English

Aims of the Subject:

To arouse students’ interest in learning English through various activities.
To build up thinking skills through understanding and constructing meaning from different text types.
To promote learner independence through the development of lifelong language learning skills and strategies such as vocabulary building skills, phonics skills and information skills.
To develop learners’ generic skills, values and attitudes and expose them to rich learning experiences through moral and civic education, project learning, reading to learn.
To cater for learners’ diversity through developing a wide range of open ended learning tasks and activities and employing teaching strategies that suit the specific needs of both less able learners and more able learners, as well as the needs of learners with different learning styles.

Consultant	Ms. Jessica MAN
Panels	Farm Road Campus: Mr. Henry KAO Sheung Heung Road Campus: Mr. Hugo FONG
Subject Teachers	Farm Road Campus: Mr. William Billy GIRVAN, Mr. Clarence LAU, Ms. Kitty CHENG, Ms. Ginny CHIU, Ms. Jamie CHAN, Mr. Leo LEE Sheung Heung Road Campus: Ms. Zakia KHAN, Ms. Khristayle TAN, Ms. Katie LEUNG, Ms. Momoyo KIRA, Ms. Helen NIE

Name of competition	Awards	No. of winners
My Story Creation Competition 2019-20	Best Character Looks Spark Award X 1 Certificate of recognition X 2	1 2
TOEFL Junior Test	Overall Score Level 5 (Gold) Overall Score Level 4 (Silver) Overall Score Level 3 (Bronze)	11 13 10
71^st Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival 2019	Choral Speaking Solo Verse Speaking: First Solo Verse Speaking: Second Solo Verse Speaking: Third Solo Verse Speaking: Merit	English Choral Speaking Team 1 5 7 55
Hong Kong School Drama Festival 2018/19	Adjudicators’ Award Award For Outstanding Performer Award For Outstanding Cooperation Award For Outstanding Stage Effect	1 26 26 26

School Teams & Public Competitions
Choral Speaking Teams, English Drama Team, Public Speaking, Writing, Poetry Reading, Penmanship, Solo Verse Speaking
Activities
English Week, Excursions, RTHK Sunday Smile, TSA Oral Assessors
Remedial & Enhancement Classes
1 Phonics Screening Test, P.6 Interview Workshop

BBC Learning English for Kids: http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/
English newspaper reading: http://student.thestandard.com.hk/junior/index.asp
Teach your monster to read: http://teachyourmonstertoread.com/