Diversified counseling shows care, career planning creates the future

CCC Kei San Secondary School Implement the vision of the school sponsoring body—"cultivate a rich life side by side, and witness the great love of Christ together" to create a campus atmosphere full of care. The school attaches great importance to the growth and development of students and delivers care through diversified training and counseling activities. It also provides life planning education and guides students to explore the future through cross-department collaboration. The school also makes good use of resources to organize different types of extracurricular activities such as fencing, orchestra, and musicals, creating opportunities for students to explore their interests and show their talents and achieve their future.

Combining rich experience and innovative thinking to inherit the past and open up the future

The new principal @TERM2@@ is very knowledgeable and brings the rich educational and administrative experience accumulated in the DSS English-Chinese School to the new school. He encourages innovative thinking in designing school-based courses and diverse activities to provide students with diverse learning experiences. Principal Ko Kwok Wing attaches great importance to students’ biliteracy and trilingual development, and is determined to improve students’ English abilities. On the other hand, Principal Ko Kwok Wing belongs to a church that belongs to the Chinese Christian Church as well as the school, and can lead the team to do evangelistic services and bring spiritual enlightenment to students.

This year Jixin marks the 55th anniversary of its founding. Principal Ko Kwok Wing is full of confidence in the future development of the school. He believes that students are generally well-behaved, polite, grateful, and have a sense of belonging and identification with the school. In the past, many alumni have personally given back to their alma mater for their cultivation, returned to JIXIN to cultivate talents, and passed on the JIXIN spirit. As the principal of a school, he said he would lead an outstanding teaching team with a coaching mind and maintain close ties with school sponsoring groups and the government, "hoping to build on the past and open up the future."

Six years of consistent career planning to clarify ambitions step by step

The school attaches great importance to the future development of students and adopts a six-year consistent education strategy to provide career guidance services in a sequential manner. In the first and second stages of secondary school, personality analysis is conducted for students to help them understand themselves, while providing basic information about different industries. Vice Principal Huang Jiehui said, "Having a goal will have a direction." Therefore, students must know their direction in advance. In the third and fourth stages of secondary school, in response to students' subject selection needs, the school will work with the extracurricular activity group, guidance group, etc. to hold cross-department activities such as career planning lectures and leadership workshops. It will also lead teams to visit institutions and arrange various on-campus services to help students clarify their aspirations.

In the fifth and sixth grades, in addition to providing a large number of counseling activities, the school also hires a career guidance director to interview every student in the grade in a group format, so that they can have a broader and in-depth understanding of future career planning. By arranging different on-campus service and social service opportunities, students can deepen their exposure to various walks of life. The school also encourages them to participate in off-campus experience programs such as "Dare to Dream" and explore the workplace in advance. On the other hand, questionnaires are used to collect students’ opinions and corresponding tutoring arrangements are made for the industries they are interested in.

Create a warm campus and close the relationship between teachers and students

The school implements holistic education and affirms that the significance of education lies in the cultivation of life and the establishment of personality. Therefore, the focus of training is on "education" and "guidance." Education is carried out by organizing a variety of activities, such as setting up self-improvement growth groups, etc., in order to achieve the goal of educating talents. The school has been awarded the "Caring School" honor by the Christian Service for 19 consecutive years since 2005, and is committed to strengthening the relationship between teachers and students through the Education Bureau's "School Spirit" program. To this end, the school launched the "Jixin Fun" activity, and worked with various departments within the school to make good use of the time and space in the afternoon to hold teacher-student ball games, love concerts, ice cream parties, fruit parties, etc., to increase opportunities for teachers and students to communicate. Vice Principal Huang said that the purpose of the event was to convey a message of care to students, "allowing them to have a pleasant afternoon and enjoy campus life." While teachers and students have fun together, they can also build friendships and strengthen their sense of belonging to the school. During the cold winter last year, the school also launched a warm-up campaign, opening the auditorium early in the morning for students to enjoy hot chocolate, etc., creating a sweet and warm campus atmosphere.

The school also actively implements the Education Bureau's "4Rs Mental Health Charter" and promotes class support activities, allowing each class teacher to hold birthday parties, gratitude parties, victory celebrations and other activities to add a sense of ritual to students' campus life. Compared with the class management model of other schools, the school will design annual themes, such as "Thanksgiving, Cherishing, Positive Optimism" implemented this year, hoping to infiltrate positive values ​​through the collaboration of different disciplines, group departments, and even short speech sharing in the morning meeting.

Principal Ko Kwok WingAdded that in addition to daily activities such as singing hymns and prayers, teachers will also design different topics to conduct warm communication with students. He described it as "the feeling of a family warming up", helping students start their day of learning, which left a deep impression on him when he first arrived at the new school. He also emphasized that when the school implements the "4Rs Mental Health Charter", it will also take care of the needs of teachers. Taking the past Teacher Development Day as an example, the school held a lecture on traditional Chinese medicine health preservation for all teachers. At the same time, various workshops were arranged according to individual interests, such as preparing drinks, playing table games, experiencing emerging sports, making aromatherapy, and drawing harmonious pastel paintings, so that teachers can release work pressure, build team spirit, and improve learning and teaching effectiveness.

Diversified extracurricular activities to help with further studies and employment

The school's extracurricular activities and service clubs are divided into four categories: academic, interest, religious and service, with a total of more than 30 types to choose from. Teacher Huang Weijie, director of extracurricular activities, said that the campus covers a large area and can accommodate multiple courts, allowing students to experience archery, tennis, golf, fencing and other demanding sports on campus, develop their interests and potential, and thereby strengthen their sense of belonging to the school. He said with a smile that the students who participated in archery even "played very professionally" and had won prizes in off-campus competitions in the past.

