A Glossary of Commonly Used Terms in Our School

P.1 Shatin Tsung Tsin Secondary School A Glossary of Commonly Used Terms in Our School (English-Chinese) You may use the SEARCH function of the Adobe Reader to search the translations. A Abdon House Academic Affairs Committee, AAC Academic Aptitude Test, AAT Accredited Programmes Action Plan Activity Room Additional Mathematics Administration Grant Administrative Assistant Administrative Executive Administrative Staff Admission criteria / Entrance requirement Adventure Area/Station Afternoon Reading Scheme Alliance of Christians Alumni Association Alumni Amber rainstorm signal Announcement of results Announcement Announcer Annual School Plan, ASP Application letter Applied Learning Applied Mathematics Apply for exemption Approach of examination Archery Range Art Café Club

P.2 Arts and Crafts Centre Arts Technology Room Arts-in-Life, AIL Ask for permission Asperger Syndrome Assembly Hall Assessment for learning Assessment Program for Affective & Social Outcomes, APASO Associate Degree Programme Astronomical Observation Terrace Athlete Athletic meet Athletic Team Audio-visual System Audition Autism Award of Distinction Award of Merit Awards 奬 B Backyard Badminton Court Badminton Team Banner Barbecue Area Basic Competence Assessments, BCA Basketball Court Basketball Ministry Basketball Practice Area Basketball Team Behavioural problems Best Attendance Class Best Disciplined Class Best Line-up Class

P.3 Bible Study Training Biliterate & trilingual Biology Laboratory Biology Black rainstorm signal Blood Donation Board Design Competition Boarding the coach Book fair Boys division Breaststroke Bridge & Go Club Bridging Programme Briefing session Briefing Broadcasting Club Bronze medal Bulletin for Parents C Cabinet Caleb House Campus Cleanliness Campaign Campus English Campus flora Campus Studio Campus TV Club Candidate Canteen Capacity Enhancement Grant, CEG Career Guidance Committee Career Guidance Team Career Oriented Curriculum, COC Cassette recorder Cell group

P.4 Cello Central Allocation, CA Ceramics Club Certificated Master, CM Chairperson / Champion Changing Room Cheering team performance Cheering team Cheerleader Chemistry Laboratory Chemistry Children's Play Room Children's Playground Chinese as the Medium of Instruction, CMI Chinese Calligraphy Club Chinese History Chinese Language and Culture Chinese Language Chinese Literature Chinese Orchestra Chinese Painting Club Chinese Recital Group Chinese Society Christian Education Christian Fellowship Committee Christian Fellowship Christmas Service Circulation Clerical Staff/Clerk Closing Ceremony Coffee Corner Collaborative learning Collaborative teaching Combined Science Comics Club

P.5 Commencement Ceremony Commencement of wintertime Commentator Committee members Common platform Community Youth Club, CYC Composite Furniture and Equipment Grant, CFEG Comprehensive Social Security Assistance, CSSA ( ) Computer and Information Technology, CIT Computer Assisted Instruction Room, CAI Room Computer Laboratory Computer Congratulations Contestant Continuing Professional Development, CPD Cooperative learning Core subjects Corridor Counselling Day Counselling Room Course line Covered playground Credit Crisis Management Committee Curriculum & Assessment Guide Curriculum Development Council, CDC Curriculum Development Institute, CDI Curriculum vitae / Resume Cycling Area D Dancing Club Dancing Room Day school student Deborah House

P.6 Demerit point Devotional sharing Direct Subsidy Scheme, DSS Discipline Committee Discipline Office Discretionary Places, DP Dismissal time Distinction Distribution of badges to student leaders District Teacher Network Scheme, DTNS Drama Club Dress Casual Day Drinking fountain Duet E Early Bird Scheme Easter Service Economics Education & Manpower Bureau, EMB Education Bureau, EDB Education Commission, EC Education Reform Election Day Elective subjects Elite class Elon House Emotion Education Empowerment End-of-Term Ceremony English Ambassador English as the Medium of Instruction, EMI English Bridging Programme English Choral Speaking Team English Language

