English Language

Students are our seeds of life; planting, protecting and helping them grow and flourish have always been our English department’s mission over the years. We relentlessly strive to provide our students with the best English learning experience and instill the correct moral values into their pure inquisitive minds. These have been achieved through the implementation of our stimulating curriculum and diversified activities to enhance their exposure to the language. Over our six years of passionate nurturing, our students gradually develop into confident, caring and considerate individuals with a strong sense of global citizenship.

Students are placed into different classes according to their performance in the Hong Attainment Test and our school’s internal Pre-S1 Test. The students are then split into smaller groups in their own classes in order to maximise the much needed guidance and support from their English teachers. We believe that grouping students of similar levels into smaller groups can improve teaching and learning effectiveness.

Our LWELL curriculum for junior forms covers a wide spectrum of topics on different aspects of their daily lives. It is delivered through level-appropriate authentic materials and stimulating activities that aim at arousing our young students’ interest towards English learning, while preparing them to adapt to the DSE curriculum that they will later face in their senior years. This curriculum also delivers an eye-opening language arts experience to our curious students with the most creative minds.

Our English department collaborates with different departments such as geography, food science, music and P.E. in our curriculum and activities design to maximise students’ language exposure to countless appealing topics.

Confidence building is one of the main objectives of this curriculum. By engaging students in fun and interactive activities in a leisure and non-threatening environment, we can certainly encourage more active participation where lots of precious opinions are heard and hearty laughter is created.

Students are streamed into different classes according to their performance in S.3. Some classes are split into smaller groups depending on the number and learning diversity of students. Oral classes are conducted in smaller groups in order to provide more opportunities for students to practise speaking with confidence. Since DSE skills in different papers are incorporated into our junior forms curriculum so most students should experience a smooth transition into the more challenging DSE curriculum.

This year, we have successfully introduced an innovative curriculum called ELTTA, where students can fully immerse themselves into the fascinating world of English Language through authentic materials. This helps to enhance and solidify the essential skills required to ace DSE. This is also a stage where the language arts techniques learnt in the junior forms LWELL curriculum are further strengthened and developed, so they can be naturally, skillfully and confidently utilised to help secure their well-deserved entrance tickets to universities.