Catholic Ming Yuan Secondary School has always attached great importance to the cultivation of students' character, and is committed to helping students develop positive values and attitudes such as "perseverance", "respect", "responsibility", "empathy" and "national identity".
Through the establishment of life-wide learning days, the school plans growth training activities. The junior high school focuses on value education such as "caring", "integration", and "perseverance"; while the senior high school focuses on students' "self-management" and "positive thinking" , "communication and collaboration", "life planning" and other advanced skills training, so that students become the future pillars of society with rich knowledge and good character.
(Content provided by Catholic Mingyuan Middle School)
Since 2020, in response to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic on campus life, students have to repeatedly adapt to the learning mode of online courses and physical courses, and most extracurricular activities have been forced to stop.
This will inevitably have a negative impact on middle school students who are at an important stage of character development.
The raging epidemic has impacted the social environment and family economic conditions, etc., and it has worsened the psychological quality of students.
When the school resumed physical classes in late April, Catholic Ming Yuan Middle School started to organize life-wide learning days, organized by various groups in the school responsible for student growth support.
In compliance with the requirements of social distancing measures, all students in the school will be arranged to carry out different types of learning activities in the morning, including elements such as discipline training, field trips, information on further studies, and integration of the disabled and the disabled, so that students can enjoy a relaxed and safe environment. Temporarily let go of the study pressure, start with the establishment of positive values, and actively equip yourself.
Student Support Section: Inclusive Care, Unlock Your Potential
Student Support Unit to build a harmonious campus (provided by Catholic Ming Yuan Secondary School)
Catholic Ming Yuan Middle School has been implementing the "whole school participation model of inclusive education", and is committed to building a caring and inclusive school.
Although people in the society have more awareness of the autism spectrum, because many students with autism characteristics are not good at social communication, their behaviors and interests are different from others, which are often misunderstood and even the target of bullying.
In view of this, the school has participated in the "Bullying and Diversity - Campus Inclusion" project organized by the Education University of Hong Kong this academic year, hoping that through co-organizing different activities, students can learn the skills of distinguishing and coping with bullying, and practice caring and harmony. , the concept of respect.
Through Life-wide Learning Day, the Student Support Unit organized a half-day experience activity themed "Understanding the Bullying Lab", allowing junior high school students to learn about bullying in the form of stories. experience and feel.
In addition, by participating in different booth games, students were asked to reflect on the daily experiences of students with social differences.
Students showed engagement on the day and were willing to share their past experiences and personal feelings.
Through the workshop, let them try to experience the life of people with autism, explore and build positive values and empathy, and achieve a harmonious campus and an inclusive society.
Extracurricular Activities Group: Dynamics and Sports, Self-improvement in Adversity
The extra-curricular activities group participated in the Jockey Club "Movement. Inclusion" sports programme organized by the Hong Kong Disabled Youth Association, and invited them to the school to hold the "Disability. Sports. Inclusion" workshop for Secondary 1 and Secondary 2 students to participate.
This activity allows students to experience the limitations and inconveniences of disabled people when exercising or in daily life through different types of activities, such as volleyball on the floor, wheelchair basketball and wearing a jacket with one hand.
At the same time, there is a volunteer team sharing session in the activity, so that students can have a dialogue with the volunteers, so as to learn how to face adversity and solve difficulties.
During the exchange session, students took the initiative to speak and ask questions, and the interactive atmosphere was good.
Catholic Mingyuan Middle School hopes that through this activity, students can build the value of disability and disability through personal experience and experience.
After the new crown pneumonia epidemic, students need to understand their personal limitations and difficulties, and should use a positive attitude to deal with adversity.
Moral, Civic and National Education Section: Walking on Hong Kong Island and making suggestions
The project study in the form of small groups is an important learning experience for the third level of the school. The purpose is to train students to explore problems, collect data, organize and analyze, and report in writing.
In order to achieve a better learning effect, project learning activities will be arranged on life-wide learning days, through which domestic and overseas field trips, forum visits, etc., will enrich students' learning experience, make them care about the society, and establish national identity.
Mountaintop inspection (provided by Catholic Mingyuan Middle School)
This year's Secondary 3 project study is jointly responsible for the Life and Social Studies and Moral Education, National and Civic Education Sections. Since the tourism industry, one of the pillars of Hong Kong's industries, is still frozen under the new crown pneumonia epidemic, it is The theme of the study is "Stimulating Hong Kong's Tourism Industry", allowing students to conduct field trips to important tourist attractions in Hong Kong, so as to think about how to attract tourists from all over the world, especially the Greater Bay Area, to visit Hong Kong and boost the tourism industry after the epidemic.
