Equip students to pursue excellence and build a "campus of love"

Ma On Shan Methodist Primary SchoolAdhere to the spirit of Christ and cultivate students to achieve balanced development in spiritual, moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic aspects. The school develops a student-centered teaching model, formulating education policies that keep pace with the times, designing distinctive school-based courses and arranging diversified activities to enable students to live a rich life. Principal Xu Qishan took over as principal last year and is committed to inheriting the school's fine traditions, leading the teaching team to provide high-quality whole-person education, equipping students for the future, and cultivating them to become pillars of society.

Promote life education and cultivate positive attitude

The school focuses on promoting life education, based on 6 virtues and 24 character strengths, to help students set learning goals and cultivate a positive attitude towards life. To this end, the school has specially set up a "life education" class, which teaches students to care for nature, communicate with others, cherish things, and explore their own strengths from the perspective of "heaven, people, things, and myself". Students can not only understand their personal development direction, but also break through their own limitations and become talents who give back to society in the future.

At the same time, the school designed "E + Classroom" to enrich students' learning experience through activities (Enrich); and arranged "free classes" where teachers and students decide the class content to increase students' participation (Engage) to practice positive values; and launched a "Personal Inquiry Learning Plan" to encourage students to explore (Explore) and cultivate their habit of independent learning. In addition, the school also provides cycling classes, rock climbing classes, etc. to cultivate students' perseverance and promote physical and mental development.

Set up a sports arena day to showcase your talent and potential

In order to showcase students' potential in sports and talents, the school holds a "Sports and Arts Arena Day" every year. The events include badminton, hula hoop, football, basketball, etc., allowing students to work together and show their strengths, cultivate the spirit of daring to face challenges, and convey positive life values. In addition to challenging projects, students in each class will work together to complete self-selected performances through the "Arena Day", gain good memories and a sense of success, enhance their learning confidence, and create a team learning atmosphere.

Principal Xu added: "Every student has different talents. The school is committed to providing stages and opportunities to help students realize their potential. It also uses sports and arts activities to teach students to be grateful and cherish blessings, and learn to care for the people and things around them. Therefore, many alumni will take the initiative to give back to their alma mater after graduation."

Biliteracy and trilingual policy to consolidate language foundation

The school attaches great importance to Chinese education and is committed to promoting the biliteracy and trilingual policy to help students lay a solid language foundation. In terms of English teaching, in addition to setting up school-based writing courses to improve students' writing skills, the school also focuses on developing English reading strategies, such as launching cross-curricular reading, online reading plans and adding reading corners to deepen students' understanding of vocabulary, sentence patterns, grammar, etc. In addition, the school teaches Chinese language subjects in Mandarin and launches the "In-depth Reading Trip" program to allow students to understand different types of literary works. At the same time, it combines drama education and new and interesting methods to make students fall in love with learning Chinese.

Apply innovative technology to broaden scientific horizons

The school is committed to promoting STEAM education, developing interdisciplinary innovation and technology courses, and organizing various types of STEAM-related learning activities to cultivate students' higher-order thinking development, creativity, collaboration spirit, etc., and become lifelong learners of science and technology. For example, the Life Education Department will use hydroponic vegetable planting activities to help students understand nature and develop a sense of gratitude for it. At the same time, the school flexibly uses electronic teaching tools to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning. It not only added a "Children's Innovation World" for science and technology exploration, but also added new technologies such as 360-degree panoramic cameras, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) to enhance students' experience in innovation and technology learning. Therefore, the school's outstanding electronic teaching design won the Silver Award for "E-Learning Application" and the Gold Award for "British Language Education". In the future, the school plans to expose high school students to aerospace technology and broaden their horizons.

Comprehensive support plan to master different learning stages

Principal Xu said: "The school provides students with diversified connection and support services, such as arranging a "Primary One Adaptation Course" every August to help new students integrate into campus life as quickly as possible through games. Teachers will also understand students' learning abilities, conduct Chinese and English math assessment tests, and teach students Mandarin Pinyin to help them adapt to the teaching content in general education. In addition, in terms of support for secondary school students, the school will arrange interview skills training for sixth grade students to help them master the interview process and prepare for admission to their favorite middle school."