Diversified and innovative education inspires potential development and cultivates high-quality tomorrow’s leaders

TWGHs Tsoi Wing Sing Primary School Upholding the spirit of the school motto of “Diligence, Frugality, Loyalty and Trustworthiness” and taking “Tomorrow’s leaders, today’s leaders” as its teaching vision, we are committed to becoming “A School for Tomorrow’s Leaders”, cultivating students to establish a broad vision, good citizenship, and the ability to adapt to changes in the world. Principal Liang Dunyu leads and inspires every teacher and student to unleash their potential and cultivate the good character of altruism and self-respect. She firmly believes that schools can create different and meaningful learning experiences for students so that they can grow up healthily and happily and become "tomorrow's leaders".

Travel and Global Citizenship Class: Building Common Competencies in the 21st Century

The school breaks through the limitations of the traditional class framework and divides the classroom into two parts. Regular classes are held in the morning, and a variety of "special experience classes" are arranged for interdisciplinary learning in the afternoon. In order to cultivate "tomorrow's leaders", cultivate children's leadership qualities, and build 21st century skills, the school specially designed school-based travel and global citizenship courses to enable students to comprehensively apply knowledge from various disciplines to achieve the effect of applying what they have learned. Through unit design and problem-oriented format, the course guides students to think and explore from multiple perspectives, cultivating common abilities and positive values. At the same time, the course uses the 21st century competency framework in Deep Learning proposed by Michael Fullan, an authoritative education scholar, as the core of the course and the basis for evaluation. In addition, the course also uses the concept of "6Cs", including creative thinking, personal qualities, critical thinking, global citizenship, collaboration skills and communication skills. It is combined with the teaching theme to match students' abilities, interests and needs.

Principal Liang added: "In terms of actual teaching, teachers will use inquiry-based teaching methods in a normative, introductory, or open format to stimulate students' interest in learning through different topics and materials, so that they can be fully involved in classroom learning. Through travel classes, students will conduct field trips to consolidate subject knowledge and apply it to daily life. The school will arrange different study topics according to the learning stages of different grades. For example, the first-grade "Getting close to nature" unit provides different types of plants for students to observe and Experience the wonders of the natural environment; the second-grade "Gratitude and Kindness" unit arranges students to participate in group activities to establish a mutually supportive and friendly peer relationship; the third-grade "Facing Adversity" allows students to complete time-limited tasks in groups, and through the process of failure and improvement, Welcome the final success. At the same time, the teaching team will also organize mainland or overseas exchange activities according to different themes every year, leading students to experience the customs and life culture of various places, so as to establish an international perspective and face the ever-changing future world."

Strong English atmosphere, learn language through reading

If students want to become "tomorrow's leaders", rooted in China and looking at the world, language skills are particularly important. Therefore, the school pays special attention to training students' biliteracy and trilingual skills. By creating a diverse and rich English learning environment and arranging immersive English courses, it equips students with language skills that are in line with the world. From the moment students step onto campus, they feel a strong English atmosphere. The English subject team specially trains "Reading Buddies" in the fourth and fifth grades to teach reading skills to junior primary school students through book story sharing to achieve a good teaching inheritance. At the same time, in order to cultivate students' interest and habit of reading English books independently, the "Book Club" was established under the promotion of foreign English teachers, and arranged for fifth grade students to read English storybooks at home, extending after-school reading, and then discussing with their peers their feelings after reading the books. Books not only broadened students' horizons, but also provided more opportunities to express themselves, which is of great benefit to language use.

Practical English for Life Promoting Drama Education

Principal Liang believes that students who use English to communicate more in daily life can improve their oral English skills, apply their English learning achievements in daily life, accumulate English communication experience, and gradually develop their own language skills. To this end, the school provides a large number of practical opportunities for students to thoroughly integrate English into their lives in a immersive environment. The English subject team trains students to become "English Ambassadors" and arranges for them to serve as hosts during the morning assembly, sharing weather forecasts, jokes, fables, etc. in English to all students in the school. In the process, students not only get the opportunity to practice English, improve their personal confidence and satisfaction, and build a spirit of serving others, but other students are also infected by it and become interested in learning English, successfully promoting the school to create a stronger English learning atmosphere.

At the same time, drama education, as a core project of school English courses, can create opportunities for students to explore, express and perform. Each first-grade student will participate in at least six drama activities organized by experts to gradually deepen their understanding of English drama through games, music, dance and other forms. Principal Liang said: "Students gradually find their personal and learning interests in English drama and realize their natural potential. Drama education can improve students' language expression ability. By understanding story scripts, it can enrich children's emotional world and physical expression. They are more willing to communicate with others in English and adopt an open mind to use English in public to express their ideas."

Deepen STEAM education and set up interdisciplinary learning activities

STEAM education can train students' problem-solving skills and inspire creativity, which is an indispensable element for social progress and innovation. Therefore, the school actively promotes STEAM education and interdisciplinary activities to cultivate students’ truth-seeking spirit of “always observing, thinking, and doing”. Through diversified learning activities, students can combine learning with entertainment, which can not only consolidate and apply subject knowledge, but also provide them with space to freely explore and develop their potential, thereby cultivating their maker abilities. The school trains students to participate in various types of local or international STEAM activities and competitions, allowing students to understand the latest development trends in science and technology, and enhance their care for humanity and society, so that they can practice what they learn in life.

Principal Leung added: "We are happy to see students using their creative ideas to give back to the society through technology. At last year's Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Exhibition, our school students proposed the 'Safe Travel, Snap and Go' plan, using App Inventor programming and QR code production to allow citizens to easily go out with a QR code, making it convenient for citizens and the elderly to travel. At the same time, in order to inspire more children to use technology to improve human life, the fourth grade students represented our school at the exhibition to promote this convenient design to the public and promote the culture of innovation and technology." STEAM education is effective and has successfully led students to achieve outstanding performance in multiple scientific and innovative fields and win numerous awards. For example, the company won the third place in the "1st Minecraft Education Edition Computational Thinking

Cultivate computational thinking and inspire digital creativity

In order to stimulate students' interest in programming, the school launched the "Jockey Club Computational Thinking Education" program in the fourth and fifth grades. The curriculum framework of the program was jointly created by the Education University of Hong Kong and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. It aims to encourage students to actively use technology to improve their lives, inspire digital creativity, and become pioneers in the future digital world. Principal Liang pointed out: "Through the course, students will learn how to make different animations and games, and use their creativity to create unique works. Before the end of the school year, students will design a Scratch work individually or in teams according to the theme, integrating the knowledge they have learned and connecting it with daily life."