Our curriculum aims at providing a platform for students to liberally express them-selves through art.
At SSCPS, we lean towards a contextual approach in the Visual Arts teaching. Art is treated as a medium that helps students interact with their surroundings. For each art project, a specific issue is explored. The issues could be personal, social or global. Being placed in the centre of their learning, students are encouraged to explore these issues from their own perspective, and to express their thoughts in their own unique style.
In student’s art journey, we put much emphasis on the crucial creative process. To begin with, students are guided to collect and generate ideas by recalling memories from their everyday life experience, observing different visual phenomena, associat-ing related knowledge acquired from other learning areas and so on. With the aim of creating something new, students are encouraged to connect different gathered ideas, use imagination, and organize the seemingly unrelated pieces of information, through various means of visual representations. These processes are designed to facilitate students to think laterally as well as analytically.
While ultimately, students are expected to acquire visual communication skills, dur-ing the creative process, students will gradually also acquire knowledge in the do-mains of visual elements, design principles, media of representation and some hands-on techniques in order to develop different ways of visual expressions.
From time to time, not only masterpieces of professional artists will be shown to ex-emplify quality of art, students’s own work will also be discussed and appreciated among peers, so that students can take a more active role in constructing their own knowledge.
In addition to day-to-day learning, various extra-curricular activities led by individual professional art practitioners will also be arranged to cultivate students’ wider range of interests in art.
The Visual Arts Department is also keen on collaborating with different art organiza-tions and art professionals to organize workshops, outings, special classes, and other activities for our students. We believe these collaborations not only will nurture our students’ curiosity, but it will also enhance our ever-evolving curriculum and teach-ing methodologies.
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.