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Kowloon Bay St. John The Baptist Catholic Primary School

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Kowloon Bay St. John The Baptist Catholic Primary School
Kwun Tong ・ Primary ・ Est. 2003
📍 Address
23 Kai Yip Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon
📞 Phone
23432311
📠 Fax
23433011
✉️ Email
sch@kbsjb.edu.hk
⛪ Religion
Catholicism
👩‍🏫 Principal
Ko Tsui Ping Michelle
📅 Founded
2003
👫 Gender
Co-ed
🗣️ Language
Chinese

🎯 Mission

Our mission is to aid the development of our students' moral, intellectual, physical, social, aesthetic and spiritual values and encourage them to: Follow the teachings of St. John the Baptist and spread the gospel. Show care and concern for others and help to build a just and compassionate society. Love their country and appreciate their culture. Learn how to learn and become life-long learners. Enjoy life and learning.

📚 Approach & Strategies

1. Self-directed learning elements are incorporated into the school-based curriculum and reinforcement booklets, which can enhance students' self-learning ability and its effectiveness. 2. To focus on the culture of biliteracy and trilingualism, and develop sports and arts, we adopt Multiple Intelligence classes and after-school elite training classes during the week in order to develop healthy living style. 3. Promote cross-curricular learning activities and STEM exploration in order to enhance students' high-order thinking, creative thinking, communication and collaboration skills. 4. To encourage "Reading to Learn": Building on students' reading experiences in the primary stage can lay the foundation for further development of students' reading skills and strategies to enhance their…

💛 SEN Support

The student support team will use resources to provide workshops or remedial learning groups to SEN students. In addition, teaching will be adapted and accommodations will be made in homework and assessments for the SEN students, to help ease and overcome the difficulties in studying.

🎨 Whole-person Learning

Our school provides a variety of activities to develop broad interests and a positive attitude towards lifelong learning. We aim to provide diversified activities such as Cub Scouts, Brownies, Pandas, Chinese dance, Musicals (English), P.E, Visual Arts, Choir, musical instruments, STEM and different language activities in order to enhance students' multiple-intelligence. During "Saturday Activity Fun", experienced instructors provide training in different aspects.

