Diverse co-education builds children’s dreams and explores children’s potential traits

LOCK TAO CHRISTIAN KINDERGARTENPrincipal He Minyin has been involved in preschool education for many years and has rich experience in educational innovation. Principal He has joined the LOCK TAO CHRISTIAN KINDERGARTEN family since September 2018. He has always adhered to the original intention of child-centered education and led the teaching team to provide students with considerate, high-quality and comprehensive preschool education. Over the years, the school has kept pace with the times and successfully built a high-quality all-round education system with its complete educational administration system, excellent teacher ethics, unique uniform team and diverse and inclusive campus atmosphere. The school carefully explores the unique potential and characteristics of each child, allowing them to fully develop their talents and thrive in a campus full of love and care.

Respect individuals, teach students in accordance with their aptitude, and explore children’s unique potential

Principal He implements the educational philosophy of "respecting individuals and teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" and believes that every child has innate unique potential. The school focuses on children's personality differences and implements a teaching model of "more encouragement, more affirmation, more appreciation", insists on promoting growth through teaching and research, and educating children with the original intention. For example, we can build an inclusive and friendly language learning environment to help non-Chinese speaking students integrate into campus and overcome language difficulties. This year, the school won the Star Race-Friendly Campus Award for its outstanding racial inclusion and language teaching achievements, which is highly recognized by society. In addition, the school also regularly holds learning achievement sharing meetings, inviting parents to the school to observe their children's learning achievements in special studies, and truly witness their children's transformation and growth, which is highly praised by parents.

Uniform team builds character, national education improves character

The school cultivates students' discipline, team spirit and feelings for home and country by forming uniform teams such as the flag-raising team and the Little Scouts. The flag-raising team actively participates in Hong Kong flag-raising team carnivals, anniversary activities and parent-child national education activities to help children build a sense of national belonging and discipline. The Little Scouts take "Love God, Love People, and Love Country" as their mission. Last year, Little Scout Brigade 1807 won the "Outstanding Brigade Award." Through diverse team training such as lining up, team tasks, service experience and pledge learning, children can gradually develop their responsibility, self-discipline and social awareness. Learn to tolerate and help each other, abide by rules and self-discipline in teamwork, and practice the good qualities of patriotism and love for others.

Principal He also actively expanded off-campus moral education experiences and organized visits to the Department of National Security. During the activity, students transformed into little tour guides and took the initiative to talk about national security knowledge. They learned about the country and cultivated feelings about their home and country in an immersive experience. The activities extensively unite the efforts of home and school, and both Chinese-speaking and non-Chinese-speaking families actively participate. Home and school work together to make moral education take root and be effective.

At the same time, the school integrates national education into diverse experience activities, leading students to visit the Hong Kong Palace Museum and the Patriotic Education Center, and carrying out Chinese cultural experience activities such as calligraphy, blue and white porcelain, and ceramic handicrafts, allowing local and foreign students to appreciate the beauty of Chinese culture together in an immersive experience. At the same time, the school focuses on traditional virtues such as filial piety, benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom and trust, and implements the "Good Children with Good Luck" moral cultivation program to enable children to "learn by doing and learn through learning", cultivate their patriotism and love for Hong Kong, and develop good moral character of integrity, kindness, and positivity.

Life education nourishes children's hearts, integrating knowledge and action to cultivate character

Morality is the foundation of one's life, and life is the foundation for growth. Principal He understands that the early childhood stage is a golden period for moral cultivation and life enlightenment. The school received funding from the Jockey Club, strong support from the Hong Kong Police Force, and reached an in-depth cooperation with the School of Veterinary Medicine of City University of Hong Kong to create a new unique campus space "Pampering Pavilion". By raising turtles, ornamental fish and other small animals, and observing insects, bearded dragons, etc., the school allows children to get close contact with nature and life, integrates life education and moral cultivation into daily teaching, and nourishes children's minds silently.

In recent years, the school has actively linked resources from all walks of life to build a high-quality innovative research platform. For example, we cooperated with Yew Chung College of Early Childhood Education and used the "Jumpstarter" teaching materials to launch interesting animal exploration special courses. Full of curiosity, students independently study the living habits and preferences of different animals, explore the growth patterns of small animals such as turtles, fish, and snails, and design exclusive toys for small animals. They exercise scientific thinking and hands-on abilities through exploration, practice, and thinking. Children will also take the initiative to learn to take care of small animals. In the process of accompanying the growth of small animals day after day, they will cultivate love and sense of responsibility, and learn to care for and be kind to all living things.

Biliteracy and trilingualism build a foundation; diversity and inclusion broaden horizons

LOCK TAO CHRISTIAN KINDERGARTENA gathering of multi-racial students, there are currently more than ten children of different nationalities studying at the school, forming an international campus that embraces diversity. The cross-cultural campus atmosphere creates a unique language and international learning environment for students. In addition, in order to allow non-Chinese-speaking children to adapt quickly, the school integrates language use into daily life on campus, so that children can use biliteracy and trilingualism freely and communicate without barriers.

The children get along well with each other in school, help and love each other, actively share the cultural characteristics of their own countries, broaden their international horizons and cultivate an inclusive mind through exchanges. The school is also actively building a home-school integration platform, opening up parent class observation activities, gathering the strength of Chinese-speaking and non-Chinese-speaking parents, and building a home-school support network that helps each other and progresses together. Previously, the school collaborated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong to organize the "Basic Movement Skills Parent-Child Sports Experience Day", which used Chinese cultural-themed games such as Dragon Boat Festival and Dragon Boat Festival to allow families of different races to experience the charm of Chinese culture through joyful interaction, fully demonstrating the educational characteristics of diversity and inclusion.

Home and school work together to carefully protect children as they grow up

As a solid backing for children's growth, the school has always established a close and mutually supportive home-school partnership with parents, working together to protect children's growth. The school regularly holds parent lectures and invites experts in the medical and education fields to share with the school, interpret the rules of children's growth and development, popularize scientific parenting knowledge, answer questions and relieve parenting confusion for parents at different stages. At the same time, parent workshops are carried out to build a communication platform for parents through easy hand-made interaction and exchange of experiences, and provide parents with comprehensive parenting support.

In addition, in order to help children initially understand the primary school environment, adapt to the pace of further studies, and prepare for the transition from kindergarten to primary school, the school provides psychological counseling and guidance for parents to advance to higher education. Home and school work together to help children successfully enter higher education, giving parents peace of mind and no worries. This year, Principal Ho was elected as a member of the Sai Kung District Parent-Teacher Association Federation, actively promoting the ecological construction of preschool education, home-school co-education in the district, and jointly promoting the high-quality development of preschool education.

High-quality teacher team consolidates teaching foundation

In order to promote school development and curriculum innovation in an orderly manner, the school attaches great importance to teacher team building and the cultivation of teacher ethics. Principal He has created a professional and humane educational administration system. He also takes the spirit of "being a teacher and setting an example" and passing on the fire as the core principles of the teacher team, creating an excellent teaching team with both warmth and professional ethics. This year, the school was recognized by the Hong Kong Institute of Educational Administrators Award Scheme for its excellent school management performance. At the same time, in this year's election of outstanding teachers in Hong Kong, teacher Tang Ruoyi won the third "Hong Kong Award for Outstanding Teacher Ethics and Ethics" and became an outstanding role model on campus.