• Subjects other than Chinese & Chinese History are taught in English.
• All Board decorations (class, club, and team) are done in English.
• Daily notices on the class board are in English.
• All in-class SA promotions during the Home Time are conducted in English.
• All announcements during the morning assembly and through the PA system are in English.
• All assemblies and club activities, other than those related to Chinese are in English.
• Celebrations, other than the Liturgy, are in English. (The RE dept. has the discretion to decide on the MOI for the liturgical celebrations).
• Morning assembly talks conducted by English Teachers are in English. Likewise, other teachers are strongly encouraged to do the same.
• Students are encouraged to converse with their teachers in English even outside the classroom.
• Students are required to speak in English during lessons.

 

At the English Department and Club Level, the measures are as follows:

• Students are taken for film shows and asked to do pre-viewing and post- viewing tasks.
• Students of different levels are engaged in English Literary activities. These include storytelling, spelling bee etc.
• The American Women’s Association (AWA) conducts oral English lessons for the Form 4 students. Their assistance is also sought in promoting books and reading activities.
• The DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) programme promotes reading among students. Selected students are taken to authors’ talks. The school library also organizes such talks in the school.
• School library promotes book writing competitions organized by various publishing houses and organizations.
• Chatting with English Ambassadors’ is an English conversation programme for all Form 1 students.
• ‘Tete-a tete’ programme for students is organized during lunch time.
• Form 1 – 3 class library includes non-fiction books on topics related to other subjects.
• In-house publications are organized.
• The School Debating Society and Team participate in various competitions such as the ‘Sing Tao’, ‘Real Time’ and ‘ISF’. Many other friendly debates and internal debates are organized as well.
• There will be an on-line communication programme with a Canossian School in Italy in the latter half of the year.
• A complete programme by the Toastmasters International will be conducted on Saturday mornings.
• A few students will be nominated to participate in ‘Meet and Greet’ programme by the Ming Pao