Kindergarten-cum-Child Care Services

Objectives

  1. Provide appropriate training and care for children with special education needs to help them integrate into daily life and mainstream curriculum learning.
  2. Through various support services, special child care workers plan and provide individual or group training to unveil the potential of children with special education needs.
  3. Let children with special education needs learn and grow together in an inclusive environment. 

Training Mode

  1. The main training areas include: big muscles (physical energy) small muscles (finger strength, hand-eye coordination, two-hand coordination, learn to use muscles) self-care (dressing, grooming, toileting, eating, home training and etc) Intelligence (colours, shapes, causality, objects, space - up and down, big and small, left and right etc) Mathematics (numbers before and after, number combinations, number sequence: in order and reverse order etc) Language (speech comprehension and expression)
  2. Each disabled child has a home training book which is distributed once a week. Our school let parents know the school’s coaching projects and comments on their children in the past week. In addition to knowing the coaching progress, parents also need to do practise with their children at home so that the children can further strengthen knowledge and skills that they have learned.
  3. During practicing with children, parents can also write down the difficulties, situations and etc. on the home training book which is used as a communication tool with teachers.
  4. Home training book must be placed in school bag everyday so that teachers can mark down training content to learn and communication notes in the book.

Evaluation Mode

  1. A learning assessment will be conducted for each child. An assessment form - “Learning Schedule of Children” for children with disabilities is prepared to conduct comprehensive assessment regarding six scopes. This therefore allows teachers and parents to have more detailed analysis and understanding of children in all aspects.
  2. 2After each evaluation, it is compulsory to arrange a parents-teacher appointment to discuss assessment results and scopes of learning of children.

Non-Chinese speaking children Support Programme

Objectives 

  1. Support non-Chinese speaking children in this kindergarten, providing flexible language learning activities for non-Chinese speaking children in the form of experience and multi-sensory teaching; creating a rich Chinese language environment, allowing non-Chinese speaking children to have more exposure and usage to Chinese
  2. To encourage non-Chinese speaking children to interact with Chinese speaking children, create a multicultural environment and establish an inclusive campus, so as to strengthen non-Chinese speaking children’s knowledge in Chinese as their second language, and improve children’s ability to speak and listen Chinese.
  3. Provide support for non-Chinese speaking children and parents basing on their individual needs to help their children cultivate interest in learning and reading Chinese.

The school social work programme

With professional knowledge and work ethics, school social workers work with school and parents to assist children in adapting and solving problems at school, in the family, or other aspects of growth, in order to meet and support the needs of school in an all-round way to achieve the following goals:

  1. Cultivate students to establish positive emotions and healthy social development, strengthen their self-confidence and multiple intelligences;
  2. Provide emotional support and parent education
  3. Provide appropriate service basing on children, parents and students’ need to achieve the effect of multiple interventions, cross-professional support and resource introduction.

Government and Regional Support

Speech Therapy Service

  1. Our Speech Therapy Service is provided by Caritas Hong Kong
  2. Provide individual or group coaching to children, training advice to parents and teachers at a specified date and time
  3. Speech therapist visits our school about one to two times a month

Physiotherapy Service

  1. Physiotherapists from Medical Support Service Unit of Social Welfare Department provide physiotherapy treatment
  2. Provide individual or group coaching to children, training advice to parents and teachers at a specified date and time
  3. Physiotherapists visits our school once every four months

Psychological Service

  1. If teachers are conscious of children having problems on behaviour, emotion and adaptation during daily life, study and training, we will call psychologists from respective districts for advice after discussion.
  2. If there is no children having problems on behaviour, emotion and adaptation, psychologists also visit our school once every half year.

Occupational Therapy Service

  1. Occupational therapists from Medical Support Service Unit of Social Welfare Department provide physiotherapy treatment
  2. Provide individual or group coaching to children, training advice to parents and teachers at a specified date and time
  3. Occupational therapists visits our school once every four months

Occasional Child Care Service

Introduction

1. Mission of Service

To cater for needs of social development and family, our child care centre offers occasional child care service on two-hour, four-hour, 6-hour or 8-hour basis to allow parents and carers needs to handle private affairs and exceptional circumstances. This prevents children being left at home alone.

2. Target Group

Children aged from 2 years old to 6 years old

3. Reasons for Application

Parents are unable to take care of children due to illness, family visit, medical consultation, accompanying family or relative for medical visit, death of close relatives, visit relevant departments or agencies for appointment or handling procedures, moving home, carers departure from HK, resignation or holiday for work, or any other circumstances which cause children being left at home alone or lack of care.

4. Quota

1 child each day

5.Service Time and Fee

Download Application Form for Occasional Child Care Service

Service Hours Fees
2 Hours $16
4 Hours $32
6 Hours $48
8 Hours $64

Not available on public holidays or when kindergarten/child care centre is closed
Fee for meal $6.4 (including breakfast, lunch and tea refreshment)

6.Application Method

1-Registration by appointment Parents can reserve occasional child care service by phone call or visiting our centre. Our staff will return reply and proceed the application as soon as possible. Service can be reserved at most 3 months but submitting documents and settling payment are required.
2-Immediate application Parents can call or visit us to see if any quota for occasional child care service is available. If there are still remaining quotas, immediate application procedure can be made.
3-Procedures Parents are required to submit the following documents in person to our child care centre: copies of children’s identification document / legal residence certificate / passport, applicants’ identification document (for verification purpose only, applicants must be parents of children), application form for occasional child care service, child care service fee. Parents are also required to sign an medical care authorisation document when submitting the document.

7. Matters Needing Attention

  1. Our child care centre only serves healthy and non-infectious children. No medication services is provided. If the children are sick, they should stay at home.
  2. All reservation is valid only after payment. No refund will be made if not using our service due to personal reasons.
  3. Our child care centre will provide basic necessities but parents also need to prepare a pair of sterilized shoes, coats, backup clothes, pants for learning and any other personal belongings.
  4. To enhance our service quality, our child care centre will invite parents to complete a questionnaire after our services.
  5. If parents have not picked up their children after the caring service periods, child care centre has the right to hand over the children to the police.