Children-oriented, learn from activities, stimulate children's learning motivation

THE HONG KONG CHINESE CHURCH OF CHRIST THE LIGHT KINDERGARTENAdhering to the Christian spirit, we are committed to promoting the growth and development of children in moral, intellectual, physical, social, aesthetic and spiritual education, creating a pleasant and harmonious learning environment for children, and using "learning to learn" as the basis of education to promote the overall development of children. The newly appointed principal Guo Meishi has been engaged in preschool education for more than 20 years. She has injected new elements and new thinking into the school, led the teaching team to innovate and move forward, created a diversified learning environment, and built a happy campus that places equal emphasis on knowledge and care.

Design picture book courses to build good character

The school designs inspiring school-based courses based on picture book stories, incorporating life-oriented learning content to increase learning interest and meaning, and train children's reading skills.透过绘本故事，让抽象的品德教育变得更具体，协助儿童实践正向价值观。 The teaching team also uses a progressive curriculum structure to cultivate children's whole-person development. During the three-year learning process, children will gradually understand their relationships and connections with their family, society, and even the world. Principal Guo said: "Learning cannot be limited to the classroom, and children's horizons need to be broadened. Therefore, the school actively carries out life-oriented themed teaching. Teachers will regularly take children out of school to discover activities that are interesting and beneficial to children, such as visiting the toy library, M+ Visual Culture Museum, We Park amusement park, etc. By providing different learning opportunities, children's experiences and experiences are enriched."

Strengthen bilingual teaching and learn English for daily life

The early childhood stage is the golden period for language learning. The school attaches special importance to children's language development and creates an environment conducive to learning English. For this purpose, bilingual classes have been specially added to greatly increase the time children are exposed to English. Bilingual classes are taught by professional teachers and foreign teachers who work together to lead children in various learning activities to make learning English more life-like and meet the needs of daily life.儿童由 K1 开始便学习拼音课程，并透过故事、游戏、音乐等元素，让儿童掌握拼音和拼字的原理。学校出色的英语教学，更帮助同学勇夺「2023全港幼儿英文歌唱比赛」优异奖，成功营造校园英语氛围。

推展校本自由游戏　培养自主学习能力

Games are an ideal activity mode to promote the physical and mental development of children. The school has always provided children with various game-based learning opportunities. Starting from 2022, it will cooperate with the Smart Children's Play Association and Shatin Institute of Vocational Education to implement the "Kindergarten School-Based Free Play Support Plan" to promote and design "child-centered" free play. Principal Guo added: "We also set up a 'free play' week, with picture books as the core theme, and created a free play area, allowing children to have more space for activities. They can freely choose game materials, gameplay, playmates or areas. Through free play, we help children build their own learning abilities, and based on their interests, they can independently control and self-construct the entire activity process, helping children build social relationships."

Implement specialized education to cultivate all-round academic skills

学校重视教学质素，为此特别安排专业范畴的专科老师任教。 Children's physical fitness tutors will arrange suitable physical activities based on children's physical development needs; professional music tutors will prepare music courses to allow children to learn singing, rhythm music, music appreciation and body rhythm creation; professional Mandarin tutors will cooperate with the course teaching to allow children to comprehensively strengthen their listening and speaking skills in Mandarin through dialogue, reading aloud, singing and games.

The school's achievements in promoting specialized education are obvious to all, and it has successfully cultivated children's all-round academic skills and improved their learning abilities in all aspects. The school also arranges for children to participate in various performances and competitions, allowing children to express themselves on the stage, develop their potential and enhance their self-confidence. Due to their outstanding performance, children have won many awards, including the "Sai Kung District Outstanding Student Outstanding Student Award", the champion of the "2nd Hong Kong Diocesan Children's Dance Competition", the third runner-up of the "Asian Student Arts Festival Children's Jazz Dance", the runner-up of the "China Challenge Cup Hong Kong Talent Art Recitation Competition", etc.

Improve the teacher-student ratio and cultivate children’s diversified development

Principal Guo said that small class teaching is very important for children in the preschool stage. Therefore, the school maintains the characteristics of small class teaching and optimizes the teacher-student ratio to 1:8 to comprehensively take care of each child's learning and spiritual needs. At the same time, the school specially runs full-day classes to serve residents in the area and meet the different needs of society and families. In order to take care of the balanced development of children in full-day school, "Full-day Class Diversified Arts Activities" is set up in the afternoon session, and specialist teachers are hired to teach. Activities include musical instruments, jazz dance, fun English, picture book creative activities, visual art creation, etc., catering to children's various interests.