Yan Chai Hospital Choi Pat Tai Kindergarten / Child Care Centre

Our school had officially commenced service in September 1998 to provide full-time education and caring service for 180 students, aged from 2 to 6 years old. We uphold the principle of “Serving the Community in the Spirit of Benevolence,” offering quality and diversified educational services, enabling children to acquire knowledge and skills in a fun and proactive manner, helping them establish positive attitude towards life and excellent character, which all consolidate towards their learning basis.

Provide children with a quality learning environment, which helps them establish a proactive learning attitude and cultivate positive morality and social development, and which enlightens them to the extent that they will have a creative mind and be able to fulfil their potential, in the end becoming all-round grown-ups.

We all go on a journey of life-long learning. Childhood upbringing has far-reaching influences on personal growth. We believe that if children learn in a joyful and eventful environment, can:

• Establish a proactive learning attitude;
• Foster positive virtues and morality;
• Have creative thinking;
• Fulfill their potential;
• Achieve holistic development.

We strive to promote the idea of “children-centered teaching” and place importance on their needs in their growth. Loving, respecting and caring for every child, we join hands with parents in the nurture of their children, so that they can:

• Learn with Joy
• Grow Up with Happiness

We aim to provide full-day kindergarten and child care service to meet the needs of working parents and other parents who have social needs. Our curriculum covers intellectual, communicative, social and moral, personal and physical, as well as aesthetics aspects, so as to nurture a balanced development of children.

Services Provided by the School

• We provide children with a comfortable, clean and hygienic environment so that they can learn healthily.
• We provide a balanced diet, allowing children to foster good eating habits.
• Our facilities can facilitate children’s physical and mental development, so that they can develop their potentials.
• We enable children to cultivate good habits in life, learn how to take care of themselves and be in harmony with others through various activities.
• We adopt an activity-based teaching approach, allowing children to learn through games.
• We organize regular parent-child activities, talks and meetings for parents to join.

Our curriculum is based on the “Kindergarten Education Curriculum Guide”(2017) by the Education Bureau. Our teaching staff have selected textbooks and teaching materials in a well-advised manner. Our teaching themes are separated into different modules and units. The learning areas consists of languages, mathematics, arts, emotion, civic and moral education which matches with the abilities, interests and life experience of children. We hope that every child can benefit with our diversified intellectual development through play-based strategy.

The school adopts the child-centered concept of curriculum. We focus on the healthy development of children as a whole and their spirit of exploration, and let the children to have free exploration from the game. We emphasize that children are the masters of their learning. They use their own ways and experience, to identify and solve their problems in their own world.

Our curriculum is designed in accordance to the physical and mental developmental needs of children, this stimulates their interest in learning and equips them with a solid foundation for future learning, we are focused to cultivate our children in order to provide a balanced development in all aspects, namely, intelligent, physical, language, emotional, social and self-care abilities etc.

We make good use of our diversified learning environment which allows children to meet learning goals that are hard to attain in regular classes. The activities promote moral and civic education and encourage children-led exploration. As the learning activities are child-centered, they can gain various kinds of learning experience and become more motivated to learn. With the use of this method, their life-wide learning is achieved.