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King's College Old Boys' Association Primary School No. 2

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27
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King's College Old Boys' Association Primary School No. 2
Central & Western ・ Primary ・ Est. 1960
📍 Address
40 Po Hing Fong, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
📞 Phone
25477575
📠 Fax
25473555
✉️ Email
office@kcobaps2.edu.hk
⛪ Religion
Not Applicable
👩‍🏫 Principal
Lam Shuk Fong
📅 Founded
1960
👫 Gender
Co-ed
🗣️ Language
Chinese

🎯 Mission

The School provides education for all who come, through balanced curriculum and in the best possible, free and pleasant environment; develops personal potentials; and helps cultivate good citizens with values of virtue, positive mind, independent thinking, unceasing quest for knowledge and sense of responsibility.

📚 Approach & Strategies

To provide students with diversified learning experience through teacher-students/students-students interactive learning activities in the classroom or online lessons. Different learning and teaching strategies include curriculum adaptation, co-operative learning, activities that enhance students' creativity, critical thinking, level of participation, small class teaching and brain-based learning. We also arrange visiting activities for students through flexible arrangements of lesson time and encourage students to use intranet and various IT technology for self-learning. Strategies to promote students' reading habits and quality are also promoted. Students work is also displayed or presented inside and outside the classroom.

💛 SEN Support

Set up "Student Support Team", whole school approach to cater for students' diverse learning needs. In addition to school-based curriculum, remedial and enhancement curriculum is also provided to cater for more-able or less-able students' needs.

🎨 Whole-person Learning

Cub scout, Table-tennis, Football, Basketball, Badminton, Tag rugby, taekwondo, Creative Music Group, Choir, Chinese orchestra, Ukulele team, Harmonica team, AI Drone Class, Lego coding class, Reading Group, Native English Teacher Activities (Oral, Phonics, Drama), Creative Writing, Multiple Intelligence Activities, ArtRage Artist etc.

