Sha Tin
Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School
Address: 2 Kam Ying Road Ma On Shan Shatin
Tel: 26419733
Email: mail@cmos.edu.hk
Fax: 26435704
URL: http://www.cmos.edu.hk
How to travel to Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School
Bus: 87K, 87S, 87D, 85M, 89S, 89D, 40X, 86K, 680;
Minibus: 803, 808.
About
Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School is a Aided Co-ed secondary school located in Hong KongThe school was founded in 1998. The school is located in Sha Tin, and covers an area of approximately 2150 square meters. The supervisor/chairman of the school management committee is Fok Kin Keung Dominic Savio Mr.,And the principal is Tso Suet Lin Shirley Ms. (Bachelor of Arts) (Master of Arts) . The sponsoring body of Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School is Caritas - Hong Kong and is a Catholicism school. The mission of the school: "Our school strives to provide quality education to nurture both the wholesome personal growth and intellectual development of students through a comprehensive curriculum integrated with Values Education. We endeavor to nourish our students’ positive attitude towards life and their ability to take on responsibilities in society."School has Parent-Teacher Association,has student union,doesn't has IMC,has old students/alumni associations, the existence of these organizations promotes the cohesion and cooperation of the school community. The motto of Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School Adhering to the school motto of Be faithful, diligent and stay simple.<br>Love God and one another., encourages students to strive for excellence in academic, moral and personal growth.
Admission Information
Class Structure
Form 1: 3 classes. Form 2: 3 classes.
Form 3: 3 classes. Form 4: 3 classes.
Form 5: 3 classes. Form 6: 3 classes.
^It is important to note that these class numbers may change over time, so students and parents should check with the school for the most up-to-date class structure when applying for admission.
2022-2023
Secondary One Entrance
Our school will accept discretionary places. Our school will participate in the Secondary School Places Allocation System through central allocation stage (Applicable for admission to S.1 in September 2023 ).The criteria and weightings for direct admission of Secondary 1 students: (1) EDB Rank Order List (10%), (2) internal academic results of students in primary schools (20%), (3) conduct (30%), (4) students’ performance at an interview (20%), (5) family support (10%), (6) interests/awards (10%).
2022-2023
Orientation Activities and Healthy Living
To help newly admitted Secondary One students familiarise themselves with the learning environment of the school, orientation activities are held in July and August every year. The Boarding Section also organises activities to help new boarders to adapt to the new environment.
A "Healthy School Campus Policy" has been implemented to raise students' awareness of the importance of having a healthy lifestyle. This is achieved through seminars, whereby students are provided with information on ways to live healthily. Workshops and seminars are often arranged for parents in order to encourage collaboration. Also, there is a Tuck Shop Management Committee and meetings between the Tuck Shop Management Committee and parents are held regularly to monitor and coordinate the operation of the shop.
2022-2023 Annual Fees
The tuition structure for Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School is as follows:
∎ Form 1: Tuition is $0/year, lecture fee is $0.
∎ Form 2: Tuition is $0/year, lecture fee is $0.
∎ Form 3: Tuition is $0/year, lecture fee is $0.
∎ Form 4: Tuition is $0/year, lecture fee is $340".
∎ Form 5: Tuition is $0/year, lecture fee is $340".
∎ Form 6: Tuition is $0/year, lecture fee is $340".
The PTA dues are $50" per year.
Student union fee: $0.
The approved charge for non-standard items is Non-standard facilities special Fee: $310 per year.
Other charges/fees: $0.
^Please note that the above prices and charges are for reference only and may change over time. Students and parents should check with the school for the latest tuition and related fee details when applying for admission.
2022-2023 Faculty Profile (Including Principal)
Based on 2022/2023 data, Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School has a total of 47 teachers and 45 approved teacher positions. The qualifications and professional training of teachers are as follows:
∎ Diploma of Education: 87% of the total number of teachers in the school.
∎ Bachelor's degree: 100% of the school's faculty.
∎ Master's degree, doctoral degree or above: accounting for 57% of the total number of teachers in the school.
∎ Special education training: 38% of the total number of teachers in the school.
In terms of seniority of teachers, the data are as follows:
∎ Teachers with 0-4 years of experience account for 17% of the total number of teachers in the school.
∎ Teachers with 5-9 years of experience account for 11% of the total number of teachers in the school.
∎ Teachers with 10 or more years of experience account for 72% of the total number of teachers in the school.
