THE SALVATION ARMY NG KWOK WAI MEMORIAL KINDERGARTEN
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
Kindergarten：11 indicators apply, 5 matched
🎓 Teacher Qualifications
🎯 Mission
"“Mission: Help students learn the spirit of honesty, trust, love and diligence from Christ. Aim: 1. Spread the love of Christ and Christianized life. 2. Value holistic education. 3. Create a good school spirit. 4. Provide an ideal study environment for children. 5. Value families and communities as partners of the school. 6. Encourage teachers to seek personal and professional improvement."
📚 Approach & Strategies
"1.Achieve “learning by doing” from teachers who provide inspiring learning environment and activities, with loving guidance and enlightenment in different pedagogies. 2.Implement “Life –wide Learning” to extend children’s interests by processing in-depth observation and information searching when exploring in the community, so that they can acquire empirical learning and practical knowledge. 3. We are very proud of our dedicated team of native English and Putonghua teachers. 4. Cooperate with parents to nurture children’s positive personalities and good living habits."
💛 SEN Support
"Joining the On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services. The school offers “ Integrated Services” and ”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 | refer to the school website |
| application_period_type | throughout the year |
| title_of_school_supervisor | MS |
| title_of_school_principal | MS |
| no_of_registered_classrooms | 6 |
| outdoor_playground | Yes |
| indoor_playground | Yes |
| music_room | Yes |
| other_special_rooms_or_areas | Computer simulation books zone, Blocks building zone, Visual arts zone |
| working_hd_30000_or_below | 100% |
| working_hd_30001_to_40000 | 0% |
| working_hd_40000_above | 0% |
| working_wd_30000_or_below | 20% |
| working_wd_30001_to_40000 | 30% |
| working_wd_40000_above | 50% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_below_4_yrs | 29% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_from_4_to_7_yrs | 24% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_above_7_yrs | 47% |
| summer_uniform | 190-380 |
| winter_uniform | $185-545 |
| school_bag | 82 |
| tea_and_snacks | 600 |
| textbooks | 1,085-1,135 |
| exercise_books_or_workbooks | 29-89 |
| stationery | No such item |
| bedding_items | No such item |
| salary_of_principal_and_teaching_staff | 54% |
| non-teaching_staff_salary | 16% |
| rent_management_fees_rates_and_government_rent | 20% |
| teaching_resources | 5% |
| staff_training_and_professional_development | <1% |
| other_expenses | 5% |
| expenditure_information_based_on_audited_account | Yes |
| curriculum_planning | We emphasise teacher-student interaction and provide learning activities based on personal inquiry and experience to help children develop multiple intelligences, generic skills and a good living habit. We encourage children to think more, ask more, try more, experience more, collaborate more, communicate more and participate more (7M) .Life education is implemented through the relationship between children and environment as well as human interaction. We add art courses in life education and turn the core value of life education into nutrient and power for children's growth. It is to help children to build up positive values and characters including courtesy, mutual respect and caring. 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 eatablished to provide children developmental assessments in various areas and promote holistic develpment 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 | Parents’ participation in teaching activities and lead in visiting activities, parent class observation, parents' day, parent-child activity day, parent-child Sports Day, parent-child trip, seminars, workshops and symposium. |
| support_to_non-chinese_speaking_ncs_students | Received Grant for Support to NCS Students; arrange interpretation/translation services; 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. |
| nursery_classes_not_writing | ✓ |
| total_no_of_permitted_accommodationof_classrooms_in_use | 300 |
| teacher_to_pupil_ratio_remarks | No |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_degree | 11 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_non_degree | 4 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_c_ece_or_above | 15 |
| 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/158550.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_NgKwokWaiMemorial.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/SA_NgKwokWaiMemorial.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/SA_NgKwokWaiMemorial.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/en/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/SA_NgKwokWaiMemorial.pdf</a> |
| child_care_service_for_aged_under_2 | - |
| child_care_service_for_aged_2_to_3 | - |
| no_for_enrolment_aged_2_to_3 | 0 |