Strengthen Chinese knowledge, inspire creative thinking, and build a positive art campus

PO LEUNG KUK CHEUNG POON MEI YEE KINDERGARTEN Adhering to the school motto of "Love, Respect, Diligence and Sincerity", we are committed to cultivating students' all-round development with equal emphasis on moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic education. Through diversified interest activities, children can show their potential and inspire children to grow wisely. The school attaches great importance to students' physical and mental development, and provides children with the most appropriate support and assistance by establishing a close home-school collaboration relationship. Principal Yao Weiting leads the teaching team to continuously improve teaching skills and professional knowledge, keep pace with the times, create a better and meaningful learning space for children, and jointly build a positive art campus.

Multiple teaching strategies to lay the foundation of English

The school attaches great importance to students' language development, so it starts from the aspects of curriculum, teaching materials, teachers and activities to help students gradually consolidate their English foundation. The English core group understands the difficulties faced by students in learning English and continues to optimize the school-based curriculum and use the most appropriate teaching methods. Its courses adopt a theme-oriented format and cooperate with Chinese courses, so that while students are learning Chinese, the English courses will also teach related content, strengthening students' learning and memory, and making it easier to absorb and master language application skills. Principal Yao said: "In order to allow children to master English pronunciation in a more systematic way, the school adopts the 'original phonetic spelling method', which runs through English teaching in the four areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing. At the same time, the school will specially refer to the design elements of foreign high-quality teaching materials, compile its own school-based English teaching materials, and combine teaching with story books to ensure that students fully master English vocabulary, sentence structure and grammar."

At the same time, in terms of teacher arrangements for the English subject, the school not only hired three foreign English teachers to train students in pure and authentic English, but also arranged for local teachers to conduct professional English teaching training, a two-pronged approach to help students lay a solid foundation in English. In addition to regular classes, the school also holds an "English Week" every year. By designing different English activities, such as dramas, booth games, etc., children are encouraged to use English as a communication language in daily life, build their confidence in using English, and develop their interest in learning the language.

Implement picture book teaching to master Chinese knowledge happily

Principal Yao said: "The school focuses on cultivating students' biliteracy and trilingual development. A good Chinese foundation will help expand children's future development paths. We have noticed that children like listening to stories and reading books, so the school specially carries out picture book teaching to enhance children's interest in learning and expand their knowledge. By using picture books as a teaching medium, students can learn in a relaxed and interesting way , learn more Chinese characters and different sentence structures. "The Chinese course will select appropriate picture book stories for students based on different learning themes, and design diversified extended teaching activities. Through interesting book content, students will learn more Chinese words, radicals and other knowledge, enrich their vocabulary from the kindergarten stage, and lay a solid foundation for students' future writing and expression skills. In addition, in terms of Mandarin teaching, the school also implements the "specialist education" policy, arranging specialist teachers to teach Putonghua, and combining it with diverse teaching experiences such as children's songs, games, picture books and stories, so that students can listen more, speak more, and master language application skills.

Integrate art into campus and cultivate self-study habits

The school makes good use of art to explore children's different personality strengths. Through learning to appreciate art, students can be trained to "understand beauty" and "practice beauty." Therefore, the school’s campus layout is jointly designed by teachers and students, allowing children to build their own campus. The decoration materials are mainly made from waste and natural materials. For example, the wall decorations "Treasure Hunting in Nature" are made of fallen leaves, branches, shells and other materials; the "cardboard box stool" was redesigned by students using discarded cardboard boxes. In the process of arranging the campus, it not only builds students' environmental awareness, but also cultivates their care and gratitude for nature and the community.

In addition, the school also provides children with scientific exploration and "hands-on" opportunities to understand the characteristics of different things, increase their curiosity, create a more profound and concrete learning experience, and cultivate independent learning habits. Principal Yao added: "Through various types of art activities, students can work together to complete a unique work of art, which can build their self-confidence in learning, learn to appreciate their own value and uniqueness, learn to appreciate the efforts of others, and build a team spirit."

Understand Chinese and foreign culture and art and deepen students’ cultural accomplishment

Children have unlimited talent and potential. The school approaches it from an artistic perspective, allowing students to understand Chinese and foreign cultural characteristics in an interesting way, and inspiring the development of creative thinking. In terms of Chinese culture and art, the school provides various "hands-on" opportunities, such as teaching students to design blue and white porcelain-style vases and plates, drawing oil-paper umbrellas and designing facial masks, and arranging students to appreciate traditional Chinese arts such as face-changing and opera. Students can learn about China's unique intangible cultural heritage and deepen their artistic and cultural cultivation. In addition to understanding traditional Chinese art, the school also focuses on broadening students' international horizons and understanding foreign art and cultural characteristics. Therefore, it specially organizes an "Art Week" and arranges students to conduct "artist studies" to guide children to study different famous artists such as Picasso and Monet, learn to appreciate and imitate different outstanding works of art, enhance aesthetic ability and enrich personal knowledge.

Promote positive education in an all-round way and plant the seeds of good moral character

The school promotes positive education in all aspects from teaching, teaching materials, parents and other aspects, hoping to cultivate students' moral development, emotional management and build personal confidence. The school's positive education plan gradually extends from the individual to the world level. Students of each grade will learn two positive themes respectively. For example, first-year students will first get to know themselves, then learn emotional management and social communication, and then gradually advance to caring for the world and knowing how to maintain a kind and caring heart towards the surrounding environment and things, thereby planting the seeds of positive moral character in students' enlightenment stage.

Principal Yao said: "We hope that parents can have a deeper understanding of positive education and jointly create a positive learning atmosphere for their children by promoting home-school collaboration. To this end, the school has specially designed a set of six "Children's Positive" activity books. Parents and students only need to scan the QR code to receive them. Watch videos, picture books and teaching materials related to positive themes to deepen your understanding of positive education. In addition, the teaching team will design small experiments around different learning themes, arrange students to explore nature, strengthen their curiosity, practice the concept of environmental protection, and learn to protect and respect nature.”

Improve the transition plan to primary school to help students prepare for their new life on campus

In order to help children make a smooth transition to primary school, the school arranges activities and lectures for students who are about to enter primary school and their parents. It also maintains close contact with the primary schools affiliated with Po Leung Kuk and arranges visits and experience activities for students in different schools. This allows children to understand the campus life and environmental facilities of primary schools and help them prepare mentally for further studies as early as possible. Principal Yao added: "The school will also arrange a 'Primary One Adaptation Week' for children who are about to enter primary school to teach students how to cope with the new environment and learning model, and encourage them to face challenges bravely and confidently embrace the new life in primary school. At the same time, parents may not fully understand the learning model of primary school, so the school will hold lectures to let parents understand how to provide appropriate teaching and learning support for their children."