Promote POE innovation and technology education and cultivate positive virtue values. "Taohua education" cultivates students with excellent moral character and academic performance.

H.K.T.A. The Yuen Yuen Institute Shek Wai Kok Primary School Adhering to the school's mission of "Tao as the foundation, morality as the transformation, cultivation as teaching, and benevolence as education", we take "Educate the Tao and Build Morality" as the school motto, and strive to create a holistic education that combines both moral character and academic performance. In order to implement moral learning, the school uses different virtues as themes every year and holds rich learning activities to help students establish a positive outlook on life. Principal Mak Yee-wah is also forward-looking in education, grasps the development trends of society and technology, and encourages the teaching team to design novel science courses. Through efficient innovation and technology education, students can cultivate their scientific inquiry spirit so that they can embark on a smooth and smooth road in the future.

Make full use of the "POE inquiry learning model" to cultivate scientist thinking

The school encourages students to use the "POE inquiry learning model" to improve learning thinking and effectiveness through the processes of Prediction, Observation and Explanation. Since the "POE inquiry learning model" values ​​peer collaboration, all students can equally participate in discussions and solve problems together to achieve the effect of reciprocal learning (Reciprocal Learning). Teacher Huang added that the implementation of the "POE inquiry learning model" has greatly enhanced students' sense of engagement in learning, and can gradually think deeply about the topic, deepen scientific knowledge, and at the same time promote their interpretation, integration and organizational skills. Compared with the traditional teaching model, it can help students understand the complete scientific concepts and theoretical development process more efficiently. "To target the ability development of different classes, we pay more attention to Prediction and Observation in the learning of lower-grade classes. We hope that students can boldly guess the results, propose ideas, support them with evidence, and observe phenomena together. Senior classes will deepen Explanation, explain different scientific reactions through experimental results, and participate in the knowledge construction process with them, learning to solve problems and acquire knowledge from discussions."

Establish "Technology Inquiry Day" to lay the foundation of knowledge

Principal Mai leads the teaching team to deepen STEM courses and design interesting and lively learning activities to enable students to achieve holistic development and cultivate their ability to think independently and solve problems. In order to consolidate students' scientific foundation, the school holds a "Technology Inquiry Day" every year, and plans scientific activities with different themes according to the learning needs of all levels. Students are encouraged to use the "POE Inquiry Learning Model" from experiments, and establish a bold and rigorous spirit of scientific exploration in the process of solving scientific problems, thereby understanding the principles of science. Teacher Huang Kailing, Director of General Studies: "Take the sixth grade as an example. This school year's "Technology Exploration Day" is themed "Atmospheric Pressure." For this reason, we have designed a variety of experimental activities to allow students to use the POE thinking process to gradually deepen and consolidate students' concepts of atmospheric pressure. It can also deepen the "surface tension" principle they learned in fourth grade." The students were engaged during the experiment, actively discussed, and made predictions, observations, and reflections. Even if there were difficulties, they still worked hard to think of solutions.

"STEM Day" Learn advanced electronic technologies

The school holds a full-day "STEM Day" every year to design activities related to technology and electronic elements. The teaching team uses little:bit and micro:bit to design STEM teaching content for students that is close to daily life and coordinated with subject development, so that students can have rich scientific knowledge and advanced innovation and technology foundation. "In the junior primary stage, students first learn to use little:bit electronic building blocks and master the simple method of building circuits. After mastering the application skills, the teacher will then give simple tasks, such as making light-emitting flashlights using little:bit and cardboard. During the process, students need to combine creativity Learn how to connect circuits and design a unique personal flashlight. "In addition to connecting circuits through little:bit, senior students learn to install motors and then design fan blades using different materials such as paper and cardboard to understand the principles of motor and fan blade design and integrate mechanical learning into life.

The school will also root micro:bit in STEM courses. Students can use micro:bit to learn to use blocks and text coding to build solutions, thereby deepening the basic concept of "if-then" programming. The teacher will also give simple tasks and invite students to use other environmentally friendly materials and micro:bit to program, try to design a smart home, and add different smart home appliances, such as smart lights.

