Respect gifted education and become English Stars Learning English in a Fun Way

Q.E.S. Old Students' Association Branch Primary SchoolWelcoming the 30th anniversary of the school, we have been implementing the school motto of "cultivating yourself and benevolent to others", cultivating great achievements and benefiting others widely. In recent years, the school has become a popular school in the district by relying on its forward-looking curriculum design and rich teaching staff to create a positive, positive and caring learning environment for students. Principal Hu Guowei and the teaching team grasped the "golden period" of language proficiency and hired five additional foreign English teachers to run special English activities on campus, striving to integrate Chinese learning with life, enrich the English context in the school, and educate the new generation with excellent English skills, passionate pursuit of knowledge, and advocating truth.

． Resource-based self-learning model
(Resource-based self-learning)
． Get out of the classroom, learn in an all-round way, and introduce external learning resources
(Outreaching and incoming programs)
． Give practical and real-life experience
(Hands-on and real-life experiences)
． Encourage the application of information technology
(Information technology)
． Use diverse teaching strategies
(Different teaching strategies)

Promote gifted education and optimize English courses

Small class teaching can provide the teaching team with ample and efficient teaching space, take care of the diversity of learning, and guide learning in context. The school cooperates with mixed-level classes and conducts subject-based group teaching. Miss Feyi, director of the foreign English department, pointed out that the school's English department uses "combination of reading and writing" as the basic teaching strategy, and also makes good use of "high participation", "multiple presentations" and "group collaboration" class modes to promote interaction between teachers and students, so as to cultivate the ability and attitude of active learning. In terms of curriculum arrangement, the English subject team also carefully adapts to the growth characteristics of different stages, first implementing "story teaching" and "Space teaching" in KS1 (primary one to primary three). "Town Literacy Project", combined with different English activities, including demonstrations, group discussions, topic learning, electronic teaching materials, etc., to establish a comprehensive English learning environment for students to enhance their interest and ability in English reading. Later, at the KS2 (primary four to primary six) stage, different text materials were added to the school-based curriculum, and an interdisciplinary learning environment was established with distinctive reading strategies to enrich students' English knowledge and cultivate self-study habits.

Principal Wu Guowei said: "The school has been developing school-based gifted courses, hoping to enable students to strive for excellence in learning. "English Elite Classes" are set up in primary one, primary five and primary six to help students with better English proficiency further improve their English proficiency, learn to learn in English, and connect to future English middle school courses." "English Elite Class" The "English Class" has foreign English teachers or senior teachers in charge of regular courses. Discussion, sharing, study and reporting elements are added to the class. Students' English application skills will also be exercised through multiple learning activities, and daily communication in English will be encouraged to lay a solid foundation for English learning. They will not only learn English well, but also learn to learn in English.

Added 5 foreign teachers Elite English Buddies

The school attaches great importance to teaching quality, and the teaching team has accumulated rich teaching experience. Many teachers have been invited to give lectures and share their teaching experience due to their excellent teaching. For example, last year, the English subject group was invited to share their experience in designing the Multicultural Language Arts Program in KS2 for the Macau English Teaching Association. In this school year, the school hired five more foreign English teachers to establish a real English context, and participated in the "Seed Project" of the Foreign English Teachers Group of the Education Bureau to further optimize the school's English teaching policy. Through the optimization plan, in addition to daily classes, foreign English teachers also implement diversified English learning activities, allowing students to delve into global issues through reading, writing, discussion, reporting and reflection, and learn about tolerance and acceptance of multiculturalism, while simultaneously cultivating their English and cross-cultural abilities.

Effective English learning requires practice and application. Different positions are set up in the school to enable students to build confidence in listening and speaking English through activities and campus services. Teacher Gao Dianya, director of the English subject, said: "The 'English Stars' program is for foreign teachers to lead students from primary 2 to primary 4 to share, discuss and read different extracurricular English materials in English, and perform group activities such as singing English songs and role plays to create a diversified English learning experience." The school also selects students with outstanding performance in the English subject to form "English Buddies" to assist in various types of English activities. Teacher Gao continued: "Foreign teachers will divide the students into 'Games Buddies', 'Assembly Buddies' and 'Reading Buddies' based on their different expertise. Each position will work together and will host an English morning meeting, telling English stories and playing English games with lower grade students. After much practice, 'English Buddies' "Buddies" have developed good English skills and have performed well in English performances and external competitions. Most students have been assigned to English classes in English middle schools or affiliated middle schools, and their results are obvious to all. "

Establishing kindergarten bridging courses

In view of the impact of the epidemic, the school has specifically strengthened training for kindergarten students, provided targeted "primary one bridging courses", and hired five foreign English teachers as English teachers. Through a lively and interesting English teaching model, the school has planted the seeds of a love for learning English and quickly connected to school English courses.

Rich activities to create scene learning

The school has rich teaching resources and has set up multiple multi-purpose learning rooms to support rich and distinctive learning activities, such as STEM Room, campus TV station, English room, multi-sensory learning room, etc. It also has a platform garden, ecological garden, organic botanical garden, etc., with all the facilities you need. Principal Hu said with a smile, "The school running organization implements the spirit of 'cultivate yourself and be kind to others', hoping to allow students to learn and grow in a positive, positive and caring environment, and to establish a learning spirit of self-improvement and passionate pursuit of the truth." Among them, the English room is not only a base for learning English, but also cooperates with different English activities, such as "English Fun Day" and joint school "English Summer Camp", becoming a source of motivation for learning English. In addition, the school also holds inter-grade and school-wide English activities every year to help students gain confidence in communicating in English through interesting games and experiences.

In recent years, in response to new trends in education, the school has turned co-curricular interdisciplinary learning into regular classes. The English subject often cooperates with the General Studies and Mathematics subjects to add English learning elements to the mathematics and general courses to enrich students' English vocabulary. The school also provides students with different learning experiences through study tours and off-campus visits every year. Teachers and students have visited Victoria Peak, filmed learning videos, collected different Hong Kong tourist attractions, and painted campus murals. The school also sponsors students to watch the International Rugby Sevens event under the guidance of teachers, so as to feel the spirit of sports. It also invites foreign rugby coaches to the school for training, which simultaneously promotes the development of physical and artistic potential.

Promote English reading and cultivate self-study habits

Regular reading is the first step towards independent learning. Therefore, the school has been promoting English reading and encouraging students to open books frequently and learn independently. Last year, the library completed the optimization project and co-organized a variety of reading activities, including author lectures, book fairs, "CHILL Reading Christmas", "Reading with Gratitude", "Joyful Library", "Visiting Pu Library", "Looking for Destiny Books", "Dream Reading Project", etc. English teaching also incorporates a large number of reading elements. Thursday is not only designated as "English Reading Day", but also makes good use of e-books on the reading platform "Epic" in daily courses to encourage students to participate in self-study activities and reading sharing in the "Reading Log". Teacher Gao said: “The school once held a ‘Book Character Day’, where teachers and students dressed up as book characters and shared their favorite English books.”

At the same time, the school also designs a variety of independent learning tools for students. The "Autonomous Learning Booklet" allows students to record the books they have read and the vocabulary they have learned on their own to establish an independent learning process. The "Seesaw" platform allows students to share learning materials, record reports and communicate in real time, deepening e-learning elements, cultivating independent learning abilities, and preparing to become future talents.