Curriculum & Teaching

We offer high-quality early childhood education, nurturing young talents and providing children with the skills and abilities that meet the trend of global development.

Based on the needs of child development, the aims of our curriculums can be divided into four major areas: “Physical Development”, “Cognitive and Language Development”, “Affective and Social Development”, and “Aesthetic Development”.

Through classroom learning and extracurricular activities, children will be able to be independent and obtain nine types of generic skills which are required for lifelong learning. Our kindergarten adopts different teaching methodologies, such as the thematic approach and story book approach, etc. It will enable children to learn actively and delightfully in an inspiring environment. Children’s learning effectiveness can also be increased with information technology.

Main Developing Items Of This Year

(1) Healthy School Life 

-Promote the message of “Healthy school”, create a healthy environment, and strengthen children’s, parents’ and teachers’ awareness of health.

 

(2) Reading Culture 

-Promote the culture of reading, encourage our parents to read with their children, to cultivate our children’s interest of reading. 

1. Bi-literacy and Tri-lingualism

We offer half-day Bilingual Classes with 1 hour English and 2 hours Cantonese teaching every day. Our NET teachers teach part of the main subject such as English, mathematics, moral education, etc. It allows our children to have more opportunities to practice English daily and to be immersed in the English learning environment. 

This setting is designed to prepare our children to cope with bilingual learning environments such as international, DSS and local primary schools. We also place great emphasis on teaching Chinese to children, in particular, Cantonese and Mandarin. Our native Mandarin teacher has obtained the first rank in the Putonghua Proficiency Test.

English story book approach: Part of the teaching materials include the Cambridge English Channel reading scheme.

2. Creative, Logical and Tactical Thinking

We are the first kindergarten group in Hong Kong to introduce an award-winning Korean curriculums (Magnet Blocks and Board Games) for Elite Education.

Korean Game-based Educational Tool For Gifted Education

  • Enhancing varied abilities such as logical and mathematical thinking abilities and a creative problem solving skill.
  • “Integrated Teaching” is what the Koreans hold for their education philosophy. They emphasize on “Communication and Discussion” and their children learn complex mathematical concepts through playing and operating gaming tools for education that are designed for developing emotional and intellectual abilities
  • The Korean gaming education tool is co-founded by the laboratory and university, collaborated with many educators, philosophers, aestheticians and psychologists and has been studied and clinically tested for more than 20 years
  • This set of education tool is selected to be used by the Creative Science programme in Korea’s “Early Childhood Education Full-day Programme”, organized by the Educational Policy Research Unit

Korean Magnet Block Curriculum

  • It is designed based on the Froebel Gifts, a well-known educational play material invented by the founder of preschool education – Friedrich Fröbel, focusing on “Solid → Plane → Line → Point”
  • This set of education tool is selected to be used by the Creative Science programme in Korea’s “Early Childhood Education Full-day Programme”, organized by the Educational Policy Research Unit. With the new technology “magnetic junction device”(patent no.0457305) , blocks can be freely connected, moved and revolved as children imagine, without repelling to one another, allowing creativity, mathematical and logical thinking to expand. Task sheets with different levels of block-building quests are provided.

Japanese Block Curriculum

  • It is designed by Japanese company, which develops children’s abilities of Science(S), Technology(T), Engineering(E) and Mathematics(M).
  • It stimulates children’s interest in Math as well as their development of logical thinking. Besides, children’s creativity, linguistic competence and problem-solving competence will be improving while taking this course.
3. Etiquette Lesson

Children will learn the social skills and table manners that enable them to become polite, confident and self-assured young ladies and young men.

Etiquette and social skills are not inherent. Children need to practise these skills again and again so they become habits. TWGHs Lucina Laam Ho Kindergarten offers Etiquette Lessons which cover the learning of social skills and table manners (eg Chinese, Western, Japanese, Korean, etc.). Students get accustomed to the proper etiquette required to become courteous and confident little ladies and gentlemen.

4. Comprehensive Early Childhood Creative Arts Program

In 2015, 15 TWGHs kindergartens were honoured by the Award for Art Education in the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2014.

Aim:

       To enhance children’s music, body movement and arts.

The purpose:

  1. Children may enjoy learning through a wide range of creative arts experience and derive knowledge and fun.
  2. To promote inter-school teachers development in music, creative dance and visual arts through sharing of their experiences. They will be introducing their existing teaching and research culture. Thus, through collaborative school teachers, they will discuss how to improve the teaching modes and strategies in teaching music, creative dance and visual arts activities and to conclude a successful experience to others.
  3. To encourage school teachers to exchange their philosophies and practices in music, creative dance and visual arts. Through the collaboration of teaching in arts integrated activities, effective professional development for teachers is promoted.
5. Environmental Education

We plant different kinds of plants for children to observe, learn the ecological growth patterns and understand the importance of nature protection.

Through the cultivation of different species on campus, children are encouraged to observe and understand the natural processes, thus establishing values for nature conservation. By promoting a message of conservation in early childhood, our students will go on to become conscientious global citizens of the future .

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