Enjoy Enhance Engage Brand new 3E English course

@TERM0@@, located in Kwai Tsing District, adheres to the spirit of the school motto of "diligence, frugality, loyalty and trustworthiness", with the vision of "learning with heart, teaching with care, and guiding with love", and teaches and nurtures students with "love" and "patience". Principal Zheng Minxian hopes that students can arouse their interest in learning and realize the meaning of continuous learning in a living environment, so that students can learn happily. The school is committed to providing diverse and interesting English learning experiences to enrich campus life. This year, the school has launched the "3E Course" to allow students to enjoy (Enjoy), improve (Enhance) and participate (Engage) in English learning.

Distinctive school-based "3E Curriculum" to construct English life situations

In order to provide opportunities to apply what they have learned in English, the school has specially designed a school-based "3E Curriculum" in addition to the regular curriculum. It is led by three foreign teachers and implemented using experiential learning and real-life learning models to help students learn and apply the English vocabulary and sentence structures they learn on daily basis. By immersing themselves in activities, they can consolidate and improve their English abilities. Director of the English Department, Wen Xiujing, said: "Every scene and experience is an extension of the regular curriculum and infiltrates values education. In the classroom, students need to do hands-on work and build their confidence in English. Students are excited and looking forward to the '3E Curriculum'."

The first-grade project involves a supermarket project. The school cooperates with the project to build the English room into a supermarket, allowing students to try to simulate real shopping scenes, and use English to communicate in the process to teach students the knowledge of healthy eating; second-grade students are organized to go to the school garden, use the online platform to learn the English names of plants, and plant plants with their own hands. Through the hands-on process, they can experience the fun of learning English and expand their knowledge of English vocabulary, and learn to be grateful and cherish nature.

Students in grades three and four use English to participate in basketball activities and competitive games respectively. In conjunction with sports-related topics, they use English in activities and collaborations, cultivate team spirit, and learn the virtues of perseverance and friendship; the fifth-grade "3E The "Course" introduces students to the cultural background of various places, leads them to visit tourists, speak English boldly in a real environment, and enhances their confidence in using English; the "3E Course" for sixth grade involves environmental issues. Students will understand the impact of marine pollution on living creatures, and find out how to clean up oil pollution through experiments, build environmental awareness, and cultivate correct values.

Practicing interdisciplinary reading to cultivate lifelong learners

In addition to the "3E courses", the school has also optimized the class schedule this year, arranging regular courses in the morning; the afternoon period is used for various hands-on POWER-up "forest" courses, providing students with opportunities to carry out project studies or cross-disciplinary reading of English books. Principal Zheng pointed out: "The program helps students expand their horizons and thinking, and encourages them to choose English books to read, promoting independent learning. Not only that, after interdisciplinary reading, the school will also conduct extended activities on related books, such as visiting activities, visiting tourists, doing experiments, etc., and arrange for students to share and report. While learning English, it will also cultivate reading habits and become lifelong learners."

Fun extracurricular activities to integrate English into daily life

The school breaks through the curriculum framework and arranges various types of interesting English extracurricular activities for students, so that students can have a happy attitude and learn in the strong English context created by the school. For example, the school runs an English drama team. Under the leadership of foreign teachers, students train their personal English listening and speaking skills through drama dialogues, scripts, etc., and embody the emotions and experiences of the characters in the drama, so as to experience the fun of learning English. In addition, the school has a "Language Task Force" (SDU). After receiving English training, students will participate in campus TV recordings and live broadcasts. They will also appear on campus TV and serve as emcees, anchors, KOLs, and English ambassadors. At the same time, English ambassadors will work with foreign teachers to conduct English conversations and lead activities with students during the lunch "Me Time" period, integrating English knowledge into daily context and promoting peer learning.

Scaffolding teaching strategies to cater for learning differences

The school understands that teaching students in accordance with their aptitude is the key to teaching and learning. To this end, the school has implemented a tiered learning model to take care of learning differences. In the upper primary school English class, the teacher divided the three classes of students into four groups: red, yellow, blue, and green according to the children's abilities, so that the teacher can make adjustments in teaching. Principal Zheng said: "The school hopes to provide real-time learning support for students with different learning progress and abilities, and improve students' learning efficiency and learning motivation through top-notch supplementary training. At the same time, under the policy of small class teaching, students have more opportunities to perform in class and have a strong sense of participation." The school's English teaching has achieved remarkable results, not only effectively improving students' English skills, but also building their self-confidence in English.