Academic

1. Each individual student is unique.
2. Each individual student is capable of learning.
3. Each individual student has different starting point in learning.
4. Each individual student can express his/her talent with hard work.
5. Parents’ participation is essential to the learning of each individual student.
6. Teachers are each individual student’s leaders, companions, facilitators and knowledge providers in the learning process.

The Academic Department serves the school in the following areas:

1. To oversee and enhance the work of Academic Sub-committees:

Assessment for Learning, Internal UT and Exam, DSE Affairs and Invigilation, SEN Invigilation, Attainment Test, TSA, International Exams, WebSAMS, Curriculum Development, Subject Coordination, Life Education, Elite Nurturing & Gifted Education, Academic Pursuit, English Environment, Reading Promotion, Reading Carnival, English Across Curriculum, University Partnership, Arts Education Promotion and STEAM Team and Sports Day

2. To oversee and enhance the implementation of School Annual Plan in academic areas
3. To oversee and analyze the academic performance of students in both internal and external exams
4. To conduct student-related academic affairs: S.1-5 Parents’ Day, Applied Learning Course Application, Promotion Meetings, Withdrawal of Elective Subjects, Purchase of Summer Vacation Assignment,Selection of S.4 Elective Subjects and Textbook List
5. To promote collaboration across subjects on different KLAs
6. To monitor the application and evaluation of special grants (SBG, DLG and Promotion of Reading Grant) from subjects
7. To deal with newly arisen academic issues

• 2021-24  School Major Concern I

Pursuing Academic Excellence through Effective Teaching and Learning

• 2023-24  Targets of School Major Concern I

1. 1. Enhancing the effectiveness of classroom teaching
   2. Equipping students with skills/habits/attitude for effective learning
   3. Enhancing the School’s English Environment

• 2024-27 School Major Concern 2 - Be a wise learner

1. 1. To foster stronger academic culture to promote students’ learning engagement and
      ownership with achievable goals
   2. To employ teaching pedagogies to address students’ diversified learning needs

2023-24 Operational Strategies of School Major Concern I

• Organizing schoolwide in-house professional development programmes for enhancing teaching effectiveness
• Establishing an interflow culture via professional sharing within individual subjects and peer observations
• Developing effective subject-based classroom teaching pedagogies via
• identifying and conducting essential lesson components
• establishing teaching routine
• designing effective pre-lesson work/homework/post-lesson assessments across all levels
• Operating pull out subject-based programmes for high achievers and less able students to cater for learning diversities
• Enforcing subject-based strategic plans to establish students with good learning skills/habits via
• pre-lesson preparation
• note-taking in lessons
• active lesson participation with enhanced teacher-student and student-student interactions
• Organizing form-based programmes to equip students with good learning skills/habits/attitude for life-long learning
• 1 :  Note-taking Skills (AP)
• 2&3: Career and Life Planning (CPD)
• 4&5: Learning Persistence (GCD)
• 5&6: Habits and Skills in Public Exam (APT&GCD)
• Career and Life Planning (CPD)
• Promoting active classroom learning by strengthening subject-based e-learning strategies
• Developing at least ONE self-directed learning unit per year for students with the use of information technology at S.1-3 curriculum followed by student presentations and assessments

3.1 Strengthening the effectiveness of using English as the MOI in classroom teaching and learning via

• nominating teachers to participate relevant courses from external education bodies
• enhancing the collaboration between English Language Panel and S.1 subjects using English as the MOI with the Language-Across-the-Curriculum (LAC) approach
• establishing subject-based strategies to bridge the transition in studies for S.1 and S.4 students

3.2 Promoting the reading across the curriculum (RAC) to enhance the English language-rich environment with the collaboration among the school library, English Language Panel and EMI subjects

• teaching reading skills at junior levels in English language lessons
• conducting reading activities at the whole-school level by the school library to promote reading of different text structures in different EMI subjects, echoing the learning in English language lessons

3.3 Organizing fun-based English-rich activities to cultivate an English-rich environment as follows:

• conducting different schemes/activities to cultivate an English-rich environment
• implementing the school-base curriculum: English-for-Fun at S.1 level
• operating the Self-Access Learning Center to promote learning English by participation

2024-27 Operational Strategies of the School Major Concern 2

To oversee and follow up on

• the review and incorporation of the spiral curriculum and assessment framework in subjects
• the collaboration between English Language Panel, Geography Panel and T&L Panel under
  the language across the curriculum (LAC)
• the extended learning activities conducted by English language, Junior Mathematics, Junior
  Science subjects and PSHE subjects
• the reading promotion among subjects
• the implementation of subject strategies based on students’ learning styles, abilities and
  interest for class daily teaching and assessments
• the year-round schemes to unleash the potentials and enhance the exposure of gifted
  students

S.1-5 General Mark Weighting

S.6 General Mark Weighting