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Sharing from participant schools

La Salle College
Relationship crafting

Mr Steve LEUNG
Vice-Principal & in charge of the Pastoral Council to review and develop policies regarding
student support issues

Background of the initiative – La Salle Talent Academy
The Pastoral Council have been actively promoting the data-driven P-I-E cycle since 2018.
Functional team heads planned their upcoming activities with reference to the evaluation data. In
2020, the Council collected data from various teams and identified issues to be addressed:
’Most students believe that academic results are far more important than serving the needy. The
school does not have a strong atmosphere of serving others.’ What LSC needs is to instil into
students the spirit of serving others, especially the less fortunate. To make it happen, I proposed to
make good use of students’ talents in sports, music and science to serve. The quantity of service
records is not our major concern. We aim at inspiring the underprivileged to overcome obstacles
and achieve excellence. Therefore, l decided to launch a 6-month service project called
’La Salle Talent Academy’ (LSTA).

What has been done?
The LSTA project aims at engaging 100 talented students
from LSC to design and conduct 2-month short-term
courses in three areas – sports, music and STEM.
LSC teachers and/or coaches are the advisors. The target
recipients are 300 primary 5-6 pupils who may not have
exposure to a wide variety of ECA. The highlight of the
LSTA is to invite parents and teachers to celebrate their
achievement in a half-day programme, called
‘Talent Academy Showcase Day.’
However, the COVID-19 epidemic has been affecting
all walks of life all over the world. Students have to go
online for lessons, and other school activities have
almost come to a standstill. Nevertheless, I will share with
you the work of the LSTA so far, and how I applied the
3Cs concept that I have learnt, especially relationship
crafting, in my preparation work of the LSTA.

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