These data show that Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School has an experienced team of teachers with diverse academic and professional training. more than half of teachers hold master's, doctoral or above degrees, which will help to provide more in-depth and professional educational content.Also, there are there are many of teachers trained in special education, which shows that the school cares about and is committed to students with special educational needs. Their PGCE and BA guarantee they have a good foundation in teaching. In addition, most of teachers have rich teaching experience, and 72% of teachers have 10 or more years of seniority. This means that they have accumulated rich experience and professional knowledge in the teaching field, and can better guide and support the growth of students.These teacher profiles reflect that Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School has a team of strong and experienced teachers who provide a high quality education to their students.
Subjects offered in the 2022-2023 school year
Form 1 to Form 3:
Chinese as the medium of instruction:Chinese Language, Mathematics*, Putonghua, Integrated Science*, Integrated Humanities, Computer Literacy, Design and Technology, Music, Visual Arts, Technology and Living*, Chinese History, Ethics / Religious Education, Physical Education
English as the medium of instruction:English Language, English Oral, Language Arts
Form 4 to Form 6:
Chinese as the medium of instruction:Chinese, Mathematics, Citizenship and Social Development (S.4, S.5), Liberal Studies (S.6), Information and Communication Technology, Ethics / Religious Education, Ethics and Religious Studies (DSE), Business, Accounting and Financial Studies, Tourism and Hospitality Studies, Visual Arts, Music (S.4), Chemistry, Biology, Technology and Living, Chinese History, Economics, Mathematics (Extended Part (M2)), Physical Education, Reading Across the Curriculum (S.4, S.5)
English as the medium of instruction:English Language, English Oral
Subjects proposed for the 2023-2024 school year
Form 1 to Form 3:
Chinese as the medium of instruction:Chinese Language, Mathematics*, Putonghua, Integrated Science*, Integrated Humanities, Computer Literacy, Design and Technology, Music, Visual Arts, Technology and Living*, Chinese History, Ethics / Religious Education, Physical Education
English as the medium of instruction:English Language, English Oral, Language Arts
Form 4 to Form 6:
Chinese as the medium of instruction:Chinese, Mathematics, Citizenship and Social Development, Information and Communication Technology, Ethics / Religious Education, Ethics and Religious Studies (DSE), Business, Accounting and Financial Studies, Tourism and Hospitality Studies, Visual Arts, Music, Chemistry, Biology, Technology and living, Chinese History, Economics, Mathematics (Extended Part (M2)), Physical Education, Reading Across the Curriculum (S.4, S.5)
English as the medium of instruction:English Language, English Oral
School Facilities (for Supporting Students with Special Educational Needs)
Our school is fully air-conditioned. We provide boarding services for 98 students (86 subsidized and 12 non-subsidized places). Other facilities for serving different educational purposes include the Bus of Treasures Life Experience Centre, Maker Room, Gym Room, English WonderLand, Technology & Living Room, Design & Technology Room, Science Laboratory, Computer Rooms, Prayer Room, basketball and volleyball courts, assembly hall and library.
Ramp, Accessible lift and Accessible toilet.
School Characteristics
School Management
School's Major Concerns:
Study with diligence, live with passion.
The spirit of Caritas aims at developing the students’ potential, making them eager to learn, enabling their life to shine, helping them know more about Catholicism and cultivating the ethos of Caritas.
School Management Organisation:
The school implements school-based management and has various functional groups. These functional groups, including the School Improvement Team, Academic Affairs, Discipline, Guidance, Professional Staff Development, School Promotion, Student Support, Information Technology, Student Activities, Safety Management, Library, General Affairs, Religious Education, Moral and Civic Education, as well as the National Security Team are responsible for the daily operation of the school.
Incorporated Management Committee / School Management Committee / Management Committee:
The school’s Incorporated Management Committee was established on 1st August 2014.
School Green Policy:
The school emphasises environmental protection by encouraging students to actively get involved in environmental stewardship. Students have been accorded roles as "environmental ambassadors" to raise other students’ environmental awareness.
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Learning and Teaching Plan
Whole-school Language Policy:
Cantonese is used as the medium of instruction for most of the subjects except for English Language, English Oral, and Language Arts lessons. One NET has been recruited to create more authentic opportunities for students to use English for communication purposes. Besides Cantonese and English, students are also required to learn Putonghua. In order to enhance the language proficiency of students, various measures have been introduced; for example, organizing various dynamic English activities, promoting a Morning Reading Session, e-Reading Schemes and English enhancement courses. The measures are aimed at helping students to become trilingual.
