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Po Leung Kuk Tin Ka Ping Primary School

Po Leung Kuk Tin Ka Ping Primary School
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✨ Happy Index

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

36
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Primary:11 indicators apply, 4 matched

🎒
Po Leung Kuk Tin Ka Ping Primary School
Tai Po ・ Primary ・ Est. 1991
📍 Address
Area 6, Wan Tau Tong Estate, Tai Po, N.…
📞 Phone
26521222
📠 Fax
26518832
✉️ Email
info@plktkp.edu.hk
⛪ Religion
Not Applicable
👩‍🏫 Principal
Chan Wing Yin Jojo
📅 Founded
1991
👫 Gender
Co-ed
🗣️ Language
Chinese(incl.: Putonghua) and English

🎯 Mission

To win recognition, trust and respect from the community, we strive to establish and maintain excellent school ethos. We emphasize as much on improving our teaching quality as on encouraging students' self-learning. Students are educated both academically and morally. We train students to be both confident and independent so as to enable them to keep pace with the times. It is our aim that students would be able to face future challenges.

📚 Approach & Strategies

We aim to creating a biliterate and trilingual learning atmosphere, paying equal attention to Chinese, English, and Putonghua, effectively improving students' language ability. Cooperative learning strategies, higher-order thinking skills training, and collaborative teaching of electronic materials are used to enhance students' learning motivation and effectiveness, take care of individual differences and learning needs to promote learning and teaching. Through thematic project learning, computational thinking courses, life-wide learning activities, and online learning platforms, students are encouraged to learn directedly, so as to develop their multiple intelligences and generic skills.

💛 SEN Support

Student support team is committed to developing an inclusive culture through the Whole School Approach to support students with special educational needs (SEN). We provide these students with diversified support including school-based speech therapy service, school-based educational psychology service, and specific measures such as teaching adaptation and assessment accommodation, remedial learning groups and training on social skills to enhance their learning and adjustment to the school life. Furthermore, we have meetings with parents regularly to discuss students' progress and appropriate adjustments.

🎨 Whole-person Learning

Our school offers 13 gifted training courses, including Voice Acting Training, Debate Team Training, Campus TV Club, Visual Art Teams,Little Scientists, etc. Service teams such as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, CYC, Hong Kong Flag-guards. We also provide training and interest classes for athletic teams, including Track and Field, Choir, Dance Team, Wind Band, String Orchestra, Percussion, Musical Theatre, Juggling, Magic, Double Dutch, Dragon and Lion Dance Team, Basketball Team, Badminton Team, and Table Tennis.Enrich students' learning experiences through diverse extracurricular activities.