P.7 English Literature English Recital Group English Society English Week Enhancement Class (for students of different abilities) Entrance Environmental Education E-Platform for School Development & Accountability, EDSA Ethics, intellect, physiques, social & aesthetics Evangelical meetings outside school Evangelist Training Evening Courses Evening school student Examination centre Examination invigilator Examination regulation Examination: First / Second / Mock Examination / / Exchange tour Executive Committee Members of Class Association Expanded Operating Expenses Block Grant, EOEBG Extensive Reading Scheme, ERS External competitions External School Review, ESR Extra-curricular Activities Committee Extra-curricular activities, ECA F Festival of Sport Indoor Rowing Challenge Day Field events Final aggregate result Final Finalists / Finance Committee Financial aid Finishing line

P.8 Fire drill First Aid Room First Aid Team First Prize First runner-up Fitness Corner Flu vaccination Flute Follow-up Group Follow-up work in Gospel Week Food kiosk Football Team Form 5 Gospel Camp Form base Form Guidance Teacher Form One Orientation Day Form Teacher Front staircase Fun Day Furniture and Equipment Grant, FEG G Games Factory Gardening Gathering time General Affairs General Affairs Committee General House Meeting General Office Generic skills Geography Room Geography Society Geography Gifted Education Gifted Programmes

P.9 Girls division Global Young Leaders Conference Gold medal Gospel Action Group Gospel adventure activity Gospel Camp Gospel Sowing Station Gospel Warrior Gospel Week Government Matriculation Maintenance Grant Grace period Grades A/B/C / / Graduate Class Yearbook Graduate Hot Pot Evening Graduate Master, GM Graduation certificate Graduation Dinner Graduation photo Grantham Scholars of the Year Award Grass pitch Growth Group H Hall Assembly Hand megaphone Handball Team Handover of flag to House Captains Hang Lung Mathematics Award Head Prefect Healthy Campus Award Scheme Healthy Shatin Tsung-Tsiners Hearing impaired Hearing impairment Heat Heavy rainstorm

P.10 Helper High jump Higher Diploma Higher-order thinking History Society History Home-School Cooperation Committee Homework Collector Homework Record Keeper Hong Kong Attainment Test, HKAT Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation, HKCAA Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education, HKDSE Hong Kong Examinations & Assessment Authority, HKEAA Hong Kong Schools Dance Festival Hong Kong Schools Drama Festival Hong Kong Schools Music Festival Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival Hong Kong Schools Sports Federation Hong Kong Youth Music Interflows House Captain Hurdles Hymn of the Year I Inauguration of Student Leader Inauguration Incorporated Management Committee, IMC Individual Medley Induction Ceremony Induction of new members Information and Communication Technology, ICT Integrated Arts Room Integrated Education Integrated Science Laboratory Integrated Science

P.11 Inter-class competitions Inter-class Inter-house competitions Inter-house Internal Assessment, IA Internal competitions International Assessments for Schools, IAS International Baccalaureate, IB International English Language Testing System, IELTS International Mathematical Olympiad Internet Internship Programme Inter-school Cross Country Competition Inter-school Football Competition Inter-school Long Distance Running Competition Inter-school Swimming Competition Interviewing techniques Intranet IT Hero J Janitor Javelin Jockey Club Life-Wide Learning Fund Joint Christian Fellowship activity Joint school shop discounts Joint school Joint University Programmes Admissions System, JUPAS Joshua House Judge Jump Rope for Heart Junior Form Discipline Training Junior Form English Remedial Class Junior Form Evangelical Meeting Junior Form Nourishment Class

P.12 Junior Form Reading Award Scheme Junior Form Reading Enhancement Class Junior Form Remedial Class Junior Form Summer Remedial Class Junior Form Teacher s Sharing Junior Secondary Education Assessment, JSEA Junior K Karaoke Room OK Key Learning Area, KLA Key Performance Measures, KPM L Laboratory Technician Labour Department Lap Leadership Training Camp Leadership Training Learning & Teaching Learning organisation Learning school Learning Studies Leisure and Cultural Services Department Level descriptors Liberal Studies Library Assistant Library circulation service Library Life Education Life Education Camp Life Warriors Life-wide Learning Lion & Globe Best Improved Students Award

