🎒 Primary ・ Kowloon City
Maryknoll Convent School (Primary Section)
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
36
Average
Primary：11 indicators apply, 4 matched
🎒
Maryknoll Convent School (Primary Section)
Kowloon City ・
Primary ・ Est. 1925
📍 Address
130 Waterloo Road, Kowloon City, Kowloon
📞 Phone
23360611
📠 Fax
23363154
✉️ Email
mcs_gen_office3@mcsps.edu.hk
⛪ Religion
Catholicism
👩🏫 Principal
Chan Ka Cheuk Ada
📅 Founded
1925
👫 Gender
Girls
🗣️ Language
English
🎯 Mission
Maryknoll provides quality, affordable education for girls, nurturing all-round development and a love for learning. We foster moral values, responsibility, and global awareness, encouraging each student to realise her potential. In partnership with parents and society, we promote a safe, caring environment where students grow in faith, knowledge, and service.
📚 Approach & Strategies
Students gain knowledge through various learning experiences, including inquiry-based learning and project learning, which are implemented using an interdisciplinary approach. To enhance students' higher-order thinking skills, a variety of questioning techniques, blended learning methods, and assessment for learning strategies are utilized.
💛 SEN Support
1. Our school promotes integrated education through service learning programme to realise the Maryknoll Spirit of Service. 2. Through the allocation of resources, we provide students with diversified modes of support to enhance learning effectiveness and help them adapt to school life.
🎨 Whole-person Learning
To provide students opportunities to gain the five essential learning experiences, different clubs and cross-curricular activities, such as Chinese, English, Mathematics, Reading, School Post, STEM, Debate, Athletics, Gymnastics, Ball Games, Lion Dance, Chinese Dance, Calligraphy, Ink Painting, Visual Arts, Drama, Choir, String Orchestra, Chinese Orchestra, Digital Music, Brownies and Young Pioneers of Christ have been offered.
📋 School Data
All raw fields from the Education Bureau school profile not shown above.
| poa_school_net | 41 |
|---|---|
| school_type_1 | Aided |
| school_type_2 | Whole Day |
| imc | Established |
| training_compliance_rate_supervisor_managers_smc_chairperson_members | 100% |
| title_supervisor_chairman_of_mc | Ms. |
| title_of_school_head | Ms. |
| sponsoring_body | Maryknoll Convent School Foundation |
| school_motto | Sola Nobilitas Virtus<br>(Virtue Alone Ennobles) |
| school_size | 18697 |
| through_train_sec_school | - |
| feeder_sec_school | Maryknoll Convent School (Secondary Section) |
| nominated_sec_school | - |
| school_bus | Yes |
| nanny_van | - |
| parent_teacher_association | Yes |
| school_alumni_association | Yes |
| asc_school_fee | - |
| asc_tong_fai | $6000 |
| asc_pta_fee | $100 |
| asc_charges_for_non_standard_items | - |
| asc_others | - |
| fac_no_of_classroom | 30 |
| fac_no_of_school_hall | 2 |
| fac_no_of_playground | 5 |
| fac_no_of_library | 1 |
| fac_special_rooms | Science Room, STEM Room, STEM Makerspace, Music Rooms, Art Room, Computer Rooms, Prayer Room, Student Activity Centre, Medical Inspection Room, Digital Music Room |
| fac_others | Swimming Pool, Heritage Centre. |
| fac_support_for_specialedu | - |
| previous_year_tsi_no_of_approved_teaching_posts | 56 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_received_teacher_training | 100 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_master_doctorate_or_above | 50 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_special_edu_training | 44 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_0_4 | 10 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_5_9 | 28 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_10_or_above | 62 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p1 | 5 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p2 | 5 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p3 | 5 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p4 | 5 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p5 | 5 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p6 | 5 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_total | 30 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p1 | 5 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p2 | 5 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p3 | 5 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p4 | 5 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p5 | 5 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p6 | 5 |
| current_year_no_of_class_total | 30 |
| cs_mode_of_teaching | To enhance learning and teaching effectiveness, different pedagogies such as inquiry-based learning, cooperative learning and project learning are adopted. |
| cs_remarks | - |
| no_of_test_per_year_P1 | 3 |
| no_of_exam_per_year_P1 | 0 |
| replace_test_exam_P1 | Yes |
| no_of_test_per_year_P2-P6 | 3 |
| no_of_exam_P2-P6 | 3 |
