LIGHT AND LOVE HOME HAPPY KINDERGARTEN (ON TAI)

Our Kindergarten’s ethos is to foster ‘Healthy Lives, Happy Families and a Harmonious Community’. We implement a developmentally appropriate curriculum based on biblical teaching, which meets the children’s needs and interests. We expect that after kindergarten education our students will be able to cultivate good character, become active learners and develop confidence and ability to adapt in this everchanging world.

Our curriculum is designed to match all our children's needs, interests and abilities. We have used a play-based approach to design and implement a holistic and child-centered curriculum; moreover, we support inclusive education, providing a happy learning environment for children of diverse learning needs. We empathize with the children first, creating a safe environment where they can learn through play. We also consolidate school and community resources, providing real-life and sensory experiences for the children to explore interactively through play, in order that their understanding of the world, creative abilities, problem solving skills and adaptivity might all be enhanced, ensuring the whole child development of our children. 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.

'Learning through play' is our school's main teaching and learning strategy. Learning themes are related to children's daily lives and cover the six learning areas, in order to provide an all-round, integrated learning experience for the children, and to enrich their knowledge, develop their learning skills and nurture positive values and attitudes. Through our 5 campus characteristics of Game Campus, Rainbow Campus, Music Campus , Exploration Campus and Healthy Campus, learning activity covers three interconnected components, “Values and Attitudes”, “Skills” and “Knowledge”, which form a coherent curriculum system with an emphasis on fostering children’s learning interest, building positive values and attitudes and enhancing self-confidence as well as self-care abilities. We provide 'Picture Book' teaching to create a language rich learning environment (both Chinese and English) to support children’s language development and reinforce their listening, speaking, reading and writing SKILLS. We will also develop special study topics based on the children’s interests.