STEM. Reading． Drama　Happy Elements Learning English Learning Fun-Filled English

Mastering good English skills is like having the key to the world. It can broaden students' horizons and establish an international perspective. ELCHK Hung Hom Lutheran Primary SchoolIn view of this, the first priority is to establish solid English skills for students and create future pillars of society with both academic and moral excellence. Under the leadership of Principal Yi Huiru, the school's English teaching team has a common vision, combines expert opinions and student needs, optimizes school-based teaching, and uses e-learning and cross-disciplinary collaboration to successfully create a diverse and interesting English context, greatly improving the school's English level and making students happy to learn English.

Delving into excellent teaching, experts come to the school to exchange experiences

Excellent teaching design can meet the learning needs of students at different stages and expand the depth of course content. Therefore, Principal Yi actively promotes the "school-based support services" of the Education Bureau in the school and establishes a close cooperative relationship with the bureau to design school-based reading and writing courses for students to comprehensively improve students' English abilities. In addition, the teaching team has also introduced the Education Bureau's "PLPRW" into the junior primary school-based English curriculum. Led by foreign English teachers, students can master reading skills through guided reading of "Big Books" and provide "Home Reading" extended reading materials to further establish students' English reading habits and improve their English vocabulary to lay a solid foundation. Principal Yi said: "In PLPRW classes, in addition to reading different English books, foreign teachers will also combine educational English games, group discussions, pinyin training, role-playing, etc. to allow students to interact with foreign teachers and establish a positive learning attitude."

In addition, in order to improve the effectiveness of classroom teaching, the school also regularly conducts classroom research, establishes a teaching exchange platform, and invites experts to the school to host teacher training and workshops. This year's English teaching lesson study at the school was led by senior lesson research expert Dr. Lao Fu Yanhua, who led the fourth-grade teachers to identify students' learning difficulties through interviews, and used "variation theory" to improve the teaching and learning of grammar usage, which greatly promoted the effectiveness of English learning. Experts will also discuss teaching difficulties with school teachers through "joint lesson preparation", "class observation" and "lesson evaluation", and guide teachers to propose new elements for classroom design, truly practicing the "Plan-Implement-Evaluate" (PIE) cycle, so as to improve school teaching day by day.

Promote e-learning and establish an atmosphere of self-study

E-learning provides students with access to abundant resources and channels to discover new knowledge, helping to promote independent learning. Principal Yi said: "In addition to the school's implementation of the 'One Tablet for Life' program in recent years, teachers have also uploaded a wealth of learning resources to different learning platforms, allowing students to practice 'flipped classroom' - reading the materials before class, previewing in advance, then using electronic learning tools to explore and solve problems in class, and finally completing the extension after class." Stretch learning and expand learning space and time. "The teaching team also introduced the "APlus" learning platform. Students can choose enrichment exercises on different topics according to their personal abilities according to the textbook content, including reading comprehension, English grammar, listening, conversation and other training, so that students can deepen their classroom knowledge and consolidate what they have learned.

Reading is an important way to learn a language. It can not only cultivate language sense but also improve writing skills. Therefore, in addition to promoting English reading programs, the school also introduces electronic reading materials to encourage students to read English books in different fields through the "Highlights Library" reading platform to build a broad knowledge base and reflect the importance of English as a learning tool. At the same time, foreign English teachers will also produce English learning videos with different themes, allowing students to extend their English learning at home through interesting and life-oriented English. In addition, in order to facilitate students to review the silent reading content in advance, the school has specially set up an English silent reading audio library. Foreign English teachers will record different silent reading areas for students to listen to repeatedly at home to master the correct pronunciation of vocabulary and improve conversation and silent reading performance.

STEM+Drama adds happy English elements

In order to let students understand that English is not a single subject, the school vigorously promotes innovation and technology English learning, and uses drama and different learning activities to create more English situations for students and increase opportunities to apply English. The teaching team uses general knowledge, English and mathematics as entry points, and adds scientific inquiry activities, experiments and English reading materials to the high school-based STEM courses, allowing students and foreign English teachers to apply knowledge and skills in related subjects through "hands-on" work, and through calculations and experiments, promote students' comprehensive abilities such as inquiry, self-study, problem-solving and creativity. The school has specially produced a school-based STEM booklet for this purpose so that students can try to record experimental results and learn English vocabulary related to mathematics, science and technology.

Learning should not be limited to the classroom. The English subject team will select students who are interested in English to form an English drama troupe, allowing students to understand different Western plays through drama. They will also strengthen their English reading skills through reading scripts and express their confidence on the stage. In addition, the school also organizes a series of colorful English activities to enrich students' learning experience. Taking "FUN FUN Recess" as an example, foreign English teachers and teaching assistants will conduct interesting English activities with students, such as Story Time, Word Search, Phonics Fun, Singing Fun, etc., to strengthen the school context and promote students' interest in learning English.