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Name of School Supervisor

Name of School Principal

School Founding Year

Total No. of Permitted Accommodation of Classrooms in Use (Data as of Sept. 2023)

Number of Registered Classrooms

Outdoor Playground

Indoor Playground

Music Room

Other Special Room(s) / Area(s)

Total No. of Principal & Teaching Staff
(Data as of Sept. 2023)*

School Website

Degree holders

Non-degree holders

C(ECE) or above

Qualified KG teachers

Other teacher trainings

Qualified assistant KG teachers

Others

AM Session

PM Session

WD Session

Fee level (per annum)

With child care services for children aged under 2

No. of enrolment aged 2-3

Joining Child Care Centre Subsidy Scheme

Providing occasional child care services

Providing extended hours services

Curriculum type

Curriculum planning

Our children come from a variety of backgrounds with a large portions going to both local and international schools. To ensure that students will have the maximum flexibility in their choice of schools, our syllabus is benchmarked to external international benchmarks, with a strong emphasis on English, Cantonese and Mandarin. Our kindergarten is understandably more challenging than traditional schools, but that is the reason why York is so popular among professional and accomplished parents who understand the need of preparing early.

Learning / Teaching approach and activities

Our teaching is arranged according to 2 major objectives:

1) To broaden international perspectives: Since 2006, we have been videoconferencing with partners such as the University of Cambridge as well as connecting with children from Miami, Texas, London, Wales, Miami, etc. We have also helped children from developing countries, even adopting 7 children one year from Haiti and Ethiopia through a charity art exhibition.

This year, York is taking things to a new level. First, we are partnering with famous HK street artist XEME to create an NFT in the metaverse to help people in Turkey. We have also invited primary schools in Hong Kong and the USA to take part. Second, we are planning to have a simulated Dinosaur Dig, whereby children will get to unearth a Tyrannosaurus skull as well as talk to a paleontologist (dinosaur hunter).

2) International academic standards benchmarks: Our key subjects are benchmarked against teaching levels from the UK and USA. We encourage our students to challenge themselves against academic standards such as the Cambridge English Starters and Movers Tests, the American SAT 10 Mathematics assessment, the National College of Music, London preparatory violin exam, etc.

Assessment of children’s learning experiences

1) In-school assessments: Every January and May.

2) External assessments: we encourage our students to enroll in international exams. Here are our latest achievements:

English : Cambridge Young Learners' English Tests (Movers level) - our students' average score is 77% (scoring nearly 98.6% on the speaking portion).

Math : Stanford 10 (math portion) - our students' average test level is equivalent to 3.4 grade student from the USA

Putonghua : over 75% of the candidates from our school achieved distinction in the GAPSK putonghua test

Science : our students participate in the UK's CREST awards programme

Music : our students are encouraged to take part in the National College of Music preparatory violin exams.

School vision and mission

We hold several beliefs in common, objectives that influence and shape every teacher here at York . These 8 objectives unite us in a common voice on what we do: helping children realize and reach their potential.

1) We educate the "whole" child.
2) We teach through experience.
3) We give children solid foundations.
4) We teach English early.
5) We help children develop interpersonal and intrapersonal skills.
6) We involve parents in the child's education.
7) We make learning fun for parents and children.
8) We make a commitment to our profession.

Support to students

We provide a lot of support.

1) Learning : High foreign teacher-to-student ratio in a small class setting; specialized software designed in-house to help children extend the learning process beyond the classroom; helping children to challenge international benchmarks in the core subjects of Putonghua, English and Mathematics.

2) Sportsmanship: We are the first kindergarten in Hong Kong to have a specialized in-house golf, archery and tennis programme, backed and sponsored by Prince Tennis.

3) Music: all of our students are exposed to the rudiments of playing the violin before they graduate. We also have an annual Christmas ball, whereby the boys invite the girls to the dance and the children get to practice the Waltz and the Flamenco that we taught them during the year.

Support to non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students

No information

Support to students with special needs

No information

Parent-teacher association

Other activities / communication with parents

We have a lot of activities, such as parent-child autumn outings, Christmas parties, parents' class observations, parent-child fund-raising activities, Art exhibitions, International Photo Exhibitions, etc. Please see our website for more details.

Summer uniform

Winter uniform

School bag

Tea and snacks

Textbooks

Exercise books/
workbooks

Stationery

Bedding items

Application fee

Registration fee