Are you in Secondary 3 or 4?

Get ahead start by getting into the New Senior Secondary English language syllabus. Studying on our Secondary 3 and 4 courses takes you a year ahead of the rest as you start preparing for your DSE early. We prepare you for all the tasks you will face in Secondary 4, 5 and 6, improving your language skills and getting you ready to succeed. You will become more confident and get better results in your School Based Assessment (SBA) as well as the exam.

Course Content

On our courses, you will:

• use our specially created Elective booklets to widen your vocabulary.
• read and listen to a range of Elective texts and practise writing and speaking about them   
• focus on accurate use of English for exam-type tasks.

What will you gain?

• improved skills to understand and respond to a wide range of fiction and non-fiction Elective text-types
• greater skills to organise and express ideas well in speaking and writing tasks
• better skills to speak and write accurately and fluently
• improved pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.

To understand more about the New Senior Secondary (NSS) curriculum, please watch the videos below:

1. New Senior Secondary curriculum - What is it?
2. New Senior Secondary curriculum - Tips on DSE
3. New Senior Secondary curriculum - School-based assessment

Course Aims

These courses help you develop:

• knowledge of a wide range of fiction and non-fiction text-types and Elective texts
• improved confidence in organising and expressing ideas in speaking and writing tasks
• greater accuracy in using vocabulary and language patterns as well as pronunciation.

Demonstrating Progress

We regularly evaluate your progress through continuous assessment.  Each seventeen-week semester features assessed activities and after each assessment you will reflect on how you performed.

You will get a report on your progress at the end of each semester if you have attended 75% of classes. Our observations on learning progress and strengths during assessments help inform our comments and the grades we award for listening, speaking, reading, writing, and effort/participation.

Working in Partnership

We understand that parents want to be involved in and support your learning. To this end we have created an outline of  the roles and responsibilities of all those involved in the learning process.

SEN (Specific Educational Needs)

We are committed to providing an inclusive learning environment in which children are supported to achieve their potential in a spirit of inclusion and acceptance. We value the abilities and achievements of all our pupils and recognise that parents hold key information and knowledge of their child.

We request parents to inform us of any specific educational (or medical) needs before registration.  

Placement test and counselling

A placement test will be required for new students before registration in order to determine their English level. A course counsellor will then help select the course most suited to your English level. Test results are valid for six months.

Course Information

Registration for September Semester 2012

A parent's or guardian's signature is required for all new young learners (under 18) registrations (Kindergarten, Primary and Secondary courses) to acknowledge the acceptance of our terms and conditions.

Parents would need to register for students in British Council Hong Kong, Admiralty. Should parents not be able to turn up in person for registration, please download and sign the Registration Form (Secondary).