In addition to a formal curriculum, the school also provides civic and moral education, counselling, sex and health education and environmental education. Extra-curricular activities provide balanced learning experiences including life experiences, intellectual development, social service, physical development, aesthetic development as well as work-related experiences.

Curriculum Policy

Our school curriculum, structured to maintain breadth and balance, is designed to cater for students' varied needs, abilities and interests, with a strong emphasis on the full development of students' moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic potential. The school endeavours to achieve these goals by setting clear teaching objectives, designing a variety of teaching strategies as well as effectively monitoring homework and assessment policy. Elective courses on Putonghua, Music and Visual Art are offered to S4 and S5 students after school or on Saturdays.

In 1999-2000 BPS started a pilot project on curriculum integration in S1 Humanities subjects with the aim of developing students' communication, collaboration and study skills through cross-curricular project-based learning. Evaluation of the pilot revealed very positive learning outcomes such as an increase in students' ability of critical thinking, communication skills and collaboration skills. The project-based learning was extended to S2 in 2002-2003 in three other subjects - Mathematics, Science and Computer Literacy. A committee on the preparation of Liberal Studies for junior secondary students has also been set up since May 2004 with a view to planning and designing a curriculum in line with the new senior educational reform to be implemented in 2009.

To provide opportunities for life-wide learning, the formal curriculum is complemented by a rich variety of student-centred activities. In 2000, Campus Video Station was set up with the funding from the Quality Education Fund. To encourage active participation in creative and challenging activities, our school incorporates three student development days and seven post-exam activity days in the school calendar, allowing more time for students to develop their organizational and leadership skills.

Apart from offering a good variety of activities, BPS follows closely the directions of the curriculum reform and tries to extend students' learning experience beyond the school context and even beyond the bounds of the local territory. A number of outdoor programmes with new insights for students have been organized and geared towards the development of students' generic skills. Over the years, our overseas exchange programmes included cities like Singapore, Canberra, Beijing and Japan. The increasing number of cross-curricular activities provides strong evidence that more and more teachers recognized the value of these activities as integral to curriculum planning.