🎒 Primary ・ Kwai Tsing
Po Leung Kuk Castar Primary School
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
45
Average
Primary：11 indicators apply, 5 matched
🎒
Po Leung Kuk Castar Primary School
Kwai Tsing ・
Primary ・ Est. 2002
📍 Address
Tsing Luk Street, Tsing Yi, N.T.
📞 Phone
24363923
📠 Fax
24364113
✉️ Email
info@plkcastar.edu.hk
⛪ Religion
Not Applicable
👩🏫 Principal
Yip Lai Fong
📅 Founded
2002
👫 Gender
Co-ed
🗣️ Language
Chinese & English
🎯 Mission
Our mission is to educate students in areas of moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic development. We encourage students to pursue knowledge and skills and nurture in them personal integrity, a positive attitude towards life and a world vision. We hope that students in a positive learning environment are able to gain self respect, develop social awareness, a sense of responsibility for their country and contribute to society.
📚 Approach & Strategies
1. Enhance students' self-directed learning skill training. 2. Improve classroom learning through the implementation of cooperative learning. Strengthen students' communication skills and interaction through cooperative learning so as to improve their learning. 3. Integrate all-directions learning and cross-curriculum learning to cultivate the generic skills and self-directed learning skills. 4. Promote project-learning activities to encourage the students' learning interests through different activities. 5. Carry out creative thinking curriculum, enhance creative teaching in various subjects, launch problem solving activities, etc. 6. Provide school-based LifeWise curriculum, implement environmental, moral and life education, strengthen the cultivation of students' multiple intelligences.
💛 SEN Support
1. Provide early identification and intervention programme for P.1 students with learning difficulties. 2. Establish a student support team for students. For example, to meet our students with special needs, we assist our students through adapted diverse learning group, after school tutorials, etc.
🎨 Whole-person Learning
Wind Orchestra, String Orchestra, Choir, Folk Song, Poetry Speaking, Storytelling, Debate, Calligraphy, Mathematics Olympiad, Multi-media Production, Lego Robot, Science Project-based Learning, Dancing, Drama, Visual Arts, Athletics, Basketball, Football, Volleyball, Badminton, Table Tennis, Swimming, Skipping, Lion Dance, Scout, Community Youth Club, Junior Police Call, Voluntary Service, etc.
📋 School Data
All raw fields from the Education Bureau school profile not shown above.
| poa_school_net | 66 |
|---|---|
| school_type_1 | Aided |
| school_type_2 | Whole Day |
| imc | Established |
| training_compliance_rate_supervisor_managers_smc_chairperson_members | - |
| title_supervisor_chairman_of_mc | Mr. |
| title_of_school_head | Ms. |
| sponsoring_body | Po Leung Kuk |
| school_motto | Love, Respect, Diligence, Integrity |
| school_size | 4500 |
| through_train_sec_school | - |
| feeder_sec_school | - |
| nominated_sec_school | - |
| school_bus | - |
| nanny_van | Yes |
| 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 | 24 |
| fac_no_of_school_hall | 1 |
| fac_no_of_playground | 3 |
| fac_no_of_library | 1 |
| fac_special_rooms | English Room, Computer Room, Star Land, Multi-media Production Room, Visual Art Room, Music Rooms, Discovery Zone, Chinese Language Room, etc. |
| fac_others | Dynamic Funland, Green School facilities, renewable energy facilities, Conference Room, PTA Room, etc. |
| fac_support_for_specialedu | Accessible lift, Accessible toilet and Tactile guide path plan. |
| previous_year_tsi_no_of_approved_teaching_posts | 48 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_received_teacher_training | 100 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_master_doctorate_or_above | 37 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_special_edu_training | 81 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_0_4 | 16 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_5_9 | 7 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_10_or_above | 77 |
| 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 | 4 |
| 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 | 24 |
| cs_mode_of_teaching | Provide the Gifted Education and school-based LifeWise curriculum. Implement cooperative learning strategies to enhance pupils' communication and collaboration skills. Pull-out remedial teaching program class and after-schooling tutorials for students with special educational needs. |
| cs_remarks | Support poor and virtuous students by arranging them further lessons after school and other supporting plans with government subsidies. Two NETs are employed to carry out Phonics and Reading Curriculum. |
| no_of_test_per_year_P1 | 0 |
| no_of_exam_per_year_P1 | 1 |
| replace_test_exam_P1 | Yes |
| 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 | Use thematic projects, data collection to assess students through quizzes and exams. Assessment of generic skills through project learning. Assessment of students' behaviours has been introduced. |
| 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.3. Streaming of two bigger size classes and two smaller size classes according to learning ability from P.4 to P.6. |
