Whole-school Language Policy:
English is the medium of instruction except for Chi. Lang., Chi. Hist., Putonghua, Religious Studies, Liberal Studies (S.6) / Citizenship and Social Development (S.4-S.5) and Life Planning Education.

Learning and Teaching Strategies:
Since 2014-2015, small class teaching scheme has been launched to reduce the class size to about 26 students in S.1-S.2. The School also arranges split classes in Chinese Language, English Language, Mathematics and Liberal Studies for S.3-S.6 students.
To complement the scheme, we nurture learning communities conducive to effective interactions and knowledge co-construction by implementing current pedagogies and special seating arrangements in class. We employ Flipped Classroom and e-learning strategies to equip our students with cognitive and literacy skills in authentic and applicable contexts as well as to align learning, teaching and assessment.

School-based curriculum:
1. Electives: 3X. Includes: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Economics, M1, M2, Information & Communication Technology, Business, Accounting & Financial Studies, History, Chinese History, Ethics & Religious Studies, Physical Education, Visual Arts.
2. Curriculum highlights: We closely align the school curriculum goals with the school’s mission, aims of education, the direction of education reforms, as well as future development of society, promoting students’ whole-person development and preparing them for lifelong learning.
- A broad and balanced curriculum aiming at promoting students’ Learning to Learn capabilities and laying a sufficient knowledge base for further studies is designed for S.1-S.2 students.
- A strong interface at S.3 with special consideration on elective choices is provided, so that students can make wiser choices in senior secondary studies.
- To cater for students’ diverse needs, students can select 3 electives from a wide range of choices including extended modules in Mathematics.
- Reading strategies: Drop-Everything-And-Read (DEAR) programme; subscription to online reading platforms in English and Chinese; Extensive Reading Schemes in both languages; cross-curricular reading schemes; book crossing; writer’s talk; book exhibition; parent-child paired reading.
- Curriculum highlights for English Language and Chinese Language:
(1) English: Pre-S1 Bridging Course, S.1-2 Language Across the Curriculum, S.3 Musical Drama Showcase, S.5 Trade Market;
(2) Chinese: Junior Secondary Writing Portfolio, school-based practical writing materials, Reading Award Scheme.
- STEM education incorporates robotics, coding, 3D printing, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technology as well as scientific investigations into the school curriculum in a cross-disciplinary manner.

Development of the Four Key Tasks:
1. Engaging students in active and self-motivated learning inside and outside classroom through an interactive and technology-supported learning environment. 2. Assisting students to be reflective readers and effective writers in authentic contexts across the curriculum. 3. Implementing STEM education via basic skill acquisition and inquiry-based applications. 4. Fostering character building in students through cultivating the five core values of Catholic Education (Truth, Justice, Love, Life and Family) and the five Chinese virtues (Wisdom, Justice, Integrity, Benevolence and Courtesy). 5. Developing students’ positive attributes in life, spiritual literacy and self-management skills through experiential learning in formal and informal curricula. 6. Encouraging students to strive for excellence, explore career aspiration and develop entrepreneurial spirits through job shadowing and mentorship programmes with parents, alumni and external organizations.

Life Planning Education:
We adopt a whole-school approach in providing Careers and Life Planning guidance, complemented with home-school cooperation through formal and informal curricula to enable our students to achieve self-understanding and development, career exploration; career planning and management. We aim to cultivate students with positive attitudes towards life, work, learning and enhance their self-management skills. We cater for individual differences and needs. We equip students, teachers and parents with data-based evidence and analysis to make choices for further studies. We are privileged to have a team of well-experienced careers teachers and the Careers and Life Planning Resource Centre. The Junior Careers and Life-Planning Curriculum provides junior students with chances to gain self-understanding, set goals and follow one’s dreams. Programmes catering for students to pursue their dreams and stretch their talents will be arranged in LPE periods. All junior students will have visited at least two local universities. S.3 students can gain better support through face-to-face consultation sessions with subject teachers, an early introduction of the JUPAS programmes and relevant electives needed for further studies. We structure the Senior Careers and Life-Planning Curriculum to provide senior students with counselling and consultation sessions, morale boosting talks and events, JUPAS Mentorship Scheme, mock job and university admission interviews, visits to Information Days, reflective construction of the Personal/Student/Careers Profile, JUPAS and Non-JUPAS, E-APPs, multiple pathways, guidance and application, revision on the electives and the applied learning; Information Day for the release of the HKDSE, modification of JUPAS programme choices, Elite Programme, Aim High, Fly Higher Programmes, inspirational workshops, Linking to the Career World, summer internship and job-shadowing; Business-School Partnership Programme, company visits, careers talks, joint-school activities and education tours.

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