Diversified English practice opportunities, broadening horizons and connecting the world

Buddhist Yip Kei Nam Memorial College Comprehensively improve students' English learning and communication skills, improve their proficiency in the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing, broaden their horizons and develop a global perspective through different learning activities. Principal Lam Chi Wai, JimmyHas many years of experience and experience in English teaching. His past experience as the deputy principal of a direct subsidy English middle school enables him to lead the teaching team to design forward-looking English teaching strategies and continue to provide students with diverse learning opportunities. In conjunction with the school's high-quality whole-person education, students learn from experience and gradually build a positive attitude and outlook on life, laying a solid foundation for their future excellent development.

Immersive English environment lays a solid foundation for Chinese language

The school attaches great importance to creating a school-wide English environment to strengthen students' ability and confidence in learning English. By formulating different learning themes and combining them with a series of interdisciplinary English collaborative activities that are both interesting and life-like, students can help them improve their English skills unconsciously. The school also encourages teachers and students to interact in English, gradually establishing context in the most "relevant" way, allowing students to learn vocabulary and language usage skills from daily conversations. Principal Lam Chi Wai, Jimmy said: "The most effective way to learn a language is not to memorize it by rote, but to provide a large number of opportunities to use English in a targeted manner to expand its learning space, so that students can first understand how to use it, and then fall in love with it, and then deepen their English reading and writing communication skills and solidify their language foundation."

In addition, the school will also create learning opportunities through interdisciplinary multicultural exchange activities. Assistant Principal Chen Zhizhong first took the traditional festival Mid-Autumn Festival as an example. He pointed out that the school’s foreign English teachers will work with Chinese teachers to hang lanterns and guess lantern riddles in the school. In addition to promoting traditional Chinese cultural festivals, students can also understand the English terms related to the festival and the cultural differences between different countries. Principal Lam Chi Wai, JimmyAdded, in fact, the relevant English vocabulary is quite difficult for Hong Kong students who have always studied "academic English". Therefore, students should first learn these daily life terms and consolidate their English foundation.

Group teaching policy to cater for learning diversity

The school is student-oriented and uses additional resources to hire two more English teachers, significantly reducing the teacher-student ratio, and teaches students in groups according to their English proficiency. The number of students in each group is maintained at more than ten to twenty, so that teachers can pay more careful attention to each student's learning situation and needs, pay attention to the learning differences of individual students, and ensure the provision of high-quality teaching. In addition, the school has also introduced a data analysis system to track and monitor changes in students' performance, allowing the teaching team to better understand students' learning progress, adjust teaching arrangements and deployments in a timely manner, and improve the overall quality of learning and teaching.

Immersive English activity experience Environmental conservation and giving back to society

The school specially designs diversified English activities to create a natural English context, so that students can practice what they have learned at all times and internalize English knowledge, including campus TV stations, English corners, reading corners and theaters, etc., to improve students' enthusiasm and interest in English learning, and to broaden students' learning space. For example, in the drama workshop, students will focus on English drama skills, learn more authentic English, and be able to better express their ideas in English; the fashion show will be held during the Halloween party to unleash the potential of students in fashion design and English use; in order to help students learn English in a relaxed atmosphere, the school has organized an English cafe where they can chat, eat snacks and spend a good time with foreign teachers.

In addition, the school also hopes to bring environmental awareness into students' lives so that it can be used in different areas of life; on the other hand, it also encourages students to participate in and support community environmental protection activities and services. At the same time, we will also praise students who can contribute to environmental protection and promote environmental education to encourage them to continue their efforts and hope that other students will learn and imitate. Through the close integration of environmental conservation and English learning, students can learn English knowledge and professional vocabulary on environmental issues, cultivate their critical thinking and social responsibility, participate in environmental protection actions more effectively, and contribute to protecting the earth.

Interdisciplinary collaborative teaching deepens knowledge and cultural connotation

The school actively promotes interdisciplinary collaborative teaching to develop students' knowledge, skills and attitudes. The school will select suitable collaborative subjects according to students' abilities and interests, and promote them by organizing diversified learning activities. To this end, the school arranged the biology and English subject groups to organize a "Healthy Diet" special study program. Students must learn how to set correct research directions and strategies through systematic verification and research, and finally report their research conclusions in English, and must point out the limitations of their research and possible future research directions. Real-life experience can enhance students' interest in research and solve problems, inspire their creativity, and pave the way for their future.

