Whole-school Language Policy:
With a dual emphasis on subject teaching and life-wide learning, we aim to brush up our students' generic skills and language abilities. In junior forms, not more than 25% of the lesson time is allocated to English extended learning activities. Our students can build up their vocabulary and enhance their fluency in English through a school-based curriculum. For assessment, students can apply what they have learnt to answer questions in English. Our strategy is to help our students develop a solid English foundation to cope with their studies in senior forms.
We offer small class teaching in both Chinese and English languages as well as Mathematics to cater for students’ diverse learning needs. Reading Award Schemes, Speech Festival and related activities help to create a language rich environment and we have developed a 2-year school-based curriculum in Putonghua in order to promote “bi-literacy and tri-lingualism” in our school.

Learning and Teaching Strategies:
We strive to enhance our students' motivation in learning by developing their self-directed learning habits and teaching them practical study skills so that they can learn effectively. With regard to formal curriculum, teachers adopt a variety of interactive teaching strategies to arouse students’ interest. With regard to informal curriculum, students are given opportunities to participate in different learning activities like visits, field trips, out-of-classroom activities, community service and student organizations to improve their organization, cooperation and communication skills. Our school endeavors to promote a culture of peer lesson observation so that teachers can learn from their peers to improve their teaching. Our teachers are also committed to professional development and they continuously upgrade themselves to become professionals in their teaching careers.

School-based curriculum:
1. Electives: 3X. There are life education lessons and religious studies lesson to help build up students' positive values and refine their character.
2. Curriculum highlights: For details, please refer to our school website http://www.yenching.edu.hk.

Development of the Four Key Tasks:
Moral education is promoted by the Life Education Department through a school based life education curriculum. With a set of core values that emphasises positive attitude, love and traditional Chinese values, value education is pushed forward to build up our character.
A reading period is scheduled in the time table every day to promote reading habits among our students. Apart from the extensive reading schemes in Chinese and English language, other academic subjects are also involved in the promotion of reading.
Apart from using I.T. in classroom learning, eClass learning / Google classroom is also promoted in different subjects.
Project skills / Enquiry skills are systematically taught in PSHE and science subjects in our junior forms. Out-of-classroom activities are carried out in different forms to provide opportunities for students to learn in authentic contexts.

Life Planning Education:
Our Life Planning Department plans and implements school-based life planning to let students develop positive attitudes towards work and learning through conducting “ Finding Your Colors of Life” in junior forms' life education lessons and launching various workshops and visits such as S.6 Mock DSE Results Release Day and University Taster Programmes for senior form students.
In order to help students adapt to the transition from school to work, job shadowing and work experience scheme, business partnership programmes, mentorship programmes have been organized.
Our teachers provide career guidance to students regularly to help them make informed and responsible choices on their learning, career goals and other aspects of life. To actualize students’ potential, applied-learning courses will be introduced to some students for their career needs.

Details: http://www.yenching.edu.hk/lang_policy.htm