Grant Scheme on Promoting Effective English Language Learning in Primary Schools (PEEGS) School-based Implementation Plan

Grant Scheme on Promoting Effective English Language Learning in Primary Schools (PEEGS) School-based Implementation Plan School Name: Sha Tin Wai Dr. Catherine F. Woo Memorial School Application No.: A047 (for official use) (A) General information: 1. No. of English teachers in the regular staff establishment (excluding the Native-speaking English Teacher): 16 2. No. of approved classes in the 2016/17 school year: P.1 P.2 P.3 P.4 P.5 P.6 Total No. of approved classes 4 4 4 4 5 4 25 3. No. of operating classes in the 2016/17 school year:(if different from the number of approved classes) No. of operating classes P.1 P.2 P.3 P.4 P.5 P.6 Total 4. Programmes/projects implemented or support service(s) in relation to English Language curriculum received in the past five years(more rows can be added if needed): Name of programme/project/ support service Focus(es) of programme/project/ support service External support (if any) Learning and assessment P.4 Learning as an assessment The Hong Kong University Small class teaching P.4 Effective small class teaching The Chinese University of Hong Kong Phonics teaching P.1 Phonic The Chinese University of Hong Kong Drama Education P.6 Teaching drama skill Self-Funded School Name: Sha Tin Wai Dr. Catherine F. Woo Memorial School P. 1

(B) SWOT Analysis related to the learning and teaching of English: Strengths Curriculum 1. Collaborative lesson planning is conducted in some grade s. This increases teachers involvement in the choice and design of teaching content and activities. 2. Teachers adopt a task-based approach and interactive classroom teaching with a wider range of activities. 3. The school runs Weekly English Speaking Days and an annual English Fun Week. Our English Team 1. The English Department is made up of a team of 16 enthusiastic and experienced teachers who are very supportive and cooperative. Opportunities 1. The implementation of small class teaching in some s in our school enables students to enjoy learning by enhancing their effectiveness in communication and developing their creativity and sense of commitment. 2. The PEEGS offers grant for the development of school-based English enhancement measures to further promote effective English language learning. 2. All teachers are friendly and approachable. They are always ready to implement new ideas to boost the English proficiency of students. 3. All teachers are willing to share their teaching experience with team members via peer observation of lessons and co-planning meetings. 4. The NET plays a key role in the panel, in relation to conducting interactive teaching and providing quality input in collaborative lesson planning and modeling of good practices, especially in P.1 to P.3. Weaknesses 1. Our students are very passive English learners. Students families do not provide a language-rich English environment to communicate in English. 2. It is quite common for students to use Cantonese among themselves in English learning activities. 3. Most of the students do not have confidence in expressing themselves in English, particularly in speaking. Threats 1. Most of our new students come from mainland China and they have not learnt English before. They seldom use English to communicate with teachers and other students, so extra practice and opportunities to speak in English are needed. School Name: Sha Tin Wai Dr. Catherine F. Woo Memorial School P. 2

(C) Measure(s) taken through the grant under the English Enhancement Grant Scheme for Primary Schools, if any: (more rows can be added if needed): Area(s) of Development Usage(s) of the grant Level Development of the school-based English curriculum, organize English Reading Workshop for P.3 & P.4 students and use the existing drama readers to design activities that enhance P.4 to P.6 students understanding of the text 1. Employing English Language Teacher Assistant to help teachers in developing innovative teaching and learning strategies, materials, and activities which suit the needs of local children in P.3 P.6 promoting English reading and speaking development. 2. Employing a teaching assistant to help the coordinators with the implementation of all the proposed measures and to collect, organize and photocopy the relevant teaching materials for the coordinators. School Name: Sha Tin Wai Dr. Catherine F. Woo Memorial School P. 3

(D) Focus(es) of the school s proposed school-based English Language to be funded under PEEGS Proposed target area(s) of development (Please the appropriate box(es) below) Proposed usage(s) of the Grant (Please the appropriate box(es) below) (Please the appropriate box(es) below) (Please the appropriate box(es) below) Enrich the English language environment in school through - conducting more English language activities*; (*Please delete as appropriate) Promote reading across the curriculum in respect of the updated English Language Curriculum (Primary) under Ongoing Renewal of the School Curriculum Focusing, Deepening and Sustaining (*Please delete as appropriate) Enhance e-learning in respect of the updated English Language Curriculum (Primary) under Ongoing Renewal of the School Curriculum Focusing, Deepening and Sustaining Cater for learner diversity with equal emphasis on more able and less able students in respect of the updated English Language Curriculum (Primary) under Ongoing Renewal of the School Curriculum Focusing, Deepening and Sustaining Purchase learning and teaching resources Employ part-time teacher (*Please delete as appropriate) Employ part-time* teaching assistant (*Please delete as appropriate) Procure service for conducting English language activities 2017/18 (second term) to 2018/19 (first term) 2018/19 (second term) P.1 P.2 P.3 P.4 P.5 P.6 Others, please specify (e.g. P1-3, P5-6): Strengthen assessment literacy in respect of the updated English Language Curriculum (Primary) under Ongoing Renewal of the School Curriculum Focusing, Deepening and Sustaining School Name: Sha Tin Wai Dr. Catherine F. Woo Memorial School P. 4

