Give full play to the advantages of "one-stop service", plan 12 years of consistent education, lay the foundation for lifelong learning, and develop students' talent potential

Ho Yu College and Primary School (Sponsored by Sik Sik Yuen) Adhere to the spirit of the school motto of "Public Aid and Encourage Kindness" and strive to establish a simple school spirit to cultivate students' good character, correct values ​​and positive attitude towards life, so that they can become outstanding talents who have the courage to take responsibility and contribute to society. The school operates under a "one-stop" model, providing educational services from Primary 1 to Secondary 6, and designing a consistent, comprehensive and balanced school-based curriculum for 12 years to inspire students to be willing to learn, develop self-learning abilities, and lay the foundation for lifelong learning. The school takes "achieving children" as its educational direction, allowing each student to develop appropriately and develop their strengths. In addition to laying a solid knowledge foundation, they also grow in values, moral character and life attitude, and have the ability to cope with future challenges.

Close exchanges between primary and secondary schools, curriculum coherence and mutual cooperation

The school's secondary school and primary school maintain close communication and jointly develop coherent and closely connected courses to help students fully and deeply understand the teaching content. By designing interrelated and complementary school-based curricula, all subjects in the school can run through students' different learning stages, from basic knowledge construction at the primary school level to extended learning and applied practice at the secondary school level, building a comprehensive learning process. At the same time, both the secondary and primary schools understand each other’s curriculum plans and frameworks, and can work together to help students advance towards the Hong Kong Diploma Examination, lay a solid knowledge foundation, and then enter the university of their choice and embark on the bright road.

At the same time, as a seed school of the "Quality Education Fund Thematic Network Plan", the school has been keeping pace with the times, integrating information technology development trends, vigorously promoting STEAM education and having rich practical teaching experience, so as to help students early build knowledge and skills in scientific and technological innovation and improve problem-solving abilities. Science education is the main development direction of the school. Starting from the upper primary school level, the teaching team has infiltrated science and biotechnology elements into the curriculum, such as teaching students to learn to extract E. coli, conduct different scientific experiments, cultivate students' scientific and creative abilities, and establish a spirit of inquiry and a truth-seeking learning mentality. Therefore, schools' mutually responsive curriculum policies can take into account students' development in knowledge, skills, and attitudes, and create future scientific and technological talents.

Long-term education planning to create multiple options for children

Through the "one-stop" education model of primary and secondary schools, the school provides students with a comprehensive and balanced education plan for twelve years. It comprehensively takes care of the diversity of students' learning and growth from the primary school stage, laying a good and solid foundation for future success. The primary school department starts from the knowledge, physical skills and values ​​of students to cultivate them to establish good study habits. By the middle school stage, the self-study habits established by students will enable them to master the entire learning process, learn to devote themselves to learning spontaneously and proactively, and form a good teaching cycle in conjunction with school-based courses. At the same time, this positive learning attitude of students will be extended to different areas, which will not only enable greater academic development, but also enable them to practice positive values, maintain a healthy body, and meet different challenges.

In addition, parents will inevitably have various worries when their children enter secondary school, such as school selection, school transfer, allocation, adaptation, etc. The school's "one-stop" coherent learning model can alleviate the above-mentioned worries of parents. They are also familiar with the school environment and teaching team, so they don't have to worry about their children's adaptation to secondary school. Moreover, based on the good home-school cooperation relationship in the past, it can help provide students with more comprehensive growth and learning support. At the same time, the school's middle school and primary schools share the same campus. Students will be more likely to have a sense of belonging and involvement in their new learning life, which will help them smoothly transition to middle school.

Promote the "DEAR Project" and cultivate "learning masters"

In order to cultivate students' independent learning habits, inspire their diversified growth, and become "little masters of learning", the school implements the "DEAR Plan" in the first and second grades, covering the four elements of Daily, Exploration, Achievement and Reflection. The program content includes four tasks: reading, hard-pen calligraphy, fun silent writing, and exercise. Through regular task training, students can gradually develop the habit of continuous learning, reflect on their own shortcomings, and develop self-discipline.

In terms of reading, the school actively develops students' spirit of exploration and knowledge, and accumulates vocabulary, thereby opening the door to wisdom and laying the foundation for independent learning; teachers also use the teachings of saints in ancient Chinese books such as "Disciples' Rules" and "Three Character Classic" as materials for students to practice hard-pen calligraphy, and provide in-depth explanations of the moral values contained in them to help students potential Positive values ​​and good behaviors are cultivated implicitly; the fun silent reading cooperates with the reading part to deepen students' understanding of words and improve their language skills through diverse and interesting learning modes. In addition, the school also encourages students to develop exercise habits, arranges teachers to film exercise tutorials, and encourages students to do exercises to maintain a healthy and good body.

Principal Liang added: “Children in the first and second grades have experienced two years of ‘DEAR After the "Project", the school will expand the scope of the program and extend the concept of "DEAR" to third grade students to build a school-based electronic reading information platform "Dearland" to allow students to explore and enrich their knowledge based on their own needs and interests. At the upper elementary level, teachers will arrange for students to prepare lessons before class and encourage them to participate in class discussions, so that children can gradually become "little masters of learning."

