Whole-school Language Policy:
Chinese is the medium of instruction of our school; nonetheless, the school also places great emphasis on improving students' Chinese and English. Chinese and English enhancement courses are offered and small-class teaching is adopted to cater for students' diverse needs. For example, from S.1 to S.3, there are 6 groups from 4 classes in each form; from S.4 to S.5, there are 5 groups from 4 classes in each form. Our school also implements the Extensive Reading Scheme to improve the language capacity of students. After-school English oral courses have been set up as well. We help students enhance their language proficiency and bilingual communication skills through the NET Scheme, English Week, English Ambassador training, reading schemes, the Speech Festival, presentations during morning assemblies and project-based learning. Bi-literate and trilingual training are emphasized. The Language Learning Support Section of the Education Bureau provides on-site professional language support to strengthen the holistic planning of the school-based English Language curriculum by developing a balanced and coherent school-based curriculum with horizontal coherence and vertical progression.

Learning and Teaching Strategies:
The school promotes the virtues of diligence and nurtures students' positive values. Through contemplating Buddhist thoughts, students can gradually acquire positive life values, allowing them to differentiate wrong from right, thus fulfilling the Buddhist ideas of doing good to others. Finally, they are able to give back to our society. The school upholds the principle of student-centred learning and teaching, while students' generic skills are developed continuously. We also focus on enhancing students' incentive to learn, atmosphere of learning and self-learning, as well as optimizing students' Other Learning Experiences. The school advocates the four identified key tasks and fosters students' learning and reflection through multi-dimensional assessment. In order to cater for the diverse learning needs of students, we plan our curricula according to their abilities and interests, offering various practical subjects according to social needs. Tutorial sessions in S.1 are arranged to maximize students' learning progress.

School-based curriculum:
1. Electives: 2X. 13 elective subjects as well as Applied Learning courses are offered to our students.
2. Curriculum highlights: Curriculum adjustment and co-operative learning are adopted to cater for the diverse needs, interests and abilities of students. Others include teaching and learning in Information Technology, development of Generic Skills, Other Learning Experiences and so on.

Development of the Four Key Tasks:
1. Reading to learn: morning reading schemes, Chinese and English Extensive Reading Schemes, book fair, authors' talks and teachers' reading sharing are held regularly to develop students' reading habits and widen their knowledge base. 2. Information Technology for Interactive Learning: all classrooms have wireless network coverage to cater for the need of using e-textbooks and e-learning resources in class. In addition to the emphasis on STEM elements in the curriculum, we also form a STEM Society, including a series of drone, robot and 3D printing workshops. 3. Project Learning: Cross-disciplinary project learning and life-wide learning activities are carried out regularly. A 'spiral' curriculum mode of learning is adopted in project learning at junior levels so as to nurture students' generic skills. 4. Moral and Civic Education: Elements of moral education are integrated into activities, assemblies and related subjects. Multiple generic skills and positive values and attitudes are fostered through multiple pathways, which include the adoption of a diversified learning curricula, moral education and extra-curricular activities.

Life Planning Education:
The objective is to help students understand their goals as early as possible, and thus is beneficial to their future selection of subjects in furthering their studies, seeking employment, or choosing their favourite lifestyles. Life planning courses are arranged for students in junior levels through teachers’ guidance to enable our students to explore their personal aptitudes, interests, abilities and social needs. As such, students can think about their own future when deciding whether to pursue further education or employment elsewhere. In the senior levels, our school strives to provide students with a wide diversity of activities both at school and extra-curricular ones outside school, allowing them to understand different pathways of future studies and potential career prospects. Regarding admission to higher education, the school will hold talks on furthering studies. As for employment, the school will collaborate with different institutions, organizing different types of activities such as "Workshop on Interviewing Skills" and "Job Shadowing Programs", as well as other visits so as to encourage students to learn more about different industries.

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