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The Foundation Stage is a two-year stage
designed to cultivate motivations for and pleasures in learning.
The design of the curriculum takes full account of the development
of students' multiple intelligences, which cover the linguistic,
logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinaesthetic,
intra-personal, inter-personal and naturalistic aspects in
terms of knowledge, skills and attitude. Students participate
in activities that develop and strengthen their faculties
of thinking, expressing, creating and organising. Taking departure
from subject-based study in traditional schools, learning
activities encourage students to integrate knowledge and their
own experience. Our curriculum encourages curiosity and self-motivated
learning ˇX it stimulates studentsˇ¦ desire to explore, ask
questions and to know more by themselves. During the process
of learning and teaching, continuous assessments of studentsˇ¦
learning abilities and progress will be conducted. The assessments
will provide timely evaluation as well as informative feedback
for both teachers and parents. With this, the possible undesirable
psychological impact of traditional tests and dictations could
be avoided.
There
are no traditional textbooks for students. Instead, carefully
selected authentic and interesting materials of different
forms will be used. The school has arranged with an Internet
Services Provider to give discount to students to use its
platform to build their own homepages. Using broadband Internet
connections, parents can also download recorded video footage
of their childrenˇ¦s learning activities and see how their
children are doing at school. In addition to conventional
writing exercises, students will learn to complete assignments
on the web. Students will also learn to access related reference
materials in both Chinese and English. They will be using
Putonghua and English as they participate in different learning
sessions and activities. With Chinese culture as the basis,
the school will systematically facilitate multicultural encounters
for our students so as to increase their exposure.
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