Whole-school Language Policy:
The school adopts Chinese as the medium of instruction, which enables our students to learn, analyse problems and express views more effectively. In order to raise students’ exposure to English and maximize the opportunity of learning English, extended learning activities have also been arranged in addition to the formal English lessons and oral lessons conducted by our NET teacher.

Learning and Teaching Strategies:
We put emphasis on building learning habits and a ‘Lower Starting Point; Smaller Chucks; More Activities; Quicker Feedback’ strategy in junior forms. This strategy aims to build a solid foundation and to secure a smoother transition to the challenging Senior Secondary curriculum. Students are encouraged to play an active role in classroom learning, e-learning, extensive reading and “Other Learning Experiences” (OLE). The school also puts emphasis on catering for learning diversity. Teachers design levelled worksheets, learning activities, homework and assessments. Basing on ‘Lower Starting Point; Smaller Chucks; More Activities; Quicker Feedback’ strategy, teachers adopt different teaching strategies to make the classroom more interactive and interesting. In junior forms, teachers set differentiated papers to assess students more appropriately. All these strategies aim to promote teaching and learning effectiveness. To cater for learning diversity, we provide a broad senior secondary curriculum to allow students to choose subjects that suit their learning diversities, abilities and interests. To develop students’ self-learning abilities, our school has Community-based Projects, after-school learning support for junior form students, and after-school and holiday tutorials for senior form students, to ensure students’ continuous learning beyond school hours.

School-based curriculum:
1. Electives: 2X and 3X. Students can choose 2 or 3 out of 11 elective subjects offered based on their own ability and needs.
2. Curriculum highlights: Junior form curriculum covers different learning areas, including Languages, Mathematics, Science, Computer, Technology, Art, Music and Physical Education whereas the senior form curriculum is designed to meet students’ interests and needs in pursuing further education. The elective subjects are also arranged in such a way to fulfill the idea of “Integration of Science and Art in one stream”.

Development of the Four Key Tasks:
Various working committees including English learning, reading promotion, life-wide learning and voluntary service have been set up to provide an all-round education. For English and Mathematics, our school has allocated additional English and Mathematics teachers to achieve small class teaching. We also encourage studies in different subjects through these, we can adopt different pedagogies such as elearning, flipped classroom etc. to improve the effectiveness of learning and teaching. To foster students’ personal growth, all students are encouraged to participate in the uniform groups. These programmes aim at developing students’ perseverance and positive attitude. The school has successfully enrolled in The Wharf (Holdings) Limited’s Projected WeCan, which has generously offered three million dollars to the school for arranging an array of training activities for the betterment of students’ learning, career development and leadership development. The school has introduced Positive Value Education Programme for our S.1 students so as to building up a solid foundation in morality.

Life Planning Education:
Career and life planning are composed of four parts: “Exploration of various occupation opportunities through career-related experiences”, “Understanding of one’s interests, aptitude, values and life goals with the help of career assessments”, “Preparation of transition-exploring various options,” and “individual advice in relation to education and career goals”. Activities are put through as a whole school approach and all forms are involved in a progressive manner. Through participation, students understand and know more about their inclination for a future career, interests and their aptitude. By knowing more about themselves, students set targets for their career and life, and work towards them throughout their school life. By the time they have completed secondary education, their adaptability and the rate of pursuing further studies will be enhanced accordingly. The school has also collaborated with a number of organisations to offer students the opportunity of job shadowing and internship.

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