Sensory elements, game methods, Chinese language skills, optimized curriculum in three aspects, child-centered, striving for excellence

SUN ISLAND ENGLISH KINDERGARTEN (SAI YING PUN BRANCH) (Name in the past: SUN ISLAND ENGLISH KINDERGARTEN (BELCHER BRANCH))Adhering to the core value of being child-oriented, we are committed to providing children with a pleasant learning environment and learning experience, helping children to build moral character, develop self-confidence, self-study and self-care abilities, and guide children to actively explore things around them to achieve "mutual trust, mutual learning, and interaction." Currently, the school has 9 kindergartens and kindergarten-cum-child care centers located in different areas of Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories, providing high-quality early childhood education to all school-age children in Hong Kong. The school was established in 1984, nearly 40 years ago. Over the years, the school has been very popular among parents and children. It has been keeping pace with the times, striving for excellence, continuously optimizing the school-based curriculum, and promoting the whole-person development of children from aspects such as activities, teaching, and environment, and carefully nurturing the growth of each child.

Designing diversified school-based curriculum to broaden the level of knowledge absorption

Children have endless potential and talents. The school continues to optimize the curriculum, integrates sensory teaching elements, and uses a game-based learning model to comprehensively improve the development of children's language skills and build high-quality education that keeps pace with the times. The school makes good use of the Quality Education Fund and actively cooperates with tertiary institutions to enrich the school's teaching resources and design school-based courses that meet the development needs of young children. Superintendent Chen Yingqi said: "In the past two years, the school has actively integrated the curriculum content and reorganized the 12 same topics in each school year from K1 to K3 into 36 different teaching topics, thereby broadening the children's knowledge and deepening their cultural literacy. The new curriculum is not only more complete and systematic, but also integrates different learning elements, allowing children to explore different areas of knowledge in a step-by-step manner from the shallower to the deeper, inspiring the development of their multiple intelligences."

Pay attention to language development and promote cultural integration

The school has a diverse enrollment, with children from different nationalities and cultural backgrounds. Therefore, the school implements the educational concept of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, specially designs appropriate teaching materials, and sets clear learning goals from the four aspects of listening, speaking, reading, and writing to consolidate the language foundation for children. The curriculum uses bilingual school-based teaching materials and adds ability requirements in the area of ​​"language awareness" to take into account the language development needs of Chinese-speaking and non-Chinese-speaking children. At the same time, the curriculum adopts "culturally responsive" teaching, making good use of the cultural characteristics of children from different backgrounds or nationalities, using their life experiences as teaching and learning materials, and combining them with situations familiar to children to help them learn new knowledge and skills.

In addition, in order to create a caring and inclusive learning atmosphere, there are 9 cartoon characters from different countries in the course. They have different personalities and hobbies, and are the protagonists of different themes in the school-based textbooks, so that children can resonate with these characters and become more involved in classroom learning. The school also holds caring and inclusive activities every year, inviting children and parents to participate, promoting parent-child interaction and communication, strengthening home-school collaboration, and jointly creating a diverse, mutually respectful and enjoyable learning environment for children. At the same time, the teaching team organizes "World Food Fair", "National Costume Day", etc., and arranges mixed class activities to enable children of different nationalities to come into contact with each other and understand each other's cultural characteristics, which helps to broaden their horizons.

Multi-sensory teaching strategies to promote brain development

The senses are an important medium for receiving external information, and the kindergarten stage is the golden period for children's multi-sensory development. The school uses games and multi-sensory learning elements to train the development of children's seven senses, promote their brains to integrate external information, and provide appropriate feedback, thereby creating a sense of security in the surrounding learning environment, helping them explore the world and explore their personal interests. To this end, the course has specially designed 7 cute characters to accompany children as they grow together, including "Slingshot Eyes", "Flying Ears", "Big Mouth", "Long Nose", "All Hands", "Tornado Legs" and "Dr. Brain". The 7 characters represent vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch, proprioception and vestibular sense. They will lead children to play different sensory games to cultivate curiosity and stimulate learning potential.

In addition to designing cute characters, the school has also set up multiple learning areas to lay a knowledge foundation for children in different areas. For example, the "Light and Shadow Play Area" allows children to use different tools and methods to explore light and shadow, color changes, light-transmitting and opaque materials, etc. in a dark environment to enhance their sensitivity to distance, location, and space; the "Multi-Sensory Area" is equipped with touch walls, pom-pom pools, LEGO walls, magnet walls, etc. to create different tactile experiences and train children's hand-eye coordination, bimanual coordination and tactile discrimination skills to develop fine motor control and help lay the foundation for self-care.

In addition, the school also has a "sound wall" to help children improve their "auditory perception" concentration, teach them to identify the characteristics of different sounds, and play a positive role in promoting children's listening and language learning abilities; and a "magic mirror" can not only enhance children's "visual perception", but also allow them to explore far and near, Concepts such as zooming in and out can cultivate children's observation skills; in addition, the "Water Play Area" allows children to use different tools to build water pipes, explore the direction of water flow, improve the coordination ability of large and small muscles, train children's problem-solving and logical thinking, and promote children's language and social development.

Interdisciplinary activity-based teaching to meet children’s development needs

The school integrates different areas of knowledge content into activity-based teaching, and uses interdisciplinary learning to cater for the different development needs of children and enhance learning diversity. The courses cover the fields of "Physical Fitness and Health", "Chinese Language", "Children's Mathematics", "Nature and Life", "Individuals and Groups" and "Art and Creativity". We are committed to creating an immersive learning experience for children and absorbing knowledge in the most natural way. Superintendent Chen said: "The school designs each learning activity with special consideration and combines different knowledge themes, such as integrating physical activities with music to train children's sense of rhythm, hearing, large and small muscles, as well as proprioception and vestibular sense. At the same time, the school actively creates a relaxed and pleasant campus environment to stimulate children's initiative and enthusiasm for learning. Through different teaching themes and game content, children can develop their language, logical thinking, creativity, social interaction, problem-solving and other abilities, practicing the concept of holistic education."

