KARLAM KINDERGARTEN (TUEN MUN BRANCH)
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
Kindergarten:11 indicators apply, 3 matched
🎓 Teacher Qualifications
🎯 Mission
"We are committed to providing a great learning environment where students can grow up healthily and happily. We encourage students to take an active part in all kind of wholesome extracurricular activities to broaden their horizons and develop their multiple potentials. We aim to cultivate in students a correct outlook on life, values and a good moral character so that they grow into good, contributing citizens for society."
📚 Approach & Strategies
"We introduce activity- and story-based teaching approaches and a project-based learning approach while organizing group activities, visits and seminars."
💛 SEN Support
Joining the On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services. Joining with the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals to provide the school social work service.
📋 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 | MADAM |
| title_of_school_principal | MS |
| no_of_registered_classrooms | 16 |
| outdoor_playground | No |
| indoor_playground | Yes |
| music_room | Yes |
| other_special_rooms_or_areas | Language Activity Rooms and Library |
| working_hd_30000_or_below | 100% |
| working_hd_30001_to_40000 | 0% |
| working_hd_40000_above | 0% |
| working_wd_30000_or_below | 69% |
| working_wd_30001_to_40000 | 23% |
| working_wd_40000_above | 8% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_below_4_yrs | 53% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_from_4_to_7_yrs | 20% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_above_7_yrs | 27% |
| summer_uniform | 240-270 |
| winter_uniform | 350-390 |
| school_bag | 125 |
| tea_and_snacks | 1,705 |
| textbooks | 340-380 |
| exercise_books_or_workbooks | 760-1,000 |
| stationery | 180 |
| bedding_items | 180 |
| salary_of_principal_and_teaching_staff | 33% |
| non-teaching_staff_salary | 7% |
| rent_management_fees_rates_and_government_rent | 29% |
| teaching_resources | <1% |
| staff_training_and_professional_development | 0% |
| other_expenses | 31% |
| expenditure_information_based_on_audited_account | Being Audited |
| curriculum_planning | When we teach in a spiral way, our children learn in a progressive manner. With a diversity of materials, we aim to inspire children’s curiosity, outsight, thinking and creativity, and more importantly, empower our children to attain balanced 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 | Personal learning portfolios with records of children's growth and development, including continuous assessment records and students’ works and observation records for parents to understand their development in all aspects. |
| support_to_students | New Students Adaption Period, P.1 Admission Preparatory Weeks, and assistance for needy children in partnership with community agencies. |
| parent_teacher_association | Yes |
| other_activities_or_communication_with_parents | Regular Parent Club, Parent-Child Performance, Parents' Day, Parent-Child Booth Fun Day, Parent-Child School Picnics, Parent-Child Sports Days,Joint School Parent-child Funny Arts and Sports Day, and so on. |
| support_to_non-chinese_speaking_ncs_students | Received Grant for Support to NCS Students; appoint additional teaching staff / teaching assistants to support NCS students learning Chinese; arrange interpretation/translation services; engage NCS parent volunteers to enhance communication between school and parents; create an enriched language environment for mastery of the Chinese language; create an inclusive learning environment to facilitate students' integration; 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 | 276 |
| 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/536768.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/Karlam_TM.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/Karlam_TM.pdf</a> |
| quality_review_result_and_report_eng | Not applicable |
| child_care_service_for_aged_under_2 | No |