Irrigating life through the Holy Word and moistening the crops with grace Embrace Challenges We Sail

Carmel Holy Word Secondary School is committed to providing holistic education and cultivating students’ balanced development in spiritual, moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic education, so that their personal potential can be established and unleashed, good and positive values ​​and character can be established, and a spirit of self-discipline can be established. Principal Lau Wing Sze We believe that every student is unique. The school hopes to help students find their own value through Christian education and a loving teaching team, and teach them to embrace challenges, ride the wind and waves when facing difficulties, and become pillars who care about the country and society.

Establish correct values and cultivate noble moral sentiments

Values education is an important cornerstone for students to establish a correct outlook on life. The life education advocated by the school coincides with the ten primary values of the Education Bureau, aiming to cultivate students to become a new generation with good moral character and responsibility for society. The school specially arranges time for Friday afternoons to be used for life education classes, homeroom classes and weekly meetings. The classes are flexibly arranged to carry out moral education, values ​​and other aspects of education, focusing on the character development of students. In order to ensure the comprehensiveness and in-depthness of positive education, the school combines the ten major values ​​education with the curriculum of Form One to Form Six, arranging 1 to 2 themes for each level. During the life education class on Friday, class teachers and external institutions use diversified learning methods to lead students to explore topics of life and growth, and then practice positive values ​​​​in life and cultivate noble moral sentiments.

The school attaches great importance to the life cultivation of students, promotes students' all-round development and growth with love and respect, incorporates inquiry-based teaching, and arranges experiential Bible courses for Form 1 and 2 students to understand the precious connotation of Christianity. This year, the school takes "Wellness" as the core of promoting positive education. The Student Development Department collaborates with the English Department, Physical Education Department and other departments across disciplines to organize Wellness Week, which includes movie appreciation and sharing sessions, spiritual reading sketches, small handicrafts, mental health stalls, exercise, health index testing, etc.

In addition, the school strengthens the cooperative relationship between schools and invites church volunteers to become "life teachers" to reflect on and share different life issues with students in Bible classes, so that students can learn gratitude, kindness, love and the value and meaning of life. Principal Lau Wing Sze added: "This year we are collaborating with educational psychologists to implement the PERMA model in class teachers to cultivate students' happiness and positive attitude and help them engage in campus life."

Life is strong and fruitful, and academics, sports and arts are both brilliant.

Principal Lau Wing Sze Believe that by cultivating students’ lives with biblical truth, students will be able to develop their strengths and demonstrate their self-worth. Therefore, the school has achieved outstanding results in academics, sports, and art in recent years. The school is a frequent winner in the Chinese-English Inter-school Speech Festival, and the collection of English poems has won many good results; the Chinese History Department arranged students to participate in the Hong Kong Chinese History Study Award Scheme, and won the second runner-up and the commendation award for the secondary school group. It also defeated the strong teams in the same district in the Tai Po District Civic Questions and Answers Competition and won the championship in the secondary school group; in mathematics and physics, the school won first prizes in many mathematics competitions; in the "RoboMaster 2022 Youth Challenge (Hong Kong Station)", it won the group championship and the first place in Hong Kong. 8 have become the seed team and will advance to the national competition; the results of this year’s HKDSE and JUPAS are even more encouraging – more than 30 Form 6 graduates can progress to local university courses.

The school actively organizes diversified sports and arts activities to enable students to develop their potential and demonstrate their strengths. In recent years, students have achieved outstanding results in areas such as dance, swimming, volleyball and athletics. The dance team won the "Gold Medal" and "Choreography Award" in the 41st Tai Po District Inter-school Dance Competition; students of the volleyball team also won the championship in the Hong Kong elite Embrace Challenges competition, which is encouraging.

In order to further support students' performance activities, the school is building a performance stage called "Sparkle square" for students to form teams to perform musical instruments, dance, recitation and other performances. In addition, the teaching team arranges Art Buzz Day for students, arranging different art activities every year, such as tie-dyeing, Chinese painting, fashion shows, etc., and also holds Music Week to allow students to showcase their musical talents. Through different activities, students are provided with a variety of performance and artistic experience opportunities, which help to cultivate creativity, expression skills and teamwork spirit, as well as promote their personal growth and life cultivation.