Our school held an English training course for our secondary school English teachers from June 13^th to July 8^th.  The 30-hour programme was tailor-made for our school by the Bell Centre of Macau Polytechnic Institute and taught by experienced trainers Mr. David Sansom and Mr. John Wheeler.  The purpose of the course is to improve teaching effectiveness in English reading and writing.

Bell’s in-house training is designed to create an English teaching and learning environment.  It aims to promote student autonomy and interest in second language learning through the teaching of independent reading skills, incorporation of jigsaw reading, game-based learning, process writing, and learner self-editing. 

The alternative teaching approaches have shed new light on the familiar subject of language teaching.  It is hoped that the course will prepare our teachers to meet society’s growing demand for autonomous learners.

Funded by the Macau Foundation, our school’s 42-membered orchestra participated in the 2^nd Greater China Region School Music Festival held in Guangzhou from July 12^th to 14^th.

The Greater China Region School Music Festival was a two-day event featuring two concerts and close to 300 student musicians from Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. The event drew an audience of thousands of viewers.

In addition to performing select pieces, student bands from all over the Greater China Region came together in a 100-membered orchestra, bringing alive on stage well-known pieces like Taiwanese composer Che-Yi Lee’s Dancing Strings and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. For the school performance, our orchestra played Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No.3, Op.73.

Pui Ching participated in the International Outstanding E-Learning Awards Scheme hosted by the University of Hong Kong E-Learning Development Laboratory and won the Gold Award, the only highest award in the international category (which covers both schools in the mainland and overseas schools). Pui Ching vice-principal Mr. Keng Man Kuok was also invited to share the outcomes of e-learning at the event. 

The winner of the Gold Award in the university category was the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Principal Kou was invited to the opening ceremony of the 2016 English Language Teaching Conference hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Macau. Mr Sebastien Chan and Ms Sandra U also gave a research-based presentation on the topic "The Effectiveness of E-learning in Vocabulary Teaching".