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Yuk Yin School

Yuk Yin School
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✨ Happy Index

Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)

27
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Primary:11 indicators apply, 3 matched

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Yuk Yin School
North ・ Primary ・ Est. 1939
📍 Address
Jockey Club Road, Sheung Shui, N.T.
📞 Phone
26729917
📠 Fax
26685879
✉️ Email
yys@yukyinschool.edu.hk
⛪ Religion
Not Applicable
👩‍🏫 Principal
Lam Heung Wing
📅 Founded
1939
👫 Gender
Co-ed
🗣️ Language
Chinese

🎯 Mission

The school aims to facilitate the holistic development of pupils, especially their intellectual, moral, social and physical development and their aesthetic appreciation. The school hopes to achieve educational goals as well as encourage pupils to reach the full potential of their talents.

📚 Approach & Strategies

Our school arranges diversified activities for students according to the school-based curriculum. To motivate students' interest in learning, our school would hold various activities through life-wide learning in all subjects. Our school provides students with an environment to learn in real contexts and authentic settings. The experiential learning acquired through life-wide learning helps students to achieve the aims of whole-person development and enables them to develop the life-long learning capabilities that are needed in our ever-changing society.

💛 SEN Support

To promote a harmonious culture in our school, a whole school approach to cater for students' diversity has been in place, for several years. With flexible resources allocation, we provide suitable support services to our students, with the aim of enhancing their learning abilities and assimilating them into school life. We have executed some feasible measures such as the accommodation of teaching and assessment, social group, school-based speech therapy services, Individual Education Plans, etc. Reviewing the efficacy of these measures regularly, is a high priority and teacher-parent discussion is needed, to ensure the effectiveness of the continued support.

🎨 Whole-person Learning

Our school provides comprehensive learning experiences to encourage the pupils' holistic development. There are a variety of activities and functions which bring enrichment and enjoyment to the pupils' school life. The school offers plenty of opportunities for participation in sports, music and art activities. Moreover, the school annually holds a subject activity day, a picnic, sports day, camp and Christmas party which parents are also encouraged to attend. We hold subject activity days annually, cross-boundary activities, visits, Sports Day, a picnic, Education Camp and Parent-Teacher Associations activities.

📋 School Data

All raw fields from the Education Bureau school profile not shown above.

