Whole-school Language Policy:
1. To enhance students’ motivation to learn and their learning effectiveness, our school adopts Chinese as the major language of instruction.
2. To raise students’ English standard, various schemes and activities have been adopted. For example, native English teachers (NET) have been employed. An English Reading Scheme has been implemented. In junior forms, a vocabulary list of 50 to 70 words both in Chinese and English for each subject is provided for students. In some subjects, additional English questions are set and emphasis is put on writing practice.
3. Besides laying emphasis on students’ writing practice, our school encourages students to actively participate in Verse Speaking Competitions, Learning English Through Singing, telling stories in Putonghua, and broadcasting on campus radio to implement the biliterate and trilingual policy.
4. Arrange students to take courses to prepare them for the public examinations like Trinity College Graded Examination in Spoken English, IELTS, and finance them to sit for the public examinations.
5. To collaborate with the service provider Solid Memory, students can make good use of their leisure time to learn more English vocabulary through the online electronic platform.
6. Our school has a Native English Teacher (NET). Apart from taking part in classroom teaching, she conducts conversational exchanges with students in the English Learning Centre as well.
7. English Drama Club enhances students’ interest in learning English. Every year, our school arranges students to take part in drama competitions and perform in our School Graduation Ceremony.

Learning and Teaching Strategies:
1. To strengthen students’ abilities to prepare for lessons before class and consolidate their learning through classwork and notes.
2. E-learning will be strengthened to promote students’ self-learning through different online learning platforms.
3. A free subject selection mechanism is set up in senior forms to allow students to study three elective subjects according to their abilities and interests.
4. Through both school and extra-curricular activities, different subjects provide experiential learning for students to reinforce their learning.
5. With the goal of “optimizing classroom quality and enhancing learning effectiveness”, the school gradually improves students’ learning ability through diversified classroom teaching, so as to ensure that students’ scores in public examinations can be further improved.
6. Our school has also been funded by the Project WeCan to set up a virtual entity simulation classroom, which can be used to broadcast movies, new knowledge of the whole world and other films for students to broaden their knowledge.

School-based curriculum:
1. Electives: 2X and 3X. Apart from choosing elective subjects from 13 options, S.6 students can choose School-Based Computer Courses (MOS) and two EDB School Based Applied Learning Courses as well.
2. Curriculum highlights: We designed several school-based curriculum in junior forms since 2002, such as Chinese History, Geography, Computer Literacy, EPA, D&T & VA.

Development of the Four Key Tasks:
Our school implements Value Education (including moral and civic education and the Basic Law education) through our class teacher periods and different subject curriculums. In our school, each class is equipped with a library corner. All students are encouraged to read during the class teacher period. An electronic reading platform, which is financed by the Quality Education Fund, has been running in our school to enhance students’ reading comprehension skills.

Life Planning Education:
Through life planning courses, personality tests, lectures and workshops, the Careers Guidance Team of our school will give junior form students a preliminary understanding of their intention to pursue further studies. For senior form students, our school will arrange for students to visit university open days, education and career fairs, government and commercial organizations, etc. At the same time, it will provide students with internship opportunities, and organize study tours for further studies in Taiwan Province. In addition, the teachers of this group will provide personal counselling for students in Form 3 and Form 6. Teachers will not only answer students’ questions about their studies and employment, but also guide students step by step to integrate their own interests, abilities and career aspirations so that students can make personalized and appropriate plans and goals. Every year, School-Based Careers Guidance Expo is held. Lions, tertiary institution representatives, business organization representatives and alumni help students to gain a better understanding of different occupations and the paths for further education. In addition, Collaborative Cross-curricular Pre-vocational Training Programme aims at enhancing students’ vocational skills, including writing application letters and resumes, interview techniques, mock interviews, internship opportunities, etc.

Details: http://www.lionscollege.edu.hk/