Curriculum
Introduction
Heep Yunn School offers teaching of as many as 31 subjects for students, apart from the foreign languages courses offered after school. Among the subjects, 27 are classified into eight categories in accordance with the key learning areas set by the Education Bureau and 5 are designed by the school.
Guiding principles of Heep Yunn School in providing regular curriculum are:
- to provide students with an all-round education
- to promote education for life
- to nurture students as leaders with vision and virtues
- to cultivate internationalism and respect for other cultures
- to adapt to the local environment and allow students to maintain a strong sense of cultural identity
- to instil in students a spirit of public service
Medium of instruction
Heep Yunn School uses English as the medium of instruction for all subjects except Chinese, Chinese Literature, Chinese History, Putonghua, Family and Life Education and other foreign languages classes (French, Spanish, Japanese & Korean).
Learning Chinese Language in Putonghua
About one to two groups in each form will learn Chinese in Putonghua from Form One to Form Three.
Curriculum
|
Subjects |
Level (Number of Classes) | |||||
| F.1 (5) | F.2 (5) | F.3 (5) | F.4 (5) | F.5 (5) | F.6 (5) | |
| Biology | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Business, Accounting and Financial Studies (Accounting) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Chemistry | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Chinese History # | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Chinese Language * # | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Chinese Literature # | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Citizenship and Social Development | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Computer Literacy * | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Economics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| English Language * | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Life and Society | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Literature in English | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Family and Life Education # + | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Geography | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| History | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Information and Communication Technology | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Integrated Science | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Mathematics * | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mathematics Extended Module 1 & 2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Music | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Music (HKDSE) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Physical Education | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Physical Education (HKDSE) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Physics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Putonghua # | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Religious Studies + | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Science and Technology + | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Service Learning + | ✓ | |||||
| Technology and Living * | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Tourism and Hospitality Studies | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Visual Arts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| French ^ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Spanish ^ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Japanese ^ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Korean ^ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
* Conducted in small sets
# Conducted in Chinese
+ School-based subjects
^ Offered and charged by third-party institutions outside school timetable
Combinations of DSE elective subjects
The school provides a wide and balanced spectrum of DSE elective subjects for students to choose from. In the latest selection for Form 4 electives conducted in July 2023, 50 combinations of the main elective subjects were offered from the 140 possible combinations. 80.4% of the students were offered their first three choices. The summary of the combinations offered in the current Form 4 is as follows:
| 1X | 2X | 3X | Number of students |
| BIO | BAFS | CHEM | 8 |
| BIO | BAFS | ECON | 5 |
| BIO | BAFS | VA | 1 |
| BIO | CHEM | CLIT | 3 |
| BIO | CHEM | ECON | 18 |
| BIO | CHEM | GEOG | 8 |
| BIO | CHEM | HIST | 4 |
| BIO | CHEM | ELIT | 1 |
| BIO | CHEM | PHY | 14 |
| BIO | CHIS | ECON | 1 |
| BIO | CLIT | ECON | 1 |
| BIO | CLIT | PHY | 1 |
| BIO | ECON | GEOG | 6 |
| BIO | ECON | PE | 1 |
| BIO | ECON | THS | 1 |
| BIO | ECON | VA | 1 |
| BIO | GEOG | ICT | 1 |
| BIO | GEOG | ELIT | 2 |
| BIO | HIST | ELIT | 3 |
| BIO | HIST | VA | 1 |
| BAFS | CHEM | PHY | 3 |
| BAFS | CHIS | ECON | 2 |
| BAFS | CLIT | ECON | 1 |
| BAFS | ECON | GEOG | 7 |
| BAFS | ECON | PE | 5 |
| BAFS | ECON | VA | 2 |
| CHEM | ECON | PHY | 4 |
| CHEM | HIST | PHY | 1 |
| CHEM | ICT | PHY | 2 |
| CHIS | CLIT | ECON | 3 |
| CHIS | CLIT | GEOG | 2 |
| CHIS | CLIT | ICT | 1 |
| CHIS | ECON | GEOG | 5 |
| CHIS | ECON | HIST | 2 |
| CHIS | ECON | THS | 1 |
| CHIS | HIST | ELIT | 2 |
| CLIT | ECON | ICT | 1 |
| CLIT | ECON | THS | 1 |
| CLIT | GEOG | HIST | 3 |
| ECON | GEOG | HIST | 2 |
| ECON | GEOG | ICT | 2 |
| ECON | GEOG | ELIT | 2 |
| ECON | GEOG | PE | 3 |
| ECON | GEOG | THS | 3 |
| ECON | HIST | ELIT | 1 |
| ECON | HIST | VA | 1 |
| ECON | ICT | PE | 1 |
| ECON | ELIT | THS | 2 |
| GEOG | ELIT | THS | 1 |
| PE | THS | – | 6 |
| Total number of students | 153 | ||