Whole-school Language Policy:
To foster and ensure more effective learning in our students, Chinese is the medium of instruction. Under the Fine-tuning of MOI arrangements for Secondary Schools, greater flexibility in increasing the exposure of students to English has been granted. To raise the English standard of students, the English Department has cooperated with the departments of Geography, Life and Society and Science to teach the subject knowledge in English in selected topics in the mode of English Extended Learning Activities.

Learning and Teaching Strategies:
To equip our Junior Form students with the basic research skills and methods, the essential skills which will be called for in their senior secondary years, project work is introduced in junior forms in subjects like Chinese History, Social Studies and Science. On the other hand, we have been making full use of various resources available in the community to fund different kinds of teaching and learning measures and curriculum development. This year, we are participating in Multilevel Leadership Network for SDL Innovation to Advance STEM Development of the University of Hong Kong in hopes of fostering creativity and problem-solving skills in our students through cross-curricular STEM programmes. To cultivate presentation, thinking and research skills as well as creativity, interactive lessons are adopted as much as possible with emphasis on self-directed learning, questioning, group discussion and presentation. To cater for the different learning needs, students are streamed and allocated to different classes in all levels according to their performance in the language subjects and mathematics as well as their different learning needs. In class, collaborative learning is adopted to encourage learning from each other among students. After school, remedial lessons and enrichment programmes are run to address specific learning needs. Saturday school is also run for Secondary 6 students to aid them in tackling the core subjects in HKDSE.

School-based curriculum:
1. Electives: 2X and 3X. Over 14 elective subjects are offered. Students can also choose Applied Learning or Extended Parts of Mathematics. There are also school-based other learning experiences courses to enrich students' learning experiences and record their performance in their student learning profiles.
2. Curriculum highlights: Student-centered curricula are supplemented with extensive cross-curricular activities to enrich and balance the learning experiences of our students to foster whole-person development in our students. To enhance our teaching effectiveness, collaborative lesson planning, peer observation and cross-curricular meeting are organized and held regularly to adjust the teaching and learning contents to address the needs of our students promptly.

Development of the Four Key Tasks:
1. Learning from Reading: To cultivate students’ reading habit, a morning reading session is included in the daily timetable during which students can read extensively. To nurture the interest in reading, our Reading Promotion Team organizes Keen Reader Award, featured book exhibitions, book recommendations, and talks given by famous authors every year.
2. Applying technology in teaching and learning: To make the most out of technology, e-learning, submitting and retrieving homework online and other IT applications that can facilitate teaching and learning are being planned, developed and launched. All classes have taken part in BYOD program. All subjects have adopted e-learning and incorporate e-learning elements, self-evaluation and peer evaluation in their curricula to facilitate an interactive classroom and enhance teaching and learning effectiveness.
3. Project Work: Project learning in different forms will be implemented to strengthen the 9 generic skills: communication skills; mathematical skills; Information Technological skills; self-management skills; self-directed learning skills; cooperative skills; creativity; problem-solving skills and analytical skills. All junior form students are engaged in project work. Project work in are integrated and implemented in different subjects.
4. Civic Education: Apart from the emphasis on academic enhancement, emphasis is also placed on the spiritual growth and moral education of our students. Real life case studies are used to pass on proper values. We also nurture their sense of responsibility for the community by running Elder Academy as a means to offer information of health issues and recreational activities for the elderly in the community while encouraging our students to serve the community as well as developing their talents.

Life Planning Education:
CLAP 2.0, which is co-planned by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong, has been introduced to our school by our Career Guidance Committee. It helps demonstrate a clear life direction for students and put their life plans into practice. It also supports students’ career development, strengthens their career support network and enhances their career development motivation. Consequently, a personalized blueprint for career development can be built. Aiming at helping our students understand their career prospect and imparting positive attitudes for work and studies, our Career Guidance Committee has taken part in various programmes and schemes run by the government or different organisations, for example, “Capacity Building Scheme for Secondary School Teachers” launched by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, to help our students plan their life at an early stage, to set their own career aspirations and to offer vocational training through a range of activities and workshops. All these activities and workshops enrich not only our students’ other learning experiences but also their student learning profiles.

Details: https://cfs.edu.hk/