🎒 Primary ・ Eastern
Meng Tak Catholic School
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
18
Low
Primary：11 indicators apply, 2 matched
🎒
Meng Tak Catholic School
Eastern ・
Primary ・ Est. 1952
📍 Address
11 Cheung Man Road, Chai Wan, Hong Kong
📞 Phone
25572244
📠 Fax
25575324
✉️ Email
mtcs@mengtak.edu.hk
⛪ Religion
Catholicism
👩🏫 Principal
Hui Carlo
📅 Founded
1952
👫 Gender
Co-ed
🗣️ Language
Chinese
🎯 Mission
To embody the Spirit of Christ, we provide love and caring for our kids. We nurture them to become self-initiated in their learning, to be civic-minded, confident and competent in serving the society.
📚 Approach & Strategies
To enhance students' motivation and learning performance through STEAM education, cross-curricular learning, reading across curriculum and coding education. Daily teaching and rich learning environment including English and Putonghua (reading, speaking, listening aspects) helps enhance students' billiterate and trillingual abilities. "Bring Your Own Device Scheme" (BYOD) is implemented from P.4 to P.6 to enhance students' participation and learning effectiveness by using iPads as learning tools.
💛 SEN Support
Establishment of student support team enables the implementation of different policies catering for students' learning diversity. The school helps students with teaching adaptation and assessment accommodation and makes use of different resources to provide students with learning groups or training teams according to their learning needs.
🎨 Whole-person Learning
Different kinds of activities: Young Pioneers of Christ, Cub Scouts, Brownies, Grasshoppers, Red Cross Youth Club, Choir, Brass Band, Soccer Team, Badminton Team, Table-tennis Team, Swimming Class, Taekwondo Class, Modern Dance, Rope Skipping Team, Maths Olympiad Class, Violin Class, Recorder Team, English Drama, Filming Agents, Drone Course, Leadership Class, Puppetry Team, Spike Robot Programme Designer, etc.
📋 School Data
All raw fields from the Education Bureau school profile not shown above.
| poa_school_net | 16 |
|---|---|
| school_type_1 | Aided |
| school_type_2 | Whole Day |
| imc | Established |
| training_compliance_rate_supervisor_managers_smc_chairperson_members | 93% |
| title_supervisor_chairman_of_mc | Rev. |
| title_of_school_head | Mr. |
| sponsoring_body | Hong Kong Catholic Diocese |
| school_motto | Love others as you love yourself |
| school_size | 5143 |
| through_train_sec_school | - |
| feeder_sec_school | - |
| nominated_sec_school | - |
| school_bus | Yes |
| nanny_van | - |
| parent_teacher_association | Yes |
| school_alumni_association | Yes |
| asc_school_fee | - |
| asc_tong_fai | - |
| asc_pta_fee | $50 |
| asc_charges_for_non_standard_items | $310 |
| asc_others | - |
| fac_no_of_classroom | 24 |
| fac_no_of_school_hall | 1 |
| fac_no_of_playground | 2 |
| fac_no_of_library | 1 |
| fac_special_rooms | Computer Room, Art and Craft Room, STEM Room, Language Room, Remedial Classrooms, Music Room, Religious Activity Room, Student Counselling Room, Student Activity Room, Student Learning Room, etc. |
| fac_others | Electronic blackboards, Optical fiber & Wifi in classrooms; Arts Studio for display, workshops and performance; New Annex--more space for activities. |
| fac_support_for_specialedu | Ramp. |
| previous_year_tsi_no_of_approved_teaching_posts | 46 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_received_teacher_training | 100 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_master_doctorate_or_above | 34 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_special_edu_training | 67 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_0_4 | 15 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_5_9 | 19 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_10_or_above | 66 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p1 | 4 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p2 | 4 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p3 | 4 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p4 | 4 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p5 | 4 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p6 | 4 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_total | 24 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p1 | 3 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p2 | 4 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p3 | 4 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p4 | 4 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p5 | 4 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p6 | 4 |
| current_year_no_of_class_total | 23 |
| cs_mode_of_teaching | To cater for different students' learning needs, various class modes and learning contents are adapted. Other than small-class teaching according to students' needs, elements of gifted education are integrated into daily teaching and gifted task-groups such as English Drama, Little Scientists, Filming Agents, etc. are established. |
| cs_remarks | - |
| no_of_test_per_year_P1 | 1 |
| no_of_exam_per_year_P1 | 1 |
| replace_test_exam_P1 | Yes |
| no_of_test_per_year_P2-P6 | 1 |
| no_of_exam_P2-P6 | 2 |
| formulate_appropriate_school_based_assessment_assignment_policy_inform_parents_collect_views_from_teachers_students_parents_regularly | Yes |
| upload_school_assessment_policy_to_school_web | Yes |
| upload_school_assignment_policy_to_school_web | Yes |
| diversified_assessment | Different modes of assessments on students' performance in terms of knowledge, attitudes and skills. |
| avoid_test_exam_after_long_holidays | Yes |
| arrange_timetable_flexibly_tutorial_session_in_afternoon | Yes |
| streaming_arrangement | Streaming policy is implemented every year according to students' learning performance. There are elite classes from P.4 to P.6. |
