Developing enthusiasm in English

It is obvious that learning would only take place when students feel enthusiastic and find meaning for what they are exposed to. Novice students must, in particular, be given enough encouragement and support at the initial stage of learning English. With heightened awareness of the need to make learning experience rewarding and appealing to these freshmen to the school, we have designed two specific learning programmes particularly for them, featuring the English-learning culture of our school.

Interactive activities help build an English school campus

Creating characters in Primary One English Oral Show

The Primary One English Oral Show, often scheduled towards the end of a school year, has been intended as a precious opportunity for elementary students to develop experience in presenting the different materials they have learned in their English oral lessons during the school year. We believe that providing students with engaging tasks to accomplish can no doubt motivate them actively to apply and consolidate the use of English. With a view to arousing novice learners’ interest in speaking English, the English Oral Show is thus regularly scheduled as part of a compulsory programme in the Primary One curriculum. Apart from improving their accuracy and fluency in speaking English, students are given room and autonomy to imagine and create ideas for presenting the characters they act, while reflecting upon message intended in various poems, songs, fun plays and stories. The learning tasks are intended as learning elements particularly addressing the development of their speaking, listening and interacting skills in the English Language Curriculum. Our Primary One students often enjoy sharing with the audience their learning outcomes, making a wellappreciated attempt to perform on the stage while winning over our admiration for their efforts. The themes of the English Oral Show, which range from fairy tales to animal fables in respective years, have been found most exciting and appealing by our students. Each of the Primary One classes presented in groups of various sizes a selection of poems, songs, rhymes, stories or short plays with joy and enthusiasm.

Can you tell what story or character each of our lovely Primary One students was acting?

Reading buddies scheme

Under this scheme, groups of well-trained senior students from the Secondary Section pay visits to the Primary One students on Friday mornings, conducting reading-aloud and shared reading activities on the basis of a range of selected poems, prose and stories for half hour before school begins. The classrooms are just filled with laughter, warm exchanges and encouragement. We aim to help build a delightful, non-threatening environment for novice students to interact with the caring school sisters actively in English

The Secondary Section enlightens our novice learners to the fun of reading

Carnival type of activities for all

A wide range of activities, featured with a mix of enjoyable and engaging language-based activities, are often conducted at recesses and during lunch time through the school year. It is hoped that our students are introduced to pop culture of different types and given the opportunities to interact and mingle with their schoolmates and teachers in English outside classrooms. Among those activities held, the one on singing-along has always been warmly received. During recesses and lunch breaks, our English ambassadors are eager to help provide schoolmates with the fun-filled occasions to sing songs with their schoolmates. Riddles, board games and treasure hunting games of course also interest our students, driving them to hop around the campus. The Çhat n’ Treat Scheme has also been introduced, aiming to encourage students to interact with schoolmates actively in English on the school campus. Their everyday school-life is well rewarded with prizes, fun and laughter through active participation. To sum up, different corners of the campus are often filled with amusement and enjoyment throughout the year, inviting students to apply the four skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing in the engaging, appealing contexts purposefully constructed.