It is our goal to help our students learn mathematics happily and apply it in daily life effectively.
The school curriculum was aligned with the Education Bureau curriculum (2000 & 2017), it was later understood that the curriculum could not fully cope with the dynamic demands of our students and society. Since then there have been a number of changes in our School curriculum, with the aim to stimulate students’ interest in mathematics, develop their creativity, various learning skills and attitudes, and foster their number and spatial sense. We stress on applying mathematics in daily life and have reasonable understanding of our world. For that we encourage students to keep their eyes on the public affairs.
We have adopted the syllabus recommended by the Education Bureau with a few changes. We gave up the traditional “Chalk & Talk” long back. Instead, we teach the knowledge, concepts and skills with Inquiry-based learning (IBL) approach. Students apply them to their previously acquired knowledge to develop further understanding of the topics.
Class activities are designed to motivate students, working individually or in groups, to raise questions (inquiring), discuss and analyze the information (reasoning & conceptualizing), solve problems and propose the solutions to peers (communicating). Students have plenty of experience to relate mathematics to daily life and hence they truly appreciate the use of mathematics.
Apart from the core learning, we have supplementary modules to enrich students’ learning, number sense lessons to reinforce students’ calculation abilities, whereas co-teaching (2 teachers) and guest teaching (new-face teacher) to stimulate and maintain their interest and concentration.
We believe that daily practice can form a solid foundation of number management. All the teaching and learning is consolidated with daily class work, exercises from workbooks and school-based worksheet.
The school assessment consists of classroom observation, homework performance and written examinations. The daily assignments are more than enough to prepare for all kinds of problems in the summative assessments.
The Boarding Programme at St Stephen’s Preparatory School (SSCPS) is a mandatory staple programme offered to all Grade 6 students. The programme provides a 10-months-long away from home experience where our students will learn physical, mental and emotional independence. Many will build lifelong friendships with their peers, and the programme represents a golden opportunity for our pupils to polish and enhance their social skills through peer interaction.
In the 10-month programme, pupils will not only be tasked to take care of themselves through the daily routine, but also learn to collaborate and build teamwork with others in various co-curricular and extra-curricular activities, community services and adventure-based trainings.
We aim to develop our students in the following key areas: Independence and Responsibility, Confidence, Social Skills including Conflict Resolution skills and Strong Work Ethic.
The SSCPS Boarding Programme is mainly divided into four areas of training:
It is our goal to help our students grow up as individuals with the ability to think and live independently, with positive and motivated personalities, and be prepared to pursue their further studies abroad or in Hong Kong.
The School is dedicated to nurture and develop positive character traits in the students.
The theme of our Ethics Education Programme this year is We are One in the Bond of Love. Co-curricular activities under this theme will be arranged to instil a series of positive characteristics in our students.