📋 School Data

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

poa_school_net 84
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 Po Leung Kuk
school_motto Love, Respect, Diligence, Integrity
school_size 4590
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 $450
asc_others Replacement of student card $50
fac_no_of_classroom 24
fac_no_of_school_hall 1
fac_no_of_playground 2
fac_no_of_library 1
fac_special_rooms IT Room, STEAM LAB, Music Room, Art Room, English Fun Room, Multi-Purpose Rooms, Tutorial Rooms, Counselling Room, Conference Room, Seminar Rooms, Activity Room.
fac_others Accessible Wi-Fi and Intranet; Classroom facilities include Smart TV, projector, computer, student lockers, book shelf and air purifier etc.
fac_support_for_specialedu Ramp, Accessible lift and Accessible toilet.
previous_year_tsi_no_of_approved_teaching_posts 45
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_received_teacher_training 100
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_master_doctorate_or_above 28
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_special_edu_training 68
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_0_4 40
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_5_9 22
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_10_or_above 38
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 Positive Education and the Co-operative Learning are adopted in all levels. The various strategies incorporated in the lessons are gifted education, STEM Education, IT interactive learning, learner diversity and critical thinking skills. In P.1 - P.3, every class is of heterogeneous ability, whereas in P.4 - P.6 individual students' abilities and needs are considered.
cs_remarks http://www.plktkp.edu.hk/
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 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 Meaningful assignments are designed to enhance students' thinking skills and strengthen their knowledge. Students are assessed through class observation, thematic projects and progressive assessments. Quizzes and exams are adopted to assess students' overall performance.
avoid_test_exam_after_long_holidays Yes
arrange_timetable_flexibly_tutorial_session_in_afternoon Yes
streaming_arrangement Streaming of P.4 to P.6 is based on students' academic results in exams.
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 3:10
school_ends_at_AMPM PM
lunch_start_time 12:55
lunch_end_time 1:50
lunch_arrangement Provided by designated supplier, arranged by parents and lunch boxes brought by students.
school_life_remarks Students can finish their homework in the tutorial lessons. Moral and National Education lessons, library lessons and extra-curricular activities are also provided. Different activities, such as chess, English games, practising musical instruments, making crafts and Principal story telling are held during lunch time to enrich the students' school life.
school_management_url http://www.plktkp.edu.hk/pages/intro/structure/intro_structure.html
school_organisation We adopt the School Based Management scheme. In pursuit of self-perfection, the School principal and all teaching staff will conduct an annual analysis of the current status of the School and its needs. A list of main concerns for the coming year would be drawn up from the analysis, which will form the basis of decision-making regarding how we balance our competitive edges, how our development plan should evolve, and to ensure all targets are met smoothly. School Improvement Team was established to help evaluate the effectiveness of our school.
imc_smc_mc Established on 2 January 2008.
school_green_policy We have setup three-colour recycling bins, which aims to encourage students the practice of separating waste paper, metals and plastic for recycling. Besides, we have implemented "No Air-conditioning Day", it aims to enhance students understanding of the importance of resources conservation. Our school has joined the "Food for Good School Programme", P.3 to P.6 students' meals will be served in reusable containers which are portioned in the classroom in order to reduce the waste of food.
school_major_concerns_url http://www.plktkp.edu.hk/pages/intro/proposal/intro_proposal.html
school_major_concerns 1. Stimulate students' passion for learning and promote self-directed learning<br>2. Strengthen positive education in order to create a positive school culture.
learning_and_teaching_plan_url http://www.plktkp.edu.hk/pages/subj/subj/subj.html
major_renewed_emphases_pri_edu_curriculum The major renewed emphases include: strengthening values education (including life education, national education and national security education); making 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; better catering for learner diversity; reinforcing, STEAM education, and nurturing students' media and information literacy; strengthening cross-curricular learning and reading across the curriculum for developing lifelong learning capabilities; and enhancing assessment literacy for promoting learning and teaching effectiveness.
dev_of_generic_skills Through quality school-based curricula (e.g., Chinese Culture curriculum), project-based learning activities (e.g., Tai Po Blessing Culture), cross-curricular learning, and holistic learning programs, students are nurtured to develop the nine generic skills.
cultivation_of_proper_values_attitudes_and_behaviours We believes that positive values and attitudes can help students flourish in life. We also emphasise students' holistic development. To achieve the preceding objectives, morning assemblies, moral and national education lessons including positive education, life education, national security education are specially designed to allow our students to discover, nurture and utilise their character strengths and potentials. Learning activities aim to assist our students to develop positive values and attitudes which are the key to flourishing in life.
student_support_url http://www.plktkp.edu.hk/pages/intro/stusupport/intro_stuSupport.html
whole_school_approach_cater_for_learner_diversity In order to cater for students' diversity, our school provides support and training to students through different award schemes, love ambassadors, Reading Ambassador, Understanding Adolescent Project, school-based gifted education courses, after-school homework guidance, etc. Students can develop their potentials from different experiences.
curriculum_tailoring_and_adaptation Our school adjusts and tailors the curriculum according to students' abilities and needs, developing quality school-based programs and promoting interdisciplinary learning and project studies to enhance the cultivation of the nine generic skills and foster independent learning. Additionally, our school offers enrichment or remedial courses to improve students' learning effectiveness and address learning differences.
home-school_co-operation_url http://www.plktkp.edu.hk/pages/pta/intro/pta_intro.html
home-school_co-operation The Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) of the School was established in 1998 to promote closer links between parents and the School, and to foster friendly partnership between the two sides. The PTA has been cooperating with the School to nurture our students in a healthy and happy environment. With the effort of The PTA and our school, we hold various types of activities such as parental school picnic, seminars, parent workshops, games days etc. each year to provide different learning environments to our students.
school_ethos The School's Discipline and Counselling Committee is in charge of the task of guiding students to live by the general motto for the Kuk's primary schools – that each of them would value "Love, Respect, Diligence and Integrity". The entire school staff work closely together with parents to formulate moral and civic education programmes and events for students. Incorporating discipline with counselling, our activities teach students about reasons behind discipline, and guide them through constant counselling. Each student is taught right from wrong in an environment that upholds simple good virtues. They are trained to love their school, understand one's rights and obligations in society, care for the community and for the country, and become good citizens. In addition, our school also holds different activities for student leadership training. In addition, our school also offers leadership training for students, such as prefect training program and caring ambassador training workshops.
future_dev_url http://www.plktkp.edu.hk/pages/intro/proposal/intro_proposal.html
school_dev_plan It aims at stimulating students’ passion for learning and promoting self-directed learning as well as strengthening positive education in order to create a positive school culture.

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