S. K. H.

Tseung Kwan O Kei Tak Primary School

English Meeting III (2nd Term 2022-2023)
Agenda

Date: 8th June, 2023

Time: 3:30 p.m.- 4:30 p.m.
Venue: 4A Classroom

A. Review the minutes of the previous meeting

A motion to approve the minutes of Meeting II was made by Ms. Hung Kit and seconded by Ms.
Yu Sau Yee Judy.

B. Reports
1. Reading Programme (PLPR, Readers)
Reported by Mr. Bendie, Ms Belinda and Mr. Sheikh. See Appendix I & II.

2. Subject Plan 2022-2023

2.1 Major Concern I: Cultivating students with faithfulness, persistence and gratitude by
learning from the bible
2.1.1 P.4-P.6: Students quoted the bible verse, motto or proverbs in their writing as the lesson
learnt.
- P4 2nd term Writing 4
1. Honesty is the best policy.
2. Health is wealth.
3. Better late than never.
4. Action speaks louder than voice.

- P5 1st term Writing 4

1. Honesty is the best policy.
2. Health is wealth.
3. Better late than never.
4. Practice makes perfect.
5. Actions speak louder than words.
6. When there’s a will, there’s a way.
7. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

- P6 1st term Writing 2 & 3

1. Laughter is the best medicine.
2. Time is money.
3. Many hands make light work.
 4. Don’t judge a book by its cover.
5. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
6. God helps those who help themselves.

P.1-P.3: Students are cultivated to be faithfulness through story telling in reading lessons.
- P.1
1. My sister
2. My friend Oscar
3. Grandma and the Birthday Cake

- P.2
Our cousin in Canda

- P.3
Green Earth Project

2.2. Major Concern II: Continuing to optimize classroom teaching to improve learning and
teaching effectiveness
2.2.1 Deepening teachers’ understanding and mastery of diversified teaching strategies:
a) High order thinking strategies:
- All teachers have applied high order thinking strategies in teaching
according to the framework stated in the teaching manual.

High-order Thinking Skills

P.1 a. Predicting
b. Attributes Listing
P.2 a. Predicting
b. Attributes Listing
P.3 a. Predicting
b. Attributes Listing
c. Concept map
P.4 a. Compare and Contrast
b. Point of view
c. Inferring
d. Timeline (Sequencing with time markers)
P.5 a. Point of view
b. 6W Thinking Skills
c. Inferring
d. Sequencing with contextual clues
P.6 a. Summarizing
b. 6W Thinking Skills
b) Process drama:
- All levels have applied the process drama elements in the lessons in 2 nd
Term. Mr. Bendie has conducted an open lesson (Class 6A) for subject
teachers on 17 February. Advisory Teacher Simon Abbott from EDB has been
invited to join the lessons demonstration using Process Drama techniques for
Alice in Wonderland Revision lesson. The topics for each level are as follow:

Levels Topic Drama elements

P.1 Little Red Riding Hood-Collective Ritual
-Think Pair Share
-Students-in-role
P.2 Three Little Pig -Collective Ritual
-Think Pair Share
-Helicopter Storytelling
P.3 The Tiger Who Came to -Students-in-role
Tea -Helicopter Storytelling
P.4 Cooking is Fun -Collective Ritual
P.5 The Fisherman and his -Helicopter Storytelling
Wife -Thought Tapping
-Conscience Alley
-Collective Ritual
-Hot Seating
P.6 Alice in Wonderland - Freeze Frame
- Hot Seating
- Role on the wall
- Thought tapping
- Conscience Alley
- Collective Ritual
 c) Learning Study:
- Teachers of P2-6 have completed the students’ learning difficulties study in 2 nd Term.
Topics are as follow:
P.2 Comprehension skills (Who? Where? What? How Many?)
P.3 Reading strategies (Pronouns references)
P.4 Usage of cohesive devices
P.5 Making inferences
P.6 Pronoun referencing

d) e-learning
- An e-learning workshop was held by Educational Publisher on 31 May 2023.
e) Sharing session
- Ms. Hui Man Ying Karen has conducted an open lesson (Class 3B) on 5
May 2023 and all teachers are invited to watch the lesson. The topic was
Unit 4 Let’s Go Green!

- All teachers would do sharing at the end of this meeting. Topics are as
follow:

Names Topics
Vally Sayings of Wisdom (EDB)
Karen App: Padlet
Dilys Lesson sharing: Task-based
learning & critical thinking
May Useful videos / online games for
teaching (Games4esl)
Rocky Useful website (Little Fox & Learn
English Kids, British Council)
Irene Workshop sharing (Learning in
Action, EDB)
Ms. Ho App: Bitsboard / Flipgrid
Judy Games sharing (board game /
Dominoes)
Josephine Workshop sharing (Writing skills)
Ms. Hung Workshop sharing (Writing ruler)
Emily Baamboozle
Ronald Process drama

2.2.2 Teachers used diversified media (such as Nearpod, Kahoot!) for teaching to cater
 students’ learning diversity, stimulate students’ interest in learning and enhance
students’ learning effectiveness.

