The Women’s Interschool Basketball Competition held its finals in Category A at 6:30 tonight.  Pui Ching outplayed the International School of Macao by 63:51, winning the championship.

The Men’s Category A and Women’s Category A finals for the Interschool Volleyball Competition were held at 4:00pm today.  Our Women’s Category A Volleyball Team outplayed Santa Rosa de Lima English Secondary School by 3:0, winning the twelfth consecutive championship in the Women’s Category A competition.  Our Men’s Category A Team was outplayed by Instituto Salesiano, coming in as the first runner-up.

For this academic year, Pui Ching won a total of four championships (in the Women’s Category A, Men’s Category B, Women’s Category B, and Men’s Category C Competition) and two second places (in the Men’s Category A and Women’s Category C Competition).

Macao Pui Ching Middle School: 10 Years of Curriculum Reform was issued today at 11:00am.  The book is published in commemoration of the 130th anniversary of the founding of Pui Ching Middle School, documenting the principles behind and the outcomes of our curriculum reform in the last ten years.

We have had the pleasure of Professor Chou Chu-ing joining our editorial team. Professor Chou has been a visiting scholar in Mainland China, Macao S.A.R., the United States, Vienna, etc. and offered her expertise in examining Pui Ching’s curriculum reform.  It is hoped that through the publication, we could share our experience with other regions and contribute to our understanding of education.

Principal Kou pointed out that over the past decade, our curriculum reform has been based on data analysis and examination of subject and class differences.  The Covid-19 situation at the beginning of this year made it necessary to move our classes online for three months.  Thanks to e-learning and systematic self-study plans, learning continued at home during school suspension.  For the future, we hope to foster individuals who are dedicated to progressing with the times. 

Director of the Association of Cultural Education of Macao Mr. Lam Fat Iam expressed that Pui Ching Middle School has demonstrated outstanding teaching outcomes in all subject areas.  Macao Pui Ching Middle School: 10 Years of Curriculum Reform documents the principles and outcomes of the school’s reform in the last decade.  The book is the outcome of international trends in education reform and school-based action research.  It is the culmination of ten years of experience and reveals the secret of quality education—the Pui Ching experience.

Due to the pandemic, Robocup@Home Education 2020 came in the form of an online challenge. After the first round of technical review, our school team won the qualification to participate in the challenge.  The online challenge was held from June 25 to 28, 2020.  Teams came from around the world, showcasing home service robot technologies and their applications, including image recognition, voice control, indoor navigation, automatic obstacle avoidance, etc.

Our school team’s invention employs humanoid identification and tracking functions to enable robots to follow the elderly in their daily walks; it also assists the elderly with heavy objects, reminds them to bring their personal belongings, and helps to monitor their health conditions and seek help when necessary.     

The team also wishes to take this opportunity to promote the development of home service robots.  It is hoped that image recognition can help to integrate robots into our daily lives and enable robots to better understand their surroundings. 

The student inventors won the Open Platform Junior Category Gold Award in the competition.  The award winners included Senior 1 students Mok Chi Kin, Lei In Hei and Sin Ka Chon and Junior 2 student Leong Chi Io.  Below is the link to the students’ demonstration film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZaf27DDgyM&feature=youtu.be