Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Siu Ming Catholic Secondary | |
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No.6 Kwai Yip Street, Kwai Chung, Hong Kong | |
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Type | Public |
Motto | Purity and Charity (Integrity and Honesty; Love and Concern) 純潔仁愛 ( 純樸廉潔律己、仁厚關愛待人 ) |
Founded | 1973 |
Principal | Sr. Anita Kwok Ming Ying |
Language | English |
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Traditional Chinese | 天主教母佑會蕭明中學 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 天主教母佑会萧明中学 | ||||||||||
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Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Siu Ming Catholic Secondary School (天主教母佑會蕭明中學), founded in 1973, is a girls' secondary school in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong. It is administered under the Grant Code and using English as a medium of instruction, or being an "EMI school".
Catholicism
Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Siu Ming Catholic Secondary School is a subsidized girls' grammar school run by the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. Founded in 1973, the school has incorporated the educational philosophy of St. Mary Mazzarello and St. John Bosco, that is educating young people with love and putting equal stress on the importance of virtue, wisdom, physique, sociability, aesthetic appreciation and spirituality in providing quality education to the community.
Purity and Charity ( Integrity and Honesty; Love and Concern )
To foster clear goal-setting, life-long learning and community participation in a caring, Christian educational environment.
1. To enhance learning and teaching effectiveness through reading across the curriculum and strengthening learning strategies.
2. To strengthen students’ leadership and self-confidence.
The total number of teaching staff members is 61 with 66% of them holding master's degrees as their highest education level, 33% holding bachelor's degrees as their highest education level and 100% holding professional qualifications.
English is adopted as the medium of instruction.
Chinese Language, Chinese History, Putonghua, Chinese Literature, Liberal Studies, Ethics & Religious Education, Civic Education, Life & Society, Visual Arts are conducted in Chinese.[1]
There are 24 classes:
There are 16 elective modules of 13 different subjects offered to the 4 classes in each level of S.4 to S.6.[2]
The "Service Learning Scheme" aims to encourage students to take part in in-school or community service projects. It helps to build up among students a strong will and a spirit to serve others.
The "Self-Actualization Scheme" encourages S.1 students to make continual self-assessment and to set targets and goals for their studies as well as other areas. In S.1, Social Studies lessons are conducted in all classes to help students grasp knowledge while the use of Putonghua as the medium of instruction in the Chinese lessons is piloted in one of the classes.
For the purpose of upgrading language skills, there is daily reading time in class. Students are offered additional courses of English Pronunciation during non-school hours. They also have the opportunities for public speaking in and outside classrooms. The Cross-curricular Project-Based Learning Scheme in junior levels has been implemented since 1998. It aims to develop students' abilities on self-learning and inter-personal communication. It also trains students' data collection skills and analytical minds.