樂道中學 Lock Tao Secondary School

樂道中學 Lock Tao Secondary School Mei Lam Estate Shatin 26021000 26927712 school@locktao.edu.hk http://www.locktao.edu.hk Mission Statement The school features honesty, faith, goodness and diligence, aiming to provide quality Christian education for students' moral, intellectual, physical, social, artistic and spiritual growth. Students are encouraged to activate their potentials and contribute actively to the society with a responsible manner. Information of Teaching Staff (including School Head) Total number in the establishment Total number of teachers in the school 38 44 School Information Supervisor / Chairman of School Management Committee Principal (with Qualifications / Experiences) School Type School Motto Mr. TSANG Kinwoo Mr. CHUNG Luipong Aided Coed Honesty, Faith, Goodness and Diligence Qualifications and professional training (% of Teachers ) Teacher Certificate / Diploma in Education Bachelor Degree Master / Doctorate Degree or above Special Education Training Work Experience (% of Teachers ) 0 4 years 0% 5 9 years 18% 10 years 82% 90% 100% 57% 48% Name of Sponsoring Body Area Occupied by the School ParentTeacher Association Lock Tao Secondary School Limited About 4000 Sq. M Subjects offered (2015/2016) of Religion Protestantism / Christianity Old Students' Association / School Alumni Association Year of Commencement of Operation Incorporated Management Committee Student Union / Association 1962 Established Chinese Language, Mathematics, Integrated Science, Liberal Studies, Chinese History, Putonghua, Music, Physical Education, Computer Literacy, Religious Studies, Visual Arts S.1 S.3 by group / schoolbased of Chinese Language, Mathematics(Compulsory and Extended Part Module 1), Liberal Studies, Chinese History, Geography, Economics, Information and Communication Technology, Business, Accounting and Financial Studies,Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Visual Arts, Tourism and Hospitality Studies, Physical Education, Applied Learning (S.56), Joint Schools Senior Secondary Curriculum (Physical Education, Combined Science, Design and Applied Technology and Music) S.4 S.6 by group / schoolbased

Proposed Subjects (2016/2017) of Chinese Language, Mathematics, Integrated Science, Liberal Studies, Chinese History, Putonghua, Music, Physical Education, Computer Literacy, Religious Studies, Visual Arts S.1 S.3 by group / schoolbased of Chinese Language, Mathematics(Compulsory and Extended Part Module 1), Liberal Studies, Chinese History, Geography, Economics, Information and Communication Technology, Business, Accounting and Financial Studies,Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Visual Arts, Tourism and Hospitality Studies, Physical Education, Applied Learning (S.56), Joint Schools Senior Secondary Curriculum (Physical Education, Combined Science, Design and Applied Technology and Music) S.4 S.6 by group / schoolbased Class Structure & Chargeable Fees (2015/2016) No. of Classes School Fee Tong Fai ParentTeacher Association Fee Student Union / Association Fee Charges for Specific Purposes Other Charges $310 S1 $120 (oneoff payment) S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 3 3 3 3 3 3 $310 $310 $310 $15 Incidentals House fee $10 Remarks S.1 Admission, Orientation Activities & Healthy School Life Secondary One Admission Our school will accept discretionary places. Our school will participate in the Secondary School Places Allocation System through central allocation stage (Applicable for admission to S1 in September 2016). Academic Results: 30% EDB Ranking of Academic Performance: 20% Extracurricular Activities: 20% Interview: 10% Awards: 10% Conduct: 10% Orientation Activities and Healthy Life To help Secondary One students adapt to the new school environment, Secondary One Adaptation Courses like Chinese Language,, Mathematics,Liberal Studies, Integrated Science, Physical Education and Visual Arts are held during the summer holidays. Other activities including Orientation Day for Secondary One Students and Parents (August) and Secondary One Parents' Day (October). Our school provides diverse activities in Physical Education lessons. Physical Fitness Assessment is held each academic year to raise students' awareness on their physical fitness and encourage them to engage in sports regularly. Catering Service Monitoring Committee is formed by teachers, parents and students to observe the service quality of the catering service provider.

