Immerse yourself in the English learning environment and open up areas of knowledge

Y.C.H. Choi Hin To Primary School is student-oriented and implements the spirit of Yanji Hospital of "Respecting Benevolence and Helping the World" and is committed to cultivating the balanced development of students' moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic education, and assisting them to explore and explore their academic and physical abilities. Principal Xu Jian and his teaching team strive to organize diversified English learning activities for students, formulate appropriate teaching policies, and set up learning equipment that matches the curriculum to create a campus atmosphere of mutual help and care, so that students can have rich learning experiences, cultivate values ​​of loving life, being proactive, and actively giving back to society in the future.

Flexibly formulate teaching strategies to establish a good English foundation

The school flexibly develops diversified English teaching strategies to improve students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills and lay a solid foundation in English. The school has grasped the development trend of education, created an international language learning environment, and launched a foreign English teacher collaboration plan. It has English classes for grades one to four, with foreign teachers and local teachers serving as class teachers in this class, taking full care of students' needs, and continuously strengthening their Chinese language skills for students with excellent English proficiency. Principal Xu said: "Junior primary school students need to build a rich English vocabulary library and practice a fluent standard English accent to enhance their understanding and application of knowledge. For this purpose, the school has specially designed an 'English Literacy Booklet' to collect various types of text vocabulary and extended words to broaden students' vocabulary libraries and enhance knowledge absorption. At the same time, foreign teachers will also record the 'English Literacy Booklet' and English silent reading to stimulate students' interest in English from the senses and improve their English listening and conversational skills."

Develop reading habits and make good use of artificial intelligence

Books are an important part of students' progress and knowledge acquisition. The school actively cultivates students' reading habits by adjusting and optimizing the curriculum structure and extending early reading class hours, thereby stimulating students' interest in reading and subtly forming long-term reading habits. The teachers of the English subject also fully cooperated and incorporated different electronic platforms into teaching, such as the online reading platform Fun and Friends, which not only encourages students to communicate with foreign English teachers, but also caters for the learning needs of some students who are more reserved and quiet, and provides learning methods that suit each student's personality traits and needs.

Teacher Yang Zhimin, director of the English Department, said: "The school has also joined the online speaking platform this year. Students can use electronic devices to read English words and interact with artificial intelligence. The artificial intelligence will then evaluate the students' English accents, teach correct pronunciation methods and international phonetic symbols, and help students construct a personalized learning experience." The teaching team also uses big data analysis of the electronic platform to effectively follow up on students' learning progress, get instant feedback, and then provide students with appropriate support and guidance, thereby improving their English conversation skills and self-confidence.

Adapt teaching strategies to create a strong English context

In order to provide an English learning experience that keeps pace with the times, the school actively optimizes school-based courses, organizes diversified learning activities and study tours, and is committed to improving students' English abilities and establishing a good English learning atmosphere, including interdisciplinary course reading, and has set up all-English-taught reading courses for senior students, so that they can realize that different subjects can be combined with English knowledge, and use English in their study and life. The school also offers language classes every Monday, arranging students to discuss and research scientific topics together during this class. Students can feel a strong English learning atmosphere and build a spirit of mutual learning and mutual help among peers.

In addition, after the society fully returns to normal, the school actively leads students to participate in different overseas exchange activities, providing a wealth of communication and inspection opportunities, allowing them to flexibly use English for conversation outside the classroom. For example, teachers from this school have recently led students from grades four to six to Singapore and Japan for exchanges to broaden their international horizons and enhance their cross-cultural communication skills. The school is committed to providing students with a high-quality English learning environment, hoping that English can become an indispensable part of every student's daily life, and they can cope with English communication more confidently, and promote their language development and enhance their personal competitiveness.

Interdisciplinary collaborative teaching to develop 21st century skills

Interdisciplinary learning helps cultivate students' ability to comprehensively apply knowledge. The school actively promotes interdisciplinary collaborative teaching and designs the "school-based SPARK innovative curriculum" to integrate and connect the curriculum content of English, general knowledge and visual arts to promote students' all-round learning effectiveness. The school is well aware that although students have established a good foundation in English, they lack opportunities to use English in daily life. Through interdisciplinary learning, it helps to extend the learning scenarios and broaden students' knowledge level, so that English learning is no longer limited to the classroom. Therefore, in the "school-based SPARK innovative curriculum", in addition to English, general knowledge and visual arts subjects will also use English as the main teaching language to create a rich English learning context and greatly increase students' daily opportunities to listen, speak, read and write in English. On the one hand, students will continue to strengthen their English ability and language knowledge. On the other hand, they can care about the development of the world, broaden their international horizons, and master different concepts and theoretical knowledge, such as scientific laws, earth materials, etc., so that students can understand more diversified and professional English vocabulary.

Infiltrate career planning elements and practical application of English knowledge

A comprehensive career planning policy can help students achieve different goals at different stages of life. The school combines English learning with career planning, and has specially launched an activity called "Travel Your Journey" to organically combine English elements, knowledge points from different subjects, and career planning elements. Vice Principal Ye Minmei said: "In English teaching, we designed a topic on 'Hong Kong's Famous Attractions', and arranged for students to personally design a one-day trip to Hong Kong and produce relevant leaflets to introduce Hong Kong's different attractions and integrate the knowledge they have learned in class. Students need to use English to explain to their classmates on the day of the trade fair. , teachers and visiting guests will introduce their itinerary plans, and the best classes will have the opportunity to actually practice the itinerary they designed. "The activity not only flexibly combines the knowledge focus of each subject, but also cultivates the skills students will need in the future workplace, such as teamwork, design, data collection and reporting, and enhances their interest in learning English.

Enrich learning opportunities and set clear learning goals

The school provides students with top-notch classes and interview classes after school hours, aiming to train their writing skills and interview skills so that they can prepare for high school as soon as possible. In addition, the school also arranged for foreign teachers and students to help organize activities for kindergartens on Saturdays to provide support for children in the area. The teaching team will also train students to become docents. When guests visit the school, they can introduce the school's features and attractions. This is also part of daily practice to help students adapt to the English environment. By providing a wealth of English learning opportunities, the school helps students set clear learning goals and improve their English ability and self-confidence.