Yuen Long
Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Yuen Long)
Address: 5 Tin Wu Road Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long
Tel: 24450228
Email: enquiry@jccssyl.edu.hk
Fax: 24451637
URL: http://www.jccssyl.edu.hk
How to travel to Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Yuen Long)
Bus routes: 276, 276A, 69X, 69M, 69P, 269B, 269C, 269D, E34A, E34P, 969, 265S, B1, B2P, K75P;
LRT: 761P, 705, 706;
West Rail: Tin Shui Wai Station;
Green Minibus: 34A, 77A, 77B.
About
Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Yuen Long) is a Aided Co-ed secondary school located in Hong KongThe school was founded in 1975. The school is located in Yuen Long, and covers an area of approximately 5400 square meters. The supervisor/chairman of the school management committee is Chiu, Desmond Mr.,And the principal is Mui Chi Man Mr. (BEng, MA). The sponsoring body of Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Yuen Long) is Ju Ching Chu English College Limited and is a non-religious school. The mission of the school: "With the school motto of 'constant self-development', stress is placed upon student-centred and balanced development of education. A spirit of pursuit for truths, independent thinking and perseverance is cultivated among students, aiming at developing students into people of good virtues with positive attitudes."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 Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Yuen Long) Adhering to the school motto of Our school motto 'constant self-development' comes from the book of I-Ching., encourages students to strive for excellence in academic, moral and personal growth.
Admission Information
Class Structure
Form 1: 4 classes. Form 2: 4 classes.
Form 3: 4 classes. Form 4: 4 classes.
Form 5: 4 classes. Form 6: 4 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 ).Admission Criteria and Weightings for S.1 Discretionary Places: EDB rank order 40%; academic results 15%; performance in extra-curricular activities and conduct 20%; interview performance 25%.
2022-2023
Orientation Activities and Healthy Living
The "S.1 Orientation Day Camp" is held every summer in late August to enhance students’ resilience and self-confidence to face the new learning environment. At the same time, they get to understand our school’s philosophy of ‘caring and appreciation, self-confidence, self-respect, and striving for excellence’, thus cultivating in themselves a great sense of belonging to the school. At the beginning of the new term, senior buddies will be arranged to help new students integrate into the campus life.
The school takes ‘balanced diet’ and ‘environmental conservation’ as the primary criteria in the selection of food suppliers, which is monitored by the school catering and nutrition team. A whole-school approach is adopted to encourage students, parents, and staff to learn to ‘advance with the times and make good use of resources’ in their daily lives so as to cultivate their positive and healthy lifestyle attitudes to respect the role of family position and build a harmonious family life.
2022-2023 Annual Fees
The tuition structure for Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Yuen Long) 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 $290".
∎ Form 5: Tuition is $0/year, lecture fee is $290".
∎ Form 6: Tuition is $0/year, lecture fee is $290".
The PTA dues are $30" per year.
Student union fee: $20".
The approved charge for non-standard items is IT facility fees: $200 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, Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Yuen Long) has a total of 61 teachers and 56 approved teacher positions. The qualifications and professional training of teachers are as follows:
∎ Diploma of Education: 92% 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 59% of the total number of teachers in the school.
∎ Special education training: 48% 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 21% of the total number of teachers in the school.
∎ Teachers with 5-9 years of experience account for 18% of the total number of teachers in the school.
∎ Teachers with 10 or more years of experience account for 61% of the total number of teachers in the school.
