Semple Memorial Secondary School
School Type
- District: Tuen Mun
- School Type: Subsidized
- Student Sex: Co-educational
- School Banding: Band 3
- Medium of Instruction: Mainly Chinese
- School religion: Christianity
School History
- Year of foundation: 1967
- Organizer: International Foursquare Gospel Mission Hong Kong Limited
- Objective: To provide a Christian education, to serve the community, and to provide an excellent learning environment. Through an appropriate curriculum, students will be able to receive comprehensive training and balanced development in the seven education areas (ethics, intellect, physique, social skills, aesthetics, emotion and spirituality) and be able to contribute to the society and the country through their lifelong learning.
- School motto: Love, Care, Sincerity
- Management structure: Teachers participate in decision-making, implementation and management to realize the spirit of school-based management. A school self-evaluation mechanism is in place to conduct opinion surveys among all parents, students and teachers so that the views of "stakeholders" can be fully expressed.
- Existing Supervisor/Chairman of SMC: Wong Chun Tat
- Existing Principal: Ms. Wong Pui Yee
Teacher Information
- Total number of teachers in the school: 56
- Percentage of teachers holding Diploma in Education : 66%
- Percentage of Teachers Holding Bachelor's Degrees: 100%
- Percentage of Teachers with Master's/Doctoral Degrees: 18%
- Percentage of Teachers with Special Education Training: 30%
Teacher seniority:
- Percentage of teachers with 0 to 4 years of experience: 55%
- Percentage of teachers with 5 to 9 years of experience: 4%
- Percentage of teachers with 10 or more years of experience: 41%
Teaching and Learning
Language of Instruction:
The medium of instruction is mainly Chinese.
The subject of Chinese Language Teaching and Learning from S1 to S3 in the 2023-2024 school year:
Religious Education, Chinese Language, Putonghua, Mathematics, Integrated Science, Life and Society, Chinese History, Geography, Home Economics, Design and Technology, General Computer, Life Education, Career Planning, Reading, Physical Education, Visual Arts, Music
English Language Teaching (ELT) subjects from S1 to S3 in the 2023-2024 school year:
English
Secondary 4 to Secondary 6 Literature and Literature subjects in the 2023-2024 school year:
Religious Education, Chinese Language, Mathematics, Extended Mathematics, Civic and Social Development, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Tourism and Hospitality, Chinese History, Geography, Information and Communication Technology, Business, Accounting and Financial Studies, Physical Education, Visual Arts, Arts Development, Career Planning, Reading
Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) subjects from S4 to S6 in the 2023-2024 school year:
English
School-wide language policy:
- The school actively cultivates students' biliteracy and trilingualism. Outside the classroom, teachers recruit students as "English Ambassadors" and "Putonghua Ambassadors" and train them to recite, give speeches, and serve as masters of ceremonies at morning assemblies in order to enhance students' language skills.
- The Singapore English and Leadership Exchange Tour was organized to enhance students' confidence and ability in the use of English.
- Small Class Teaching (SCT) is implemented in the English language classes of junior secondary schools, whereby students are divided into groups according to their abilities and are taught according to their aptitude.
- In order to enrich the English language environment, the school organizes diversified activities such as English Zone, Breakfast English Conversation, English Week, etc. as well as English cultural exchange activities outside the country.
Tests and study adaptation measures:
In addition to the standardized tests, there are also assessments of regular performance and special topic reports, adaptation of examination papers for students with special educational needs, and a bonus point incentive system.
Class Establishment:
- Number of S1 classes in this school year: 3
- Number of S2 classes in this school year: 3
- No. of S.3 classes in this school year: 3
- Number of S4 classes in this school year: 3
- Number of S5 classes in this school year: 3
- Number of S6 classes in this school year: 2
School fees:
School fees for Secondary 1 (S1) in the 2022-2023 school year:-
School fees for S2(S2) in the 2022-2023 school year:-
School fees for Secondary 3 (S3) in the 2022-2023 school year:-
School fees for S4 (S4) in the 2022-2023 school year:-
Tuition fees for S5 in the 2022-2023 school year:-
School fees for Secondary 6 (S6) in the 2022-2023 school year:-
Application for S1 admission:
The School accepts applications for S1 Discretionary Places and participates in the central allocation under the Secondary School Places Allocation (SSPA) System. The admission criteria and weighting results for S1 Discretionary Places are set out below:
Academic Performance 40%; Interview Performance 30%; Non-Academic Items 30% (including conduct, service, extracurricular activities, and awards for in-school and out-of-school competitions, etc.).
