Promote "enjoyment in learning", value both academics and talents, provide diversified learning experiences, and showcase children's talents and potential

Tung Koon District Society Fong Shu Chuen School has a long history and values ​​and respects the diversity of students. Over the years, it has relied on unique teaching and inspiring learning activities to establish a knowledge base for students and actively equip them for future development needs. With the theme of "Care, Love, Learn, Develop Potential, and Walk Positively in Life", the school emphasizes universal education and gifted education. On the one hand, it cultivates students' knowledge, skills, problem-solving abilities and creativity, and explores children's talents through universal education. On the other hand, it provides diversified school-based enrichment courses and school team training for students with potential, allowing them to broaden their horizons and achieve lifelong goals. Principal Tsang Ying-hsien has worked in education and management at the school for many years. His teaching philosophy has always coincided with the development of the school. He leads the teaching team to provide high-quality education that keeps pace with the times and actively develops students' language, information technology and problem-solving skills to meet the opportunities and challenges of the new era.

Pay attention to learning experience and add experts to classes to increase teaching effectiveness

The teaching team firmly believes that language ability is the primary tool for learning. Therefore, the school is committed to establishing good biliteracy and trilingual skills for students and carefully creating a multicultural context. The school grasps the advantages of diverse enrollment and trains non-Chinese speaking students to become English ambassadors, creating good contextual conditions for the campus so that students can build their confidence in English communication in a multicultural environment from an early age. In order to strengthen the English context, the English subject team specially focuses on oral English training in junior primary schools, arranging foreign English teachers to be responsible for daily school-based teaching together with subject teachers, and introducing English drama education to primary 2 and 3 students. Experts will teach English through interesting children's stories, such as "Little Red Riding Hood & Three Little Pigs" and a lively way, provide stage performance opportunities, enhance students' confidence in using English, and lay a good foundation for children in English.

In addition, students not only have excellent English, mathematics and science skills, but also have good Chinese language skills under the strong influence of Chinese culture on campus. For example, the Chinese course has always adhered to the fine tradition of writing brush calligraphy. In the third and fourth grades, calligraphers are specially arranged to teach at school to guide students in appreciating calligraphy works and learning basic skills of calligraphy, so as to feel the beauty of words and deepen their aesthetic learning. At the same time, the school also implements the "Little Writer Training" course to strengthen students' writing skills with interesting and lively teaching methods, and encourages them to participate in off-campus writing competitions to examine their rich learning outcomes. "Each student has his or her own talent and potential. Therefore, as educators, we should have the mentality of "teaching without distinction", respect the diversity of children, find different learning opportunities for them, and guide them to develop their personal potential." Principal Zeng said with a smile.

Pay attention to the transition from primary school to primary school and build a caring campus

A good transition from primary school to primary school can sustain children's interest in learning and curiosity for knowledge, speed up their adaptation to the new environment, and build the courage to overcome difficulties. Therefore, the school is committed to organizing different programs and activities to improve the transition stage to primary school and allow new students to build a sense of belonging to the school. Principal Zeng pointed out that the teaching team specially set up a "Primary One Adaptation Week" before the start of the school year in September to adjust the curriculum pace and shorten the class hours to give new students more time to familiarize themselves with the campus environment and adapt to teaching changes. In addition, the school has also re-adjusted the assessment content and postponed silent reading to October to increase children's confidence in taking the exam. "Tight home-school communication can also increase the transparency of school administration and teaching, allowing parents to better understand the development of the school and increase their sense of belonging to the school. Therefore, the school holds two 'parent evenings' every year, allowing parents to meet with their children's class teachers and teachers of various subjects in class to understand their children's learning results."

