Diversified courses inspire wisdom, explore ambitions in advance, and become tomorrow’s elites

TWGHs Lee Ching Dea Memorial College With "Diligence, Thrift, Loyalty" as its motto, it is committed to cultivating talents for society, actively promotes STEAM and English education, equips students with relevant knowledge and skills, and inspires interest in learning. At the same time, the school attaches great importance to the development of gifted education and arranges various extracurricular activities, off-campus competitions, business-school cooperation, overseas exchanges, etc. to help students explore their potential and guide them to explore their future directions in advance. Principal Tsang Wing Shan is committed to improving the effectiveness of learning and teaching, and building the school into a platform for students to display their talents. They should devote themselves to learning with a happy mood every day, practice correct values ​​​​and attitudes, and achieve their future dreams towards their goals.

The whole school participates in innovation and technology education to stimulate interest in learning

Principal Tsang Wing Shan Since taking office in 2020, she has directly pointed out the characteristics of the school’s students—simple, rule-abiding, polite and open-minded to be taught. The students have good moral qualities, which enables the school and the entire teaching team to focus on promoting curriculum development, especially strengthening the two major areas of STEAM education and English learning. The goal is to not only lay a solid knowledge foundation for students under the whole-school participation model, but also stimulate their interest in learning to meet the development opportunities and challenges brought by innovative technology.

The school gradually promotes the development of innovation and technology education, adding elements of visual arts (Visual Arts), and expanding it into STEAM education to cater for the different learning needs of students. Principal Tsang Wing Shan shared that the three-meter-high large-scale mural at the school gate is the result of STEAM teaching. The mural was jointly created by local artists and students and combined with augmented reality (AR) technology to bring a new interactive art experience. As long as you use an electronic device in front of the mural, the screen will display different digital information, including introductions to school features and regional elements. Students can learn to use technological media, combine programming knowledge, and present artistic results.

STEAM education takes a multi-pronged approach to represent Hong Kong in world competitions

In order to enable students to deeply learn the knowledge and skills of innovation and technology, the school has added an innovation and technology education section to the junior high school. Classes are conducted in small groups to teach students to understand various innovative technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), aerial photography (Drone) and other diversified topics. They are also given hands-on opportunities to practice and train their creative problem-solving skills. Principal Tsang Wing Shan said: "Relevant courses have greatly enhanced students' interest in mathematics, science and technology, and are of great help in bridging relevant courses in high school. In recent years, more students have taken ICT (information and communication technology) and science subjects in high schools, and the number of students taking M2 (extended part of mathematics) has also increased every year, in line with social development trends and the demand for technology professionals."

In addition, the school actively arranges for students to go out of the classroom to absorb knowledge and apply what they have learned from various aspects such as activities, training and competition experience. For example: The annual STEAM Fun Day is an important day in the school, where students can learn about STEAM topics outside of the daily curriculum and broaden their knowledge. With the assistance of the school, students form teams to design and use programming to control robots, and participate in off-campus competitions to compete with international peers. Principal Tsang Wing Shan said with a smile: "At the time of the interview, the students were representing Hong Kong in Denmark to participate in the WRO event (World Robot Olympiad) to showcase their talents on a world-class stage." On the other hand, the school has also hosted the Wan Chai District Robomaster District Challenge in the past two years, recruiting primary school students to participate, cultivating their interest in STEAM, giving back to the community, and creating a strong innovation and technology learning atmosphere.

Carry out layered English teaching and implement interdisciplinary learning elements

As a universal language in the world, the school attaches great importance to improving students' English proficiency and increasing their personal competitiveness. Therefore, in addition to setting up English classes in junior high schools, the teaching team also promotes tiered teaching of English subjects, arranging students with similar English proficiency to attend classes together at the high school level. Teachers will teach students according to their ability levels and learning levels to take care of different learning differences. At the same time, the school cooperates with the education policies of top-notch, bottom-up and middle-school support to ensure that students can lay a solid foundation in English during their six-year middle school career.

The school actively promotes the whole school to participate in different English learning activities through Language across-the-Curriculum (LAC). Taking this year's LAC Fun Day as an example, the school arranged for teachers from all subjects to join in the preparation work, which shows how much the school attaches importance to English learning. On the day of the event, teachers need to work with high school students to organize interesting games, and junior high school students must answer questions in English during the experience. Therefore, students are very accustomed to using English as a communication language in life.

The school's excellent language policy has enabled the English subject to continue to reach new heights, and students have achieved excellent results in different examinations and competitions. For example, last year, some candidates scored 5** in the DSE English test paper, which was a great encouragement to teachers; in the territory-wide English composition competition "Good People, Good Deeds" organized by Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, some students also entered the final 12 of the high school group. This reflects that under the school's diversified English teaching policy, students are not only able to use English flexibly, but also dare to challenge themselves.

Provide a platform to cultivate and compete and help students develop their talents

The school encourages students to make good use of their extracurricular time to relax and develop their personal interests. At the same time, the school hopes to discover the potential of students that have not been revealed in the classroom, so that they can fully demonstrate their talents and plan their future as early as possible. The school provides them with a platform to showcase their individual talents and abilities through various activities, allowing them to shine. Chinese dance has always been the school's strength, but the teacher discovered that some students were also interested in hip-hop dance, so he added related interest groups in response to their ideas and needs. Archery, martial arts and other projects are also gradually implemented based on the development of students' interests.

