Summer English is organised by Hong Kong Education City and Bayard Presse Asia. It aims at encouraging primary school students to read and learn English in the Summer Holidays through interesting topics and a variety of text types, such as comics, stories, etc.
Students and schools with excellent performances will be rewarded.
Target
Summer English is open to all primary school students in Hong Kong.
Junior Primary Division: P1-3 students
Senior Primary Division: P4-6 students
Rules
- Schools that have enrolled are entitled to win school prizes. The teacher-in-charge having enrolled will receive award notification for both student and school prizes.
- All primary school students in Hong Kong are free to join Summer English at any time and get individual student prizes.
- All challenges must be completed by 20 August 2023.
- The challenges consist of reading passages and relevant questions. Students can only attempt each challenge ONCE.
- When attempting the challenges, students will gain marks when they have got a correct answer, and extra marks if they have got all the answers of a challenge correct within the time limit. Students with the highest marks within each division will get prizes.
- The school prizes are determined based on the participation rates of each school (i.e. number of participating students / total number of students within the school).
- Results will be announced in September 2023 on this website. Schools with awarded students will be notified of the prize collection arrangement.
- The organisers have the final decision on the rules, terms and results of Summer English.