To enhance students' reading abilities and encourage them to read English books, various programmes and schemes are organized such as Primary Literacy Programme-Reading (PLP-R), Reading Across Curriculum (RaC), Extensive Reading Scheme (ERS), Morning Reading Scheme, Classroom theme-based reading corner and On-line reading programme.
The English curriculum integrates four essential language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. In order to further strengthen students’ language proficiency, school-based reading and writing curriculum have been developed. To encourage our students to learn beyond the class, e-learning and project- based learning are also our focuses of the subject development. Students can learn English in a language-rich environment through active participation in meaningful and interesting activities, by which the four essential language skills are effectively applied and integrated. We aim to provide a joyful learning environment for our students to foster their interest in learning English.
To equip students' writing skills in a systematic way, our writing curriculum in Key stage one and Key stage two are closely connected, from developing syntactic structures to genre-based technique with both narratives and non-narratives included. Students are highly engaged with self assessment, peer assessment, and editing during the writing process. Inter-class writing competition is organized every year to motivate students to write creatively and to promote peer learning by voting for the good works.
Students have opportunities to develop and enhance their speaking skills in their daily lessons, and also through the oral classes, English Day, English Funland and other English extra-curricular activities . The deployment of Native-speaking English Teachers also helps establish a valuable language-rich environment.