These data show that Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Yuen Long) 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 nearly half of 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 61% 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 Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Yuen Long) 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, Chinese History, History, Geography, Computer Literacy, Life and Society, Visual Arts, Music, Physical Education, Design and Technology (S.1-S.2), Technology and Living (S.1-S.2), Putonghua (S.1-S.2), Integrated Skills(S.3), Biology (S.3), STEM (S.3)
English as the medium of instruction:English Language
Form 4 to Form 6:
Chinese as the medium of instruction:Chinese, Citizenship and Social Development (S.4-S.5), Liberal Studies (S.6), Chinese Literature, Chinese History, History, Geography, Economics, Business Accounting & Financial Studies, Biology, Information & Communication Technology, Visual Arts, Physical Education, Arts Education, Integrated Skills (S.4-S.5)
English as the medium of instruction:English Language
Subjects proposed for the 2023-2024 school year
Form 1 to Form 3:
Chinese as the medium of instruction:Chinese Language, Chinese History, History, Geography, Computer Literacy, Life and Society, Visual Arts, Music, Physical Education, Design and Technology (S.1-S.2), Technology and Living (S.1-S.2), Putonghua (S.1-S.2), Integrated Skills (S.3), Biology (S.3), STEM (S.3)
English as the medium of instruction:English Language
Form 4 to Form 6:
Chinese as the medium of instruction:Chinese Language, Citizenship and Social Development, Chinese Literature, Chinese History, History, Geography, Economics, Business Accounting & Financial Studies, Biology, Information & Communication Technology, Visual Arts, Physical Education, Integrated Skills
English as the medium of instruction:English Language
School Facilities (for Supporting Students with Special Educational Needs)
All classrooms are networked with optical fibre and wireless WiFi900 and IT equipment such as LCD projectors, computers and visualizers are available. There is a Smartboard in every junior form classroom. Concerning special rooms, besides the school hall, there are a lecture hall, conference rooms, a School History Room, a student activity centre, an English self-access centre, an English chat room, 3 computer rooms, 5 laboratories, a computerized library, an electronic learning centre, an Arts Education room, a 'Campus TV' station and a Creation Base. A Science Garden on the school roof has been set up to cater for students' interests in space science and technology. There are other areas like 'Nature Corner' and a climbing wall to develop students' potentiality and interest. A CAVE virtual learning classroom has been built this year to inspire creative and technological thinking through immersive interactive teaching.
Ramp, Accessible lift and Accessible toilet.
School Characteristics
School Management
School's Major Concerns:
Refer to School Development Plan
School Management Organisation:
The School implements school-based management, advocates open discussions and seeks consensus for the smooth implementation of school policies. There are Academic, Student Care, Student Affairs, Extra-Curricular Activities, Moral and Civic Education, Careers and Guidance, Parent-and-Teacher and School Affairs Committees. Teachers with different talents join various committees and manage school together as a team.
Incorporated Management Committee / School Management Committee / Management Committee:
The IMC of our school was formally established in June, 2009, in accordance with the Education Ordinance (Cap. 279). It comprises 13 school managers, including teacher managers, parent managers and alumni manager.
School Green Policy:
The school attaches great importance to the social responsibility of promoting environmental protection and sustainable development, and strives to implement green policies in various areas such as material procurement, food, cleaning, recycling and energy saving. Through diversified measures and activities, students are instilled of green living concepts such as ‘Plastic-free’, ‘Cherishing life’ and ‘Renewable energy’. Also students are provided with ample opportunities to put the concepts into practice. For example, the school has installed a compost bin that allows students to turn food waste into useful fertilizers. The school has also participated in the project Solar Harvest, and has installed solar panels on the rooftop, generating solar power. Both projects have been enrolled in the Feed-in Tariff Scheme to promote students’ awareness of energy conservation.
Details: http://www.jccssyl.edu.hk/home/information/documents/21-22yr_plan.pdf
Learning and Teaching Plan
Whole-school Language Policy:
Equal emphasis is laid on both Chinese and English. While in the senior forms, according to the nature and needs of different subjects, both Chinese and English are used as the medium of instruction. In order to raise students' proficiency in English, various policies and activities are taken to create a rich English-speaking environment so as to provide students with more opportunities to use English. Such policies and activities include English Speaking Wednesday, English Morning Reading Session, theme-based English activities, and public speaking workshops. The setting up of the English Chat Room works towards the same objective of arousing students' interest in learning English. Reading is promoted around the school campus to hone students' writing skills in both Chinese and English.
