🎒 Primary ・ Sha Tin
Free Methodist Mei Lam Primary School
📰 School Stories
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
45
Average
Primary：11 indicators apply, 5 matched
🎒
Free Methodist Mei Lam Primary School
Sha Tin ・
Primary ・ Est. 2005
📍 Address
Mei Shing Court, Tai Wai, Shatin, N.T.
📞 Phone
26052868
📠 Fax
26022709
✉️ Email
fmml@netvigator.com
⛪ Religion
Protestantism / Christianity
👩🏫 Principal
Chiu Chit Ling
📅 Founded
2005
👫 Gender
Co-ed
🗣️ Language
Chinese & English
🎯 Mission
Carry out the balanced development of cultivating students in spiritual, moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic education. Also gives students the opportunity to understand and accept the truth of Christ, build good character, develop their potential, and lead a prosperous life.
📚 Approach & Strategies
1. Teachers explain and write on the blackboard the classroom teaching objectives, so that students can clearly understand the focus of daily learning, take notes, and organize the learning content. 2. Use the skills of layered ability to ask questions to inspire students to think. 3. To design diverse learning experiences for students and to inspire students' diverse potential through different learning experiences. 4. Make good use of the class hours and the principle of class hours to provide diversified and meaningful pre-class preview and after-class extension. 5. Use the learning activity of "learning by doing" to allow students to interact with the living environment and gain experience through the operation process. 6. Evidence-based review and feedback on teaching to improve teac…
💛 SEN Support
We aim at building a harmonious caring campus. Our student support team plan, implement and promote whole school approach in catering students with special educational needs (SEN). We have school-based educational psychologist and school-based speech therapist to provide individual training for students in needed. We also make use of the Learning Support Grant from the EDB to employ supporting teachers and buy different services to enhance students’ concentration, social and motor skills.
🎨 Whole-person Learning
Uniform teams such as scouts, music such as hand bell, violin, string orchestra, chorus, sports such as track and field, shuttlecock, fancy rope skipping, basketball, football, table tennis, softball, dance, active life ambassador, visual arts training, Recitation Team, Math Olympiad Team, STEAM Team, etc. A fellowship period for P.5 students to learn the truth.
📋 School Data
All raw fields from the Education Bureau school profile not shown above.
| poa_school_net | 88 |
|---|---|
| school_type_1 | Aided |
| school_type_2 | Whole Day |
| imc | Established |
| training_compliance_rate_supervisor_managers_smc_chairperson_members | - |
| title_supervisor_chairman_of_mc | Ms. |
| title_of_school_head | Ms. |
| sponsoring_body | Free Methodist Mei Lam <br>Primary School Limited |
| school_motto | Faith, Hope, Love |
| school_size | 2000 |
| 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 (Additional Native-speaking English Teacher and improve students' learning environment and facilities) |
| asc_others | - |
| fac_no_of_classroom | 25 |
| fac_no_of_school_hall | 1 |
| fac_no_of_playground | 2 |
| fac_no_of_library | 1 |
| fac_special_rooms | 9rooms (Positive Education Centre, STEM Room, Library, Campus TV, English Room, General Studies Room, Art & Craft Room, Music Room, Computer Room.) |
| fac_others | Mei Lam Ecological Park, LED high-definition display screen, School Counseling Office, Lift and whole school covered by wireless WiFi. |
| fac_support_for_specialedu | Accessible lift and Accessible toilet. |
| previous_year_tsi_no_of_approved_teaching_posts | 38 |
| 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 | 44 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_0_4 | 14 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_5_9 | 10 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_10_or_above | 76 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p1 | 2 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_p2 | 2 |
| 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 | 3 |
| previous_year_no_of_class_total | 19 |
| 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 | 4 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p5 | 4 |
| current_year_no_of_class_p6 | 4 |
| current_year_no_of_class_total | 18 |
| cs_mode_of_teaching | 1. Small class teaching.<br>2. Diversified learning strategies, including cooperative learning, self directed learning and learning by doing to improve students' learning effectiveness. |
| cs_remarks | 1. P.5 Chinese and English,P4 Chinese divide 4 classes into 5 groups for teaching.<br>2. After-school tutoring is provided for P.6 Chinese and P.5 Mathematics. |
| 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 | 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 | By completing progressive assessments, students are able to review their learning performance and progress. Teachers will also provide timely feedback and support to reinforce their learning by observing students' learning performance, including assignments, group discussions, presentations and data collection activities. |
| avoid_test_exam_after_long_holidays | Yes |
| arrange_timetable_flexibly_tutorial_session_in_afternoon | Yes |
| streaming_arrangement | 1. Average class placement for P.1 to P.4, P.5 and P6 are divided into classes <br>2. According to students abilities, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, and making adjustments to their courses and homework. |