Learning and Teaching Strategies:
The School offers a variety of practical courses for students, aiming at boosting their creativity. We strive to foster qualities and talent to prepare them for success in the 21st century. All aspects, ranging from curriculum design to student development programmes, are implemented based on this principle. The newly established Maker Programme is also considered our best response to this trend.
In order to optimize the benefits of a small class context so as to enhance the effectiveness of learning and teaching, our English, Chinese and Math teaching groups are arranged based on students’ abilities. The school also hires Teaching Assistants to provide classroom support during lessons and tutorials after school. Besides academics, the Boarding Section aims to enhance students’ self-management, social maturity and self-discipline while fostering their whole-person development.
School-based curriculum:
1. Electives: 2X and 3X. More than 95% of the senior form students are given their first two choices in selecting electives. We aim at providing students with a suitable combination of electives and enabling them to develop their full potential and to maximize their chances of admission to university.
2. Curriculum highlights: Integrated Humanities is offered to the junior form students to prepare them for the transition to the subject under the Senior Secondary Curriculum. In addition, Secondary Five students can also enroll for applied learning courses.
Development of the Four Key Tasks:
Learning to Learn 2.0+
1. Strengthening Values Education (including Moral and Civic Education, and Basic Law Education)
2. Reinforcing the learning of Chinese history and Chinese culture
3. Extending 'Reading to Learn' to 'Language Across the Curriculum'
4. Promoting STEM education and ITE
5. Fostering an entrepreneurial spirit
6. Diversifying life-wide learning experiences
Life Planning Education:
To help students plan for their future studies and careers, we will assist students in identifying their personal interests, strengths and aspirations through a variety of activities such as talks, workshops and visits. When students reach the senior grades, they are expected to maintain a fair balance between studies and life, get well prepared for their university application and take charge of their future.
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Student Support
Whole School Approach to Catering for Learner Diversity:
With the aim of exploring students' potential, our school has joined the Invitational Educational Programme, the aims of which are to provide appropriate support to improve students’ learning, communication and emotional management skills. To enhance teaching and learning effectiveness in the classroom, school-based materials are developed and the school curriculum is adapted in order to suit the ability of students. These measures will maximise the development of our students’ potential.
Whole School Approach to Integrated Education:
Committed to the establishment of an inclusive culture, our school adopts a whole-school approach to give support to students with special education needs. Through the deployment of various resources, we can enhance these students’ learning effectiveness and also help them integrate into school life.
Our Student Support Team, led by the SENCO (Special Educational Needs Coordinator), comprises the teaching assistants, core subjects teachers, SEN support teachers and school social workers. The team plans, implements and reviews the work related to the support of students with SEN.
Our school makes use of the learning support grant to deploy the allotted additional resources to provide appropriate support, including employing additional teaching assistants and hiring outside professional services such as speech therapy, reading and writing skill training, social skills training, and after-school tutorial.
Additionally, to further support students with SEN, the EDB provides our school with the School-based Educational Psychology Service (SBEPS) to develop effective mechanisms to meet the diverse educational needs. The educational psychologist has regular meetings with the Student Support Team and parents. A systematic data bank on individual students is set up, and with the professional advice of the educational psychologist, we plan and review the school-based support services together with parents. Along with that, our school releases teachers to take training courses on catering for diverse learning needs organized by the EDB.
Educational Support for Non-Chinese Speaking Students:
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Measures to provide adaptation for Learning and Assessment:
Arrangements of special assessments are made for students with specific learning disabilities. The curriculum is flexibly adapted for some classes in order to cater to learner diversity. Further, extra in-class and after-school support by teaching assistants will be arranged where necessary.
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Home-School Co-operation and School Ethos
Home-School Co-operation:
The Parent-Teachers Association aims at fostering close ties between parents and teachers and reinforcing parents’ sense of belonging to the school.
School Ethos:
Our school ethos is pure and genuine. For years, our well-disciplined students have had a good name in the neighbourhood. In our school, a positive and caring culture has been established due to the mutual encouragement between teachers and students. This has been proven by our recognition as one of the outstanding schools that has been honored with the Caring School Award Scheme for 13 consecutive years. Our efforts are also recognized with a number of awards received in recent years: Inviting Schools Award, Sustainable Development Community Project Award and Junior Police Call Most Active Participation Award.
