St. Hilda’s Primary School aims to develop confident communicators through an enriched global education. The “Newspapers in Education” initiative incorporated into the teaching and learning of Chinese serves to raise students’ awareness of both local and international current affairs, broaden their outlook, enrich their thinking and encourage them to form opinions.
Guided by the school’s ACTS Thinking Tool (Ask a Question, Challenge an Idea, Think further, Speak up), which aims to foster critical thinking, teachers facilitate in-depth class discussions that enable students to gain general knowledge, examine real-world dilemmas critically and empathetically, and articulate their thoughts in Chinese.
A Character and Citizenship Education component is also included which guides students to understand their global surroundings and analyse and perceive events from different perspectives based on our six core values.
圣希尔达小学积极培养学生成为具有环球意识的孩子。学校开展报章教学，其目的是通过《大拇指》让学生有意识地去关注与了解国内及国际新闻，从而提高他们对时事新闻的理解与思考。
通过学校独有的思维模式 ACTS（提出问题、挑战已知、深入思考、踊跃发言），教师引导学生进行深入的思考与讨论。学生借此加深了自身对环境、文化和公民意识课题的理解，提升了自己的人文情操。学生不但培养了批判性思维能力，更能够用华文表达深刻的想法。
报章教学也包括了品格与公民教育元素，通过六大核心价值观的指引，进一步培养及促进学生从不同的角度去思考问题，更好地了解周遭的世界。