Enrich the English learning environment and cooperate with the new school-based curriculum

Fung Kai No.1 Primary School is committed to cultivating students' independent thinking ability, establishing positive values ​​and learning attitudes, promoting the overall development of students, and implementing the school spirit of "humility, trust, diligence, and sensitivity". Principal Zhu Weilin leads the teaching team to create a high-quality campus learning environment for students, plan school-based courses that meet students' growth needs, and strengthen their biliteracy and trilingual abilities and various skills and talents. The school attaches great importance to students' foundation of English listening, speaking, reading and writing, and is well aware that learning is a lifelong and long process. Therefore, it is determined to provide students with abundant learning opportunities. It hopes that students will make good use of their school time, develop independent learning abilities at the primary school level, continue to self-examine and strive for improvement, lifelong learning, and learn and apply English flexibly.

Fung Kai No.1 Primary School明言　Fung Kai No.1 Primary School's Motto

Pay equal attention to creativity and tradition, and let sports and arts flourish together with academics
Value both Creativity and Tradition
Make Strides with Physical, Artistic and Academic Development

Interdisciplinary Reading Program Broadens International Perspectives

The school carries out cross-curricular reading in the school-based English curriculum. In addition to learning textbook knowledge, students can also systematically gain access to English knowledge related to various subjects, improve their reading interest and text comprehension ability, expand their learning areas, provide them with sufficient language learning opportunities, and help strengthen their mastery of different subject content. For example, in the plan, the teaching team will lead students to learn about festivals around the world, healthy eating and other related knowledge. After reading books, students need to summarize, integrate learning tasks, and reflect on learning, and demonstrate learning results in the form of writing and reports to improve their English writing and reporting skills.

Self-management and self-expectations improve learning and teaching effectiveness

A good learning attitude enables students to actively participate in the learning process, study hard and achieve better learning results. Therefore, the school is committed to cultivating students' self-management ability in learning English, allowing students to master the learning process, set appropriate learning goals for themselves at different learning stages, and then regularly reflect on and review learning progress and results. At the same time, the school also cares deeply about students' learning emotions, creating a relaxed and pleasant learning atmosphere for them, and encourages them to establish good interpersonal networks during the learning process and promote learning effectiveness through peer collaboration. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Quality Education Fund team also invited students to conduct public demonstration classes and opened the classrooms to principals and teachers of dozens of primary schools in the plan for observation and learning. This shows that the school's value learning area is highly recognized by the outside world and is very effective, successfully promoting the development of Hong Kong education.

Thematic study of the motherland’s aerospace industry and the promotion of national security education

The school is committed to helping students strengthen national security education elements such as national concepts and national identity. It leads students of all grades to conduct special learning around different areas of space security and designs relevant school-based learning tasks. For example, students are encouraged to collect information about Chinese astronauts, learn about astronauts’ lives in space, watch relevant videos and share them, introduce students’ favorite Chinese astronauts, and write thank-you cards for them. Through this, they can get to know Chinese astronauts, understand the importance of artificial satellites to life, and the development history, current situation and achievements of the country’s aerospace engineering. Not only that, the school leads students to read the first local color children's picture book "Wonders of the Stars" (English version: Wonders of the Stars) launched by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, so that students can grasp the concept of space safety and understand the glorious achievements of the motherland in aerospace technology.

High-quality English learning atmosphere encourages students to learn independently

English is not just a subject for exams, but a language skill that needs to be mastered by internalizing knowledge and learning and applying it. The school actively creates a strong English learning environment and a good campus environment for students, and invests resources to hire three foreign English teachers to cooperate with the overall teaching strategy planning to improve students' English ability in an all-round way.

Each classroom in the school has an "English Learning Corner" with different types of English books for students to borrow. Posters and display cards are also posted on the walls to coordinate with the "three-minute reading" session in class to encourage students to read more English books. At the same time, the English subject team has specially prepared top-notch enriched study papers to give students more opportunities to practice English, consolidate and deepen the knowledge they have learned. Students will receive a seal after completion, which will enhance their enthusiasm for learning and cultivate their independent learning spirit.

In addition, in order to further cultivate students' good reading habits, the school arranges for foreign teachers to tell stories three times a week to make their English learning more interesting in the form of "accompanied reading". Teachers encourage students to flexibly use e-reading platforms such as Scholastic's BookFlix and Literacy Pro Library, and continue to improve their all-round language proficiency on the Oxford Achiever platform. Even when they are not in school, they can learn independently by making good use of information technology.

Student-centered, heterogeneous teaching strategies

The school adopts adaptive teaching strategies, puts students first, and designs curriculum learning plans that meet their needs. The school arranges for junior primary school students to participate in the Education Bureau's PLP-R/W course, which is taught by two foreign English teachers with the aim of developing their reading and writing skills. In addition, the school also arranges for foreign teachers to teach one Pinyin course every week to consolidate students' English pronunciation and vocabulary foundation. Students will complete the entire Pinyin course in first and second grade, thus laying a solid English foundation early. For students at the upper primary school level, the school arranges one conversation class per week taught by foreign teachers. The class covers different diversified activities, encouraging students to listen more and speak more, and improve their classmates' conversation skills. In addition, in order to help students enter the middle school of their choice with the best performance, the school specially arranges a middle school support program for sixth grade students. Under the training of foreign teachers, they can gradually master interview skills, enhance their confidence in taking exams, and start their ideal future.

Diversified learning activities enrich campus experience

In addition to attaching great importance to students' academic performance, the school also organizes a variety of extracurricular activities to enrich students' learning experience and immerse them in vivid and diverse English situations. The teaching team will train upper primary school students to serve as "English Ambassadors" and provide them with various types of training, including learning speech skills, campus tours, assisting teachers in special English activities, etc., so that students can not only improve their English knowledge, but also gain a sense of success and engagement, and build leadership skills and self-confidence from the activities. The school will also select students with potential and excellent English conversation skills to participate in English dramas to provide them with a stage to express themselves and enhance their confidence in using English through performances.

At the same time, the school actively promotes students to participate in various English activities, such as English creative art classes, English dance and singing classes, crazy English vocabulary courses, happy English pinyin classes, interdisciplinary English courses, Cambridge English classes, English ambassador training courses, career planning and life English conversation and high school interview preparation classes, etc., in order to enhance the learning motivation and English ability of all students in the school. In addition, the school implements the teaching model of "learning through games" and holds a variety of English learning activities, such as Halloween English speaking activities, Find Santa Claus, World Reading Day interactive games, Chinese Culture Week English learning, English Positive Week, etc., allowing students to learn and apply English in a pleasant atmosphere.