THE INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS FOUNDATION PRE-SCHOOL
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
Kindergarten:11 indicators apply, 1 matched
🎓 Teacher Qualifications
🎯 Mission
"The ISF Vision The ISF is a community of learners, independent in thought and action, deeply rooted in Chinese culture, global in understanding and experience, and excellent in all endeavors. The ISF Mission An ISF education is to develop: • Independent Minds: Nurturing creativity, critical thinking, and a lifelong love of learning for academic, personal, and social development; • Chinese Virtues: Educating learners in a uniquely Chinese-English bilingual and East-West bicultural environment rooted in timeless Chinese values embodied in the Eight Virtues + One ; and • Global Ou…
📚 Approach & Strategies
"The program is designed to be sufficiently flexible to accommodate for individual children’s patterns of learning and development. The program provides opportunities for new learning to be fostered and enables children to reflect on different ways of doing things, makes connections across time and place, establishes different kinds of relationships and encounter different points of view."
💛 SEN Support
No information
📋 School Data
All raw fields from the Education Bureau school profile not shown above.
| joining_kg_edu_scheme | Not 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 | MISS |
| title_of_school_principal | MS |
| no_of_registered_classrooms | 8 |
| outdoor_playground | No information |
| indoor_playground | Yes |
| music_room | Yes |
| other_special_rooms_or_areas | • Wooden Climbing Structure • Cooking Studio • Art Atelier • Makerspace • Extension Site Activity Rooms |
| working_hd_30000_or_below | - |
| working_hd_30001_to_40000 | - |
| working_hd_40000_above | - |
| working_hd_remarks | No information |
| working_wd_30000_or_below | - |
| working_wd_30001_to_40000 | - |
| working_wd_40000_above | - |
| working_wd_remarks | No information |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_below_4_yrs | - |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_from_4_to_7_yrs | - |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_above_7_yrs | - |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_remarks | No information |
| summer_uniform | No information |
| winter_uniform | No information |
| school_bag | No information |
| tea_and_snacks | No information |
| textbooks | No information |
| exercise_books_or_workbooks | No information |
| stationery | No information |
| bedding_items | No information |
| salary_of_principal_and_teaching_staff | - |
| non-teaching_staff_salary | - |
| rent_management_fees_rates_and_government_rent | - |
| teaching_resources | - |
| staff_training_and_professional_development | - |
| other_expenses | - |
| expenditure_information_remarks | No information |
| expenditure_information_based_on_audited_account | No Information |
| curriculum_planning | The ISF Pre-School curriculum is developed on the basis of the International Early Years Curriculum (IEYC) and The ISF Academy Foundation Years curriculum, drawing together the essence of Chinese and Western thinking. The program is delivered through two languages of instruction, with 70% in Putonghua and 30% in English. It provides a rich bank of experiences from which young children can learn to make sense of their own world and the world around them. The ISF Pre-School curriculum’s fully integrated, balanced, inquiry approach to teaching and learning capitalizes on young children’s interest and their desire to explore, ask questions and find the answers. Each unit is designed to focus on issues relevant to young children and lasts several weeks to allow in-depth and authentic learning. The curriculum fully integrates the six key learning areas: • Language • Early Childhood Mathematics • Nature and Living • Arts and Creativity • Physical Fitness and Health • Self and Society |
| assessment_of_children_learning_experiences | Effective assessment procedures are critical to effective teaching and learning at all ages. Teachers can best meet the needs of individual learners when they are able to establish, through a range of diagnostic and formative assessment procedures, the next step required to be taken in the teaching process. Taking the time to find out what a child has actually learned at the end of a lesson is an essential part of the planning process. |
| support_to_students | • Small class sizes • Differentiated teaching and learning • Flexible groupings |
| parent_teacher_association | No information |
| other_activities_or_communication_with_parents | • Student Progress: Student portfolio, reports and parent-teacher conferences • Communication with Parents: School News and Notices, unit newsletters, class blogs and emails • School Activities: Annual family outing, sports day, story-telling, recycling program, field trips and student exhibition |
| support_to_non-chinese_speaking_ncs_students | • Putonghua immersion • Resources designed for non-Chinese speaking students |
| nursery_classes_not_writing | ✗ |
| total_no_of_permitted_accommodationof_classrooms_in_use | 416 |
| teacher_to_pupil_ratio_remarks | No |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_degree | 25 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_non_degree | 0 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_c_ece_or_above | 24 |
| 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 | 1 |
| fees_certificate | http://applications.edb.gov.hk/schoolsearch/schoolfee/600601.pdf |
| quality_review_result_and_report_chi | Not applicable |
| 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 |
| cc_service_fee_level_annum_hd | - |
| cc_service_fee_level_annum_wd | - |
| join_ccc_subsidy_scheme | - |
| provide_occasional_cc_service | - |