ST. MATTHIAS' CHURCH CHIU CHUN KINDERGARTEN

Our mission is promote holistic development of children in spiritual, moral, intellectual, physical, communal, and artistic aspects. Our motto is ‘not to be served but to serve’. We also endeavor to help them develop good character, self-care ability and self-directed learning.

We adopt the spiral form of thematic/project teaching and multiple intelligences approach. The curriculum is arranged according to curriculum guide of the Education Bureau taking into consideration young children’s characteristics, interest and needs during the course of development. Our integrated curriculum provides appropriate, comprehensive and balanced courses for young children who can even learn through games. 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.

We offer lessons by ways of thematic teaching, project-based approach, multiple intelligences approach, group teaching and activity approach. We focus on the development of bi-literate and tri-lingual abilities and conduct English language and Putonghua language activities with storytelling , songs and games elements. Young children acquire knowledge and enrich experiences through diversified learning activities, site visits, discussions and inquiry-based learning . They may also choose their own activities. Continual explorations and discoveries through these activities help enhance learning abilities in different areas and develop their potentials. Multiple teaching strategies and skills in the brain-and-mind-oriented approach are used to help children develop higher-ordered thinking so as to fully promote the development of habits of mind. We are also actively offering life and moral education, we offer life education with aid of illustration books to train children with 14 quality life forces.