Gifted Education

Gifted Education – The School-based “Sight, Heart, Mind” Approach

Our school sets unearthing and nurturing students’ gifted areas and potentials as the target. To this end, we provide multi-faceted learning experience and whole-person development for gifted students. A framework of “SIGHT”, “HEART”, “MIND” is created and adopted.

Academy for Gifted Students of KTL

The Academy offers various school-level activities. Its membership system encourages gifted students to participate activities in each aspect of ‘Sight, Heart, Mind’.

SIGHT: High achievers should definitely go the extra mile, explore new ideas and perspectives beyond the school campus in order to develop a global perspective

Outbound Study Tours

Tours are of various themes, including cross-curricular tours to Finland and Vietnam; English and drama tours to the UK, Russia, Canada; STEM tours to Silicon Valley of the USA, Korea; cultural tours to Japan and, Taiwan, and many more.

Joint-school Leaders’ League

Our school hosts this joint-school programme where student leaders from different schools come together, sharing their leader experience and undergoing leadership training. Participating schools include Tsuen Wan Government Secondary School, Cheung Sha Wan Catholic Secondary School and True Light Girls’ College.

All-round Exposure Scheme

Exposure to areas aside from gifted students’ own gifted domains for developing multifaceted talents is provided. Activities include a visit to RTHK, to West Kowloon Mediation Centre and to Hong Kong - Zhuhai -Macao Bridge Hong Kong Port, etc.

HEART: The emotional needs of gifted students should be catered for. Positive thinking and a caring heart are what we promote for them to develop their talents even better.

Kick-off Ceremony of Academy for Gifted Students

Students’ seminar on PAPAS (Positivity, Appreciation, Perseverance, Acceptance, Serving)
Teacher-student interaction for devising learning plans

Movie to Mentality (MtM programme)

Students can explore the concepts of PAPAS through movie clips, activities and some Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) elements.

Social Outreach Programmes

We work with the National and Social Caring Committee to offer gifted students opportunities to give back to the community. We work with Oxfam, Food Angel, etc for students to understand how acceptance and a serving heart are essential for growth and to develop a positive mind and make contributions to society.

Experiential Learning and Workshops

We aim at developing students’ perseverance in adversities and their mindset of a global citizen. A visit to Crossroads Foundation enables students to understand the ordeals of the visually impaired and AIDS-patients.

MIND: Intellectual development includes regular lessons and pull-out programs. The focus lies on enquiry-based, problem-based and product-based learning, where various thinking skills come into play, including critical thinking, creative thinking, analytical thinking and decision making skills. Research skills for both quantitative (questionnaire) and qualitative (interview) studies are involved, aside from the ability of literature review and information processing. Homogeneous groupings in various subjects, including the core 4, enable subject panels to adjust curriculum, homework policy, pedagogy, assessment, feedback and extended learning in order to maximize the effectiveness of learning and teaching.

Sponsorship for Specialty Training

Students are encouraged to sharpen their edge in their gifted areas (off-campus self-initiated training)

Pull-out Programmes

Various programmes are tailor-made for students of different gifted areas, such as public speaking, drone photography, biography writing, and many more. Visit pages of various subjects to find out more.

Off-campus Courses

High achievers are nominated to join a wide range of gifted courses provided by institutes such as Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, etc.

Team-based and Competition-based Training

We provide specific training for target students in order to ignite their passion for particular fields and/or prepare for competitions, such as STEM Task Force, Debating Teams, English Ambassadors, UNICEF Volunteer Team, Entrepreneur Jrs., etc.

Walk with Veteran

Professionals from various fields are invited to be mentors for high achievers who are then well-equipped for related off-campus competitions or topic-based research.

Courses of Other Languages

In order to develop students’ language competence, various language classes are provided, including Beginner and Intermediate levels of French and Japanese. Students take the classes aiming at sitting recognized assessments.

Classrooms without Boundaries

We have an extensive network with various schools in cities across the world, such as Yamashiro High School, Kyoto and Slavic-Anglo-American School, Moscow. Our modes of collaboration include online conference, shared classroom, international youth forum, etc.

Our Global Connections