樂道中學 Lock Tao Secondary School Mei Lam Estate Shatin 26021000 26927712 school@locktao.edu.hk http://www.locktao.edu.hk School Characteristics School Management Organisation School's Key Concerns: To foster a caring culture and diversified learning environment to cater for individual differences. To emphasize on spiritual growth and moral education. School Management Organisation: Approved by the Education Bureau, The Incorporated Management Committee (IMC) of Lock Tao Secondary School was established in 2007 in order to undertake schoolbased management and promote quality education. Opinions of all the stakeholders are collected through regular school meetings, PTA meetings and Student Association meetings. Through the supervision of the Principal and Assistant Principals and the collaboration of all administrative committees, school policies are implemented. Incorporated Management Committee / School Management Committee/ Management Committee: Please refer to our school website. School Green Policy: Our school promotes environmental protection policy to establish a green campus. Apart from formal teaching students knowledge about the environment, our school also encourages students to participate in green activities such as No Airconditioner Day and Switch off the Light Campaign. In 2009, our school received the Environment and Conservation Fund to build a rooftop garden to cultivate a green campus. The solar power system for applying collected solar energy in the school lighting system is being installed. With the Environment and Conservation Fund, we installed all energy saving lights (T5), Grade 1 Energy Label room coolers, LED exit signs and rooftop heat insulation coating in 2012. Learning and Teaching Plan Wholeschool Language Policy: Our school uses Chinese as the Medium of Instruction. We have Putonghua groups in junior forms offering Putonghua as the Medium of Instruction in Chinese Language. Extended English learning activities are integrated in Junior Secondary Integrated Science and Mathematics curricula. Funded by Project WeCan and Quality Education Fund, our school has set up the Campus TV, English Band and English Kitchen to promotion language learning. In addition, the school sets up an English Activity Centre and English Award Scheme, organizes English Ambassador Training Programme, English Campus Reporters, English Day, English News Sharing in Morning Assembly, English Morning Reading Session and Chinesewide and Englishwide Reading Scheme, English Day Camp (coorganize with external NET Association) and encourages students to join Chinese, Putonghua and English Speech Festival to help students develop bilingual triliterate skills. Learning and Teaching Strategies : Our school implements the Senior Secondary Curriculum through different schemes like, Assessment for Learning (AfL) in major subjects and Afterschool Learning Support Scheme to foster learning and teaching effectiveness and cater for individual differences. Our selfdeveloped Tracking for Success System, which aims to display students' learning progress and outcomes, is highly recognized by students, parents and educators. Our school also incorporates Multiple Intelligence Periods in Junior Form Curriculum in order to develop students' potentials,and generic skills and to guide students to conduct Outbound Investigation Project systematically through the collaboration of different subjects. Schoolbased Curriculum: 1. Electives: 2X There are two elective blocks that offers four to five electives in each block in which students can choose one elective from each block. Our school also participates in Shatin Joint Schools Senior Secondary Curriculum to provide more choices for students. 2. Curriculum highlights: 1. Electives: 2X. There are two elective blocks that offers four to five electives in each block in which students can choose one elective from each block. Our school also participates in Shatin Joint Schools Senior Secondary Curriculum to provide more choices for students. 2. Curriculum Emphasis: 1. To cater for individual differences, teachers design school based and afterschool learning support scheme based on students abilities and needs. 2. To help students learn outside classrooms, Multiple Intelligence Periods and Lifewide Learning Periods are implemented in Junior and Senior Forms. Via visits, field trips, camps and service learning, it is hoped that students could be exposed to different learning experiences by aligning study and life, aiming to develop students generic skills and enrich Student Learning Profile (SLP). 3. The school nominates students to apply for Senior Secondary Applied Learning (ApL) Courses, allowing some Secondary 5 and 6 students to be exposed to different areas of studies and take practical or careerrelated courses such as Aviation Studies, Practical Accounting for SMEs, Jewellery Arts and Design, Hotel Operations and Radio Host Presentation Skills. Development of Key Tasks : To foster students' reading habits and selflearning skills, our school has book recommendations by teachers, reading group, book fairs, talks by writers and morning reading sessions. Through Lock Tao Ambassadors Service Scheme, Class Periods, Morning Assembly News Sharing and Outbound Learning, students' social awareness and recognition of their citizenship could be enhanced. Multiple Intelligence Periods are incorporated in the Junior Secondary Curriculum to activate students' potentials and develop students' learning abilities systematically via Projectbased Outbound Learning with collaborations of different subjects. Life Planning: Starting from junior forms, our school provides different life planning and career guidance activities, including workshops, visits, talks, individual counselling and Life Planning Course, for students in order to guide students to have better understanding of their characters, interests, strengths and weaknesses as well as to develop their potentials. These activities not only can widen their horizons, but also allows them to learn more about the workplace and to enhance their selfconfidence. It is hoped that students can plan ahead and set clear goals for their studies and career. Student Support Whole School Approach to Catering for Student Diversity: 1. To tailormake schoolbased core and extended to cater for students with different learning abilities. 