HONG KONG YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION TSING YI NURSERY SCHOOL

In the spirit and love of Christ, we foster the comprehensive moral, intellectual, physical, social, aesthetic and spiritual development in young children.

Our curriculum is designed in accordance with the physical and mental development of children and children's interest in learning. It consists of six areas, namely “Physical Fitness and Health” , “Language”, “Early Childhood Mathematics”, “Nature and Living”, “Self and Society” and “Arts and Creativity”, which are studied through ''Thematic Approach'' and ''Project Approach''. School activities include: Chinese, English, mathematics, natural sciences, Mandarin, computer, music, story telling, drama, physical fitness, etc. 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.

Our kindergarten adopts the “Thematic Approach” and “Project Approach” as complementary approaches to teaching, where we focus on children’s personal experience and hands-on learning . Through observation, questioning, comparisons, discussion, analysis, reporting and other means, children can construct new knowledge and foster abilities and enthusiasm for active learning. Our programme places equal emphases on Chinese, English and mathematics; with daily teamwork activities and group study time, and encourage children's participation in games and activities relevant to the subject, so teachers can better understand the strengths of individual students in making appropriate intervention by monitoring children’s behaviour in different learning processes. Our English and Putonghua teachers teach through games and activities to build a strong foundation for biliteracy and trilingualism. Moreover, our school is concerned with the character development of children, where life-wide learning activities are in place to promote their social development and create a caring campus culture.