🎒 Primary ・ Sham Shui Po
Five Districts Business Welfare Association School
📰 School Stories
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
55
High
Primary：11 indicators apply, 6 matched
🎒
Five Districts Business Welfare Association School
Sham Shui Po ・
Primary ・ Est. 1957
📍 Address
70 Wing Hong Street, Po On Road, Kowloon
📞 Phone
23071017
📠 Fax
23700692
✉️ Email
info@fdbwa.edu.hk
⛪ Religion
Not Applicable
👩🏫 Principal
Chung Yin Fun Cally
📅 Founded
1957
👫 Gender
Co-ed
🗣️ Language
Chinese
🎯 Mission
Our school aims at providing a broad and quality education to nurture students with scholarly intellect, fine personality, moral and aesthetic senses and responsibility. The school likewise seeks to provide a dynamic and pleasurable learning environment where students can become self-motivated, hard-working, conscientious and responsible learners.
📚 Approach & Strategies
Develop students' generic skills through providing various experiences and opportunities for them, like life-wide learning activities, cross-subject curriculum, STEAM, e-learning and school-based AI curriculum. Through implementation of co-operative learning in small classes, students' high order thinking skill and self directed learning skills are improved.
💛 SEN Support
Our school establishes Integrated Education for the students who are in need with the help of the 3 Tier Support Mode. Student Support Team holds meetings regularly, identify early for the students with special educational needs. Tailor made homework and assessment are set for the students to check the progress and the effectiveness of students. Our school also has different training courses for different students in needs with the help of Individual Education Plan (IEP) to strengthen their different abilities. Our school is keen to collect the views, discuss with our parents and find the best way for our students.
🎨 Whole-person Learning
In order to develop students' multi-intelligence and holistic person development, school provides over 50 free extracurricular activities for studnets, all led by experienced tutors. These activities include Lego programming, Vincibot, Coding & App development, Mathematics Olympiad, Chinese drama, Chinese & English choral speaking, Shakespeare storytelling, English writing class, Chinese and Latin dance, recorder, Rummikub, percussion, badminton, kendama, basketball, choir, rope skipping, track and field events, flag-raising team, calligraphy, Junior Police Call, Scouts, taekwondo, Community Youth Club and juggling etc.
📋 School Data
All raw fields from the Education Bureau school profile not shown above.
| poa_school_net | 40 |
|---|---|
| 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 | Five Districts Business<br>Welfare Association |
| school_motto | Conscientious and Self-disciplined: Equipping students with the knowledge and skills, and appreciating the values of self-discipline. |
| school_size | 2000 |
| 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 | $350 |
| asc_others | - |
| fac_no_of_classroom | 18 |
| fac_no_of_school_hall | 1 |
| fac_no_of_playground | 2 |
| fac_no_of_library | 1 |
| fac_special_rooms | STEAM room, English room, music and dance room, student activity room, visual arts room, library, tutorial rooms, campus TV and game room. |
| fac_others | There are Climbing Wall, Green Wall, Avenue of Star and Chinese Cultural Corridor. All classrooms are equipped with computers and smart board. |
| fac_support_for_specialedu | Ramp, Accessible lift, Accessible toilet and Tutorial rooms and speech therapy room. |
| previous_year_tsi_no_of_approved_teaching_posts | 33 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_received_teacher_training | 100 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_master_doctorate_or_above | 42 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_special_edu_training | 60 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_0_4 | 37 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_5_9 | 18 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_10_or_above | 45 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p1 | 2 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p2 | 3 |
| 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 | 16 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p1 | 1 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p2 | 2 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p3 | 3 |
| 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 | 1. Small class teaching, cooperative learning and activity-based learning approach have been adopted in P.1-P.6 to help students construct knowledge by themselves. <br>2. Our school offers Invitational Education (IE) courses which aim to unleash students' potential. <br>3. P.1-P.2 use Mandarin as the medium of instruction in Chinese lessons, students develop their Mandarin proficiency at an early stage. |
| cs_remarks | Morning tutorial classes, small group English learning classes and courses for elite students are provided in order to cater for students’ diverse learning needs. |
| no_of_test_per_year_P1 | 0 |
| no_of_exam_per_year_P1 | 0 |
| replace_test_exam_P1 | Yes |
| no_of_test_per_year_P2-P6 | 2 |
| 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 | Different modes of assessment have been adopted, such as summative and formative assessment in academic subjects, students' self evaluation and peer feedback, parents' assessment, project learning and daily observation. |
| avoid_test_exam_after_long_holidays | Yes |
| arrange_timetable_flexibly_tutorial_session_in_afternoon | Yes |
| streaming_arrangement | No streaming arrangement. |
| 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 | 1:00 |
| lunch_end_time | 2:05 |
| lunch_arrangement | Provided by designated supplier and arranged by parents. |
| school_life_remarks | 1. Morning assembly, morning reading and morning stretching exercises are allocated in the morning. Class teacher period and lunch time recess activities are allocated in the afternoon. Also, homework tutorial sessions and Invitational Education (IE) courses are allocated in the afternoon.<br>2. All parents are welcomed to join the morning assemblies, weekly assemblies and monthly award ceremonies. |
