CARITAS NURSERY SCHOOL - YAU TONG

Motto: 'Be Faithful, Diligent and Stay Simple; Love God and One Another'. We aim to foster the balanced and holistic development of young children in social, intellectual, physical, moral, spiritual and aesthetic aspects, as well as to nurture our children full of Loving, initiative Learning and with Leading potential.

Curriculum will be planned in regard to the interest, physical and psychological development of children. The principle of 'child-oriented' is adopted and various learning domains, including Language, Self and Society, Early Mathematics and Science, Physical Fitness and Health, Art are integrated. Religious and moral educations are emphasized. Children is learning the Spirit of God, thanksgiving and spreading love with love thought the Christian stories, sharing the life experience, sing hymns and pray to god. 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.

''Play'' is the main teaching strategy to help children increasing communication opportunities, promoting cognitive development and building interpersonal relationships.Integrated Theme-based Curriculum and Project Learning Approach are adopted. Children are encouraged to “explore, express, experience”, the problem solving skills and creative thinking are also fostered. Moreover, to develop bi-literate and tri-lingual abilities of children, Whole Language Learning Approach and Shared Reading Approach is adopted. Children are encouraged to create children rhymes and to re-write stories which have laid down their good foundation of language. Shared Reading Approach, Phonemic Awareness and extended activities of English are also adopted which has strengthened the children’s English ability, including listening, speaking, reading and writing. In addition, it is through songs and stories to increase children’s exposure to Putonghua. Moral education is emphasized. ‘Child Month’, ‘Love and Care Campaign’ and ‘Mixed age activities’ are launched annually in order to develop children’s qualities of forgiving, respecting, loving, helping and accepting each other.