ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH PRIMARY SCHOOL & KINDERGARTEN
📰 School Stories
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
Kindergarten:11 indicators apply, 7 matched
🎓 Teacher Qualifications
🎯 Mission
"Guided by Christian faith, students at St. Stephen’s Church Kindergarten and Nursery grow in the spirit of love, building an understanding of their morality as well as developing gross motor, emotional and social skills in a safe, friendly environment."
📚 Approach & Strategies
"St. Stephen’s Church Kindergarten fosters a student-centered approach to teaching and learning experiences using the HighScope approach and project-based activities. Students are encouraged to learn through exploration, observation, tailored lessons and draw on life experience, such as community events, birthday party, barbecue, hotpot activities, simulated Lunar New Year flower market, graduation ceremony and visiting to police station, supermarket, Sunshine Paradise etc. to develop self-care and problem solving skills."
💛 SEN Support
Joining the On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services.
📋 School Data
All raw fields from the Education Bureau school profile not shown above.
| joining_kg_edu_scheme | Joining |
|---|---|
| received_grant_for_support_to_ncs_students | ✓ |
| application_form_type | application form available for download |
| application_period_type | throughout the year |
| title_of_school_supervisor | MR |
| title_of_school_principal | MS |
| no_of_registered_classrooms | 9 |
| outdoor_playground | Yes |
| indoor_playground | Yes |
| music_room | Yes |
| other_special_rooms_or_areas | Multi-Purpose Activity room, Hall and Chapel |
| working_hd_30000_or_below | 100% |
| working_hd_30001_to_40000 | 0% |
| working_hd_40000_above | 0% |
| working_wd_30000_or_below | 20% |
| working_wd_30001_to_40000 | 70% |
| working_wd_40000_above | 10% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_below_4_yrs | 16% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_from_4_to_7_yrs | 17% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_above_7_yrs | 67% |
| summer_uniform | 115-200 |
| winter_uniform | 175-315 |
| school_bag | 169 |
| tea_and_snacks | 2,000 |
| textbooks | 1,252-1,936 |
| exercise_books_or_workbooks | 66-235 |
| stationery | 300-325 |
| bedding_items | No such item |
| salary_of_principal_and_teaching_staff | 59% |
| non-teaching_staff_salary | 24% |
| rent_management_fees_rates_and_government_rent | 0% |
| teaching_resources | <1% |
| staff_training_and_professional_development | <1% |
| other_expenses | 17% |
| expenditure_information_based_on_audited_account | Yes |
| curriculum_planning | According to the curriculum guide of ''Hong Kong Bureau of Education'', the integrated curriculum is implemented by adopting real-life themes to help children to connect the learning content with their lives. Meanwhile, our English and Mandarin lessons are conducted by the native English speaking teacher and the native Mandarin speaking teacher respectively. We will follow the “Kindergarten Education Curriculum Guide” (2017) to plan curriculum. Children of nursery classes will not be asked to write, and there will not be mechanical copying exercises and drills on calculation. |
| assessment_of_children_learning_experiences | With the use of teaching aids and learning activities, we observe and evaluate children’s learning progress in the form of theme-based continuous assessment. Regular formal and informal assessments provide continual feedback used to improve teaching practices. Children’s assessment sheets are issued regularly. Other records such as observational reports, artwork analysis, English assessment sheets, and project learning reports together with summative assessment reports are distributed twice a year which summarize our children’s overall learning development. All these reports are well documented in the children’s learning portfolio. |
| support_to_students | In addition to the daily curriculum, St. Stephen’s Church Kindergarten offers numerous extra-curricular activities and events for students and their families throughout the school year. These activities include; nursery and first grade orientation activities, an in-school nurse, Primary One Simulation Learning Activity for K3, Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Walk with Love Project, in-school social worker, Education Service for Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) students |
| parent_teacher_association | No |
| other_activities_or_communication_with_parents | St. Stephen’s Church Kindergarten hosts several whole-family events that focus on parent engagement. These events include Student orientation meetings, Open Day, Information Day, Game Day, New Year celebrations, Parent-student excursions, Parent Observation weeks, Family in-school visits, Parent’s Communion and Parent-Volunteer Working Bees. |
| support_to_non-chinese_speaking_ncs_students | Received Grant for Support to NCS Students; appoint additional teaching staff / teaching assistants to support NCS students learning Chinese; arrange interpretation/translation services; create an enriched language environment for mastery of the Chinese language; create an inclusive learning environment to facilitate students' integration; facilitate professional development for teachers to develop effective strategies to help NCS students learn Chinese. |
| nursery_classes_not_writing | ✓ |
| total_no_of_permitted_accommodationof_classrooms_in_use | 218 |
| teacher_to_pupil_ratio_remarks | Yes |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_degree | 14 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_non_degree | 1 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_c_ece_or_above | 15 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_qualified_kg_teachers | 0 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_other_teacher_trainings | 0 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_qualified_assistant_kg_teachers | 0 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_others | 0 |
| fees_certificate | http://applications.edb.gov.hk/schoolsearch/schoolfee/131440.pdf |
| quality_review_result_and_report_chi | Meeting the standards <a href="https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/StStephen'sCh_PriSch_KG.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/StStephen'sCh_PriSch_KG.pdf</a> |
| quality_review_result_and_report_eng | Meeting the standards <a href="https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/en/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/StStephensCh_PriSch_KG.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/en/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/StStephensCh_PriSch_KG.pdf</a> |
| child_care_service_for_aged_under_2 | No |
| child_care_service_for_aged_2_to_3 | Yes |