One theme for each year:
Advocate for "positivity" during the epidemic and "perseverance" after the epidemic

The school aims to educate students to establish correct values based on moral principles. Through different school-based training and moral education activities, it provides students with comprehensive moral learning to cultivate good citizens in the future. Xu Sisi, Director of the Moral and Civic Education Section, pointed out that every year the school uses a moral character as the educational theme for that year, and extends it to campus life and various subject courses, so that students can subtly understand their own character strengths and develop them. Principal Mak added: "Affected by the epidemic last year, the school experienced a long period of suspension of classes. Therefore, we took 'Positive Life' as the theme and strengthened moral education through different activities and games to allow students to re-adapt to the resumption of class life, build motivation for learning, and respond to the changes in the epidemic with a positive, positive and optimistic attitude."

Teachers and students worked together to promote the "Positive Life" activity, designing goals, slogans and acrostic poems for the project to stimulate students' motivation and fighting spirit. The program was awarded the Special Award for Knowledge Connection in the 4th "League of Music Campus Award Scheme" and the 24th "Moral and Civic Education Award Scheme". In order to continue virtue education, the school uses "Perseverance" as the moral learning theme this year to cultivate students' perseverance in doing things, never giving up, and working hard to achieve their goals.

Diversified reward plan to promote student motivation

The teaching team has been working hard to design different incentive programs and prizes to encourage students to actively participate in class. The school implements the "Goodbye Book" reward program, allowing students to exchange good behavior for the "Shi Xiaofeng" seal. Finally, with the seal, they can redeem prizes in the "Giant Gashapon Machine". In addition, the school also implements the "Active Stored Value Card" and "Resolute Octopus" programs. The cards have spaces for each subject printed on them. If students perform well in class, the teacher will give them a "Shi Xiaofeng" sticker. When students collect the designated number of stickers, they will receive a "Shi Xiaofeng" gift. This encourages students to actively participate in class, take the initiative to ask questions and participate in classroom activities.

Pay attention to the caring culture and establish a culture of mutual appreciation

The school attaches great importance to creating an atmosphere of caring culture, and cultivates students to develop good habits of caring, helping and appreciating each other through different character programs. "We designed "Positive Appreciation Cards" to allow students to pay more attention to the strengths of their peers, write mutual appreciation cards and give them to each other to acknowledge each other's good behavior, and share them in class to encourage each other and learn from each other. Later, these "Positive Appreciation Cards" will be posted in the "Positive Appreciation Gallery" on each floor, so that children can build confidence and gratitude through praising and being praised."

In addition, in order to strengthen home-school cooperation and promote parent-child relationships, the school has specially designed "Baby Appreciation Cards", hoping that parents will pay more attention to their children's lives and appreciate their strengths, and affirm their children's strengths in the "Baby Appreciation Cards" to develop the habit of praising their children. Principal Mak: "We firmly believe that the right amount of praise is a catalyst for positive emotions. It can not only enhance the relationship between people and make them closer, but also enable children to learn from others and affirm their own strengths, thereby becoming more confident, building good morals, and moving towards a prosperous life."

Design a variety of activities and celebrities come to the school to share their life journeys

The school has rich moral education activities. Taking this year's theme of "Perseverance" as an example, it plans to hold activities closely related to different subjects. For example, the music subject cooperates with the Moral and Civic Education Section to conduct home visits to students' homes and shoot music specials to record the students' hard work in learning musical instruments. The finished products are then screened in the school so that students can understand the importance of perseverance from the videos. In addition, the school also held a movie screening and a "Different Perseverance. Different You" sharing session, inviting the prototype of the film's protagonist, disabled athlete Su Wai Wai, to the school to share his life story and personally encourage students to never give up in the face of setbacks.

In addition, the school also actively participates in game-based learning to promote moral teaching. In addition to holding a six-day adventure game day "Get Set Go", students learn to face difficulties bravely and strengthen their mental toughness through activities such as rope climbing. The school also holds a "Challenge Minute" during recess, allowing students to experience failure from challenges through different mini-games, such as "Jiujiazhuo", "Frog Jump", etc., learn to regulate their emotions, and understand the importance of effort and strategy. Principal Mak added: "The school hopes that students will understand from the process that hard work is the key to success. We hope that they will keep this in mind and carry the principles they have learned into their future lives and work hard to enrich themselves."