We take pride in stating that one of our students’ key strengths lies in their ability to communicate using a high standard of English. It has also been our constant endeavor to instill in students a life-long love for literature through widespread reading for pleasure.
In the past few years, we have provided students with the following opportunities to further explore the language beyond classrooms.
Reading Award Programme
Students record the English books they read in the Reading Record Card.
The students who read the most number of books receive Reading Awards at the end of each term.
Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival
The Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival is one of the prime events in which our primary girls get the opportunity to challenge themselves in their spoken eloquence. Students give it their best when it comes to rendering the chosen pieces of text and uphold the long tradition of performing meritoriously at the event.
Big Sister Reading Scheme / Reading Buddies
Students of senior grades help students of junior grades enhance their reading interest by sharing books and story-telling. The senior girls read to the younger ones and ask them questions to develop their ability to comprehend and infer varied meanings from texts.
In the past academic year, we also had secondary students from St. Clare’s Girls’ School who came as reading buddies to our school and read books to our P.4 and P.5 girls.
English Ambassador Programme
To further enhance students’ confidence in speaking, English Ambassadors from the senior grades are stationed around the school campus on Mondays and Wednesdays. Students across grades share interesting anecdotes in English with the Ambassadors and earn stamps in their English passports. These stamps are redeemed for gifts at the end of each year.
International Festival
This is a celebratory day as students gear up for activities from countries around the world. Our senior girls design, create and supervise their own booth games which are a manifestation of world-wide etiquettes and culture. In the past academic year, students also got a one-of-a-kind opportunity to experience the mystifying facets of African culture through African Drumming.
RTHK Radio Programme
The department also participates in the Sunday Smile Radio Programme organized by RTHK which provides opportunities for students from P.3 – P.5 to use different forms of language arts. The students’ performances are subsequently broadcast on Channel 3 of RTHK.
Lunch Book Sharing
We make use of every opportunity in the curriculum to teach our students to become life-long readers and cherish reading for pleasure. Teachers and students take turns on a regular basis to share their favourite reads with all students during lunch breaks.
Our school’s mathematics curriculum aims to develop pupils’ understanding of basic mathematical knowledge, creativity, and problem-solving skills so as to enhance their lifelong learning abilities. More specifically, different learning experiences are tailored into our school-based curriculum to assist pupils to master the following five basic dimensions of knowledge: Number, Shape and space, Measures, Data handling, and Algebra.
To arouse pupils’ interest, learning and assessment activities are of a wide variety. Pupils do not just learn the mathematical concepts by listening to their teachers. They are given opportunities to actively apply their knowledge and creativity in solving problems during project work (e.g. making models, doing surveys), group discussions and presentations. Their confidence in Mathematics is also enhanced through participation in a number of inter-class and inter-school competitions.
Let's take a look at what activities the students had participated this year (2018-19)
The GS curriculum aims at enabling students to:
• maintain a healthy personal development and become confident, rational
• and responsible citizens
• recognise their roles and responsibilities as members of the family and
• society and show concern for their well-being
• develop a sense of national identity and be committed to contributing to
• the nation and the world
• develop curiosity and interest in the natural and technological world as
• well as understand the impact of science and technology on this modern society
• develop care and concern for the environment
Course content:
The course content of our General Studies Department is based on the "Curriculum Guide (2002)" of the Hong Kong Education Bureau. It provides students with opportunities to integrate knowledge, skills, values and attitudes. It promotes creativity through hands-on and minds-on learning experiences and problem-solving process which helps them to deal in everyday life. We also hope to widen their learning beyond the school settings through activities like outdoor visits, project learning, and newspaper clippings to stimulate students’ awareness about environment, science and history.
We use English as a medium of instruction for teaching G.S. This is to provide a better English foundation for our students and to pave the way for higher standards in English-taught subjects when they reach secondary level.
GS assessment comprises various continuous assessments, projects, newspaper clippings, tests and examinations, all of which are conducted in English. Our syllabus includes materials taught in the textbooks and also current affairs.
St. Clare’s Primary School is founded by The Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Angels. The founders wished our students would know God and have a fruitful life.
Subject Objectives:
- To transmit the messages in the Gospel.
- To cultivate values such as respect for life, filial piety, politeness, simplicity, peace, justice, honesty, thoughtfulness, sacrifice for others and tolerance.
- To teach students help and love each other as we are brothers and sisters in God’s family.
