Instead of sitting in a boring classroom, students can now take a well-deserved break with outdoor lessons at Ocean Park.
The Ocean Park Academy, Hong Kong (OPA), set up in September, is offering a wide range of programmes which aims to help students learn about nature, biology, physics and mathematics at the Aberdeen complex.
Participants get a chance to visit areas that are off limits to tourists and have close encounters with animals, such as a baby dolphin which was born a month ago.
So far, more than 4,100 students, from kindergarten to secondary level, have taken part in special tours organised by the OPA.
'I've been to the Shark Aquarium and Dolphin University. The staff showed us how they train the dolphins to perform and how they cure the sick ones. It enhanced my knowledge of the animals,' said Veronica Lee On-lau, 16, a Form Five student.
Veronica plans to join some of the other courses offered by the OPA together with her friends. 'This allows us to gain knowledge through participation rather than reading books, which is so dull,' she said.