Heuristic English teaching, rich learning outcomes

H.K.E.C.A. Wu Si Chong Memorial School Upholds the educational philosophy of “cultivating talents” and is committed to providing students with a harmonious and inclusive learning environment with excellent school spirit. With innovative teaching strategies, diverse learning activities, and an experienced teaching team, the school successfully develops students' talents and potential, enabling them to achieve all-round growth with knowledge, skills, and moral character, and gain a successful learning experience. The school is well aware that English proficiency is an important skill for future students to enter the world. Therefore, it implements the concept of interdisciplinary learning, creates an interesting and inspiring English environment, comprehensively improves students' English application ability, and becomes lifelong learners.

5E English Teaching Policy
Enhance: Customize school-based reading courses to improve learning effectiveness
Embed: Cooperate with values teaching and deliver positive messages
Engage: organize diversified English activities to make learning more interesting
Enrich: Create context and use English flexibly for communication
Extend: Make good use of resources to promote independent learning

Combining innovative educational concepts with both knowledge and attitude

The school grasps the development trends of education, incorporates innovative curriculum design concepts, and specially designs the "5E" English teaching method, focusing on school-based curriculum and creating an English context to provide students with a rich English learning experience. At the same time, the school also combines the unique "WSC" (Wisdom, Charity, Courage) educational philosophy to enable students to not only lay a solid English foundation, but also have good personal moral character. Principal Kwan Sin-fen said: "The school is committed to cultivating students to establish independent learning habits and inspire their intellectual growth to adapt to the development and changes of society. They have a spirit of charity and use values education combined with elements such as language learning and inter-disciplinary collaboration to enable students to become high-quality global citizens. With courage and self-confidence, students learning English can help stimulate their divergent and creative thinking, be brave enough to explore the world and explore different possibilities, and then actively equip themselves to achieve unlimited possibilities."

Special school-based English courses closely follow students’ language development

The school is committed to designing school-based English courses that meet the learning needs of students. It has an Oxford Read Write Inc (RWI) course, which is taught by English teachers and foreign teachers. It arranges for primary 1 to primary 3 students to take two RWI courses per week to systematically teach students standard and correct English pinyin methods to consolidate their English conversation foundation. The English team also participated in the Oxford RWI teacher training course to improve their professional skills and provide students with orthodox pronunciation training. They also arranged pronunciation workshops for parents to help parents better understand the curriculum structure by promoting home-school cooperation. They can also help students consolidate their English knowledge and improve learning effectiveness at home.

For students from primary four to primary six, the school arranges a Reading Workshop class every week. Foreign teachers will conduct interesting courses around reading books to stimulate students' interest in reading and teach reading skills, implementing the concept of "cross-curricular reading". English subjects at all levels also design "RaC Projects" with the theme of STEAM or values ​​education, conduct cross-curricular reading special studies, and cultivate students' creativity and problem-solving abilities through SCAMPER skills and HOTS skills. In addition, the school also offers an English interview skills class for Primary 6 students, arranging foreign teachers to train students on interview content and skills, and conduct mock interviews to improve their expression skills and enhance their self-confidence, so that they can enter their preferred middle school with the best performance.

Promote reading plans and cultivate self-learning spirit

Reading is an important part for students to acquire knowledge and broaden their horizons. The school has an English reading class every week and special funds are allocated to purchase English newspapers, themed reading books and magazines to provide a variety of English reading materials to comprehensively deepen students' knowledge. The school also arranged for two foreign teachers to share books with students during English reading classes to increase the depth and breadth of students' reading of books, improve their reading skills and acquire different types of knowledge. In addition, the school has grasped the trend of e-learning and made good use of electronic platforms to enhance students' learning experience. It has established accounts for them on Raz Kids and EPIC online reading platforms, allowing students to read as needed according to their personal abilities and reading interests. They can read, study and review at any time both inside and outside the classroom, promoting independent learning and taking care of students' learning diversity.

Diversified learning activities to create a strong English environment

In order to create a natural and high-quality English context and increase students' opportunities to be exposed to English in life. Teacher Lai Xiaoling, head of the English subject, said: "The school actively organizes diversified learning activities to provide opportunities for students to apply what they have learned and enrich their learning experience." The English subject team encourages students to use English for conversation and communication on English Friday, and makes posters about learning topics to be posted in the classroom so that students can review the knowledge content. The school also holds festive activities such as "Happy Halloween" and "Christmas Party" every year. Students actively participate in the activities, gain a deeper understanding of the cultural background and origins of Western festivals, and broaden their knowledge.

In addition to the rich on-campus activities, the school also encourages students to participate in different inter-school competitions, such as English recitation, writing competitions, Drama Club, etc., to hone their ability and self-confidence in applying English. The competition not only provides students with opportunities to demonstrate and apply English, but also allows them to constantly challenge themselves and gain a sense of achievement in English learning. As society returns to normalcy, the school has organized various types of overseas study tours to lead students out of Hong Kong and face the world, establish exchanges with students of other nationalities, increase cross-cultural communication skills, and broaden their international horizons.

Enrich English experience outside school and strengthen student community participation

In addition to attaching great importance to students' academic performance, the school also closely integrates learning activities with values education and delivers positive values through a series of classroom activities. At the end of each semester, the school will focus on different themes and allow students to deeply experience and understand positive values ​​through watching videos, practical activities and community participation. Director Lai pointed out: "The theme of the school this year is empathy. Principal Guan and the teaching team worked together to plan and contact nursing homes, centers for the blind and other institutions to lead students to personally understand the needs of different social groups, learn to care for disadvantaged groups, and improve their lives through creating and organizing projects. At the same time, students' personal creativity was stimulated and the knowledge they learned was given back to the community."

At the same time, the school organized fourth-grade students to participate in community field trips, taking them to Tsim Sha Tsui to visit sky100, allowing students to experience and explore high-rise buildings in Hong Kong and even the world, and understand the stories behind architectural design and urban development; fifth- and sixth-grade students posted posters with English proverbs and positive messages on the stairwells of the school, and participated in the "English Wisdom Quotes" activity organized by the Education Bureau. Through diversified English learning experiences, we cultivate students' language foundation, social awareness and correct values, promote their overall development and prepare for the future.

English combined with financial education to build life skills

The school combines English learning and financial management education to cultivate students' language skills and financial awareness, so that they can become outstanding talents with common abilities in the 21st century. The English subject group introduces learning topics related to financial management. For example, in the third-grade learning activities, the teacher designed the theme of "buying food" to teach students to understand the concepts of "want" and "need". By simulating real shopping situations, they can recognize different English vocabulary such as product names and coupons, inspiring students' interest and awareness of financial management, helping them improve their English proficiency, and also promote the all-round development of personal character.