🧸 Kindergarten ・ Wan Chai
ST JAMES' SETTLEMENT KATHLEEN MCDOUALL KINDERGARTEN
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
55
High
Kindergarten：11 indicators apply, 6 matched
🧸
ST JAMES' SETTLEMENT KATHLEEN MCDOUALL KINDERGARTEN
Wan Chai ・
Kindergarten ・ Est. 1963
📍 Address
"3/F - 6/F(PORTION), 100 KENNEDY ROAD, …
📞 Phone
2596 2523
📠 Fax
2838 2019
👩🏫 Principal
LEUNG PIK SHAN
🧑💼 Supervisor
CHEUNG TAT CHEONG
📅 Founded
1963
🏷️ School Type
Non-profit-making
📐 Curriculum
Local
👫 Gender
Co-educational
🔢 School Code
564338
🎓 Teacher Qualifications
👨🏫 Total Teachers
17
🕐 AM Student–Teacher Ratio
1 : 6.6
🕐 PM Student–Teacher Ratio
1 : 6.6
🎯 Mission
"By upholding the spirit of quality services and promoting Christian care to take care children and enable them to have healthy growth and become cheerful, benevolence, responsible and confident."
📚 Approach & Strategies
"We value the importance of child-centred education & the individual differences of children. By paying attention to individual needs, experiences, abilities and interests development and taking care of their physical, mental and spiritual well-beings. we use innovative and integrative approaches to bring out the special features of our school. Moreover, we provide field trips, workshops and extended learning activities (such as English, Mandarin, Physical Education, Visual Arts, Creative Music and Drama) to broaden their horizon and learn to be more confident, creative and active."
💛 SEN Support
Joining the On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services. Tier 1 Support Services
📋 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 | refer to the school website |
| title_of_school_supervisor | MR |
| title_of_school_principal | MS |
| no_of_registered_classrooms | 10 |
| outdoor_playground | Yes |
| indoor_playground | Yes |
| music_room | Yes |
| other_special_rooms_or_areas | Library,Games Room, Interview Room |
| working_hd_30000_or_below | - |
| working_hd_30001_to_40000 | - |
| working_hd_40000_above | - |
| working_hd_remarks | No teaching staff |
| working_wd_30000_or_below | 50% |
| working_wd_30001_to_40000 | 25% |
| working_wd_40000_above | 25% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_below_4_yrs | 8% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_from_4_to_7_yrs | 25% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_above_7_yrs | 67% |
| summer_uniform | 85-214 |
| winter_uniform | 95-315 |
| school_bag | 110 |
| tea_and_snacks | 0 |
| textbooks | 879-995 |
| exercise_books_or_workbooks | 240 |
| stationery | 720 |
| bedding_items | No such item |
| salary_of_principal_and_teaching_staff | 62% |
| non-teaching_staff_salary | 15% |
| rent_management_fees_rates_and_government_rent | 3% |
| teaching_resources | 8% |
| staff_training_and_professional_development | <1% |
| other_expenses | 12% |
| expenditure_information_based_on_audited_account | Yes |
| curriculum_planning | By upholding the spirit of quality services and promoting Christian care, we provide comprehensive care and education services for children aged 18m-6. According to the Guide to the Pre-primary Curriculum of EDB, we integrate the curriculum to design child-centred activities according to children’s interests and abilities.Our curriculum focusing on theme-based teaching, project-based learning and whole-language teaching. Our teaching focusing on children’s moral, intellectual, physical, social, aesthetic and spiritual development, let children grow in a loving, pleasant and safe environment. Develop children to be healthy, lively, caring, confident and responsible to lay a good foundation for future studies. 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 | Children’s learning is observed and recorded on an ongoing child assessment. Along with monthly theme-based assessments, semiyearly observational reports, and a yearly children portfolios. |
| support_to_students | Parent meetings for new students, visiting activities and adaption week; Pre-primary activities, local primary schools visit; Integrated Programme and Non-Chinese speaking program provide training and care to children and provide professional advices or referral for parents. |
| parent_teacher_association | Yes |
| other_activities_or_communication_with_parents | The communication between parents and the school was encouraged by using students handbook, phone calls, direct meetings school newsletters, school web and messages. We also established the Parent-Teacher Association, class observations, education workshops, parent-child activities, joint school activities and volunteer services to enhance home-school cooperation. |
| 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; 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; collaborate with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to create an inclusive learning environment; facilitate professional development for teachers to develop effective strategies to help NCS students learn Chinese; participate in school-based professional support programmes organised by EDB. |
| nursery_classes_not_writing | ✓ |
| total_no_of_permitted_accommodationof_classrooms_in_use | 101 |
| teacher_to_pupil_ratio_remarks | Yes |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_degree | 14 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_non_degree | 3 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_c_ece_or_above | 17 |
| 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/564338.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/SJS_KathleenMcDouall.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/SJS_KathleenMcDouall.pdf</a> |
| quality_review_result_and_report_eng | Not applicable |
| child_care_service_for_aged_under_2 | Yes |
| child_care_service_for_aged_2_to_3 | Yes |
| no_for_enrolment_aged_2_to_3 | 23 |