📋 School Data

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poa_school_net 46
school_type_1 Aided
school_type_2 Whole Day
imc Established
training_compliance_rate_supervisor_managers_smc_chairperson_members 50%
title_supervisor_chairman_of_mc Fr.
title_of_school_head Ms.
sponsoring_body The Catholic Diocese of <br>Hong Kong
school_motto Be Strong and Seek the Truth.
school_size 7285
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 $30
asc_charges_for_non_standard_items $300
asc_others -
fac_no_of_classroom 30
fac_no_of_school_hall 1
fac_no_of_playground 2
fac_no_of_library 1
fac_special_rooms Prayer Room, Activity Room, English Reading Room, STEM SPACE, General Studies Room, Computer Room, Chinese Culture Room, Visual Arts Room and Music Room.
fac_others 60mTrack, Reading Corner, Organic Farm, Virgin Mary Shrine, ArtsHaus (Art Bus), School History Room, Fitness Station, Campus Cycling Path.
fac_support_for_specialedu Accessible lift, Accessible toilet, Tactile guide path and Visual fire alarm system.
previous_year_tsi_no_of_approved_teaching_posts 54
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_received_teacher_training 97
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_master_doctorate_or_above 47
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_special_edu_training 81
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_0_4 27
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_5_9 16
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_10_or_above 57
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 Adopt small class teaching.
cs_remarks -
no_of_test_per_year_P1 0
no_of_exam_per_year_P1 3
replace_test_exam_P1 No
no_of_test_per_year_P2-P6 0
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 Yes
upload_school_assignment_policy_to_school_web Yes
diversified_assessment Besides written assessments, various modes of assessments will be conducted, e.g. projects, school-based booklets, in-class learning activities, self-evaluation, presentations, performance assessments, formative assessments, etc.
avoid_test_exam_after_long_holidays Yes
arrange_timetable_flexibly_tutorial_session_in_afternoon Yes
streaming_arrangement Mixed ability classes from P.1 to 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 3:10
school_ends_at_AMPM PM
lunch_start_time 12:55
lunch_end_time 1:45
lunch_arrangement Provided by designated supplier, arranged by parents and brought by students.
school_life_remarks Creating an environment for learning, promoting all round development:<br>1st-7th lessons: Cycle mode (Day 1-6) subject learning.<br>8th lesson: Fixed mode (Monday to Friday) Assembly, Multiple-intelligence activities, Values education, Reading session, Study groups, ECA Friday.<br>9th lesson: Homework lesson.
school_management_url http://www.kbsjb.edu.hk
school_organisation The school is managed by a sponsoring body - The Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong, and operated by an Incorporated Management Committee (IMC). The Supervisor, Principal and Deputy Principal lead the school administration committee and teaching affairs team to manage school affairs. Staff is subdivided into four domains, namely "Management and Organisation", "Learning and Teaching", "Student Support and School Ethos" and "Student Performance and Activities".
imc_smc_mc Our IMC committee members included eight nominees from The Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong, one independent committee member, two teacher representatives, two parent representatives, one representative from School Alumni Association and our school head. All of us will work together to enhance our school management.
school_green_policy Our school campus is vast, measuring about 7,285 square metres. We place emphasis on making the environment green. Teachers actively participate in and promote environmental protection activities, encouraging students to act "Green", by saving electricity and water, reducing, recycling and reusing materials, to aid environmental protection. In addition, our school has installed a Solar Power System (solar panels) on the roof of the school building, and the electricity produced is directly supplied to all parts of the school, striving to put low-carbon lifestyle into practice.
school_major_concerns_url http://www.kbsjb.edu.hk
school_major_concerns 1. To promote Values Education and facilitate whole person development in students.<br>2. To nurture students' self-directed learning abilities continuously for enhancing the effectiveness of learning.
learning_and_teaching_plan_url http://www.kbsjb.edu.hk
major_renewed_emphases_pri_edu_curriculum 1. To implement the school-based Value Education curriculum and cultivate a positive atmosphere for nurturing the ten priority values and attitudes, a sense of belonging and national identity in students. <br>2. To make good use of learning time to create a self-directed learning environment for students to strengthen the STREAM education and cultivate media and information literacy. To foster whole-person development by providing learning activities across different learning areas to enrich students’ learning experiences. <br>3. To strengthen "Reading across Curriculum" to enhance students' lifelong learning abilities.
dev_of_generic_skills Through the implementation of Project Learning and STREAM education, we aim to nurture nine generic skills. Therefore, students can master and build knowledge, enabling them to apply the skills learnt, to solve daily life problems.
cultivation_of_proper_values_attitudes_and_behaviours Through Spiritual / Religious Education and Values Education, the five core values of Catholicism (Truth, Justice, Love, Life and Family) are imparted, in order to strengthen the cultivation of students' physical, mental and spiritual health, which can help build up students' positive outlook towards life thus enable students to uphold these positive values and active attitudes in their lives. Students attend assemblies, values education classes, class teacher lessons and activities of class management, which can help students recognize the great traditional spirit of Chinese culture and nurture their correct values, behaviour and attitudes for the whole-person development.
student_support_url http://www.kbsjb.edu.hk/
whole_school_approach_cater_for_learner_diversity 1. To tailor to individual needs: Enrichment programmes are offered to foster skills and abilities in gifted and talented students while individual or group remedial lessons are provided to cater for learner diversity. 2. To design group-learning activities in class: Teachers develop diversified school-based booklets for students to accommodate their needs. 3. To broach professional support: Staff include social workers, a School-based Educational Psychologist, a School-based Speech Therapist and an Occupational Therapist. 4. To provide appropriate support for students in need through bringing in community resources.
curriculum_tailoring_and_adaptation Curriculum tailoring and accommodation for students with special education needs: <br>1. A bridging course is provided for P.1 students to help prepare them towards adapting to primary schooling. The course enables students and parents to know more about the campus environment, characteristics of the school curriculum and assignments. Theme-based learning is based on the students' needs to integrate the school-based curriculum for enrichment. <br>2. Providing enrichment programmes for gifted students, recommending them to participate in off-campus programmes and open assessments.
home-school_co-operation_url http://www.kbsjb.edu.hk
home-school_co-operation We encourage a high level of involvement from parents. Parents can take on the role of parent managers. They can join the PTA and participate in voluntary work at school.2. We unite our beliefs for building a harmonious and delightful learning environment to reach the concentric aims of teachers and parents.<br>We provide supporting services to the parents such as Parent Education Programme. To provide chances for parents to participate in school-based parenting education and diversified physical, mental and spiritual activities. We hope parents can build the ability to assist their children and gain different kinds of information and community support services to help the next generation with positive and healthy values.
school_ethos 1. We strive to nourish students to be responsible citizens who are loving and eager to seek the truth.<br>2. We place importance on our students' moral development. In an atmosphere imbued with values of Catholicism, our students are polite and grateful.<br>3. Our students exhibit the Students' Ten Exempla Virtues: Fulfilling the love of God, passionate about life, responsible, open and gregarious, confident, creative, technologically literate, self-disciplined, self-motivated and seekers of virtual and academic excellence.
future_dev_url http://www.kbsjb.edu.hk
school_dev_plan 1. Perpetuate development and optimization of the school-based curriculum; tighten the linkage across subjects and promote cross-curricular learning. <br>2. Carry out STREAM education and I.T. skills systematically throughout the curriculum in order to promote the effectiveness of learning. <br>3. Provide various learning experiences to cultivate students' creativity and self-directed learning.<br> 4. Nurture students to be citizens who revere God, love their neighbors and are patriotic and vigorous.

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