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School Culture Day Scheme 2008/09 |
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Foreword
The promotion of culture and the arts has always been the goal of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. We have been organising arts and culture activities on a regular basis in the hope that the people of Hong Kong would have a growing understanding and appreciation of the arts through participation and hands-on experience.
To provide students opportunities to enjoy the cultural life of Hong Kong, the LCSD has been organising the 'School Culture Day Scheme' (SCDS) since the 2001-02 academic year. The Scheme encourages schools to schedule visits, during the academic year, to performing arts venues, museums and libraries under the LCSD where cultural activities such as guided performances, student shows, talks and workshops are specially arranged for students. The aim is to enable students to incorporate arts, culture, history and science into their learning. In the last seven years, a total of 960 schools, or 75% of all schools in Hong Kong (primary, secondary and special education schools included) and an aggregate of 810,000 student/times, have participated in the Scheme.
To tie in with the launch of the New Senior Secondary (NSS) Academic Structure in the 2009-2010 academic year, the Department introduces the 2008/09 "Experience the Arts - Pilot Scheme for Senior Secondary Studentsˇ¨. This is a range of in-depth cultural programmes that allows the targeted participants of S4 to S7 to experience the arts through appreciation, creativity, performance and introspective activities and to further explore their creative, aesthetic and arts criticism faculties. The long-term goal is to develop in them a life-long interest in the arts. Details of this new Pilot Scheme will be announced in early July. Also, to facilitate the launch of the Pilot Scheme, the SCDS 2008-09 will attach particular importance to the performing arts programmes for students of P1 to S3 by introducing to them the basics of various types of performing arts, thereby sowing seminal interest. This focus notwithstanding, other quality activities related to libraries, museums and visual arts will continue to be offered in the general programmes suitable for P1 to S7.
We believe that the School Culture Day Scheme and the "Experience the Arts - Pilot Scheme for Senior Secondary Studentsˇ¨ for 2008-09 will be useful activities conducive to achieving the prospective aims of education when schools are planning activity programmes for the new academic year. We also hope to receive, as always, the warm support of principals and teachers in this opportunity for pluralistic learning, to encourage our young to explore their potential and creativity through hands-on artistic experiences and to make the arts part of their everyday life. In so doing, we can look forward to developing cultural attributes in the individual, and for the betterment of society at large. |
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| Objective |
The main objective of the ˇ§School Culture Day Schemeˇ¨ (the Scheme) is to encourage students to visit our performing arts venues, museums and libraries during school hours in the school year to take part in cultural programmes specifically designed for them. It is hoped that through the Scheme, students would be encouraged to cultivate and creative mind and regard arts, history and science as part of their learning process and an integral part of everyday life. Apart from stimulating the creative thinking of students, it is hoped that the elements of arts, history and science in these programmes may be integrated into school context and daily life. Ideally, it is expected that each student under the Scheme would have participated at least once in these cultural activities within the school year. |
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| Programme Calendar |
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All programmes will be conducted in Cantonese except where specified.
The contents of programmes do not represent the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
The programme information contained in this web site is for reference only. Selected schools will receive programme updates in due course. |
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| Target |
Performing Arts Activities: Since these activities are targeted at students of P1 to S3, applications in relation to this age group will enjoy higher priority for consideration. (For S4 to S7 students, the LCSD encourages them to participate in the 2008/09 " Experience the Arts - Pilot Scheme for Senior Secondary Students".) |
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| Selection Criteria |
The quota for core schools in the Scheme is 60, and is distributed as follows:
i) 20 would go to schools which have never previously enrolled in the School Culture Day Scheme. Priority would be given to applicant schools pledging to attain the highest rate of student participation in the Scheme.
ii) 40 would go to schools which have previously enrolled in the Scheme but have not been selected as core schools consecutively for the years 2006/07 and 2007/08. Consideration will be given in respect of the applicant schools pledging to attain the highest rate of student participation in the Scheme, as well as their actual participation rate, attendance rate and records of absence etc. in the previous schemes.
Where, between the two categories described in (i) and (ii), the number of applicant schools attaining qualifying status is less than the quota, the remaining quota will go to the other category and vice versa. Where the number of applicant schools with the highest rate of student participation exceeds the quota, selection will be by ballot drawn by the LCSD according to the five geographical constituencies (i.e., Hong Kong Island, Kowloon East, Kowloon West, New Territories East and New Territories West) to determine the final shortlist of selected schools. Others not selected as core schools may also participate in the Scheme, by arrangement, on an affiliation basis.
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All programmes are free, except those specified, such as events staged by Hong Kong Dance Company, the Jumbo Kids Theatre, Pants Production, the Chung Ying Theatre, the 13th ifva Festival and film shows of the Hong Kong Film Archive. |
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| Enquiries |
For more details, please contact the relevant officers of the Audience Building Office according to the school location as listed below:
Schools located at Hong Kong Island: 2268 7268 (Ms Siu Lai-hung, Kelly)
Schools located at Kowloon: 2268 7264 (Ms Choi Ka-man, Kaman)
Schools located at the New Territories and outlying Islands: 2268 7263 (Ms Wong Yin Kwan, Quin)
The contents of programmes do not represent the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
The attached programme information is for reference only. Selected schools will receive programme updates in due course.
Acknowledgement: ˇ§School Culture Day Schemeˇ¨ is supported by the Education Bureau |
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