Enrich your experience and enjoy learning English. Efficient learning lays the foundation for knowledge.

G.C.C.I.T.K.D. Cheong Wong Wai Primary SchoolCarry forward the spirit of the school motto "Educate yourself and practice hard", and strive to create an English learning environment to help students lay a good knowledge foundation and explore their personal potential. English is the key to opening up an international perspective and will certainly be of great help to future development. Therefore, the school actively provides a real language environment and cooperates with the "small class teaching" policy to achieve a high-efficiency English learning experience. Principal Liang Weiji hopes that students will gradually improve their English proficiency through daily contact, inspire motivation and self-confidence in seeking knowledge, and lay a good foundation in language and disciplines.

Interdisciplinary courses to improve students’ English proficiency

Cross-curricular learning is an effective method to improve students' abilities. This year, the English Department used Halloween as the theme and cooperated with the Visual Arts Department to conduct interdisciplinary activities. Students not only learned the cultural background of each world-famous painting, but also transformed into the characters in the painting to show their acting talents and creativity. They imitated the postures and expressions of the protagonists in world-famous paintings such as "Mona Lisa", "The Scream" and "Girl with a Pearl Earring".

Through role-playing, students can simulate the characters in the paintings, making learning more interesting and promoting their language use. During the process, students need to conduct conversations in English to express the characters' emotions and story backgrounds, improve their listening and speaking skills through interactive learning, and enhance the practicality of the language.

Cross-curricular learning in English and visual arts, through appreciating famous paintings and role-playing, can effectively improve students' English skills, allowing them to understand art while also confidently using language to communicate.

Values Education: Promoting Correct Values

The school participates in the "Sayings of Wisdom (SOW)" organized by the Education Bureau every year to infiltrate values education into English classes and English morning assemblies to enhance students' correct values. In the English class, teachers encourage students to share English proverbs that nourish the soul, enrich their English learning experience, improve their English learning ability, and cultivate correct values, good attitudes and behaviors.

In the English morning meeting, teachers design values-themed activities, such as speeches, story sharing or role-playing, to provide students with opportunities to express their own opinions and allow them to experience and practice these values ​​in actual situations. The teacher used the example of Hong Kong Olympic gold medalist Zhang Ka Long to help students understand that as long as they work hard, they must persevere, adjust their pace, and face difficulties even when they encounter setbacks. "Diligence" is not limited to academics. Students can also work hard in sports, arts, or other goals, persevere, and move forward step by step toward their ideals.

Diversified English courses catering for different learning needs

For different stages of growth, the teaching team has clear teaching policies to equip students with the skills they need for growth. At the junior primary level, the curriculum focuses on stimulating students’ interest in learning English and establishing solid reading and writing skills. The classroom implements an activity-based teaching model and introduces the primary school literacy program Space Town organized by the Education Bureau. The classroom will systematically conduct guided reading and phonics exercises to improve the reading and writing abilities of junior primary students. At the same time, independent learning, reflection and evaluation are promoted, and high-efficiency learning habits are initially established. Students participate in Space Town classes in the English room. Foreign English teacher Miss Samreen and English teachers use diversified teaching activities, such as story sharing, singing games, role playing, table games, etc., to enhance students' interest and motivation in learning English, so that they can learn English in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere.
Senior students participated in the DTS Program organized by the Education Bureau. Students improved their English proficiency by reading articles of different genres and enriching the English context. Foreign consulting teachers from the Education Bureau regularly prepare lessons with teachers and share many valuable teaching experiences and specific teaching plan design suggestions.

In addition to jointly preparing lessons, foreign consulting teachers will enter the classroom and carefully observe the students' learning situation. The students showed active participation, and the foreign consulting teachers provided them with individual guidance. His professional opinions and suggestions allow teachers to learn how to stimulate students' interest in learning in a more engaging and interactive way. At the after-class review meeting, the foreign consulting teachers analyzed the highlights and areas for improvement for each class, which helped improve the teacher's teaching effectiveness. By participating in different English programs, students can enjoy a richer English learning experience!

Make good use of e-learning to enhance the effectiveness of interactive learning

Entering the new era of information technology, the school actively promotes electronic chemistry and teaching models to enhance learning effectiveness. Principal Liang said bluntly: "English, as the second language for most students, requires more context and time for immersion in order to master the grammar and logic of the foreign language, and build up enough vocabulary to understand the learning content. However, traditional teaching is relatively one-way, and teachers often cannot understand each student's learning status in real time, so we use the characteristics of e-learning to promote interactive learning."

Students use tablet computers to preview or answer questions in real time in class, and the teaching team uses real-time data to understand the learning situation and make appropriate classroom adjustments. Moreover, the e-learning platform is more interesting than traditional preview worksheets. Students can preview different units through interactive games, platform reading, etc., which greatly enhances learning motivation and makes learning more effective.

In addition, students have the opportunity to have English classes in the English room every week, taught by local and foreign teachers, as well as classroom assistants. Classes are conducted in small groups, with peers providing healthy competition by giving each other pointers and observing each other. Teachers also use online self-study tools such as Wordwall and Kahoot from time to time to compete with games and tests to consolidate what students have learned.

Create extracurricular English scenes and integrate English into life

To learn English well, interest and context are indispensable elements. Miss Samreen, a foreign English teacher, works with English teachers at all levels to design creative teaching activities and teaching materials for students, providing real context to build their confidence and interest in using English to communicate.

In addition, Miss Samreen will go to different floors to conduct English activities with students of different grades during recess and lunch periods, giving students more opportunities to communicate in English, and gradually become proficient and dare to speak English. Miss Samreen will take turns sharing their interests or hobbies with students through different games and situations, and encourage everyone to ask and answer questions in English, thereby improving students' English speaking skills. The whole activity was full of laughter and learning atmosphere. Students actively shared their interests and preferences in English, learned new vocabulary and expressions, and experienced the confidence and fun of conversation in English!

In addition to improving the English ambassadors’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through different situations and interactive games in the multiple intelligences class, foreign teacher Miss Samreen will also train them to become English companion reading ambassadors. English ambassadors will go to the first to third grade classrooms during recess and lunch to read English books with lower grade students. They will select some exciting and interesting English story books and sit with their lower grade classmates to read. Through accompanying reading activities, students in lower grades can develop their interest in reading and improve their reading ability. Everyone listened to the story very attentively, and the English Ambassador even invited them to read the storybook together, so that everyone could encourage and help each other.

Diverse learning experiences to develop English potential

Diversified learning experiences can further develop students' unique potential. The school actively encourages students to participate in different competitions, make use of what they learn in daily life, display their learning results to the public, and create successful experiences. Principal Liang said: "We lead students to participate in the short film creation competition (Filmit) every year. The students write scripts and produce short films under the guidance of foreign teachers. They have even won the Silver Award for Best Overall Film. In addition to participating in the Filmit competition, students participated in the Story to Stage Puppetry Competition and also won the Merit Award." The English subject group also promoted "Reading" Club", foreign teachers lead students to read different novels, including classics and new novels, using stories to arouse students' interest in reading and learn more advanced reading skills.

The school also takes advantage of different festivals and special moments to organize a variety of English learning activities. For example, at Christmas, the school holds special celebrations. Students dress up carefully, go to the auditorium to play games with foreign teachers, and learn new words related to the festival. Principal Liang will even distribute Christmas gifts with Santa Claus, creating a relaxed and interesting learning atmosphere. In addition, the English subject team has also cooperated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong and participated in the Quality Teaching Fund Project to integrate social-emotional learning into English courses and conduct a series of teaching activities to cultivate students' positive values, attitudes and motivations.