Learning and Teaching Strategies:
Concerning learning strategies:
1. Strengthen students' independent learning and innovative inquiry ability; 2. Students’ reading ability is nurtured so as to enable them to learn from reading; 3.Various field trips are organized by different subject teachers in order to give students a diversified learning experience;
Concerning teaching strategies:
1. The junior secondary curriculum, supplemented with key learning programmes, is designed to meet students’ needs and to ensure what the students have learnt has been consolidated; 2. The School cooperates with local universities and the Education Bureau to refine curriculum planning and better teaching strategies; 3.The School encourages teachers to further their studies and research on teaching methodologies so as to enhance their teaching and their students' learning effectiveness.
School-based curriculum:
1. Electives: 2X and 3X. Electives:
Biology; Business, Accounting & Financial Studies; Chemistry; Chinese History; Chinese Literature; Economics; Geography; History; Information & Communication Technology; Physics; Visual Arts
2. Curriculum highlights: Speaking Curriculum of the English Department, STEM in S.3, Integrated Skills Curriculum in S.3-S.5
Development of the Four Key Tasks:
A. Learning from Reading: 1. There is a daily morning reading scheme in which students read English materials on Wednesdays; 2. Reading programmes like 'Be Friends with Books' and 'Reading Award Scheme' are introduced in S.1 and S.2, the Chinese Department has enrolled S.1 to S.5 students in an online reading scheme. 3. There is a subscription to literature journals; 4. Hall assemblies on the topic of reading are held; 5. Book Fair is held annually and there are book recommendations from teachers and students; 6. Reading awards are given to students; 7. 'E-Book Reading Schemes' are introduced.
B. Using information technology to facilitate interactive learning: 1. Ipads are provided for students to undergo interactive learning. 2. Students can learn in different learning communities by using eClass, Google for education, office 365, hkedcity, Edmodo and Schoology. 3. The school has provided students interested in robot making and programming with mbot, mico: bot and VEX. it can improve students "Computational thinking".
C. Project Learning: 1. Combining the STEM elements to develop students' independent learning, generic skills, and interpersonal skills. Students will then be able to actively construct knowledge and broaden their horizons;
2. Through the process of investigation, students learn higher-order thinking skills and are in more grasp of self-learning. This is what our school motto 'constant self-development' promotes.
D. Moral and Civic Education: 1. This aspect includes Virtue Cultivation, Nationalism, Life Education, Value Judgement, Basic Law Education and Environmental Conservation; 2. Through hall assemblies, class periods, talks, visits, excursions, training camps and extra-curricular activities, students are given opportunities to practice their positive values.
Life Planning Education:
Life planning education is a life-long continuous process enabling students to achieve different targets at different stages. It plays a significant role in fostering students’ self-understanding, personal planning, and through it students are guided to integrate their career/academic aspirations with whole-person development and life-long learning. Life planning education aims to provide different services that could align with the developmental needs of students; provide to all students, irrespective of their abilities, orientations and levels of study; be means of empowerment for students to make informed and responsible choices on their learning, career goals and other aspects of life; encourage students to make study/career decisions in accordance with their interests, abilities and orientations; promote career development of students that help them to actualise their potential; and assist students in managing and adapting to the transition from school to work, and prepare them for life-long learning.
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Student Support
Whole School Approach to Catering for Learner Diversity:
Set up a student learning support group which caters for learner diversity.
Whole School Approach to Integrated Education:
The Student Support Team of our school is responsible for planning, implementing and reviewing support for integrated education and formulating the ‘School-based Integrated Education Policy’. The team is comprised of vice principals, the Special Education Needs Coordinator, the Special Education Needs teachers, the Student Counselor and educational psychologists to formulate appropriate support measures for students with special learning needs, and to conduct tiered assignments in some groups to cater for learner differences. To further meet the needs of the students, the team also provides special arrangements in internal examinations and makes application for adjustments in public examinations.
