Create a good academic style, inspire wisdom and light, and cultivate students to become talents with heart

Buddhist Wong Wan Tin College is committed to cultivating students’ holistic development and firmly believes that every student has strengths and potentials and is teachable and teachable. The school implements the educational spirit of "nurturing talents" and attaches great importance to the balanced development of students' moral, intellectual, physical, social, and aesthetic education to achieve the all-round growth of knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Through the "teaching in accordance with their aptitude" approach, it takes care of the different learning needs of students, allowing them to develop their strengths in their respective fields of expertise, and cultivate outstanding students who pay equal attention to learning and conduct. Principal Lee Kang Pan Lead the teaching team with forward-looking educational concepts to promote the innovative development of the school so that students can learn well and learn well. As a result, the quality of the school’s admissions continues to improve, and public examination results and inter-school and international competitions have repeatedly reported good results, making it a high value-added secondary school that continues to improve.

Launch of Tianyuan’s “Dream Building Course” to lead students’ wonderful lives

In order to inspire the diverse development of students, further improve the quality of learning and teaching, and make the campus a platform for students to develop their talents. The school incorporates innovative concepts into the design of school-based courses and launches the "Dream Building Course" in Tianyuan. The content covers academics, art, sports, science, technology and other learning areas to stimulate students' learning interests and development potential. The curriculum is specially designed according to the growth and learning needs of different students, and the learning focus, course content and assessment criteria for different levels are compiled from easy to advanced. The dream-building course is taught by teachers with relevant expertise. A total of four elective courses are taken throughout the year for Form 1 students; high school is a compulsory course; a total of three courses are taken throughout the year for Form 4 students; and a total of two courses are taken throughout the year for Form 5 students.

The content of the dream-building course is diversified, providing different experiences such as Drumming Heroes Club, Throwing Art, Tianyuan Sports Academy, Broadcasting Dream Factory, Maintenance DIY, etc. It is expected that students can master different knowledge, diverse skills and positive attitudes before graduating from Form 6. In order to avoid increasing the pressure on students, the results of the Dream Building course will not be included in the official admission form, but will be recorded in the "Student Learning Profile" to make students more eye-catching and enhance their competitiveness when filling out resumes for further studies and employment. At the same time, dream-building courses are also a way for different societies to select talents. On the one hand, students can explore their interests and expertise through courses; on the other hand, teachers can also observe students' performance in class. If they find that a student has particularly high potential, they can be invited to join the corresponding society to gain more opportunities to develop.

STEAM builds common capabilities and outstanding performance is recognized overseas

The school has always kept pace with the times and performed well in STEAM education, promoting interdisciplinary learning, leading students into the field of innovative technology, and cultivating students' creative thinking and problem-solving abilities. In order to systematically help students learn and master advanced scientific theories and technologies, Secondary 1 to 3 have STEAM classrooms, and cooperate with many institutions such as the Chinese University of Hong Kong to jointly develop classrooms and extend courses to cultivate innovative talents with international competitiveness. The school continues to deepen STEAM education and provides diversified learning experiences, such as robotics, 3D printing, drones, programming, etc., to teach students to integrate scientific research into life and use technology to benefit the community.

The school encourages students to participate in various types of STEAM-related competitions. During the competition, students use their creativity and subject knowledge to solve different life problems and contribute more to social development in the future. In the past few years, the "Tian Yuan Robot Production Team" and "Creative Thinking Team" have performed well and have won awards in many major Hong Kong and international competitions. Over the years, the Robot Production Team has won the world runner-up in the "ROBOFEST International Robot Competition" and the champion and runner-up in the "Tomorrow's World Concept Car Competition", and the students have benefited a lot. Since its establishment, the Creative Thinking Team has enjoyed a high reputation in the academic community and has won many awards for more than ten years. It has represented Hong Kong in the United States to participate in the Creative Thinking World Competition many times, and has won the championship, first runner-up and third runner-up respectively in the past.

