Features

Project Activity

Our school adopts a ‘child-centred’activity approach which allows children to learn through games and cultivate their learning interest and initiative. The curriculum aims to foster children’s abilities to explore and appreciate the beauty of different people and things, allows them to use different media to create and express; build healthy habits and problem- solving abilities so that they could develop self-esteem and confidence. Our school uses themed approach, whole-language instruction and children project activities to build children’s language abilities and consolidate the foundation of self-managed learning, so as to achieve a balanced development of moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic domains.

Course Features

Our school values highly on children’s interactive learning process and experience, we use mix-age approach to design the different corners and environments in the classrooms (children aged 2-4 as small group, children aged 4-6 as big group). The environmental design of the classroom and the teaching aids displayed in the corners have different degrees of difficulty and levels, allowing children with different abilities to explore and manage various learning materials from easy to difficult extent, encouraging children to explore proactively, imitate each other and participate in different learning activities, so as to foster the important qualities of peer collaboration and care.

Our school values and actively cultivate children’s ability to take care of themselves and work independently. Our curriculum has included the Practical Life programme of the ‘Montessori Education’. We have set up a life training corner in the classroom, to equip with various teaching aids which allow children to do different levels of life skills training according to their development and performance. Teachers will also provide specific demonstration and guidance in due course. In daily activities, teachers will encourage and guide children to help tidy up and clean the classroom, such as cleaning the table, sweeping the floor, mopping the floor, turning the bedsheet etc.

Our school emphasises on the physical development of the children. Children of every class will participate in various physical games every day, including circular games, group games, gross motor skills activities etc. The difficulty level of the games has taken into account the developmental needs of every age group and also the uniqueness of different children’s physical development. Besides the gross motor skills activities, each class will have outdoor physical activities arranged every week, allowing children to conduct physical activities under the sun and explore and learn with a positive and satisfying mood.

Whole Language Teaching

Our curriculum uses whole-language teaching approach to build children’s listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, and to cultivate children’s reading ability, interest and habit through reading Chinese and English story books. It connects life experiences through stories with matching themes, including language, mathematics, nature & life and interaction with people.

Kids Design Activity

Our school adopts a child-centred project activity approach in teaching, aiming to increase children’s abilities in active learning, exploration, thinking and creation, and learn to be more sensitive in observing and appreciating life. Teachers will extend children’s experiences gained in daily routines and learning activities into themed project activities that children are interested in, enabling them to conduct in-depth exploration activities through discussion, research, experiment and recording.

Emotional Education

Our school cares about the emotion development of children. We work hard to build an environment good for positive emotional development, to allow children to feel love and respect, and to cultivate children to build a healthy self-image, show care and concern to their neighbourhood and community, and use positive emotion to enhance learning and development.

The parent-child programme {Grow Up with Respect and Confidence – Parent Education Programme} which has a total of 20 lessons, is designed and written by senior social workers and educational psychologist of TWGHs for parents. Each lesson contains short essays, cartoons and parent-child activities, aiming to let parents build a close relationship with their children, master supervision skills, and cultivate children’s self-esteem and self-confidence.

Leap! Body Education Programme

Our school has co-organised with Taiwan ‘Cloud Gate Dance School’ to design a two-year art education program ‘Leap! Body Education Programme’for students of lower and upper classes. The programme guides children to express their life experience, emotion and imagination through music and body movement, encourages them to start with their own life experience. Using elements in life such as music, drama and emotion etc. to let the body experience life, thus discover and realise the malleability and creativity of the body in relation to space, truck strength, human to human and human to environment.

Enrichment Course

Creative Dancing: The programme guides children of the lower and upper classes to express their life experience, emotion and imagination through music and body movement. Through artistic elements such as songs, nursery rhymes, rhythm & beat, drama etc., together with role-play, postures and movement and games to express and explore children’s life experience and thoughts.

Aesthetic Education: Our school has invited organisations of aesthetic education to work with our teachers to design art activities which match with the development and interest of children of lower and upper classes. Based on the learning content and experience of children, their learning will be expanded and enriched with different themed activities, to inspire and enhance their artistic thinking and creativity, to let them learn to appreciate the colours, lines, patterns and shapes of different things in life, and learn the skills of different art creation activities, encourage them to use different ways to express their experiences, feelings and imagination.

Preschool Special Education Services

Integrated Progamme: Our school has one special early childhood practitioner to provide training and care to mildly disabled children, helping them to integrate into mainstream education and the society.

‘Sunshine Kids – On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services’: This service supports SEN children. Special early childhood practitioner, speech therapist, occupational therapist and physiotherapist will visit us regularly to provide training to SEN students.

Free Play

Free play is the favorite learning way for young children. They can develop games freely, autonomously and consciously. In free play that has no fixed pattern and is interesting, changeable, flexible and challenging, children often create many unexpected gameplay. "Free play" not only makes children feel happy, but also allows children to take the lead in the game process. They can decide what game to play, how to play, and who to play with. It can cultivate their different skills, including cooperation skills, communication skills, and planning skills , organizational skills and creativity, and construct different life and learning experiences from games.

Free play in classroom

Free play at the beach

Outdoor free play