Development Directives
To help students with various aptitudes, interests and aspirations acquire a high proficiency in English and build self-directed habits through a wide range of engaging programmes in a positive and open-minded environment.
Course Information
Drama in Education
Drama in Education is being rolled out at the junior secondary level as a three-year programme, starting at S1 in 2024-2025. Plays serve as course readers on which students’ literary study and creative work is based. An artist-in-residence is recruited to provide drama coaching and oversee a year-end production which involves all students.
Experiential Learning
Students learn outside the classroom through experiential learning activities designed to complement a unit of work and encourage authentic use of written and spoken English. These include local heritage tours, visits to universities and dialogue with ethnic minorities.
Language across the Curriculum
Language across the Curriculum (LAC) initiatives harness content knowledge from other subjects, including Citizenship and Social Development, Integrated Humanities and Religious Studies to support English learning and enable students to use the language as a vehicle in studying those subjects.
Catering for learner diversity
Two courses (Mainstream Language Programme and Alternative Language Programme) are offered in parallel at the junior secondary level to help students with different aptitudes, interests and aspirations acquire a high proficiency in English and prepare themselves for both the DSE and the IB.
Nurturing generic skills for lifelong learning
Diversified modes of assessment, such as process writing exercises and project work, develop students’ 3C’s (creativity, critical thinking and communication) in the context of 3R’s (rigour, relevance and relationship). At the senior secondary level, self-directed learning and information literacy are promoted via artificial intelligence-powered apps and library research.
Co-curricular Activities
A wide range of co-curricular activities, such as Battle of the Books, Creative Media, Debate Team, Drama Club and English Society are offered so as to extend English learning, build a lifelong interest in language arts and hone soft skills. An English Week comprising a book fair, performances and other events is held every spring. External competitions, especially the Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival and those hosted by the EDB, are proactively promoted to students across all forms.