Unleash personal potential, build good character, and enrich students’ learning experience

Carmel Alison Lam Primary SchoolUse flexible and diversified teaching strategies to help students construct knowledge and become people who actively seek knowledge and have self-learning ability, so that they can develop their potential and expertise. The school is determined to cultivate students' "6C abilities" through formal and non-formal courses, enrich learning experiences in different fields, and lay the foundation for lifelong learning. Principal Yi Huiru leads the teaching team with the goal of providing high-quality and holistic education, cultivating the balanced development of students' moral, intellectual, physical, social, aesthetic and spiritual education, so that they can follow their own path and contribute to society and benefit the world in the future.

Implement the concept of "deep learning" to build common capabilities in the 21st century

Principal Yi firmly believes in constantly optimizing school-based curriculum, designing teaching content that keeps pace with the times, and providing students with diverse learning opportunities to help students better prepare for the development of the future world. The school adopts the concept of the "21st Century Talent Competency Framework" proposed by educator Michael Fullan, which includes the six principles of "creativity and imagination, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, character development and citizenship education". It advocates changing the focus of learning from traditional subject learning to focusing on the learning process, equipping students with the ability to utilize knowledge and create in the real world.

Demonstrate learning achievements and enhance student pride

In addition to paying attention to students' academic performance, the school also strives to promote their all-round development and help students continue to explore their potential and expand their skills and strengths through rich and diverse sports activities. In order to showcase the students' learning achievements in the past year, the school held an "Achievements Display Day" on July 15 to share the learning experiences and achievements of the past year with parents, classmates and visiting guests. On the day of the event, classrooms and special rooms will be opened to host a series of exciting activities and performances, including classroom demonstrations, learning achievement exhibitions, experiential activities, etc. In addition to displaying achievements and teaching demonstrations, the event also arranges various physical performances, such as dance performances, drama performances, music performances and martial arts demonstrations, allowing students to further demonstrate their learning achievements in the fields of sports and art, and grow in an atmosphere of joy and sharing.

Diversified extracurricular activities to unleash your talents and potential

In order to develop students' potential and expertise, the school provides opportunities for diverse learning activities and has established more than ten school teams, including: Mathematical Olympiad, handball, Western dance, English drama, robotics and orchestra, etc. Students will not only receive long-term professional training, but also participate in relevant competitions. Many school teams have achieved impressive results in competitions. Principal Yi said, "We have also set up top-notch groups for young journalists, young painters, creative writing and performing arts after school to help students develop their potential. At the same time, the school has also established uniformed teams such as the Christian Cadets, the Little Girl Scouts and the Little Philanthropy Pioneers to strengthen students' community participation and proactively serve the community."

The school specially arranges interest activity time on Wednesdays and invites professional tutors to teach students different knowledge and skills to cater for their diverse learning needs, including Chinese martial arts, fancy rope skipping, ocarina, African drum, etc., to cultivate students' interests in many aspects. In addition, students can also participate in self-funded interest classes and music activities according to their own preferences after school, such as STEAM Little Scientists, Robot Programming Problem Solving, Violin Classes, etc. Not only will students have a rich experience in activities, but the school will also provide many performance and competition opportunities to enhance students' sense of academic achievement.

Promote home-school cooperation and build a caring campus culture

The school implements the educational philosophy of "training with affection, assisting with reason, and co-management and co-teaching", and uses a school-wide participation in training and counseling model to accompany and guide students' growth. In recent years, the school's discipline and assistance team has actively cooperated with the school to promote positive education and organized the "Alison Stars Award Program" to encourage students to participate in various experiential activities and inspire their potential development. It also hopes that students can build their self-confidence in learning and affirm their self-worth through challenges and experiences. Through collaboration and communication in activities, students not only learn to appreciate each other, but also promote learning exchanges among peers and establish a campus atmosphere of mutual respect and love.

At the same time, the school also attaches great importance to the moral cultivation of students and the establishment of positive values ​​and attitudes. Through formal and non-formal courses (growth courses, class pastoral care and weekly meetings), the school comprehensively enriches students' learning experience in different value education areas such as moral education, citizenship education, national education, prohibition education, life education, healthy living, service learning, etc., and practices a positive outlook on life in life, thereby promoting the overall development of students and becoming outstanding talents with both political integrity and ability.

In addition to cultivating students to build good character, the school also focuses on home-school cooperation, actively promotes parent education, and provides parents with educational resources and information to help them better support the diversified development of their children. For example, evening parent talks and workshops are held to enhance parents’ ability to discipline their children in a positive and positive way. At the same time, the school also invites parents to participate in various types of school activities. Through lunch group activities, parent-child activities and parent-child lectures, it deepens and stabilizes the relationship between the school and parents, leverages the power of home-school cooperation, and jointly creates a better future for their children.

Promote adaptive teaching and pay attention to the cultivation of gifted students

The school adopts a "three-tiered framework implementation model" to plan and implement school-based gifted education. It recommends students with high learning abilities to join after-school top-notch groups for key training, participate in off-campus gifted course training programs, and participate in different competitions. Principal Yi said: "School-based gifted education is divided into three levels of structure. The first level is whole-class: it implements tailored teaching in different subjects to cultivate students' high-level thinking, creativity and social skills; the second level is detachment: it sets up after-school top-notch groups, including English ambassadors "

Taking care of learning diversity and strengthening student support services

The school implements the five basic principles of "early identification", "early support", "whole-school participation", "home-school cooperation" and "cross-sector collaboration" to promote integrated education. Through the professional teams of school-based educational psychology services and school-based speech therapy services of the Education Bureau, supplemented by detachable subject support groups, group tutoring, peer programs, after-school homework tutoring classes, outsourced training groups, etc., to cater for students' special learning needs and provide the most immediate and appropriate support and assistance.