Educate people with love and create a healthy and happy place for growth with ingenuity
S.K.H. KINDLY LIGHT CHURCH HOLY CARPENTER KINDERGARTEN Kindergarten, adhering to the service spirit of Christ "not to serve others, but to serve others", and with the development concept of "be kind, brave, and enrich life", is committed to providing high-quality preschool education for children aged 2-6. The school is determined to build a vibrant, diverse and exciting healthy kindergarten, with the five cores of HEART (Healthy, Emotion, Attitude, Relation and Team) as the main axis of teaching to comprehensively take care of the whole-person development of children.
Education is rooted in love. As 1 Corinthians 13:13 says: “There are three that abide, faith, hope, and love; but the greater of these is love.”
The campus garden turns into a natural classroom, food and agriculture education is integrated into daily life
In the city of reinforced concrete, Shengjiang Kindergarten has opened up a rare green learning paradise for children. The school building has a total area of 24,000 square feet and is equipped with special facilities such as a sky garden and a four-season corridor, allowing children to get close to the temperature of the soil at any time and feel the power of seed germination and growth.
By promoting food and agriculture education, the school has transformed the campus garden into a "breathing and changing solar terms classroom." Children participate in every aspect of sowing, watering and harvesting, and experience the natural rhythms of growth in spring, growth in summer, harvest in autumn and storage in winter. The teacher used the farmer's proverb "The autumnal equinox is early, the frost is late, and the cold dew is the right time to plant wheat." The teacher led the students to observe the changes in the earth; the children took turns to be "solar observers" and recorded the growth of plants through paintbrushes.
Lettuce, leeks, potatoes, tomatoes, radishes and other crops are planted in the garden. After the harvest, the children pick the harvest and make delicacies with their own hands, such as leek dumplings, vegetable soup, radish cake and other dishes. On Parents' Day, the children even used the cherries, lettuce, and potatoes they cultivated themselves to prepare potato salad sandwiches and tomato scrambled eggs to honor their parents, conveying gratitude and love through practical actions.
Food farming education not only cultivates children's self-discipline and self-care ability, but also cultivates their sense of responsibility and gratitude. They can experience the value of perseverance through the farming process and truly realize "learning through happiness and growing through exploration."
From the garden to the kitchen, children learn the wisdom of living a balanced diet and skipping meals from time to time. They are exposed to diverse food cultures and develop good habits of cherishing food. The entire course combines mathematics, Chinese, artistic creation and teamwork, allowing children to exercise their ability to think and solve life problems through hands-on practice, and implement knowledge from textbooks into real life.
Multiple reading strategies to cultivate independent reading habits
Shengjiang Kindergarten firmly believes that reading is the starting point for language enlightenment. The school takes picture book teaching as the core. Teachers lead children to read picture books aloud and perform story interpretations. Through illustration appreciation, story sequencing, plot reasoning, and story creation, children are trained in memory and logical thinking, and at the same time, expression skills and creative imagination are exercised, so that children can fall in love with reading through emotional resonance.
The school implements the "Red Panda Reading Project" and actively promotes home-school collaboration, inviting parents to accompany their children in reading stories at home, allowing children to build confidence in the process of expressing stories, feel the infinite charm of language, and gain a full sense of success from reading. There is an English story time in the school every day, where foreign teachers lead children to read English picture books to inspire their interest in English learning in a lively and interactive way. The campus has also set up a dedicated reading area to infiltrate reading into the daily life of the campus, so that children can immerse themselves in the world of books anytime and anywhere and develop the habit of independent reading.
Children’s Toy Library: Learn through play and start children’s diverse exploration journey
The toy library is equipped with nearly a thousand toy treasure boxes, covering six major learning areas: mathematics, Chinese, health and physical fitness, art, society, nature and technology. The course has five characteristics: openness, autonomy, operability, systematicness, and playfulness. It has developed three operating modes: self-study, mutual learning, and group learning, and is flexibly integrated into classroom grouping and theme teaching.
Children can choose the treasure box and operate it independently, and the teacher acts as an observer and provides timely support and guidance. Through independent exploration, peer interaction and group collaboration, children can exercise their large and small muscles, concentration, logical thinking and social skills, take care of the learning differences of different children, stimulate intrinsic learning motivation, construct knowledge while having fun and play, and fully inspire children's potential.
Immersive bilingual courses construct flexible dual-track language thinking
The bilingual teaching of Shengjiang, which is highly praised by parents, adopts a dual-track parallel model of English and Mandarin to create an immersive language environment and help children develop flexible dual-track language thinking.
In terms of English teaching, additional foreign English teachers are hired at each level to be stationed in the school, so that children from PN to K2 can be exposed to English in a natural campus environment. The senior class implements a bilingual teaching model. The classroom is taught by local teachers and foreign English teachers. In the afternoon, foreign teachers are responsible for activities, creating a pure English learning situation and greatly increasing children's English communication opportunities. The course introduces Cambridge English Starters. Foreign teachers use role-playing, situational games, holiday-themed activities, and enriched body language to encourage children to speak boldly, build confidence in communicating in English, and solidify the foundation of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Children also practice English through classroom presentations, serving as mini-emcees, and participating in recitation festivals and other stages, gaining a valuable sense of learning achievement.
In the lower class, bilingual teaching in Mandarin is implemented. The class teacher communicates with children in Mandarin on a regular basis, and gradually increases the communication time in Mandarin to build a stable and standard Mandarin context to help children develop dual-track thinking and switch between the two languages fluently and freely.
The school adheres to the educational philosophy of inspiring potential and believes that every child is unique and valuable, possessing abilities and responsibilities. In a campus full of love and acceptance, children can experience, explore, and grow happily, and achieve "kindness, courage, and a rich life."
Overview of further studies
This year, students in the upper class have successfully entered popular primary schools such as SKH Lee Siu-keung Primary School, SKH Tak Tin Lee Siu-keung Primary School, Maryknoll Convent School (Primary Section), Preaching College and Po Leung Kuk Luk Hing Too Primary School. They continue to uphold the vision of Saint Craftsman Kindergarten and gain fruitful learning results in a wider and broader place.