"Be kind and brave" saintly Taoist people dare to pursue dreams and soar with joy

Carmel Holy Word Secondary School Focusing on students' all-round development, through systematic values ​​cultivation, diversified mental health education activities, rich courses and all-round learning activities, we build a caring campus with both warmth and depth for students. In the future, Principal Lau Wing Sze will continue to lead the teaching team to optimize educational strategies and innovate teaching models to help every student achieve all-round development in physical and mental, academic, and skill aspects, and grow into a responsible, warm, qualified and capable servant leader.

Always have a joyful heart and learn to be grateful for everything

Principal Lau Wing Sze This year’s theme slogan is “Dare to Dream, Soar with Joy”. We firmly believe that dreams are the source of motivation that drives people’s actions. Even in difficult situations, dreams can support people to overcome difficulties and persevere. She encouraged "Holy Daoists" to pursue their dreams passionately and be worthy of the vitality given by youth; they must also exercise their will to face adversity to prepare themselves to shoulder more important responsibilities.

In order to actively respond to the society's emphasis on students' mental health, the school actively participates in the Education Bureau's "4Rs Mental Health Charter" and promotes mental health education and positive education around the four core areas of Rest, Relationship, Relaxation and Resilience to help students achieve harmonious development of body, mind and soul.

The school has established a dual-track promotion model of "student organizations + theme activities". On the one hand, a Wellness Club is established. Members first learn mental health knowledge, including emotion management and expression skills, and then promote mental health concepts on campus. Principal Lau Wing Sze said: "Members will plan various campus activities, such as 'pep-up activities' to inject positive energy into students; organize art therapy workshops (such as sand painting creation) to relieve stress."

On the other hand, the school organizes Wellness Week, focusing on the six major orientations of "body, mind, society, spirit, emotion and environment", and jointly organizes a variety of activities with different departments and student leaders, and sets up multiple interactive booths, including handicrafts, stress relief therapy, pickleball experiences, etc., to enhance students' awareness of mental health. It is worth mentioning that the school held a "Mind Health Concert", inviting well-known singers to share life stories and convey warmth and positive energy through music.

In addition, in order to cultivate students' gratitude, the Parent-Teacher Association and the Student Association jointly organized the "Salute to Parents" event to encourage students to order carnation flower pots and respond to their parents' kindness with practical actions. Every year students respond enthusiastically, and the supply of flower trays exceeds demand.

Keep a kind heart and treat people and things with love

As a Christian school, religious education and values education are the core of educating people. The school adheres to the philosophy of "fraternity, harmony, and mutual service" to guide students to establish correct values ​​and create a harmonious campus atmosphere. The school not only carries out "experiential Bible classes", but also has church volunteers serve as "life teachers" for students, establishing positive concepts in Christian doctrine through sharing and companionship. At the same time, the school organizes weekly fellowship activities with the goal of "loving each other and watching out for each other" to teach students to cherish the people and things around them and cultivate the spirit of the school motto of "knowing oneself, being loyal to the Lord and being kind to others".

In order to teach students to care for the environment, the school also actively promotes each class to participate in the "Green in the District" program and the "SGREEN x Recycling@School Competition" co-organized by the Environmental Protection Department and Ocean Park Hong Kong. Throughout the school year, all students actively made good use of the school and community recycling facilities, and led their families to practice resource classification and recycling. In the end, they won the gold medal for the school with the highest recycling volume. The results are encouraging!

In addition, the school attaches great importance to class management. Each class has two class teachers, and the class teachers teach values ​​courses focusing on the twelve primary values. The class teacher is committed to creating a good class atmosphere and improving class cohesion, so that students can achieve comprehensive and healthy development of body, mind and soul in a happy campus environment.

Have the courage to take responsibility and cultivate tomorrow’s pillars

In order to further cultivate students' general abilities and service spirit, the school promotes student leader training in many aspects: on the one hand, it promotes "student independent interest groups" (such as K-Pop and micro-film production), from which student leaders learn leadership skills; on the other hand, in addition to Stars of the Stars leadership training, it also offers a "Tomorrow's Star" leadership course to equip junior high school students from an early age. Principal Lau Wing Sze pointed out: "By strengthening leadership training, our school helps students build self-confidence, deepen self-understanding, and improve their ability to organize activities, ultimately growing into future servant leaders with a sense of responsibility and dedication."

