Create learning opportunities and cultivate interest in English

TWGHs Tang Shiu Kin Primary School has been committed to providing comprehensive and diversified educational services and cultivating talents. Principal Zhong Jiaming attaches great importance to students' English learning, and designs special courses through various activities and external exchanges to increase students' interest in learning English and participation opportunities. Thanks to the full support of the school sponsoring group for the school's English teaching, students have received sufficient resources, which not only promotes the quality of English teaching, but also creates a good learning environment for the school, comprehensively improves students' English ability, and lays a solid foundation for their future.

4+N foreign teachers create an atmosphere and strengthen English skills through communication

Principal Zhong understands that students need more opportunities to apply English in order to internalize the knowledge learned in class. To this end, the school has increased its efforts in allocating foreign English teachers to create an overall English learning atmosphere. There are currently four long-term foreign English teachers in the school. In addition to being responsible for daily English classes, they also participate in various English activities. In addition, the school will also hire a number of foreign English teachers according to the needs of the activities to further help students learn English well. Through daily classes, extracurricular activities, breaks and breaks, students have plenty of opportunities to interact with foreign English teachers, increasing their chances of speaking and listening to English. This not only strengthens their listening and conversational skills, but also increases their confidence in communication.

Diversified Activities Fun to Learn English

As children grow, the school also arranges a variety of in-school English activities to establish an English context and enhance students' interest in English, making the learning process more interesting. For example, in terms of extracurricular activities, the school arranges English dramas directed by foreign English teachers for the entire second grade, aiming to allow students to learn English through happy activities. At the upper primary school level, "Little Shakespeare" traditional English dramas will be arranged to allow students to get in touch with Shakespeare's classic works and perform them in public.

During the rehearsal process, students can learn more vocabulary, sentence patterns and literary classics from English scripts and dialogues, which will help improve their English reading and writing skills. In addition, through interaction with foreign teachers and classmates, they can train listening and conversational skills, and also provide a stage for students to perform, allowing them to gain a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction from the presentation, thereby building self-confidence in English and learning to enjoy the fun of learning English.

In addition, the school helps students learn English well through different festival activities. For example, an English learning week will be held on Halloween in October; during the Thanksgiving celebration in November, the school not only arranges English writing and conversation activities, but teachers also prepare turkey and Thanksgiving food for students to taste. On the same day, students can also write Thanksgiving cards and take photos in Aboriginal costumes to experience Thanksgiving culture. These festive English activities deepen students' interest in learning English, and also allow children to understand the customs, habits and characteristics of foreign cultures, extending English learning to the world and cultural level.

Organizing overseas study tours to understand the world through English

"Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles." Book knowledge needs to be continuously verified through practice. Therefore, in addition to arranging on-campus activities, the school also organizes a variety of overseas study tours to allow students to understand the world through English. These study tour groups take students to countries where English is the main language of communication and carry out various learning activities. For example, the "Joint School Canadian English Nature and Ecology Study Group" and "Australia Overseas Study Group" allow students to understand ecology and animals. In addition, the school also arranged for students from the music group to go to Austria for a "Vienna Music and Culture Tour". Earlier, there was also a "Finnish Christmas Exchange Group" that led students to visit Santa Claus Village in Finland for English study and activities.

Every year, the school also arranges for students to communicate with sister schools in Japan through video or in-person visits, using English as the communication medium. These opportunities allow children to use English to communicate with local people, learn about cultures and developments around the world, experience the customs and customs of different regions, and broaden their horizons.

STEAM and English complement each other, interdisciplinary learning cultivates outstanding talents

The school has always kept pace with the times and cultivated the balanced development of students' Chinese language ability and innovation and technology ability. It has added school-based special flight courses to the STEAM learning content and equipped with simulated flight devices for teaching. A large number of English vocabulary are used in the course, so that students can not only learn aviation knowledge, but also enrich their English vocabulary library. The course was also recognized by the China Aeronautical Society and became the first primary school in Hong Kong to be selected as a "National Aviation Characteristic School". Images of astronomy and constellations are also arranged in the corridors of the school, with their English names marked, so that students can learn more about astronomy-related English knowledge in the school.

The school also arranges for students to participate in the "Jockey Club Computational Thinking Education" program to inspire students' digital creativity in daily life and train them to actively use technology to benefit the public from an early age. They can learn happily by using their hands and brains to prepare for the ever-changing digital future. The course covers areas such as aviation, astronomy, computational thinking, and computer language, and combines relevant knowledge with English learning to achieve a mutually reinforcing effect. While learning STEAM knowledge, students can also master relevant English vocabulary, fully prepare themselves for entering English middle schools in the future, and become more comfortable in understanding foreign STEAM theories.

Thanks to the school's teaching strategies, students have achieved outstanding results in the STEAM field. So far, the school has won more than hundreds of STEAM awards. For example, in the Coolthink competition, the school won the top three in Hong Kong in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. In addition, students won the Hong Kong championship in the STEAM student competition hosted by Ocean Park in 2022 and performed well.

International English Certification Set Learning Goals

Every year, the school arranges for students to take international English exams, giving them the opportunity to obtain a recognized English proficiency certification. For example, take the Test of English Proficiency for Non-native English Speakers (TOEFL), Cambridge English Examinations, International Assessment and Competition (ICAS), and the University of New South Wales International Assessment. A student won the "Global Excellence Award" in the TOEFL exam and achieved the "BEST OF THE BEST" in the TOEFL Primary exam. Only 24 students in Hong Kong received this award. Through these international examinations, students can not only understand their English proficiency, but also set goals for their own learning, promote progress, and build confidence in English and a sense of achievement.

Primary 1 transition measures to build interest and confidence

From the first year of primary school, the school provides Phonics skills training to new students to help them master the basic skills of spelling and reading, and lay a solid foundation for learning English listening, speaking, reading and writing. In addition, the school has specially set up simple and clear pictures and signs on different floors and classrooms of the campus so that students can be exposed to various English vocabulary at any time. Through a comprehensive learning environment, students can gradually build their interest and confidence in English in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere.