"Spectre" future leaders, promote interdisciplinary education, and inspire ideal future with positive thinking

Yan Oi Tong Tin Ka Ping Secondary SchoolFor many years, the school has been taking "Charity and Loyalty" as its motto, striving to inherit the Christian school spirit and cultivating students' balanced development in different aspects such as moral, intellectual, physical, social, aesthetic and spiritual aspects. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the school. Principal Lin Yuqi hopes that the school can build on the past and forge ahead, and continue to carry forward the spirit of "whole-person education." At the same time, she also leads the teaching team to innovate and progress together, through innovative courses and outstanding teachers, to provide students with a stage to display their knowledge and talents, and to integrate STEAM Education integrates courses from various subjects, supplemented by positive thinking, to help students explore their personal ideals, become pillars of society with self-learning ability and good character, and give back to the society on Qingyun Road in the future.

Respect the uniqueness of students, teachers and students grow together and grow together

Principal Lin pointed out that society is constantly changing rapidly. Only those who learn to be grateful and always have a positive attitude can have enough courage to face the challenges of the future. Therefore, the school has always taken "positive education" as its development direction and carefully developed different stages for students. Through diversified teaching, young people can display their creativity, build good character, and help them embrace their potential and ideals, and become talented people who are brave enough to challenge. She used a rainbow as a metaphor - the formation of a rainbow is related to the direction of sunlight, the distribution of water droplets in the environment, and the location where people are located. Since different people are exposed to different angles and light, the rainbows you and I see are different.

"Every rainbow is a unique presentation. Their spectrum is completely different. Just like every child, they are uniquely created by God. Therefore, they each have their own personalities and characteristics, and they also have different spectrums of success when they grow up. As the second home of students, I hope that the school can learn how to be grateful, give grace, and praise grace. Through knowledge and With the irrigation of positive thinking, they can learn to love themselves and others, develop their personal strengths, discover their gifts, develop their abilities, develop their talents, choose kindness, live a better version of themselves, move towards higher, broader and further goals and ideals, keep pace with the times, and become future leaders with ideals, confidence, perseverance and kindness," said Principal Lin with a smile.

Establishing a database of character strengths and learning positive trends in marketing activities

The school promotes effective positive and character education and designs 24 character strengths as thematic goals for a total of six years. It is hoped that students can fully understand the 24 character strengths through different activities during their six years of middle school, and through personal tests, understand their own character strengths and actively develop their personal strengths. At the end of each semester, the school distributes a "Character Strengths Report" to allow parents to not only understand their performance, but also have a more positive appreciation of their children's character and potential. At the same time, the teaching team has specially established a database of character strengths and advantages to facilitate teachers to understand the personality characteristics and talents of different students and classes, and encourage them to participate in different competitions and activities to showcase their strengths and build self-confidence.

In addition, the school has designed a series of positive courses. For example, there is a "Positive Education Class" in Form 1, where students can learn growth mindset, positive psychology and character education, and understand their own uniqueness and strengths through activities, so as to learn to develop themselves. In addition, students in Form 1 and 2 will also have a "Life Education Class" to learn about basic positivity through games and experiential activities. Psychology; the school has specially set up "Exploring the World" for Form 4 students, with the theme of "Disappearing Taste", inter-class activities are held, and students lead the class, designing products based on Hong Kong's disappearing traditional snacks, and then learning sales skills, controlling cost-effectiveness, and experiencing entrepreneurial experience and insights. By promoting to students in the school, the profits are donated to charity groups. "In the lesson of Exploring the World, the school combines the elements of positive education and service learning, hoping to establish a three-dimensional workplace situation for students. It also hopes that they can learn to face difficulties, have the courage to seek help from others, and build team spirit." Teacher Pan Zhengyan, leader of the positive education team, added.

Pay attention to the friendly atmosphere on campus and set up "one person, one desk and chair"

The school holds a "Positive Growth Journey" every Thursday in the class teacher's class. Students hold class meetings together, design class activities, write weekly diaries, or conduct meditation exercises and other activities to deepen class management. In addition, the school has also specially set up "Our Place Positive Charging Station" so that students can create meditation art in the "Quiet Room". From time to time, school social workers and teachers will lead students to conduct positive activities in the "Quiet Room", such as laughter exercises, meditation stretching, making aroma stones and learning coffee latte art, etc., thereby increasing students' sense of involvement and experience in life and building a sense of satisfaction on campus.

"Every year, the school also holds an inter-class poster competition. Last year we designed the "Wall of "Love" allows students to write appreciation cards for the good people and good deeds in the class to encourage students to love and help each other and establish a caring atmosphere. In order to increase the students' sense of belonging to the campus, we also let them design their own classroom doors with positive sentences as the theme, hoping to strengthen their positive thinking through creation and painting. "Teacher Pan Zhengyan pointed out that the school attaches great importance to it. With a view to training students' self-care and sense of responsibility, we hope that students will have a heart to care for the environment. Therefore, a cleaning day is held every year to encourage students to contribute to the school and clean classrooms. The policy of "one person, one desk and chair" is also implemented. Students will be assigned a set of desks and chairs in Form 1 that will accompany them for six years. This will build up a sense of responsibility and public morality among students, and enable them to learn to care for and cherish public property.

Create a smart campus, blending craftsmanship with the maker concept

The school is well-equipped. In addition to the chapel, fitness corner, student activity center, playground and different special rooms, the school has also added a "MakerSpace" to break away from pure craft education and incorporate information technology and innovative thinking teaching. Students can experience simulated flight machines, robotic arms, robots, laser cutting, 3D printing and other new technologies in the "MakerSpace", and build a foundation for programming and technology application. At the same time, in order to cooperate with electronic teaching in the school, all classrooms and special rooms in the school have been equipped with new computer equipment to move into future education and build a smart campus.

