POOI TO PRIMARY SCHOOL

The aim of our kindergarten is to nurture children to attain balanced development in the domain of ethics, intellect, physique, social skills, aesthetics and spiritual education. Through diversified learning activities, we develop students' potential; nurture them to become lively, confident, responsible and able to think independently, laying a good foundation for their future learning.

Conforming to the Kindergarten Education Curriculum Guide (2017) and adopting the educator John Dewey's philosophies of ''learning from doing'' and ''Education is life'', we compile our curriculum according to children's interest and ability. We arrange specific activities that are integrated with elements like language, general knowledge, arts and craft, music, creativity and physical games for teaching purposes, so that children could learn with fun, build up their confidence in learning and cultivate their initiative and concentration to study. We also develop children's potential through diversified learning activities. Foreign language classes (including English and Mandarin) are all taught by full-time teachers: English classes are taught by foreign teachers while Mandarin classes are taught by full-time teachers who have obtained Level 1 qualification of the Putonghua Proficiency Test. Both English and Mandarin classes are taught in small-groups through singing, story-telling, children's songs and games. Children are guided to listen and speak more and they have more opportunities to encounter different terms. This helps to strengthen their listening and speaking skills in their daily lives. In addition, we actively promote children's moral education, which lays a sound foundation for whole person education. 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.

Based on children's life experience and ability, we adopt the teaching approaches like the Thematic Approach, the Activities Approach and the Project Approach to arrange integrated, comprehensive activities. Besides, we introduce the Dramatic Technique into our daily teaching activities to increase the opportunities for children to interact, discuss and cooperate. In this way, children are encouraged to think from different perspectives, to express themselves more and to become more confident. While implementing Story Teaching, we specially edit some stories that are related to children's life experience to ensure diversity of children's learning and to optimize our curriculum. Our school activities include field trips, visits, inviting people from relevant institutions to come visit, etc. to consolidate and expand children's knowledge.