Career Development and Life Planning

Our school collaborates with Chinese Y.M.C.A. of Hong Kong (Life Planning Section) to offer our school-based life planning programme, which aims at fostering students' self-understanding, personal planning and goal setting abilities. Through various career exploration opportunities, including workplace / tertiary institute visits, career talks, mock interview workshops, career / personality tests, and summer internship programmes, students are equipped with the necessary knowledge, skills and attitude to make well-informed and wise choices in accordance with their own interests, abilities and orientations.

Life Planning Curriculum

 

Form

Scheme

Target activities

S1

Self-understanding

  • Workshop on Self-Exploration
    • Career Tests like the Holland Test helps students to find out their interests, personality traits, and related professions.
  • Create a Personal Life Planning Portfolio
    • Students need to record their achievement and activities on the handbook. Our school collects the outings and competitions monthly.

S2

Discovery of self-identity

  • Working Experience Day 
    • Simulated social experiences can enhance students’ understanding of themselves, different types of industries, knowledge of higher education, understanding of stress and mental health issues, and improve their decision-making skills.
  • University Taster Programme
    • To understand traditional Chinese medicine, students will visit the School of Chinese Medicine, the University of Hong Kong.
  • Create a Personal Life Planning Portfolio
    • Students need to record their achievement and activities on the handbook. Our school collects the outings and competitions monthly.

S3

Identification of directions

  • S3 TASTE Program  
    • TASTE = Take a Student to Explore
    • To enhance the accuracy of students taking electives that suit them the best, subject teachers select the most representative topics from the HKDSE to design those courses, with the goal of deepening the S3 curriculum and extending it to the HKDSE requirements.
  • Career Development Workshop - Business-School Partnership Programme (BSPP)
    • The workshop can give students a better understanding of their career options and saving habits.
  • Transformative Mindset Leadership Project — Child Development Fund (Citylab)
    • In terms of the Targeting Savings, CityLab would teach the participating students the way of developing habits and the Habit of Success.
  • Create a Personal Life Planning Portfolio
    • Students need to record their achievement and activities on the handbook. The school collects the outings and competitions monthly.

S4

Workplace Exploration of workplaces

  • Personality Development Workshop
    • Personality Development Training is a comprehensive program designed to enhance and refine an individual's personality traits, behavior, and overall self-image.
  • ‘Let me fly’ Internship Scheme
    • To provide students with an opportunity to experience the workplaces and different kinds of industry.
  • Career Ambassador (CCA)
    • To promote the importance of life planning and career guidance                                           
    • To grow their leadership and communication skills
    • To inspire other students on career related topics
  • Provision of On-site Support Services on Life Planning Education Activities for Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) Students in Secondary Schools
    • Students can understand their personalities and capabilities through training sessions, workplace visits and internship programme.  
  • Create a Personal Life Planning Portfolio
    • Students need to record their achievement and activities on the handbook. Our school collects the outings and competitions monthly.

S5

Revision of individual goals

  • Career Experience Seminars
    • Through alumni from different industries sharing their work experience, students may undetstand different types of work deeply through the sharing from our alumni.
  • University Taster Programme
    • Elective students will take a visit in different universities.
  • ‘Let me fly’ Internship Scheme
    • To provide students with an opportunity to experience the workplaces and different kinds of industry.
  • Individual Career Counselling (S5 Class teachers)
    • Students will fill a google form to record their preferences for higher education. Class teachers will discuss with the student and parents on the Parents Day.
  • Create a Personal Life Planning Portfolio
    • Students need to record their achievement and activities on the handbook. Our school collects the outings and competitions monthly.

S6

Take concrete actions

  • Mock Interview Workshop
    • Briefing of interview skills
    • To conduct group interviews according to students’ preferences
  • Mock Release of DSE Results
    • To better prepare our F6 students for the challenge of the coming DSE, a workshop titled 'Mock Release of DSE Results' will be held after the first Mock Exam.
  • Individual Career Counselling (S6 Class teachers)
    • Students will fill a google form to record their preferences for higher education. Class teachers will discuss with the student and parents on S6 Parents Day.
  • Personal Life Planning Portfolio
    • The school will distribute the personal Life Planning Portfolio to students. It includes all the competitions or activities joined by the student in the past.