Immaculate Heart of Mary School
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
Primary：11 indicators apply, 2 matched
🎯 Mission
Through the example of Mary's compassionate love for Jesus Christ and all mankind, we are dedicated to instill in our students the sense of moral, cognitive, physical, social, aesthetic and spiritual values, so that their potentials are developed to the fullest and they grow up to become responsible citizens who are ready to face any challenges they encounter in this ever changing world.
📚 Approach & Strategies
We continuously promote students’ autonomous learning, develop students’ potential, encourage students to participate in social services, use thinking and self-study strategies, so that students can learn well and use high-level thinking skills. We aim to cultivate students’ lifelong learning.
💛 SEN Support
Our school is committed to establishing a culture of integration, supporting students with special educational needs in a whole school approach, providing appropriate guidance and support, such as setting up training groups, providing school-based speech therapy services, and other activities. We also tailor examinations and assessments for SEN students. The school also attaches great importance to home-school cooperation.
🎨 Whole-person Learning
Our school emphasizes the comprehensive and balanced development of students. Every year, different class competitions, social services, experiential learning, and cross-border learning activities are held to enrich students' learning experiences. In addition, our school has diverse activity groups, Saturday interest classes, and school teams in religion, subjects, technology. There are also service and interest groups to develop students' all-round potential.
📋 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 | Sister |
| title_of_school_head | Ms. |
| sponsoring_body | The Incorporated Trustees of the HK Province of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows |
| school_motto | AMOR ET LABOR (Be respectful to parents, caring for the young, diligent and thrifty.) |
| school_size | 10400 |
| through_train_sec_school | - |
| feeder_sec_school | - |
| nominated_sec_school | Immaculate Heart of Mary College |
| school_bus | Yes |
| nanny_van | - |
| parent_teacher_association | Yes |
| school_alumni_association | Yes |
| asc_school_fee | - |
| asc_tong_fai | - |
| asc_pta_fee | $100 (for 6 years) |
| asc_charges_for_non_standard_items | Improve teaching and learning facility $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 | Visual Arts Room, Small Group Teaching Rooms, Music Room, Activity Room, Computer Room, Library, General Studies Room, Language Room, Multi-Purpose Room, STEAM Room. |
| fac_others | Canteen, Chapel. |
| fac_support_for_specialedu | Ramp, Accessible lift, Accessible toilet and Tactile guide path plan. |
| previous_year_tsi_no_of_approved_teaching_posts | 47 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_received_teacher_training | 100 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_master_doctorate_or_above | 31 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_special_edu_training | 85 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_0_4 | 15 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_5_9 | 8 |
| 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 | Support teachers are arranged for P.1 and P.2 to assist the less-able students to learn in small groups, and the M and S classes are divided into 3 groups in English lessons from P.4 to P.6. |
| cs_remarks | - |
| no_of_test_per_year_P1 | 2 |
| no_of_exam_per_year_P1 | 2 |
| 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 | No |
| upload_school_assessment_policy_to_school_web | No |
| upload_school_assignment_policy_to_school_web | No |
| diversified_assessment | 2 final examinations plus 4 Chinese, English, Mathematics and General Studies tests. |
| avoid_test_exam_after_long_holidays | Yes |
| arrange_timetable_flexibly_tutorial_session_in_afternoon | Yes |
| streaming_arrangement | P.3 to P.6 are streamed. There are two elite classes, the other students are put into small classes for better individual attention. |
| no_of_school_days_per_week | 5 |
| no_of_periods_per_day | 9 |
| duration_of_each_period | 35 |
| school_starts_at | 8:10 |
| school_starts_at_AMPM | AM |
| school_ends_at | 3:10 |
| school_ends_at_AMPM | PM |
| lunch_start_time | 12:20 |
| lunch_end_time | 1:20 |
| lunch_arrangement | Provided by designated supplier and arranged by parents. |
| school_life_remarks | There are morning reading classes, Friday ECA classes on alternate weeks with Moral Education classes, remedial classes, and homework classes. |
| school_management_url | http://www.ihms.edu.hk |
| school_organisation | The school is managed by the IMC. IMC oversees the running of the school. All teachers are members of one or more working teams. Senior teachers take charge of these ten working teams. |
| imc_smc_mc | We set up IMC in June 2013. |
| school_green_policy | The school is greening the campus, participating in waste sorting and recycling programmes, cultivating students’ environmental awareness, practising energy saving, and reducing waste production. |
| school_major_concerns | 1) To enhance learning and teaching. <br>2) To nurture students to become individuals with moral values. |
| learning_and_teaching_plan_url | http://www.ihms.edu.hk |
| major_renewed_emphases_pri_edu_curriculum | Develop STEAM education, promote cross-curricular reading, and promote Chinese culture. |
| dev_of_generic_skills | Promote all-round learning, reading, inquiry-based projects, and use online learning platforms, to cultivate students’ generic skills. |
| cultivation_of_proper_values_attitudes_and_behaviours | Cultivate students to respect life, make a positive contribution to society, to live healthily and to live in harmony with nature. |
| student_support_url | http://www.ihms.edu.hk |
| whole_school_approach_cater_for_learner_diversity | The Student Support Team plans and implements appropriate support projects according to the needs of different students in order to cater for learning diversity. |
| curriculum_tailoring_and_adaptation | There are school-based enhancement programmes for the gifted students and remedial classes to support the less able students. There are also bridging programmes for newly arrived P.1 students and also for P.6 students, to prepare them for secondary school. |
| home-school_co-operation_url | http://www.ihms.edu.hk/pta/ |
| home-school_co-operation | To support school development, we use notices, school newsletters, parent-teacher meetings, school websites to communicate with parents and organise parent volunteers. |
| school_ethos | In line with the mission of Catholic schools, we stress the importance of nurturing good conduct and positive values in students, and we strive to cultivate an encouraging, caring and inspiring learning environment in the school. Through teachers' close relationships with students, students develop a strong sense of belonging to the school. |
| future_dev_url | http://ww.ihms.edu.hk |