A Caring Cheerful School A Caring Cheerful School For Student's Success

TWGHs Tang Shiu Kin Primary School Adhering to the mission of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, we are determined to be a caring and happy school that helps students achieve their future. We take the school motto of "Diligence, Thrift, Loyalty and Trustworthiness" as the basis for moral development and encourage students to develop a rich and meaningful life. Principal Chung Jiaming pointed out: "In order to make students fall in love with learning, the school began to implement activity-based teaching in the early years. Classrooms incorporate educational games, role-playing and group discussions to enhance interactive elements. We hope to practice "learning by doing" (learning by doing), inspire motivation and self-confidence in seeking knowledge, lay a good foundation in language and subjects, establish positive values, strive for academic excellence, smoothly enter the ideal middle school, and spread their wings in the future." "

Optimize the school building and set up multi-area learning spaces in the English room

The teaching team has always taken "change" as its common vision and educational belief, and has actively optimized the school-based curriculum in the spirit of reflection, exploration and pursuit of excellence, updated teaching software and hardware components, and created good learning conditions for students, so that students can build self-confidence and a sense of belonging to the campus with full care, encouragement and affirmation, and grow up healthily and confidently. In recent years, the school has still implemented its philosophy despite the epidemic, investing resources to renovate the lobby, school office, computer room, English activity room and STEM Lab, and added a positive meditation room to enrich campus facilities.

Principal Chung said: "The school has always attached great importance to students' English proficiency. Therefore, the English subject team regularly participates in the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Joint School Curriculum Directors' Meeting and the Joint School English Directors' Meeting to exchange teaching experience and improve teaching effectiveness. The school sponsoring group has also invested resources to renovate the English activity room to further To further promote the English learning atmosphere in the school. "The English activity room has a complete space planning and has multiple different learning areas, including the "Electronic Learning Resource Area", "Reading Corner" and "Chat Interaction Area", so that students can strengthen their English reading, writing, listening and speaking skills through zoned learning. In addition, in order to cooperate with activity teaching, the English activity room has also added an "ActivTable" (e-learning interactive table) to encourage students to use rich electronic resources for self-study, which greatly enhances the motivation for English learning.

The English activity room is also the base for daily teaching by foreign English teachers. Junior primary school students have two special English classes every week led by foreign English teachers. In one class, teachers and students will conduct extended reading learning in the classroom, and in the other class, the foreign English teacher will lead the students to the English room for English game lessons (Game lessons), and use indoor multi-zone learning to practice English application skills.

Forward-looking e-learning English context is far-reaching

The school-based English curriculum incorporates a large number of e-learning elements to cater for multiple learning and teaching strategies. For example, the school-based junior primary curriculum arranges for foreign English teachers to lead game classes, and also conducts school-based pinyin courses through electronic learning resources, reading materials and group games to improve junior primary students' spelling, spelling, reading and English conversation skills and lay a good foundation for them in English. Moreover, as a pioneer school in e-learning among primary schools of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, the school has been designated as an "IT Model School" by the Board of Directors of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals. It has been able to invest a lot of resources in purchasing tablet computers and robotic devices for students, integrating information technology into learning and teaching.

Director Yu Pei-ying, Director of English Development, said: "As early as 2014, the school has used the English subject as a pilot to launch a school-based e-learning plan and add e-learning activities to English classes. Through the e-learning platform, students can learn the construction principles of English words, and at the same time use the writing learning platform to strengthen their reading and writing skills. Today, e-learning has been successfully promoted to different subjects in the school. Teachers and students have also fully mastered the application of e-learning platforms, making full use of 'Canvas' and 'Nearpod' Teaching tools such as "lessons" and "Quizlet" enhance students' classroom participation and allow teachers to instantly understand their learning progress and difficulties through students' online responses and make teaching adjustments. "As the saying goes, "Reading is the teacher of learning." In order to expand students' English vocabulary and expand their knowledge, so that they can quickly improve their English skills through reading, the school has introduced different electronic reading platforms such as "Raz-kids" to allow students to learn correct English pronunciation from electronic English pronunciation books and strengthen their English conversation skills.

Excellent results in international examinations, number of people passing English and Chinese exams rises

Under the comprehensive English education policy, all students in the school have good English proficiency. Many high school students have achieved good results in different international English proficiency assessments, including "Cambridge English Test" (Starters, Movers, Flyers and KET), "TOEFL Junior, TOEFL Primary" and "Australian ICAS Test". They have also won on-campus scholarships based on their excellent results. With high-quality teaching strategies, the proportion of students who have been selected as first choice has been higher than the overall average in Hong Kong in recent years. Many graduates have successfully entered English secondary schools and are leading a successful life step by step.

3 major festival English weeks set up for teachers and students to have fun together in English

A number of international studies have always advocated learning from life, saying that students' absorption and application of knowledge in a low-pressure environment can make teaching more effective. Therefore, the school adopts the same teaching strategy and trains students to become "language ambassadors." It has also established an "English Week" to encourage students to use English from daily life through games, inspections and learning activities, creating a strong context in the school. Director of the English Department Zhen Xinzhen said: "Every year, the English department holds an 'English Week' on festivals such as Halloween, Christmas, and Easter. Different special activities are hosted by the 'Language Ambassador' English, and exhibitions and activities are held to allow students to learn English in a relaxed and happy atmosphere." In addition, the school has also implemented all-round learning activities in recent years, combining thematic reading with subject learning, and interdisciplinary learning in real situations. For example, the English Department cooperates with the Chinese Department to use English as a medium to understand Chinese culture.

Promoting interdisciplinary learning STEMxENG

The teaching team believes that efficient English education needs to be integrated with life, and it must also integrate new trends in education to design a "school-based comprehensive curriculum" that combines STEM learning and flying courses. Principal Zhong said that the course aims to make English a daily language for students and increase the opportunities for them to apply English, so that they can enjoy learning English from the bottom of their hearts and like to communicate in English. For example, when the teacher explains about degradable plastics, the English subject team will combine environmental issues and introduce different environmental vocabulary to each student, and then conduct plastic experiments in the comprehensive class to increase learning motivation. In addition, the teacher will also incorporate the applied vocabulary from junior high school English textbooks into flight courses in the "Little Pilot Project" to teach different international aviation terms, so that students can improve their personal English proficiency and problem-solving skills while absorbing new knowledge about aerospace technology.

The school also makes extensive use of the advantages of cross-disciplinary collaboration, adding English learning elements to the regular courses of general knowledge and mathematics, connecting different topics through multiple learning areas, breaking disciplinary barriers, helping students build a broad view of knowledge, and learn to flexibly apply the knowledge they have learned. In the past, students have used "environmental protection" as the theme. After collecting relevant English materials, they completed experiments under the guidance of teachers and reported the experimental steps and principles to their peers in English, thereby establishing an in-depth learning experience and feeling the importance of English as a learning and communication tool.