In order to cope with the decline of arable farmland and global warming, our school and FarmacyHK have designed a series of lectures and online courses to deliver the latest urban hydroponics technology and the development of smart agriculture to our students.
The Hong Kong Biology Literacy Award is organized by the Hong Kong Association for Science and Mathematics Education (HKASME), aiming to stimulate student’s active interest by expanding their exposure on scientific investigation. Students were challenged by a variety of scientific investigative questions in the competition. Four Secondary 5 students have participated in the competition and received awards. So Yuen Ying Vivian (5A) received Third Class Honour, Chan Ho Yan (5A) received Merit Award, and Pui Yat Hau (5A) and Wong Trinity (5A) received Active Participation…
Our school collaborated with Education University of Hong Kong to launch two demonstration lessons on “Student-Centred Learning” on 13 June 2022 (Monday). The theme for the S.3 Science lesson was “Seed Dispersal Mechanisms” while the theme for the S.5 Biology lesson was “Evolution: Darwinism & Lamarckism”.Teachers from different schools conducted peer lesson preparation to plan for their learning activities of the lessons, aiming at fostering students’ self-directed learning and extended learning through group learning and collaboration. Teachers gave feedback to one another after the lessons…
The Chinese University of Hong Kong and The Amgen Foundation collaborate to introduce “Amgen Biotechnology Experience (ABE) Programme” into Hong Kong schools, so that teachers can bring biotechnology experiments to real practice in the lessons. This enables students to unveil the details of daily applications of biotechnology nowadays. It has been the sixth year of our school to join the ABE Programme. Biotechnology experiments were conducted in late May. All S.5 Biology students learnt how to successfully transform Red Fluorescent Protein (RFP) gene into Escherichia…
Following the outstanding performance in the previous years, our School succeeds to grab 18 prizes in the 24th Hong Kong Youth Science & Technology Invention Competition 21-22. We have altogether got 3 First Place Grand Awards, 3 Second Place Grand Awards, 3 Third Place Grand Award, 23 Merit Awards and 1 Special Awards in research, invention, fiction and organization. Above all, it has been the eleventh year of our School to receive an Outstanding Participating School Award. Please refer to appending table for details. 參賽者姓名作品名稱獎項Science…
Decline in arable land and growing population have worsened the food shortage crisis, and as global warming aggravate, global food supply and security has become an international issue with top priority. In light of this, the school has partnered with FarmacyHK, a company specialized in agricultural technology, to organize the “Grow For Future” Programme 2022, starting from 16/5/2022 (Monday). A mobile farming device has also been set up in school to showcase how decentralized and smart farming can be achieved in urban area to lower…
A panel of professionals, including Prof. Lam Hon Ming (Professor of Life Sciences of CUHK), Mr. George Jor (Founder of Grateful Green Group), Mr. Ricci Wong (Founder of HK Timberbank) and Mr. Fritz Pang (Registered Educational Psychologist), visited CFSS on 20 April 2022 (Wed). A discussion session and a campus tour were launched to understand the endless effort of CFSS in promoting Biodiversity Education in the past years. The professional panel discussed with the teaching team the details of kicking off “CFSS Tree Project” on…
International Biology Olympiad – Hong Kong Contest was co-organized by the Education Bureau of the Government of HKSAR and the Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education in Nov 2021. Our S.6A student Lam Wai Ming Bella attained an Honourable Mentions in the competition. We hereby congratulate Bella, and wish her outstanding academic performance in the coming HKDSE.
14 CFSS teachers and students participated in the Online Lecture on “Food Security and Bio-Energy” organized by The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) on 24 February 2022 (Thu). The guest speaker of the lecture was Prof. Lam Hon Ming, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Life Sciences of CUHK, Director of the Molecular Biotechnology Program and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology of CUHK. In the online lecture, Prof. Lam introduced various factors affecting food security, its current situation in China and the relevant…
30 CFSS teachers and students participated in the Online Lecture on “Aerospace Science and Space Seeds in CFSS” organized by Green Guru on 21 February 2022 (Mon). In the online workshop, Guru Leaders introduced the space seed species in the school and their current conditions. Our students also observed and compared how the crops grown from space seeds are different from the normal crops. Green Guru unveiled the journey of space seeds with vivid and interesting stories – how the genes mutated after being exposed…