| Language Policy |
Our school places great emphasis on Bi-literacy and Tri-lingualism. S.1 - S.3 Mathematics, Integrated Science, Physics, Chemistry and Biology are taught in English, as a strategy of English Enhancement. One class in each form of junior secondary has Chinese Language taught in Putonghua. For S.4 and above, the M.O.I. is either Chinese or English, contingent on students' ability and wish. Small class teaching is adopted according to students’ needs and ability in order to increase the interaction between students and teachers. Gifted students have to attend Elite Class to further raise their English standard. Owing to the change of the Medium of Instruction, we arranged English Bridging Course for Secondary 1 students in Summer holiday. To promote and strengthen English speaking in school, a native English teacher (NET) is employed and an English Cafe is set up. Our school has joined Overseas Exchange Programme organized by AFS International Exchanges. One foreign student is arranged to study in our school every year. Also, students are exposed to more opportunities to enhance their English by joining Best English Speaker Award Scheme, English Day, English Fun Fair and delivering English speeches in morning assembly. |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies |
Our school encourages whole-person development and helps students develop their potentials. Every year, each subject sets the teaching plan, tailors and revises the curriculum based on students' ability. Our teachers have high expectations of students and are willing to shoulder responsibilities, so they adopt different pedagogical methods to ensure students learn effectively. The strategies include:<br>1. Emphasis on perseverance in learning; <br>2. Emphasis on self-directed learning including lesson preparation and extended activity;<br>3. Emphasis on high-order thinking and require students to think in multiple perspectives;<br>4. Enhancement of English learning environment by employing more English teachers;<br>5. To promote STEM education, cross-curricular project is promoted among science subjects; <br>6. Chinese/English extensive reading schemes; <br>7. Publication of Chinese Anthology, English Anthology and School Magazine;<br>8. Project-based learning to train students' generic skills; <br>9. Small group teaching; and <br>10. Promote e-learning by "Bring Your Own Device"(BYOD) scheme to enhance students' self-learning ability. |
| School-based curriculum |
1. Electives: 2X and 3X. Senior-form students may select two to three elective subjects, joint-schools program and Applied learning subjects.<br> 2. Curriculum highlights: S.1 - S.3 Mathematics, Integrated Science, Physics, Chemistry and Biology are taught in English; streaming; small-class teaching for slow learners. Senior form students have to take 4 core subjects together with 11 elective subjects and extended part II of Mathematics for students to choose and some subjects have both Chinese and English as the Medium of Instruction. Details can be found on our school website. |
| Approach to Catering for Learner Diversity |
Streaming; small-class teaching in Chinese, English and Mathematics; after-school enrichment and remedial courses; after-school tutorial classes for S.5 to S.6 to strengthen their capacity to cope with exams so as to raise academic achievement. The school advocates whole-school participation so the discipline and counseling teams cooperate together in nurturing students' overall development. We also aim to create a caring and harmonious campus culture and help students establish good relationships between: student-student and teacher-student respectively. With the policy of allocating two class teachers to each class, we hope to provide better caring for our students. |
| Approach to Integrated Education |
Our student support team includes Special Educational Needs Coordinator and Special Educational Needs Support Teachers. SENCO leads the student support team and assists the school principal and the vice-principals in planning, coordinating and implementing the Whole School Approach to Integrated Education in order to further cultivate an inclusive school culture and enhance the effectiveness of the support given to students with special educational needs. We arrange SEN support teachers to take responsibilities for teaching and co-teaching those students which have different educational needs. We also help to design teaching materials to facilitate learning for students. We assist students with special educational needs by the measures including the adjustment in teaching and assessments, peer counselling, social skills training workshops and speech therapy etc. We arrange regular meetings with class teachers, latest update and close communication between class teachers and parents and home-school cooperation to cater for students' diverse needs. We give Summary of Support of Student to parents to let them know how we support their children by means. |
| Education Support for Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) Students |
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| Home-School Co-operation |
In the past years, parents have worked closely with the school. Since 2005, parent has been a member of the IMC, assisting with the policy formulation and management of the school. Parents' active participation has been a propelling and supporting force of school improvement. |
| School Ethos |
We value a pragmatic and simple school ethos, nurturing students to become morally and culturally sound youth. Through discipline, counseling, moral, civic and health education provisions, we develop our students' self-discipline, positive attitudes and values. We place much emphasis on after-school support for students in need to ensure top priority be given to their academic and personality development. To cater for students' needs and provide a safe and tranquil study environment for students, our school’s senior teachers stay on the premises until 7 p.m. |
| School Development Plan |
Our school continues to place emphasis on strengthening moral education and intellectual development while catering for students' needs and self-development. We also aim to help students maximize their potential. The school's approach is to promote gifted children and cater for student diversity, so we adopt methods to enhance the intellectual potential of the more capable students and catering for wide learning diversity. A information system has been set up to record personal information, interests, strengths and achievement of individuals for the purpose of encouraging continuous learning among students. |
| Teacher Professional Training and Development |
Teachers in our school practise mutual respect and support. They cooperate with each other and jointly work for students. The school encourages teachers to further study in languages, their own subjects and teaching methodology, so as to serve as role models of lifelong learning for students. It also provides appropriate professional support for teachers in need to enhance their teaching effectiveness, professional ethics and quality. |
| Life-wide Learning |
There are about 40 co-curricular clubs and societies are set up to offer various activities for students to develop their potential ability in academic, physical, aesthetic and social aspects and lead to whole-person development. Our Athletics Team have enjoyed great renown of being the Champion in boys team for 23 years continuously in Tsuen Wan and Outlying Islands District and our girls team also won the championship for 18 years in Tsuen Wan and Outlying Islands District. In the inter-school cross country competition, our boys won the overall championship and our girls won the first runner-up prize. Our Chinese Orchestra has won the second runner-up prize in the Hong Kong Youth Music Interflows. Every year, many of our students have outstanding performance in various competitions held by the Hong Kong Schools and Music Festival Association. |
