HONG KONG CHRISTIAN SERVICE TIMES NURSERY SCHOOL
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
Kindergarten：11 indicators apply, 6 matched
🎓 Teacher Qualifications
🎯 Mission
"Childhood is a special and precious stage in our life cycle. We strive to provide a safe, healthy, rich and interactive study environment for children to promote their balanced development, inspire their interest in study, help them develop a good living habit, promote their physical and mental development, and get them prepared for further study. We arrange rich literary and artistic activities to develop children’s aesthetic and artistic sentiment; we help parents working out to take care of and educate their children."
📚 Approach & Strategies
"Our curricula feature theme-based teaching and project-based learning, and focus on children’s life experience and physical quality. Every day, we reserve time for news sharing. Apart from teaching activities, we also arrange visits, expert interviews, field trips, parent-child activities, etc. We emphasize children’s development in creative arts. In addition to literary and artistic activities every afternoon, we also hold children's creative art exhibitions and creative drama performances every year. We promote programme which includes diversified teaching strategies to meet the peculiarities of children and promote their holistic development. Additionally, we also develop our school-based mathematics curriculum, and also provide a variety of Chinese and English reading and play activi…
💛 SEN Support
Joining the On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services. Integrated Programme
📋 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 | MS |
| title_of_school_principal | MS |
| no_of_registered_classrooms_remarks | No information |
| outdoor_playground | No |
| indoor_playground | Yes |
| music_room | Yes |
| other_special_rooms_or_areas | Reading 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 | 0% |
| working_wd_40000_above | 50% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_below_4_yrs | 0% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_from_4_to_7_yrs | 50% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_above_7_yrs | 50% |
| summer_uniform | 410-440 |
| winter_uniform | 530-575 |
| school_bag | 88 |
| tea_and_snacks | No such item |
| textbooks | 179-235 |
| exercise_books_or_workbooks | 21-223 |
| stationery | 24-66 |
| bedding_items | 316 |
| salary_of_principal_and_teaching_staff | 47% |
| non-teaching_staff_salary | 29% |
| rent_management_fees_rates_and_government_rent | 10% |
| teaching_resources | 2% |
| staff_training_and_professional_development | 1% |
| other_expenses | 11% |
| expenditure_information_based_on_audited_account | Yes |
| curriculum_planning | Based on child development theories and researches, we determine the curriculum according to children’s physical and mental development needs and learning interests; and pay attention to children’s all-round and balanced development and uniqueness. 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 | Daily on-going observation and assessment are made to keep track of children’s development in physical fitness and health, language, early childhood mathematics, nature and living, self and society, arts and creativity. |
| support_to_students | Pupils and P.1 admission programmes, parent-child reading scheme, and activities through cooperation with community agencies |
| parent_teacher_association | Yes |
| other_activities_or_communication_with_parents | ''Children’s Learning and Activity Log'' allows parents to know their children's school life and experience every day; we regularly organize parents' day events, parents’ meetings, parent-child activities, parent & volunteers collaborative activities and alumni activities. |
| support_to_non-chinese_speaking_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 | 112 |
| teacher_to_pupil_ratio_remarks | No |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_degree | 1 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_non_degree | 1 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_c_ece_or_above | 2 |
| 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/565385.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/HKCS_Times.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/HKCS_Times.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/HKCS_Times.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/en/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/HKCS_Times.pdf</a> |
| child_care_service_for_aged_under_2 | No |
| child_care_service_for_aged_2_to_3 | Yes |
| no_for_enrolment_aged_2_to_3 | 0 |