英國語文科

Major Concerns

I. Major Concerns

I. Promote positivity at school, nurture positive values

1. Nurture positive values and attitudes

2. Foster compassion among peers

II. Promote life-wide self-directed learning, develop thinking skills and build up information literacy skills

1. Promote life-wide self-directed learning

2. Develop thinking skills and build up information literacy skill

Aims

This program renews our commitment to the teaching of English, not merely as an academic examination subject, but also as a gateway to the outside world, a medium of pursuing knowledge, a valuable asset in working life and a means of seeking pleasure and entertainment.
It continues to aim to provide students with assistance in acquiring the four basic skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking for developing proficiency in English.
It also aims at enhancing students’ both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation regarding the learning of English Language
A new emphasis is on teachers’ professional development and holistic curriculum planning to suit the blended teaching modes and optimized senior curriculum.

Present Situation

Strengths

a. As most students are keenly aware of the importance of English to their future prospects, they are eager to improve their English and ready to work hard.
b. The School recognizes that a good command of English is a basic need of students and thus provides plentiful resources for them to acquire language skills.
c. Professional expertise is available from a panel of well-qualified and experienced teachers who are all enthusiastically committed to improving students¢ standard of English.
d. The English Panel functions efficiently under a system of Level Coordinators who work in collaboration with teachers concerned to monitor students¢ learning
e. The Department is well-equipped with a supply of teaching aids and materials including CDs, DVDs, reference books, teaching aids, etc.
f. The learning of English is also promoted through a variety of activities held in class, the English Society and outside school.
g. The collaboration of different departments to carry out cross-curricular English teaching helps students learn English through different subjects.

Weaknesses

a. Most students have inadequate grammar groundwork and limited word power.
b. Coupled with their low standard is a lack of initiative and confidence among some students to practise using the language on their own. Most read without much critical thinking and are reluctant to speak up in English.
c. Since the medium of learning for all other subjects in most classes is Chinese, students¢ exposure to English is restricted to English lessons except the EMI classes in S1, S2 and S3. This limitation in exposure accounts for their general weakness in reading, writing, speaking and listening.
d. Large class size makes it difficult for individual attention to be provided as desired. The heavy teaching and marking workload of teachers, most of them being assigned to teach three classes, is another handicap.
e. The setting of Language Room does not fit for English group activities outside lesson time and the equipment is outdated which does not support the contemporary teaching trend.

f. The half-day timetable and online lessons due to COVID places hurdles for weaker learners who rely on teachers’ face-to-face guidance.

