THE SALVATION ARMY TIN KA PING KINDERGARTEN
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
Kindergarten：11 indicators apply, 4 matched
🎓 Teacher Qualifications
🎯 Mission
"Mission: To educate students to learn the style of Christ and develop the spirit of honesty, integrity, love and diligence. Purpose: 1. To spread the love of Christ, celebrate the Christianized life and educate the whole child. 2. To provide an ideal learning environment for children. 3. To create a fine school spirit. 4. To make the family and the community partners of the school."
📚 Approach & Strategies
"We design learning themes according to children's interests and life experiences. With a teaching approach based on stories, activities and projects, we help children acquire and apply knowledge, and develop their abilities in reading, writing and calculating. Children are arranged to participate in visits and community activities to enrich their experiences."
💛 SEN Support
"Joining the On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services. The school offers ''On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services'' for children with special needs. Through the inter-professional collaboration model (which includes special child care workers, speech therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, psychologists and social workers), we provide professional and appropriate training for children with special needs as well as supporting parents."
📋 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 | application form available for download |
| application_period_type | throughout the year |
| title_of_school_supervisor | MS |
| title_of_school_principal | MS |
| no_of_registered_classrooms | 11 |
| outdoor_playground | Yes |
| indoor_playground | Yes |
| music_room | Yes |
| other_special_rooms_or_areas | Gross/fine motor activity room, Sand, water and planting area, Interactive game room |
| working_hd_30000_or_below | 100% |
| working_hd_30001_to_40000 | 0% |
| working_hd_40000_above | 0% |
| working_wd_30000_or_below | 29% |
| working_wd_30001_to_40000 | 14% |
| working_wd_40000_above | 57% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_below_4_yrs | 40% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_from_4_to_7_yrs | 15% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_above_7_yrs | 45% |
| summer_uniform | 190-380 |
| winter_uniform | 185-545 |
| school_bag | 82 |
| tea_and_snacks | 600 |
| textbooks | 729-845 |
| exercise_books_or_workbooks | 29-73 |
| stationery | 0 |
| bedding_items | No such item |
| salary_of_principal_and_teaching_staff | 59% |
| non-teaching_staff_salary | 12% |
| rent_management_fees_rates_and_government_rent | 19% |
| teaching_resources | 4% |
| staff_training_and_professional_development | <1% |
| other_expenses | 6% |
| expenditure_information_based_on_audited_account | Yes |
| curriculum_planning | We provide a diversified range of integrative activities and games for our children to develop in thinking, language, perception and social aspects through personal inquiry, experience and teacher-student interaction, form good living habits and moral character by experiencing social life and build a solid foundation for learning. 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 | Continuous observation and assessment system has been established to provide children developmental assessments in various areas and promote holistic development in children mind and body. |
| support_to_students | The school provides ''Student Support Teacher'' and ''School Social Workers'' to support children and parents in need, such as counselling and referral service. |
| parent_teacher_association | Yes |
| other_activities_or_communication_with_parents | We believe in parent-school collaboration: Our Parent -Teacher Association , volunteer team enables parents to participate in school activities. We open the campus to parents: We arrange for them Class Visits, Parents Day, and Tours. Parent Education: Seminars, Workshops and Parents Worship. Parent-child activities: Parent-Child Sports Meetings, Parent-Child Fun Day and School Picnics. |
| 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. |
| nursery_classes_not_writing | ✓ |
| total_no_of_permitted_accommodationof_classrooms_in_use | 339 |
| teacher_to_pupil_ratio_remarks | No |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_degree | 12 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_non_degree | 7 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_c_ece_or_above | 19 |
| 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/156973.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/SA_TinKaPing.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/SA_TinKaPing.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 |