S.K.H. Holy Carpenter Primary School
📰 School Stories
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
Primary：11 indicators apply, 6 matched
🎯 Mission
Our school aims at offering a balanced education based on Christian principles. Our school motto is "Not to be served but to serve". A dynamic learning environment is provided to equip our students with essential moral qualities and a positive attitude for lifelong learning.
📚 Approach & Strategies
1. Continuously optimize learning and teaching, encouraging students explore their own learning strategies to enhance learning effectiveness. 2. Create a positive and encouraging learning atmosphere. Emphasize positive feedback and recognition to build self-confidence. Provide them with opportunities to discover and understand their talents. 3. Promote STEAM education and curriculum integration to enhance students' creativity and problem-solving skills. 4. Utilize life-wide learning, including study tours, outdoor learning activities and services, allowing students to experience and consolidate knowledge. 5. Make good use of diversified assessments, helping students set achievable goals to motivate them to learn. 6. Encourage students to take part in physical and art activities.
💛 SEN Support
The Student Support Team consists of the following members: principal, vice principal, Special educational needs coordinator and Special educational needs support teachers, school social worker; and if necessary, parents, and school-based educational psychologist and school-based speech therapist will attend relevant meetings. Our school also makes good use of both internal and external community resources to organize professional teaching development, to implement diversified training sessions to cater for individual differences. Apart from this, our school arranges school-based educational psychology service as well as school-based speech therapy service to conduct timely professional assessment, therapy and support services for students so as to assist students with special needs to be…
🎨 Whole-person Learning
Cambridge YLE Course, English Drama, Visual Arts Ambassador, Chinese Painting, Basketball, Athletic Training, Taekwondo, Sea Scouts, Girl Guides, Chinese Dance, Chinese Drum, Fencing, Recorder, Mini Tennis, Newly Emerged Sports, Fellowship, MC training, Choir, Choral Speaking, Robot Models, Mbot, Scratch, Mathematics Olympiad, Study Tour and Life Education Camp.
📋 School Data
All raw fields from the Education Bureau school profile not shown above.
| poa_school_net | 34 |
|---|---|
| school_type_1 | Aided |
| school_type_2 | Whole Day |
| imc | Established |
| training_compliance_rate_supervisor_managers_smc_chairperson_members | 82% |
| title_supervisor_chairman_of_mc | Rev. |
| title_of_school_head | Ms. |
| sponsoring_body | Anglican (Hong Kong) Primary Schools Council Limited |
| school_motto | Not to be served but to serve |
| school_size | 1791 |
| through_train_sec_school | - |
| feeder_sec_school | - |
| nominated_sec_school | - |
| school_bus | - |
| nanny_van | Yes |
| parent_teacher_association | Yes |
| school_alumni_association | - |
| asc_school_fee | - |
| asc_tong_fai | - |
| asc_pta_fee | $20 |
| asc_charges_for_non_standard_items | $310 |
| asc_others | - |
| fac_no_of_classroom | 18 |
| fac_no_of_school_hall | 1 |
| fac_no_of_playground | 1 |
| fac_no_of_library | 1 |
| fac_special_rooms | 5 special function rooms (Computer Room, Student Activity Centre, Music Room, G.S. Room, Visual Arts Room). |
| fac_others | School Canteen, Basketball Court, Counselling Room. |
| fac_support_for_specialedu | Ramp and Accessible lift. |
| previous_year_tsi_no_of_approved_teaching_posts | 32 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_received_teacher_training | 95 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_master_doctorate_or_above | 36 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_special_edu_training | 56 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_0_4 | 19 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_5_9 | 33 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_10_or_above | 48 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p1 | 2 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p2 | 2 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p3 | 2 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p4 | 3 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p5 | 3 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p6 | 3 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_total | 15 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p1 | 2 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p2 | 2 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p3 | 2 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p4 | 2 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p5 | 3 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p6 | 3 |
| current_year_no_of_class_total | 14 |
| cs_mode_of_teaching | Small class teaching is implemented. There are elite classes in P.4-6. |
| cs_remarks | A Gifted Education Programme and small supporting groups are provided to maximize students' potential. After-school homework tutorial classes are provided for P.1-P.2 students. |
| no_of_test_per_year_P1 | 0 |
| no_of_exam_per_year_P1 | 2 |
| 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 | Summative and formative assessments, classroom observation, behavioral records, STEAM project learning, peer assessments and learning attitude assessments. |
| avoid_test_exam_after_long_holidays | Yes |
| arrange_timetable_flexibly_tutorial_session_in_afternoon | Yes |
| streaming_arrangement | A Streaming policy is adopted in P.4, 5 and 6 with a monitoring system for students' learning progress. |
