Aims：

1. Improve students’ reading skills
2. Build up a writing framework to help strengthen students’ writing abilities
3. Help new teachers to familiarize with cooperative learning strategies

 

Activity in the current year :

Date	Activities/Strategies	Objectives/ Major Concern
Year round	Use tasked based learning and cooperative learning strategies as the main teaching strategies -NETs and LETs co-plan and design tasks on cooperative learning strategies.	Students can demonstrate the following qualities during lesson time: 1. Participate actively and confidently. 2. Try to answer different levels of questions.
Year round	Questioning techniques -According to the ESR report, we should ask questions which let the students explore in the English lesson, it is suggested to design questions that suited different students to ask in class.-Teachers should design HHL questions to ask in class during their co planning time.
September	New English teacher workshop -A workshop will be given to the new English teachers as part of the induction scheme.It will be done in August.All information about the English panel will be introduced during the workshops.	New teachers are clear about the school visions and missions, adapt to the school culture and can learn, teach and lead pupils to learn by following the pedagogies suggested by school.
July	Professional development workshops Organise 3 professional workshops for local teachers each year to build up teachers’ expertise, increase teachers’ confidence and enrich professional relationships.NETs would be responsible for delivering these workshops and the workshops should be on new teaching strategies to enhance learning and teaching.	Teachers are clear about their needs of professional growth. Teachers can plan their professional development path to suit their own goals and to ensure those goals match with the school needs.
November	Speech Festival	Help students overcome shyness, boost self – confidence and develop sense of belongingness to our school.
November	Halloween	Enhance students’ motivation towards learning English.
January	Creative writing competition	Enhance students’ motivation in writing.
March	English Day	Enhance Students’ motivation towards learning English.
September onwards	Reading Assessment Kit	Assess students’ reading levels so as to cater for learners’ diversities.
Year round	Build up a school writing framework	Improve students’ writing skills.
	Provide information on online reading program	Enhance students reading skills.
	Use revision book to train the students’ note-taking skills.Students should learn how to take notes during lesson time.	Develop students’ self study skills by using revision book to take notes.
	a word bank book should be used for KS 1 students to expand their vocabulary bank.	Develop students’ self study skills by using a word bank book.
	Regular panel meetings and co-planning lessons.	Develop a collaboration culture by regular panel meetings and co-planning lessons.