Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA) and Pre-Secondary One Hong Kong Attainment Test (Pre-S1)

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Sir Ellis Kadoorie (S) Primary School
P.5-P.6 Level Parents' Day
Welcome
17.09.2013
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PROGRAMME
200-210 p.m. Registration Ms CHEN
210-215 p.m. 2. Welcoming and Introduction on Major Concerns 2013-2014 Ms WONG
215-230 p.m. 3. Pre-S1 Arrangement Ms TANG
230-250 p.m. 4. Secondary School Places Allocation System (SSPA) Ms HO
250-300 p.m. 5. Open Forum Ms WONG and Senior Teachers
300-315 p.m. 6. Meeting Class Teachers Class Teachers
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Introduction on School Focus 2013-2014
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MAJOR CONCERN OF 2013-2014

• Brush up students literary skills so as to
  enhance the learning of all subject disciplines
• Cultivate students positive attitude so that
  they will strive for excellence with focus on
  perseverance.
• Nurture students to be independent learners
  through fostering their study skills and problem
  solving skills.

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Objectives
Tea with HeadmistressParents

• Enhance home-school cooperation (e.g. sharing of
  current school affairs, parenting skills)
• Parents view and schools view can be exchanged.
• Promote parent activities (e.g. parental talks,
  parent interest class)
• Invite volunteer-parent helpers for school
  functions (e.g. Sports Day)
• Enhance peer communication among parents

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Tea with HeadmistressParents

• Parents view can be listened
• Your worry can be eased
• Your concern can be taken into consideration

?enhance home- school cooperation
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1ST TERMDATES 21/11/2013 (THURSDAY)
16/ 1 /2014 (THURSDAY)
Tea with HeadmistressParents

• Twice a term
• Sharing on parenting skills
• Leisure chats

• Time 840-940 am

All parents are welcome
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PRE-SECONDARY ONE HONG KONG ATTAINMENT TEST
(PRE-S1)
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WHAT IS PRE-S1 HKAT?

• The existing the Pre-S1 HKAT is used as a scaling
  instrument.
• The average of the two most recently sampled
  Pre-S1 HKAT results is used to scale the internal
  assessment results (i.e. P. 5 Final Exam, and P.6
  Mid-year and Final Exam) of the P6 students
  proceeding to S1.
• The sampled pre-S1 HKAT results will be
  collected biennially for allocation of SSPA.

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WHAT IS PRE-S1 HKAT?

• Secondary Schools can make use of the information
  obtained from Pre-S1 HKAT for identifying the
  strengths and weaknesses of their S1 entrants in
  the subjects of Chinese, English and Mathematics
  so that appropriate support measures could be
  designed.
• Our P6 students have to take the Pre-S1 HKAT at
  the allocated Secondary School after they got the
  SSPA result in July.

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SCOPE OF PRE-S1 HKAT

• Chinese
• Listening (10mins), Reading Writing(40mins)
• English
• Listening (15mins), Reading Writing (35mins)
• Mathematics (50mins)
• Questions on Number, Algebra, Measure,
• Shape and Space, Data Handling

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TSA OR PRE-S1

• Pre-S1 for P.6 in 2013/2014
• Our P6 students will take Pre-S1 in July 2014 .
• Our P5 students will take TSA in June 2015.

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ADJUSTMENT IN CURRICULUM

• Design activities and tasks to consolidate
  learning
• Design supplementary materials to familiarize
  students with the question types
• Practice on different text types and speaking
  activities
• Provide timed practices of mock papers and follow
  up discussions
• Provide extra support to students in need

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PARENTS ROLE

• Daily Support
• Check their homework and do revision with them
  for quiz and exam
• Encouragement
• Positive feedback and praise on their effort and
  improvement in studies

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SECONDARY SCHOOL PLACES ALLOCATION SYSTEM

• (SSPA)

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Secondary One Admission For September 2014
Intend to study in a public-sector secondary
school (All P.6 pupils)

• Apply to a preferred school
• directly
• No restriction on school
• net
• Apply no more than two
• participating schools
• Date 3 January 2014 to
• 22 January 2014
• Admission criteria for
• application are set by
• individual school
• Notices will be issued for parents reference

Participate in SSPA System
Apply for a Discretionary Place
Not apply for a Discretionary Place

• Make choices with reference to the
• Secondary School
• List
• Submit the form to
• EDB in early May
• Complete and
• submit the form irrespective of whether a
• discretionary place
• has been applied for

Fill in Choice of School Form Part A
Unrestricted School Choices Part B Restricted
School Choices

