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Seminar on pleasurable and effective learning to be held
Heads of secondary schools will have opportunities to exchange experiences on pleasurable and effective learning at a seminar at the end of this month (November).
Dr S K. Tse from the Department of Curriculum Studies of the University of Hong Kong will present the report of "The Survey on Pleasurable and Effective Learning" at the seminar.
Principal Curriculum Officer (Integrated Studies) of the Education Department, Mr K S Wong, will introduce the concepts of this type of learning.
In the afternoon session, participants can exchange their ideas on topics including school management, extra-curricular activities, student-teacher interaction, school-based curriculum and discipline and guidance.
Organised by the Curriculum Development Institute Steering Committee on "Towards Pleasurable and Effective Learning", the whole-day seminar and experience sharing session will be held at the Auditorium, the Boys' and Girls' Club Association of Hong Kong, 3 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai on November 29 (Friday) at 8.45 am.
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Last Remembrance Day Parade for British Forces
For the last time before their departure from the territory next year, British Forces will attend the annual Remembrance Day ceremony on Sunday (November 10) to honour those who gave their lives on active service.
Men from the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force will form up at the Cenotaph in Statue Square, Central, alongside veterans of the Second World War, some of them have travelled from the United Kingdom for the ceremony.
On parade will be a detachment from A Company, 1st Battalion the Staffordshire Regiment (1 Staffords), along with a 20-man flight from Royal Air Force Sek Kong in the New Territories. The Royal Navy's detachment will be drawn from HMS Tamar on Stonecutters Island.