Connecting students with each other to comprehensively improve English literacy

Pui Ying Secondary School With student development as the core, we develop a systematic English teaching plan, create a diversified learning experience through subject integration, extracurricular extension, etc., to help students strengthen their English skills and broaden their international horizons. The various plans of the school's English education are interconnected and organically integrated, which not only takes into account students' academic improvement needs, but also focuses on the cultivation of their overall quality, paving a broad path for future advancement.

Break the traditional teaching model and take into account different learning needs

The school breaks the traditional teaching model and takes into account the development needs of liberal arts and science students. Starting from the secondary level next year, geography, science and life education subjects will be taught in English. Principal Chan Chun Yin said: "These three subjects contain a large amount of general English vocabulary and grammatical knowledge, and cover many daily life issues. For example, global warming in the geography subject is a hot topic in the examination, and its related vocabulary is highly practical. It allows students to accumulate English knowledge in subject learning and achieve simultaneous improvement in subject ability and language ability."

"One-stop" teaching system, resource investment, student-oriented

In order to ensure the continuity and depth of teaching, the school plans a "one-stop" teaching system. After laying the foundation in the first stage of middle school, when students enter high school, liberal arts students can choose the English group of geography, while science students can continue to receive English teaching in subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, etc., and continue to strengthen their English application ability through subject learning during their six-year middle school career. Implementing all-English subject teaching requires investing a lot of resources. On the one hand, the school strengthens the English teaching capabilities of the original teachers; on the other hand, it introduces more native English-speaking teachers in a timely manner. Principal Chan Chun Yin insists that all resources must be centered on benefiting students, and through solid teaching practice, students’ English abilities can be substantially improved.

Open IELTS classes and master the “admission ticket” to university

In addition to classroom teaching, the school also launches extracurricular improvement projects. Starting from the secondary level, students can sign up for free IELTS classes and top-notch English classes offered by the school. The courses are divided into basic classes and advanced classes to adapt to the needs of different students. It opens the door for all students who are willing to improve their English proficiency and grasp the "ticket" to enter their ideal college. Through systematic extracurricular tutoring, we help students achieve excellent results in language exams.

Introducing AI composition correction platform to achieve "both quantity and quality" in writing

The school innovatively introduced AI technology and purchased a professional AI essay correction platform, which strictly follows the correction standards in the education field. Students can scan handwritten essays via iPad and upload them to the platform. The system will automatically recognize the text and make corrections according to the scoring standards set by the teacher. It can not only point out grammatical errors, misuse of vocabulary and other issues, but also provide optimization suggestions. Principal Chan Chun Yin pointed out: "For formal compositions that need to be scored, teachers will still make refined corrections to ensure that the corrections are warm and targeted. This model not only reduces the workload of teachers, but also achieves the goal of "taking into account both quantity and quality" of composition practice, allowing students to continuously improve their writing skills through practice and guidance."

Organize overseas exchange activities to leverage advantages and promote exchanges

The school actively organizes students to participate in exchange activities. In the past two years, they have gone to Cambridge, England, and next they plan to go to places such as Dubai. The school will provide partial funding for students to reduce the financial burden on parents. At the same time, the school pays more attention to the "bringing in" exchange model, using its own venues and accommodation resources to invite foreign teachers and students to carry out exchange activities. Compared with the limited overseas exchange opportunities for students, this model allows more students to interact with people from different countries on campus, accumulate international exchange experience on a regular basis, and truly realize the comprehensive cultivation of international vision.

Peiying International Exchange Center was established to help students expand their international horizons

With its complete infrastructure, the school established the Peiying International Exchange Center. Principal Chan Chun Yin said: "We have dedicated accommodation facilities that can host foreign exchange teachers and students, coaches and athletes. We also have ample venue resources and can host various cross-school sports competitions, academic conferences and exchange activities." This hardware advantage provides a solid guarantee for international exchanges and is in line with Hong Kong's positioning as a "super connector" to help students expand their international horizons and adapt to a diverse development environment.

Diverse extracurricular activities to achieve all-round development

The school implements diversified education and carefully plans weekly extracurricular activities: Mondays and Wednesdays are mainly cultural and sports activities after school. Students can freely choose according to their own interests and participate in one activity each week to achieve all-round development driven by their interests. Among them, English-related activities are quite unique. For example, students in the campus press corps need to participate in campus TV broadcasts and share content in English at least once a week. Teachers will provide professional guidance to help students improve their expression skills and self-confidence in front of the camera. After school on Tuesdays and Thursdays, academic improvement is the main focus. Students can stay in school to participate in the school's top-notch classes, IELTS classes, and group tutoring classes.