1. Strong professional leadership of the panel head

The panel head was open-minded and willing to take up new challenges. They started early planning with the officer prior to the commencement of the new term. This allowed greater flexibility in planning and experimenting with new teaching ideas. In addition, special arrangement had been made on time-tabling for the effective implementation of the projects.

2. Building a reflection and celebration mechanism

A platform for reflection and collaboration of teachers' work and students' performance was built in the English panel to allow teachers to share the difficulties and successes in implementing the programme and pursue the continuous improvement of the English panel. Moreover, an English resource bank was set up to share the co-planning materials and sustain the good impact of teaching and learning across levels.

3. Infusion of assessment for learning culture in the school

A 3-year assessment programme had been implemented to infuse the assessment for learning culture from S1 to S3. The assessment literacy of the English panel was gradually developed. With the idea of cultivating an assessment for learning culture in the school, the school management extended the good practices of using data to effect changes into the curriculum of other subjects. This helped nurture the culture of using assessment to add value to teaching and learning.