🎒 Primary ・ Tuen Mun
Yan Tak Catholic Primary School
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
45
Average
Primary：11 indicators apply, 5 matched
🎒
Yan Tak Catholic Primary School
Tuen Mun ・
Primary ・ Est. 1983
📍 Address
Estate Primary School No. 2, Phase II, …
📞 Phone
24636171
📠 Fax
24663660
✉️ Email
info@yantak.edu.hk
⛪ Religion
Catholicism
👩🏫 Principal
Lo Suk Ching
📅 Founded
1983
👫 Gender
Co-ed
🗣️ Language
Chinese
🎯 Mission
We adhere the church's mission in preaching the gospel, so that students can understand the principle of loving the Lord and others, and be able to practice, live out the spirit of Christ, and strive to serve others and contribute to society.
📚 Approach & Strategies
1. Lessons with brain-based learning approach, picture books and SDL strategies are designed to enhance learning motivation and independent learning ability. 2. School-based Life Education curriculum based on Catholic core values is implemented to foster positive characters and whole person development. 3. Promote Primary Humanities and Primary Science and enrich content and elements to cultivate students' positive values and attitudes, general abilities and knowledge through "child-centered" experiential learning. 4. Language-rich learning environment and a comprehensive school-based language curriculum with interesting and meaningful activities is provided to strengthen language proficiency. 5. STEAM education is promoted by making good use of IT, unleashing creativity and devel…
💛 SEN Support
The Student Support Team is led by Special Educational Needs Coordinator, identifies and supports students with learning difficulties in an early stage, provides them with adjustments in teaching, assignments and assessment, and caters for students' learning diversity through group teaching, individual and group counseling, etc. The school-based educational psychologist and school-based speech therapist visit the school regularly to provide professional support services so efficient home-school co-operation can be achieved with regular Individual Education Plan meetings with parents. Learning Support Grant and additional resources are used to provide diversified after-school support groups and appropriate support is given according to individual student's social and emotional needs.
🎨 Whole-person Learning
1. Multiple Intelligence Activities: Covering different subjects in the regular curriculum in Junior Primary levels. Launching different uniform groups or specific groups to enrich students' learning experience in Senior Primary levels. 2. Extra-Curricular Activities: Covering the categories on academic, sports, music, visual arts, performing arts, etc. to attain the aim of "whole person development". 3. Life-wide learning activities: Widen students' horizons by means of various outdoor activities.
📋 School Data
All raw fields from the Education Bureau school profile not shown above.
| poa_school_net | 70 |
|---|---|
| school_type_1 | Aided |
| school_type_2 | Whole Day |
| imc | Established |
| training_compliance_rate_supervisor_managers_smc_chairperson_members | 100% |
| title_supervisor_chairman_of_mc | Mr. |
| title_of_school_head | Ms. |
| sponsoring_body | The Catholic Diocese of <br>Hong Kong |
| school_motto | Benevolence, Wisdom, Kindness, Virtue |
| school_size | 3900 |
| through_train_sec_school | - |
| feeder_sec_school | - |
| nominated_sec_school | Tuen Mun Catholic Secondary School |
| school_bus | Yes |
| nanny_van | - |
| parent_teacher_association | Yes |
| school_alumni_association | Yes |
| asc_school_fee | - |
| asc_tong_fai | - |
| asc_pta_fee | $40 |
| asc_charges_for_non_standard_items | $300 (To create a diversified and comfortable learning environment for students.) |
| asc_others | $20 (Replacement of student card) |
| fac_no_of_classroom | 24 |
| fac_no_of_school_hall | 1 |
| fac_no_of_playground | 2 |
| fac_no_of_library | 1 |
| fac_special_rooms | STEAM Lab, Music Room, Library, Social Workers Room, Guidance & Counselling Room, EP consulting room, English Room, YT Creative Kids Hub, Distance Video Conference Room, Chapel, Moral Education Activity Room, Comprehensive Activity Room. |
| fac_others | All the classrooms are equipped with smartboards, computers and visualizers. All rooms and covered playgrounds in the school are air-conditioned. |
| fac_support_for_specialedu | Ramp, Accessible lift and Accessible toilet. |
