We joined Dulux “Let’s Colour” School Painting Project (2012 – 2013) to create a colorful school together by filling it with a spectrum of positive energy that knew no bounds. After open voting and panel assessment, we ranked one of the top 10 out of 30 competing schools in a mural painting competition and was awarded with distinction. The credit for such honour lay rightly on the joint effort of parents, children, alumni, and teachers to whom we were grateful. Their engagement illustrated what they had learned to make our school a desirable place for learning.

We were privileged to become one of the three pilot schools to be invited to join the Early Childhood Education Pilot School Campaign “Prevention First before Reuse and Recycling”. The campaign was an environmental education initiative launched by the Environmental Protection Department in collaboration with the Department of Childcare, Elderly and Community Services of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Sha Tin). It aimed to promote an abstract concept of “use less, waste less” and to merge it with our philosophy of teaching in pre-primary settings. With a series of games and associated activities that were created in accordance with a set of general principles as well as from children’s point of view, the campaign embedded the message of “reduce, reuse, and recycle” (3E) across different areas of study that enabled the children to grasp the 3E concept through active learning activities which required practice, exploration, experience, performance, and recreation.

Bring Me A Book^TM Hong Kong has dedicated to forming partnership with government departments, community education bodies and business corporations to provide children with books of best quality and training for child’s mentors which would pave the way for their success in study and life. Bring Me A Book^TM Hong Kong provided us with selected books for children and assistance for running “Training of Child’s Mentor” which qualified teachers to become mentors. It also encouraged parents and children to read aloud together so that the culture of parent-child reading could be developed sustainably throughout the community.

We joined the QTN on “Parent Education: Healthy Start Home Visit Program” which was co-organized by Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the University of Hong Kong. The purpose of the programme was to help parents look after the overall health, growth, and wellbeing of their child. The programme offered the following courses: 1) Certificate Course of “Family Ambassador” – to train parents to become “family ambassadors” and volunteer leaders who could share what they had learned from leading a team with other parents as to realize the idea of “helping others as well as oneself”. 2) Certificate Course of “Health Starts from Family” – to equip parents with knowledge and techniques in early childhood caring which served as a foundation of healthy childhood and family life.

Hong Kong Christian Service provided on-site preschool rehabilitation service to children who had registered application for Special Child Care Centre or Integrated Programme in Kindergarten-cum-Child Care Centre services and help us create inclusive learning environments so that children with special needs can better integrate into schooling environment and community life, and lay a solid foundation for future development and learning.

To maintain promotion of the “use less, waste less” culture in pre-primary education, the Child Education Centre for Teaching and Learning (CECTL), part of the Department of Childcare, Elderly and Community Services of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Sha Tin), received support from the Environment and Conservation Fund and the Environmental Campaign Committee to roll out “Kids go green” project in 2016 -17. The project aimed at promoting the culture of “use less, waste less” across nursery schools and kindergartens in order to help children develop environmental awareness at an early stage and make “use less, waste less” a lifetime practice. The project mobilized parents and even the whole community to actively engage in waste reduction and recycling with a hope of shaping an environment-friendly culture as well as addressing the environmental crisis of Hong Kong. By taking part in training workshops for teaching professionals and sharing sessions, our teachers have reinforced the school-based culture of “use less, waste less”, refined the design of learning environment, and elevated the professional capacity of maintaining parents-school collaboration. With a package of innovative teaching materials, our teachers encouraged children to practice “use less, waste less” in daily life and become ambassadors of waste reduction. By accessing the “Kids go green Professional Teaching Network”, our teachers were able to share and exchange teaching experience of designing and implementing school-based 3R courses by which a culture of teaching “use less, waste less” concept was formed. On “Green Environment Day”, we worked alongside business leaders, government, and environmental groups to promote 3R concept across families, communities, and the whole society in order to arouse public awareness of environmental issues.

Proper money management concept and attitude should start from early years. With this idea in mind, we participated in the Kiddie-Family Moneyland education programme which was launched by the Department of Childcare, Elderly and Community Services of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Sha Tin) and Hong Kong Monetary Authority. The programme included a series of experiential activities for children, professional training for teachers, talks, etc., for disseminating proper and responsible money management value to children, young people, and their family members.

We have been dedicating ourselves to environmental education. Following our participation in “Prevention First before Reuse and Recycling” and “Kids go green” projects launched by the Child Education Centre for Teaching and Learning (CECTL), part of the Department of Childcare, Elderly and Community Services of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, we have also taken part in “Kids go green– Biodiversity” project which started from 2018 – 2019 school year. Based on the “use less, waste less” culture, the project, which aligned with the learning area of “nature and living” as laid out in “Kindergarten Education Curriculum Guide”, emphasized developing and sustaining children’s curiosity and exploratory spirit as well as imparting the values of appreciating and protecting the environment and nature. By taking part in a series of training workshops, teachers were better informed of the biodiversity. Their professional skills in leading children to explore and understand their surroundings were also enhanced.

As we have been dedicating to spinal health of our children, we joined the 5^th Community Chest Straighten Up School Campaign initiated by Children Chiropractic Foundation Limited (This campaign was selected to be showcased in Learning and Teaching Expo by Quality Education Fund in 2011) with a hope of promoting spinal protection and preventing spinal problems from young age. Having participated in the campaign for years, we are proudly regarded as an “outstanding school for spinal protection”. Our Head of School, Ms. CHAN On-yan, was even appointed an honorary education consultant for Children Chiropractic Foundation. The Foundation has offered us a matching service, “one school, one chiropractor”, along with advice and support to our effort in promoting spinal protection.

With the view to developing our student’s Chinese reading and writing skills for better adaption in the coming primary school learning environment, our school has participated in the 「五到中文字母寫字口訣和鍵寫法」program held by The Education University of Hong Kong – Centre for Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education which is sponsored by Greenfield Educational Fund. This program has adopted the famous neurologist Prof. Dr. Huang Chen Ya’s「五到中文字母口訣及鍵寫法」idea, making good use of multi-senses to learn chinese writing, including the visual sense (i.e. Flash – right brain), hearing (i.e. formula – left brain), gross motor memory (i.e. Kung Fu) and fine motor memory (i.e. finger writing & handwriting). After learning the 21 Chinese Alphabets suggested by Prof. Dr. Huang, students will be able to speak out the Chinese alphabets and do the corresponding body movements to strengthen their memory of Chinese words. Each chinese character can be transformed into alphabets, formula and body movement, our students can practice the Prof. Dr. Huang’s method to strengthen both their understanding of Chinese words and muscles (gross motor) through body movement.