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Objectives
- To cultivate student’s interest in learning English
- To enhance student’s proficiency in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
- To help students foster a consistent reading habit and to appreciate the value of reading
- To cater for learner’s diversity and to promote self- regulated learning
- To develop student’s knowledge and understanding of the world through learning English
Characteristics
- DearLand, Read to Succeed and the DEAR programme (P1-2): Students learn about the world as well as promoting their values and attitudes through a variety of reading texts and Fun Dictation.
- Primary Literacy Programme for Reading (PLPR) (P1-3) – With a strong focus on reading , this programme enables students to acquire the vocabulary and learn grammar in context through materials tailor-made for each of the eighteen units, building up students’ confidence in mastering different text types throughout the course.
- ‘Sounds Fun’ Phonics Programme (P1-3) – Although English has 26 letters, there are 44 sounds with lots of different ways to spell them. At Ho Yu, we have designed and developed our own synthetic phonics programme, Sounds Fun, which has a strong focus on blending and segmenting sounds, enabling young learners to read.
- School-based Speaking Programme – To strengthen students’ ability to express themselves in English, each class at P4 to P6 will have English speaking lessons which provide more opportunities for students to speak in groups or present before the class to boost both their confidence and skills in their spoken English.
- DEAR programme: Students learn about the world as well as promoting their values and attitudes through a variety of reading texts and Fun Dictation. This aims to arouse students’ interest in reading and cultivate their self-initiative and the good habit of reading.
- English newspaper (Posties) and online reading platform (Epic!) – These platforms help students to strengthen their language learning skills and discover a love of reading.
- English Reading Room – Students can talk to English teachers and English ambassadors and play learning games with them.