2. To enhance learning and teaching effectiveness as well as the professional development of teachers, our school has joined the 'Quality School Improvement Project : Support for Learning Diversity' provided by the Chinese University of Hong kong. 3. To implement different types of Award Schemes like 'Lock Tao Award Scheme', 'Star of the Month' and 'Best Improvement Award' to encourage students of different abilities to learn conscientiously. 4. To cater for individual differences, small class teaching and smallgroup streaming are implemented in Chinese, English and Mathematics. 5. To promote a caring Culture in the campus, biclassteacher system, 'Peer Mentoring Scheme' and 'Caring Ambassadors Scheme' are incorporated. 6. To cater for learning needs in Chinese, English and Mathematics, 'Afterschool Learning Support Scheme' is established. 7. To nominate students to join university programmes targeted at gifted students. Measures to provide adaptation for Learning and Assessment: There are two examinations and one test each academic year. Our school emphasizes continuous and diverse assessment methods. Through assignments, projects, classroom performance and skillbased tests, students learning performance and effectiveness in different learning periods will be assessed. Our school also actively cultivate Assessment for Learning to provide immediate feedbacks to students, aiming to enhance learning and teaching effectiveness. Our school policy matches with HKEAA s requirements in the Quality Assessment Management Accreditation Scheme and is being awarded the Quality Assessment Management Accreditation. Fee Remission Scheme (For schools under Direct Subsidy Scheme only): Not Applicable

HomeSchool Cooperation and School Ethos HomeSchool Cooperation: Our ParentTeacher Association (PTA) was established in 1996. In order to promote the homeschool cooperation, a variety of activities, including Parents workshops, talks and family gatherings, have been organized. Parent volunteers have also been formed for providing extra supports to our school. To have a better understanding on students school performance, Parents Days have also been held regularly. Through active participation, a better teacherstudent and parentchild relationship can be developed. School Ethos: Our students are humble and abide by school rules. A full time school chaplain serves in our school to provide pastoral care to students and foster their spiritual development. Biclassteacher system aiming at providing more care and support to students is employed in each class so as to allow students to have a richer school life by joining different activities and competitions. All junior forms students are required to have lunch at school. Different schemes and awards are offered, including 'Stand by Me Scheme', I Can Do It Scheme, 'Helping Others Scheme', 'P.A.T.H.', 'Grow New Impetus', 'Caring Ambassador Scheme' and so on in order to activate students' potentials and enhance their confidence. Our school has received 'Caring School Award' organised by Education Bureau and HK Christian Service for several years. Future Development School Development Plan: 1. Promote students selflearning and enhance learning effectiveness 2. Develop students' potentials and assist students in life planning. 3. Strengthen the use of bilingual and triliterate abilities and other learning experiences 4. Develop students potentials and generic skills through the establishment of MultipleIntelligence Periods 5. Enhance both learning and teaching through exploring and utilizing resources from external organisations and the collaboration with different universities Teacher Professional Training and Development : Since 2007, our school has been working with The University of Hong Kong and started the School University Partnership Scheme in order to promote teacher professional development. Apart from different workshops, peer lesson observation has been highly promoted for a better teaching enhancement. Extracurricular/Cocurricular Activities Our school has set up a variety of clubs and interest groups (sports and recreation, uniform groups, social services, academic accomplishment, leisure interests, religious and spiritual education, culture and arts) for students to choose. All S1 students are arranged to different uniform groups and required to take part in the 'CYC Award Scheme' in order to receive disciplinary training and realize their social responsibilities to serve the society. Moreover, 'Multi Intelligence Learning' and 'LifeWide Learning' are being promoted and integrated in the class periods for fostering more cross learning opportunities, exploring students' potentials and cultivating their different generic skills. Through the above activities, a quality student learning portfolio can then be developed. School Facilities School Facilities: The establishment of the New Wing provides sufficient space for implementing smallclass teaching, smallgroup teaching and diverse learning activities. New facilities include Computer Room, ComputerAssisted Learning Room, Student Activity Centre, Language Lab, Multimedia Room, Band Room, Campus TV Studio, Career and Guidance Counselling Room, English Activity Centre and Religious Activity Room. Facility Support for Students with Special Educational Needs: Ramp, Accessible lift and Accessible toilet. Others 1) In order to encourage students to strive for the best and develop their potentials in academic, discipline, extracurricular activities and services, a variety of awards and scholarships have been provided, including 'Best Performance Gold/Silver/Bronze Award', 'Best Improvement Award', 'Outstanding Sportsman Award' and 'Outstanding ExtraCurricular Activity Performance Award'. 2) School bus service is provided for the following estates and locations: Shek Mun Estate, Kwong Yuen Estate, Yue Chui Court, Yue Tin Court, City One Shatin, Belair Garden, Garden Rivera, Sha Kok Estate, Pok Hong Estate, Jat Min Chuen, Chun Shek Estate, Sun Tin Wai Estate, Golden Lion Garden, Sun Chui Estate, Ka Keng Court, Festival City and Mei Tin Estate. Direct Public Transportation to School Bus: 80, 82K, 46X, 283,286X; MTR: Tai Wai Station; Take Minibus 63K, 63A. The school information is provided and vetted by schools. If further details are required, please contact the school direct. Last update date: 08/12/2015