| no_of_school_days_per_week | 5 |
| no_of_periods_per_day | 7 |
| duration_of_each_period | 35 |
| school_starts_at | 8:00 |
| school_starts_at_AMPM | AM |
| school_ends_at | 3:25 |
| school_ends_at_AMPM | PM |
| lunch_start_time | 12:45 |
| lunch_end_time | 1:45 |
| lunch_arrangement | Provided by designated supplier and arranged by parents. |
| school_life_remarks | 1. Implement the timetable of "Morning classes, afternoon activities". <br>2. Afternoon activities include class management, growth classes, weekly meetings, creative arts, interest groups and Friday Fun Fun Zone.<br>3. Tutoring classes from Monday to Thursday. <br>4. During the "Fun Fun Zone" on Friday, students are free to participate in different types of fun activities. |
| school_management_url | https://www.fmml.edu.hk/ |
| school_organisation | Divided into four categories, and different working groups are established to promote the development of schools. The school has also established a self-assessment culture and made good use of stakeholder questionnaires to collect data to continuously optimize learning and teaching. |
| imc_smc_mc | Our school is managed by experts including church pastor, company executive, retired government executive, accountant and doctor. Besides, we also have parent, teacher and alumni managers. |
| school_green_policy | Aquaponics system facilities, Well# intelligent water filling station, energy-saving lighting system in classrooms (with user sensors and light-sensitive detectors), recycling of waste paper plastic bottles, and student environmental protection ambassadors. |
| school_major_concerns | Root in Christ (Relationship with God), Explore the Truth (Relationship with things)<br>Inspire the Potential (Relationship with Self: Self-Practice), Accompany in Harmony (Relationship with others) |
| learning_and_teaching_plan_url | https://www.fmml.edu.hk/ |
| major_renewed_emphases_pri_edu_curriculum | 1. Set up a "CAT programme" to cultivate students' abilities and interests in creativity, art and technology (STEM).<br>2. Utilize the class hours to achieve the campus life of class in the morning and activities in the afternoon. |
| dev_of_generic_skills | To cultivate students' generic skills through different activities, the school-based curriculum "Creative Arts" (Creativity, Art and Technology) is designed to allow students to develop systematically in creativity, information technology skills, numeracy skills and problem-solving skills. |
| cultivation_of_proper_values_attitudes_and_behaviours | 1. Strengthen teachers, students and parents to understand the 6 virtues "24 character strengths", and cultivate students' six virtues including wisdom and knowledge, courage, spirituality and transcendence, benevolence, justice and temperance.<br>2. Promote the implementation of positive concepts in class management, discover students' character strengths, and assist them in giving full play to their personal character strengths. |
| student_support_url | https://www.fmml.edu.hk/article/79?m=7628000539342&s=396385346179 |
| whole_school_approach_cater_for_learner_diversity | The individual differences of students will be catered to through the 3 tier support model. We support quality teaching in regular lessons and always recommend potential students to join gifted programs. We also have small group teaching, after school remedial groups and Individualized Education Program to those SEN students. Adaptation programs are provided to P.1 new comers. Additional English lessons and adaptation programs are provided to students from Mainland. |
| 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 | Teachers will design tiered worksheets according to the students’ abilities, as well as make adjustments to the writing homework for SEN students, such that the amount of writing is reduced. Teachers will make adjustments to dictations for these students, such as reducing the dictation syllabus, or even changing the format of dictation, such that these students can feel more confident in preparing for dictations. On top of that, the school will arrange for students with learning difficulties to have additional time or be pulled out during examinations according to their individual needs. |
| home-school_co-operation_url | https://www.fmml.edu.hk/page/57/?m=2806339965711&s=6554167813820 |
| home-school_co-operation | 1. FMML has set up "Mei Lam Parent Academy", which is committed to promoting home-school cooperation and communication between parents and children. Through different activities, lectures, groups, etc., parents can explore and research together on the issue of parenting, so as to promote children's Grow up healthily and happily.<br>2. Cooperate with PTAs, organize parent volunteer teams, assist in organizing study weeks for various subjects, arrange campuses, and serve as parents of old children. Chinese culture week. |
| school_ethos | With the concept of unity of spirit, training and support, through the "Merrill Lynch Golden Elite Super Stars Electronic Award Program" and different themed activities, students are trained to have correct values, good morals and habits, and build independent and persevering lives. |
| future_dev_url | https://www.fmml.edu.hk/ |
| school_dev_plan | 2024-2026 Three-Year Concerns<br>1. Cater for students' learning diversity, optimize learning and teaching, and enhance learning effectiveness.<br>2. Continue to develop positive education and cultivate students' good moral character and correct values. |