Jufen · 30 Years Gathering Educational Power to Achieve Students’ Future

L.S.T. Leung Kau Kui Primary School (Branch) has been serving Tin Shui Wai for 30 years, adhering to the school motto of "Benevolence, Love, Diligence and Sincerity" as the school sponsoring body, and taking the development of high-quality, complete and balanced education services as its own responsibility. The school's teaching policy is student-centered and is committed to cultivating students' physical practice and developing their personal potential. It uses the five educations of "moral, intellectual, physical, social, and aesthetic" as the curriculum to help students establish a positive and optimistic attitude, create a prosperous life, and contribute to society and the country with a helping spirit of enthusiastic service. Principal Liu Tiemei has been engaged in education for more than 30 years. She adheres to the belief of "believe in everything" and teaches students to master the knowledge and skills needed in the future world. She and the teaching team lead the students' growth with care and become a group of optimistic and confident good children.

Construct a professional teaching team to achieve fruitful educational results

The school has continuously achieved good educational results in the past 30 years, thanks to a group of professional and outstanding teachers and a stable team. Many teachers have worked in the school for more than ten years and are familiar with various teaching affairs. Two teachers in the school are alumni and have chosen to give back to their alma mater to serve as coaches. They grew up in Tin Shui Wai and are well aware of the learning difficulties and needs of students in the district. At the same time, as new teachers, they often introduce new teaching models to the teaching team and students, improve learning and teaching effectiveness, and stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning; senior teachers will also use their experience, atmosphere and love to infect new teachers, so that new teachers understand that teaching is not just a job, but should be student-oriented, cherish and care for every student.

The excellent caring and inclusive atmosphere made the school stand out in the "Caring Campus Award Scheme" and won the theme award three times. It is an encouragement to stakeholders both inside and outside the school, and can serve as a model for caring for the campus and successfully create a friendly and harmonious learning environment. Teachers and students also perform their duties, study and work to the best of their ability, and contribute to cultivating talents and giving back to society. Principal Liu said: "The school's daily teaching is effective, thanks to the teachers who support each other. As early as during the epidemic, teachers who are familiar with computers will record teaching videos to help other teachers familiarize themselves with computer operations, promote e-teaching, and arrange learning plans for students, so as to achieve "study without stopping classes", allowing students to systematically conduct independent learning."

Form a virtuous education cycle and promote mutual help and growth between teachers and students

Teaching and learning complement each other. The teaching team understands students' abilities and needs and teaches students knowledge and skills with appropriate teaching methods and content. Teachers strive to enable students to effectively internalize relevant content by refining and summarizing knowledge in each subject. At the same time, when teachers successfully help students grow and progress, they will also have a sense of satisfaction and achievement, forming a good cycle of mutual growth. Principal Liu added: "The teachers in our school encourage each other and care about the needs of each student from the student's perspective, forming a campus atmosphere of unity and friendship. This positive atmosphere will continue to be passed on, making the school's development more prosperous. In the future, teachers and students of the school will achieve more possibilities in a caring atmosphere."

Promote STEAM education and lay a solid academic foundation

The school's curriculum design keeps pace with the times, and it is well aware that STEAM education can coordinate with innovative technology and social development processes. Principal Liu pointed out that the school had launched STEAM education as early as 2015. STEAM education is an interdisciplinary comprehensive education that allows students to enhance their interest in learning, strengthen their communication skills, and understand the abilities and attitudes they can master beyond textbooks. STEAM education can bring about changes for students, and at the same time provide parents with a new educational direction, trying to appreciate their children's skills beyond reading, such as their creativity, communication, self-study and other common abilities.

"The implementation of STEAM education in schools not only benefits students, improving their creative abilities and self-confidence; it also changes teachers' education methods. Teachers can apply innovative thinking in STEAM education, improve teaching models and methods, and bring new learning experiences to students." At the same time, the school's STEAM In addition to school-based courses, learning tools, and the application of technological software, education also provides various study abroad opportunities, allowing students to conduct academic exchanges with students from other countries, expand their international horizons, and lay a solid foundation for the future application of innovative technologies.

Understand the deep meaning of technology and cultivate personal information literacy

The old-style curriculum is dominated by memorization and recitation. With the advent of innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence, it has gradually become outdated. Therefore, the school cultivates students’ correct values ​​through STEAM education and helps students face different new fields of innovation and technology. "Technological development is important, but it should be understood and applied step by step. Students are in primary school and have difficulty understanding specialized and profound technological knowledge. Instead, students should be guided to think about the impact of the emergence of artificial intelligence and taught how to correctly apply and control artificial intelligence in the future. At the same time, schools will expose students to basic programming knowledge, provide different perspectives for thinking and development, and cultivate students' ability to "hands-on problem solving."

Principal Liu added: "Artificial intelligence is changing the way humans live and work. It can help humans write information and stories. However, we cannot fully trust artificial intelligence. We should maintain a truth-seeking spirit for the content. Therefore, school education should focus on cultivating students to establish positive attitudes such as information literacy, distinguishing right from wrong, and thinking and acting prudently." Students need to embrace the changes in the world and maintain sufficient concentration to continuously enrich themselves and internalize the ever-changing information. In contrast, teaching teams must learn how to make good use of innovative technologies and share teaching resources in order to further improve students' learning outcomes and embrace the new normal of education.

