YMCA OF HONG KONG CHRISTIAN KINDERGARTEN (KAI CHING)
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
Kindergarten：11 indicators apply, 6 matched
🎓 Teacher Qualifications
🎯 Mission
"Based on the spirit of Christ's love for people, we use spiritual education to integrate the curriculum of Moral, Intellectual, Physical, Social, Aesthetic, and Emotional Education. We use Christian education as a teaching guide to build up students' positive values and outlook on life towards others and themselves, and to nurture children to become future pillars of society who love God and love others."
📚 Approach & Strategies
"Provide diversified “learning areas” for children to learn through play; set up a “language and reading room” to expose children to a large number of Chinese and English vocabularies and cultivate children's interest in writing and reading; language (English and Putonghua) teachers help children to master listening, speaking, reading and pinyin through school-based teaching materials designed in the mode of daily life; adopt the Ovation method of teaching music to develop the imaginative, abstract, spatial and We use music to develop imaginative, abstract, spatial and emotional intelligence, which is the foundation for learning musical instruments; we use Montessori manipulative teaching aids to enhance children's ability in mathematical and logical thinking; we design diversified displa…
💛 SEN Support
Joining the On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services. School Social Worker Service
📋 School Data
All raw fields from the Education Bureau school profile not shown above.
| joining_kg_edu_scheme | Joining |
|---|---|
| received_grant_for_support_to_ncs_students | ✓ |
| application_form_type | refer to the school website |
| application_period_type | throughout the year |
| title_of_school_supervisor | MS |
| title_of_school_principal | MS |
| no_of_registered_classrooms | 4 |
| outdoor_playground | No |
| indoor_playground | Yes |
| music_room | Yes |
| other_special_rooms_or_areas | Multi Art Room, Language Room |
| working_hd_30000_or_below | 100% |
| working_hd_30001_to_40000 | 0% |
| working_hd_40000_above | 0% |
| working_wd_30000_or_below | 42% |
| working_wd_30001_to_40000 | 29% |
| working_wd_40000_above | 29% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_below_4_yrs | 12% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_from_4_to_7_yrs | 0% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_above_7_yrs | 88% |
| summer_uniform | 315 |
| winter_uniform | 400 |
| school_bag | 85 |
| tea_and_snacks | 1,210 |
| textbooks | No such item |
| exercise_books_or_workbooks | 0 |
| stationery | 0 |
| bedding_items | No such item |
| salary_of_principal_and_teaching_staff | 51% |
| non-teaching_staff_salary | 17% |
| rent_management_fees_rates_and_government_rent | 16% |
| teaching_resources | 1% |
| staff_training_and_professional_development | 0% |
| other_expenses | 15% |
| expenditure_information_based_on_audited_account | Being Audited |
| curriculum_planning | Using the “Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines 2017” as the curriculum planning guideline and the “Basic Early Childhood Bible Curriculum” published by the College of Pre-school Childhood Education of the National University of Hawaii as the blueprint, supplemented by the kindergarten teaching materials, the “child-centered” teaching content is set to match the children's life experience and to cultivate the whole-person development of the children. We will follow the “Kindergarten Education Curriculum Guide” (2017) to plan curriculum. Children of nursery classes will not be asked to write, and there will not be mechanical copying exercises and drills on calculation. |
| assessment_of_children_learning_experiences | Continuous observation, recording and analysis are conducted to assess children's learning and development with emphasis on physical and mental development and life application. To create “Children's Learning Archives” for children, collecting children's personal data, work analysis and observation records of various learning areas. |
| support_to_students | Set up new student's English playgroup, adaptation period, welcome activities, and parent meetings ; Prepare for K3 students to transition to Primary One, organize Primary One seat allocation lectures, visit primary schools and simulate primary school life. |
| parent_teacher_association | No |
| other_activities_or_communication_with_parents | Parent-child trips, open houses, parent classroom observations, parent days, parent seminars, field trips, and various parent-child activities are held annually. |
| support_to_non-chinese_speaking_ncs_students | Received Grant for Support to NCS Students; appoint additional teaching staff / teaching assistants to support NCS students learning Chinese; arrange interpretation/translation services; engage NCS parent volunteers to enhance communication between school and parents; create an enriched language environment for mastery of the Chinese language; create an inclusive learning environment to facilitate students' integration; collaborate with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to create an inclusive learning environment; facilitate professional development for teachers to develop effective strategies to help NCS students learn Chinese; Join the C-for-Chinese@JC |
| nursery_classes_not_writing | ✓ |
| total_no_of_permitted_accommodationof_classrooms_in_use | 80 |
| teacher_to_pupil_ratio_remarks | No |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_degree | 5 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_non_degree | 1 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_c_ece_or_above | 6 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_qualified_kg_teachers | 0 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_other_teacher_trainings | 0 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_qualified_assistant_kg_teachers | 0 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_others | 0 |
| fees_certificate | http://applications.edb.gov.hk/schoolsearch/schoolfee/599700.pdf |
| quality_review_result_and_report_chi | Meeting the standards <a href="https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/YMCAHK_KaiChing.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/YMCAHK_KaiChing.pdf</a> |
| quality_review_result_and_report_eng | Not applicable |
| child_care_service_for_aged_under_2 | - |
| child_care_service_for_aged_2_to_3 | - |
| no_for_enrolment_aged_2_to_3 | 0 |