Student-oriented, comprehensive care, and promotion of students’ all-round development

Y.C.H. Ho Sik Nam Primary School With the school motto of "Respecting benevolence and benefiting the world", we provide comprehensive primary school education services and are committed to cultivating students' balanced development of moral character, academics and extracurricular activities, and creating a happy and shining learning life for them. Principal Yip Wai Ting attaches great importance to the school's transition from kindergarten to primary school. Taking into account the needs of children when they enter primary school, she supports the growth of parents and students from different areas and levels. She also provides student-oriented courses and comprehensively cultivates children's healthy and happy growth through rich and diverse learning experiences.

Take the first step in learning and welcome the new milestone in primary school

The school provides a series of activities and courses to help prospective students adapt to primary school life. In June every year, the school holds a "Summer Camp for Pre-Primary School Students", inviting students and parents to participate, helping them become familiar with the environment through games and campus tours, relieving the psychological and academic pressure caused by further studies, and promoting social-emotional development and personal growth. Before the start of the school year, the school uses the "Primary One Adaptation Course" to help students understand the learning model of each subject, experience the classroom rhythm, so that they can gradually adapt to the primary school curriculum and develop self-care abilities. One month after the start of the school year, the school will hold a "Primary One Full Moon Ceremony" to invite parents to witness their children's growth. This not only creates beautiful memories for parents and children, but also showcases students' learning achievements. Through a series of measures, starting from the starting point, new students are supported academically, socially and emotionally, laying a good foundation.

Comprehensive student counseling to create a caring campus atmosphere

The school is committed to promoting comprehensive student counseling services, adopting a whole-school participation model, cultivating students' positive emotions, thoughts and behaviors through diversified counseling activities, and promoting students' all-round development and happy growth. In recent years, the school has actively responded to the Education Bureau's "4Rs Mental Health Plan" and helped students establish good interpersonal relationships through various stress-reducing activities to enhance their happiness and resilience.

For primary school students, peer support is particularly important. Therefore, the school implements the "Care Ambassador" program to allow senior students to help primary school students adapt to school life, such as guiding them to write handbooks, complete homework, or carry out reading activities. This program not only builds a warm and caring campus atmosphere and helps primary students integrate into school life more quickly, but also promotes the personal development of senior students, allowing them to experience a sense of responsibility, develop leadership skills and empathy while taking care of their classmates.

Step-by-step assessment policy for new students to adapt to learning smoothly

In order to help primary school students adapt smoothly to the primary school learning model, the school implements a step-by-step assessment policy and divides the first grade into three academic periods: in the first academic period, traditional paper-and-pencil examinations are completely canceled and replaced with diversified assessment methods, such as through themed work displays, oral reports, etc., allowing students to express themselves through drawings, explanations, etc. Learning outcomes can not only reduce exam pressure, but also cultivate comprehensive skills. In the second semester, paper-based assessments will be gradually introduced, mainly on a trial basis in major subjects, and combined with multiple assessment models to avoid long-term testing. In the third semester, paper-based assessments will be implemented based on the situation, and transitional arrangements will be made to ensure that students can gradually adapt.

Planning primary school parent education, all-round connection between primary school and primary school

The transition from kindergarten to primary school is an important part of the education transition. The school is committed to supporting parents to prepare their children for primary school. For example, the "Primary One Learning Tips" is compiled as a parent manual for kindergarten transition. It introduces in detail the primary school curriculum, school preparation tips, learning resources, etc., and provides practical guidance and suggestions to help prospective primary school parents master the skills of guiding their children to adapt to primary school life. At the same time, the school also organizes a "one-on-one parent visit" activity, which arranges for parents who are interested in getting to know the school to have conversations with Principal Ye and visit the campus to gain an in-depth understanding of the school's operations and environment, making parents feel more at ease.