Extracurricular activities help develop students’ self-confidence and maintain their mental health. In the process, students need to learn to get along with their peers, which is beneficial to personal growth. In addition, extracurricular activities and career planning play a complementary role and help cultivate positive values. For example: sports activities can cultivate perseverance and discipline, which are beneficial to students' future studies and employment. Students with better physical fitness can also use this to understand their personal characteristics and consider the possibility of joining the disciplinary forces as a future path.

In addition to society activities, the school also actively takes students out of campus to broaden their horizons. For example: post-trial activities including visits to the airport, the Court of Final Appeal and the police dog training school were held in the past. Director Huang said that the event was well received by students. The common point of these visiting places is that students usually have no way to visit them on their own. "After the students actually visited the Court of Final Appeal, they felt everything was novel." Students are full of freshness about everything, and the visits also expose them to more different types of work, helping to inspire new imaginations for the future.

At the same time, the school’s 55th anniversary musical came to a perfect conclusion. Director Huang shared that it is not easy to organize a large-scale event, but it is a rare opportunity for students to actually participate in the production and appreciate the musical works. In addition, the school also makes good use of resources to organize various exchange groups, ranging from visits to the Greater Bay Area in the Mainland, to Asia as far away as possible, and to Vienna, the capital of music, to broaden their knowledge.

Free loan of musical instruments to cultivate musical attainments

The school's music department is well-known in the district. Teacher Lin Jiahui, the national security education director in charge of the choir and orchestra, is grateful for the school's strong support, purchasing musical instruments and lending them to students free of charge, so that students from low-income families "don't have to worry about not being able to afford instruments and not being able to learn music." Each loan lasts for one year, allowing students to take the instrument home to practice. At the same time, the school runs a number of musical instrument classes to attract students to participate at affordable prices. In addition, the campus environment has ample space, allowing the school to store a large number of musical instruments and provide sufficient hardware equipment.

She continued to share that the school specially designed a promotion ladder for students, asking instructors of each musical instrument class to observe their performance after one year of study, and recommend students with outstanding performance to become orchestra members. In addition to having a conductor, the orchestra also arranges instructors of various instruments to provide impromptu guidance to students to help them develop their musical abilities. There is no charge for students to participate, and they have multiple performance opportunities. For example, they perform on campus every year for events such as Worship Day or Parents' Day. Outside of school, they regularly perform with the choir, performing at Disney theme parks every year, and have also performed at other schools.

Cultivate national identity and visit Alibaba headquarters

According to the values reported by the Education Bureau KPM17, the school’s national identity performance is outstanding, and students’ attitude towards the country is almost perfect. The school arranges weekly morning meetings to hold a flag-raising ceremony, and the flag-raising team also participates in the Junior Police Call's Chinese flag-raising competition every year. Last year, it successfully won the championship in the New Territories North District. Director Lin said that in addition to the school arranging training for them and hiring flag-raising team instructors from outside the school, "students must be very willing to practice."

In addition, the National Security Education Team, together with the Civics Section, takes students to the mainland for inspections. In the past summer vacation, I visited Alibaba’s headquarters in Hangzhou. Director Lin happily shared: "Alibaba does not accept school visits casually. There are only three schools in Hong Kong that are lucky enough to enter its headquarters, and we are one of them." As a world-renowned e-commerce and Internet company, students can personally experience the corporate atmosphere of a top innovative organization and understand the country's achievements. The opportunity is very precious, and even mainland students cannot enjoy the benefits. It shows that the motherland welcomes local students to go north to develop, and they must seize relevant opportunities.

School sponsoring organizations provide strong support and provide training and spiritual support.

Ms. Zhuang Jinshang, who has been a school director for ten years, has witnessed the progress of Jixin in the past and believes that the principal and teaching team are indispensable. She gave an example: During the COVID-19 epidemic, the school worked hard to provide assistance to students who could not come to school; it organized a school anniversary musical to create a stage for students, allowing students from Form 2 to Form 5 to participate in the production in front of and behind the scenes to cultivate team spirit. She appreciated the school's willingness to explore students' potential in different aspects and cultivate them into good citizens who contribute to society. Because of this, in the face of the trend of class reduction in secondary schools in Hong Kong, Ji Sun has been able to buck the trend and continue to expand classes.

On the other hand, school-running groups continue to serve as a strong backing for the development of Jixin. Mr. Chen Junjie, Academic Director of the Church of Christ in China, shared that as one of the three largest school-running groups in Hong Kong, the Church of Christ in China currently has a total of 83 primary and secondary schools and has been regularly arranging exchanges at all levels to improve teaching and administrative efficiency. For example: setting up learning and teaching groups to allow teachers from different schools to observe each other and share teaching experiences; holding symposiums for newly hired teachers to introduce the group's school philosophy in depth; arranging school manager training six times a year to strengthen financial and personnel management, etc. At the same time, the group attaches great importance to the connection between primary and secondary schools to achieve the consistent educational goals of twelve years.

The Chinese Christian Church also arranges a number of joint school activities for students, such as land sports meets, water sports meets, visual arts exhibitions, etc. It also provides primary and secondary school model student awards and long-term service awards to teachers. "As a school sponsoring organization, we need to take care of teachers, students and parents at the same time," he said. In the long run, the service scope will be expanded and parent education in secondary schools will be implemented. He hopes that under the guidance of professionals, parents will know how to deal with their children who are under pressure to enter school and grow up, and help relieve stress. At the same time, school-school cooperation benefits different school stakeholders, and parents and teachers can gain spiritual sustenance through pastors and missionaries.