In terms of curriculum content, reading is the foundation for learning in various subjects, and the school attaches great importance to inter-disciplinary collaboration between English subjects and reading classes. By participating in the "Caring for the Diversity of Junior Secondary Students (Reading and Writing) through Online Learning" organized by the Quality Education Fund of the Education University of Hong Kong, junior secondary students are encouraged to read more and provided with learning support in writing. There are LAC subjects (Language across the Curriculum) and RAC subjects (Reading across the Curriculum) at Form 4 and Form 5, which can help expand students' reading depth and breadth, master reading skills and improve their English ability.

Brand new English learning experience Reading opens the door to knowledge

In order to enhance students' sense of classroom participation and absorb knowledge more effectively, the school has updated many classrooms and multimedia teaching equipment in recent years, such as adding electronic interactive whiteboards as needed to improve the quality of learning and teaching. In addition, library facilities are also added, and activities such as reading clubs and small lectures are carried out to strengthen the reading atmosphere in the school and thereby strengthen students' language skills. In order to allow students to quickly adapt to the future group-based work model, the school has invested in building a multimedia information room and group learning conference room to provide a corresponding environment for students to gradually become accustomed to the co-creation and learning model, deepen their English skills, and meet future industrial and commercial needs.

Extensive reading is of great benefit to students in learning Chinese. By reading various books and articles, students can be exposed to rich English vocabulary and enhance their language expression skills. The school library has a rich collection of Chinese and English books, with a total of 18,000 hard copies and continues to expand. The school has also ordered different types of journals to encourage students to explore different levels of knowledge and information. By adding e-books, students can also browse the "Cloud Bookcase" through the Internet and become an important member of the "Wallless Classroom". In addition, the school library holds long-term theme book exhibitions and promotes various types of reading programs and activities. It regularly updates and recommends diverse reading materials to students to guide them in the exploration and discovery of knowledge and cultivate reading habits. It not only enhances the cultural heritage of English, but also enhances the ability to comprehensively apply subject knowledge.

Comprehensive international perspective to improve cross-cultural communication capabilities

The school is well aware that learning should not be limited to the campus, so it reallocates school resources and uses additional resources in a timely manner to organize overseas English exchange study groups. With the general direction of "classrooms without walls", it breaks through the limitations of the classroom and allows students to learn and use English in a real and rich context. Through non-classroom learning, students can personally plan, experience and reflect, conduct cultural exchanges and comparisons with peers from different backgrounds, accumulate and internalize relevant knowledge, skills and attitudes, broaden their horizons and network, and cultivate them to become future leaders.

The school has earlier organized the "Malaysia Exchange Visit 2023" program for in-depth exchange of youth dreams through the "International Youth Exchange Funding Program" of the Home Affairs and Youth Affairs Bureau and the Youth Development Committee, allowing students to go to the Petaling Catholic National High School in Malaysia for exchanges, classes and interactions, broadening students' horizons, enriching their learning experience, and adding to their foreign life experience. Students who participated in the program were full of praise for the study habits or words and deeds of Malaysian students, and then thought about their own shortcomings and explored room for improvement. The school has planned a number of overseas and overseas exchange projects this year, including a Korean exchange group, a British and Danish science and technology exchange group, etc. The school hopes that every student can participate in at least one exchange group during their schooling. In addition to learning to take care of themselves, they can also broaden their horizons, stimulate their desire to explore life through personal experience, continue to pursue excellence, and set higher goals for life!

Principal Lam Chi Wai, JimmyIn addition, the threshold for participating in overseas and overseas exchange groups is actually not high. As long as students are willing to speak English and study hard and make progress, they can sign up. Students are also very positive about the opportunity to travel abroad. Overseas exchange programs can cultivate students' courage and self-confidence, and provide them with abundant opportunities to communicate with foreigners in English. At the same time, they realize the importance of English as a communication tool, not only to cope with exams, but also to apply what they have learned in daily life.