Principal's message
With God’s blessings and guidance, we are grateful to witness our 55th Anniversary, nurturing generations of future pillars of our community. We have seen substantial growth among our students, academically, morally and spiritually. May all glory be to God.
In this digital age, artificial intelligence has improved by leaps and bounds, contributing to unprecedented challenges. Possessing essential soft skills plays a pivotal role in turning hurdles into opportunities, especially when students graduate and enter the workforce. According to the Future of Jobs Report 2023 from the World Economic Forum, the top five most important skills are:
- analytical thinking
- creative thinking
- resilience, flexibility and agility
- motivation and self-awareness
- curiosity and lifelong learning
It is indispensable for this generation to possess analytical and creative thinking skills. Nurturing problem-solving and creativity can neither be achieved by rote learning nor theories on paper, but practice and experience. Throughout their journey of learning, our students have to collaborate with others and make good use of their creative thinking skills to grapple with obstacles ahead of them, unleashing their potential. Our school-based curriculum and activities are intentionally designed to provide students with different experiences to broaden their horizons as well as foster their analytical thinking skills, overcoming the fear of stepping out of their comfort zone.
Providing suitable learning resources is an essential prerequisite to motivate students to learn proactively. In our school, students can have the autonomy of self-directed learning and doing revision according to their needs and ability, anytime and anywhere at their own pace. With teaching videos, revision materials, past exam papers and marking schemes uploaded on the online learning platform Exam – Get set, go!, students can download appropriate learning materials to cater to their needs to learn anytime, anywhere, fostering self-directed learning among our students.
Our school provides co-curricular activities selected based on three criteria: activities in which students have fewer opportunities to participate, inter-school activities in which students can interact with their counterparts as well as activities in which students can gain more learning experiences. We provide an array of activities covering academic, sports and arts, service learning, visits and field trips, internships, leadership training, overseas excursions, etc. In their diversified campus life, students are equipped with resilience, flexibility and agility, motivation and self-awareness, curiosity and lifelong learning skills so that they can achieve their targets by boosting their self-efficacy and confidence. The Life-Wide Learning Week in November allows our students to expose themselves to a wide variety of experiences: personal growth for S1, community service for S2, study tours for S3-5. On top of that, Life Development is one of our school-based curriculum where students have the opportunity to engage themselves in service learning and internships.
Rhenish’s Got Talent in the junior curriculum and Aesthetics in the senior curriculum cover Artificial Intelligence, Mechanical engineering, Japanese Language, Korean Language, Sign Language Volunteer，e-Orchestra, drama, dance, AR and VR, digital arts, floorball, board game design and so on. In their 6-year secondary school life, students have to receive training in at least ten different aspects of multi-intelligence. In the training, students need to learn to communicate with others, stretch themselves beyond their boundaries and be innovative to overcome hurdles so as to broaden their horizons and unleash their potential.
In this dynamic and ever-changing society, strengthening students’ resilience is on the top of our agenda. In the past years, based on the PERMA model of positive education, we develop students’ positive emotions and gratefulness, sensitivity to kindness of others as well as their ability to forgive others. In the future, we will refine our positive education in which we will teach students how to reveal their inner feelings, inter-personal connections and life-long learning to enhance their physical and mental wellbeing. Based on the teaching of the Bible and the priority values, we aspire to instil proper values in students by educating them through our 6-year spiral curriculum. We endeavour to empower our students to learn to be grateful and also a forgiving and benevolent person.
The Bible says, ‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.’ (Galatians 5:22-23) Our school puts great emphasis on Christian education. In lessons, fellowships and worship, we share with students the love of God. We also incorporate information literacy education, moral and ethical education, life education, education for sustainable development, human rights education, financial education, etc. in our school-based values education. Instilling moral values in students’ mind is the foundation for them to go further. It is sincerely hoped that, with the guidance of God’s grace, our school can nurture young people with great abilities and attitudes for our future society.
Let us encourage one another in our endeavours!
Principal Mr. Tang Man Wai Simon
