A pleasant learning atmosphere inspires diverse wisdom and helps children thrive with love

@TERM0@@ located in Sai Kung District appreciates the uniqueness and strengths of each child, and provides positive praise and encouragement to enhance their learning motivation and effectiveness. Principal He Minyin leads the teaching team to create an excellent learning environment and actively looks for different resources to inspire students' wisdom and spiritual development. The school received funding from the Education Bureau's Quality Education Fund to implement the "Good Children with Good Moral Characters: Traditional Chinese Virtues" project, which uses Chinese culture and history education to cultivate children's national concepts, national sentiments, national identity, as well as their awareness and sense of responsibility for safeguarding national security. Help young children bravely face the challenges and difficulties of growth. Under the careful teaching of the school, children become lifelong learners who actively explore the world and pursue knowledge and truth.

Multicultural learning atmosphere, good context, immersive learning

Since its founding, the school has always had a diverse and broad enrollment, respecting the learning needs of children from different cultures, carefully designing school-based curriculum and learning activities, and striving to provide equal and high-quality education. Therefore, in addition to local students, the school also attracts students from different nationalities, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Belgium, Argentina, India, Brazil and other countries, so that students can study in a multicultural environment.

"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 interactions with their peers, which will help broaden their horizons and horizons. At the same time, the school is committed to creating an international learning atmosphere for students. It provides students with a good English learning context. By communicating with foreign teachers and classmates, children can not only apply Chinese knowledge to life and build a solid language foundation, but also learn to respect and tolerate the uniqueness of different people.” Principal He said that it is precisely because of the international enrollment that a good English learning context is created for the children.

Foreign teachers teach standard English and activity-based teaching stimulates interest in learning

As the most widely spoken language in the world, English proficiency is vital to personal development. Good English skills open up wider opportunities and development paths. In order to stimulate children's interest and enthusiasm in learning English and help them develop a solid foundation in English, the school specially arranges for foreign English teachers to participate in daily teaching, so that children can be more engaged in learning English. Foreign teachers will help children learn authentic daily English through a variety of lively and interesting methods, such as leading English classes, singing English children's songs, telling stories, and playing games. In addition, foreign teachers will cooperate with local teachers to jointly plan various English activities, including "English Fun Day", "English Puppet Show" and "English Speech Day". These interactive games, puppet performances and English recitation activities make English teaching more flexible and integrate language learning into daily life.

Comprehensive Chinese cultural education deepens connotation and enriches experience

The kindergarten stage is a critical period for cultivating cultural literacy and national identity. Allowing children to understand and appreciate Chinese culture from an early age will help them build a sense of belonging and pride in the country. The school combines Chinese culture and moral and emotional education to plant the seeds of virtue in children, practice empathy, integrity, benevolence and other character strengths, and cultivate moral and emotional qualities. In terms of teaching, the school plans a school-based moral curriculum, adds Chinese etiquette teaching elements, and teaches "short stories" from the Chinese classics - "Book of Rites" and "The Analects of Confucius", so that children can understand traditional Chinese moral values ​​in a simple and easy-to-understand way. The teaching team also uses the picture book "Good Children with Ritual and Music" as a material for etiquette education, and combines it with exciting and vivid story activities to help children understand the value of Chinese etiquette.

In terms of activity teaching, the school held Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations and Lunar New Year celebrations; taught Chinese martial arts, paper-cutting and other folk arts; and arranged visits to the Sam Tung Uk Museum and the century-old Zha Factory "Liang Su Ji". Enrich children's learning experience at all levels, deepen their cultural connotation and understanding of China's different cultural contexts. The school also arranges students to participate in dragon dance activities. Not only are they superb in lion skills, they are also lively and cute. They also actively participate in various cultural and entertainment activities, such as the Hong Kong Dragon and Lion Festival, and are enthusiastic about social welfare affairs. In addition, the school also participated in the "Schools' Implementation of Safeguarding National Security" experience sharing session organized by the Education Bureau, provided behind-the-scenes photos of some activities, and shared and exchanged experiences with colleagues in the industry, reflecting that its educational strategies and effectiveness are well recognized. The school has also actively participated in the "Guangdong-Hong Kong Sister Kindergarten Exchange Program" launched by the Education Bureau from the 2023/24 school year to provide teachers with a platform for professional exchanges, collaboration and continuous improvement of educational quality.

