Give full play to your English skills and embrace a rich life

Free Methodist Mei Lam Primary School We always adhere to the spirit of love and justice in Christianity, and are committed to providing students with high-quality Christian education for the whole person. We uphold the spirit of the school motto of "Faith, hope, and love are always present today, and the greatest of them is love." Help students develop a balanced development of spiritual, moral, intellectual, physical, social, and aesthetic education. Principal Zhao Jieling makes flexible use of resources and leads the teaching team to continuously optimize the school-based curriculum and follow up on the school's supporting hardware facilities to stimulate students' interest and talent potential in learning English, helping students to fully demonstrate their talents and embrace a rich life.

Comprehensive reading plan to build language foundation

The school is well aware that English proficiency is closely related to students' future development. To this end, it is committed to cultivating students to establish reading habits. It continues to optimize course materials through funding programs, creates an immersive English learning environment for students, and inspires students to learn independently, improving their English proficiency and all-round knowledge through reading. Primary 1 to 2 adopt school-based designed courses, which mainly include English picture books and school-based homework on different themes. At the same time, they are combined with pinyin courses taught by foreign teachers to systematically build students' reading, writing, listening and speaking abilities. Primary 3 implements the English Reading and Writing Curriculum (PLP-R/W) plan to continue the learning of pinyin, reading and writing.

The principal said: "At the upper primary school level, the school designs school-based reading classes for students in grades four to six, which are taught by local teachers and foreign teachers. They implement a layered design to take care of individual differences, flexibly promote students' reading plans and enhance their reading interests." Students start learning pinyin, word strings and pronunciation skills in primary school, laying the foundation for their reading and dictation skills. They also learn English common words (High Frequency) in class Words), students recognize most of the vocabulary when reading, which effectively helps them understand the content, improve their reading ability, and make learning more fluent.

Personalized learning process to cultivate self-learning ability

The school-based curriculum designed by the school not only focuses on reading ability, but also hopes to cultivate students' independent learning spirit. In the course of teaching English picture books, the teacher teaches students to flexibly use the content of picture books to create related works, so that students can learn by doing and apply the knowledge they have learned. The school also equips the school-based curriculum study books with audible reading pens for students to borrow and read electronic storybooks with audibles through different online reading learning platforms, such as "e-Story" and "Highlights Library" for independent reading. Students can study independently at school and at home, breaking the learning framework and improving learning efficiency. In addition, the school will conduct a systematic reading assessment (PM Reading Benchmark Assessment) every semester in parallel with the school-based curriculum to evaluate each student's reading ability, so as to understand the student's personalized learning process, and then guide students to read books of different levels according to reading differences, and implement the concept of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, so that students can improve their English proficiency and construct all-round knowledge through reading.

Enrich English activities and provide diverse learning experiences

The school provides students with diversified learning experiences and creates a strong English learning environment. The English subject team will select two English ambassadors in each class to assist teachers in launching a variety of English activities, such as: Phonics Fun Fun Fun, English Week, hosting Talent Show, etc., to increase students' opportunities to use English in daily life. For students in primary five to primary six, the school implements the drama teaching "Language Art" course, which strengthens students' English listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities through the course, and enhances students' confidence in using English.

At the same time, foreign English teachers will also organize a series of English activities, such as English Wonderland, English Cafe and campus TV, to create a relaxed, enjoyable and international learning atmosphere for students, thereby broadening their learning horizons and encouraging them to listen more, speak more and use English more. In addition, the school actively recommends students to participate in the internationally recognized TOEFL Junior Test every year. Students have performed well in the exam and achieved impressive results.

Precise teaching strategies, excellent performance in high school

In order to cultivate students' preview habits, promote peer learning, create a good learning atmosphere, and improve English learning efficiency. In addition to actively seeking external resources, the teaching team also plans diversified teaching activities and promotes cooperative learning models. Before teaching new topics, teachers will ask students to preview before class, and then design interesting activities based on the preview and course content to promote student-student interaction and lead students to master classroom knowledge more deeply. With its precise teaching strategies and excellent school-based curriculum, the school’s primary six graduates have an increasing rate of being sent to English secondary schools, which is higher than the Hong Kong average. The teaching results are well recognized by the society and parents, reflecting that the school and teaching team have achieved significant results in promoting the professional development of English teaching, and all students have good language skills.

Focus on curriculum connection and top-notch strategy

Every student is unique and has unlimited potential and talent. In order to cater for the different learning needs of students and provide appropriate learning support and guidance, the school has specially set up a primary one bridging course, with foreign English teachers leading a reading support program to help students who are slightly behind in their progress to solidify their English foundation. At the same time, the school also designs gifted courses for primary school freshmen, providing students with excellent reading skills with rich learning activities to help them apply what they have learned. The course is divided into three aspects: the foreign teacher conducts book teaching with the theme of fairy tale books, encouraging students to use their imagination for creative writing, and strengthen their writing and expression skills; they use iPads to write e-books and share their works with classmates, thereby improving their self-confidence and sense of achievement; the course also adds elements of the Talkbo Mini robot, using the robot's built-in courses for teaching and conversation training to stimulate students' interest in learning English.

Practicing interdisciplinary collaborative teaching to promote learning and teaching effectiveness

The school is committed to promoting collaborative teaching among teachers from different subject groups and adding English elements to the curriculum content of each subject, allowing students to accumulate English vocabulary and become familiar with the English usage environment while absorbing knowledge from different subjects, achieving the effect of immersive learning.
In addition, the General Studies Department has also cooperated with "Education Datong" to implement the Learning By Doing (LBD) teaching method in the General Studies Department from Primary 1 to Primary 3. It breaks through the traditional curriculum framework and abandons the use of traditional teaching books. It transforms the learning content into many different experiential activities and experiments, integrating closely related life examples into the curriculum. By stimulating students' sensory feelings, it uses an experiential learning model to lead them to achieve the all-round development of affection, skills, and knowledge. In the emotional course, the teacher will focus on the movie "Inside" Out", teaches students emotional management skills, provides rich and diverse learning experiences, helps students establish positive values, and maintain a good learning attitude to promote learning effectiveness.