Integrate STEAM into various courses and collaborate across subjects to establish thematic learning

"In recent years, the teaching team has realized that technological development has greatly rewritten the social model, so it actively promotes STEAM teaching and integrates technological innovation concepts into different subject knowledge to consolidate students' mastery of innovation and technology knowledge and develop their multiple abilities such as self-study, exploration, reflection, problem solving and creation, so as to facilitate their integration into the future world." Academic Director Mr. He Guiliang pointed out that technology is advancing rapidly, and the school's STEAM Teaching cannot just follow the trend, so the teaching team attaches great importance to building the knowledge base of students. It hopes that through cross-subject learning, different subjects can add technological teaching elements, so that students can further deepen the knowledge principles and master the use of technology to improve life: For example, the school has specially added hydroponics education in the biology subject, through the "intelligent hydroponics system", so that students can understand the operation of the ecosystem, thereby establishing a positive concept of cherishing; and the geography subject also makes use of the "smart sandbox", as long as the sand is moved, The computer will automatically measure the height data of the sand pile in the box, which makes it convenient for teachers to teach students about the characteristics of different landforms and help them understand the impact of natural disasters, allowing students to understand the characteristics of different terrains through observation and real experience; and the history subject makes good use of the "simulated aircraft" in "MakerSpace" to introduce the war routes and fighter planes of World War II to students by simulating the flight process, and deepens students' physical knowledge through fighter aircraft research; the visual arts subject also applies to AR technology is used to redesign the art gallery so that students can feel the power of technology to rewrite life, and in the process, they can become familiar with mechanical operations step by step to meet their future workplace needs.

Principal Lin encourages students to open up different knowledge theories, promote interdisciplinary collaboration, and maintain a positive and open attitude towards the teaching team. Therefore, teachers on campus are also willing to seek opportunities for interdisciplinary co-teaching. "We try to open up liberal arts knowledge. For example, the history department often works together with the science department. After the teacher teaches the historical background of Egyptian mummies, students can apply what they learn in the science department and try to make "mummy fish" to gain an in-depth understanding of the principles of antisepsis. In addition, when the history department teaches Islamic civilization and talks about the Black Death and the disinfectant holy water at that time, the science department also explains the principles of distillation to students based on their background and extracts the so-called "holy water" (alcohol); even in Chinese history The subject will also work with the physics subject to teach optics, comparing ancient Chinese science and technology with modern physics theory, allowing students to experience the breadth of knowledge and establish a coherent view of knowledge. "Last year, the economics subject, Chinese history subject, and geography subject even conducted a large-scale interdisciplinary learning program, taking students to Kowloon City to learn about its economic activities, land use changes and historical stories, and combined it with the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Jockey Club "Experience the Situation" virtual reality language teaching program. VR virtual reality system to share students’ cultural research results with guests during the open day.

Pay attention to English education and establish an international perspective

As English is the world's major common language, the status of the language is becoming more and more important. Therefore, the school has innovated the English school-based curriculum. In addition to designing school-based curriculum and teaching materials, adding layered worksheets, and taking care of learning diversity, the English Department also cooperates with the Foreign English Teachers Group of the Education Bureau to set up interdisciplinary reading activities for Form 3 students. It also cleverly combines programming knowledge to allow students to learn to write English programs, encourage them to interact with English and artificial intelligence, establish self-study habits, and deepen their motivation for learning English.

Director of English Ke Luojielian pointed out that learning English requires a natural and life-like context, so the school specially hired two foreign teachers to increase the opportunities for students to communicate with foreigners. Foreign English teachers will provide oral English training and arrange English drama classes for students on weekdays. Through diversified learning elements, they will comprehensively take care of students' learning differences. The school has a special drama course for the second-level English major. Drama learning can create different learning situations for students and make use of what they have learned, allowing students to build learning confidence and strengthen their language skills in drama. Teacher Gong Yulin added: "Students need to do all the work in front of and behind the scenes, from rehearsals to performances. For example, when they completed the famous musical "13", their superb performances received countless applause." In addition to drama studies, the school also has "English Fun Day" and "English Week" to allow students to learn local English in conjunction with different festivals and increase the English atmosphere on campus. In addition, it also helps students connect with the world. It has communicated with Japanese students, Korean students, the US Navy and local international school students, and organized different domestic and foreign activities to improve students' language skills and broaden their horizons.

Physical and artistic talents soar, students achieve remarkable results

The school has been flourishing for 40 years and has been cultivating talents from different fields for the society. In addition to the famous biomedical scientist Professor Ho Wing-kee, many alumni have performed well in sports and arts, such as Zeng Yanhong, the first female athlete to climb Mount Everest, Yiu Ziyu, who has won the Hong Kong Top Ten Outstanding Designer Award, and Huang Kaiming, a member of the Hong Kong team and one of the world record holders in fancy rope skipping. In recent years, in order to promote the sports culture on campus, the school has added different emerging sports to the curriculum, such as Finnish chess, dry land curling, dodgeball, small tennis and strength training courses in the fitness room.

Kai Sze Fai, AlexThe vice principal pointed out: “The school has always offered high school physical education courses to facilitate students’ transition to DSE. HKDSE, to develop their sports potential and train them to become professional athletes. Teachers also encourage students with specific artistic potential to participate in different competitions, hoping that they can establish positive and perseverant values ​​from training, take root in the hearts of perseverance, and enhance positive relationships and emotions. "With the efforts of students, the school has won many achievements in academic sports competitions in recent years, and in academic table tennis, basketball, badminton, track and field competitions, cross-country competitions, jazz dance, dance festivals, chorus competitions, art competitions, recital competitions and more. All achieved excellent results in STEAM competitions. The school is happy to see students achieve success in all aspects and shine on the stage of life.