(E) How to implement the proposed school-based English Language funded by PEEGS? (more rows can be added if needed) Proposed school-based English Language (1) Procure professional service to conduct drama activities for P.1-P.6 students to enrich the English language environment in school There are a lot of positive influences from drama, P.1 to P.6 2/2018 All the English The scripts Activity theatre and the performing arts, especially on teachers will acquire will be kept participation rate 2/2019 young people. The benefits are physical, knowledge to take up and revised by and performance emotional, social and they help develop a healthy P.4-P.6 for the teaching of drama our teachers profile assessed by appreciation of culture and the arts. the 1st to students via for future use. LETs 2/2018 to co-planning and There will be Survey and An experienced and qualified teacher with a year 5/2018 co-teaching with the video-taping questionnaires degree in teaching English as a second language Co-plannin service providers. of drama completed by as well as in drama education will be provided by g for P.4 to All regular teachers workshops students for the service provider to conduct drama activities P.1-P.3 for will be ready to teach conducted evaluation P.6 Drama for P.1 to P.6 students. Core team members will the 2nd drama in English throughout the All data will be be the leaders to co-ordinate the development. Activities lessons. project for collected and year Over 70% of the sharing to analyzed for Drama Activities for P.1 to P.6 students use English in maintain the evaluation and their English lessons. sustainability. future planning. Every class will have a drama lesson once a week and eight lessons will be provided to each class. Over 80% of the The materials The English speaking and listening skills of students confidence in will be owned students will be enhanced through taking part in speaking English and used by the drama activities. In addition, students will also learn some basic communication skills such as presentation, audience awareness, critical listening and body language. It is expected that students could follow simple instructions and 3/2018 to 5/2018 Drama Activities for P.4 to P.6 enhanced Drama performances by some students at the end of the activities. school after the contract period. 1 The deliverables/outputs should be measurable and closely related to the purposes of related initiatives. 2 Sustainability of the initiative could be maintained through the knowledge transfer/capacity building of teachers and the utilisation of the deliverable produced. 3 Both qualitative and quantitative tools should be employed to evaluate the effectiveness of the initiative. School Name: Sha Tin Wai Dr. Catherine F. Woo Memorial School P. 5

Proposed school-based English Language most conversational speech and are able to express themselves using short phrases and some connected speech. Co-planning meetings will be held among drama instructors and teachers once a month to discuss about the scripts and lesson plans to ensure that the lessons are tailor-made for the students. The teachers and the service provider have to plan, discuss and develop the activities together. The topics of the scripts will be chosen from the textbook of each. The details of the topics of each are shown below: P.1: Family; P.2: School; P.3:Shopping P.4: Healthy Eating P.5: Places in Hong Kong P.6: Pollution Drama instructors and our teachers will conduct the lessons together. The English teachers take up at least half of the teaching during co-teaching. Intensive training for more able students Six intensive drama workshops named Boost the Top Workshop will be conducted during the Multi-intelligence Lesson on Fridays to further enhance students speaking and listening skills. Approximately 20-30 students will be chosen by the drama instructors and our teachers will co-teach with the drama instructors. The drama instructors and our teachers will observe the performance of our students in the drama lessons and choose the most talented in acting and are 4/2018 to 5/2018 Intensive training for P.4 to P.6 6/2018 to 7/2018 Drama Performanc e for P.4 to P.6 10/2018 to 1/2019 Co-plannin g for P.1 to P.3 Drama Activities 10/2018 to 12/2018 Drama School Name: Sha Tin Wai Dr. Catherine F. Woo Memorial School P. 6

Proposed school-based English Language able to make public performance. They can also be the mentors of their fellow schoolmates. One collaborative lesson planning will be held before the workshops. The topic will be decided by Drama instructors and our teachers together. The scripts will be written by the drama instructors. We will conduct the lessons together. Upon completion of the intensive training, these students will perform in public and be the role model for other students. Drama Performance Activities for P.1 to P.3 10/2018 to 11/2018 Intensive training for P.1 to P.3 The students from different class s will be given an opportunity to perform for different audience viz. English Speaking Day, English Week etc. by the teachers. The school may arrange students to perform in some primary schools as well as kindergartens. It aims to share the ideas and our experience of learning English through drama with different schools. 1/2019 to 2/2019 Drama Performanc e for P.1 to P.3 Rights to use the materials after the contract period The school has the rights to use the materials after the contract period. (2) To purchase readers to promote reading across the curriculum for P.2 to P.6 students School Name: Sha Tin Wai Dr. Catherine F. Woo Memorial School P. 7