- To guide students to experience God’s love in daily life and build a relationship with God (to teach them the ways of prayer)
- To let students experience the connection of our faith to everyday life through liturgy, prayer and religious activities.
- To help students understand the perfection in life that is to follow Jesus. They learn to live out truth as well as love God and one another, so that they would become good daughters of God.
The school’s IT curriculum is designed according to the EDB document, Modular Computer Awareness Programme. The curriculum fulfills the three learning objectives - information technology knowledge acquisition, skills and attitude which are listed on the consultation document for the Strategy on IT in Education.
Our IT teaching aids are designed according to the level of the students. Every IT lesson includes a theme and some activities. Using different teaching methods, the teacher gives the students some missions to motivate them. Students can enjoy the lesson, be inspired and have more room to think creatively. After they are well trained and have improved their IT technique, they can participate in group activities such as study reports and IT competition, which allows them to build up a positive attitude and to share their opinion. Letting IT become a part of our students’ daily life helps them to learn and take in knowledge more proactively and willingly.
The school includes topics to tell the students how to use IT functions correctly. For the senior students, copyright and other broad-based topics are included in the curriculum in order to raise their awareness when using IT. Assessments incorporate three domains – cognitive, affective and psychomotor.
Assessment Method
Through a continuous assessment of student’s performances.
There will be no written examinations.
School-based Religious and moral education is implemented for the developmental for the developmental needs of all students. We aim at developing and maximizing potentials of students and to help them build up the basic knowledge, skills and attitude in the four areas of personal, social, academic and career development through planned and progressive key learning areas. Our Religious and moral education programme is conducted in forms of classroom learning, short-term and structured course, group activities, assemblies, cross-curricular activities, religious activities, etc. Our school designs and develops various learning and guidance sessions or activities in a gradual and progressive approach with reference to the developmental needs of students. Interactive and cooperative learning programmes can enhance learning motivation of students. Active experiential learning can also encourage self-exploration and reflection and enhance applications in daily life through connecting learning contents with life experiences and events.
Leaving aside the core subjects, our school also emphasis on developing students’ interest in music and arise their skills in aesthetic appreciation so as to provide students with quality music education in facilitating their all-round and unique development.
Our school provides indispensable learning experiences for students’ growth and development through participation in various music activities, these integrated music activities like, creating, performing (singing and instrumental playing) and listening can cultivate students’ interest in music and widen their horizons. Hence, students can engage in life-long learning and incessantly improve themselves so as to meet future challenges.
Physical Education (P.E.) is “to educate students through physical activities.” It aims to develop students’ physical competence and knowledge of movement and safety, and their ability to use these to perform in a wide range of activities associated with the development of an active and healthy lifestyle. It also develops students’ confidence and generic skills, especially those of collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, as well as the attribute of aesthetic appreciation. These, together with the nurturing of positive value and attitudes in P.E., are foundation for students’ life-long and life-wide learning.
Author Visits to SCPS 2018
1. Tuesday, 13th March 2018 (P.1 – P.3 students)
Gail Clarke – Children’s Author, Illustrator and Storyteller
After 28 years as a primary school teacher in Hong Kong, Gail Clarke retired and migrated with her husband to Italy in 2004. From one migration to another, Gail started writing about migrating animals (parrots and arctic terns) and now advocates passionately for environment preservation. Gail is a well-experienced planet ambassador and will be sharing her daring stories with our P.1 – P.3 students on 13th March 2018.
2. Tuesday, 27th March 2018 (P.4 – P.6 students)
David M. Schwartz – Children’s Author & Speaker
With the same energy, humor and clarity found in his 50 books, David wows audiences at schools in the United States and beyond. David is an accomplished storyteller and a master at getting kids to think and have fun at the same time. His presentations lead children on entertaining and educational journeys that combine Math, Science, Reading and Writing. David will conduct a sharing session (that would include exciting Math moments) with our P.4 – P.6 students on 27th March 2018.
