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The Space Town Literacy Programme aims to strengthen pupils' learning skills and metacognitive skills. It provides opportunities for e-learning, self-directed learning, and formative assessment. The four skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening are taught interactively. Real-life situations are experienced in the classroom. The units of work include the five teaching of reading strategies such as shared reading, guided reading, reading aloud, storytelling, and independent reading. It also includes the two teaching of writing strategies, such as shared writing and process writing.

P3: Development of Text Sets (DTS)

The Development of Text Sets programme focuses on inquiry-based learning, learner autonomy, vocabulary building, critical thinking, and meaningful literacy experiences. The programme helped enrich the school-based English Language curriculum by using quality multimodal and multigenre texts. Each unit consists of a theme, a focus question, and guiding questions. The DTS programme enhances students' intrinsic motivation to learn by utilizing open-ended questions, authentic scenarios, and personalization.

English Fun Day (Culture Day)

Culture Day at school is always an exciting event. It’s a day when students get to showcase their country’s unique traditions. Students and teachers dress up in traditional clothing. Throughout the day, there are storytelling sessions and performances for students to enjoy. There are also arts and crafts activities about different countries. The game booths are always a highlight of Culture Day and leave students with lasting memories of the event. Students get to celebrate the rich diversity of cultures represented in the school. It’s a great opportunity for students to learn about different cultures and appreciate the differences that make us unique.

English Ambassadors and English Fridays

Every year, English teachers select remarkable, conscientious, and responsible students from mainly P3-P6 to participate in the English Ambassadors team. The English Ambassadors usually have outstanding academic achievements in English and are mature in thought and action. In order to create an English-rich learning environment, the English Ambassadors will go to all the classrooms on English Fridays to encourage all students to practice using English through games and fun activities. For instance, they will practice reading aloud, some fun tongue twisters, and important speaking skills. The goal is to facilitate and encourage students to enjoy the process of learning English and to have fun. Through the process of participating in the fun activities on English Fridays, pupils will build up their confidence in speaking English.

Elite English Team

This program focuses on helping pupils to improve their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing skills. Students will explore various text types and learn about the use of literary devices. Pupils will also participate in debating, storytelling, reading aloud, and group discussions. Through participating in this program, students will gain confidence for their secondary school interviews and become effective communicators and empowered thinkers. During the second term, students will be exposed to various question types and learn about the important exam strategies for the Pre-Secondary One Hong Kong Attainment Test (Pre-S1 HKAT).

English Drama

English drama team aims to nurture students’ performing skills and effective communication skills as well as foster teamwork. The drama team participates in the Drama Festival every day. The school was awarded the Outstanding Audio-visual Effects and Outstanding Cooperation in 2022-23. Some students were even awarded the Outstanding Performers.

Project CEO

It is designed to create a passion for learning, encouraging even the youngest individuals to look to the Bible and God in all aspects of their lives. Furthermore, the communication functions are invaluable tools for all additional English language learning.

Through Project CEO, learners will grow their English reading skills while expanding their understanding of Catholic values and strengthening their personal connection with God.

Self-learning program (SLP)

The Self-learning Programme encourages students to develop important skills such as time management, self-discipline, and critical thinking. Additionally, students can work at their own pace, allowing them to delve deeper into topics that interest them. With its emphasis on student autonomy and flexibility, the self-learning programme is a valuable addition to our school’s curriculum. Students learn through the use of e-learning tools. Pupils practice their self-directed learning skills and explore the British Council Learn English Kids platform. In this programme, students complete various missions. For example, pupils watch videos, listen to songs, read short stories, and practice tongue twisters. Students also utilize Padlet for the sharing of ideas.

The Youth Forum

The Youth Forum is an excellent platform founded by UNESCO to create awareness for students about how to become environmentally friendly. It involves writing a report, making a PowerPoint presentation, and presenting it in front of an audience. It gives the students an opportunity to enrich their English vocabulary and build on their writing and presentation skills. It gives them a chance to learn about environmental problems at a global and regional level by researching, brainstorming their ideas, and coming up with creative solutions to solve the problems. It helps build their confidence too.

Happy English Learning Programme

Happy English is a collaborating program with Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) where exchange students from CUHK would visit our school and organize and participate in a range of activities with them.
Students will also join the joint-school English activities which are held four times a year and a youth forum. These provide opportunities for students to learn English in a fun way and motivate students to speak in English as well.

P6: Mock interview

Our school arranges a mock interview in March for P.6 students to prepare them for Secondary School Places Allocation. During schooltime, our teacher helps students practise with self-introductions, group interviews and Q&A sessions. All students participates in various weekly activities and receives constructive feedback individually, so that they can be more confident and perform better in the actual interview.

Rugby English Active Learning

Several students from P.4 to P.6 joined this activity which is organised by Hong Kong Rugby Union Community Foundation (HKRUCF) and Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR) this year. The whole program is conducted in English only.

This programme provided authentic language use opportunities to students and boosted their confidence in speaking English. Students have had basic understanding of the rules of non-contact TRY rugby; learnt basic skills of TRY rugby; and developed interest in reading stories and informational texts on sports in English as they read and learnt what rugby game is during each session. Students could clearly show core values of playing rugby, e.g. discipline, team work, respect, meaning of win and loss, etc. when they were playing rugby games. They enjoyed the activity so much at King’s Park Sports Ground!

New Zealand Joint Study Tour of Catholic Diocesan Primary School

A group of students go to Auckland, New Zealand for our New Zealand Joint study tour of Catholic Diocesan Primary School every year.

This year, 8 students flew to Auckland, New Zealand to join a school study tour for 13 days in June. They had school days in two different host schools which were Liston College and St Dominic’s College. For school days, they attended group lessons in the mornings which focused on English and New Zealand culture.

The students were put into different host families. The families took good care of their daily living during school days and took them to local places at the weekend.

Different kinds of activities were scheduled for the students to experience Auckland and Rotorua. Students were disciplined and proactive in classes and they were fine in self-management.