Implement the "Four Learnings and One Core" of Feng Xiao Primary School to promote the whole-person development of students

Fung Kai No.1 Primary SchoolAdhering to the spirit of the school motto of "Modility, Faith, Diligence and Diligence", we actively create a pleasant learning environment, make good use of advanced information technology equipment, and apply new and creative teaching methods to improve learning and teaching effectiveness. The school implements whole-person education through the strategies of "Feng Xiao Four Learning One Core": "Multiple Learning", "Electronic Science Learning", "Teaching and Research" and "Autonomous Learning", and continues to penetrate core values ​​education, allowing students to learn and develop their potential in an excellent learning environment. Principal Zhu Weilin is committed to providing students with a comprehensive curriculum and various learning activities and experiences to promote their overall development, cultivate students with balanced development of knowledge, attitude and skills, and achieve the educational goal of "cultivating people with morality, restarting education, and creating space to educate all-round people".

Strategic language planning to build good English skills

Each stage has different English learning needs, and the school adopts strategic language planning. For junior primary school students, the school arranges one Pinyin class per week to consolidate their pronunciation and vocabulary foundation; for upper primary school students, the school arranges conversation classes taught by foreign English teachers, which include different diversified activities to improve students' conversation skills. At the same time, the school specially arranges foreign teachers to support sixth-grade students in their interviews for high school promotion, so as to reduce their nervousness and allow them to enter their preferred middle school with their best performance.

In order to cultivate students' reading habits, the school starts with "companion reading" and arranges foreign teachers to tell stories to enhance their interest in English. Each classroom in the school has an "English Learning Corner", which contains different types of English books, along with "three-minute readings" in class, allowing students to read more. The English subject team has also specially designed top-notch enriched study sheets. Students will receive a stamp after completing the sheets to enhance their motivation for learning.

In terms of extracurricular activities, the school selects students with potential and good English conversation skills to participate in English dramas to consolidate their knowledge of English words and expressions, and to improve their conversational confidence and listening skills. In addition, the school trains upper primary school students to serve as "English Ambassadors" and provides them with training, such as learning speech skills, words and phrases to communicate with guests, etc., so that students can not only improve their knowledge, but also build leadership skills and self-confidence through co-ordinating activities.

In addition to making good use of three foreign English teachers to promote the PLPRW curriculum, the school also conducts comprehensive conversation classes and diverse English activities for upper primary school students, and arranges the entire school's English environment to create a rich English learning environment and atmosphere.

"Diversified Learning" Experience Developing Talented Potential

The school is well aware that "diversified learning" can help students develop their potential, so it makes good use of class time to enrich students' learning experience and provides about 70 diversified study classes covering different areas such as competitions, performances, and services to broaden students' learning knowledge and explore their personal potential and goals. In addition to diversified learning classes, the school also promotes the "Outstanding Student Training Program" and the "Little Teacher Team and Outreach Volunteer Service Team" to cultivate students' comprehensive multiple intelligences.

Principal Zhu said: "The 'Outstanding Student Training Program' is a school-based top-notch gifted course. Students with different intelligences are recommended by teachers to participate. It is a full-year course trained by teachers and external professional tutors, including extended learning, talent training, interview skills and etiquette, etc. "Small teacher team and outreach The "Volunteer Service Team" is a service team that integrates service learning elements and the cultivation of multiple intelligences. Under the recommendation of teachers, senior primary school students receive training in homework transfer, accompanying reading training, speed calculation classes, pinyin classes, etc., and provide guidance to juniors in Primary 1 and 2 to create a good learning atmosphere. "

The Jockey Club Feng Xi Indoor Swimming Center, which has been planned in recent years, will be completed this academic year. Students will be able to enjoy the indoor swimming facility with AI functions costing approximately HK$150 million to learn swimming and enrich their learning experience.

"Electronic Science Learning" keeps pace with the times and inspires logical computational thinking

With the support of the school sponsoring organization, the school has listed "electronic learning" as one of the "Four Primary Schools" to teach knowledge through the media of electronics and technological innovation, and use creative teaching methods to enable students to learn efficiently. In addition to using electronic textbooks and online learning platforms in the classroom and promoting BYOD e-learning, the school also invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to build the first STEAM LAB in Hong Kong’s primary schools to actively promote "technological and innovative learning". It also made good use of the Quality Education Fund to fund the establishment of Future Lab and MakerLab, and renovated the computer room into a Coding Lab to provide students with an innovative and technological learning experience that keeps pace with the times and become future technology talents.

At the same time, the school was selected to be one of the first 12 programming teaching centers in Hong Kong for the "Jockey Club Computational Thinking Education" (CoolThink@JC), which promotes computing and computational thinking skills courses to allow upper primary school students to learn knowledge in Scratch, App Inventor, mBot, and modern agriculture. In addition, the school designed school-based programming classes and STEAM classes for junior primary students to learn the application principles of Scratch Jr, Blue-bot and Artec Rebo building blocks to inspire students' computational thinking. The school is also a resource school, supporting schools across Hong Kong in promoting programming teaching, and has received repeated praise and recognition. And he has won many awards in different competitions.

