WILLIAM (SMART) KINDERGARTEN (WHAMPOA) (LOCAL STREAM)
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
Kindergarten:11 indicators apply, 3 matched
🎓 Teacher Qualifications
🎯 Mission
"Our school has been striving to provide quality and child centred pre-primary education with bilingual and trilingualism learning environment to nurture children to attain all-round development. Through play-based learning, children’s potential and intelligences are developed. Moreover, our philosophy is centered around the holistic development of the CHILD – offering love, care and a professional attitude. C – Creativity H – Happiness I – Intelligence L – Languages D – Development"
📚 Approach & Strategies
"To enrich young children's learning experience, we adopt different learning/teaching approaches and activities, which include the Activity Approach, the Thematic Approach, games, outdoor visits, small-group activities, parent-child reading scheme, and project studies."
💛 SEN Support
Joining the On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services.
📋 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 | refer to the school website |
| title_of_school_supervisor | MS |
| title_of_school_principal | MS |
| no_of_registered_classrooms | 8 |
| outdoor_playground | No |
| indoor_playground | Yes |
| music_room | Yes |
| other_special_rooms_or_areas | Physical Area, Creative Learning Corner |
| working_hd_30000_or_below | 100% |
| working_hd_30001_to_40000 | 0% |
| working_hd_40000_above | 0% |
| working_wd_30000_or_below | 62% |
| working_wd_30001_to_40000 | 25% |
| working_wd_40000_above | 13% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_below_4_yrs | 11% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_from_4_to_7_yrs | 22% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_above_7_yrs | 67% |
| summer_uniform | 250 |
| winter_uniform | 575 |
| school_bag | 160 |
| tea_and_snacks | 2,200 |
| textbooks | 1,664 |
| exercise_books_or_workbooks | 1,148 |
| stationery | No such item |
| bedding_items | No such item |
| salary_of_principal_and_teaching_staff | 55% |
| non-teaching_staff_salary | 7% |
| rent_management_fees_rates_and_government_rent | 36% |
| teaching_resources | 1% |
| staff_training_and_professional_development | <1% |
| other_expenses | 1% |
| expenditure_information_based_on_audited_account | Yes |
| curriculum_planning | Our curriculum encompasses five developmental objective (namely ''Physical '', ''Cognitive and Language '', ''Affective and Social '', ''Aesthetic'' and “Moral” ) and six learning areas. We teach through games which inspires children's exploration, thinking ability, imagination, memory and expression ability. Moreover, positive values and good attitudes are cultivated. 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 | Through systematic on-going observation and data collection, we report to parents regularly the relevant records and assessments in forms of rating scales, anecdotal records and samples, so that parents understand their children's learning performances and developmental progress. |
| support_to_students | Parent meetings for parents and adaptation period for new children; mock primary one and primary school visits to prepare children to get ready for primary school; close contact with parents to know more the growth needs of children, providing appropriate counselling and assistance; cooperate with different organization in the community, well use of the external resources to broaden children’s horizons and provide life-wide learning activities. |
| parent_teacher_association | No |
| other_activities_or_communication_with_parents | Parents’ day, different parent-child activities, sports day, seminars, parental collaboration and parent volunteers. |
| 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; create an enriched language environment for mastery of the Chinese language; create an inclusive learning environment to facilitate students' integration; facilitate professional development for teachers to develop effective strategies to help NCS students learn Chinese. |
| nursery_classes_not_writing | ✓ |
| total_no_of_permitted_accommodationof_classrooms_in_use | 252 |
| teacher_to_pupil_ratio_remarks | No |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_degree | 16 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_non_degree | 2 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_c_ece_or_above | 18 |
| 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 | https://applications.edb.gov.hk/schoolsearch/schoolfee/610771.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/William_Smart_WP.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/William_Smart_WP.pdf</a> |
| quality_review_result_and_report_eng | Meeting the standards <a href="https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/en/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/William_Smart_Whampoa.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/en/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/William_Smart_Whampoa.pdf</a> |
| child_care_service_for_aged_under_2 | - |
| child_care_service_for_aged_2_to_3 | - |
| no_for_enrolment_aged_2_to_3 | 0 |