Pleasant learning experience to develop personal potential

FUNG KAI KINDERGARTEN Provides students with a high-quality learning environment and a comprehensive and balanced curriculum, allowing children to learn happily, inspire their personal potential, and is committed to cultivating their moral character, training students' independent thinking ability, and helping them establish a correct and positive outlook on life. The school sponsoring body, board of directors, school management committee, school, parents and teaching team have been working together as one, so the school has been highly recognized by the society in terms of curriculum planning, home-school cooperation and other aspects. Principal Liang Wenshan leads the teaching team to continue to uphold the school's philosophy on the existing good foundation, actively integrate different innovative education concepts, continue to optimize the teaching model, provide students with high-quality whole-person education, and help them grow up healthily and happily.

Learn from games and provide opportunities for application practice

Principal Liang understands that games can improve children’s learning motivation and attract their attention. In order to meet the development needs of children, the school strengthens the elements of free exploration in games, enriches the learning experience, and cultivates children's independent learning and problem-solving abilities. The school's game-based learning plan not only enables students to actively engage in learning, cultivate creative thinking, but also build good self-care abilities. Principal Liang believes that teachers’ professional development is the most important matter in learning and teaching. Before the Education Bureau advocated learning from games, the school had actively developed game-based learning courses and promoted teachers’ professional development in related aspects. For example, we conduct teaching research on free games in terms of the layout of learning areas, techniques for using game materials, and the role of teachers in games, etc., in order to strive for excellence and provide the best learning experience.

In regular courses, children can choose materials of interest based on their hobbies, abilities and life experiences, and are encouraged to invite their friends to design different game play methods together. Through the process of free exploration, students can explore their own interests and expertise, promote the development of creative thinking, cultivate social and communication skills, fall in love with learning through interesting learning, and expand their knowledge. In addition, in order to meet the development needs of children, the school has also participated in school-based support programs, such as the Education Bureau's Quality Education Fund themed network program - the "Play. Learn. Growth" program for tertiary institutions, allowing students to freely explore through games, develop their personal potential, and achieve unlimited possibilities in the future.

Give full play to teachers’ professional advantages and improve children’s learning effectiveness

In order to improve students' learning effectiveness, the school organizes different teacher training activities according to the development needs of students, and assigns teachers to different functional groups based on their expertise, experience and qualifications. This allows teachers to unleash their professional energy, promote communication and collaboration, and work together to promote the school's sustainable development. The school also regularly holds on-campus teacher workshops, covering game learning, handling children's emotional behavior, music and game workshops, etc., allowing teachers to exchange experiences through teaching and research, and establish a professional exchange and research culture within the school, thus developing into a teaching team with close communication and a common understanding of the concepts and practices of the school-based curriculum. At the same time, during the practice process, teachers will remind each other, communicate closely, and then adjust the teaching design or arrangements to enable students to learn more effectively and provide a whole-person education that keeps pace with the times.

The environment is blessed with unique advantages and allows you to develop a healthy body and mind happily.

Thanks to the strong support of the school sponsoring group, the school has a beautiful environment, abundant sunshine, and a spacious campus, which can provide students with sufficient and diversified space for activities, and comprehensively promote the healthy growth of body, mind, and soul. The campus covers an area of ​​more than 30,000 square feet, including school buildings and outdoor activity venues. In addition to providing basic learning facilities such as 12 standard classrooms, singing rooms, dance rooms, game rooms, and computer rooms to cater for the different learning needs of students, the school also has a large game unit, a transportation city, an outdoor cycling park, an activity game area, and other venues, as well as the soon-to-be-completed "Jockey Club Feng Xi Indoor Swimming Pool" to develop and promote swimming for young children.

With the unique environmental advantages of the campus, the school has continued to develop "outdoor free games" since 2021, using appropriate teaching strategies and the concept of game learning to allow students to obtain balanced development from games and maintain a healthy body and mind in a pleasant group life. Not only that, the school is equipped with greening facilities such as gardens, turtle ponds, and small gardens, as well as a wide range of green plants, allowing students to understand the biological diversity of nature through actual contact and observation, implement the educational concept of learning through exploration, and inspire students' thinking development.

