THE HONG KONG CHINESE CHURCH OF CHRIST THE LIGHT KINDERGARTEN
📰 School Stories
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
Kindergarten：11 indicators apply, 5 matched
🎓 Teacher Qualifications
🎯 Mission
"Our church established the kindergarten to spread the gospel, to cultivate children to grow in faith. In the spirit of Christ, the kindergarten puts emphasis on ethical, intellectual, physical, social, aesthetic and spiritual education, to cultivate good habits, to inspire learning interest and to lay the basis for pre-primary education."
📚 Approach & Strategies
"Our school adopts an inspiring curriculum based on illustrated stories, with the goal of helping children develop the good moral values through real-world materials. The school’s curriculum is focused on the child’s individual developmental needs and learning abilities based on developmental stages, allowing children to learn in a pleasant and fun environment. The school has set up daily bilingual classes to help children enrich their language environment and increase their opportunities to use and be exposed to English. Foreign teachers work closely with local teachers to create a real-world learning experience for children through stories, games, songs, and other activities. The school has arranged specialist teachers in a wide range of subjects: PE, dance, music, and Mandarin…
💛 SEN Support
"Joining the On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services. Our school joins the ‘OPRS’, different therapists are arranged to give professional assistance and training to students in need. Our school-based social worker supports students with special needs and their families by seminars, counseling, social and emotional training."
📋 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 | 5 |
| outdoor_playground | No |
| indoor_playground | Yes |
| music_room | Yes |
| other_special_rooms_or_areas | Indoor Playgroup, Music Room, English Room and Multi-function room |
| working_hd_30000_or_below | 100% |
| working_hd_30001_to_40000 | 0% |
| working_hd_40000_above | 0% |
| working_wd_30000_or_below | 80% |
| working_wd_30001_to_40000 | 0% |
| working_wd_40000_above | 20% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_below_4_yrs | 14% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_from_4_to_7_yrs | 0% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_above_7_yrs | 86% |
| summer_uniform | 433 |
| winter_uniform | 644 |
| school_bag | 80 |
| tea_and_snacks | 924 |
| textbooks | 755 |
| exercise_books_or_workbooks | 134 |
| stationery | 88 |
| bedding_items | 400 |
| salary_of_principal_and_teaching_staff | 52% |
| non-teaching_staff_salary | 20% |
| rent_management_fees_rates_and_government_rent | 11% |
| teaching_resources | <1% |
| staff_training_and_professional_development | 0% |
| other_expenses | 17% |
| expenditure_information_based_on_audited_account | Yes |
| curriculum_planning | The child-centred approach is adopted. The curriculum is formulated according to children’s physical and psychological development and in line with children’s learning interest and needs. Self-directed learning is emphasized. The school curriculum includes the training of knowledge, skills and attitude. Various whole-language and stimulating activities are supported with diversified teaching approaches to promote learning and development of children so as to fulfil the objective of holistic development. Our school has organized The Boy's Brigade, Hong Kong in order to build up children's positive attitude in discipline through Christian uniformed group, with love in people and Jesus. 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 | We assess our children’s learning and development through formative assessment. We provide personalized feedbacks to students and parents to promote learning and growth. Children’s development are assessed in the following areas: Moral Development (Ethics), Cognitive and Language Development (Intellect), Physical Development (Physique), Affective & Social Development (Social Skills), Aesthetic Development (Aesthetics). |
| support_to_students | During the adaptation period, new students are accompanied by parents. Learning pace would be adjusted based on individual needs. We provide K3 students with primary school adaptation activities. Our school-based social worker also provide on-site training. |
| parent_teacher_association | No |
| other_activities_or_communication_with_parents | We conduct home-school activities such as talks, workshops, Parents’ Day, School Picnic and parent volunteer groups regularly, to enable parents to learn and understand children’s learning progress. |
| 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; facilitate professional development for teachers to develop effective strategies to help NCS students learn Chinese; To enhance our ability of teaching non-chinese students, we receive professional training provided by EDB. Learning content is designed by our native English teacher and local English teachers. |
| nursery_classes_not_writing | ✓ |
| total_no_of_permitted_accommodationof_classrooms_in_use | 56 |
| teacher_to_pupil_ratio_remarks | No |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_degree | 7 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_non_degree | 3 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_c_ece_or_above | 9 |
| 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/519634.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/HKCCC_TheLight.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/HKCCC_TheLight.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 |