At the same time, the school actively trains students to participate in off-campus competitions. Taking the inter-school English recitation festival as an example, more than 100 students participate every year, and the response is very enthusiastic. This reflects that the school encourages students to try more and gives them opportunities to perform. Principal Tsang Wing Shan said: "As long as the students are willing to participate, no matter whether they win or not, the teachers will guide them carefully so that the students can gain something." Two students successfully won the championship in the last English Recitation Festival. The outstanding performance highlighted the efforts of the school's teachers and students.

Actively promote gifted education and organize overseas exchange activities

The school has set up a gifted education group to actively encourage students to try various types of activities, inter-school competitions and international assessments, such as the International English Proficiency Test (IELTS), International Academic Assessment and Competition (ICAS), etc. Principal Tsang Wing Shan said: "Gifted education is not limited to academic areas. When schools find out which areas students excel in, we will provide immediate targeted support and guidance, lead them to participate in different competitions, build the school's talent pool, and help students develop their potential and talents."

In addition, the school sponsoring bodies provide schools with a large number of resources, including providing scholarships to reward students, giving them the opportunity to continue their studies, or even continue their studies at home and abroad. The school also actively participates in a number of overseas exchange groups organized by Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, such as visits to sister schools in the Mainland, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals student ambassador exchange groups, etc. The school also provides many overseas exchange opportunities, such as exchange of national conditions education in Singapore, experience of local culture in Japan, exchange of English learning in Scotland, etc. In addition, experts from the Hong Kong Scotland School Improvement Partnership (HKSSIP) program also visited the school to understand the situation of English teaching, give opinions, and conduct professional exchanges. The school hopes to broaden teachers’ professional knowledge and skills to enhance students’ learning experience.

Business-school cooperation plan gives junior high schools a head start in guiding their aspirations

Different from the traditional arrangement of vocational counseling at the high school level, the school adopts the "reverse career planning" strategy to provide students with information on further education pathways and career choices as early as possible, and implements a series of activities starting from the first grade. Among them, the business-school cooperation program plays an important role in promoting students, leading students to step out of the classroom, look at the world, and meet future challenges. For example, the school's "Career Planning and Exploration Center" received two flight simulators donated by Mr. Chen Shuxian, allowing students to have the opportunity to simulate flying an airplane. Students are also arranged to visit different institutions and even serve as short-term trainees to experience different careers first-hand and explore future development directions.

Principal Tsang Wing ShanAdded: "Career planning helps students think carefully about the knowledge and skills they need to engage in different industries. By understanding and even being exposed to different industry situations, students will set their aspirations in advance under the guidance of the school. They can elect corresponding subjects when they enter high school, which will give them an advantage in joining their favorite fields in the future." In addition, the school also pays great attention to students with different learning needs, such as non-Chinese speaking students, so whether it is promoting national education or career planning, it will develop targeted support plans for them.

Set up a sunshine telephone communication line to encourage parents to participate in activities

The school firmly believes that parent support is indispensable for the all-round growth of students, so it attaches great importance to establishing close ties with parents. Not only does it set up a dual-class teacher system in junior high schools, it also arranges for class teachers to conduct two-way communication with parents in the early and mid-term of the term, and sets up a "sunshine phone" to care for students' learning and growth needs. For example, in the past, some parents reported that students had to travel a long way to school and were worried that it would affect their children's enthusiasm for learning. As school resources allowed, they launched a school bus service to pick up students in need. Here, Principal Tsang Wing Shan would like to express special thanks to the Parent-Teacher Association for reflecting parents’ opinions and achieving home-school cooperation.

At the same time, the school actively promotes parents' participation in on-campus activities to help them understand their children's learning situation, including arranging parent days, parent interviews for individual classes, lectures, graduation ceremonies, and encouragement activities specially designed for Form 6. At the same time, the school has also added parent-child activities such as land sports meets and water sports meets, inviting parents to witness students' development in different areas. At the sports meeting that just passed, more than 70 parents came to support the event. Many of them even participated in the parent-child relay competition and enjoyed the competition process with their classmates.

Home and school promote positive education and thrive under care

The school is committed to inheriting the educational spirit of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, focusing on developing students' physical, mental and spiritual health, so that they can devote themselves fully and work tirelessly in school and the community to achieve their life goals. The school actively promotes this from the family level and holds lectures for parents. Taking the Secondary One Parents' Day as an example, teachers encourage parents to praise their children more and share different correct discipline methods to help parents guide students through "positive feedback".

At the school level, the school has set up a values ​​education team, which is responsible for organizing different programs to cultivate students to establish positive values ​​and make contributions by their own actions. Among them, the "Runtian Ambassador Training Program" combines school-based activities to guide students to educate the younger ones, help other students adapt to the school environment and learning culture, so as to learn to care for others, cultivate empathy and responsibility, and inherit the effects; the school has also launched a multi-qualification and multi-talent program, where teachers teach students the principles of life and walk with students during the learning process, so that students can practice correct values ​​​​and attitudes.

Principal Tsang Wing Shan said: "I really appreciate the students' sense of belonging to the school, and parents are also very willing to come to the school to participate in activities. The level of enthusiasm is unprecedented. In the past Sixth Form Graduation Ceremony, in addition to the students' parents, grandfathers, aunts, etc. also participated, making the scene even more warm and touching. I sincerely thank the teaching team for their dedication, and the parents' support and cooperation, so that the school's policies and related activities can be implemented smoothly, and students can become the pillars of society."