| 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 | 3:30 |
| school_ends_at_AMPM | PM |
| lunch_start_time | 12:15 |
| lunch_end_time | 1:15 |
| lunch_arrangement | Provided by designated supplier and arranged by parents. |
| school_life_remarks | Monday to Thursday: Primary 1-2 After-school Homework Tutorial Class<br>Monday to Friday: Whole-school NCS Homework Tutorial Class<br>Monday to Saturday: Primary 1-6 After-School Learning Support Programmes / English Tutorial Class/Extra-Curricular Activities. Support Services for Newly-arrived Children, School-based After-School Support Programs (homework, tutorial, sports, and various activities) |
| school_organisation | Anglican (Hong Kong) Primary School Council Limited, Sheng Kung Hui Holy Carpenter Church |
| imc_smc_mc | The Incorporated Management Committee of S.K.H. Holy Carpenter Primary School. |
| school_green_policy | Environment Related Outings at Hoi Ha Wan and Mai Po. Student representatives join "Seahorse Rangers" (Hong Kong Ocean Park) to nurture students' passion for conservation from a young age, emphasizing experiential learning beyond classroom. |
| school_major_concerns | 1.We emphasise moral and value education, develop students' positive values. Inspire them to become a responsible and self-disciplined citizen.2.We develop an atmosphere of reading, arouse student's interests in reading and enhance their reading ability. |
| major_renewed_emphases_pri_edu_curriculum | 1. Integrate National Education, National Security Education into curriculum and celebrate Chinese Culture Day. Students can appreciate Chinese traditional arts, understand Chinese culture, and cultivate patriotism. 2. A theme related to positive values is set every term. Students can demonstrate positive values and attitudes via Moral Education lessons and morning assemblies. 3. Promote reading. Help students cultivate interests in reading by holding Reading Day and reinforcing cross-curriculum reading. 4. Cultivate students' information literacy in GS and ICT, and promote the use of information technology in a rational and responsible way. 5. Promote other learning experience via making good use of learning time. Outdoor learning and physical and art activities are arranged during "Other Learning Experience" period on Wednesdays. |
| dev_of_generic_skills | We enhance students' creativity, generic skills and problem solving skills through project learning, reading, curriculum integration, and IT programmes. |
| cultivation_of_proper_values_attitudes_and_behaviours | 1. Our School nurtures students' positive values and caring about others through weekly assemblies, moral education talk and lectures. 2. We engage students to express their care to teachers, family and classmates through a variety of activities. 3. We render moral education through both formal and informal learning activities. |
| student_support_url | 全校參與照顧學生個別的學習需要 |
| whole_school_approach_cater_for_learner_diversity | 1. Subsidized ECA and learning resource to promote learning equality. 2. Provide remedial classes, training classes, Pre S1 classes and Individualized Education Plan, including the scope of learning, emotion, communication and adaptation aspects. 3. Provide group/ individual learning programmes. 4. Support the teaching and learning of English and Maths remedial tutorial classes; provide elite subject and STEAM courses. Provide after-school homework tutorial classes. 5. Provide 'Social Skill Training Group', / 'Emotional Management and Social Skill Training', 'Executive Function Training', 'Motor Skill Training' and 'Parent-child reading' to address students' individual needs. 6. School-based Educational Psychology services, School-based Speech Therapy services and Counselling services. |
| 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; organising activities to create an inclusive learning environment in the school; and hiring additional manpower and/or translation/interpretation services to facilitate the communication with parents of NCS students. We provide additional support for NCS students' Chinese learning: arranging intensive Chinese learning and teaching modes, e.g. pull-out learning, after-school Chinese learning programmes; hiring additional teaching staff to support their Chinese learning; interpretation services to enhance communication with parents; organising activities to create an inclusive learning environment. |
| curriculum_tailoring_and_adaptation | 1. Curriculum accommodation: Teachers work together through teacher collaboration and co-planning meetings to tailor and adapt the school curriculum to cater for different needs. 2. The specialists such as the speech therapist and the education psychologist collaborate with teachers to improve the learning outcomes through co-teaching. 3. Differentiated teaching: Teachers provide diversified teaching and learning strategies and assistive equipment such as multiple intelligences and multisensory teaching approach as teaching basis. <br>4. Assignment accommodations: Reduce homework which mainly focuses of copying and provide graded worksheets for student. 5. Dictation accommodations: The content of dictation are adapted and the score are based on adding points. 6. Assessment accommodations on learning attitudes: Appropriate special test and examination arrangement are provided for students with SEN. |
| home-school_co-operation_url | The School formulates clear Home-School Co-oprtation Policy |
| home-school_co-operation | 1. PTA joins student affairs and school policy decisions. <br>2. PTA instant messaging group reinforces communication.<br>3. Parent Volunteers or Flag Selling Campaign.<br>4. School-based Talks, workshops concerning family relationship as well as parenting and groups for parents.<br>5. Workshops for parents on "Life and Values Education". |