Specially designed multi-learning areas to enhance learning diversity

Creating a high-quality learning environment has a positive role in promoting the physical and mental development of children. Therefore, the school attaches great importance to the interactive relationship between children and the environment. It has set up learning areas with different themes in the classroom, including Chinese corner, book corner, teaching material corner, exploration corner, creation corner, etc., starting from the environment to enrich learning elements and create an interesting learning atmosphere. The teaching team will also prepare diverse and appropriate teaching materials based on different learning themes, and conduct personal trials to select the best teaching aids that can enhance children's learning interest. During the teaching process, teachers will carefully observe the behavior and performance of each child to understand their growth and changes in the classroom. In addition, teachers will also provide children with ample space for learning and growth, empowering them to freely choose, explore and express themselves in games. Teachers will guide and intervene in a timely manner to inspire the development of children's potential.

Cultivate individual and group development to lay the foundation for future success

In addition to attaching great importance to children's knowledge development, the school also pays attention to their personal growth, social skills and values education. The school uses resources flexibly to promote the "individual and group" development of children, such as K3 children learning time management, K2 children learning emotional expression, how to make friends, etc. Superintendent Chen added: "The school will also organize diversified activities and arrange for the school social worker to play group games with children, thereby providing learning opportunities and performance platforms for children to practice subject knowledge and cultivate positive values. In addition, many branches of Sun Island will also hold joint-school parent-child sports meets, allowing children to display their sportsmanship through sports competitions and cultivate their perseverance. An unyielding attitude towards life. On the sports field, even if the children are not competing, they will still encourage their peers and actively participate in the competition. When the results of the competition are announced, they need to learn how to deal with different emotions such as success and loss, which will lay the seeds of success for them in the future. "

Nine campuses write a new chapter in education

Harborside Campus School Number: 555436

Address: G/F, Harbor Plaza, Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon (the main entrance is at Ju Yu Road)
Tel: 2553 6556
WhatsApp: 5631 8650

To Kwa Wan Campus School Number: 215678

Address: Ground floor to first floor, Po Fung Building, 152 Pao Ching Street, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon
Tel: 2714 5545
WhatsApp: 5631 9017

Yuen Long Branch School Number: 231010

Address: Shop L3, 3/F, Xingdian II, 8 Lang Yat Road, Yuen Long, New Territories
Phone: 2479 0116
WhatsApp: 9242 9406

The three branches make good use of the Quality Education Fund to optimize their campuses and provide children with a good learning environment and atmosphere. To Kwa Wan Campus and Harborside Campus have successively participated in the "Jockey Club Friends Learn Chinese" project, using rich teaching resources and teaching materials to enhance children's language skills and promote their social and emotional development. In addition, the To Kwa Wan branch has a PN two-year-old class in the child care center and has participated in the "Jockey Club Children's Brightness Project" to prepare children for their growth.

Lemin Branch School Number: 523526

Address: 1st Floor, Block F, Lok Man Sun Estate, 152 Leipeng Ridge Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon
Tel: 2425 1303
WhatsApp: 5631 7679

Principal Zhang Wenyan has been teaching in tertiary institutions for the past few years, cultivating frontline early childhood workers. Therefore, he has rich experience in frontline early childhood education and curriculum design, and can coordinate with curriculum development to promote the growth of children in different aspects.

The Lok Man branch has made good use of the Quality Education Fund to purchase large motor facilities, such as climbing frames, slides, etc., and has participated in the "Jockey Club Children's Bright Scheme", allowing children to enjoy more resources in other places in the community and achieve a broader level of learning.

Kwai Hing Branch School Number: 231347

Address: Podium, 2nd Floor, Block B, Sun Kwai Hing Garden, 163 Tai Wo Hau Road, Kwai Chung, New Territories
Tel: 2425 5003
WhatsApp: 9242 9351

Saigon Branch School Number: 525731

Address: G/F, Block 11, Tsui Tong Garden, 1 Tsui Tong Road, Sai Kung, New Territories
Tel: 2339 1145
WhatsApp: 9242 9621

Tung Chung Branch School Number: 555576

Address: Shop K01, G/F, Sky Coast, 12 Hoi Bun Road, Tung Chung, Lantau Island, New Territories
Tel: 2420 1068
WhatsApp: 6595 9378

The three branches have made good use of the Quality Education Fund to optimize outdoor activity venues and add more facilities for gross motor development, enriching the outdoor facilities on campus so that children can learn and grow happily in a safe, interesting and enjoyable activity environment.

Belcher Street Campus School Number: 552739

Address: Ground floor to third floor, Ka Ming Building, 56 Belcher Street, Western District, Hong Kong
Tel: 2818 7074
WhatsApp: 5631 8411

Principal Chen Wanzhen has rich teaching experience and encourages teachers in the school to make different innovative attempts and encourages them to produce diversified teaching aids to enhance children's interest in learning.

Kwai King Campus School Number: 231576

Address: 1/F, Kwai King Building, 31 Kwong Fai Circuit, Kwai Chung, New Territories
Tel: 2426 8277
WhatsApp: 9243 3359

The Kwai King branch has a PN two-year-old child care center to provide quality services to young children. There is a small stage in the school to encourage children to perform different types of performances such as singing, dancing, and drama, so that children can develop their potential. For this reason, they were invited to share the school-based support plan and were highly recognized.