📋 School Data

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poa_school_net 11
school_type_1 Aided
school_type_2 Whole Day
imc Established
training_compliance_rate_supervisor_managers_smc_chairperson_members 100%
title_supervisor_chairman_of_mc Mr.
title_of_school_head Ms.
sponsoring_body King's College Old Boys' Association School Limited
school_motto Please refer to the Chinese version.
school_size 4948
through_train_sec_school -
feeder_sec_school -
nominated_sec_school -
school_bus -
nanny_van Yes
parent_teacher_association Yes
school_alumni_association Yes
asc_school_fee -
asc_tong_fai -
asc_pta_fee $30
asc_charges_for_non_standard_items $310 (Annual)
asc_others -
fac_no_of_classroom 18
fac_no_of_school_hall 1
fac_no_of_playground 1
fac_no_of_library 1
fac_special_rooms Library, Visual Art Room, Music Room, Computer Room, STEM Lab, English Activity Room, Science Room , Counselling Room and Conference Room.
fac_others Garden, roof garden, green corridor and tuck shop.
fac_support_for_specialedu -
previous_year_tsi_no_of_approved_teaching_posts 36
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_received_teacher_training 100
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_master_doctorate_or_above 37
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_special_edu_training 80
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_0_4 18
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_5_9 16
previous_year_tsi_percent_of_exp_10_or_above 66
previous_year_no_of_class_p1 3
previous_year_no_of_class_p2 3
previous_year_no_of_class_p3 3
previous_year_no_of_class_p4 3
previous_year_no_of_class_p5 3
previous_year_no_of_class_p6 3
previous_year_no_of_class_total 18
current_year_no_of_class_p1 3
current_year_no_of_class_p2 3
current_year_no_of_class_p3 3
current_year_no_of_class_p4 3
current_year_no_of_class_p5 3
current_year_no_of_class_p6 3
current_year_no_of_class_total 18
cs_mode_of_teaching Primary Literacy Programme-Reading and Writing (PLP-R/W) for J.1-J.3. Small class teaching for P.1-P.6. Scheme of using Putonghua to teach Chinese Language subject in J.4-J.6. Activity-based teaching and learning for all grades.
cs_remarks High level of students' participation is emphasized for promoting self-directed learning. To enhance the teaching and learning effectiveness, high-order thinking skills and positive learning environment, we provide various teaching modes, including collaborative teaching and curriculum integration.
no_of_test_per_year_P1 2
no_of_exam_per_year_P1 2
replace_test_exam_P1 Yes
no_of_test_per_year_P2-P6 2
no_of_exam_P2-P6 2
formulate_appropriate_school_based_assessment_assignment_policy_inform_parents_collect_views_from_teachers_students_parents_regularly Yes
upload_school_assessment_policy_to_school_web Yes
upload_school_assignment_policy_to_school_web Yes
diversified_assessment There are two tests and two exams for the whole academic year, including written and oral tests/exams. There are various assessments for learning for each subject, including teachers' observation, pupils' oral report, project learning, mini-project learning, Physical Fitness Award Scheme and formative assessments.
avoid_test_exam_after_long_holidays No
arrange_timetable_flexibly_tutorial_session_in_afternoon Yes
streaming_arrangement For J.1 to J.3, streaming according to academic results. For J.4 to J.6, the top one-third of the students will be allocated to Elite Class (Class A), while the rest will be allocated to Class B and Class C.
no_of_school_days_per_week 5
no_of_periods_per_day 10
duration_of_each_period 30
school_starts_at 8:25
school_starts_at_AMPM AM
school_ends_at 3:25
school_ends_at_AMPM PM
lunch_start_time 12:55
lunch_end_time 1:50
lunch_arrangement Provided by designated supplier and arranged by parents.
school_life_remarks The school holds health talks and conducts broadcasting on health topics during lunch time to promote healthy eating habits among students. There are 2 periods of extra-curricular activities on Friday afternoons (Duration: 1 hour). All interest groups and cub scout activities are held at 3:30p.m. after school or on Saturdays.
school_management_url http://www.kcobaps2.edu.hk/school_infrastructure.php
school_organisation Sponsoring Body: King's College Old Boys' Association School Limited.
imc_smc_mc IMC was established in September 2008.
school_green_policy School promotes environmental education through organizing different kinds of activities and competitions, including Environmental Protection Talks, Students are selected to be Environmental Protection Ambassadors. The objectives are to foster a friendly attitude in our students towards our environment and to encourage them to actually enjoy environmental life.
school_major_concerns_url /
school_major_concerns 1. Reinforce values education to enhance whole-person development of students.<br>2. Promote positive education to enable students to live their lives to the fullest.<br>3. Deepen self-directed learning for the implementation of gifted education.
learning_and_teaching_plan_url https://www.kcobaps2.edu.hk/tc/learn_landt
major_renewed_emphases_pri_edu_curriculum The major renewed emphases include: strengthening values education (including life education, national education and national security education)*; making good use of learning time and creating space to promote a balanced physical and mental development; enriching life-wide learning experiences and promoting whole-person development; better catering for learner diversity; reinforcing, STEAM education, and nurturing students' media and information literacy; strengthening cross-curricular learning and reading across the curriculum for developing lifelong learning capabilities; and enhancing assessment literacy for promoting learning and teaching effectiveness.
dev_of_generic_skills Generic skills are fundamental to learning. They are developed through learning and teaching in the context of different subjects or KLAs and are transferable from one learning situation to another. Communication skills and collaboration skills are emphasized in junior classes while creativity, critical thinking skills, study skills, self-management skills and problem solving skills are emphasized in senior classes.
cultivation_of_proper_values_attitudes_and_behaviours School promotes positive learning through "Learn It, Teach It, Live It and Embed It" which including Positive Education workshop, Strengths of Character course, birthday casual wear day, positive ambassador, School Play Time. Also, the National Security Education helps students develop a sense of national identity.
student_support_url https://www.kcobaps2.edu.hk/learn_support.php
whole_school_approach_cater_for_learner_diversity Set up "Student Support Team", whole school approach to cater for students with special educational needs. In addition to school-based curriculum, different activities and plans are also provided to cater for students with special educational needs.
curriculum_tailoring_and_adaptation Support Measures for Academically Gifted students: Lego Programming, Mathematical Olympiad Training Course, Creative Writing Course and Information Technology Learning Programme, Art Class, School Reporter. Support Measure for Academically Under-Privileged Students: Pre-school remedial classes, After school homework tutorials, holiday academic tutorial classes and special courses for newly-arrived children from China and non-Chinese Speaking Students, Speech and Language Therapy.<br>Curriculum Tailoring and Adaptation: Co-planning for curriculum tailoring, adaptation for assessment.
home-school_co-operation_url https://www.kcobaps2.edu.hk/tc/sh_summary
home-school_co-operation Activities include PTA Annual General Meeting cum Students' Cultural and Artistic Performance, Day Trip, Games Day, Educational talks, Interest class etc.
school_ethos We foster modest, caring, and loving culture and maintain a good teacher-student rapport. To cultivate students' moral development, we have moral talks conducted by our teachers every week and have various moral education and counselling activities. We also apply "The Jockey Club Comprehensive Student Guidance Grant" for students coming from low-income families. We also set up prizes and scholarships for distinctive students.

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