International learning atmosphere, high-quality whole-person education, and children’s enriched life

LOCK TAO CHRISTIAN KINDERGARTEN is committed to providing high-quality whole-person education, creating an excellent learning environment and a pleasant learning atmosphere with love, inspiring the development of children's multiple intelligences, helping them achieve balanced development in moral, intellectual, physical, social, aesthetic and spiritual education, and then establishing a positive outlook on life. The school received funding from the Education Bureau's Quality Education Fund to implement "Good Children with Good Morality: Multiple Intelligence Cultivation and Independent Learning Plan" and "Gratitude, Cherish, Positive and Optimistic" (enhanced version) to help children bravely face the challenges and difficulties of growth. Principal He Minyin advocates the educational concept of "learning by doing", encouraging children to explore the world, pursue knowledge and truth, and become curious life-long learners.

Multicultural learning environment to cultivate tomorrow’s young leaders

Since its establishment, the school has always had a diverse and broad enrollment of students. It carefully designs school-based curriculum and diversified learning activities, respects the learning needs of children from different cultures, and is committed to providing equal and high-quality education. Therefore, in addition to local students, the school attracts students from different nationalities, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Belgium, Argentina, India, Brazil and other countries, allowing students to study in a multicultural environment.

Principal He said: "With the trend of globalization, it is particularly important to cultivate the next generation to develop an international perspective. If children can learn and seek knowledge in a multicultural environment, they can understand the cultural characteristics of other places through daily interaction with their peers, which will help broaden their horizons and horizons. At the same time, At this time, the school is committed to creating an international learning atmosphere and providing students with a good English learning context. Through communication with foreign teachers and classmates, children can not only apply Chinese knowledge to life and establish a solid language foundation, but also learn to respect and tolerate the uniqueness of different people.”

Collaborative teaching with foreign teachers, fun learning of authentic English

English is the most widely used language in the world. Having good English skills can open up more development opportunities and have a broader development path. In order to increase children's interest in learning English, the school specially arranges foreign English teachers to be stationed at the school to be responsible for participating in daily teaching activities so that children can become more engaged in English learning. For example, foreign teachers will lead English classes and let children learn authentic everyday English by singing English children's songs, telling stories, playing games, etc. Foreign teachers will also collaborate with local teachers in teaching and organizing English activities, such as "English Fun Day", "English Puppet Show" and "English Speech Day". Through interactive games, puppet performances and English recitations, English teaching will be more flexible and Chinese learning can be integrated into daily life.

Chinese culture blends affectionate education to inherit the fine traditions of the nation

The moral qualities such as "benevolence", "righteousness", "propriety", "wisdom" and "faithfulness" advocated by Chinese culture, as well as cultural customs that have been passed down for thousands of years are worthy of children's understanding and learning. The school infiltrates moral and emotional education into teaching, organically combines knowledge with Chinese culture, and cultivates children's character strengths such as empathy, integrity, and benevolence. In addition, the teaching team has added "short stories" from Chinese classics - "Book of Rites" and "The Analects of Confucius" - into the school-based curriculum, allowing students to understand the philosophy in simple terms and subtly establish positive values ​​in life. At the same time, the school uses the picture book "Good Children with Ritual and Music" as the material for etiquette education. It uses interesting unit formats and vivid pictures to arouse students' interest in learning, and fully integrates etiquette education into their living habits. With the story activities designed by the teacher, children can deeply feel the spiritual value of Chinese etiquette, so as to practice virtues in life, and achieve "knowledge" in the classroom and "practice" in life.

Through Chinese culture and moral and emotional education, the school plants the seeds of virtue in children from an early age, inherits the connotation of Chinese culture and practices its spiritual values, so that they can become pillars of society in the future. This year, the school participated in the professional support service "Mainland and Hong Kong Teacher Exchange and Collaboration Program (Professional Learning Community) - Promoting diversified artistic and creative activities to enhance children's understanding of Chinese culture" of the School-based Support Section of the Education Bureau. Through different forms of activities, children are guided to appreciate China’s profound cultural traditions. For example, we hold New Year celebrations and Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations to let students understand the meaning behind the festival; they are exposed to Chinese martial arts, paper-cutting and other folk arts, and understand China's unique cultural context. Teachers will also arrange visits to the Sam Tung Uk Museum and the century-old shading factory "Liang Su Kee", so that children can learn about historical sites and intangible cultural heritage through personal experience, contribute to cultural relics conservation and cultural inheritance, and understand the importance of sustainable development.

Combining culture with innovative technology to create an efficient learning experience

With the rapid development of science and technology, the application of innovative technology in the field of education has become a new trend. The school makes full use of the advantages of information technology to enable students to understand the latest technological developments while learning. For example, the teaching equipment of "Chinese chess robot" is introduced to explain chess culture to students, further deepen their understanding of Chinese culture, and train their logical thinking ability. In addition, the school has introduced artificial intelligence (AI) robots to assist students in learning English outside the classroom. The robot has built-in school-based English courses and has the ChatGPT function. Through interesting and interactive methods, students can learn English vividly and improve their ability to apply the language. At the same time, this also helps teach children how to use technology correctly to make learning more efficient and comprehensive.

Reading opens up a treasure trove of knowledge and builds lifelong learning capabilities

"If people want to make progress, they must read first." Reading can not only help students improve their knowledge, but also deepen their cultural connotation. Therefore, cultivating children's reading habits will help them develop in learning, creativity and imagination. Kindergarten is the initial stage for children, who need to absorb different knowledge and consolidate their learning foundation. The school has invested a lot of resources to purchase various types of Chinese and foreign books and picture books, and invited children's picture book organization "Green Feet" to teach teachers vivid story interpretation methods, improve storytelling skills, and make students' reading experience more profound and interesting. At the same time, the teaching team also encourages children to bring their beloved puppets as "reading friends" to create a strong reading atmosphere on campus, thereby promoting children's mental development and cultivating lifelong learning abilities.