• Will be allocated according
• to banding, parental choice
• and random number
• Will not be centrally
• allocated to a place if secure
• a discretionary place

Central Allocation
Release of SSPA Results (8 July 2014)
Pre-S1 Test (15 July 2014)
Registration (10-11 July 2014)
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Allocation of Secondary School 20011/2013 Allocation of Secondary School 20011/2013 Allocation of Secondary School 20011/2013 Allocation of Secondary School 20011/2013 Allocation of Secondary School 20011/2013 Allocation of Secondary School 20011/2013 Allocation of Secondary School 20011/2013
School Code Name of School 1st Choice 2nd Choice 3rd Choice Others Total
School Code Name of School No. No. No. No. No.
275 Delia Memorial School (Hip Wo) 13 0 0 0 13
125 Rosaryhill School 10 1 2 0 13
504 Islamic Kasim Tuet Memorial College 2 2 0 1 5
N.A. YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College 5 0 0 0 5
199 Delia Memorial School (Broadway) 4 0 0 0 4
162 Aberdeen Technical School 2 0 1 0 3
126 SKH Tang Shiu Kin Secondary School 2 0 0 1 3
515 Sir Ellis Kadoorie Secondary School (West Kowloon) 2 0 0 0 2
106 St. Margarets Girls College 2 0 0 0 2
101 Caritas Wu Cheung Chung Secondary School 1 1 0 0 2
124 Queens College 2 0 0 0 2
103 Kings College 0 0 1 0 1
355 CMA Choi Cheung Kok Secondary School 1 0 0 0 1
286 Delia Memorial School (Matteo Ricci) 1 0 0 0 1
276 Delia Memorial School (Tuet Wah) 1 0 0 0 1
N.A. Jockey Club Ti-I College 1 0 0 0 1
149 Man Kiu College 0 0 0 1 1
154 Shau Kei Wan Government Secondary School 0 1 0 0 1
134 True Light Middle School of Hong Kong 1 0 0 0 1
548 Tung Chung Catholic School 1 0 0 0 1
159 TWGH Lee Ching Dea Memorial College 0 1 0 0 1
Total 51 6 4 3 64
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Caritas Wu Cheung Chung Secondary School
CMA Choi Cheung Kok Secondary School
Delia Memorial School (Broadway)
Delia Memorial School (Hip Wo)
Delia Memorial School (Matteo Ricci)
Delia Memorial School (Tuet Wah)
Islamic Kasim Tuet Memorial College
Aberdeen Technical School
Kings College
Man Kiu College
Queens College
Rosaryhill School
Shau Kei Wan Government Secondary School
Sir Ellis Kadoorie Secondary School (West Kowloon) SKH Tang Shiu Kin Secondary School
St. Margarets Girls College
True Light Middle School of Hong Kong
Tung Chung Catholic School
TWGH Lee Ching Dea Memorial College
YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College
Private School
DSS school
Schools participate in the SSPA System (Apply not
more than two schools DP)
Aided schools
DSS schools
Government schools
Jockey Club Ti-I college
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SECONDARY SCHOOL PLACES ALLOCATION(SSPA)

• 2 years of exam result will be counted
• - P.5 Final Exam
• - P.6 Mid-year Exam
• - P.6 Final Exam
• School has to submit pupils result to EDB for
  assessing their academic standard as a reference
  for allocating secondary schools
• Procedures starts after the P.5 Final Exam

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Interviews

• Clean and tidy Uniform / Clothes and hair style.
• Be polite.
• Answer questions confidently with smiles.
• Prepare answering questions of different areas
• - Introduce themselves
• - Hobbies
• - Achievements
• - Future jobs
• - Favourite subjects

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Parents Preparation

• Get your child prepared
• - Discipline good conducts
• - Academic good performance in all subjects
• - Service join services inside and outside
  school e.g. uniform groups, CYC, JPC, prefects
  etc
• - Activity join music, sports, Visual Arts,
  language activities etc
• Documents
• - Handbook clean and tidy handbooks with no
  bad records in discipline or homework
  responsibility etc
• - Portfolio

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Portfolio

• For applications and interviews
• A clear holder filing pupils document
• 1. Report cards
• - as many as possible
• - if lost apply a transcript from school
  through writing
• 2 . Internal and external awards
• - Certificates / Letters of prove
• - Little trophies or middles (photos)
• 3. Good pieces of writing (Chinese / English)

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• Apply an Identity Card (ID) for your child right
  after their 11th Birthday!
• Give a photocopy to class teacher.

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Open Forum