YUEN YUEN KINDERGARTEN (PING TIN ESTATE)
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
Kindergarten：11 indicators apply, 7 matched
🎓 Teacher Qualifications
🎯 Mission
"Our mission is to provide a holistic education based on Taoism, placing equal emphasis on students’ moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic development. In accordance with our motto “Grasp Principles, Cultivate Virtues”, we are dedicated to helping students develop moral integrity and academic excellence."
📚 Approach & Strategies
"In order to ensure children to have a comprehensive and balanced development, our kindergarten adopts a theme that is daily-life oriented, designing a variety of sensory learning activities in an integrated mode, supplemented by game teaching strategies, and presenting them through different learning forms and activities, such as story creation, English drama, and moral education theater, role-playing, dance performances, natural science exploration, etc. At the same time, we conduct community exploration with children, and provide a fun learning experience through visits, community services, uniform groups, etc."
💛 SEN Support
"Joining the On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services. Our school has participated in the “On-site Preschool Rehabilitation Services Scheme” which was organized by Yang Memorial Methodist Social Service, the Scheme holds an early intervention to children with needs to develop and they also provide support to parents in fostering positive attitude and developing effective skills in raising their children."
📋 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 | MR |
| title_of_school_principal | MS |
| no_of_registered_classrooms | 6 |
| outdoor_playground | No |
| indoor_playground | Yes |
| music_room | Yes |
| other_special_rooms_or_areas | Library, Multi-function room, English activities room |
| working_hd_30000_or_below | 100% |
| working_hd_30001_to_40000 | 0% |
| working_hd_40000_above | 0% |
| working_wd_30000_or_below | 64% |
| working_wd_30001_to_40000 | 18% |
| working_wd_40000_above | 18% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_below_4_yrs | 16% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_from_4_to_7_yrs | 46% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_above_7_yrs | 38% |
| summer_uniform | 267-424 |
| winter_uniform | 590-602 |
| school_bag | 128 |
| tea_and_snacks | 560 |
| textbooks | 637-1,581 |
| exercise_books_or_workbooks | 199-405 |
| stationery | 378-382 |
| bedding_items | 1,120 |
| salary_of_principal_and_teaching_staff | 66% |
| non-teaching_staff_salary | 19% |
| rent_management_fees_rates_and_government_rent | 8% |
| teaching_resources | <1% |
| staff_training_and_professional_development | 0% |
| other_expenses | 7% |
| expenditure_information_based_on_audited_account | Yes |
| curriculum_planning | Our kindergarten takes ''child-oriented'' as the core value of the curriculum, it is planned in accordance with children's physical and mental development and learning interests. Our school employs school-based English teachers and Putonghua teachers to promote the language development in both Chinese and English, to develop children to be biliterate and trilingual, and we adopt Operational and Integrated Mathematical Learning in Preschools (OIMLP) and online learning platforms to inspire children's logical thinking, to develop the basic concepts in mathematics and technology. In addition, the school attaches great importance to the cultivation of children's moral character, we educate children to cultivate positive values and the correct attitude to get along with others by using picture books as a teaching tool. Through systematic and physical fitness courses that are suitable for children's development, they can develop children's muscular capacity and build interest and confidence in sports. In order to cultivate children's imagination, creativity and communication skills, our kindergarten also has diverse and interesting art creation, display and appreciation activities. 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 | Establish children's growing up files to collect diversified assessment models and data collection, such as ongoing observation records, assessment forms, work analysis. These are used to record children's performance and progress in cognition, physical fitness, affection and social abilities as well as aesthetic culture, and we have evaluations from teachers and parents together with children’s feedback which are critical for comprehensive and systematic analysis for their overall development. |
| support_to_students | We provide contingency fund scheme, parent-child adaptation classes, K.3 Primary School Experience Week, pluralistic learning groups, and a school social worker. |
| parent_teacher_association | Yes |
| other_activities_or_communication_with_parents | We organize many family activities for parents and children. We also have regular parent education activities, P. T. A., and a team of parent volunteers. Parents’ meeting are held twice a year. |
| support_to_non-chinese_speaking_ncs_students | Received Grant for Support to NCS Students; Schools have teachers to support non-Chinese speaking children to learn Chinese. Through community visits and interpretation services, we encourage and support non-Chinese speaking students and their families to integrate into school life and society. |
| nursery_classes_not_writing | ✓ |
| total_no_of_permitted_accommodationof_classrooms_in_use | 133 |
| teacher_to_pupil_ratio_remarks | Yes |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_degree | 14 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_non_degree | 0 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_c_ece_or_above | 13 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_qualified_kg_teachers | 1 |
| 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/528366.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/YY_PingTin.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/YY_PingTin.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/YY_PingTin.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/en/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/YY_PingTin.pdf</a> |
| child_care_service_for_aged_under_2 | No |
| child_care_service_for_aged_2_to_3 | Yes |