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Character Building Curriculum

We believe that Character Building is an integral curriculum this year. The aim is to nurture students
part of holistic education. Our students undergo with our core values: “Care”, “Respect”, “Integrality”,
a comprehensive and cohesive system of primary “Responsibility”, “Commitment” and “Perseverance”
education and develop into good citizens, life-long as well as other good characters through experiential
learners, moral leaders and wise decision-makers. learning in an authentic environment. Students
They can practise virtues at any time and in any experience conflicts and decision-making within the
place. They acquire basic qualities of well-being in team and the class. In addition, teachers act as a
formal, informal and hidden curricula. facilitator to encourage students to participate and
share their ideas during the process.
We intentionally launch the Character Building (CB)
lesson which falls under our school-based formal Character Building

Our teacher is having a briefing
session with students, which is the
core part of the CB lessons. During
the briefing session, teachers discuss
with students their process and give
them feedback about their behaviour.
It is an important learning process in
the CB lesson. Students reflect upon
their behaviour and learn from the
experience. Most of them can provide
suggestions of improvement as well. It
is a kind of growth of students to learn
the six core values.

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Responsibility – Students are striving for discovering 2019-2020 Harmony
hint cards in an activity. Taking responsibility is not
easy for a child. However, the activities in our CB
lessons encourage them to take their responsibility
and find solutions by themselves. Through the
discussion among students, they find their own
position in a team and clarify their own mission
responsibly. In addition, committing to their mission
is a kind of responsibility to themselves.