Whole-school Language Policy:
The medium of instruction for Form 1 to Form 3 is Chinese with an emphasis on their ability to be bi-literate and tri-lingual. Apart from classroom learning, the school’s native English teacher runs a variety of games and activities outside the classroom to enhance students’ speaking and listening skills. In order to increase students’ exposure to English, there are also Extended Learning Activities (ELAs) for all subjects, exclusive of Chinese, Putonghua and Chinese History, in junior forms. Interactive games are designed to help consolidate their learning and maximize their opportunities to use English.

Learning and Teaching Strategies:
1. Students are required to reflect on and evaluate their learning experience so as to gain a clearer view of their learning progress. On Parents’ Day, parents and teachers also make use of the reflective learning journals to help students develop appropriate strategies to address their weaknesses and enhance their learning effectiveness. 2. Students are guided on how to take effective notes and note-taking rubrics are designed for different subjects. 3. After-school enhancement and remedial classes in Chinese, English and Mathematics are run for junior form students with different learning abilities. To equip senior form with better exam skills, the school runs after-school classes and arrange students to take part in different mock exams organized outside school. 4. Students are required to read across the curriculum as scheduled. Various measures are carried out to enrich the reading atmosphere on the campus like display of book reports, book exhibition and talks given by different writers. 5. Catholic core values are integrated into different curricular to promote positive education and cultivate positive attitudes among students. 6. Various modes of e-learning are adopted to give students ample opportunities to experience self-regulated learning. Collaborative learning activities are conducted to facilitate interaction and learning effectiveness. 7. A learning hub for teachers is established through encouraging teachers to open up their classrooms for peer observation which gives them opportunities to share teaching ideas and techniques. In order to enhance professionalism in e-learning and collaborative learning, EDB and teachers of other schools are also invited to share their experience in implementing e-learning in classrooms on one of the Staff Development Days.

School-based curriculum:
1. Electives: 3X. Our school has set up 3 electives for students.
2. Curriculum highlights: Mathematics are taught in Chinese or English while all Science subjects are taught in English.

Development of the Four Key Tasks:
1. The school is implementing a large-scale school-wide reading project - Reading for FUN. Students select reading topics in groups, and then use diversified reading sharing methods to showcase their reading results. Different departments continue to carry out different reading activities, including Chinese and English reading lessons in each cycle. By collaborating with different departments, cross-curricular reading materials are also provided for students. Besides, the English Department offers a Guided Reading Programme to encourage students to read and provides opportunities for students to take part in reading programs outside the school./ 2. Teachers also make use of cross-curricular learning to help students integrate all the knowledge they learn in different subjects. By encouraging independent learning skills, students take responsibility for their own learning outcomes, apply common skills they have acquired from all subjects, think about different perspectives, organize their ideas logically and make use of communication skills to work cooperatively. All of these are very significant learning outcomes in the new secondary school curriculum./ 3. Enhancing the effectiveness of learning and teaching, classroom interaction as well as students’ ability in self-directed learning, problem-solving and collaboration./ 4. The school takes moral education very highly. The Counselling Team, the Religious Team and the Civic Education Team set up a moral education programme which includes the Catholic core values with a theme each year. The purpose of moral education is to develop students into good citizens who love their country, are self-disciplined, determined, respectful, responsible and concerned about society.

Life Planning Education:
1. A series of systematic life-planning activities are implemented to meet the needs of students at different stages of growth such as helping them to understand themselves and reflect on their personal goal setting and development, providing individual senior form students with professional counseling for life-planning. 2. Different methods including interviews are used to understand students’ career interests and inclinations, and a variety of career-related activities are provided like job shadowing, workplace visits, a large-scale, life-planning experiential game, applied learning courses etc.

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