Implement values ​​education, set up STEAM courses from simple to advanced, attach great importance to home-school cooperation, and accompany children step by step.

Chan's Creative School (H.K. Island)Since its establishment, the school’s mission has always been to “provide high-quality education and take care of the development of the whole person”. Principal Zheng Huiqi and the teaching team regard each student as a unique individual and respect the different learning needs of each child. They actively promote high-quality education that is consistent and progressive, so that students can achieve balanced development in moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic aspects and become social generalists. In recent years, the school has integrated national education with moral education, and cultivated students to establish positive values ​​​​through experiential learning, encouraging the new generation to contribute to society and serve the people as their future responsibilities.

A different reading experience: "Flip Classroom" to learn photography

The school's Chinese courses are student-oriented, and we carefully build a reading atmosphere on campus to promote Chinese learning through reading. Principal Zheng said that the school has a strong reading culture, and the number of people borrowing books from the library has continued to increase. Teachers in various subjects have also integrated reading learning into teaching content, and received good feedback, which shows that students love reading and have developed independent learning habits. Reading is an important tool for language learning and a valuable teaching material for national education. Therefore, in order to allow students to have an in-depth understanding of Chinese culture at different levels, the school uses "Chinese Culture Picture Books" to guide students to understand China's thousands of years of human history, scientific inventions and classical literature. For this purpose, the school has set up different extended reading activities, such as "Shadow Puppetry" and "Chinese Medicine Garden Gardening Activities", and recruited "Chinese Medicine Ambassadors" to teach students the characteristics and usage methods of different Chinese herbal medicines to extend what they have learned through reading and connect learning with life, allowing students to learn further and better.

Mr. Chen Weijian, Director of the Library and Head of Chinese Language, added: "In order to broaden students' reading horizons, the library and the Chinese Language Department shot a large number of short videos to introduce interesting reading materials to students. Later, these short and interesting videos received good feedback and were widely welcomed by students, so we continued it and developed it into a multimedia learning activity with the concept of "reversed classroom", allowing students to learn to shoot personal reading sharing videos, and design video scripts in groups after reading the books. They can also share their reading experience with all students in the school through various forms, such as dubbing, two-person dialogue, drama, singing, etc., and even become a primary school teacher to share what they have learned from reading with their classmates. "Relevant activities can not only cooperate with electronic learning, but also enhance students' interest and skills in video creation, and also greatly change children's perception of reading, allowing students with different learning needs and personalities to immerse themselves in the Chinese language world and increase their Chinese cultural literacy.

Laying the foundation from the shallower to the deeper, continuous learning of STEAM from Primary 1 to Primary 6

The school is committed to broadening students' knowledge areas and through well-designed STEAM education courses to make students' learning areas more in line with the needs of social development. Information technology courses not only teach students to use various information technology products, but also focus on cultivating students' information literacy and problem-solving and negotiation skills. The school-based curriculum for the first and second grade students has taken the lead in adding elements of programming logic learning, allowing students to use drawing and design, puzzles, and game play to inspire creativity and logical thinking in the process of hands-on practice. For some more abstract programming languages ​​or logical operations, the school introduces some daily life examples to help students understand the proper nouns of programming. The third and fourth grades allow students to further consolidate their innovative technology skills and programming languages, and use different programming tools to allow students to understand and generalize programming and computational thinking.

Teacher Ke Xiaoqiang, head of the Information Technology Department, said that "Scratch", which third- and fourth-year students learn, is a simple programming language designed by the MIT Media Laboratory. Students can write programs by dragging and combining building blocks, and exchange interactive media, such as stories, games, animations, etc., with students around the world. During the course, students will design their own names and animations under the guidance of teachers, and learn programming knowledge and concepts easily and happily. In the fifth and sixth grades, the school will let students use "micro:bit" to learn advanced programming, and cooperate with the "Mecha Ambassador" course to allow students to build more comprehensive programming knowledge. The school also organizes students to participate in off-campus competitions, through which they can absorb scientific and technological innovation experience and practice learning results.

Training and assistance combined with national conditions education, multi-activities to learn "empathy"

National education should not be limited to the teaching of a single subject, but should be widely integrated into campus life. Therefore, the school's training and assistance team and the school social worker are also an important part of promoting national education. "The Education Bureau proposes values ​​learning as part of whole-person education. Among them, there are ten primary values ​​and attitudes. Among them, 'national identity', 'law-abiding' and 'empathy' are important elements of national education. As a member of the training and assistance team and a school social worker, we integrate different interdisciplinary values ​​education areas such as moral and ethical education, civic education, and national education, so that they run through different subjects, strengthen the connections between each other, and promote the all-round development of students." said Ms. Wu Meijun, a school social worker.

To this end, the school provides diversified activities to cultivate students to establish positive values ​​and reflect on the value of life. For example, in "Dialogue in the Dark", teachers and students enter the "invisible world" together. Under the leadership of visually impaired docents, they try to observe the world from different angles, promote a culture of diversity and inclusion, and understand the difficulties and needs of different communities. At the same time, the school has also set up "Empathy Ambassadors", where senior students take care of their lower-grade students, allowing them to show their caring spirit through daily interactions, learn to put themselves in others' shoes, and build friendship and empathy among their peers.

Learn group discipline and participate in the uniform team throughout the school

The school attaches great importance to students' common abilities such as self-discipline, self-study, independent thinking and leadership. Therefore, the teaching team carefully designs different learning activities and uses uniformed teams such as Scouts and Boy Scouts to cultivate students' personal interests, learn life skills and build personal character. "School is a small society for children, and we hope to instill in students good moral character of knowing the law and observing the rules. Therefore, in school, the principal, teachers and students all actively become members of the uniform team. Through disciplined team life, students learn to get along with others from an early age and cultivate the spirit of serving the society, so that they can have a more comprehensive cultivation outside the classroom." Director Lin Tingxi, Coordinating Officer of Special Education, explained.

Pay attention to home-school cooperation and learn together in the "Parent School"

Principal Zheng attaches great importance to home-school cooperation. The school not only holds "parent tea gatherings" every month to listen to parents' voices, share the latest school news, and promote mutual communication and understanding. It also specially invites professional speakers to the school to give parent-child lectures, and sets up a "Parent School" to provide parents with different activity courses, such as "Happy Learning Series", "Body and Body Happy Series", "Parent Value-Added Series" and "Parent-child Experience Series" to enhance parents' parent-child communication and parenting skills. Parent Mrs. Yang, who is a member of the Parent-Teacher Association, highly praised the school's teaching. She pointed out, "Teachers attach great importance to the uniqueness of students, actively assist parents, and provide valuable educational advice. Seeing my son adapt and engage in campus life and establish a sense of belonging to the school, as a parent, I can deeply feel the teaching team's passion for education. The "Parent School" organized by the school has also brought me closer to my children and has become a wonderful parent-child memory."