To offer strong counselling support to our students, the school Counselling Team and social workers work hand in hand to offer professional counselling support. The Mentor Program is one of the approaches used to reinforce peer counselling. On top of that, we are committed to promote National Education in order to boost students’ understanding of the development of our nation as well as to strengthen their sense of identity and belonging towards our nation.
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Future Development
School Development Plan:
The three-year development plan will be extended to four years. (2019-2023)
1. Study with diligence: Optimizing teaching and enhancing the effectiveness of learning. (Justice, Truth)
2. Live with passion: Nurturing positive values in students. (Life, Family, Love)
Teacher Professional Training and Development:
Professional training workshops and seminars are organized every year to enhance the professional competence of our teachers. Teachers have received professional training in different areas including basics in Information Technology competency (100%), discipline (20%), guidance and counselling (13%), career counselling (11%), coaching (9%), catering for learner diversity (38%) and using an automated external defibrillator (6%).
Life-wide Learning (including Five Essential Learning Experiences to be provided through Key Learning Areas, extra-curricular activities, co-curricular activities, etc.):
We put a great emphasis on the development of multi-intelligence. Students are offered OLE opportunities through interest groups and extra activities. Each form focuses on one of the five areas of OLE, namely Values Education, Community Services, Career-related Experiences, Aesthetic Development and Physical Development.
In response to the latest senior secondary curriculum, our school has released lesson time to create space for students to broaden their horizons by participating in Other Learning Experiences.
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Others
Schoolwide Awards:
Caring School Award for thirteen consecutive years (awarded by Hong Kong Christian Service)
Golden Award in “Heart to Heart School Volunteer Service” for seventeen consecutive years
Project Award & Honorary Award in Sustainable Development School Award Programme
Wise Net Scheme Award 2021
Labour and Welfare Bureau Social Capital Builder Logo Awards
Golden Award in Web Accessibility Recognition Scheme (HKIRC)
The Volunteer Movement Silver Certificate
Excellent Award in Happy Green Campaign (HK Electric) for two consecutive years
Labour Department Family-friendly Good Employer Award (The first Good Employer School in Hong Kong)
School Award and Teacher Library Award in Quality Library Network Award Scheme 2021
Open and Interschools Competition Awards:
2022 58th Inter-school Dance Festival – First Runner-up (Modern Dance Group) & Second Runner-up (Chinese Dance Group)
2022 Bonding with Books Inter-schools Book Reports Competition – Champion (Junior)
2022 54th Let’s Dance in Hong Kong Dancing Competition – Champion (Modern Dance)
2022 13th Star Cup – Golden Award (Modern Dance)
2022 Hong Kong Schools Dance and Music Festival – Golden Award (Secondary Groups)
2022 57th Schools Dance Festival – Distinction Awards (Chinese Dance)
2021 HKEDA Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Bay Area Positive Music Competition – Champion (Guzeng Solo)
2021 73th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival – Champion (Grade 7 Piano Solo)
2021 8th Hong Kong International Youth Performance Arts Festival Final – Champion (Guzheng Solo)
2021 49th Hong Kong Open Dance Contest – 2 Golds and 4 Silvers (Open Groups)
2021 Elmer Talent Hong Kong Student Dance Competition 2021 Gold Award and Overall Champion (Modern Dance)
2021 Hong Kong Schools Music Award Competition – Champion (Performance Group Guzheng)
2021 HKCYAA Hong Kong Schools Music Award Competition – Champion (Grade 4 Harp)
Scholarships:
The Rev. Joseph Carra Memorial Education Grant
Law’s Charitable Foundation and the Education Bureau in “Applied Learning Scholarship”
Sir Edward Youde Memorial Prizes for Senior Secondary School Students
Youth Arch Student Improvement Award
Future Stars Upward Mobility Scholarship
WI Cheung Scholarship
Study Tours in recent three years:
2021 Shenzhen and Hong Kong Sister Schools Exchange Activities
2019 Life Planning Excursion to China
2019 Cultural Exchange Tour in China (Hainan Province)
2019 Cultural Exchange Tour in Japan
2019 Shih Chien University Kaohsiung Campus Study Tour in Taiwan