Resource Kits on the Academic and Creative Uses of English: An Activity Sheets Collection
A collection of three activity sheets is designed to promote the integrative use of academic and creative English. Each activity sheet demonstrates both the use of different academic and creative language features for a specific writing topic and text type, and provides focused practice for students to apply the target language items appropriately.
“SOW Inspiring” Book Gifting Competition (Learning and Teaching Materials)
The “SOW Inspiring” Book Gifting Competition (the Competition) aims to develop a zeal for reading among students, enhance their language skills, unleash their creativity and foster their development of proper values and attitudes. Students are invited to present a book of their choice as a gift to someone dear to them by writing a message with a saying of wisdom (SOW) taken from the book and creating a piece of two-dimensional (2D) artwork to enhance conveyance of meaning and visual representation of the message.
Campaign on "Promoting Positive Values and Attitudes through English Sayings of Wisdom 2024/25"
Building on the successes of the past four years, the SOW Campaign 2024/25 will continue to feature a variety of student activities and learning and teaching resources to facilitate English language learning by integrating values education into the school English Language curriculum within and beyond the classroom. With the overarching theme “SOW the Reading Seed – Inspire and Be Inspired” and four sub-themes, namely “Resilience”, “Empowerment”, “Appreciation” and “Delight” (R.E.A.D.), the campaign this year aims to:
RTHK Radio Programme - In the Common Room
In the Common Room, broadcast at 9:05 p.m. on Radio 3 of RTHK every weekday, is produced by Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) with the sponsorship of the Education Bureau (EDB). The programme aims to nurture primary and secondary students’ interest in learning English and widen their exposure to the authentic use of the language through a variety of engaging features. Starting from the 2024/25 school year, In the Common Room has been revamped with new or enhanced features.
Award Presentation Ceremony for the SOW Campaign 2023/24
The Award Presentation Ceremony for the SOW Campaign 2023/24 was successfully held on 5 October, 2024 (Sat) to acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of schools and students in various SOW territory-wide competitions / student activities organised by the English Language Education Section and the Native-speaking English Teacher (NET) Section in the 2023/24 school year. Around 400 students, teachers, principals and guests of honour were invited to the ceremony officiated by Ms Michelle LI, JP, Permanent Secretary for Education. Our heartfelt gratitude to schools’ support and effort in featuring a variety of learning activities to promote values education in the school English Language curriculum.
The Creative Writing Activity for Upper Primary Students 2023/24 -
An Anthology of Students' Creative Works
To recognise schools’ active participation in the writing activity and showcase students’ creative works, an anthology has been compiled, featuring selected entries from each of the participating schools.
The animation series is developed to illustrate the overarching theme of the SOW Campaign, “In Love We Share, In Love We Grow”, and the six sub-themes, namely “Love Our Country”, “Love the Community”, “Love Our Family and Friends”, “Love Myself”, “Love Learning” and “Love Nature”. It comprises three animated videos based on the English sayings of wisdom, “In love of home, the love of country has its rise.” (Charles DICKENS), “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” (Oscar WILDE) and “Friendship is a sheltering tree.” (Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE). Three sets of activity sheets are developed to facilitate and complement the use of the animation series. They are designed to engage students in interacting with and responding to the animated videos to enhance their viewing and multimodal literacy skills as well as cultivate their proper values and attitudes.
The “SOW in Love” Letter Writing Competition is organised to enhance students’ language skills and multimodal literacy, nurture their creativity and foster their positive values and attitudes. Students are invited to write a letter to express their love and gratitude towards an entity with a SOW of their choice and create a piece of two-dimensional (2D) artwork to enhance conveyance of meaning and visual representation of the letter. To engage more students in the Competition, schools are encouraged to organise a preliminary competition within the school to shortlist outstanding student works across different year levels for the Competition. In support of the Competition, learning and teaching resources at primary and secondary levels will be disseminated in due course.
Announcement of Results
Primary Level Secondary Level
The web page A Collection of English Learning Activities for the Promotion of Values Education: Examples from the School-based Activity “Week of Positivity” showcases a collection of school practices in planning and implementing the “Week of Positivity”, a signature school-based activity under the 2022/23 SOW Campaign. Schools can make reference to the school examples and adapt the variety of learning activities to strengthen the promotion of values education in the school English Language curriculum and enrich students’ English learning experiences. Based on the examples and the resources available, schools are encouraged to organise their school-based “Week of Love and Growth” under the 2023/24 SOW Campaign.