning day, stage cultural day, Chinese cultural day, Science showbiz, inter-house singing competition, inter-class English drama and dance competition, etc.<br>3. Our students are actively involved awarded great achievement in competitions such as The Hong Kong Schools Speech and Music festival, sports competitions in the Kwai Tsing District, JA company, Mock Trail competition and Robofest HK Game Robot Challenge, Odyssey of the Mind Tournament, International 4D Frame Maths & Science Creativity Competition, etc.<br>4. To develop students' potential and to engage them in serving the community, we organize a Social Service Programme to F.1 to F.4 students so as to encourage them to take part in community services. Some devoted students achieved several service awards in the past few years. <br>5. Our school encourage students to explore the horizons by exchanging to overseas such as Sydney, Singapore, Ningbo, Shanghai, Hokkaido, etc. All F.3 students was subsidized to join the Po Leung Kuk Beijing study tour in 2017 and 2018. In view of the pandemic situation, we have join several programmes to let our students to meet and share the cultural experience with people through online platform. |