| no_of_school_days_per_week | 5 |
| no_of_periods_per_day | 8 |
| duration_of_each_period | 35 |
| school_starts_at | 8:00 |
| school_starts_at_AMPM | AM |
| school_ends_at | 3:00 |
| school_ends_at_AMPM | PM |
| lunch_start_time | 1:00 |
| lunch_end_time | 2:00 |
| lunch_arrangement | Provided by designated supplier and arranged by parents. |
| school_life_remarks | Our goal is to help students develop their multiple intelligences, emphasize the development of communication skills, creative thinking and self-learning skills. We arrange students at various levels to take part in activities in the Library, Computer Room, Self-Access centres and other venues. Study tours outside Hong Kong are organized to broaden the sight of our students. |
| school_management_url | http://www.plkcastar.edu.hk/sub_files/admin/teachers/content_teachers.htm |
| school_organisation | Under the Incorporated Management Committee, there is the school development committee, policies consultation and improvement committee, different administrative and academic divisions, which have its own rights and duties to implement school development plan. |
| imc_smc_mc | The Incorporated Management Committee was established in June, 2007. Members consists of the supervisor, sponsoring body managers, principal manager, parent managers, teacher managers and independent manager. |
| school_green_policy | Put an emphasis on Environmental Education, we organize different activities such as Greening School, Recycling of Resources, Wise Use of Electricity, Student Environmental Ambassadors and Food Wise Project, etc. Implement renewable energy facilities, Ecological Fish Pond, Castar Garden, Butterfly Gallery and Geology Study Corner. |
| school_major_concerns_url | http://www.plkcastar.edu.hk/sub_files/admin/admin.htm |
| school_major_concerns | 1. Enhance students' self-directed learning ability and promote learning and teaching effectiveness.<br>2. Optimize STREAM education and help students improve STREAM thinking and skills. <br>3. Intensify school positive culture and enhance value education. |
| learning_and_teaching_plan_url | http://www.plkcastar.edu.hk/sub_files/teaching/teaching.htm |
| major_renewed_emphases_pri_edu_curriculum | 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 STREAM 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 | Carry out various activities of communication, public speech, group discussion and discovery learning in different subjects in order to enhance the development of the generic skills, especially for critical thinking and creativity, etc. |
| cultivation_of_proper_values_attitudes_and_behaviours | Strengthening values education (including life education, national education, and national security education), we aim to develop students' positive values and characters in order to foster students' whole person development. |
| student_support_url | http://www.plkcastar.edu.hk/sub_files/teaching/remedial/content.htm |
| whole_school_approach_cater_for_learner_diversity | 1. A school guidance officer to provide counseling and training.<br>2. Provide school-based speech therapy guidance and the school-based educational psychologist services.<br>3. Establish school-based curriculum for the gifted and talented students to develop their potential. |
| 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; and organising activities to create an inclusive learning environment in the school. |
| curriculum_tailoring_and_adaptation | A tailor-made curriculum and examination adaptation are provided to address different learning needs of students. Develop the Gifted Education Network Scheme for outstanding students or students with potential. |
| home-school_co-operation_url | http://www.plkcastar.edu.hk/sub_files/parents/parents.htm |
| home-school_co-operation | We establish a link between the school and parents through the "CASTAR Letter", School functions such as PTA meetings and parents' days have been held and supported by the team of parent volunteers. Parent Teacher Association organizes different types of activities every year. For example, parent-child outings, booth games, seminars, parent-child competitions and activities etc. Parent Reading Ambassadors, organize Reading Club have been established for students. |
| school_ethos | In all aspects of school life, we aim to develop students' positive values and characters. Students are self-disciplined, well behaved, polite and harmonious among themselves. |
| future_dev_url | http://www.plkcastar.edu.hk/sub_files/admin/sch_plans/content.htm |
| school_dev_plan | Implement Positive Education to foster students' whole person development. |
| teacher_pro_training_and_dev | Organize appropriate school-based training items and recording system in order to meet the school development and the professional needs for the majority of teachers. School-based training items include staff development days, school-based workshops as well as co-planning meetings, peer observation, action research, sharing sessions and lesson demonstrations in various subjects in order to enhance the professional communication and development. |