Promote "teaching and learning" to improve teaching quality

The teaching team plays the role of leader in teaching and learning. The school encourages teachers to conduct teaching research and study in order to allow students to have better overall development. For example, we cooperate with professional organizations to conduct educational research or classroom research on different subjects in order to optimize and adapt the curriculum and enhance the overall professional capabilities of teachers. Thanks to the dedicated teaching team and the broad-mindedness to benefit the society, the school has repeatedly received social recognition in recent years. It has won the Chief Executive's Teaching Excellence Award four times, the Federation of Teachers' Outstanding Teacher Awards four times, and the Moral Education Award twice. It has also been invited to share dozens of times in Hong Kong, the Mainland and overseas.

In addition, as the new curriculum guide emphasizes the seven learning objectives, three major directions and seven key points, the school actively cooperates and is at the forefront in many areas. For example, in the reform of general knowledge, the school is a member of the pilot program in science and humanities, and actively assists the authorities in setting up new subjects. The principal, vice-presidents and directors actively participate in curriculum meetings and organizations of the bureau and the university, actively provide professional opinions and suggestions on curriculum development and reform, and provide better education for the next generation.

Cultivate the habit of "autonomous learning" and complete learning goals

The school encourages students to "learn independently" through self-study strategies, daily homework and reward schemes. In terms of self-study strategies, the school promotes preview, organizes notes, and optimizes homework design in diversified ways according to the needs of each subject, so that students can independently choose appropriate learning materials according to their needs. In addition, the school has added four items: student self-evaluation, peer evaluation, parent evaluation and teacher evaluation into the daily curriculum design, so that students can master self-reflection and evaluation skills, learn to self-monitor and regulate, and become independent learners. The school also has reward mechanisms, such as "Self-guided Goal Learning Booklet", "Self-Study Master", "Self-Care Master", etc., to encourage students to work hard to achieve their own goals.

Pay attention to values ​​education and cultivate good moral character

"Values ​​education is the core of education and the primary project for cultivating good moral character." Principal Zhu said that the school has always attached great importance to moral education, and uses the 12 primary values ​​promoted by the Education Bureau as the core content to cultivate students' law-abiding, hard-working, filial piety, unity and other virtues. In recent years, the school has also established a "flag-raising team" to promote patriotic education. By raising the flag, playing and singing the national anthem, students can strengthen their national identity and sense of belonging to the country. At the same time, the school has established "Chinese Culture Ambassadors" and "Constitution" and "Basic Law" Ambassadors to promote Chinese culture and legal study courses and activities, allowing students to understand the motherland and law from intangible cultural heritage and Chinese culture, deepen their feelings about home and country, and promote their civic and cultural awareness.

Thanks to the team's efforts, the school won the "Praise for Campus", "Care for Campus" awards and two Hong Kong School Social Responsibility Awards. In addition to winning the flag-raising team competition award, the flag-raising team was also invited to represent the school community at the National Day flag-raising ceremony in Heung Yee Kuk, New Territories, and was responsible for raising the flag. The "Constitution" and "Basic Law" ambassadors also won the top three awards in the territory-wide competition.

Furthermore, under the environmental protection concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", the school has deepened environmental education in recent years. In addition to installing solar panels on the rooftop of the entire school to promote environmentally friendly energy, it has also cooperated with Baptist University to establish the "HKBU SEE X Feng Xiaoxiao Low Carbon Energy Base". At the same time, it also actively promotes the awareness of cherishing water resources and fully promotes the Water Supplies Department's Water Cherish School primary education program. The results are very outstanding. It won the highest and only "Water Cherish School Supreme Award" in Hong Kong and the only "North District Gold Award for Outstanding Schools" in the North District. The principal won the "Outstanding Leadership Award", the director won the "Outstanding Planning Award", and the students won the "Water Saving Smart Star" award. It can be seen that the school is promoting values ​​education in different areas in an all-round way and has achieved good results.

Step-by-step transition from early childhood to primary school, mastering knowledge from shallow to deep

The school attaches great importance to the connection between kindergarten and primary school. The first priority is to stimulate the interest of new students in learning. The courses in the first semester of first grade will be conducted from the shallower to the more advanced. The English subject will start by enriching the vocabulary knowledge of the students to understand their learning foundation, and then teach sentences and paragraphs. The school also strengthens home teaching support for parents, such as silent English reading or self-teaching.
Recordings are provided for parents on learning resources to assist them in helping their children review.

In terms of test arrangements, Principal Zhu adopts a supportive and encouraging assessment model. Every Friday, the school holds a "Challenge Arena" through an online platform as a weekly review to consolidate knowledge points and encourage students to learn independently. The teacher then arranges unscored unit tests for students to understand their learning progress so that they can make adjustments to the curriculum, and then arranges a "review week" assessment to allow them to gradually adapt to the exam. The school sets up two exams every semester to avoid making students feel overwhelmed by reviewing a large amount of content at once, and to gradually master the knowledge and answering skills.