P.13 Long Distance Running Club Long Distance Running Competition Long distance running Long jump Lost property Lunchtime Follow-up Group Lunchtime Music Broadcast M Magic Show Ministry Main Entrance Management & Organisation Mandatory Provident Fund, MPF Marshalling area Martial Art Ministry Mass relay Mathematics Society Mathematics Measuring tape Medical Room Medium of Instruction Grouping Assessment, MIGA Medium of instruction, MOI Men's Individual Novice of Sport Indoor Rowing Mentally handicapped Mentorship Scheme Merit point Messages to Shatin Tsung-tsiners Mini-golf course Moderation mechanism Monitor Monitress Moral Education Team Moral Education Moral Motto Morning Sharing

P.14 Most Disciplined Shatin Tsung-Tsiner Most Punctual Class MTR Student Travel Scheme Multimedia Learning Centre, MMLC Music Room Musical Instrument Demonstration Show N Native English Teacher, NET Nature Walk New Identity Scheme New Senior Secondary Academic Structure New Senior Secondary, NSS New Student Orientation Day Newsletters for Parents Nine-year Basic Education Non-government Organisation, NGO Number bibs O Office Official stand One Musical Instrument for Each Student Scheme One-life-one-art/sports Scheme One-student-one-art/sport Scheme On-line Appraisal System On-line Assessment System On-line Registration Open Opening Ceremony Operating Expenses Block Grant, OEBG Ordering of lunch boxes Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development, OECD Other Learning Experiences, OLE

P.15 Outstanding School Award, OSA Outstanding Shatin Tsung-Tsiner Overhead projector P P.E. Equipment Store Parade Parent Basic Law Parents Also Appreciate Teachers Drive Parents' circular Parents' Corner (School's web page) ) ( Parents' Day Parents' Resource Center Parent-Teacher Association, PTA Parent-Teacher Day Part-time courses Passing the spirit of serving the fellow schoolmates Pass Pebble Walking Trail Peer Mentor Peer Mentoring Scheme Performance Indicators Personalised Octopus Cards with Student Status Photocopier Photography Club Photo-taking of graduation classes Physical Education Physical Fitness Award Scheme Physically handicapped Physics Physics Laboratory Platform Play Zone Playground Playing truant

P.16 Podium (1/F) Poor weather condition Poster design Praise and Worship Training Prayer Leader Training Prayer Meeting on AL result release day Prayer Meeting on HKCEE result release day Preacher Pre-associate Degree Programme Prefect Pre-lesson preparation Preliminary round Prelude Preparation Room Pre-Secondary 1 Hong Kong Attainment Test, Pre-S1 HKAT Presentation of awards Principal Principal's Office Private candidate Prize-giving Day Professional and vocational training courses Professional Development School Professional qualification Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA Project Room Project Yi Jin Programme Promotion Meeting Provident Fund, P. Fund PTA Annual Meeting PTA Ex-co Meeting PTA Ex-co Public Address System, PA System Public examination Pure Mathematics Putonghua Recital Team Putonghua

P.17 Q Qualifications Framework, QF Quality Assurance Division, QAD Quality Assurance Inspection, QAI Quality Assurance, QA Quality Education Fund, QEF Quality education R Rainstorm warning signal Reading Period Reading Room Rear Entrance Rear Staircase Record keeper Recorder Recreation Room Recreation Secretary Red rainstorm signal Reduction of subject Referee Reflective Journal Reflective learning Regional Education Offices, REO Registration Relay baton Relay Religious Affairs Committee Religious Board Display Religious Meeting Group Remedial Class Repeater Representative

P.18 Resource School Reverend Robotics Roller Skating Rink Rope Course Rope-skipping Day Rowing Championships Running track S S1 Sports Activities Recruitment Day S5 & S7 Farewell Assembly Samuel House Sandbox Scholarship School Administrative System, SAS School Advisory Council School Aims Committee School and Class Grant, SCG School Aquathon Relay Challenge School badge School band School Based After-School Learning and Support Programmes School Choir School Dancing Team School Development and Accountability Framework, SDA Framework School Development Plan, SDA School Drama Team School Entrance School flag School Image Team School Picnic School Policy Forum School Policy Week School Profile