Finally, the students summed up their thoughts and made suggestions to the Chief Executive-designate, Mr. Li Jiachao, in the form of letters.
During the epidemic, most of the students stayed at home for a long time to fight the epidemic, and were excited to be able to go out for inspection.
On that day, the group first went to the top of the mountain, listened carefully to some Hong Kong allusions along the way, and overlooked the scenery on both sides of the Victoria Harbour. The students later went to the nearby shopping mall to think about what tourism items should be added to increase the attraction of the scenic spot.
Afterwards, the students went to the Aberdeen Waterfront Park to take a special sampan boat around the Aberdeen Typhoon Shelter, allowing them to learn about the customs of the fishing village, the life of the fishermen and the past and the present of the typhoon shelter, and try to come up with some suggestions for revitalizing the former Jumbo Seafood Boat.
Catholic Mingyuan Middle School has always focused on cultivating students to become good citizens, encouraging students to care about the society and understand the country.
The school hopes that the epidemic will continue to be stably under control. After the entry and exit restrictions are lifted, we will be able to arrange more domestic and overseas study tours, exchanges or volunteer service activities, and contribute to the society and the country.
Coaching group: problem-solving cooperation, exercise self-confidence
The expectation of Catholic Mingyuan Middle School for leadership training is to enable students to build team spirit and set personal goals through activities, improve their decision-making and adaptability, and enhance their personal image, quality and self-confidence.
The Disciplinary Team arranged for the instructors of the Faith Hope Ailiqi Training Center to hold growth support activities for the Form 4 students.
On that day, the students learned how to deal with adversity in the face of emergencies from the "Jiejie Le" activity. They understood that they need to calmly analyze the process, recognize the diversity of solving difficulties, and pay attention to each other's needs of team members.
In the "Step Out of My Future" activity, students need to use chopsticks to transfer the building blocks. The last team member will clip the blocks to the designated place and put them down. Finally, they will build a tall tower.
The towers are designed to represent the goals and directions of their Secondary Four.
During the activity, students can realize the importance of communication and take the initiative to lend a helping hand.
After two hours of enriching activities, the students cherished the rare group activities and rich growth lessons after the resumption of classes.
Counseling Group: Stretch your mind and relax
The epidemic and social distancing measures have led to alienation of interpersonal relationships; the cramped living environment has led to conflicts among family members; the socio-economic downturn, academic and peers and other factors have all had a certain negative impact on the mental health of students.
Catholic Ming Yuan Secondary School has always been concerned about the mental health of its students. Therefore, the guidance team invited the Playground Association Kwun Tong District Parallel Heart Organization to conduct physical and mental relaxation activities for the students of Secondary 4 during the Life-wide Learning Day.
The activity is divided into two parts: firstly, teaching students to do yoga stretching activities; secondly, practicing mindfulness skills, so as to help students establish a positive and healthy attitude towards life and improve their physical and mental health.
The activities are divided into male and female groups, providing students with a short-term private space, allowing students to reduce the burden of daily life, focus on feeling the present moment, release accumulated negative emotions, and lead students to learn and master methods and techniques to relieve mental stress.
After the day's activities, most of the students showed a rare peaceful and relaxed smile.
Study and Career Guidance Team: Studying and choosing careers, co-creating the future
Knowing that Secondary 5 students are faced with the challenges of public examinations and their worries about the future, the Higher Education and Career Counseling Team specially arranged activities for students to explore the future.
During the life-wide learning day, students first listen to the introduction to the secondary six graduation pathway in the school, with the purpose of allowing students to make early plans for their way out after the public examination.
Afterwards, students took a bus to the Youth Employment Start Point (YES) of the Labour Department to learn about a series of services provided by the centre, such as workshops on preliminary exploration of different occupations, job interview workshops, interview days with different large institutions and free document processing services, etc. Let them have more information on employment and entrepreneurship.
After students understand the introduction of center services
, and more on-the-spot participation in the occupational aptitude test to understand personal characteristics.
Most of the students said that the visit activities were diversified and practical, which helped them understand the various ways of graduating from Secondary 6.
(Content provided by Catholic Mingyuan Middle School)
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