Curriculum
Chinese
中文科課程宗旨：
均衡發展語文能力
豐富學生均衡完整的語文學習經歷，包括聆聽、說話、閱讀、寫作四方面，全面發展學生的綜合語文能力。
拓寬閱讀面，增加閱讀量
提高閱讀興趣，拓寬閱讀面，增加閱讀量，積累知識和語言材料，拓展視野和胸襟。
培養審美能力和審美情趣
透過古詩詞及文學作品的學習，培養學生自學及對優美事物的欣賞能力，發展他們創作的潛能。
加強品德情意教育
加強培養學生的品德情意，提高學生的道德素質。
培養思維能力
著重思維能力和思維素質，鼓勵獨立思考、批判性思考，發揮創意。
加強文化學習
豐富學生對中華文化的認識
加強自學能力
培養學生建構知識、運用知識、自我監控能力；提高學生語文自學的趣，養成良好的語文自學態度和習慣。
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English
We take pride in stating that one of our students’ key strengths lies in their ability to communicate using a high standard of English. It has also been our constant endeavor to instill in students a life-long love for literature through widespread reading for pleasure.
In the past few years, we have provided students with the following opportunities to further explore the language beyond classrooms.
Reading Award Programme
Students record the English books they read in the Reading Record Card.
The students who read the most number of books receive Reading Awards at the end of each term.
Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival
The Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival is one of the prime events in which our primary girls get the opportunity to challenge themselves in their spoken eloquence. Students give it their best when it comes to rendering the chosen pieces of text and uphold the long tradition of performing meritoriously at the event.
Big Sister Reading Scheme / Reading Buddies
Students of senior grades help students of junior grades enhance their reading interest by sharing books and story-telling. The senior girls read to the younger ones and ask them questions to develop their ability to comprehend and infer varied meanings from texts.
In the past academic year, we also had secondary students from St. Clare’s Girls’ School who came as reading buddies to our school and read books to our P.4 and P.5 girls.
English Ambassador Programme
To further enhance students’ confidence in speaking, English Ambassadors from the senior grades are stationed around the school campus on Mondays and Wednesdays. Students across grades share interesting anecdotes in English with the Ambassadors and earn stamps in their English passports. These stamps are redeemed for gifts at the end of each year.
International Festival
This is a celebratory day as students gear up for activities from countries around the world. Our senior girls design, create and supervise their own booth games which are a manifestation of world-wide etiquettes and culture. In the past academic year, students also got a one-of-a-kind opportunity to experience the mystifying facets of African culture through African Drumming.
RTHK Radio Programme
The department also participates in the Sunday Smile Radio Programme organized by RTHK which provides opportunities for students from P.3 – P.5 to use different forms of language arts. The students’ performances are subsequently broadcast on Channel 3 of RTHK.
Lunch Book Sharing
We make use of every opportunity in the curriculum to teach our students to become life-long readers and cherish reading for pleasure. Teachers and students take turns on a regular basis to share their favourite reads with all students during lunch breaks.
Book Report Form (P1-2)
Book Report Form (P3-6)
Mathematics
Our school’s mathematics curriculum aims to develop pupils’ understanding of basic mathematical knowledge, creativity, and problem-solving skills so as to enhance their lifelong learning abilities. More specifically, different learning experiences are tailored into our school-based curriculum to assist pupils to master the following five basic dimensions of knowledge: Number, Shape and space, Measures, Data handling, and Algebra.
To arouse pupils’ interest, learning and assessment activities are of a wide variety. Pupils do not just learn the mathematical concepts by listening to their teachers. They are given opportunities to actively apply their knowledge and creativity in solving problems during project work (e.g. making models, doing surveys), group discussions and presentations. Their confidence in Mathematics is also enhanced through participation in a number of inter-class and inter-school competitions.
Let's take a look at what activities the students had participated this year (2018-19)
General Studies
The GS curriculum aims at enabling students to:
• maintain a healthy personal development and become confident, rational
• and responsible citizens
• recognise their roles and responsibilities as members of the family and
• society and show concern for their well-being
• develop a sense of national identity and be committed to contributing to
• the nation and the world
• develop curiosity and interest in the natural and technological world as
• well as understand the impact of science and technology on this modern society
• develop care and concern for the environment
The course content of our General Studies Department is based on the "Curriculum Guide (2002)" of the Hong Kong Education Bureau. It provides students with opportunities to integrate knowledge, skills, values and attitudes. It promotes creativity through hands-on and minds-on learning experiences and problem-solving process which helps them to deal in everyday life. We also hope to widen their learning beyond the school settings through activities like outdoor visits, project learning, and newspaper clippings to stimulate students’ awareness about environment, science and history.
Biblical Knowledge
St. Clare’s Primary School is founded by The Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Angels. The founders wished our students would know God and have a fruitful life.
Subject Objectives:
- To transmit the messages in the Gospel.
- To cultivate values such as respect for life, filial piety, politeness, simplicity, peace, justice, honesty, thoughtfulness, sacrifice for others and tolerance.