| no_of_school_days_per_week | 5 |
| no_of_periods_per_day | 9 |
| duration_of_each_period | 30 |
| school_starts_at | 8:30 |
| school_starts_at_AMPM | AM |
| school_ends_at | 3:45 |
| school_ends_at_AMPM | PM |
| lunch_start_time | 12:55 |
| lunch_end_time | 1:55 |
| lunch_arrangement | Provided by designated supplier and arranged by parents. |
| school_life_remarks | From Mondays to Thursdays, the last lesson is assigned as a 60-minute 'Get-Set-Goal period' to facilitate the arrangement of homework guidance, students' activities and training. <br>Every Friday is school-based 'Dress Casual Day'. |
| school_management_url | http://mengtakps.edu.hk/it-school/php/webcms/public/index.php3?refid=798&mode=published&nocache |
| school_organisation | The Incorporated Management Committee is responsible for the management and supervision of the school's operation. |
| imc_smc_mc | Regular meetings are held to monitor and implement school policies. |
| school_green_policy | Fully utilization of the natural light, green plantations everywhere (including roof garden). |
| school_major_concerns_url | http://shorturl.at/huzOV |
| school_major_concerns | 1. Optimize value education, cultivate students' positive values and demonstrate the typical traits of Meng Tak students.<br>2. Enhance students' learning abilities and integrated literacy to provide room for their all-round development. |
| learning_and_teaching_plan_url | http://mengtakps.edu.hk/it-school/php/webcms/public/index.php3?refid=684&mode=published&nocache |
| major_renewed_emphases_pri_edu_curriculum | The school is keen on developing the school-based curriculum according to the centralized curriculum in order to facilitate students' learning by achieving the 7 renewed emphases such as strengthening values education (including life education, national education and national security education); making good use of learning time and creating space to promote a balanced physical and mental development; enriching life-wide learning experiences and promoting whole-person development; better catering for learner diversity; reinforcing, STEAM education, and nurturing students’ media and information literacy; strengthening cross-curricular learning and reading across the curriculum for developing lifelong learning capabilities; and enhancing assessment literacy for promoting learning and teaching effectiveness. |
| dev_of_generic_skills | Enhance generic skills especially cooperative, communicative, creative, critical thinking and problem-solving skills being taught through different activities. |
| cultivation_of_proper_values_attitudes_and_behaviours | 1. Promote positive values and attitudes through both formal and informal curricula. The former one includes those curricula of Religious Studies and General Studies. The later one includes activities held by Moral and Civic Education group and moral messages through weekly assemblies.<br>2. Integrate moral education, especially core values of Catholic education, into different key learning areas. |
| student_support_url | http://mengtakps.edu.hk/it-school/php/webcms/public/index.php3?refid=880&mode=published&nocache |
| whole_school_approach_cater_for_learner_diversity | Other than the Pre-primary One and Pre-secondary One bridging courses, the school-based support is carried out in a whole-school approach. |
| support_for_non_chinese_students | Our school provides additional support for NCS students to facilitate their learning of Chinese: appointing additional teacher(s)/teaching assistant(s) to support NCS students' learning of Chinese; arranging intensive Chinese learning and teaching mode(s), e.g. pull-out learning if necessary, split-class/group learning, etc; and organising activities to create an inclusive learning environment in the school. |
| curriculum_tailoring_and_adaptation | School-based teaching packages for English grammars, Pinyin and Maths curriculum are adopted to cater for students' learning needs.<br>Gifted learning elements are infused into curriculum. Gifted groups and small classes are for more-able and less-able students respectively.<br>After-school classes are for less-able students. |
| home-school_co-operation_url | http://mengtakps.edu.hk/it-school/php/webcms/public/index.php3?refid=611&mode=published&nocache |
| home-school_co-operation | Parent-Teacher Association aims at facilitating the collaboration and co-operation between the school and parents. "Meng Tak Power", a parent-volunteer team, helps with school's daily routine and activities for students and their parents. |
| school_ethos | 1. Love and caring learning environment; Harmonic relationship between students and teachers; Students performing well academically and behaviorally<br>2. Appropriate students' bridging programmes and parents' meetings to facilitate those potential Primary-One and Secondary-One students to cope with their new learning environment.<br>3. Various types of activities organized to fit with students' all-round education. |
| future_dev_url | https://www.mengtak.edu.hk/ |
| school_dev_plan | 1. Optimize value education, cultivate students' positive values and demonstrate the typical traits of Meng Tak students.<br>2. Enhance students' learning abilities and integrated literacy to provide room for their all-round development. |
| teacher_pro_training_and_dev | 1. Our school adopts specialized teaching in Religious Education, Chinese, English and Mathematics.<br>2. All language teachers comply with school-based language policy to enhance pupils' language abilities.<br>3. All teachers keep equipping themselves to enhance quality teaching and cope with the new trends in education such as the development of value education, STEAM education and arts education. |