Guidance and Counselling Committee in school caters for the developmental needs of students by providing developmental, preventive and remedial service to students so that the ultimate educational goal of enhancing students' whole person development and life-long learning can be achieved.

Our Objectives
• to cultivate a positive and caring school culture
• to build a mechanism for school self-evaluation to ensure the effective implementation of the student guidance service
• to provide teachers with professional training and consultation related to guidance
• to promote home-school cooperation and develop parent education
• to develop and maximize potentials of students and to help them build up the basic knowledge, skills and attitude in the four areas of personal, social, academic and career development
• to help students with individual needs through individual and group counseling
• to identify, counsel and refer students in need to relevant professional support services

What is Counselling?

At various times in our lives we all have unhappy periods, and these may lead to confused and overwhelming feelings. These unhappy times may or may not be connected to specific problems.

For some people, it helps to talk to someone outside their immediate family, and if this is the case a professionally trained counselling teachers may be the person to help you.

Counselling can help you make sense of your life, resolve specific problems, help you to make decisions, help you deal with phobia, stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, addictions, abuse, bereavement, divorce or separation, conflict with others, relationships, and many other issues affecting emotional and mental well-being.

The aim of counselling is for the counselling teachers to help you, and teachers do this in many different ways. They may just listen, as speaking out loud about your problems helps you put your thoughts in order. The teachers will not tell you what to do, and you will be left to make your own choices. Some teachers, however, may go through a whole list of options, and examine the pros and cons of each option, so that you can make better informed decisions. The possibilities are endless, and will depend upon a combination of your particular problem, and the style of counselling undertaken by the counselling teachers.

You should recognize that no amount of counselling will help you deal with all your problems. Life is not that simple, and there is nobody who doesn't have some problems. Counselling may not help the problem to go away, but what counselling can do is to help you cope with the problems you do have.

Coping with problems is a bit like juggling! Everyone can juggle with one ball. Most people, with a bit of practice can juggle with two. A few people can juggle with three, or even more. Whatever your juggling skills, there comes a point where, if you were tossed an extra ball, you would drop the lot. That's the type of thing that happens when we reach the end of our tether. We get one too many problems to cope with, and end up unable to cope with anything.

Before you embark on a series of counselling sessions, you should ask yourself what you hope to achieve through counselling, and how will you know if the counselling has been successful. It may be, that if counselling helps you deal with the greatest problem, you will then be in a position to cope with all your remaining problems without outside professional help.