At the same time, the school’s social service team has continued to participate in the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs Association’s “Create and Dare” project in recent years, guiding students to combine knowledge with practice and design solutions to serve the community, such as developing a practical app for the elderly “Playing with ‘Old’ Friends” and designing different routes for the elderly to get out of their comfort zones to experience Hong Kong’s characteristics and make friends. In addition, through activities such as visiting elderly people living alone, students have direct contact with groups in need in the community. Through service, they experience the principle that "giving is more blessed than receiving" and cultivate team spirit and a sense of social responsibility.

Dare to face difficulties and embrace challenges

The school is committed to providing various platforms for self-expression and encouraging students to participate in different competitions and dare to face difficulties and embrace challenges. In terms of language, the school attaches great importance to Chinese and English recitation education. There is no selection threshold and all students are encouraged to participate. During the summer vacation, Form 6 student Qiu participated in the "9th China Good Boys Youth Language Arts Outstanding Talent Showcase" and won the highest honor "Elite Children's Special Gold Award"; in terms of subjects, the Mathematics Department organized students to participate in a number of Mathematical Olympiad competitions and achieved great results; in terms of sports, Form 5 student Leung represented Hong Kong in the 2nd IPSC Airsoft World world championship, and won the world championship in the Youth Standard Competition; in the fields of technology and visual arts, visual arts students actively participated in Hong Kong's first generative AI art creation competition, "Words Make Pictures", to realize interdisciplinary AI education. Students were fortunate to stand out among more than 1,000 works and won gold, silver, bronze and multiple excellence awards as well as the school's active participation award.

All-round experiential learning: get out of the classroom and broaden your horizons

With "all-round experiential learning" as its core, the school flexibly uses time periods on school days and Friday afternoons to break traditional classroom boundaries and create diverse learning scenarios for students. All grades carry out all-round activities based on their learning stages, and organize out-of-school visits for history and geography subjects to allow students to deepen their understanding of subject knowledge during field trips. Multi-subject co-curricular activities or inter-class competitions are also held to allow students to learn through experience. In addition, life education classes are also offered for Form 1 to Form 6 to help students establish correct values.

At the same time, the school has actively carried out a variety of exchange and inspection activities in recent years, covering many fields such as music, humanities, art, history, economy and technology, including Austrian music study tours, humanities and arts and culture Japanese exchange groups, Harbin Changchun historical culture and economic development exploration tours, Silk Road Xi'an inspection tours, and Zhuhai Space Center inspection tours, etc. These field trips allow students to get in touch with diverse cultures through personal travel and field exploration, and to understand the historical context and economic and technological development status of different regions, so that they can understand the world from a broader perspective and increase their knowledge.

Diversified English teaching strategies Immersive English atmosphere

After years of intensive education, the school has cultivated many biliterate and trilingual talents in various fields, and the English learning environment and new language policies have played a key role. The school actively carries out interdisciplinary teaching. For example, the English subject in Form 4 collaborates with BAFS and Tourism and Hospitality to integrate coffee, business and English into the classroom, teaching students coffee tasting and marketing, and integrating career planning concepts to accumulate experience for future career development. At the junior high school level, history, geography and science subjects collaborate with the English subject to set up English learning units to strengthen interdisciplinary English skills. This year, the English subject also plans to cooperate with music, citizenship, economics and society and other subjects to further expand the learning dimension.

In terms of English teaching innovation, the school actively explores e-learning models and layered teaching strategies. The English department makes extensive use of various electronic learning tools and uses AI oral practice tools to improve students' English speaking skills; it also introduces an AI correction system to improve students' English writing performance. In terms of teaching, taking into account the differences in students' English proficiency, the school organizes classes according to students' abilities: the four classes in Form 1 and Form 4 are divided into six groups, two of which have stronger English proficiency; the classes in Form 2 and Form 3 are divided into classes according to their English scores, and one of the classes has a slightly stronger English ability. Through more targeted teaching content, the English learning effect is enhanced and "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" is truly realized.

Three-tier architecture STEAM education: apply knowledge to create creativity

The school attaches great importance to the development of STEAM education. It has opened special STEAM courses for all students in Form One to Form Three, and established a teaching team composed of computer, science, mathematics, and art teachers to achieve integrated teaching of multi-disciplinary knowledge. The curriculum is promoted at three levels: STEAM @ Class, STEAM @ CHW, and STEAM @ Community, with thematic learning as the core.

Principal Lau Wing Sze said: "Students combine IT technology and artistic creativity to complete various works, such as integrating electronic components and lighting effects into classroom wall poster design, using Arduino to design interactive devices, and making models through 3D modeling and printing technology. In addition, the Science Department has also launched a "Coral Breeding" project, which combines STEAM education with environmental protection concepts, allowing students to understand the importance of ecological protection in practice, and achieving an organic unity of knowledge learning and social responsibility cultivation."