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Sharing from participant schools

Hong Kong Student Aid Society Primary School
Balancing old and new team member

Ms YU Tak Chi, Christine Vice-principal
Ms WOO Mei Ling, Crystal Curriculum coordinator

Background of the initiative
Hong Kong Student Aid Society Primary school is a Christian school founded in 2002.
Ms Cheung Ching Han was appointed as the principal in 2018, and Ms Yu Tak Chi, Christine
arrived at the school in 2017 as a PSM, she became the curriculum coordinator in the following
year and was promoted to vice principal in 2019. Ms Woo Mei Ling, Crystal was hired by the
school as curriculum coordinator in 2019. Two more PSMs joined the school during the same
year as panel heads of English and Mathematics.

The school's middle management team includes teachers familiar with the school’s operation.
The relationships and communication among old and new colleagues needed to be
established. This challenged the middle management. Principal Cheung Ching Han
first focused on the administrative structure, setting up a professional development group for
teachers with the curriculum coordinator as group leader. The aim was to strengthen the
professional growth of teachers and implement the Hong Kong Student Aid Association's
visionary belief that ’everything is for children’. This vision allows children to ‘learn how to learn,
learn to live, learn to create’ and teachers to support them in their growth and learning around
this belief.

Re-starting benign interaction
The school is facing multiple challenges, including
the differences between teachers understanding
and experience in terms of the school curriculum;
the coordination of administrative work among old
and new coordinators; the leadership style of
old and new vice-principals; the adaptation of the
old and new systems; and the new normal of
leadership brought on by the epidemic.

We know that it is essential to strengthen the
communication between peers so that the teachers can come together as a team,
understand the needs and vision of the school and establish common goals. Teachers need
to be involved in creating a teaching team that is innovative and build the resilience of the
school.

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