Form Teacher Guidance Period (FTGP)

Form Teachers play a central role in shaping the development of their young charges. They use Form Teacher Guidance Period to bond with their students through interaction activities and build positive Teacher-Student Relationship (TSR).

Learning Outcomes

FTGP lessons with purposeful teacher-student interactions and the explicit teaching of social and emotional competencies are planned. This is to provide the platform for teachers and students to establish good rapport and to allow teachers to identify the needs of students so as to provide them with better support.

Our Key Approaches / Strategies

During FTGP lessons, there could be play activities between the form teacher and students to enhance bonding as well as the teaching of social and emotional competencies for the following outcomes:

• better understand themselves (Self-Awareness);
• learn ways to manage themselves (Self-Management);
• better understand their family and friends (Social Awareness);
• learn ways to relate with their family and friends (Relationship Management)
• make appropriate and responsible decisions (Responsible Decision Making)

Our Key Programmes

• Connecting Hearts And Thoughts (CHAT)
  

  • Form Teachers take turns to conduct Connecting Hearts And Thoughts (CHAT), which is a regular time and space where one-to-one teacher-student interaction occurs. Teachers can get to know their students better through the conversation, and demonstrate their care and interest in students as unique individuals. CHAT sessions can seed mutual respect and care where students feel valued, supported and respected by their teachers.

• Other mandatory lessons on Cyber wellness, My Skills Future (MSF), Social Skills (Lower Primary) and Sexuality Education (SEd) lessons (Primary 5 & 6) have also been incorporated into FTGP lessons. These sessions address specific issues at different levels and they help to reinforce our school values.