The school regularly reviews the school's inclusive culture and uses the Learning Support Grant and other on-campus resources to provide appropriate support to students with special educational needs. The support team and the professionals jointly set the support level and service arrangements for individual students. The school provides group or individual counseling for students in need, and also provides support services such as outsourced speech therapy and after-school revision classes for them. After obtaining parental consent, the school will conduct individual study plans for students with serious learning/adaptation difficulties, and regularly meet parents to review the students’ progress. The school encourages teachers to take special education training courses and participate in seminars and experience-sharing sessions organized by the Education Bureau to enhance their professional competence to cater for students with special educational needs.
Educational Support for Non-Chinese Speaking Students:
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Measures to provide adaptation for Learning and Assessment:
There are counselling service, referral service and professional assessments for students with special education needs. Individual arrangements during the lessons and examinations will be tailor-made for them.
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Home-School Co-operation and School Ethos
Home-School Co-operation:
Participating in the school-based management via different channels, parents work closely together with the school to nurture our next generation. The publication of a PTA bulletin, plus the organization of various activities, further enhances home-school co-operation.
School Ethos:
The school rules are strict. A decent school ethos has been built up. The School lays emphasis on both intellectual and emotional developments. With the establishment of the form master and class master systems, students' academic performance can be improved and their moral standards can be strengthened. The School has created a caring and loving environment to promote a healthy and positive outlook of life among students with schemes like Sunshine Class Project and merit-award system. Besides, students can work as student-helpers in large-scale activities like School Book Fair to foster their sense of belonging to the school while boosting their self-confidence.
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Future Development
School Development Plan:
The main foci of this academic year:
1. Strengthen the skills for self-directed learning, scientific exploration, life and career planning and foster creativity.
2. Nurture in students positive values. With the good classroom dynamics created, help students to develop their personality.
3. Following the current education developments, use multifarious teaching strategies to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning.
Teacher Professional Training and Development:
Every year, the school organizes staff development days and inter-school staff development days where experts and scholars are invited to exchange ideas with teachers with a view to widening teachers' scope of educational knowledge and elevating their professionalism. Field trips or visits are also arranged to meet the purpose. Besides, the school encourages teachers to pursue further education. Last year, the average professional development hours of teachers amounted to 60 hours. Collaborative lesson planning sessions are held in all subject departments and every teacher gives a lesson demonstration to share teaching practices at least once a year. The use of iPad in teaching will be implemented in all classrooms step by step. A 'live library' has been organized to promote professional sharing of experiences.
Life-wide Learning (including Five Essential Learning Experiences to be provided through Key Learning Areas, extra-curricular activities, co-curricular activities, etc.):
There is a Student Union. Students are grouped into 4 Houses. There are 62 activity groups streamed into 5 categories, namely academic, moral, arts, sports and service. The School encourages students to actively take part in all the activities like the book exhibition, project learning, Sports Day, singing contest, school choir, drama competition, dance competition, debating team, Chinese painting class, oil painting class, astronomical activities, rock climbing team, Maths-Science Week, Speech Festival, Arts Appreciation Functions, school picnic and ball games in order to let them develop their potentials. Every year, the School organizes exchange tours to mainland China or other countries, and visits to various museums so as to widen students' horizons.
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Others
The school lays great emphasis on students' academic development. More than a million has been invested in the construction of a magnificent lecture theater of university class, in which numerous seminars and co-curricular learning activities have been organized. The school is devoted to promoting the development of the arts and culture on the campus by adopting a holistic approach of providing opportunities for wide participation in activities related to the arts and culture in junior forms, while in the senior forms, by introducing Arts Education as one of the school disciplines. The school makes great effort to create an environment conducive to developing students' artistic potentials and encouraging their artistic pursuit and appreciation. The language teaching of the school has shown to be efficacious. The book sales in the School Book Fair exceeds $100,000. Our school has represented Hong Kong to take part in the US 'INTEL' and 'I-SWEEEP' Competition for many years. The school has also been awarded prizes in various science technology competitions.