Promote positive education and achieve a prosperous life

Cultivating pillars of society is a long process. Starting from the primary school stage, students should gradually build up academic foundations, values ​​and attitudes. These foundations will help them transition to secondary school career and even their future career development. Therefore, the school is committed to providing a diverse learning environment and experiential learning opportunities, so that students enjoy it and actively participate in campus life. "Children lay a foundation in primary school and practice positive values, which will help them adapt to their new life in secondary school and face various unknown challenges. To this end, schools implement positive education to help students continue to challenge themselves, break through themselves, and build different common abilities."

In addition, since students have different expertise and abilities, the school uses grades instead of scores in assessments, and encourages parents to understand and appreciate their children's strengths and no longer solely judge their learning effectiveness in school by grades. Through home-school collaboration, we teach students in accordance with their aptitude and "strength-based" to help each student develop their personal potential and achieve a fulfilling life.

School sponsoring groups provide strong support to help students equip themselves

The vigorous development of school education is closely related to the strong support of school sponsoring groups. Lok Sin Tong has always provided Jufen with abundant resources and firm support, providing different opportunities for school teachers to conduct professional exchanges, add value and expand their teaching standards, bring the latest development information from society and academic circles to the school, and serve as a communication medium and bridge for students, allowing them to contact more of the current development of the world and enhance their personal international perspective. Principal Liu pointed out: "The school will also actively communicate with different schools to keep pace with the times and keep up with the latest educational trends in the academic world. Whether the principal, teachers or students go out for exchanges, they can bring new thinking and changes to the school. The school's continuous innovation and progress over the past 30 years has also created the school's unique educational characteristics."

At the same time, the school strengthens the professional development of teachers by cooperating with different tertiary institutions. Teachers will feed back the knowledge gained from external learning into classroom teaching, improve learning and teaching effectiveness by adjusting teaching strategies and curriculum structures, and take care of the diversity of student learning. Therefore, the school has successfully established a good education cycle, in which each education stakeholder can perform their own duties, so that students can integrate knowledge, practice what they have learned in the future, and give back to the society.

In addition, Mr. Li Ziqian also strongly supports the development of the school's musical theater troupe. In addition to providing subsidies, he also finds outstanding tutors to teach students to train singing and stage performance skills. To this end, Principal Liu is even preparing to lead students to perform in places such as the United Kingdom and Vienna, providing students with rare exchange and performance opportunities abroad. The school makes good use of the resources of the school sponsoring body and transforms them into educational power to improve students' abilities in all aspects. Therefore, the school has been recognized and praised by people outside the school in terms of academics and sports.

Principal Liu pointed out: "Students in Tin Shui Wai need to find their own direction of development and keep moving towards their goals. The role of the school is to help students find a track that suits them, to help them equip and enrich themselves, and to prepare for the future as early as possible. On the other hand, as the core responsibility of the principal, we should also try to help teachers add value to themselves in different aspects. The focus of school education is teachers, and the knowledge gained by teachers through professional exchanges will become nutrients that feed back the growth of students. If teachers and students in the whole school can work together and grow together, it is the school 30 The anniversary is the most memorable and inspiring thing.”

Carrying forward the past and developing future talents

Coinciding with the school's 30th anniversary, a number of new campus facilities have been completed and opened to create a better learning environment and supporting facilities for students and promote students' all-round development. New facilities on campus include: independent science and technology bus, English adventure base, artificial intelligence space, and music performance room. Superintendent Mok Man-tao encouraged students to uphold the spirit of the school motto and become 21st century talents with high moral character, outstanding intelligence, and the courage to accept challenges. "The school has always focused on the diversified development of students, providing different learning platforms and opportunities for self-expression. Teachers also often take students to participate in exhibitions abroad to showcase students' outstanding inventions and works. Through exchanges, students can get to know people and their works from all over the world, which can build an international perspective and inspire creative thinking skills. At the same time, students need to communicate in Mandarin, English and other languages during the process, which will help increase their confidence in self-expression. The school creates different exchange opportunities, hoping that students can become knowledgeable talents who can apply what they have learned."

Solid foundation of knowledge and establishment of good learning attitude

Deputy Superintendent Wen Wenhui said that science and technology education is closely related to real life. In the future, there will be many new types of jobs that are closely related to science and technology. The school is committed to helping students equip themselves early, cultivate their logical thinking and cooperative spirit, and lay a solid foundation of knowledge to meet the new challenges of the 21st century. Therefore, the school invests resources in various areas to support students’ learning needs and establish a good learning attitude. "With the 30th anniversary of the school, the school has made various breakthroughs and attempts in information technology education. It received a donation of a decommissioned double-decker bus from the Kowloon Bus Company, renovated it, purchased relevant computer equipment, and developed it into a campus innovation and technology center, which serves as a technology classroom for students. The school also introduced VR systems and drones to teach various programming knowledge and enhance students' perception and computational thinking. In addition to imparting knowledge, the school also hopes that students can set goals and strive towards the future with optimism and a positive attitude."