Tag Archives: STREAM

Exchange Visits between CFSS and SPSS on STREAM and Sustainable Development Education

Biodiversity Education

CFSS accords high importance to STREAM and Sustainable Development Education as the essential 21st century skills with which students should be equipped. With the prime aims for teachers to develop professionally in multiple disciplines and for students to thrive on the ever-changing world, our school had exchange visits with St. Paul’s Secondary School (SPSS). The Principal, Vice Principals, Assistant Principals and teachers from St. Paul’s Secondary School (SPSS) visited us on 4 June 2021. A campus tour to different learning venues was arranged subsequent to…

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Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) Programme

Special Programme

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 fifth 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 Winning 23 Prizes in the 23rd Hong Kong Youth Science & Technology Innovation Competition (STIC)

Awards

Following the outstanding performance in the previous years, our School succeeds in grabbing 23 prizes in the 23rd Hong Kong Youth Science & Technology Invention Competition 2020-21. We have altogether got 4 First Place Grand Awards, 4 Second Place Grand Awards, 4 Third Place Grand Award and 6 Merit Awards and 4 special awards in research and invention categories. Above all, it has been the tenth year of our School to receive an Outstanding Participating School Award. Please refer to the following table for the…

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CFSS Grasping Championship in The Ocean Park STEAM Student Competition 2020

Awards

The Ocean Park STEAM Student Competition 2020 was organized by Ocean Park Academy Hong Kong. The competition aimed at encouraging students to apply the knowledge and skills they have acquired from STEAM-related disciplines in proposing their innovative animal conservation solutions. Our students Ching Wai Lok (S.4A), Lam Wai Ming Bella (S.4A), Lau Wai Wai (S.4A) and Tsang Cheuk Lam (S.4A), under supervision of Biology Department Head Ms. Leung Yue Shan Jennifer, ICT Department Head Mr. Chung Lai Bon and Assistant Principal Mr. Lam Chi Wai…

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CFSS Getting Fruitful Results in the 22nd Hong Kong Youth Science & Technology Innovation Competition

Awards

Following the outstanding performance in the previous years, our School succeeds in grabbing 18 prizes in the 22nd Hong Kong Youth Science & Technology Invention Competition 19-20. We have altogether got 2 First Place Grand Awards, 2 Second Place Grand Awards, 5 Third Place Grand Award and 8 Merit Awards in research, invention and organization. Above all, it has been the ninth year of our School to receive an Outstanding Participating School Award. Please refer to following appendix for details. 參賽者姓名作品名稱獎項Creative Drawing(Secondary)中學科學幻想畫Chan Fuk Chi (S.1A)Teacher…

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CFSS Making Unflagging Effort to Upgrade CFSS as Smart Campus and A.I. Learning Centre

Special Programme

As the high-end form of a smart education system, the Smart Campus concept is being increasingly researched and is attracting attention worldwide. Our school collaborates with The University of New South Wales (UNSW) to install smart devices on the school campus for school-based student-centred learning. Professor Z.Y. Dong, Director of UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute, discussed with us how Geology & Climate Change Resource Centre would be renovated as another interdisciplinary smart learning venue. As one of the pioneer schools in CUHK Jockey Club AI…

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Student-Centred Learning in CFSS

Learning and Teaching

The Paradigm Shift of Teaching There has been an overwhelming reform of teaching pedagogies over the past 20 years – from traditional ‘direct teaching’ to ‘knowledge-based teaching’ and ‘teacher-centered’ approaches’ to the current ‘inquiry-based’, ‘skill-based’ and ‘student-centered approaches’. In light of school-based management introduced by EDB, the teaching pedagogies adopted in Hong Kong’s primary and secondary schools vary. Some schools still adopt the traditional ‘chalk and talk’ approach while some others prefer project-based teaching, activity approach or e-teaching; some schools like CFSS may adopt various…

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