Promote close cooperation between home and school and improve the transition strategy to primary school

In addition to careful teaching in school, family education is also an indispensable element in children's growth. Principal He said: "Close home-school cooperation can extend school education to the family and even any scene in life, which is of great benefit to positive growth. Therefore, we regard parents as partners, actively instill positive concepts, and accompany children to grow together." The school actively promotes We mobilize home-school cooperation to organize parent-teacher meetings at all levels, special parent lectures, primary school selection parent lectures, parent-child workshops, outdoor parent-child activities, etc., so that parents can better understand their children's learning and growth status, and use appropriate discipline skills and methods to promote the overall development of children.

At the same time, the school has not only formulated a comprehensive transition strategy to primary school, but also has close relations with primary schools in the area. Every year, it invites primary school principals and teachers to the school to hold sharing sessions to introduce the primary school’s campus environment and school philosophy, and to demonstrate the primary school’s learning model through scenario games. On the one hand, parents can choose a primary school that suits their children's learning characteristics. On the other hand, it also allows students to get a preliminary understanding of primary school and make a good connection between kindergarten and primary school, so that they can happily go to primary school and face new challenges with confidence.

Cultivate correct values and have a positive attitude to give back to society

Nurturing students' positive values and attitudes and promoting their all-round development to become law-abiding, responsible and good citizens who contribute to society has always been the key to education. The school participated in the "Little Angel of Love" award program organized by the Hong Kong Kindergarten Education Professional Exchange Association to jointly promote children's moral education, encourage them to cherish the people, things and things around them, and cultivate positive thinking. Principal Ho hopes to enhance children's self-confidence and compassion, learn to appreciate and praise each other, and practice good values ​​and attitudes in daily life.

At the same time, the school also participates in the Hong Kong Police Force's "Animal Protection Community Ambassador Program" (AWP) and sets up a "pet pavilion" for raising animals on campus. Students are taught how to take care of different small animals, such as goldfish, turtles, horned frogs and beetles, and shoulder the responsibility of caring for animals. It not only enhances the awareness of protecting animals, but also helps cultivate good character. The Commissioner of Police even visited the school's "Pampering Pavilion" display board to view relevant content. Principal Ho personally introduced the features of the "Pampering Pavilion" to the Commissioner, and led students with the police force to promote the message of animal protection in the community.

Practice innovative educational concepts and gain wide recognition from society

With forward-looking and innovative educational concepts and practices, the school has not only improved the quality of education, but has also been widely recognized and praised by all sectors of society in multiple areas. For example, as a kindergarten with an international student body, the school was recognized by the Equal Opportunities Commission as a "Racially Friendly Campus", working together with the Equal Opportunity to promote racial equality and inclusion, and setting an example for other schools. Principal Ho also represented the school at the commendation ceremony held at the Hong Kong Palace Museum to share the school’s innovative practices in diverse and inclusive education.

In order to connect young children with nature, the school teaches children to learn to protect the environment from an early age and practice it in daily life. By holding different forms of outdoor learning activities, children and parents actively participate, such as visiting "Hong Kong Ocean Park", "Water Garden", "Green Education Resource Center" and "Cai Ming Butterfly Garden", etc. to enrich life experience and get close to nature together. The school also won the 2022 Hong Kong Environmental Excellence Awards - School (Kindergarten School) Merit Award.

At the same time, the school also won the "Most Innovative Award" in the "Jockey Club Learning Chinese with Friends" teaching aid design competition, and attended the award ceremony and kindergarten teaching experience sharing session for non-Chinese speaking students to share the award-winning teaching aids for "culturally responsive teaching" with colleagues in the industry. Reflect the school's outstanding achievements in Chinese teaching, actively explore innovative teaching methods, and cater for the needs of students from different backgrounds. Help different students learn more easily through creative and interesting teaching aids.