poa_school_net 80
school_type_1 Aided
school_type_2 Whole Day
imc Established
training_compliance_rate_supervisor_managers_smc_chairperson_members 57%
title_supervisor_chairman_of_mc Mr.
title_of_school_head Mr.
sponsoring_body Yuk Yin Education Foundation Company Limited
school_motto Politeness, Justice, Probity, Humility
school_size 3600
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 $20
asc_charges_for_non_standard_items -
asc_others -
fac_no_of_classroom 7
fac_no_of_school_hall 0
fac_no_of_playground 2
fac_no_of_library 1
fac_special_rooms Computer Room, STEAM Room, Campus TV Studio and special rooms.
fac_others -
fac_support_for_specialedu Ramp, Accessible toilet and Tactile guide path plan.
previous_year_tsi_no_of_approved_teaching_posts 20
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_received_teacher_training 100
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_master_doctorate_or_above 25
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_special_edu_training 90
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_0_4 20
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_5_9 40
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_10_or_above 40
previous_year_no_of_class_p1 1
previous_year_no_of_class_p2 1
previous_year_no_of_class_p3 1
previous_year_no_of_class_p4 1
previous_year_no_of_class_p5 1
previous_year_no_of_class_p6 2
previous_year_no_of_class_total 7
current_year_no_of_class_p1 1
current_year_no_of_class_p2 1
current_year_no_of_class_p3 1
current_year_no_of_class_p4 1
current_year_no_of_class_p5 1
current_year_no_of_class_p6 1
current_year_no_of_class_total 6
cs_mode_of_teaching The school has remedial classes. We have also implemented collaborative teaching in class. The school aims to help pupils with learning difficulties by providing these classes and extra-curricular activities.
cs_remarks -
no_of_test_per_year_P1 0
no_of_exam_per_year_P1 3
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 Progressive and summative assessments are held three times a year. There is a diverse range of formative assessments practiced throughout the year.
avoid_test_exam_after_long_holidays Yes
arrange_timetable_flexibly_tutorial_session_in_afternoon Yes
streaming_arrangement Mixed-ability Grouping.
no_of_school_days_per_week 5
no_of_periods_per_day 10
duration_of_each_period 30
school_starts_at 8:20
school_starts_at_AMPM AM
school_ends_at 3:00
school_ends_at_AMPM PM
lunch_start_time 12:00
lunch_end_time 12:50
lunch_arrangement Provided by designated supplier and arranged by parents.
school_life_remarks Pupils can stay after school to participate in a wide range of activities.
school_management_url http://www.yukyinschool.edu.hk
school_organisation The school is managed by the IMC of Yuk Yin School.
imc_smc_mc The IMC of Yuk Yin School.
school_green_policy Raising environmental consciousness by following the 3 (three) R's - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
school_major_concerns_url www.yukyinschool.edu.hk
school_major_concerns 1. Strive to raise overall standards of teaching and learning and encourage students to be self motivated learners.<br>2. According to the learning needs of students, we provide a series of activities about life planning. These help students to develop self-awareness and explore their future options in order to achieve academic and social goals.
learning_and_teaching_plan_url www.yukyinschool.edu.hk
major_renewed_emphases_pri_edu_curriculum 1. Our school promotes Moral and Civic Education by fostering positive values and attitudes in students; "Perseverance", "Respect for Others", "Responsibility", "National Identity", "Commitment", "Integrity", "Care for Others", "Law-abidingness", "Empathy" and "Diligence". Through different learning experiences and courses, such as self-directed learning, national identity and "learning by doing" experience, etc., we aim to develop and cultivate our students in becoming life-long learners nurtured with morality and knowledge, who love their home and country.<br>2. We make 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.<br>3. Reinforcing STEAM education, and nurturing students' media and information literacy; strengthening cross-curricular learning and reading across the curriculum for developing lifelong learning.
dev_of_generic_skills The development of generic skills such as communication skills and critical thinking skills is nourished in the context of all subjects.
cultivation_of_proper_values_attitudes_and_behaviours Moral and Civic Education is highly valued in our school. Moral and Civic Education lessons are conducted in mentoring sessions, personal growth programmes and assemblies so as to develop students' problem solving skills and foster their abilities in handling adversity and cultivating positive values towards life. A variety of school-based counseling programs and community service activities are organized for students to learn about care and empathy through experience.
student_support_url www.yukyinschool.edu.hk
whole_school_approach_cater_for_learner_diversity We have various activities or lessons for catering students' diversity. They are school-based featured courses, bridging courses, early identification and intervention programme for primary one students with learning difficulties. Chinese immigrant English improvement lessons, after-school tutorial lessons, read and write literacy training groups, 'pull-out' classes. In addition to co-teaching lessons, we also offer the little teacher programme, elite groups and self development programmes.
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; developing school-based Chinese Language curriculum and/or adapting learning and teaching materials; 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.
curriculum_tailoring_and_adaptation To enhance students' learning effectiveness, curriculum tailoring and adaptation is conducted by the teachers of different subjects.
home-school_co-operation_url www.yukyinschool.edu.hk
home-school_co-operation Parent-Teacher Association organizes various types of activities, educational workshops and seminars to strengthen co-operation between school and family.
school_ethos As for our school ethos, we cultivate a harmonious teacher-student relationship. We also place importance on whole-person development and the enhancement of students' sense of belonging to our school.
future_dev_url www.yukyinschool.edu.hk
school_dev_plan To help our students develop independent learning capabilities according to the "Four Key Tasks", it is imperative that we equip our students with the ability of "biliterate and trilingualism". Promoting a "reading to learn" culture and effective use of information technology in teaching can also facilitate both classroom and self-access language learning. Moreover, school self-evaluation and self-improvement have been set up in our school for the sake of enhancing the effectiveness of teaching and learning and maintaining the quality of our school development. The implementation of inclusive education and home-school co-operation in our school can gain the recognition from the parents.
teacher_pro_training_and_dev There are Teacher Development Days, Collaborative Lesson Planning, Collaborative Lesson Observation, Internal and External Professional Sharing during school year. We also encourage teachers to join the courses and workshops launched by EDB.

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