| 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 | 50 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_0_4 | 12 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_5_9 | 29 |
| previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_10_or_above | 59 |
| 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 | 1. Implement small class teaching, small group and ability group teaching. <br>2. Provide 2 class teachers from P.1 to P.6 to cater for learning adaptation between different key stages. <br>3. Implement brain-based learning and diversified teaching strategies to cater for learning diversities. <br>4. Cultivate whole person development with Life Education, WISE programmes and MI activities in the afternoon. |
| cs_remarks | 1. Adopt ability grouping in KS2 English to enhance learning effectiveness of students with different English abilities. <br>2. Implement whole-school approach to cater for different learning diversities. <br>3. Strive to enhance students' holistic development, cultivate different abilities and reach their full potential. |
| 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 | No |
| upload_school_assessment_policy_to_school_web | No |
| upload_school_assignment_policy_to_school_web | Yes |
| diversified_assessment | 1. There are 2 exams in P.1 and P.6.<br>2. Diversified forms of formative assessment such as self-assessment, peer assessment and parent assessment are designed. |
| avoid_test_exam_after_long_holidays | Yes |
| arrange_timetable_flexibly_tutorial_session_in_afternoon | Yes |
| streaming_arrangement | No streaming. Students with different abilities are evenly allocated in each class. |
| 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 | 2:15 |
| lunch_arrangement | Provided by designated supplier and arranged by parents. |
| school_life_remarks | Life Education on Mondays. <br>WISE programmes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. <br>Multiple Intelligences activities on Wednesdays. <br>Extra-curricular activities from Mondays to Fridays after school.<br>Extra-curricular activities on Saturdays. |
| school_management_url | https://www.yantak.edu.hk/%E8%BE%A6%E5%AD%B8%E5%9C%98%E9%AB%94 |
| school_organisation | Our school has PTA and Alumni Association to develop and monitor the development of school affairs. There are also administrative teams to help develop and implement school affairs. |
| imc_smc_mc | Our Incorporated Management Committee is run by the supervisor, principal, senior principals, various professionals, parents, alumnus and teachers. |
| school_green_policy | Our Moral and Civic Education Group organizes and participates in environmental protection activities inside and outside the school, such as Student Environmental Protection Ambassador (SEPA) Scheme. |
| school_major_concerns_url | https://www.yantak.edu.hk/%E5%AD%B8%E6%A0%A1%E5%A0%B1%E5%91%8A%E5%8F%8A%E8%A8%88%E5%8A%83%E6%9B%B8 |
| school_major_concerns | 1. Practise the five Catholic core values and establish positive values for students. 2. Optimize learning from reading and deepen students' independent learning. |
| learning_and_teaching_plan_url | https://www.yantak.edu.hk/%E8%AA%B2%E7%A8%8B%E7%89%B9%E8%89%B2 |
| major_renewed_emphases_pri_edu_curriculum | 1. Implement National Security Education Curriculum in various subjects under the framework of Hong Kong's National Security Education Curriculum.<br>2. Provide diversified learning experiences and promote students' balanced physical and mental development through curriculum adaptation, ability grouping, interdisciplinary collaboration, flexible use of timetable, etc.<br>3. Nurture students with a sense of care about society through design thinking and information literacy in WISE programmes.<br>4. Help students master research methods, higher-order thinking and independent learning ability in cross-curricular learning.<br>5. School-based curriculum is adopted in junior GS and examinations are replaced by multiple assessments.<br>6. Cancel examination in the first learning phase in P.1 and assess their learning progress by formative assessments to cater for better transition to primary schooling.<br>7. Cancel examination in the third learning phase in P.6 to make room for better transition to secondary schooling. |
| dev_of_generic_skills | Cultivate students' creativity, critical thinking skills and self-learning ability collaboration and communication skills, creativity, critical thinking skills, self-learning ability and problem-solving skills through diversified and inquiry-based learning, cooperative learning, project learning and other activities. |