P.19 School Report School Self-Assessment, SSA School Self-Evaluation, SSE School Social Worker School Sports Day School subsidy School Support Partner School School tie / School Value-added Information System, SVAIS School-based Assessment, SBA School-based Curriculum School-based Management, SBM Science and Technology Science Society Science Week Scoreboard Score-keeper Scout Scripture of the Month Scripture of the Year Second Prize Second runner-up Secondary School Places Allocation, SSPA Secondary Six Admission Procedure Secondary Six Joint Admission Scheme Secretary Seed School Selling of summer / winter/ PE uniform / sweater / / / Selling of textbooks / / Seminar Room Senior form curriculum Senior Form Evangelical Meeting Senior Form Teacher s Sharing Senior Students Fee Remission Scheme Senior Service awards to prefects

P.20 Sex Education Team Sex Education Shatin Sports Ground ShatinTsung-Tsin Christian Fellowship Shot-put Sick Leave application Signal flag Signal horn Silver medal Singing Contest Singing the Prefects' Anthem Singing the School Hymn Singing the Students' Union Anthem Singspiration Leader Training Singspiration Sir Edward Youde Memorial Prizes Skipping Fund-raising Day Slogan design Slogans Small class teaching Snooker / Billiard Room Social Service Ambassadors Social Service Team Socio-economic Status, SES Soft-ball throw Solo Special announcement Special Education Needs, SEN Spectator Spectators' stand Speech Day Speech defect Speech Spike shoes Spiral staircase Spiritual growth

P.21 Spiritual Revival Meeting Sports Climbing Wall Sports Equipment Sports Ministry Personal Growth Group Sports Ministry Squash Court Staff Appraisal System Staff Development Day Staff Retreat Staff Room Stakeholder Survey Stakeholder Standards-referenced Reporting, SRR Starting line Stationery Crazy Sales / Stationery sales Statistical moderation Streaming Test String orchestra Strive-for-excellence Award Scheme Strive-for-improvement Class, SIC STTSS Award Student Activity Grant Student Affairs Committee Student Announcer Student Basic Law Student Financial Assistance Agency Student Financial Assistance Student Guidance Committee Student Guidance Scheme Student Health Service / Student Helper Student invigilators Student leaders take a public pledge of office Student Learning Profile, SLP Student Librarian

P.22 Student Performance Student Support & Support Ethos Student Support Committee Students' Union Consultative Forum Students' Union Day Students' Union Student-to-teacher appraisal system Study abroad / Study path Study Room SU Activities' Participation Prize SU Office Sub-degree Programme Substitute Teacher Summer camp Sun Chui Tsung Tsin Church Supplementary examination Support Measures for the Exceptionally Gifted Swimming pool Symphonic band T Table Tennis Room Table Tennis Team Take-over zone Taking an oath Teacher Assistant Teacher Basic Law Teacher Librarian Teacher Professional Preparation Grant, TPPG Teachers' Day Teachers Resource Room, TRR Technical Support Services, TSS Technology and Living Technology

P.23 Tennis Court Territory-wide System Assessment, TSA Test of English as a Foreign Language, TOEFL Testimonial Testimony / Sharing The Banner Theme of the Year / The Boy's Brigade Thinking Skills Third Prize Through-train policy Time-keeper Toilet Total immersion environment / Track events Training Circulars Treasurer Trophy Tuck Shop Management Team Tuck shop TV Games Room TV Room U Uniform Test V Value-addedness Vending Machine Venue Vest Vice-chairperson Vice-principal Vice-principal's Office Victory stand 奬

P.24 Video cassette recorder Video projector Visual Arts Club Visual Arts Room Visual Arts Visualiser Visually impaired Vocational Training Council, VTC Vocational Training Courses Volleyball Court Volleyball Ministry Volleyball Team W Web-based School Administration & Management System, WEBSAMS Well-disciplined Student of the Class Whole Day Courses / Full Time Courses Wong Sun Man Scholarship Words of Shatin Tsung-tsiners World Robot Olympiad Worship Group Y Year-round Activity Schedule Youth Pre-employment Training Programme, YPTP Youth Work Experience & Training Scheme, YWETS Teaching & Learning Team Updated 4/8/2008