| Language Policy |
Senior students are required to hold assembly announcement so as to promote their oral ability as well as to strengthen their confidence. Besides, we provide different activities to promote students' bi-lingual ability; in Chinese, we have drama activities, poem workshops, inter-school choral speaking competition; in English, we have S.1 lunchtime English activities, English corner, English week and choral speaking competition.<br>Extended Learning Activities (ELA) in English in some topics of non-language subjects enable junior secondary students to have systematic exposure to subject-related English so as to fulfill “Language across the Curriculum”.<br> |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies |
Our teachers are dedicated to education. They are friendly and are able to create a caring and inviting environment for students. They can adopt suitable teaching strategies according to their students’ ability level, and they arrange a wide variety of learning activities to arouse students’ interests. Also, our school implements e-Learning to establish good student-teacher relationships, enhance learning motivation, strengthen the effectiveness of interactive teaching and<br>ultimately make students love learning. We will arrange lesson observations for the parents so that they can have more understanding about their children's learning. Besides, bridging courses are provided for students promoted from primary school to S.1 and from S.3 to S.4 so as to facilitate their adaptation to the new curriculum. |
| School-based curriculum |
1. Electives: 2X and 3X. Elective requirement: According to students' willingness and academic performance.<br> 2. Curriculum highlights: For promoting whole person and balanced development of students, schools offer a range of OLE opportunities both within and outside normal school hours according to the needs of the students.<br>3. Develop the potentials of gifted students: By providing them with special curriculum as well as multiple educational activities. |
| Approach to Catering for Learner Diversity |
In order to implement the whole school approach of students support mode and to cater for the needs of students, the constant activities of the Counselling Committee, the Discipline Committee and the Student Support Committee have established a culture of caring and inclusiveness throughout the school. Different levels of development have been set at various levels to focus on setting development goals. A number of scholarships have been set up to encourage students to develop different potentials, enhance academic performance and care for poverty. The support services including supporting cross-boundary and new arrivals students to adapt to Hong Kong's education policy and enhance English training are provided. For the provision of professional services for students with special needs, associate teachers provide assistance and psychological assessments are arranged when needed. A number of relevant parent evenings and seminars have been held. Many teachers have also completed special professional education training courses organized by the Education Bureau. |
| Approach to Integrated Education |
Our school adopts the Whole School Approach to Integrated Education. The support measures are mainly planned, implemented and evaluated by Student Support Committee. The Committee members includes SENCO, SEN Teacher, Student Support Committee teachers, educational psychologist, social workers, counselors and associate teachers. The Whole School Approach is started in each form, we work together with the class teachers, subject teachers, subject panels and committees, in order to plan the support measures for the students with special education needs. Parents and educational psychologist are invited to attend the case meeting if necessary to provide assistance. Information on new students with special education needs is collected during the F.1 adaption course to recognize the students in need as soon as possible, so suitable support can be arranged for them. Screening tools are used for early identification of students’ learning difficulties and needs for support and students will be referred to the educational psychologist. We hire services by using the Learning Support Grant including speech therapy, program for the education and enrichment of relational skills, training class for dyslexia in Chinese, afterschool learning group and potential exploration team. Besides, we have employed subject teachers, counsellors and associate teachers especially for students with special education needs in order to provide appropriate support for them. |
| Education Support for Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) Students |
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| Home-School Co-operation |
The PTA is set up to encourage parents to participate in launching school policies as well as engage in school and community activities. Family visits are held every year. Class observation by parents and workshops on parent education are being promoted to facilitate the family-school cooperation. PTA conducts education activities to parents so that they are equipped to assist their children to understand the spirit of the enactment of the National Security Law in a rational and positive manner, and nurture positive values and healthy lifestyle. It also helps to enhance parenting skills and build up a harmonious relationship between parents and students. |
| School Ethos |
We aim at cultivating love, happiness and inclusion on our campus, so that students can learn and grow up in the best possible environment. Co-class teachers and Form teachers are appointed to look after the needs of every student until graduation. School also provides school-based social workers and educational psychologist service. We have been awarded the "Caring School Award" for several years. |
| School Development Plan |
The main points of School Development Plan:<br>1. To enhance students' sense of national identity.<br>2. To cultivate students' healthy lifestyle. |
| Teacher Professional Training and Development |
The school has a staff professional development committee which organises school-based and inter-school staff development programmes to enhance the staff proficiency in learning and teaching and to strengthen their team spirit. |
| Life-wide Learning |
To complement the learning goals, aims and objectives of Key Learning Areas as well as cross-curriculum priorities, our school has been incorporating closely life-wide learning into whole-school curriculum, with a view to actualize student learning in genuine contexts and transcend conventional classroom learning settings. With good use of community resources, multifaceted learning contexts (combinations of time, place and people) and partnership between departments, our teachers also aim to provide students with ample meaningful learning opportunities that serve to achieve the broad learning outcomes that are more difficult to attain through standard classroom teaching alone. Our life-wide learning program includes but are not limited to visits, site visits, field trips, social service, camping, extra-curricular activities as well as thinking skill development.<br>Besides, our school is committed to deepening students’ life-wide learning through the integration of the following five essential learning experiences:<br>i) Intellectual Development <br>ii) Values Education <br>iii) Community Service <br>iv) Physical and Aesthetic Development <br>v) Career-related Experiences<br>This multifarious experiential learning acquired through life-wide learning empowers students to achieve the aims of whole-person development (e.g. skills, attitudes, approaches, styles and values) and enables them to develop the life-long learning capabilities. |
