Deeply cultivate positive education and build a growth network
School is not only a place to impart knowledge, but also a place to accompany children as they grow and face the future together. Yuen Long Long Ping Estate Wai Chow School Principal Cheng Ting-fai closely follows the development trend of Hong Kong education and clearly plans the development blueprint for the new three years, focusing on the two core areas of diversified learning experience and values education. The six-year primary school period is a golden period for shaping students' values, establishing study habits and cultivating their personal qualities. The school deliberately creates diversified courses that meet the growth needs of students, so that each student can equip himself to meet various changes and challenges in future society.
Step-by-step growth: from practical experience to moral cultivation
Today's society is changing rapidly. Compared with the accumulation of knowledge, having positive values, a good attitude, flexible problem-solving skills and communication skills are the keys to supporting students' long-term development. In view of this, Principal Zheng has listed values education as the primary core concern of the school's new three-year development. Through systematic life education and career planning education courses, he plans to help students establish a positive outlook on life and world from an early age, and calmly face various tests on the road to growth.
The school sets up corresponding educational themes according to the growth needs of students in lower, middle and upper grades, and guides students from the shallower to the deeper to understand themselves, be kind to others and integrate into society. Principal Zheng said: "The junior primary stage focuses on self-understanding. Through growth courses and value education classes, students can understand the meaning of life, understand that 'the body, hair, and skin are received by their parents', learn to be grateful to their parents, and build self-awareness and gratitude. The primary three and primary four stages focus on interpersonal relationships and teach Students learn how to get along with each other with mutual tolerance, mutual help and friendship, and establish positive interpersonal relationships; at the upper primary school level, the curriculum extends to social connection and career planning, guiding students to think in conjunction with the social environment, understand the relationship between individuals and the community, and grow from themselves to become socially responsible global citizens.”
Infiltrate value education and create a caring campus
In order to hone students' character and improve their abilities, the school deeply integrates values cultivation and daily practice. For example, in science courses, high school students need to complete the complete process of design, testing, reflection, improvement, and practice again. In the process of repeated attempts and correction of mistakes, they learn to face failure, cultivate perseverance and unyielding spirit, and develop a positive attitude from practice.
Over the years, Principal Zheng has been committed to building the campus into a warm and inclusive small society. Through diversified positive cultivation courses, students can grow up in an atmosphere of caring teachers, mutual help and friendship from classmates. In the process, students learn to be tolerant and share, thereby gaining sufficient growth and happiness, and building a kind and positive positive moral quality.
Keeping up with education trends, joint schools research and create digital teaching
The school actively promotes the in-depth integration of technology and classroom teaching and builds a complete digital education system. Principal Zheng believes: “Technology is an important tool for optimizing teaching and broadening learning horizons. Therefore, while developing digital education, we must also focus on cultivating students’ AI literacy, information identification skills and attitudes towards the correct use of technology, so that students can know how to filter online information and make good use of AI. Tools assist learning, rather than being dominated by technology, so as to establish healthy and rational digital values. "Therefore, President Zheng teamed up with seven schools in Hong Kong and the Metropolitan University to promote cross-school exchanges, joint activities, resource sharing and other collaborative models to expose students to more cutting-edge digital education models.
In terms of curriculum planning, the school implements hierarchical teaching, taking into account the learning abilities and development needs of different grades, focusing on strengthening digital teaching in upper primary schools. Principal Zheng mentioned: "Starting from the new school year, the school will fully implement tablet computer classes for fourth grade, deeply integrating technology into daily classrooms, making it easier for teachers and students to complete learning sharing, achievement feedback and data collection in real time, greatly improving teaching efficiency." In view of the learning characteristics of high school students, the course also incorporates interesting teaching links such as AI image generation and video production, and transforms knowledge of Chinese rhetoric and word usage into intuitive visual results to stimulate students' interest in learning.
Introducing electronic platform AI empowered teaching
In order to promote extended learning after class, the school introduced the AI learning platform Lango AI to create an independent learning channel outside the classroom. The platform is equipped with a smart robot interactive function. Students can communicate with the robot to complete after-class knowledge consolidation, language training and other learning tasks, effectively extending the classroom learning effect and cultivating independent learning habits. In addition to empowering students' learning, AI also provides teachers with conveniences in lesson preparation, teaching, and administration. For example, AI tools are used to simplify the lesson preparation process and optimize teaching design, allowing teachers to improve teaching efficiency and then devote more energy to focusing on student growth.
Optimize the English teaching system and create life-oriented scenes
As an international language, English is an important tool for students to broaden their horizons and connect with the world. Principal Zheng said: "The school continues to optimize its English teaching strategy and implements a curriculum model that combines reading and writing, pays equal attention to learning and application, and contextualizes concepts. It is paired with a variety of immersive contextual activities to break the limitations of traditional English teaching that is "heavy on paper and pen, light on application". It allows students to get rid of the passive learning mode of rote memorization, take the initiative to speak English, and truly fall in love with learning English, thus establishing a solid language foundation and strong interest in learning."
The school fully implements English unit reading and writing courses and builds a complete learning chain from preview, reading, grammar learning, sentence training to writing, allowing students to accumulate knowledge step by step. For example, taking the food unit as an example, students first learn related vocabulary and master the corresponding sentence structure, then deepen their writing techniques through model reading, and finally complete the writing task, achieving a virtuous learning cycle.
Recruit additional foreign teachers to improve students’ opportunities to apply English
In order to improve students' oral application opportunities, in addition to a resident foreign teacher, the school also hired an additional foreign teacher at its own expense to teach all students in the school English reading and conversation, and provide immersive exposure to authentic English pronunciation and expressions. Two foreign teachers will interact with students in the playground during morning meetings and recess periods, creating an all-weather English campus atmosphere so that students dare to speak and are willing to use English.
In addition, the school also holds a special English Fun Day every year. Through various activities such as English musicals and puppet shows, and campus theme stalls, students can make full use of the knowledge they have learned and improve their language skills and learning interest. In the future, the school will continue to expand the theme learning day system. In addition to English theme activities, it will also launch interdisciplinary theme activity days such as Mandarin, Chinese, and mathematics to enrich students' learning experience.
Create a reward mechanism to stimulate growth momentum
In order to continue to stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning and self-discipline, the school has specially created a diversified positive reward plan and built a reward evaluation platform through the eClass system. The plan breaks the traditional single reward model and combines the three major scenarios of campus study and life, family self-discipline tasks, and extracurricular growth experience. Teachers and parents will comprehensively record students’ progress and good performance, replace blame with encouragement, promote growth with affirmation, and guide students to continue self-improvement, be positive, and have the courage to try.
In order to enhance the participation and fun of the program, the school has designed rich reward content. In addition to regular gift exchanges, there are also special rewards such as holding dolls, having brunch with the principal, and shopping at the campus canteen with the vice principal. Principal Zheng smiled and said, "The school regularly collects students' opinions and continues to update the reward content based on feedback to better meet students' needs. This school year, I specially reward 100 students with excellent ratings to watch the movie "Toy Story 5" for free in the cinema. I hope that students can understand the importance of communication and companionship between people in the movie, establish a healthy life concept, and gain positive value guidance from the reward experience."