Ying Wa College

Academic

Overview

Ownership of Learning

The College emphasises on developing students’ ownership of learning, enabling them to become effective learners. Our curriculum is meticulously planned in a way that our boys are not only trained to excel in public examinations, but more importantly they can make sense of their learning experiences at the College, connect it with their community, venture forth into the world with the knowledge they have acquired and become lifelong learners with strong curiosity and enthusiasm.

Diversified Learning Opportunities and Experiences

To promote a strong academic ambience, the College offers a lot of co-curricular activities which extend students’ learning experiences beyond the traditional classroom. Such activities, build upon and complement the core curriculum, include English Corner and the English Learning Passport Scheme (ELP), Young Scholar Reading Scheme, Scienceland, Science Research Team, Geography field trips and civic education forums, to name a few. A Culture Circle is established among teachers and students to promote the appreciation of literature, language, art and culture at school through multi-disciplinary perspectives. Students can grasp the opportunities to become independent learners, enrich their knowledge and broaden their horizons by making use of the College and community resources available.

Overseas Education Tours

We believe that overseas education tours can offer our students a life-changing learning experience and a chance of reflection of their future career as they come across an exotic environment. Over the years, different subject departments have crafted educational trips for our students in the form of overseas excursions, aiming at inculcating a global vision in our future leaders and developing their understanding of their own responsibilities in the local and international contexts. Those tours include a geology study tour to Jeju, South Korea in 2014, a cultural study tour to North Korea and South Korea in 2017, a visual arts trip to Venice, Italy and a Christian leadership training tour to Toronto, Canada in 2018. In 2019, we also organised a geology and liberal studies tour to Iceland and a history study tour to Poland; while 2020 we participated in the AiTLE-EDB: HK eLearning, STEM & Coding Education Mission to Britain and the Israel STEM Education Trip.

Such tours were filled with eye-opening cultural exchanges and offered our boys an enriching experience both linguistically and culturally.