Jockey Club Arts-based Cross Curriculum Creative Learning Project

Cross-disciplinary Integration

Funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, the 3-year Project is designed to complement the Hong Kong school curriculum to foster whole-person development and life-wide learning in students from Key Stage 2 (Primary 4 – 6). The project aims to nurture in students a self-directed learning approach to enhance critical thinking skills and creativity via experiential learning through the arts.

We began by “Building” (2021 – 22) the framework essential for the establishment of creative classrooms, then moved on to “Connecting” (2022 – 23) education and arts professionals by cultivating a trusting and collaborative environment. And now, “Re-imagining” the future (2023 – 24). We applaud the participants’ combined efforts to create transformative educational change through arts-based cross curriculum creative learning. Collaboration between educators and CPs has the potential to transform learning and lay the framework for future innovative educational approaches.

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Primary Schools
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School Teachers
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Students
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Creative Practitioners
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Hours of Creative Learning Classes
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Days of Cultural Outings
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Days of Train the Trainers Workshops
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Parents’ Workshops
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Creative Conversation
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Days of Knowledge Exchange

During our regular classes, I feel like there is a hole, as if I am trapped in a cage unable to think. There are no restrictions in AFTEC classes. We are free to think, which liberates our imagination from the usual constraints.

Ng Yat Piu
Student
Ma On Shan St. Joseph’s Primary School

In the past two years, students learnt about various aspects of the creative mindset, which can be applied to other classes. For example, when I am analysing an essay with students, I can use the “See, Feel, Think, Wonder” strategies. This helps students develop transferable skills.

Ms Peggy Tang
Teacher
Tuen Mun Government Primary School

I don’t speak much usually because I am afraid of being scolded if I say something wrong. There are a lot of sharings and presentations in AFTEC’s classes, for example, explaining my costume design to my teammates. This helped me become more courageous.

Leung Sin Kwan
Student
Tin Shui Wai Methodist Primary School

We usually design the curriculum based on our own values. But whether students are planning artworks or teachers are designing lesson plans, if people around us keep asking questions, it prompts us to think further, break through habits of mind to try out new approaches.

Chung Wai Ian
MUDWORK
Creative Practitioner

The ultimate goal of education is for students to realise self-directed learning and AFTEC classes really do allow students to achieve this. During the learning process, they observe teachers collaborating with other teachers and CPs. They thus learn how to communicate with and listen to others, skills that will undoubtedly come in handy in the future. Although we are not teaching them these skills deliberately, I am sure they will learn by osmosis and gain from the process.

Ms Li
Teacher
Tin Shui Wai Methodist Primary School