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hi fishman10hk,
I won't worry this issue will happen, mainly due to the differences of students allocation in the Central & Western district:
Currently, there are 12 secondary schools in the district, where 10 of them are EMI (including St. Louis which is still an EMI), and only two are CMI. Moreover, 3 of the other EMI are Direct Subsidized schools so their students sources are including those outside of the district. So basically all the EMI are competing with each other to fight for as many band 1 & 2 students as possible from the own district. What happened with St. Louis is simply because it is a rather low profile school so it is less popular as a choice for parents who are outside of the district. Due to that reason, less Band 1 from outside of Central & Western district are being attracted so they fail short on achieving the enough top 40% students from the entire HK to open all English classes, but I can tell you they just missed it by very very thin margin......
Anyway, the philosophy of the school itself is to give opportunity to students from all levels and from different background to be given a fair opportunity to be educated, and provide good moral training. If we assume other EMI are attracting better P6 students than SLS, then you will be surprised that the public results are rather similar by reading each schools' annual reports. So, students in SLS actually got the best improvement and this is the essence of how the school has been run the past 80 years.
For your information, there are already a lot going on at the moment and I can show you the following message already being distributed by the old boys association. There are huge supports being done by many many dedicated old boys who wanna give back to the school - this tells you clearly what sort of quality of students this school has been able to developed.
[url=]St. Louis is and will be an English School – Clarification of Fine-tuning[/url]
During the past few days, there has been a lot of reporting in relation to “Fine-tuning”in the media. We want to clarify any mis-represented news with St. Louis School in this Newsletter. We would also like to take this opportunity to share with you recent updates on our Alma Mater.
I. St. Louis will continue to be an English School:
Under the “Fine-tuning” policy, we understand that the in-coming Secondary 1 students of St. Louis will be divided into 5 classes and 4 of them will be taught with English as a medium of teaching for ALL subjects (except Chinese Language and Chinese History). The remaining class (“Fine Tuning Class”) will still adopt English as medium of teaching for Mathematics and Integrated Science. In other words, the actual change is in fact minimal.
Such an arrangement is applied only to Secondary 1- Secondary 3. When students are promoted to Secondary 4, ALL 5 classes will use English as a medium of instruction for ALL subjects, just like what St. Louis has done in the past decades.
In summary only minimum (5%) change from the current full English curriculum:
Form 4-6
5 full English classes: ALL subjects in English except Chinese Language
Form 1-3
4 full English classes: ALL subjects in English except Chinese Language and Chinese History
1 "fine-tuned" class: Math (Eng), Integrated Science (Eng), History/Geography/Computer/Bible (Chin)
II. St. Louis has made outstanding achievements:
“Fine-tuning” is based on INPUT (ranking of students in Secondary 1) rather than OUTPUT (results attained in Secondary 5 & 7). St. Louis’ recent output has shown substantial value-added and is at least comparable to other neighboring English boy schools in some key measures. Information below is mainly based on the school reports of St. Louis and its English peer boy schools (available on the internet).
- Excellent Value-added School in the Central & Western District based on Education Bureau’s assessment
- 100% Secondary 5 passed in English Language in 2008-9; >90% overall passing rate; 40 students with 20 points or above
- 100% Secondary 6 were filled by own students with 14 points or above in the past 5 years (vs 88% & 93% respectively of two English peer boy schools)
- 80% - 90% Secondary 7 met university bachelor degree entry requirements (vs 89% & 70-80% of two English peer boy schools vs 49% Hong Kong average) – 5-year average
- Champion, Inter-school English Choral Speaking Competition; Football Team in Division One; Cross-country Running Team as Overall Champion
III. Moving forward – old boys’ support
Don Bosco turned the underprivileged children into most responsible citizens; St. Louis has followed this spirit for 80 years. Many of our most successful old boys came from underprivileged families. Some of them are late bloomers.
We should recognize there are significant changes in the education environment in Hong Kong in recent years. St. Louis is facing tremendous challenges, but all other leading schools are in the same position.
SLOBA has been dedicating resources among old boys to support St. Louis students. This is one of the most exceptional contributing factors to the high value added success. We have been taught in an all rounded system with flexibility in St Louis. We should move on with confidence. Your continual support will be of significant importance to the future development of our school.
原帖由 fishman10hk 於 09-12-17 22:05 發表 
多謝你的分析
我所擔心的是惡性循環問題, (降呢) 後中學吸引唔到band1生進入, 跌band祇怕是遲早之事, 今天的聖類斯中學頗有昔日觀塘名英中 - 聖若瑟英文中學 的影子, 轉為中中後現在祇能掙扎於band3邊緣了, 你認為 ... |
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