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PEDAGOGY
While the outstanding DSE and IB examination results speak loud for SPCC’s academic excellence, the School, as always, is placing
much emphasis in enhancing moral and whole person development for its students. An SPCC Student Profile was derived, in which
nine attributes were highlighted as the guidelines of character building in SPCC students.
Formulated in 2012, the SPCC Student Profile has been implemented in the secondary school for a year, and was officially launched in
the primary school in September 2014. Dr Anissa Chan, Principal of St. Paul’s Co-educational College points out that the programme
was first brought up more than two years ago when the double-curricula system had just been successfully implemented, and the
first cohort of students sitting for the HKDSE received encouraging results, proving that SPCC was proficient in coping with the new
academic structure for senior secondary education. “At that time, a few council members and I had a brainstorming meeting during
which we did a comprehensive self-evaluation probing into all aspects from the school’s strengths, weaknesses and opportunities to
students’ academic performance, non-academic performance and conduct, we came to the forward-looking question: ‘What’s next?’
How do we want the school to move on and how do we take the school to the next stage? In the end, we arrived at the conclusion
that it is not external achievements, but personal attributes that can help one to build a fruitful life. Ultimately, it is qualities like being
creative, courageous and caring that will equip students for the multitudinous challenges of life.”
In Conversation with Dr Chan:
SPCC Student Profile
Helena Hui (1987)
