Whole-school Language Policy:
The school adopts English as the medium of instruction in all subjects and classes except Chinese Language, Chinese Literature, Chinese History, Putonghua and Family Life Education. Our school aims at enabling students to become biliterate and trilingual. There is a weekly broadcast in Putonghua. Besides, there are inter-class competitions in English drama, verse speaking, debate and writing. Students actively participate in inter-school competitions to strengthen their ability to master Chinese and English and appreciate literature. During the summer vacation, the school would arrange for students to immense themselves in English programme overseas. All S.1 – S.3 students participate in both the English and Chinese Extensive Reading Schemes organized by the Education Bureau.

Learning and Teaching Strategies:
Our school's education is centred on The Paulinian Spectrum. The seven colours of the sun's spectrum represent the seven important areas of school education: moral, intellectual, physical, social, aesthetic, emotional, and spiritual realms, which are delivered through the formal and the informal curricula. To foster a progress-oriented learning culture, the school focuses on the assessment as learning to help students achieve their learning targets. The application of information technology enhances students' interest in learning. Through classroom interaction, collaborative learning, the e-learning platform project and presentations, they are encouraged to participate actively when collecting information on learning and expressing their views in the learning process. It boosts their analytical thinking and equips them with the necessary skills for life-long learning. Art education, social services, field study, educational tours, and overseas cultural exchange are part of life-wide learning to help students fully cultivate their talents and interests with the aim of aligning with the "learner-focused" principle of education.

School-based curriculum:
1. Electives: 3X.
2. Curriculum highlights: We pioneered Family Life Education (FLE) for students in the 80s. Our FLE lessons are designed to cultivate students’ sense of civic responsibility and moral virtues, with the aim of developing and exemplifying positive values and attitudes towards their development into adulthood.

Development of the Four Key Tasks:
To equip students with high-order thinking, generic skills, and positive values and attitudes through "Four Key Tasks", to cultivate their habit of self-directed learning and develop their life-long learning capabilities.
Moral and civic education: We promote the ten priority values and attitudes, and place emphasis on strengthening values education which includes moral and civic education, Basic Law education and national security education. Values education is strategically instilled through the formal curriculum with Form Periods, Religious Studies lessons, Family Life Education lessons as well as diversified whole-school thematic events, which aim at exemplifying students' positive values and attitudes towards the development into adulthood, helping to develop a sense of national identity, and nurturing law-abiding citizens.
Information technology for the integration and synthesis of learning and teaching: Equipped with advanced facilities, our newly established Quantum Lab further promotes innovation and technology development through workshop on AI, IoT, VR, Big Data, Block Chain, KOL training, etc., so as to nurture future technology talents. The goal of interactive learning can be achieved with different IT learning tools and platforms in subject curricula. "Bring Your Own Device" is implemented in a whole-school approach which aims at developing mobile learning as a habit.
STEAM Education: School-based STEAM lessons are fully implemented in junior forms. A formal STEAM curriculum is introduced in Form 4. Students use different resources in projects and cross-curricular programmes such as "Chinese Mitten Crab Aquaponics Project". Our STEAM Room, Open MakerSpace, and Mac Lab contribute to a sustainable STEAM Education environment which cultivates students’ ability to explore, problem-solve, collaborate and create.
Reading to learn: We designated reading time to foster the habit and designed a student-centred reading programme to heighten the efficiency and effectiveness of reading.

Life Planning Education:
The Careers Guidance Team formulates a specific work plan for each academic year, detailing the strategies to foster students' self-understanding, personal planning and goal setting. To maximize the benefits to students, the school adopts a whole-school approach to life planning education and careers guidance.
At different levels, careers guidance is offered to students through the close partnership between Form Teachers and Careers Teachers. Taking into account the unique needs of each student, the school has employed a careers counsellor to provide students with year-long individual guidance on making life choices, realizing aspirations and potential.
The school offers a wide range of careers guidance programmes to students, e.g. career and life planning lessons, careers quizzes, talks on S.4 subject choices, briefings on JUPAS application, talks on local and overseas university admissions, talks on the world of work, sharing sessions by past students on study skills and programme selection, and a briefing on how to prepare for the release day of HKDSE results.
To ensure that career and life planning is done in a comprehensive and continuous manner, the school has commissioned service providers to conduct careers and life planning workshops for both junior and senior forms students. With a view to broadening their horizons, students are encouraged to participate in various seminars, courses, lectures, work experience schemes, and taster programmes organized by universities or professional organizations. On top of this, the life planning education for students is completed by the multifarious functions organized by the different departments and teams of the school.

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