ST. LORRAINE KINDERGARTEN (YUEN LONG)
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
Kindergarten：11 indicators apply, 3 matched
🎓 Teacher Qualifications
🎯 Mission
"We adopt the cultivation of arts and creativity, science and technology and languages to develop their potential. Please visit our website for more details (www.st-lorraine.edu.hk) or visit us on Facebook at “St. Lorraine English Kindergarten”."
📚 Approach & Strategies
"Our teaching is arranged according to 2 major objectives: 1) To broaden international perspectives: Since 2006, we have been videoconferencing with partners such as the University of Cambridge as well as connecting with children from Miami, Texas, London, Wales, Miami, etc. We have also helped children from developing countries, even adopting 7 children one year from Haiti and Ethiopia through a charity art exhibition. This year, St. Lorraine is taking things to a new level. First, we are partnering with famous HK street artist XEME to create an NFT in the metaverse to help people in Turkey. We have also invited primary schools in Hong Kong and the USA to take part. Second, we are planning to have a simulated Dinosaur Dig, whereby children will get to unearth a Tyrannosaurus skull as…
💛 SEN Support
"Joining the On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services. Our teachers are extremely concerned about children with individual needs, we communicate closely with parents to understand the situation of children at home. Teacher will regularly follow up with the principal on the progress of each individual case, and will arrange to meet up with parents to provide appropriate support and advice."
📋 School Data
All raw fields from the Education Bureau school profile not shown above.
| joining_kg_edu_scheme | Not joining |
|---|---|
| received_grant_for_support_to_ncs_students | ✗ |
| application_form_type | not available |
| application_period_type | not available |
| title_of_school_supervisor | MS |
| title_of_school_principal | MS |
| no_of_registered_classrooms | 12 |
| outdoor_playground | Yes |
| indoor_playground | Yes |
| music_room | Yes |
| other_special_rooms_or_areas | Computer Room, Activity Room |
| working_hd_30000_or_below | - |
| working_hd_30001_to_40000 | - |
| working_hd_40000_above | - |
| working_hd_remarks | No information |
| working_wd_30000_or_below | - |
| working_wd_30001_to_40000 | - |
| working_wd_40000_above | - |
| working_wd_remarks | No information |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_below_4_yrs | - |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_from_4_to_7_yrs | - |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_above_7_yrs | - |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_remarks | No information |
| summer_uniform | No information |
| winter_uniform | No information |
| school_bag | No information |
| tea_and_snacks | No information |
| textbooks | No information |
| exercise_books_or_workbooks | No information |
| stationery | No information |
| bedding_items | No information |
| salary_of_principal_and_teaching_staff | - |
| non-teaching_staff_salary | - |
| rent_management_fees_rates_and_government_rent | - |
| teaching_resources | - |
| staff_training_and_professional_development | - |
| other_expenses | - |
| expenditure_information_remarks | No information |
| expenditure_information_based_on_audited_account | No Information |
| curriculum_planning | We are a children's learning community who are enthusiastic about nurturing children’s development in arts, sciences and languages. We aim to set high, but realistic, learning objectives for children, focusing on facilitating children's education in a global context. |
| assessment_of_children_learning_experiences | Internal assessments occur biannually in Jan and June. However, most of our children also partake in external international assessments like the Stanford Achievement Test, Tenth Edition (SAT 10), Cambridge YLE Tests, Trinity College London GESE Exams and the GAPSK Kindergarten Putonghua Proficiency Test. |
| support_to_students | We provide tennis, golf and archery activities within the formal curriculum. In order to enhance creativity within learning, we also teach violin in our music lessons. As well as regular seminars and P.1 entrance workshops, etc, we provide learning software to help children to learn at home. |
| parent_teacher_association | No |
| other_activities_or_communication_with_parents | We provide a lot of activities such as parent-school conferences, phone communication, parent-child autumn outing, Christmas party, parents' class observation, parent-child fund-raising activities, art exhibition, international photo exhibition, charity musical performance, sports day and game stalls carnival etc. |
| support_to_non-chinese_speaking_ncs_students | The school uses biliterate and trilingual language as teaching languages. We have attached Pronunciation QR Code to children's exercise books to help students to learn Chinese and Putonghua vocabulary at home. To take into account the needs of the non-Chinese speaking parents, our notifications are presented in both Chinese and English. |
| nursery_classes_not_writing | ✗ |
| total_no_of_permitted_accommodationof_classrooms_in_use | 450 |
| teacher_to_pupil_ratio_remarks | No |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_degree | 5 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_non_degree | 11 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_c_ece_or_above | 16 |
| 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/151696.pdf |
| quality_review_result_and_report_chi | Meeting the standards <a href="http://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/StLorraine_YL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/StLorraine_YL.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 |
| cc_service_fee_level_annum_hd | - |
| cc_service_fee_level_annum_wd | - |
| join_ccc_subsidy_scheme | - |
| provide_occasional_cc_service | - |