Proposed school-based English Language Details of purchasing printed readers to promote reading across the curriculum for P.2 to P.6 students: Class/ Subjects involved P.2 General Studies P.3 English P.4 General Studies Text types Poems Rhymes Diaries Captions Directories Pamphlets Stories Advertisements Themes/ Copies of books Festivals (60 ) Jobs (60 ) Shopping (60 ) Travel (60 ) Healthy eating (60) Products (60) Strategies Preview Read aloud Visualize the images Identify words with similar endings Decode Predict Visualizing Make connections Use picture clues and contextual clues Predict Interpret Analyzing Visualize Respond P.2 - P.6 P.2 to P.3 4/2018 to 6/2018 Conduct Procuremen t exercise for Purchasing books and then purchase the books P.4 to P.6 10/2018 to 6/2019 Conduct Procuremen t exercise for Purchasing books and then purchase the books Eight unit plans will be developed for each theme to show the use of resources in class teaching. 80% of students at Primary 2 to 6 read two themes per year. 90% of the existing English teachers use the resource at P. 2 to P.6 each year. All the readers and reading task sheets will be kept by school for future use. Core team members can hold the workshop for English teachers professional development. Students will record the reading logs themselves. Core team members will observe lessons and will have postlesson observation to evaluate the effectiveness of the reading lessons. The information will be recorded. The reading strategies taught in lessons will be assessed in the tests and exams to evaluate students learning. All the records including reading task sheets, good collections, will be used for future planning or improvement on learning and teaching School Name: Sha Tin Wai Dr. Catherine F. Woo Memorial School P. 8

Proposed school-based English Language P.5 Recipes Robbery Synthesize Science Reports (90) Summarize Procedures Make connections (90) between personal experience and knowledge Analyze P.6 Biographies Heroes Synthesize General Fables (60) Summarize Studies Legends Aesop (60) Interpret Analyze All the readers are chosen across the curriculum so that students can extend and consolidate their learning. After reading, students will be asked to do oral or written book reports, share among peers, complete reading worksheets and journals as follow-up works. All the resources will be purchased after proper procurement exercises. School Name: Sha Tin Wai Dr. Catherine F. Woo Memorial School P. 9

Proposed school-based English Language (3) To employ a part-time teacher to release to create space for the core team members to promote reading across the curriculum for P.2-P.6 students The part-time teacher employed will take over the core team members lessons in February to March 2018 and October to November 2018. Since there are about 22 school days per month, the teacher is proposed to be employed for 80 days. Hence, there will be about 4 months. On average, the supply teacher will take over at least 100 lessons and the routine duties of the core team members. There are 4 core team members. They are the 2 English panel heads and 2 vice panels. All the core team members teach the target s P.2 P.6. The part-time teacher should have a Bachelor Degree as well as teaching experience and teaching training. The selection of the readers across curriculum helps promote one of the school s areas of concern, that is, STEM. Duties of core team Promote reading across the curriculum The core team members take the lead to design our school-based curriculum on guided reading to promote reading across the curriculum. We use fictions and non-fictions of different subject contents, narrative and informative texts to promote reading across the curriculum. For example, P.2 students are requested to read readers about festivals and jobs that involve P.2-P.6 P.2 to P.3 English curriculum in February to March 2018 P.4 to P.6 English curriculum in October to November 2018 School Name: Sha Tin Wai Dr. Catherine F. Woo Memorial School P. 10 School-based reading across the curriculum, with four sets of lesson plans, learning tasks/activities developed per for P. 2 to P.6. On self-access learning programme/materials, 80% of students will complete over 90 % of the developed programme/materials per year. Co-curricular activities on General Studies and English will be conducted for Primary 2 to 6 students per year. The activities help students broaden their knowledge across subjects. 80 % of Primary 2 to 6 students confidence and skills in reading across the curriculum enhanced per year. 90% of the existing Core team members will hold workshops for existing school English teachers and give advice if necessary after completion of the project. Regular meetings are held by core team members with the English teachers to update the developed resources to assure the validity after completion of the project. There will be video-taping of lessons/activitie s for sharing. The records of meetings will be kept for future reference. Through the report of peer lesson observation, co-planning meetings, analysis of students formative and/or summative assessment results, our core team members can monitor the progress and evaluate the effectiveness of the initiative. Video-taping the lessons for sharing and evaluation among panel members once a year Lesson plans with evaluation will be used for future

Proposed school-based English Language General Studies. The reading skills and strategies to be taught are skimming and scanning, inferring meaning of unfamiliar words, summarizing the main ideas, interpreting writer s feeling. All the follow-up work will be done by asking students to do oral or written book reports, sharing among peers, reading worksheets, reading journals, reading log. Lead co-planning meetings They will have 12 meetings per year with the English teachers. They evaluate the previous planned units and prepare the next unit with existing school teachers during the meetings. They can also ensure the implementation of reading across curriculum English teachers will acquire knowledge/pedagogy of promoting reading across the curriculum per year. 90 % of the existing English teachers will promote reading across the curriculum at Primary 2 to 6 per year. planning improvement learning teaching. or on and Provide suggestions and guidelines The core team members provide suggestions for extension of tasks and activities to facilitate the promotion of reading across the curriculum. Besides, they provide guidelines for integration of readers into the mainstream teaching practices Conduct peer lesson observations They aim at evaluating teaching performance and providing feedback. As a result, teachers can enhance their teaching quality. The core team members conduct post-lesson observation meetings to adjust the teaching strategies and share their observations among existing English teachers. School Name: Sha Tin Wai Dr. Catherine F. Woo Memorial School P. 11

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