Principal He added: "Books are a valuable learning resource that contain endless knowledge, which can inspire children's curiosity and enrich their language skills. Children can learn a large number of Chinese and English vocabulary, sentence patterns, grammar, and even famous quotes through different books. Therefore, the school regularly carries out English book reading , telling English stories, interactive games and question-and-answer sessions in class, and encouraging children to express their opinions in English, thereby improving their English speaking skills and building conversational confidence. In addition, the school's "reading area" uses Chinese and English contrasting markings to deepen students' memory of different vocabulary, starting from the school environment and expanding children's vocabulary. "

Keeping up with educational development trends, the teaching team continues to add value

The school attaches great importance to the continuous professional development of teachers and keeps pace with the development needs of the times, striving to provide children with an up-to-date educational experience and improve learning and teaching effectiveness. To this end, Principal He leads by example, actively participates in various development trainings, and obtains education-related professional qualifications, such as physical fitness, sports, psychology, etc., hoping to feed back the world's latest educational developments and experiences into school teaching. At the same time, Principal He has traveled to Australia, Japan, South Korea, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Anji, and Taiwan for professional exchanges, thereby leading the teaching team to optimize school-based curriculum and provide children with diverse and comprehensive learning experiences. In addition, the teaching team also participates in various types of off-campus professional training, such as the Education University of Hong Kong's "HKidsMove Project", "Sai Kung District Principals' Association Teacher Training Activities", the Education Bureau's "'3Es Informed Reasoning' to Improve the Social and Emotional Development of Kindergarten Students" school-based teacher development plan, etc. to understand the latest development trends in education, refer to and absorb the opinions of experts, and cooperate with the school's "joint lesson preparation", "peer lesson observation" and "lesson evaluation" mechanisms to greatly enhance learning and teaching effectiveness.

Comprehensive children's activities to enrich the learning and growth process

Diversified activities help promote the development of children's multiple intelligences. The school has a spacious physical fitness room, which can arrange regular physical activities, children's physical fitness training, etc., ensuring that children have enough time and space to move their bodies, train their body coordination, flexibility and flexibility, thereby strengthening cardiopulmonary function, improving physical functions, and cultivating social and communication skills. The teaching team has also purchased engineering models, giant building blocks and LEGO to cultivate students' creative thinking and enhance their interest in science and innovation.

At the same time, the school designs children's activities with a balance of dynamic and static to take care of children's learning and growth needs in different areas, such as arranging for them to observe the living habits of snails and turtles, understand the biological diversity of nature, and then cultivate respect and care for life, and practice the positive value of protecting the environment; in order to cultivate children's self-care ability and establish a correct concept of consumption With the concept in mind, the school cooperates with the Investment Committee to organize financial education lectures to teach children to understand money and distinguish between the concepts of "needs" and "wants"; through traditional Chinese lion dance activities, children learn lion dance and drum music. During the activities, they learn to cooperate with each other, appreciate each other and support each other, practice the spirit of respecting teachers, and establish a positive attitude towards life.

Establishing an inclusive and caring campus to comprehensively support learning needs

The school implements the educational strategy of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, starting from different aspects such as teaching and activities, and actively building a caring and inclusive campus so that both local students and non-Chinese speaking students can benefit. The teaching team actively participates in the "Jockey Club Friends Learn Chinese" program to strengthen teaching skills for non-Chinese speaking students; it hires relevant teachers who have received training for non-Chinese speaking children, as well as multicultural teaching assistants to serve as a communication bridge between the school, students and parents to support the learning and growth needs of non-Chinese speaking children. Principal Ho smiled and said, "Children grow up in an environment full of love. I would like to thank every staff member for their words and deeds, which help children feel accepted and respected. From an early age, they learn to get along with others, express their own needs and feelings, learn to treat others, develop empathy, and are nurtured as a whole person."

In addition, the school organizes different cultural activities to bring the school, parents, and students closer together and promote cultural integration and exchanges. In the past, non-Chinese-speaking parents were invited to school to make the Indian snack "Belpuri" with their classmates; children were arranged to visit different places and ethnic minority communities to experience first-hand the daily life of ethnic minorities. Local students can learn more about cultural characteristics from around the world, learn to respect each other, and work together to create an inclusive campus.

Promote close cooperation between home and school to create an ideal growth environment

In the growth process of young children, parents are an indispensable and important driving force. The school actively promotes home-school cooperation and organizes different parent-child activities to enhance parents' participation in school teaching. For example, participating in the "Jockey Club Home-school Physical Fitness School for Young Children" and holding the "Parent-Child Vitality Carnival" encourage parents and children to engage in parent-child activities and enhance children's interest in learning through experiential learning. In addition, the school will help parents select suitable reading materials for parent-child reading, and arrange for students to complete simple reading reports and share them back to school, thereby cultivating children's reading habits, deepening after-school extended learning, and connecting knowledge with life.

The school also invites professionals from different fields to hold early childhood education lectures for parents. For example, Mr. Luo Zequan, a senior clinical psychologist, teaches parents how to establish a positive psychology for their children from the perspective of brain science; volunteers from the Hong Kong Red Cross's "Five-Star Healthy Five-Star Home - Community Health Education Program" are invited to organize The "Home Safety and First Aid" parent lecture increases parents' basic understanding of home first aid, thereby preventing home accidents and allowing children to grow up in a healthy and safe environment. Dr. Lin Junbin, co-director of the Family Science Center, shares scientifically based parenting skills to help parents make their children more positive and optimistic.