ST VINCENT DE PAUL NURSERY SCHOOL
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
Kindergarten：11 indicators apply, 6 matched
🎓 Teacher Qualifications
🎯 Mission
"We aim at attaining and practising virtues of charity. Enable children to grow happily within God’s love and build up the positive values and attitudes. We offer whole-day classes. We organize pleasant environment and a wide variety of activities, they cultivate children's interests in learning and interpersonal skills. They also develop good habits so as to prepare children for life and stimulate children's interest in learning."
📚 Approach & Strategies
"We encourage children to learn through play and learning focuses on personal exploration and creative. Children can build up confident, proactive attitude and develop social interaction skills through the participation of individual, group and whole-class activities and project learning. Outing activities are also provided for children with real-life learning experiences which help them to grow. We provide diversified religious activities so that children can learn the truth, good morals and proper values. We also have Native English teacher and Mandarin teachers in classes to create language-rich environment for children to learn."
💛 SEN Support
Joining the On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services. We provide “Integrated Programme in Kindergarten-cum-Child Care Centre” for students with special needs. We provide School-based Learning Support Program for children who are waiting for assessment or 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 | throughout the year |
| title_of_school_supervisor | MR |
| title_of_school_principal | MS |
| no_of_registered_classrooms_remarks | No information |
| outdoor_playground | No |
| indoor_playground | Yes |
| music_room | Yes |
| other_special_rooms_or_areas | Multi-purpose Activity Room, Individual Learning Room |
| working_hd_30000_or_below | - |
| working_hd_30001_to_40000 | - |
| working_hd_40000_above | - |
| working_hd_remarks | No teaching staff |
| working_wd_30000_or_below | 54% |
| working_wd_30001_to_40000 | 38% |
| working_wd_40000_above | 8% |
| 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 | 264 |
| winter_uniform | 780 |
| school_bag | 204 |
| tea_and_snacks | 0 |
| textbooks | 1,000-1,400 |
| exercise_books_or_workbooks | 0 |
| stationery | 0 |
| bedding_items | No such item |
| salary_of_principal_and_teaching_staff | 67% |
| non-teaching_staff_salary | 15% |
| rent_management_fees_rates_and_government_rent | 3% |
| teaching_resources | 9% |
| staff_training_and_professional_development | 0% |
| other_expenses | 6% |
| expenditure_information_based_on_audited_account | Yes |
| curriculum_planning | Our school curriculum is designed in accordance with the “Kindergarten Education Curriculum Guide” (2017) and development needs of children. Its contents integrated with life experiences and interests with diversified activities such as inquiry-based science, theater, creative art activities, so as to foster balanced development of children. It also regularly reviews the relevance of the curriculum and provides multi-sensory learning to encourage exploration, we aim at helping young children to achieve a comprehensive and balanced development in the domains of moral development, cognitive and language development, affective and social development, aesthetic development and physical development. 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 | Our school conducts continuous observation to evaluate the learning performance of children. In addition, we designed children’s “learning portfolio” which consists of theme assessment, children observation record, artwork’s analysis and parent evaluation. At the meanwhile, we arranges classroom observation for parents and parents’ day that make parents and teachers understand the learning and development of children. |
| support_to_students | Kindergarten new student adaptation and primary one new student adaptation programmes, parent-child library, family reading programmes , operate stationing school social work service and community outreach activities. |
| parent_teacher_association | No |
| other_activities_or_communication_with_parents | We keep close contact with parents and the community . Therefore, we organise parenting workshops and community visits regularly.Also, parent helpers are a valuable asset to our school, they frequently help in the library and different activities. |
| support_to_non-chinese_speaking_ncs_students | Received Grant for Support to NCS Students; 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; participate in school-based professional support programmes organised by EDB. |
| nursery_classes_not_writing | ✓ |
| total_no_of_permitted_accommodationof_classrooms_in_use | 82 |
| teacher_to_pupil_ratio_remarks | Yes |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_degree | 5 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_non_degree | 3 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_c_ece_or_above | 8 |
| 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/563510.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/StVincent_DePaul.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/StVincent_DePaul.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/StVincent_DePaul.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/en/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/StVincent_DePaul.pdf</a> |
| child_care_service_for_aged_under_2 | No |
| child_care_service_for_aged_2_to_3 | Yes |
| no_for_enrolment_aged_2_to_3 | 19 |