The efficiency of teaching and learning has always been our prime concern. The school spares an additional lumpsum of $5 million on hiring 20 teachers and teaching assistants so as to increase the number of small classes. This academic year sees an addition of 111 Chinese, English, Mathematics and other subjects’ small classes, further reducing the teacher-student ratio.

By lowering the teacher-student ratio, students could gain more training and learning opportunities. Teachers could also comprehensively provide guidance to students about various techniques. Besides small-class teaching, the school will continue recruiting English teachers of various nationalities, tutors possessing specific subject knowledge and assistant teachers so as to deepen students’ understanding of various subjects and arouse their interests in myriads of topics.

Our school’s learning environment is diversified, including holding various activities regularly, e.g. Fortnights, English Day Camps and activities during Other Learning Experiences Weeks; hiring tutors with specific expertise for various courses like short-term academic courses and all-round learning courses; students are also encouraged to enroll in programs designed for the gifted organized by various univertities and join a variety of competitions. It is hoped that students could excel and keep challenging themselves in a diverse and challenging learning environment.

With an aim to broaden students’ horizons and help them plan their desired career in advance, the school deliberately spares approximately $300 000 each year for academically outstanding students nominated by different subjects taking courses targeting gifted learners organized by University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, with all fees subsidized by the school.

Each university provides a wide variety of courses, for example, Aspects of Chinese Medicine, Robotic Engineering and Science, Biochemistry and Disease, Space Exploration, Adventures in Mathematics, Economics Zone, Workshop on Debate and Public Speaking Skills, Introduction to Psychology and Decoding Advertisement. Students could, based on their abilities and interests, enroll in corresponding courses to unlock their potentials.

The school spares approximately $2.5 million annually cultivating an English-learning environment for students. Apart from small-class teaching, native English-speaking teachers are hired to teach speaking so that students could learn and acquire English naturally with their help, presenting their own ideas in a native way.

Besides regular lessons, the school also allocates resources to various types of English activities, for example:

English Fortnights: An English-rich environment is created through an array of activities

Life-wide learning of English: Daily-life English is acquired through group games

English Day Camps Students could learn English through games in a group or class

NET on the Net: Students could take advantage of the far-reaching Internet to communicate with tutors of various nationalities to express, in English, their ideas.

To cultivate a global vision, the school also organizes English study tours for students to immerse themselves into local communities and interact with the locals. Learners are given chances to apply what they have learnt and acquire the pronunciation of authentic English.