★School   Profile

    Founded in 1998, Sihu Senior High School (HHSH) is the first comprehensive high school in Taiwan that provides both academic studies and vocational courses by expert teachers. HHSH is a comprehensive three-year public senior high school. It is located in Changhua County, which is in central Taiwan. Currently, it has a total of 45 classes, nearly 1600 students, and about 150 teachers and staff members.

    Individual variation based on students' multiple intelligences and distinct temperaments is our concern. Our school provides selected courses and various activities, such as musical performances, artistic courses, linguistics courses, natural sciences, and wind ensemble training. These courses have brought about fruitful outcomes for students. With all the efforts made to offer the best resources, we have exposed students to adequate preparation for future careers.

Academic system

    Our school system is designed as a comprehensive high school, emphasizing a student-centered teaching approach. Through ample exploration and guidance, we aim to help students plan their future, assist in their individual development, inspire their potential, and enjoy the pleasure of learning. Our ultimate educational goal is to enable students to achieve self-realization while aligning with the humanistic education spirit valued by the current global trend.

    In the first year of high school, there are common courses for all students. From the second year onwards, students are streamed according to their aptitudes and interests. There are five programs for students to choose from, including academic-social sciences, academic-natural sciences, applied English, business services, and tourism and catering.

    Generally speaking, our school has 15 classes in the integrated program for Grade 10 before the division, and after the division (Grade 11 and 12), there are 12 classes for the academic-social sciences, 12 classes for the academic-natural sciences, 2 classes for the business service program, 2 classes for the applied English program, and 2 classes for the tourism and catering program.

Introduction to academic programs

    1.Academic-social sciences

To cultivate students' basic knowledge and humanistic literacy in social studies, history, geography, language and literature, we provide guidance for them to pursue further studies in liberal arts, law, business, and education when they enter college, laying the foundation for studying advanced academic subjects.

      2.Academic-natural sciences

The training in the concepts of science and research spirit establishes scientific literacy and lays the foundation for studying higher education in science, agriculture, medicine, and engineering at general universities.

      3.Business service program

(1) Students learn theoretical and practical courses on accounting, economics, international trade, management overview, and accounting software application to establish fundamental business management skills.

(2) Students can learn marketing, business introduction, business management practice, business communication, investment, financial management overview, and project production to cultivate basic abilities to become personal finance and marketing experts as well as outstanding entrepreneurs.

      4.Applied English program

(1) Students study the fundamental and applied abilities to listen, speak, read, write, and translate English. They are also guided to participate in various English proficiency tests (such as GEPT, TOEIC, TOEFL, etc.), with the goal of passing the intermediate level of GEPT.

(2) Students will be supplemented by basic theoretical and practical courses in business and computer introduction.

      5.Tourism and catering program

Students study basic theoretical and practical courses including English and conversation in hospitality, introduction to hospitality, beverage, and mixology, hotel management, tourism resources, tourism practices, Chinese cuisine cooking, Western cuisine cooking, Chinese and Western pastry making, hospitality service skills as well as tourism regulations.

Curriculum planning

    HHSH is semester-based with two 20-week semesters per school year. Students take 7-8 classes per day, each class lasting 50 minutes. To graduate, students are required to take a minimum of 160 credits, including Chinese, English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Music, Art, Information, and elective courses required, such as the Second Foreign Language, Arts and Humanities, Life Technology and Information, and others.

      The exams and courses are fairly demanding compared to those in other high schools. Students are asked to choose a specific program to study in 11th grade; these programs are (a) the Social Science program, (b) the Natural Science program, (c) the Business program, (d) the Applied English program, and (e) the Restaurants and Tourism program. Different courses and exams are provided for each program to meet their interests and to prepare them for undergraduate programs.

Extracurricular Activities

    At present, HHSH has 33 student clubs, including sports teams, a street dance club, a scout club, a pop music band, a badminton club, etc. In the 10th and 11th grades, students can choose one club to join. There are seven 100-minute official club activity periods per semester. Students usually utilize lunch breaks and after-school hours to participate in club activities apart from the officially designated time.

★School   Features

1. Emphasize moral cultivation, and encourage students to serve as volunteers and learn when volunteering.

We regard "filial piety and diligence" as our primary school motto to remind students of the importance of good character; promote a "lifelong volunteer" service-learning experience and set up Nursing Volunteers, Environmental Volunteers, Traffic-guiding Service teams, and so on. About one-third of the students in the school have served as volunteers, and many of them have won the National Youth Volunteer Service Award.

2. Cultivate students' multiple intelligences and develop students' potential appropriately.

  (1) Set up multiple clubs (more than 30), arrange various competitions for students, and provide students with learning opportunities for leadership and cooperation so as to improve adaptability.

  (2) Advocate physical fitness training by establishing school teams, including basketball and baseball teams. Combine students' interests with physical training to raise their physical condition and sense of honor.

  (3) Actively equip students with artistic ability by providing various courses and encouraging them to take part in contests. The results are the top two in the National Art Exhibition, First place in the National Wind Ensemble Competition, and the top two in the National Writing Competition.

  (4) Develop students' literary creation ability and improve students' humanistic quality by establishing the editorial club as well as the literary club and inviting famous writers to the school to advise students. Students are encouraged to participate in off-campus competitions such as the Central Taiwan Joint Literary Award.

  (5) Encourage students to read and explore, and have achieved good grades in National Reading Competitions and Short Essay Competitions every year.

  (6) Cultivate students' scientific research ability: they have presented the best works in the National Central Area Science Exhibition and subject ability competition every year.

3. Establish several teaching growth communities for teachers to develop new literacy-oriented courses and design multiple assessments.

(1) Combine the teaching and research associations of various subjects to develop cross-disciplinary compulsory courses and develop school-based courses (Course Name: Young Explorer) to meet the spirit of the new curriculum.

(2) Take advantage of the curriculum characteristics of the comprehensive school, which are exploration, differentiation, and integration specialization. Besides, we offer nearly 90 elective courses every semester, including exploratory courses to allow students to explore their interests, and elective courses for deepening and broadening in association with neighboring universities.

4. Strengthen international education and expand the global vision.

  (1)Plan the summer international educational tour experience and scientific and artistic exchanges for overseas students

  (2) Cooperate with community colleges to promote English testing. Offer at least 5 foreign      language elective courses.

  (3)Before the COVID-19 epidemic, we received international exchange students for three     consecutive years. Every exchange student studied with our students for one year.

  (4) Apply for the Ministry of Education's plan to introduce foreign English teachers for 4     consecutive years to improve communication between students and foreigners and create opportunities for the practical use of foreign languages.