Subject Objectives:

To develop students’ an ever-improving capability to use English to:

 

• Think and Communicate Effectively

• Acquire, Develop, and Apply Knowledge

• Respond and Express Experience

• Understand and Use Language Effectively

• Integrate Basic Academic Literacy

Work Related to School Year Concerns:

1. Increase students’ reading quantity and broaden their horizon with P.1 English Storytime in the morning DEAR time reading session with NETs, purchase English readers and upload audiobooks on Google Classroom for Primary one to six students.  

2.  Increase the effectiveness of teaching by adopting Lesson Studies in co-planning. 

3. Allocate mentor teachers to conduct lesson observation and provide post-lesson feedback to mentee teachers during teachers peer lesson observations. 

3. Cultivate a culture of mutual appreciation by providing students opportunities to showcase their works on Google Classroom and present their ideas in classroom activities. 

4. Provide a Language-Rich Learning Environment for students in the school campus with English Mondays, rich language displays, thematic festive learning days, cross-curricular reading curriculum and English medium ECA activities.

Outside Support:

1. Adopt “Primary One Students English Diagnosis App” developed by the Hong Kong Education University.

2. EDB NET Section Space Town Literacy programme for P.1-3. 

2. P.3-5 School-based Reading & Writing Curriculum co-developed with an experienced curriculum development professional.

Cross-curricular/Subject Activities:

1. Solo Verse Speaking organized by the “Hong Kong Schools Music Festival”

2. Cross curriculum excursions 

3. Reading Across Curriculum learning activities

3. Buddhist joint-schools drama competition

4. EDB Filmit Competition 

Award:

1. Filmit 2022: European Union Best Ensemble Performance (Primary Section) NET Section, Education Bureau 

2. Filmit 2022: European Union Best Overall Film —- First Prize (Primary Section) NET Section, Education Bureau 

3. Filmit 2023: European Union Best Ensemble Performance (Primary Section) NET Section, Education Bureau 

4. Filimit 2024: Outstanding Actor Award & Outstanding Fiction film- second prize 

Use of IT: 

1. Provide Speech Festival Solo Verse poems demonstration videos for students who joined the competition on Google Classroom. 

2. Provide self-directed learning games as well as pre-learning video lessons on Google Classroom for flipped classroom. 

3.  Provide online marking and feedback on students’ speaking practice on Google Classroom. 

4. Attach QR code of dictation recordings on Dictation Revision Notes (P.1-6)

Future development:

1. Increase the coverage of vocabulary learning in school-based curriculum.

2. Hold Spelling Bee Activity in a daily basis and organize the 2nd BCWKPS Spelling Bee Competition.

3. Enrich existing school English readers and audiobooks in both quantity, quality and accessibility.