KS1 – P.1 – P.3

Our school has adopted the Space Town Literacy Programme for our KS1 students. Apart from reading and writing, it includes additional aspects such as e-Learning, self-directed learning and a self-evaluation tool for schools to allow a more fruitful learning process for our KS1 students. The teaching of reading has been enhanced through the earlier introduction of guided reading and phonics strategies such as blending and encoding in P.1.　

 

Space Town provides students with the opportunity to develop the ability to transfer their knowledge to new situations. Fun activities which are related to the content are often seen in the lessons, for example, making chocolate cakes during P.1 Unit 3 – Grandma and the Birthday Cake. All our KS1 students enjoy the Space Town Literacy Programme very much.

 

In order to be in line with the curriculum development, STEM elements have also been incorporated into the programme. In P.3, students work with their peers and give a first try on Scratch to create an animation to present a story of their own.

 

KS2 – P.4 – P.6

In order to ensure a smooth transition between KS1 and KS2, our school has refined the KS2 curriculum to allow more time for students to learn in a meaningful yet enjoyable way.

 

Our KS2 curriculum mainly comprises General English and Reading Workshops. For General English, School-based Module Booklets with meaningful tasks have been developed. Students are given a meaningful task at the beginning of each module where target grammar items, sentence structures and text types are learnt in a meaningful and purposeful context. Students are given opportunities to practise the four skills such as interviewing classmates and giving a presentation in the lessons. Furthermore, QR codes of content-related songs, videos and so forth are incorporated into the booklets to facilitate self-learning and e-Learning.

 

For Reading Workshops, e-Reading, authentic texts and popular children’s literature are used to increase students’ exposure to real English materials. Children’s literature provides children with holistic learning experiences. With fun and interactive activities such as Reader’s Theatre during Reading Workshops.