"Standing for excellence" promotes experiential courses to enhance learning motivation; "Chain fortitude" provides a diverse learning environment and advocates a positive life

C.P.C. Yao Dao Primary School attaches great importance to the development of students' multiple intelligences, actively enriches teaching, establishes a "learning by doing" learning environment for students, and at the same time builds children's growth mindset. It is hoped that the spirit of the school motto of "Advocating excellence, perseverance, and earnest pursuit of truth" will be penetrated into the teaching field, so that students can achieve the positive spirit of "Imitate Christ, learn to sacrifice myself, glorify God and love others". Principal Chen Yongxin advocates teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and encourages the teaching team to implement "experiential learning". "Real-life experiences and diverse learning experiences can inspire students' potential, allowing them to learn from different learning and interest activities. At the same time, they can balance academic and play time, establish self-confidence, happiness and positive disposition, and become outstanding talents who are 'eager for truth' in knowledge."

Pay attention to English learning and "progressive assessment" to increase learning motivation

Moving towards the era of global integration, English is not only a tool for international communication, but also an important language used in the world. Therefore, the school has always paid close attention to students' English development. In order to create a natural English learning context, it has hired a number of foreign English teachers from different countries and arranged for primary school students to attend classes with foreign teachers every day to strengthen their speaking and listening skills and lay a solid foundation for English. In addition, the English subject group also adopts the Australian English Pinyin teaching method "Get Reading Right" to allow students to gradually master the knowledge of English Pinyin. Foreign teachers will also design and plan different English game activities with students, and communicate and interact with classmates during recess to establish a living campus English environment.

"To comprehensively improve children's learning effectiveness, in addition to good language skills, their learning motivation and achievements are equally important. Therefore, in recent years, schools have adopted 'progressive assessment', abandoning the assessment method that only uses scores to evaluate students' abilities, so that the purpose and results of learning are no longer limited by scores," said Principal Chen. In order to respond to the different development needs of students and establish a closer home-school relationship, in addition to meeting with the class teacher, parents will also meet with their children's teachers of each subject one by one on Parents' Day, so that parents can understand their children's different aspects and expertise, present more three-dimensional learning achievements, and receive targeted learning suggestions from different teachers.

Searching for Knowledge in Books "Interdisciplinary Reading" Broadens the View of Knowledge

Reading is the teacher of learning. Establishing good reading habits can not only improve language skills, but also allow students to explore rich and diverse knowledge through different books. Therefore, in order to promote extensive reading, the school implements picture book teaching in junior primary schools, and the whole school has "reading theme activities" every semester, using daily life themes to attract students to open books for knowledge, dabble in different areas of knowledge, and build a grand view of knowledge. "When it comes to reading, I have to mention the annual 'Book Character Day', where children dress up as characters from their favorite books and return to school to share character stories with teachers and peers, making reading no longer a solitary interest and making the reading atmosphere more lively and joyful," recalled Principal Chen.

At the same time, the library and various subject groups have also strengthened cooperation to design a variety of interdisciplinary reading activities. For example, sixth grade students successfully performed "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" with the interdisciplinary collaboration of Chinese, General Studies and Visual Arts, winning numerous applause. In order to promote Chinese culture, the school has also invested special resources to establish the "Chinese Culture Gallery", which combines reading materials and courses from Chinese subjects and national education subjects to allow students to understand China's outstanding achievements in cultural creation, invention technology and environmental conservation.

Rich experiential learning activities and positive growth from reflection

Students have active and lively personalities and like to learn. The relationship between teachers and students is especially close. This is not only due to the professional teaching of teachers, but also to the school's emphasis on cultivating students' learning motivation. In recent years, the school has been committed to promoting "experiential courses", hoping that students can enhance their learning confidence and develop their knowledge-seeking and self-examination spirit from different learning experiences. Therefore, the school implements a variety of experiential learning activities, such as "Math Mathematics", "Building Block Engineer", "Ten Years of Building People", "Yao Xiao Stage", "Gospel Camp" adventure activities, etc., so that children can build multiple intelligences, understand themselves and learn to be grateful.

"In large and small learning and interest activities, our school pays special attention to "group learning experience", so that children can get used to the team collaboration model from an early age, strengthen their leadership and organizational skills, learn to support and complement each other with team members, learn from peers, understand the importance of teamwork, and prepare for future development "Principal Chen continued, in addition to training team spirit, "experiential learning" also attaches great importance to strengthening children's reflection and self-examination abilities, encouraging them to affirm themselves in the process, understand the pace of personal growth, learn to turn frustration into energy for progress, and try to apply what they learn from activities in life. Therefore, the school has also introduced outdoor adventure activities into the school and established an annual "National Sports Day" to allow students to experience interesting activities such as climbing rope nets and zip lines to further strengthen students' physical fitness and willpower.

Create a good learning environment and improve learning efficiency

Ideal education advocates that schools are not ivory towers. In addition to imparting academic knowledge, teachers should also allow students to learn from life and apply what they learn. Therefore, the school's curriculum has always advocated "going out of the classroom" so that students can apply what they have learned through field trips, self-exploration and special research. At the same time, when walking into the green grassy campus, it is not difficult to find that the school is well-equipped. It not only has a beautiful small fish pond, but also has a small auditorium, art gallery, information gallery, student activity center, two-story "YD Maker Space" and "four-wheel competition room". What is more special is the "Aquaponics Train", "Sky Garden", "Tropical Fish Tank" and other diverse learning scenes, which provide natural education, create a learning environment integrated with nature, and allow students to understand different ecological knowledge. Students can also serve as ecological specialists in the "General Knowledge Room" and learn to use technological data to detect plant growth.

In addition, the school actively invests resources to promote innovation and technology education. For example, the physical education department took the lead in combining technology and sports elements to implement an "e-sports cycling" course, using scientific data to calculate student performance. It not only grasps students' physical data, but also builds a talent pool and selects school team talents. The school has also built a new "AR Activity Game Room" to simulate real places, allowing students to practice classroom knowledge and deepen what they have learned in an immersive learning space. As a STEAM education base, the "STEAM Creative Hall" allows teachers and students to hold various innovation and technology activities at any time, learn programming, and use engineering building blocks to design different finished products. The "Maker Bus" also provides different tools and equipment, such as simple cutting tools and 3D printing, to help students create creative finished products. Principal Chen smiled and said, "In the future, the school plans to add a simulated driving system to the 'Maker Bus' so that students can learn simple driving skills and get a taste of what it's like to be a driver."

Attach importance to home-school cooperation and are willing to build bridges and bridges for parent-child relationships

Principal Chen and his teaching team agree that close home-school cooperation is very important to establish constant and effective communication channels and work together for the growth of children. Therefore, in addition to setting up the "Yao Xiao Caochang" where the principal and Christian parents can gather and share life details, the school also regularly holds various "educational lectures", "parent-child reading clubs" and "handicraft workshops" to encourage parent-child communication, teach parents to share picture book stories with their children, and make handicrafts to establish a good parent-child relationship, so that children can grow up with the support of their parents and a happy family.