In order to help children adapt to primary school life as early as possible, the school regularly organizes "Children's Sports Training Courses", providing handball, rugby and other activities, and integrating positive education elements to let them experience the fun of sports. In addition, Principal Ye will personally go to kindergartens in the district to share picture book stories, and in the process stimulate their interest in reading through drama activities and thinking games.

Promote reading culture and cultivate self-study habits

Principal Ye pointed out: "Curriculum development is the core of school education. The learning models of kindergartens and primary schools are very different. Therefore, in curriculum design, we will pay special attention to the learning needs of junior primary students." To this end, the school actively promotes school-based book courses to cultivate students' independent learning abilities. In terms of Chinese subjects, the school introduces picture book teaching, using vivid and interesting children's books to stimulate students' interest in reading, thereby improving literacy and comprehension skills. In order to create a richer reading environment, the school also introduced the "Cross-reading Hao" mobile bus library and incorporated cross-curricular reading elements to connect different subjects with each other in thematic reading. In addition, the school plans to set up a book wall display area in the bus library to encourage students to recommend books on their own, so that they can experience the joy of reading and develop good habits of independent learning and lifelong reading.

School-based Cambridge English courses lay a solid foundation for learning

The English Department will launch a special teaching plan in the new school year to provide free school-based Cambridge English courses to all first-year students to cultivate English application skills and learning interests. This course is taught by foreign English teachers on and off campus who have rich experience in teaching Cambridge courses. Not only is the quality guaranteed, the teachers also know the students well and can teach students according to their aptitude and provide the most appropriate teaching arrangements. After completing the course, students can choose to apply for the Cambridge English Examination and obtain internationally recognized English proficiency certification, which not only adds advantages to further studies, but also lays a solid foundation for future English learning.

Innovative STEAM education to cultivate future scientific and technological talents

In order to cooperate with the curriculum reform of splitting general knowledge subjects in primary schools, the school has upgraded the existing "META curriculum" (i.e. Marine, Earth, Technology, Aerial, sea, land and air courses) to version 2.0 to create a more complete STEAM education system. The new course has specially designed the "Sea, Land and Air Arena" experimental space to provide a safe experimental venue, allowing students to experience scientific principles first-hand and cultivate hands-on practical abilities. According to the new plan, the original science topics will be included in the science subject, while elements of STEAM-related courses and computer subjects will be integrated into the META2.0 curriculum. META2.0 will also introduce artificial intelligence teaching, emphasizing the cultivation of students' information literacy and guiding them to use technological tools correctly.

Innovative value education to establish a positive attitude towards life

Correct values must be cultivated from an early age, and the school comprehensively implements values education through diverse and innovative methods. In terms of curriculum design, we pioneered the "Moral Education and Chinese Culture Subject", which organically combines moral education, weekly meetings, growth courses and Chinese cultural education to cultivate students' moral cultivation and national consciousness. The school also organizes student sharing and theme activities, such as the "Inspire, Like, Share" program, which encourages students to shoot short videos to share their learning journey and spread positive energy.

On a practical level, the school makes good use of the campus environment to carry out life education, such as raising the school rabbit "Little Q" to cultivate students' sense of kindness and responsibility; at the same time, it cooperates with the police to organize anti-fraud carnival activities to enhance law-abiding awareness. From the inheritance of Chinese culture to modern citizenship literacy, the school cultivates students' 12 primary values ​​and develops a positive attitude towards life through themed activities, campus facilities and community cooperation.

Multi-sound sports and arts activities to explore interests and potential

The school attaches great importance to the overall development of students and specially designs diversified sports and arts activities. There is an "OLE period" every Friday, allowing students to go out of the classroom and experience bowling, equestrian, golf and other activities to enrich their learning experience; the "interest group period" every Tuesday provides more than 60 activities, including fancy rope skipping, Latin dance and violin, etc., to practice the concept of "one life of arts", cultivate a healthy lifestyle and attitude, and develop multiple intelligences and general abilities. During this school year, the school also renovated the music room and plans to expand the size of the Chinese orchestra to allow students to learn Chinese musical instruments from primary school to explore their interests and potential.