Targets of this year

(A) Major Concerns

Major Concern	Strategies	Work	Success Criteria	Assessment	Timeline	Teacher(s)	Resources
I 1.2.2	To improve leadership training in senior forms	Conduct activities for junior forms with the help of English Ambassadors	At least 70% of the English Ambassadors helped in the activities throughout the year	Check record	Whole Year	English teachers	Nil
I 1.3.1	To encourage students to participate in both internal and external competitions so as to build up a positive self-image	Encourage students to participate in activities such as Toastmaster Programme and English Ambassador Team as well as nation-wide competitions e.g. Speech Festival (S1 to S5) and inter-school debating competitions	At least 15 students joined the Speech Festival The debating team joined at least 3 inter-school competitions	From data	Whole Year	English teachers	LWL Grant
I 1.3.3	Enhance students’ understanding of different culture in the world through diversity learning experience	Implement activities in diversity learning experience lessons for S4 and S5 students	At least 1 activity about various culture is organized for S4 and S5	From data	Whole Year	S4 and S5 English teachers	LWL Grant
I 2.1.2	To create opportunities for students to understand different people’s needs in the society and help them	Guide S2 students to explore about social issues and learn about social enterprises in Hong Kong In collaboration with the Life Planning and Careers Guidance Team, organise a cookie-making class with i-Bakery to allow the participants to work with the mentally challenged workers at the social enterprise	80% of students finished the online assignment about the research of social issues in Hong Kong 60 students joined the cookie-making class	Teachers’ observation Teacher’s record	June or July 2023	S2 English teachers	LWL Grant
I 2.3.1	To enhance students’ sense of belongings to the nation and society by organizing activities relating to values education	Promote positive values and attitudes through English Sayings of Wisdom, e.g. Every cloud has a silver lining Organise reading activities on non-fictions about Chinese cultures	At least 1 teaching activity regarding English Sayings of Wisdom is implemented in S1 to S5	Teachers’ record	Whole Year		Resource package from EDB
II 1.1.1	To cater for learners’ diversity and enhance their learning ability through enhancement and enrichment classes	Conduct Enhancement and Enrichment course to upgrade students’ English standard	Attendance rate of the courses is more than 80%	Check record	Whole Year	English teachers	CEG / DLG
II 1.1.2	To cater for learners’ diversity by assigning tier assignments and school-based materials	Set challenging questions for S1 and S2 EMI classes in quizzes Allow senior form students to choose the easy or difficult sections in Paper 1 and Paper 3 Submit at least 2 pieces of tier assignment and student samples to school in both terms	Book inspection	Check record	Whole Year	English teachers	CEG / DLG
II 1.1.3	To develop students’ critical thinking skills and learning strategies by conducting subject related activities	Guide students to use graphic organizer in S2 school-based curriculum	At least 2 types of graphic organisers are used	Check record	Whole Year	S2 English teachers	Nil
II 1.2.1	To establish a talent pool to allow more opportunities to groom gifted students	Establish a talent pool and invite those students to join advanced English activities, such as English Debating Team and lead the English Ambassador Team	A talent pool is stored in the department staffbox by subject teachers	Teacher’s observation	Whole Year	English teachers	Nil
II 1.2.2	To encourage talented students to join territory-wide competitions	Encourage more-abled students to join challenging activities, such as Budding Poets Competition, Harvard Book Prize and Teen Time organized by RTHK in which participants have to research and record a radio programme at RTHK studio	2 territory-wide competitions are joined	Teacher’s record	Whole Year	English teachers	ECA for enrollment fee
II 1.4.2	To foster collaboration among different departments for project learning and guide students to collect data for further analysis	Be teacher consultants in S3 project learning programme	All S3 English teachers take part in the project learning programme	School record	Whole Year	S3 English teachers	Nil
II 2.1.1	To make use of data collected to improve teaching	Review the data and exam reports of Pre-S1 Attainment Test, S3 TSA, HKDSE and internal exams, evaluate and modify the teaching pedagogies and exam skills training in order to help students excel academically Conduct measures such as remedial classes by Academic Prefects	Average pass rate of internal exams reach the following targets: S1-3: CMI classes – 50% (S1-2) 60% (S3) EMI classes – 85% S4 – S6: 80%	Results of Yearly Exam & Mock Exam	Whole Year	English teachers	DLG Grant / CEG Grant
II 2.1.2	To employ various teaching and assessment strategies to equip students with better researching, note-taking, pre-lesson preparation, discussion skills and coach students to make good use of online learning resources and platform for self-learning	All teachers set up Google Classroom with all classes and upload learning materials for students to do preparation and revision Assign S3 students to do TSA practices on STAR Platform from HK Edcity	All teachers upload some learning materials to Google Classroom At least 2 practices are done by students on STAR Platform	Teacher’s observation	Whole Year	English teachers	Nil
II 2.2.1	To join training on e-teaching and learning and apply various teaching strategies for blended teaching modes	Attend professional development workshops to learn about new online platforms and resources	All teachers attend at least one relevant workshop	From record	Whole Year	English teachers	Nil
II 2.3.1	To refine the curriculum content in order to comply with the education on national security	Organize activities on ‘Sayings of Wisdoms’ to promote positive energy and strengthen students’ mental health according to the suggested unit plan from the EDB as laid down in the scheme of work Display posters of ‘Sayings of Wisdoms’ on campus	S1 -5 implement at least one activity on ‘Sayings of Wisdoms’	From record	Whole Year	English teachers	Subject Grant
II 2.3.2	To construct learning materials regarding national security education and enforce the teaching on information literacy in 2021-22	Design, implement and upload learning materials, as well as students’ good work, regarding national security education and information literacy in department staffbox	At least 2 relevant teaching strategies are implemented in junior and senior levels	From record	Whole Year	English teachers	Nil
II 2.4.1	To cultivate students’ reading habits and promote Extensive Reading	Expand the repertoire of school e-library Online reading of TV news or reading newspaper Coach students to read books and view movies of the same title S1 and S2 students use Light Sail online reading platform to read regularly and purposefully with teachers’ guidance All students subscribe for English newspaper	S1-S5 students read 2 books per year S1-S3 students give an individual presentation on an e-book S1-S5 students read online news or newspaper at least once biweekly 70% of S1 and S2 students read at least 2 hours on Light Sail every month	Teachers’ observation and record Students’ borrowing record from the library Online record of Lightsail platform	Whole Year	English teachers	Nil

(B) English Teaching

Strategies	Work	Success Criteria	Assessment	Timeline	Teacher(s)	Resources
To create an English learning atmosphere for students	Generate Top 10 LightSail readers in S1 in 3 different phrases and award grand prizes to top readers at the end of school year Renovate the Language Room to a more student-friendly English learning center and equip it with more English board games Organize English Speaking Days with the help of English teachers and English Ambassadors Organize English activities inside and outside classroom Post student-designed posters on writing tips in all classrooms	At least 70% of students have the chance to take part in English activities Students show interest in the activities	Observe the students’ participation	Whole year	English teachers	ECA
To foster students’ personal growth and diversify their learning experience with English activities	Organize table manner workshops and talks in S4 Guide students to reflect on life planning with process drama in S4 Cultivate reading culture with reading activities in S4 Organize cultural activities to broaden students’ horizons Organise yoga and meditation workshop with PE department and Life Planning and Careers Guidance Team	All S4 and S5 students take part in the activities	Observe the students’ participation	Whole year	S4 and S5 English teachers	LWL Grant (Yoga and meditation workshop is budgeted by Life Planning and Careers Team)
To improve students’ discussion skills through Group Interaction	Conduct inter-class speaking practice Conduct inter-school speaking practice	All S6 students take part in inter-class speaking practice 50% of S6 students join inter-school speaking practice	Observation and Results of the Speaking Paper	Whole year	English teachers	Nil
To streamline the curriculum of junior levels and strengthen students’ language abilities in understanding Language Arts	Tailor-make the junior English curriculum by introducing Language Arts in S1	Students show interest in learning English	Observation by teachers and performance of students	Whole year	NET	Nil
To reduce class size to cater for learners’ diversity	Allocate the CMI students into 3 small groups in S2 and S3	Passing rates of Half-yearly and Yearly Exam reach 60%	From data	Whole year	S2 and S3 English teachers	1 extra teacher teaching S2 and S3
To relate the English curriculum to authentic setting	Organise a visit to an aesthetic medicine clinic in relation to Unit 8 in S3	30 students participate in the activity	Teacher’s record	June or July 2023	S3 English teachers	Nil
To arouse students’ interest in learning English through subject-related activities	Implement school-based curriculum of interactive literature in S4 and workplace English in S5	Students show interest in learning English	Observation by teachers and performance of students	Whole year	NET LCCY	Nil