Excellent teaching team promotes the development of education profession

Good curriculum design can improve the quality of teaching and ensure that students acquire systematic and coherent knowledge. With diversified courses and all-round learning as its core, the school has constructed a consistent school-based curriculum for six years. It not only focuses on students' academic achievements, but also emphasizes their overall development, cultivating outstanding talents who can adapt to future social challenges. The school implements the educational philosophy of whole-school participation in nurturing students' growth. It enriches campus life by creating a large number of diverse all-round learning opportunities, and uses interactive teaching to help students explore their personal interests, build a highly engaging and efficient learning experience, and learn how to integrate knowledge and apply it in daily life to achieve the educational goal of whole-person development.

At the same time, in order to allow students to learn well, learn well, and make the best use of their talents, the school attaches great importance to the professional development of teachers. Through mutual observation, sharing of teaching experience, and professional feedback and training, the school masters more effective learning and teaching methods, making the school a learning community and a learning organization. The school has established a collaborative culture of professional teams, igniting the inner motivation of teachers, making the teaching level and effectiveness highly recognized by the academic community and winning many awards. In recent years, he has won many educational awards including the Chief Executive's Teaching Excellence Award, Outstanding Teacher Award, Hong Kong Outstanding Teacher Ethics Award, and Li Culture Outstanding Teacher Award. Students develop their potential in a professional and diverse environment, realize their self-worth, and demonstrate good learning abilities and self-confidence, which confirms the school's continuous pursuit of education quality.

Implement experiential learning and volunteer services to give back to the community

The school implements the educational concept of experiential learning, guides and educates students to improve self-discipline, self-confidence, and self-improvement, and transform classroom learning into application and personal practice. The school actively encourages students to participate in service learning with a wide range and depth, and provides a large number of volunteer opportunities, such as walking to raise funds, distributing lucky bags, volunteer training, visiting the elderly, etc., and registers each student as a member of the "U21 Youth Network" to become a volunteer of the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, achieving the effect of helping others to help themselves. Through experiential learning, students can have different volunteer service experiences during their secondary school career and develop the habit of serving the community, thereby understanding society, caring for others, and helping people in need. This reflects that the school attaches great importance to giving students different opportunities to explore their bright spots, using positive encouragement to enhance their participation and commitment, and increase their learning confidence. At the same time, the school will calculate service hours for students, and outstanding students will be awarded scholarships and certificates at the school awards ceremony as an encouragement.

Buddhism organically combines positive values ​​to cultivate "three good" people

In addition to focusing on students' academic performance, the school also uses Buddhist moral education and value education subjects to help students understand that Buddhist principles are closely related to their lives. The school coordinates the twelve primary values ​​advocated by the Education Bureau with Buddhist value education, and closely links each other with the Buddhist spirit: conscious self-interest, awareness of others and altruism, and dependence on others. In order to help students correctly understand Buddhism and inspire their own compassion and wisdom through Buddhist teachings, the school focuses on three aspects: "campus atmosphere", "formal curriculum" and "religious activities" to cultivate students' good life attitudes and positive values, so as to become self-interested and altruistic "three good" (doing good deeds, saying good words, and having good intentions) people.

Every year, the school holds activities such as lantern-passing ceremonies, temple tours, Buddhist lectures, Buddha bathing ceremonies, and vegetarian banquets for the rich and poor. Last year, it co-organized the "Samantabhadra Student Experience Day" in the hope of inspiring students to learn Buddhism. In addition, in order to enhance students' interest in meditation, the school combines meditation with art and organizes tea meditation, flower meditation, Mid-Autumn Lantern Workshop, hand rope making workshop, lotus lantern workshop, etc. to deepen students' understanding of Buddhism and meditation. The school has also kept pace with the times and introduced new forms of meditation such as singing bowls and mindfulness concerts, which have healing and stress-reducing effects, and the response from teachers and students has been very good.