- To teach students help and love each other as we are brothers and sisters in God’s family.
- To guide students to experience God’s love in daily life and build a relationship with God (to teach them the ways of prayer)
- To let students experience the connection of our faith to everyday life through liturgy, prayer and religious activities.
- To help students understand the perfection in life that is to follow Jesus. They learn to live out truth as well as love God and one another, so that they would become good daughters of God.
Information Technology
The school’s IT curriculum is designed according to the EDB document, Modular Computer Awareness Programme. The curriculum fulfills the three learning objectives - information technology knowledge acquisition, skills and attitude which are listed on the consultation document for the Strategy on IT in Education.
Our IT teaching aids are designed according to the level of the students. Every IT lesson includes a theme and some activities. Using different teaching methods, the teacher gives the students some missions to motivate them. Students can enjoy the lesson, be inspired and have more room to think creatively. After they are well trained and have improved their IT technique, they can participate in group activities such as study reports and IT competition, which allows them to build up a positive attitude and to share their opinion. Letting IT become a part of our students’ daily life helps them to learn and take in knowledge more proactively and willingly.
The school includes topics to tell the students how to use IT functions correctly. For the senior students, copyright and other broad-based topics are included in the curriculum in order to raise their awareness when using IT. Assessments incorporate three domains – cognitive, affective and psychomotor.
Assessment Method
Through a continuous assessment of student’s performances.
There will be no written examinations.
課程特色
本校的電腦課程依照教育署「小學電腦認知課程」的內容編定同時符合課程發展處<資訊科技教育諮詢文件>中小學生第一及第二學習階段的「資訊科技知識」、「技能」、及「態度」三個學習目標。
本校的電腦教材因應校內學生的程度而編纂,每堂電腦課均包括學習主題及學習活動，老師使用靈活多變的教學方法，如在課堂中給予學生任務引起她們的學習興趣，透過老師的示範及課堂活動使學生更積極參與學習,獲得更多的啟發和思考空間。學生得到進一步的訓練，鞏固電腦的操作技巧後更可參與小組活動如：專題研習及校外有關資訊科技比賽，培養學生積極的態度及願意與同學分享意見，讓資訊科技成為他們生活的一部份，習慣運用資訊科技進行學習，有助學生將來接受更高階的訓練。
除了訓練學生的電腦知識及操作技巧外，我校十分重視學生使用電腦的「態度」所以我們在課程中加入了「使用電腦的正確方法」等題材；亦在高年級滲入了知識產權的正確觀念讓學生在學習知識及技能的同時都能領略正確學習態度的重要性。所以老師會在評估表中評量學生對資訊科技教育在認知、情意和技能三方面的表現。
評估方法
1. 進展性評估
2. 根據學生表現填評估表
3. 不設筆試
Religious and moral education
School-based Religious and moral education is implemented for the developmental for the developmental needs of all students. We aim at developing and maximizing potentials of students and to help them build up the basic knowledge, skills and attitude in the four areas of personal, social, academic and career development through planned and progressive key learning areas. Our Religious and moral education programme is conducted in forms of classroom learning, short-term and structured course, group activities, assemblies, cross-curricular activities, religious activities, etc. Our school designs and develops various learning and guidance sessions or activities in a gradual and progressive approach with reference to the developmental needs of students. Interactive and cooperative learning programmes can enhance learning motivation of students. Active experiential learning can also encourage self-exploration and reflection and enhance applications in daily life through connecting learning contents with life experiences and events.
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Music
Leaving aside the core subjects, our school also emphasis on developing students’ interest in music and arise their skills in aesthetic appreciation so as to provide students with quality music education in facilitating their all-round and unique development.
Our school provides indispensable learning experiences for students’ growth and development through participation in various music activities, these integrated music activities like, creating, performing (singing and instrumental playing) and listening can cultivate students’ interest in music and widen their horizons. Hence, students can engage in life-long learning and incessantly improve themselves so as to meet future challenges.
