{"id":113,"date":"2025-02-07T20:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/?p=113"},"modified":"2025-02-07T23:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T15:59:07","slug":"primary-bilingual-immersion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Primary Bilingual Immersion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\" style=\"min-height:234px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"560\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-120\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/xiao-1024x560.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/xiao-1024x560.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/xiao-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/xiao-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/xiao-1536x840.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/xiao-2048x1120.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Primary Bilingual Immersion<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Academy\u2019s bilingual program actively supports bilingualism and biculturalism in its students. Immersion instruction in two languages and the promotion of positive cross-cultural attitudes aim to achieve this, as demonstrated by our high levels of academic achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the primary grades, a greater percentage of instructional time is spent in Chinese (Putonghua) so that students gain a solid Chinese language foundation. By Grade 3, there is a greater emphasis on English language instruction, which will carry through into the Secondary School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proportion of the languages of instruction in the Primary School is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Grade<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Chinese<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">English<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Grade 1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">70%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">30%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Grade 2<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">70%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">30%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Grade 3<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">60%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">40%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Grade 4<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">50%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">50%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Grade 5<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">50%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">50%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Champion-in-Reading-Contest-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Champion-in-Reading-Contest-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Champion-in-Reading-Contest-scaled-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Champion-in-Reading-Contest-scaled-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Champion-in-Reading-Contest-scaled-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Champion-in-Reading-Contest-scaled-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Champion-in-Reading-Contest-scaled-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy\u2019s bilingual program actively supports bilin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hwc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hongwen.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}