| formulate_appropriate_school_based_assessment_assignment_policy_inform_parents_collect_views_from_teachers_students_parents_regularly | Yes |
| upload_school_assessment_policy_to_school_web | No |
| upload_school_assignment_policy_to_school_web | No |
| diversified_assessment | P.1-P.4: 3 tests per year; P.5-P.6: 3 examinations per year.<br>A diversified mode of assessment: projects, learning tasks, written & oral assessments, web-based assessment, self-assessment, peer and parent assessments. |
| avoid_test_exam_after_long_holidays | Yes |
| arrange_timetable_flexibly_tutorial_session_in_afternoon | Yes |
| streaming_arrangement | Mixed ability classes from P.1-P.6. |
| no_of_school_days_per_week | 5 |
| no_of_periods_per_day | 9 |
| duration_of_each_period | 35 |
| school_starts_at | 8:00 |
| school_starts_at_AMPM | AM |
| school_ends_at | 2:50 |
| school_ends_at_AMPM | PM |
| lunch_start_time | 12:50 |
| lunch_end_time | 1:50 |
| lunch_arrangement | Provided by designated supplier and arranged by parents. |
| school_life_remarks | - |
| school_management_url | http://www.mcsps.edu.hk |
| school_organisation | School-based management under the supervision of and guidance from the Incorporated Management Committee. |
| imc_smc_mc | The Incorporated Management Committee includes representatives from the School Sponsoring Body, Principal, teachers, parents, alumni and an independent manager. |
| school_green_policy | To implement environmental education through a whole school approach and to provide teachers and students with suggested measures and activities in saving resources, reducing wastes and upholding the sustainability policy for our environmentally-friendly school campus. |
| school_major_concerns | 1. To cultivate an open learning environment for fostering students' abilities to become independent and motivated learners to cope with the ever-changing learning environment in the new era.<br>2. To nurture our students to live in a way of life with Maryknoll Spirit.<br>3. To nurture an effective and committed professional team for sustainable growth, and enhancement of the educational leadership through staff development programmes, and support newly recruited teachers to adjust to inherit the school culture through mentorship and induction programmes. |
| learning_and_teaching_plan_url | http://www.mcsps.edu.hk |
| major_renewed_emphases_pri_edu_curriculum | 1. Our school launches a reading scheme with the aim of nurturing extensive reading habits among students, fostering a positive reading environment, and enhancing their reading skills and techniques.<br>2. Our school has 2 Computer Rooms, STEM Room, STEM Makerspace and Digital Music Room to facilitate IT in Education. All classrooms and other learning areas are equipped with WIFI. eLearning is incorporated into all subjects.<br>3. Project learning is arranged in different subjects to enhance students' self-learning abilities and vary the mode of assessments.<br>4. Through formal and informal curriculum, our school organizes moral educations talks, workshops and various activities to cultivate position values and attitudes among students. |
| dev_of_generic_skills | Students’ nine generic skills are developed and applied in an integrative manner through learning and teaching in all KLAs. |
| cultivation_of_proper_values_attitudes_and_behaviours | Our school is committed to promote values education through the provision of learning experiences at school and beyond. Students can reinforce the six core MCS values and cultivate a harmonious campus atmosphere. The school emphasizes on students' wellbeing and the development of positive values. A variety of activities are organized, such as flag raising ceremonies, moral talks, moral education lessons and school-based programmes, so as to enhance resilience and foster kindness in our students. Furthermore, the school implements school service teams and service learning programmes to build a caring community while allowing students to display leadership skills and exhibit their strengths. |
| whole_school_approach_cater_for_learner_diversity | Besides implementing differentiated instruction in the core learning, we have pull-out programmes such as debate, Maths Elite and other school teams during the ECA hours to cater for students' different abilities and interests. Apart from the remedial lessons, our school implements the "Big Sister Scheme" to help the students in the lower grades in adapting to the school life and school work. |
| support_for_non_chinese_students | Our school provides additional support for NCS students to facilitate their learning of Chinese: providing after-school support programmes in learning 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 | To align with recent trends in education development and the school's vision, school-based adaptation policy, which provides support for students with different learning needs and styles, is implemented. |