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Reading
Workshop

• All students will continue to read the e-books published
  by SCHOLASTIC (named as “e-Library” below) which
  provides pupils with more than 600 hundred books with
  different levels of difficulties.
• All students need to read a book and do a worksheet
  during long holidays.
• In order to make the e-Library more user-friendly,
  one e-book in every two months will be assigned to
  students of each level every month. Of course,
  students are welcome to read more than one
  e-book every month.
• P4 and P5 students are encouraged to read  e-books
  on their tablets during morning reading time.
• In order to encourage students to read e-books regularly
  and continuously, we will work with our school librarian
  to promote a new reading award scheme.

A wide range of questions and higher-order thinking questions will
be provided in all levels.

• Apart from the literal questions, more higher-order
  thinking questions such as inferential, evaluative and
  affective questions need to be asked in lessons and
  set in worksheets

Writing

In order to put a more balanced emphasis on both language forms and
authentic language use, modifications will be made in our assessment
system starting from this academic year:

• For P4-P6
  • In each of the exam papers in P4-P6, an extra short writing task,
    which carries 6%, will be added. Hence, the percentage in assessing
    pupils’ language forms will be decreased accordingly.
  • In order to better prepare pupils to meet the new challenge
    of the writing tasks in the exams, short writing tasks will
    be provided in daily teaching in P4-P6.
• For P1-P3
  • The final task in the PLP-R/W programme will contribute 10%,
    while the exam paper will make up the remaining 90% of the GE.
    Hopefully, P1-P3 pupils are more able to realize the importance
    of writing tasks.

Self-directed
Learning

• Making use of the visual tool teaching kits
  (PowerPoint and worksheets) to enhance students’ ability in
  organizing information.
  • Sharing sessions will be held in both Terms 1 and 2 so
    as to ensure the visual tool teaching kits can be best
    used by teachers.
  • An evaluation form will be filled out by teachers
    after using the visual tool teaching kits. Amendments
    to the worksheets need to be made when necessary
    in order to enhance the effectiveness of the teaching kits.
• Teachers will make good use of thinking tools to produce
  teaching kits for 2017-2018 during the lesson-enrichment
  meeting Cycle 3 so as to facilitate pupils to think more effectively.
  • In January English panel heads will have a meeting
    with the Vice Principal, Miss Law, and Academic Mistress,
    Miss Tse, to explore the thinking tools which help students
    extend their ideas for writing tasks and presentation.
    
  • In February the Vice Principal, Academic Mistress
    and the English panel heads will introduce a variety of
    thinking tools to teachers on the teachers’ development day.
    
  • In May the thinking tool teaching kits designed by
    English teachers will be collected and evaluated.
    
  • In June the thinking tool teaching kits need to be
    amended when necessary after evaluation
• Designing of e-Teaching kits to enhance students’ learning ability.
  
  • e-Teaching kits which facilitate teaching and
    learning will be designed in Cycle 1.
    
  • P.5 teachers will continue to develop some e-Teaching kits.

Professional
Development

• Teachers design short writing tasks in groups for the exam
  paper for P4-6
  
  • (Term 1: e-mails & personal comments)
    (Term 2: create an ending to a story)
    
• In order to help teachers improve questioning techniques,
  a seminar and a workshop will be held.In the workshop,
  teachers will design high-order thinking questions in groups.
• A seminar on TSA analysis of P.3 and P.6
  so that pupils’ strengths and weaknesses will be analysed.