| school_management_url | http://www.fdbwa.edu.hk/1_5.html |
| school_organisation | The school has 24 administrative groups and 12 subject groups. |
| imc_smc_mc | There are 16 members in Incorporated Management Committee, including nine sponsoring body managers, the principal, two teacher managers, two parent managers, one alumni manager and one independent manager. |
| school_green_policy | Our school has promoted Eco life. Besides setting up environmental equipment, we participate different environmental protection activities every year, such as recycling red envelopes, creating sustainable plant pots, hosting environmental talks and Eco-Ambassador Program. |
| school_major_concerns_url | http://www.fdbwa.edu.hk/2_1.html |
| school_major_concerns | Theme of the year: <br>1. To enhance self-directed learning and develop learning strategies.<br>2. To foster a resilient and unyielding attitude in students, encouraging them to embrace challenges. |
| learning_and_teaching_plan_url | http://www.fdbwa.edu.hk/3.html |
| major_renewed_emphases_pri_edu_curriculum | 1. Strengthen value education, including life education, national education, and national security education.<br>2. Make good use of learning hours to create space for the balanced development of students' physical and mental health.<br>3. Enrich learning experiences: Implement project-based learning to develop students' generic skills.<br>4. Enhance support for students' diverse needs through diversified teaching strategies.<br>5. Reinforce STEAM education and school-based AI curriculum, nurturing students' media and information literacy.<br>6. Strengthen cross-curricular learning and reading across the curriculum for developing lifelong learning capabilities and promoting learning and teaching effectiveness.<br>7. Improve assessment literacy to promote the effectiveness of teaching and learning. |
| dev_of_generic_skills | Provide diversified learning activities to inspire students' potential and enhance their generic skills. |
| cultivation_of_proper_values_attitudes_and_behaviours | Our school has daily assembly and weekly assembly, civil and moral education, life education and other value education activities which aim to develop students' positive attitude and values. Besides, we encourage students to develop a sense of responsibility, gratefulness and appreciation of others through the service programmes and activities. These activities help students acquire the fundamental skills of self-confidence, self-esteem and self-discipline, and also enhance students' good conduct, mutual respect and caring for others. |
| student_support_url | http://www.fdbwa.edu.hk/2_1.html |
| whole_school_approach_cater_for_learner_diversity | Chinese and English Learning Group, homework sessions, pre-school remedial classes, and extracurricular activities etc. are provided to support learning. School social workers, school-based speech therapist and school-based education psychologist provide professional support for students' personal growth. Big Brothers and Sisters Programme and Peer Tutors Programme are also held to support students in need. |
| 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 our school uses Putonghua to teach Chinese in all classes / groups at certain levels with extra support as appropriate, e.g. pull-out/small-group classes, learning and teaching resources with Pinyin, etc.. |
| curriculum_tailoring_and_adaptation | Graded tasks are adopted in classes to motivate students of different abilities to learn. Different extra-curricular activities and courses are provided to develop students' multi-intelligence. |
| home-school_co-operation_url | http://www.fdbwa.edu.hk/5_6.html |
| home-school_co-operation | Our school highly values home-school collaboration and regards parents as essential partners. We have an open campus policy that allows parents and students to participate together in morning assemblies and weekly assemblies. To strengthen parental engagement and address community needs, we regularly organize parent workshops and parent-child activities, designed to enhance parents' capabilities and support both familial and student development.<br>To further foster effective communication, we have principal-parent tea gatherings, providing a platform for parents to stay informed about school updates and voice their opinions.<br>Our Parent-Teachers Association has won many prizes on outstanding school-parent cooperation. |
| school_ethos | 1. An honest and simple ethos has been deeply established among the students. Both discipline and guidance are emphasized. We Care Award Scheme and Good Student Award are carried out to reinforce students' positive behaviours. <br>2. Different kinds of subsidies are provided to students in need. Scholarships are offered to students with good academic result and conduct. Our school has won Love School Award by Hong Kong Christian Service for 18 successive years.<br>3. The school also has an alumni association to promote connections between alumni and the alma mater. <br>4. The school's alumni, such as Chief Executive John Lee and Dr. Tsui Yip-Shing, can serve as role models for students. |
| future_dev_url | http://www.fdbwa.edu.hk/2_1.html |
| school_dev_plan | 1. Enhance gifted education to develop students' potential;<br>2. Implement school-based AI curriculum for primary one to six students;<br>3. Implement STEAM, e-learning and coding to develop students' scientific inquiry; information technology and problem solving skills.<br>4. Implement positive education, develop students' positive attitude. |
| teacher_pro_training_and_dev | Through co-planning meeting, peer observation and parents' observation sessions, professional training day etc, these activities help promote good teaching practice. Joining both the School-based Support Services and Support Programme help to enhance learning and teaching in a small class environment. |