| 1. Curriculum |
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The school offers the subjects of Computer Literacy in junior forms, HKCEE Computer and AS Level Computer Application. To ensure that every student is taken care of, all computer subjects are taught in groups, with one teacher to a maximum of 20 students.Computer Literacy in junior forms is characterized by its readiness to respond to the need of the society. The curriculum is enriched by knowledge on information technology, such as the use of internet, webpage design, image processing and video clipping. Besides, there is an integration of computer and Integrated Science so as to let our students apply their IT skills to project-based learning.The school places much emphasis on IT education. A new IT curriculum has been introduced in S4, with modules on programming and multi-media production offered. Two groups of Computer Application have been offered in S6, so that more than half of the students could take the subject. |
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| 2. Facilities |
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In recent years, the school has secured funding from Quality Education Fund for the improvement of school facilities and provision of gifted education. The funding on IT project alone amounted to $2.2 million, which helped to set up the Multi-media Learning Centre, the Millennium Multi-media Classroom and the Digital Music and Creative Art Workshop. The school also set up a Campus TV station on production of videos and clips, which is welcome by students. Apart from teaching purposes, the Computer-aided Learning Room and two Computer Rooms are open during lunch time and after school. Students may use the facilities there to browse on websites and complete assignments.The new Campus TV production center is equipped with the hypothesized background, analogy shade effect, class broadcast system which provide each classroom with live broadcast video and 24 hours x 7 days access through the intranet.As IT facilities are useful for teaching and learning, all classrooms in the school are equipped with projectors. Special rooms are further provided with sound systems, visualizers and wireless microphones to become well-equipped multi-media presentation centers.All teachers of the school have attained comfortable and competent levels of IT competency required by EMB. All teachers are allocated notebook computers to facilitate teaching. Computer is used extensively in school administration, such as computerized library and web-based school management system.The recent External School Review report highly praises the school’s IT facilities: .The overall provision of IT facilities in the school was excellent. All classrooms had been networked and installed with projectors.. This is a show of recognition of our efforts on IT construction in the past years. |
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| 3. Student Performance |
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Our students made outstanding achievements on information and technology, and won prizes in IT contests held locally and overseas. For instance, our representatives won the senior group champion in Environmental Protection Web Page Design Competition organized by Sha Tin Junior Chamber; In Learning with Fun 2004, our students were awarded overall champion and first-runner up from 2004 to 2007. In the Youth Skills Competition, Lee Chun Ming was the Hong Kong champion and ranked the third in the world competition in Switzerland. Our students won awards time and again in the Hong Kong Olympiad in Informatics. Chan Yuk Hei was selected to be a member of the Hong Kong team to compete in the Philippines, Xian and New Zealand. The team was the champion in a South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation competition held in New Zealand. Leung Ming Lam was a gold medallist and scored the second highest mark in the Hong Kong Olympiad in Informatics Junior Group. In 2005, he was also elected to represent HK to join the International Olympiad in Informatics in Warsaw, Polland. In 2006, Tse Ka Yan won the overall champion in the Third Point@Media Slogan Competition.In the past few years, the school has made remarkable achievements on IT education in respect of popularizing, facilities and student performance. Nevertheless, we have to continue our efforts with a view to achieving .paradigm shift., i.e. shifting from a mode of teaching which is textbook and teacher focused, to one that is learning focused. |