PuTongHua
本科的學習分為聆聽、說話、閱讀及譯寫四個範疇。課程內容的編排由淺入深，使學生能循序漸進地學習。
本科學習總目標
（一）培養聆聽、說話、朗讀等語言能力，以及自學能力。
（二）增進與本科有關的語言知識，以及對中國文化的認識。
（三）提高對本科的學習興趣，培養良好的學習態度和習慣。
視覺藝術科
為了配合美術教育和藝術的發展，課程發展議會藝術教育委員會於二零零一年通過將小學課程的美勞科和中學課程的美術與設計科統稱為視覺藝術科。
本科的課程宗旨是希望學生透過視覺藝術科的學習來擴展其以視覺為主的感官、美感和藝術經驗，繼而使學生能夠進行表達個人感情和思想的視覺藝術表現；此外亦希望透過評賞和創作，發展學生視覺認知、共通能力和後設認知，藉着對不同文化藝術的接觸，來拓展學生多元化的視野，從而陶冶學生的情意、修養、品德，以至對國家民族及世界的投入感。
而在視覺藝術科課程設計上，老師必須透過不同的學習活動來讓學生有效掌握四個學習重點，包括：培養創意及創造力、發展技能與過程、培養評賞藝術的能力及認識藝術的情境，繼而將評賞與創作互相配合，最終達到視覺藝術科的課程宗旨。
特色
視覺藝術科不是單單讓學生將主題的內容繪畫在畫紙上，而是希望透過不同的學習活動來引發學生主動學習，培養不同的共通能力，幫助學生統整不同學習領域的知識和經驗，在學習和生活情境中實踐出來。
Physical Education
Physical Education (P.E.) is “to educate students through physical activities.” It aims to develop students’ physical competence and knowledge of movement and safety, and their ability to use these to perform in a wide range of activities associated with the development of an active and healthy lifestyle. It also develops students’ confidence and generic skills, especially those of collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, as well as the attribute of aesthetic appreciation. These, together with the nurturing of positive value and attitudes in P.E., are foundation for students’ life-long and life-wide learning.
Chinese
English
Mathematics
Let's take a look at the students' outstanding work.
Summer Holiday Work
P2_Peace
P2_Joy
P2_Beauty
P3_Justice
P3_Prudence
P3_Reverence
P4_Humility
P4_Patience
P4_Wisdom
P5_Fortitude
P5_Knowledge
P5_Serenity
General Studies
P1GS_1st Term_Project_1F Fung Tsz Kiu Audrey
P1GS_1st Term_Project_1F Ip Wing Tung Isabelle
P1GS_1st Term_Project_1F Tang Lap Sze Natalie
P1GS_1st Term_Project_1F Yau Hei Lam Audrey
P1GS_1st Term_Project_1H Chan Tsz Ying Noelle
P1GS_1st Term_Project_1H Fong Hoi Ka Kaka
P1GS_1st Term_Project_1H Liu Ivy
P1GS_1st Term_Project_1H Lo Cho Yee Carlie
P1GS_1st Term_Project_1H Lo Hau Ching Jacey
Biblical Knowledge
Religious and moral education
Percussion Instrument using recycled materials
Sin Chiu Ping Charmaine P1 Faith
Tsang Sum Yuet Cassie P1 Faith
Chan Wui Tung Brianna P1 Faith
Fong Pui Ching P1 Love
Visual Art
十二生肖電子繪畫
Visual Arts
Recommended Book List
The School Reading List
Primary 1 & 2 Students
Primary 3
Primary 4
Primary 5 & 6
Advanced Reading List – Key Stage 3
Book Recommendations by the Reading Ambassadors
Author Visits to SCPS 2018
1. Tuesday, 13th March 2018 (P.1 – P.3 students)
Gail Clarke – Children’s Author, Illustrator and Storyteller
After 28 years as a primary school teacher in Hong Kong, Gail Clarke retired and migrated with her husband to Italy in 2004. From one migration to another, Gail started writing about migrating animals (parrots and arctic terns) and now advocates passionately for environment preservation. Gail is a well-experienced planet ambassador and will be sharing her daring stories with our P.1 – P.3 students on 13th March 2018.
2. Tuesday, 27th March 2018 (P.4 – P.6 students)
David M. Schwartz – Children’s Author & Speaker
With the same energy, humor and clarity found in his 50 books, David wows audiences at schools in the United States and beyond. David is an accomplished storyteller and a master at getting kids to think and have fun at the same time. His presentations lead children on entertaining and educational journeys that combine Math, Science, Reading and Writing. David will conduct a sharing session (that would include exciting Math moments) with our P.4 – P.6 students on 27th March 2018.
Reading Mums and Dads
For more photos, please visit e-class digital channel.
New Book Arrivals
Newsletter – Reading Stars (Jan 2018 Issue)
中文圖書推介書目
初小組
高小組
Battle of the Books