How is Sham Pui Chung School?
The school group Band is a few:
Ranking Estimate Band 3B
School Wind:
- The school implements a whole-person approach to education, with particular emphasis on spiritual and moral development, and encourages students to love themselves and others, and to care for the community.
- Over the years, we have won the "Caring School" and "Outstanding Caring School" awards.
- Over the years, various incentive programs have been implemented to encourage students to strive for excellence.
- To implement the "Three-year Strategy for Junior Secondary Class Teachers" and to introduce one additional period of class teacher time every day, so as to develop a stable and lasting teacher-student relationship and to ensure that students are well taken care of.
- Arrange for one teaching assistant for each class in the middle school to help students establish good learning and living habits.
- To establish a good teacher-student relationship and implement teacher-student activities for the healthy growth of students.
Learning and Teaching Strategies :
- Experts and scholars from the University regularly work with the school's teachers to prepare and observe lessons, and discuss teaching strategies to enhance learning effectiveness.
- Establishing a positive culture, promoting "after-school homework guidance and activities" and "school-based learning support" to take care of students' learning differences and develop good learning habits: The school implements school-based remedial teaching, including "after-school and Saturday remedial classes" and "classroom pull-out remedial teaching", etc. In addition, the school aims to cultivate students' habits of completing lessons and revision before class through different learning programs. In addition, through different learning programs, the school strives to cultivate students' habits of completing lessons, reviewing and studying before class.
- A review of the subject structure was conducted to provide students with timely subject choices: "Life Education" and "Career Planning" were introduced at junior secondary levels, "Career Planning" was arranged for senior secondary students, "Service Learning" and "Diversity Learning" were implemented, and the training of learning and thinking skills was enhanced at Secondary 5 to 6 levels.
- To implement whole-school life-wide learning.
Teacher professional training and development:
All teachers are engaged in continuous learning, and there is a Teacher Professional Development Unit to promote activities such as collective lesson planning, collective lesson assessment, peer lesson observation and teacher professional development days to optimize classroom teaching. Experts, scholars from the University and teachers from our alumni schools regularly work with our teachers on lesson planning and lesson observation, and discuss teaching strategies to enhance student learning. The University also conducts induction counseling for new teachers and implements a mentorship program.
Whole School Participation Model Integrated Education:
In order to cater for the different learning and developmental needs of students, the school has set up a Learning Support Team comprising a Special Education Coordinator, a number of experienced teachers and student counselors to assist the school in formulating policies on school-based teaching, assessment and adaptation, Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs), and the use of the Learning Support Grant (LSG). With abundant resources, we hope to help students improve their learning, socialization and self-confidence. In order to help students with learning difficulties, the school arranges tutorial classes during the long holidays so that students can make good use of the holidays and learn new things in order to improve their academic performance. In order to cultivate students' interests in various aspects and to enhance their social skills, the Learning Support Team has organized different kinds of group activities and services, including volunteer groups focusing on different volunteer services, with the hope of cultivating students' sense of responsibility and their heart to serve the community. In order to enhance students' social skills, the Learning Support Group has organized various social groups and integration activities. The Learning Support Group also assists parents to enhance home-school support, such as organizing seminars for parents, with the aim of exploring effective parent-child communication methods, and ultimately achieving home-school co-operation to help their children develop their potentials and grow up healthily. In addition, in order to increase the opportunities for parents to get to know and get along with their children, the group also organizes parent-child activities, so that students and parents can have more parent-child communication scenarios to promote mutual relationships and feelings, and parents can also communicate with each other and share their experiences with each other.
Educational support for non-Chinese speaking students:
The school provides additional support to the admitted NCS students to help them learn Chinese: providing after-school Chinese learning support; and organizing cultural integration activities. Teachers are arranged to come into the class to assist during Chinese writing lessons, and the Chinese Language internal assessment tool is used to check the progress and needs of the students so that appropriate support can be provided.
School facilities:
The auditorium, covered playground and all classrooms are equipped with air-conditioning, projectors and multimedia computers. In addition to the standard facilities, there are multimedia learning rooms, junior high school computer rooms, senior high school computer rooms, design and technology computer rooms, apple computer rooms, multimedia art creation center, student activity center, hydroponic farm, multifunctional learning rooms, central kitchen, and Sham Shui Po coffee corner.
School contact information:
- Tel: 24524702
- Fax: 24517154
- Email: [email protected]
- Web site:http://www.semple.edu.hk
- Address: 18 Siu Lun Street, Tuen Mun, N.T.
- Webpage update: January 4, 2024