2.3 Major Concern III: Creating reading atmosphere on campus to enhance students’ reading
abilities
2.3.1 Cross-curricular Reading:
P.1 Cross-curricular Reading has finished in March. Evaluation has also been done. All
level teachers agreed that this would be carried on next year.
2.3.2 NET and ELTAs did the English booking sharing in the school library every
Tuesday in the 2nd term.

3. ECA
a) Hong Kong School Drama Festival
- Hong Kong School Drama Festival was held online on 22 Feb 2023. 16 students were in the
competition. Six of them got the Outstanding Award. The list is as follow:
3C Ki Charis 4A Kwok Sum Wing
3C Ng Mercy J. 5B Chan Chit Hei
3C Choi Tsz Yin 6B Holiyang Tsz Him Anthony

The judges commented that the students demonstrated a high level of cooperation. To take the
show to a higher level, they recommended that we should use virtual background, costumes,
props, music/sound effects.

b) Tell a Tale Story Telling Competition

- 16 P.3-6 students have joined the Tell a Tale Story Telling Competition on 28 Apr 2023. There
are three students admitted to the final round in July. They are 2B Yau Oi Shui Hannah, 4B
Wong Hayden and 5B Choi Man Hei.

c) ‘Good People Good Deed’ writing competition

- 9 students have joined ‘Good People Good Deed’ writing competition in Apr 2023. The result
is not yet announced.

d) Puppetry Competition
- 5 students have joined the Puppetry Competition in May 2023. The list is as follows:
4A Kwok Sum Wing 4B Ng Yeuk Ming Joshua
4A Wong Yan Hang 4B Yeung Ka Yu Kary
4B Chan Wing Kei Vicky

e) Hong Kong Budding Poets (English) Award (HKBPA) 2022/23

 - 16 students joined the Hong Kong Budding Poets (English) Award (HKBPA) 2022/23. 4B
Wong Hayden was the awardee and he is invited to join the prize presentation ceremony.
3C Ng Mercy J. 5B Chan Chit Hei
4A Kwok Sum Wing 5B Yu Ying Yuet Yannis
4A Pang King Long Aston 5E Cheung Ying Ching
4B Wong Hayden 6A Cheung Tik Long
4E Kong Chun Hei 6A Tong Wai Chun
5A Lui Sum Lam 6B Wong Hiu Yuet
5A Ng Raimee J. 6B De Guzman David Lope
Lam
5A Tam Cheuk Yu 6D Chan Chun Ting

4. Teaching materials
3.1 Level coordinators should check the soft copy of a) co-plan record, b) SOW, C) WS,
d) PPT (both google drive and school server) – on or before 6 July
3.2 All teachers should return the bookstand and can keep or dispose the follow materials: a) TB,
b) WB, c) GR, d) Listening and Speaking, e) Reading and f) Teacher’s guide.

C. Discussion & Evaluation

1. Listening Exam
- The new time limits of the listening exam for each level are as follows:
P.1-2 (15-20 minutes); P.3-4 (21-25 minutes); P.5-6 (25-30 minutes)
2. Types of Homework
- The English Panel suggested the use of Grammar Book to substitute the use of grammar WS
in the 2nd term of the coming school year. All teachers should discuss it in the co-plan meeting
and level coordinators should collect the ideas and pass them to Vally.
3. Assignment Inspection
- Writing pieces have been collected for assignment inspection. Most teachers marked the
assignment carefully. Some students lost some of their writing pieces, so one more folder will be
ordered in the coming school year. Teachers should remind students to keep their writing pieces
properly in the folder.
4. TSA Report and Analysis
a) TSA training
- P3: Level teachers have explained the procedures and skills of speaking in diversified activity
lessons. Students completed two sets of past paper.
- P6: Level teachers arranged two speaking training sessions for students. Students did one full
set of listening and reading and writing past paper.
b) Analysis
 - P3: Students should be trained to answer the questions in complete sentences. Teachers are
suggested to make it as a daily routine for students in each class.
- P6: Students were not able to give a complete presentation. They turned to give the answers
sentence by sentence without coherence.
5. Year Plan of 2023-2024 (ECA)
- Teachers can give their suggestions to Vally after the meeting.
6. Theme for 2023-2024 Cross-curricular Reading
- The theme for upcoming year will be persistence. Each level should suggest a book and give the
book name to Vally.
7. Teaching Handbook Update
- The time limit for listening exam is updated.
8. Highlights of English Curriculum 2023-2024 (SPARK)
- Teachers are suggested to refer to the highlights of English Curriculum 2023-2024 (SPARK) on
the school website.
9. Summer Holiday Homework for P.1-5
- Each level should have the summer holiday homework ready for students and hand out to them
on 5 July 2023.

D. A.O.B
- Teachers will be invited to help moving the teaching materials to the 5/F.