Whole-school Language Policy:
English is the main medium of instruction in our school. (Please refer to the latest online information of subjects offered for details.)

Learning and Teaching Strategies:
Our teaching and learning strategies are geared to gifted education for students with different abilities and aptitudes. To enhance the effectiveness of classroom teaching and self-regulated learning, we endeavour to arouse their learning interests, give constructive feedback, help them cultivate good habits of making preparation before lessons, learning in lessons and doing revisions after lessons. In the classrooms of Junior Forms, cooperative learning has been deliberately promoted by arranging every 5 to 6 students in a group with 2 group leaders who have higher academic competence and readiness to help. These group leaders are trained in the school-based Peer Coaching Scheme to serve as good neighbours for their group members, delivering timely support during lessons and offering care to their classmates. Through using IT, interactive learning is promoted to enhance students' self-regulated learning through different e learning platforms.

School-based curriculum:
1. Electives: 2X and 3X. Benefiting from our Gifted Education policies, S4 students are allowed to study three or four electives under the new Senior Curriculum.
2. Curriculum highlights: Curriculum highlights: Our school based curriculum is diverse and flexible. To meet our goal of providing student centred and all round education for students, we lay emphasis on "Life Education" and "Gifted Education". Our "Life Education", which helps students nurture positive values of affirming and treasuring life, is implemented through lessons on Religious Studies and Moral and Civic Education. Furthermore, the activities about students' learning and development designed by different subjects and sections not only enhance students' mental and physical competence, but also help them further attain a fulfilling and flourishing life. Our 'Gifted Education' is implemented through Parallel Curricula, Tiered Assignments, Gifted Tours, Good Mentor Scheme, training courses inside and outside the school, all of which cater to students' different learning needs and develop their potentials.

Development of the Four Key Tasks:
(1) Strengthening Values Education inside & outside classrooms: Besides MCE (S1-3) and Religious Education (S1-6), we adopt the holistic approach to promote values education, Basic Law education and National Security Education. Through diversified co-curricular activities, students are nurtured with healthy values and strengthened attitudes towards recognising their national identity. (2) Enhancing the use of English from "Reading to Learn" to "Language Across Curricula": We lay emphasis on Learning in English by not only the "Reading to Learn Scheme" and "Morning Reading in English Scheme" to strengthen learning-by-reading ethos, but also the Language Across Curricula (LAC) collaboration to promote extensive reading and enhance students' exposure to the English in different subjects. (3) Promoting STEM education & use of Information Technology (IT) in education: We endeavour to promote STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and use of IT in education. Students explore their potentials and creativity in STEM by joining different training, activities, local competitions, national and international contests. In the past three years, a number of awards were won, notably the champion of the HK Budding Scientists Award, the first class honour of the IJSO and over ten outstanding awards in multimedia contests. Funding for QEF projects and IT LAB has also supported the further development in these aspects. (4) Appreciating the Chinese Culture and exploring the use of creativity: We assume the responsibilities of helping students understand the Chinese History and nurture appreciation as well as respect for Chinese Culture. With interdisciplinary collaboration and diverse learning opportunities, students can better explore the essence of Chinese Culture, create culture-related learning outcomes and optimise the innovative use of Chinese Culture in contemporary era.

Life Planning Education:
With a view to helping students develop a more positive and global outlook on careers and life, our school adopts a whole school approach to support the Careers Section for implementing the Career and Life Planning Education (CLPE). The implementation of the Parallel Curriculum Model in different subjects not only helps students acquire basic knowledge and learning skills, but also enables them to seek their personal identities and values. Different sections have been holding a wide variety of activities. For example, (1) The Careers Section organizes a Life Planning Curriculum for S.1, S.2 and S.4 students with careers talks for all forms, visits to tertiary institutes and workplaces of some professions, on the job experiences and individual as well as group career counselling, etc. Students can access information about career paths and equip themselves proactively to plan for their future. (2) The Moral and Civic Education Section has been endeavouring to train up ambassadors for running community services programmes as well as overseas exchange programmes in order to let schoolmates enrich their life experiences, broaden their horizons and establish positive life goals. (3) From 2020 onwards, the school CLPE has been further optimized by the CLAP@JC programme which aims to foster a sustainable ecosystem that unites the education, business, and community sectors to create a cross-sectoral but youth-owned support platform. It therefore promotes better career and life development for students, which facilitates their smooth transition from school to work. (4) Starting from 2022, our school has become a resource school for at least five network schools under the CLAP@JC Programme to lead our network Hub's direction and foster a community of good practices. All network schools can enjoy opportunities to share experiences and resources with other schools, promote mutual support, and create more quality career and life development activities for students, teachers and parents, thus contributing to the sustainable development of CLPE.

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