CASTAR KINDERGARTEN
✨ Happy Index
Composite score across the happiness indicators applicable to this school (0-100%)
Kindergarten：11 indicators apply, 5 matched
🎓 Teacher Qualifications
🎯 Mission
"Taking cultivation of children as our responsibility, we based on children’s potentials and development characteristics, provide children with care and experience necessary for learning to arouse children’s learning interest; meanwhile, we also help them gain balanced development in morality, intelligence, physical ability, sociability and art to get them prepared for future life so that they will grow into initiative and responsible citizens based on lifelong learning."
📚 Approach & Strategies
"We mainly adopt “theme-based” and “project-based” teaching modes. We have implemented “experience-based” and ''mixed age” learning modes including small group learning, free play and extension activities to let children acquire knowledge and different learning experience through personal practice and practical involvement and promote peer leading and mutual simulation through cross-age interaction. The English courses are taught by native English teachers. We have adopted an English day. It is an interactive English Program that to enhance their English skills and to increase their confidence in using English."
💛 SEN Support
Joining the On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation 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 | not available |
| application_period_type | not available |
| title_of_school_supervisor | MADAM |
| title_of_school_principal | MS |
| no_of_registered_classrooms | 7 |
| outdoor_playground | Yes |
| indoor_playground | Yes |
| music_room | Yes |
| other_special_rooms_or_areas | Climbing wall, LEGO wall, Performance Stage, English Interactive Zone, Scientific Exploration Corner, Toy Library, Diversified Activity Room, Outdoor garden plot |
| working_hd_30000_or_below | 100% |
| working_hd_30001_to_40000 | 0% |
| working_hd_40000_above | 0% |
| working_wd_30000_or_below | 66% |
| working_wd_30001_to_40000 | 7% |
| working_wd_40000_above | 27% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_below_4_yrs | 25% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_from_4_to_7_yrs | 6% |
| working_exp_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_above_7_yrs | 69% |
| summer_uniform | 287 |
| winter_uniform | 327 |
| school_bag | 109 |
| tea_and_snacks | No such item |
| textbooks | 1,091 |
| exercise_books_or_workbooks | 923 |
| stationery | No such item |
| bedding_items | No such item |
| salary_of_principal_and_teaching_staff | 61% |
| non-teaching_staff_salary | 6% |
| rent_management_fees_rates_and_government_rent | 9% |
| teaching_resources | <1% |
| staff_training_and_professional_development | 0% |
| other_expenses | 24% |
| expenditure_information_based_on_audited_account | Yes |
| curriculum_planning | Based on the structure of “experience-based learning, curiosity-based exploration and care-based growth”, we design diversified activities such as site visiting, stem activities, DIY cooking, drama eduation and e-learning. These activities are based on the Guide of the Pre-primary Curriculum which enables children to carry out meaningful learning through observation, operation, thinking and application. The goal is to obtain different categories of knowledge and experience and develop multiple intelligences in an all-round way. 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 | Set up a Children’s Study Portfolio based on on-going observation to evaluate children's development in all aspects. Child development report will be delivered to parents at the end of each terms. Enable parents to understand the children’s learning progress and needs. We will refine the curriculum, adjust the learning content according to children learning performance. |
| support_to_students | Orientation day, new students adaption week, P.1 mock activities, visits to primary school, interest class |
| parent_teacher_association | No |
| other_activities_or_communication_with_parents | Home-school gathering group, parent class observation, Parent-child Sports Day, parent-child trips, parents’ meetings, parent interest classes and parent education seminars |
| 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 | 145 |
| teacher_to_pupil_ratio_remarks | No |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_degree | 10 |
| no_of_principal_and_teaching_staff_with_non_degree | 5 |
| 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/534790.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/Castar.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/edu-system/preprimary-kindergarten/quality-assurance-framework/qr/qr-report/Castar.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 |