Diversified "STREAM" education enriches learning experience

After years of development, the school's STEAM education has accumulated rich practical experience. In recent years, it has gone a step further and added "R" reading (Reading) elements on the basis of "STEAM" to develop into "STREAM" education to comprehensively enrich students' learning experience. For example, "Reading Week" is launched in conjunction with "World Reading Day" to encourage students to read more, explore more diverse knowledge, and inspire them to learn in other STREAM areas. In addition, the school is also committed to cultivating students' innovation and inquiry spirit. In addition to having the opportunity to study in the "Biotechnology Mobile Laboratory" sponsored by Sik Sik Yuen, students can also participate in educational promotion activities such as "Biotechnology Camp", "Forensic Science", and "Lunchtime Science" to understand and master the latest development trends in information technology.

Pay attention to biliteracy and trilingualism and implement "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude"

The school has a diversified student body. In addition to local students, there are also children from different cultural backgrounds. Therefore, the school implements the educational philosophy of "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" and is committed to providing equal and high-quality educational services to ensure that all students have a solid foundation in biliteracy and trilingualism. In terms of Chinese teaching, on the basis of "Learning Chinese in Mandarin", the Guangdong language diversion policy is implemented in response to the different needs of students. For non-Chinese speaking students, the school first conducts a pre-teaching evaluation for them, and decides whether to place them in a class taught by Cantonese based on their language mastery. In addition, in conjunction with the school-based adjustment course, picture book teaching is carried out to provide them with the most appropriate language learning experience.

Principal Liang pointed out: "In terms of English teaching, the school focuses on creating a relaxed and enjoyable English learning environment, so it arranges foreign English teachers to tell stories to students in English classes, so that students can improve their listening and speaking skills and master real-life English through interactive communication with foreign teachers. At the same time, the teaching team will also cooperate with library activities to regularly introduce the latest and interesting English books to students, attracting students to learn the language through reading, improve their mastery of English vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure, and enhance students' English ability in an interesting way."

Master information technology and build problem-solving skills

The school has always grasped the development trend of information technology. As early as 2003, the school had cooperated with Professor Xu Laizhi, an authority on genetics at the University of Hong Kong, to set up a "biotechnology laboratory" to deepen students' understanding of biotechnology. In recent years, the school has also actively promoted the development of STEAM education, fully integrating teaching elements in science, technology, engineering and other fields, and launched the "Overcoming Difficulties" project to cultivate students' teamwork and problem-solving abilities, inspire innovative thinking, and understand how to integrate knowledge from different disciplines. The school holds a week-long "Overcoming Difficulties" program every year, allowing students to go out of campus and care about social issues such as technology, environmental protection, and cultural heritage, and learn more about the development status of the community in which they live.

At the same time, in order to provide students with the most diverse and comprehensive STEAM learning experience, the school will organize different innovation and technology activities. For example, the teaching team will teach students to build solar cars and design solar trees, and encourage them to participate in various types of science and technology competitions to practice subject knowledge and unleash their creative potential. Therefore, students have won many awards in STEAM in recent years, such as winning the "STEM Alliance Secondary School Outstanding Performance Award" in the "My Future Campus 3D Design Competition" and winning the championship in the junior high school category of the "Greater Bay Area Artificial Intelligence Competition". Students use innovation and team spirit to continue to move forward on the road of innovative technology and constantly reach new heights.

Improve career planning and carry out financial education

The school attaches great importance to students’ career planning and hopes that they will have an accurate understanding of their future development direction and equip themselves early to meet challenges. Principal Mak Man Chiu believes that career planning should start from a young age, allowing students to first understand themselves, then explore their own direction, and then persevere and move forward with perseverance. To this end, the school has actively carried out financial management education in recent years, organized a series of financial management workshops, and launched various financial management activities to cultivate students' correct financial management concepts. The school’s financial education has not only achieved remarkable results, but has also been recognized by the society. It was awarded the "Investor and Financial Education Award" (Teaching) by the Investment Committee; and the students have also made outstanding achievements in financial education and won the runner-up in the "Hong Kong Financial Management Competition 2021".

Practice positive values and implement the spirit of “generalizing charity and encouraging good deeds”

Values education is an important element of whole-person education. It can cultivate students' correct values ​​and attitudes and help them make objective analysis and reasonable judgments when facing difficult problems. The school's value education is coordinated from three aspects: learning and teaching, student growth, and career planning, and is jointly promoted by three teaching groups. The "Learning and Teaching Group" cultivates values ​​in students' learning attitudes, such as hard work, perseverance, never giving up, etc.; the "Student Growth Group" is responsible for teaching growth-related values ​​such as etiquette, respect, empathy, etc.; and the "Career Planning Group" teaches students to understand themselves, find directions and goals, and then look at society and the country. Principal Mak Man Chiu added: "The school also combines the spirit of the school motto of "Public Aid and Encouragement" with value education. As "honorable people", students need to be good themselves, lead by example, and then recommend themselves to others, infect others with a positive attitude, and give back to the society."

Cultivate independent learning and increase classroom participation

Principal Mak Man Chiu said: "Autonomous learning is the key to success in all subjects. The school is committed to cultivating students' independent learning habits so that they can make greater progress in learning, thereby establishing a sense of success as a driving force for progress and growth. To this end, the school has specially We should also optimize the teaching model and arrange for students to prepare before class so that students can have a deep understanding of the teaching content and improve teaching and learning effectiveness. When students have a greater sense of participation and involvement in the class, they will spontaneously extend their knowledge to enrich and equip themselves.”