In addition to the "Parent's Evening", the school also set up a "100-Day Ceremony" to showcase students' 100-day growth and changes. The event included various links, including recognition ceremonies, talent performances and exhibitions of outstanding works. This year's "100-Day Gift" is titled "Growing in Gratitude" to record the care teachers and parents have for their children during their transition to primary school. It also displays students' different creations to share the joy of students' "100-day growth" with their parents. In addition, the school also organizes students to set up "Love Ambassadors" to train students in grades three to five to learn to take care of new students in Primary One, write cards of their own, and send them blessings, encouragement and care. The school social worker will further pair "Love Ambassadors" with primary one freshmen one-to-one, encouraging brothers and sisters to accompany and take care of the primary one freshmen during recess, establish a spirit of serving others, and build a caring culture on campus. The school also makes good use of the club system to break down barriers between levels, strengthen connections between students across levels, further increase students' sense of belonging to the school, and create an inclusive atmosphere on campus.

Hands-on STEAM "school-based programming class"

The school keeps pace with the development of the times and has begun to promote interdisciplinary STEAM education in its early years, increasing the proportion of "hands-on" courses to cultivate students' creativity, logical thinking and comprehensive abilities. The school has also actively optimized its equipment and built a new STEAM Room with an movable design to facilitate teachers and students to conduct group STEAM exploration. It is also equipped with 3D printers, electronic whiteboards, mBots, drones, and video recording equipment. In order to add technological learning elements, the school also uses ultra-wide-angle projectors to build an immersive learning space, allowing teachers and students to visit a virtual museum together and appraise art works. At the same time, the school is one of the first primary schools in Yau Ma District to install a solar power generation system on the rooftop, and has a monitoring system to allow students to understand the operation of the system in real time, allowing students to get a close understanding of renewable energy and strengthen their awareness of environmental conservation.

The teaching team also designs life-oriented STEAM activities for students at all levels every year to encourage students to apply what they have learned in their daily lives. For example, primary school students use scientific inquiry as the core, and first-year students will use scientific principles to design "hand-washing hourglasses" and incorporate epidemic prevention and hygiene information to learn the best hand-washing time; while upper primary school students focus on programming and creative thinking, and fourth-year students use "smart farm" as the theme, using micro:bit for programming, detecting environmental temperature and humidity, and building an automated farm. At the same time, the school has also set up a "school-based programming class" for all students in the school. In the junior primary stage, they will first use the "OSMO Learning Kit" to learn programming concepts. In the upper primary stage, they will deepen the programming content and learn Scratch, micro:bit and mBot. Students with potential will be selected as members of the "Coding Team" for further professional training.

Improve whole-person education and introduce professional physical and art training

Principal Tsang pointed out: "In addition to academic knowledge, the school also attaches great importance to students' talent development, hoping to cultivate children's extracurricular interests, exercise physical fitness, cultivate perseverance through training and competition, and establish excellent leadership skills. Therefore, the school has launched a variety of school team training in the early years, and has also established school-based physical education courses. For example, in recent years, the school has introduced cycling classes into the physical education curriculum, purchased 20 bicycles, and set up extended courses to allow students to go to the West Kowloon Promenade to strengthen cycling training during the summer vacation; teachers also provide students with Swimming courses and hockey courses are provided to allow students to be exposed to different sports, strengthen their fitness, and establish diverse learning experiences. "The school carefully constructs physical arts courses, introduces emerging sports, creates a sports atmosphere, and provides students with different sports training. Therefore, since the establishment of the school, it has trained many outstanding athletes and representatives of the Hong Kong team. Among them, hockey is especially famous in the academic circles. Not only did it introduce unique hard court hockey with the help of professional coaches, the team also participated in the "8th National Youth Hockey Championship" and won the championship. Fourth place in the U10 group, fifth place in the U12 group and the "Sportsmanship Award".

Comprehensive physical training can have a positive impact on students' mental outlook, stress resistance, time management and value learning. In order to further deepen students' value cultivation and cultural connotation, the teaching team also introduces different elements into the curriculum. For example, in conjunction with the study of Chinese culture, the school adds "Chinese cultural elements" to the physical education curriculum. Instructors teach students Wing Chun, Tai Chi, lion dance, etc. to experience the essence of traditional Chinese folk skills and cultivate students' love for Chinese culture. In regular classes, the school actively promotes "experts entering classes", inviting experts to the school to teach Chinese cultural crafts, teach students paper-cutting and dough sculpture arts, and enrich their artistic horizons.