Category Archives: Special Programme

CFSS Teachers and Students Visiting InnoTech Expo 2022

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The InnoTech Expo 2022 was held from 12th December to 22nd December 2022. The exhibition demonstrated the great scientific inventions of China in 13th Five-Year Plan, including those in the aerospace, on the land and in the deep ocean. Also, it showcased the recent successful scientific inventions in Hong Kong, including the areas of medical and health science, culture and smart city. On 16th December 2022, a group of 40 students visited the venue after school. The students enjoyed the guided tour provided by the…

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Whole-school Approach in STREAM Education – SoyVestor STEAM Project

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Our school has been promoting Popular Science to all CFSS students through STREAM education. In School Year 2022/23, we joined a whole-year STREAM Education programme, titled “Soyvestor STEAM Project”. From September to December 2022, we were honoured to have Prof. Lam Hon Ming and his team to deliver various workshops and seminars for junior form students, enriching our knowledge about soybeans. Enriching knowledge aside, students also cultivated their high-order thinking capabilities. students were requested to evaluate the effects of global warming on soybean growth and…

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CFSS Students Taking Part in the Online Aerospace Course Conducted by The Chinese Society of Astronautics

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With the growing importance of aerospace science and space technology, our school spares no pains to arrange a wide spectrum of aerospace-related learning activities for students. On November 12, some of our senior form students took part in the online aerospace course conducted by The Chinese Society of Astronautics. Students followed the steps introduced by the lecturers online to build the prototypes with use Arduino boards and sensor kits. The prototype is used to simulate the space environment fraught with automation. On top of acquiring…

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Kickstarting Whole-school Approach in STREAM Education – Visit and Seminar Delivered by Prof. Lam Hon Ming

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With an attempt to provide STREAM education to each and every student in CFSS, our school has been adopting whole-school approach in STREAM Education. Opportunity knocks and our school joined a highly unique STEM education project in this school year, known as “SoyVestor STEAM Project”. The project aims to introduce to students about soybeans from multiple perspectives, ranging from its history, nutrition value, technological innovations, trading to DNA sequencing and barcoding. As a STREAM kickstarting event, our school is more than honoured to have invited…

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“Innovative Science Forum” Kick-off Ceremony

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The Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Education Alliance has launched the “Innovative Science Forum” since 2019. This year, the Education Alliance specially invited Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to serve as “Honorary Teachers of Science Education”, providing precious expert advice on Science and Technology Education in primary and secondary schools. This would definitely help establish a positive learning atmosphere in schools and foster development of education on innovation and technology in education sector. The Chinese Foundation Secondary School is cordially invited to…

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Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) Programme

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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…

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CFSS Tree Project

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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…

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Online Lecture on “Food Security and Bio-Energy”

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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…

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Online Workshop on “Aerospace Science and Space Seeds in CFSS”

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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…

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No Plastic Campaign

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Our S.2 students have searched the information about the problem associated from using single-use plastic in Hong Kong. They also researched the suggested solutions for “no plastic life”. They designed the board content and organized the manpower. In the morning of 9 December, 2021, our students set up the booth. They invited schoolmates and teachers to support this campaign once they entered the school. Students asked them to show their care by signing and pledging on reducing plastic. At the same time, they explained the…

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