| cultivation_of_proper_values_attitudes_and_behaviours | 1. Our school upholds the five Catholic core values and believes that every child is unique, honourable and valuable. Through our school-based Life Education curriculum, students explore and reflect about themselves, the surroundings and the world using different senses. As a result, they are nurtured to be Yan Tak good children who are grateful for life, love God and the surroundings, appreciate and cherish life. <br>2. We organize a variety of activities to enhance students' interest in learning about topics relating to our country and their sense of national identity. |
| student_support_url | https://www.yantak.edu.hk/%E4%BF%A1%E4%BB%B0%E5%9F%B9%E8%82%B2%E6%B4%BB%E5%8B%95 |
| whole_school_approach_cater_for_learner_diversity | The Student Support Team develops strategies and motivates all teachers to adopt the 3-Tier Intervention Model to cater for students' diversified learning and emotional needs. Besides daily support by the registered social workers, the school-based educational psychologist and speech therapist work closely and regularly at school to provide professional support for students and teachers. In addition to the promotion of Gifted Education that develop students' potential, we provide various activities to support students' learning needs such as different after-school support programmes, NAC programme and NCS programme, etc. |
| 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; developing school-based Chinese Language curriculum and/or adapting learning and teaching materials; and organising activities to create an inclusive learning environment in the school. We provide additional Chinese learning support according to the NCS students' needs, such as pull-out/small-group classes, learning and teaching resources, etc. |
| curriculum_tailoring_and_adaptation | We strengthen the catering for students' learning diversities with curriculum adaptation, tiered assignments, homework and assessment adaptation. We enhance students' learning effectiveness by arranging school-based tutoring and gifted courses. |
| home-school_co-operation_url | https://www.yantak.edu.hk/%E5%AE%B6%E9%95%B7%E6%95%99%E5%B8%AB%E6%9C%83 |
| home-school_co-operation | The Parent-Teacher Association organizes parent education workshops, interest classes and other activities, such as parent-child trips, school uniform donations, pressure-free planting workshops, etc. We also invite parents to be volunteers and help in different events such as School's Sports Day, Reading Day, Mid-Autumn Festival activity, Chinese Culture Day, Teacher Appreciation Day, cleaning and lunch monitoring, selling flower for charity, etc. |
| school_ethos | 1. We implement Life Education to strengthen students' responsibility, positive attitude towards life and positive self-image through themed events, lectures and experiential learning. <br>2. We establish inclusive school and caring culture with caring activities such as different duties programme, Buddy programme, "You Deserve an Appreciation", etc. <br>3. We have Yan Tak Good Child Award Scheme. Students are praised regularly and there are increased opportunities for students to appreciate each other's achievements. Students can build up their positive image, develop a sense of responsibility and team sprit. |
| future_dev_url | https://www.yantak.edu.hk/%E5%AD%B8%E6%A0%A1%E5%A0%B1%E5%91%8A%E5%8F%8A%E8%A8%88%E5%8A%83%E6%9B%B8 |
| school_dev_plan | 1. Promote Catholic core values in various subjects continuously and optimize school-based Life Education curriculum. <br>2. Promote self-directed learning and enhance students’ learning effectiveness. <br>3. Cultivate students' reading interest and habits so that they can learn to read effectively by providing diversified reading experiences. <br>4. Promote National Education. |
| teacher_pro_training_and_dev | 1. Staff Development Days and teacher training are planned according to the annual school development plan to strengthen teachers' professional capabilities. Professional support services are actively applied and participated to enhance teachers' learning and teaching capabilities and academic exchanges inside and outside school. 2. each subject provides training and peer observation according to the development focus to enhance teachers' subject-based knowledge and skills. 3. Teachers set personal learning and career ladders. |