Pleasant learning experience promotes whole-person development and cultivates children with good moral character and learning

CHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY ALLIANCE JOYFUL PEACE KINDERGARTEN is child-centered and focuses on cultivating the six qualities of students: creativity, happiness, relationships, integrity, confidence, and trust, so that they can grow healthily in body, mind, and spirit, and promote the development of the whole person. Principal Lin Wenjuan attaches great importance to providing children with a pleasant learning experience, and takes "happiness" as the educational principle to allow students to learn knowledge and cultivate virtues in a relaxed and life-oriented way, thereby inspiring their multiple intelligences, developing different potential talents, and helping children thrive.

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The school is committed to cultivating students to be biliterate and trilingual to create advantages for future development. To this end, the school specially hires specialist teachers in English and Mandarin, and specially compiles school-based teaching materials for students to cultivate their interest in learning languages and consolidate their language foundation so that they can connect to primary school curricula in the future and adapt to new learning models more easily. Principal Lam emphasized: "The school hopes that children can learn languages in a relaxed and pleasant environment. By providing inspiring teaching resources and activities, we create a strong language learning atmosphere so that children can master and apply language in the most comfortable and natural way. In addition, in terms of teaching material design, school-based teaching materials for the Mandarin subject are compiled by specialist teachers in response to children's interests, different teaching themes, and Chinese cultural elements to ensure that the teaching materials meet the diverse learning needs of children."

Extend teaching from books and integrate learning into experience

Reading is the key to opening the door to knowledge. It can not only broaden your knowledge and enhance your cultural awareness, but more importantly, it can lay a solid foundation of knowledge. Therefore, the school encourages students to read more and arranges diverse and interesting extended teaching activities so that students can not only absorb book knowledge, but also broaden their horizons and deepen their understanding of society, culture and other aspects through a pleasant learning experience. Principal Lam said, "The school and the Education University of Hong Kong jointly organize the 'Talented and Moral' reading program to allow students and parents to understand moral education through book reading. The program has successfully encouraged students to actively borrow books and actively engage in parent-child reading with parents, creating a strong reading atmosphere. At the same time, the school has also set up a special reward mechanism. When students accumulate a certain amount of reading, they can receive small gifts from the giant gashapon machine in the school."

In addition to book reading, the school also implements picture book teaching in the school-based curriculum. For example, teachers will design extended teaching activities based on the book "Ten Treasures". The activities cover a variety of cultural topics, including tea tasting, exploring Cheung Chau and understanding the history of Hong Kong. The school will arrange diversified and interesting learning activities for students based on different cultural themes, such as taking students to teahouses to experience food culture, or even taking the Star Ferry to enjoy Hong Kong's iconic buildings and attractions along the way, so as to achieve the effect of combining learning with experience, so that students can develop in a balanced way in terms of language, physical skills, emotions, and social interaction.

Diversified game activities to stimulate potential development

The school is well aware of the importance of activities in children's growth, so through different games and activities, students can learn and grow happily and stimulate their potential development. The school not only arranges free play time for students, but also hires professional physical fitness instructors to teach children sports skills and precautions, so that students can grow more comprehensively physically and mentally to meet different learning challenges. In addition, the school also holds various activities in the afternoon, such as sketching, creative writing, English games, group activities, etc., so that children can not only enjoy the fun of campus life, but also explore their own interests and expertise and develop their potential.

Make good use of teaching technology to optimize learning and teaching effectiveness

The school has always kept pace with the times and made good use of teaching technology to continuously optimize the effectiveness of learning and teaching. It has specially introduced multi-functional applications to enhance communication among students, teachers and parents. The program not only supports online reading functions, allowing students to read story books in different categories, thereby cultivating good reading habits and self-study spirit, but it can also extend classroom learning. Teachers will arrange for children to share readings, introduce high-quality reading materials, and promote peer learning to create class cohesion and allow students to change from passive knowledge receivers to active knowledge seekers, thereby enhancing learning effectiveness.

At the same time, the application has become an interactive communication platform between parents and schools. Parents can watch teaching videos on different themes and learn about school information anytime and anywhere. Students and parents can also share their interesting daily life through the app, such as cooking clips, dish recipes, etc.; teachers can share children's interesting classroom learning videos with parents to deepen parents' understanding of their children's schooling, thereby maintaining good home-school contact and jointly creating a high-quality educational environment for their children.

Inherit Chinese culture and promote moral education

The school deepens students' understanding of Chinese culture in a life-oriented way and promotes positive education combined with the spiritual value of Chinese culture. During every traditional Chinese festival, the school will launch corresponding cultural activities to help students understand the content and significance of traditional Chinese festivals through games, stories, handicrafts, etc. For example, during the Dragon Boat Festival, the school not only purchased two dragon boats for students to play, but also arranged a rice dumpling-making activity. The teacher would explain the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival and the meaning of making rice dumplings, and conduct moral education through the process of making rice dumplings, so that students would understand the importance of gratitude and cherishment. During the activity, the students all expressed their appreciation for the teacher's rice-making skills, subtly cultivating positive moral character, building a heart of appreciation and gratitude, and becoming outstanding talents who give back to society in the future.

Early planning and support for primary school transition: more than 90% are admitted to the school of choice

The transition from kindergarten to primary school has always been a topic of great concern to parents. In order to reduce parents' worries about their children's further education and help children smoothly transition to primary school, the school maintains close communication and contact with primary schools in the district. It regularly arranges for students to visit different primary schools and participate in activities organized by them, such as sports meets, etc., so as to experience the learning model and culture of primary schools. At the same time, the school will also provide parents with various information on further education to help them understand the teaching characteristics of different primary schools, so as to choose the most suitable primary school for their children. Therefore, through a comprehensive transition plan to primary school, more than 90% of the school’s students can enter the primary school of their choice every year.

In addition, in terms of adjustment to primary school, the school specially arranges lectures and integrates a series of adjustment guides for parents to prepare for the new life in primary one and help children prepare for the new life in primary one. The teaching team will also arrange simulation courses for Primary One, such as teaching students to fill in homework books, pack school bags, etc., to build self-care ability. Director Qin Jialing added: "The school continues to improve the transition plan to primary school. For example, it understands the adjustment problems that students face after entering primary school. Then, during parent-teacher meetings, it reminds other parents of what they need to pay attention to when their children transition to primary school in the future, and provides appropriate guidance and support."

Close cooperation between home and school helps students grow healthily

A good home-school partnership plays a key role in children's growth and can jointly create a caring and inclusive learning atmosphere for students. To this end, the school actively invites parents to join the "Parent Volunteer Group" every year to increase parents' participation in school affairs and children's learning. For example, parents are allowed to help children return books, participate in large-scale activities and booth games, and wrap small gifts, etc. Director Qin said, "A close home-school relationship helps parents learn more about the school environment, classroom teaching, etc., and at the same time maintain good communication with staff, and collaborate with the school from the family level to help children grow up healthily. At the same time, parents who participate in more school activities can also gain a deeper understanding of their children's schooling, effectively promote parent-child relationships, enhance students' sense of investment in learning, and provide children with more diversified and comprehensive development."