Secretary for Education Choi Yuk-lin today commended the award-winning teachers and students in various values education competitions held the previous school year.

She also kicked off the My Pledge to Act activity series for this school year while delivering a speech during the Values Education Prize Presentation Ceremony 2021-22 & My Pledge to Act 2022-23 Launching Ceremony.

Ms Choi said that cultivating students' positive values and helping them practise good attitudes and behaviours is one of the important goals of the school curriculum.

She pointed out that she was pleased to see that despite the epidemic, schools and students still actively participated in various competitions organised by the Education Bureau.

In the award-winning lesson plans, teachers adopted a variety of teaching strategies to enhance students' understanding of positive values. Through different learning activities, students' affection and motivation for practising good behaviours were enhanced.

Moreover, students were able to show appreciation and recognition to people with good deeds they came across in their daily life in the award-winning comic strips and short videos.

Today’s event was organised by the bureau's Curriculum Development Institute.

Since 2019, the bureau explained that it has set Be Grateful & Treasure What We Have, Stay Positive & Optimistic as the theme for the My Pledge to Act programme, adding that the move has been widely recognised and supported by schools.

The bureau will organise related learning activities, such as a mascots design competition, a creative social media post design competition and a parent-child storytelling competition, to cultivate students' positive values along with good attitudes and behaviours.