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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Adventure Camp
    • Students will be able to more clearly recognize and understand their own feelings and actions, and those of others.
  • 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

  • I am… 青年職學平台」(Life Planning Workshop – Part 1)
    • Through the I am... APP, students can explore personal characteristics (including personality, abilities, values, etc.) from different perspectives and understand the different working environments.
  • The Hong Kong International Aviation Academy - 1-Day introductory programme (Aircraft Engineering - 767 Close Up
    • Briefing of the Aviation Industry and the Hong Kong International Aviation Academy ;
    • Introduction to aircraft engineering ;
    • Guided tour at airside restricted area ;
    • Guided walkaround of flight inspection of a Boeing 767 aircraft
  •  ‘Let me fly’ Internship Scheme
    • To provide students with an opportunity to experience the workplaces and different kinds of industry.
  • 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 people 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.
  • The Hong Kong International Aviation Academy - 1-Day introductory programme (Aircraft Engineering - 767 Close Up
    • Briefing of the Aviation Industry and the Hong Kong International Aviation Academy ;
    • Introduction to aircraft engineering ;
    • Guided tour at airside restricted area ;
    • Guided walkaround of flight inspection of a Boeing 767 aircraft
  •  ‘Let me fly’ Internship Scheme
    • To provide students with an opportunity to experience the workplaces and different kinds of industry.
  • 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.  
  • 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.