Grasp the pace of development of the times e-learning experience

School sponsoring groups have already understood the major development trends in the future and have taken the lead in promoting e-learning. The school also keeps pace with the times, flexibly applies different innovative technologies, and is committed to improving teaching efficiency and creating an immersive and up-to-date learning experience for students. As early as ten years ago, schools have used interactive touch LCD monitors to replace traditional whiteboards to increase classroom interactivity, provide instant teaching feedback, and cater for students' different learning difficulties. The school also allows students to use desktop computers and tablets as learning media to learn how to use technology effectively from an early age.

Principal Liang said: "We introduced i-Floor interactive floor games a few years ago, a technology that allows students to play kinesthetic learning games through images projected on the floor. The interactive electronic teaching experience not only makes the learning process more interesting, students can also develop communication skills and team spirit in group games, and build common skills in the 21st century. Looking forward to the future, the school will continue to strive to build a smart campus to fully support the needs of students, parents and teachers."

Sow the seeds of character and practice positive values

In addition to attaching great importance to students' knowledge construction, the school also focuses on cultivating children's correct values. Through regular courses and activities, the school explores children's character strengths and practices positive morality. The school adopts a "dual-track" approach, focusing on cultivating children's positive values ​​and promoting positive education from both the school and family perspectives. On the school side, the school is committed to establishing a caring campus culture and creating an inclusive learning atmosphere. Teachers select key points according to students' needs and design different teaching activities and parent-child games to help children develop good character in school and family life. The school also participates in the "Promoting Positive Education towards Holistic Development" program organized by the University-School Partnership Center of the Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, aiming to explore children's potential and guide them to face life with a positive attitude.

Principal Liang said that in order to discover children's positive character, the school uses 10 kinds of "fruit seeds" from the SOWGOOD Positive Character Education Center to infiltrate the curriculum. The distinctive image of "fruit seeds" is used to visually teach the concept of "character" to children in the enlightenment stage, sowing the seeds of positive values ​​​​for children, so that they can learn to face negative emotions and experiences in life with a positive attitude. The school also cooperates with the "Positive Fruit Seed Medal" activity, where teachers discover children's character strengths and give them "Fruit Seed Medals" as rewards, allowing students to recognize their own strengths in character and improve their self-confidence.

In terms of families, the school actively carries out parent education and shares positive parenting skills with parents through different channels and forms. For example, a lecture on "How to Cultivate the Whole-person Development of Young Children through Positive Education" was held. Professionals were invited to explain positive education to parents, so that they could understand the meaning and value of positive education, and teach them practical methods of using positive education to cultivate children, so that they could understand how to effectively help children discover and exercise their own strengths and core character abilities, and cultivate their whole-person development in terms of morality. The school is happy to see parents support and cooperate with the school's work, help their children establish a positive personal image in family life, and actively care about the people and things around them.

Comprehensive student support to build a caring educational environment

The school cares about and accepts the individual needs and diversity of students. It not only establishes a clear identification and referral mechanism, but also flexibly uses external resources to provide students with appropriate support services, and systematically records and archives their learning and development for future follow-up. The school has cooperated with the Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association of Hong Kong since 2019, arranging Sunshine Campus' kindergarten social worker service and "Leqian" comprehensive preschool services at the school, so that students and parents can receive comprehensive care and support, promote their balanced physical and mental development, and jointly build a caring educational environment with the school.

Good home-school partnership to work together to cultivate children’s growth

Good home-school cooperation can have a positive impact on children's growth. The school's Parent-Teacher Association has been established for more than 30 years. It is the first kindergarten in the North District to establish a Parent-Teacher Association. It has developed steadily and maturely and can serve as a communication bridge between parents and the school. The school actively encourages parents to participate in school volunteer activities and work together to promote the activities, and members of the parent-teacher association enthusiastically participate in the activities, establishing a close partnership between the two parties. The quality assessment report further states: "Parents' trust and support for a school have become the cornerstone of the school's sustainable development." In addition, as a member of the school management committee, parent representatives can not only reflect parents' opinions to the school, but also participate in the formulation of school policies, support and cooperate with the school's educational work, and work together to cultivate children's growth. At the same time, the school makes good use of information technology and uses mobile applications to strengthen communication between home and school. Parents can quickly receive real-time information from the school, making communication between the two parties more efficient.