Kau Yan School

School Introduction #

Kau Yan School (救恩學校) is located in Central & Western, Hong Kong (POA School Net Number: /) is a Private Whole Day Co-ed primary school. The school covers an area of ​​approximately 5000.0 square meters and uses Chinese(incl.: Putonghua) as the main teaching language. The school motto is “Faith, Hope, Love”.

School Mission #

We believe all children deserve respect from their parents, teachers and friends. We believe every student is teachable and has the potential to be successful. Founding on the love of Christ, we pursue to offer a holistic education. We strive to empower our parents to develop an enthusiastic, encouraging and healthy learning environment for their children. Together we can experience the joy of educating through the truth of love.

Contact Information #

• Address : 97B High Street, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong (map location)
• Phone number : 21166198
• Email : kys-mail@kauyan.edu.hk
• Fax : 25232835
• Website : http://www.kauyan.edu.hk

School Information #

• Supervisor/ Chairman of Management Committee : Mr. Hung Chi Lung
• School Head : Dr. Au Wai Man
• Incorporated Management Committee been established? : Whole Day
• Percentage of school supervisor and managers fulfilling the training targets :
• School Type : Private/Whole Day
• Student Gender : Co-ed
• Sponsoring Body : Tsung Tsin Mission of HK
• Religion : Protestantism / Christianity
• Year of Commencement of Operation : 1946
• School Motto : Faith, Hope, Love
• Area Occupied by the School : About 5000.0 Sq. Meter
• Through-train Secondary School : –
• Feeder Secondary School : –
• Nominated Secondary School : About 30 places are reserved for our graduates from our affiliated Secondary School -United Christian College (KLN) yearly
• Medium of Instruction : Chinese(incl.: Putonghua)
• School Bus Service : Yes
• Nanny Van Service : No
• Parent-Teacher Association : No
• Past Students’ Association/Alumni Association : Yes

School Facilities #

• Number of Classroom(s) : 20
• Number of School Hall(s) : 1
• Number of Playground(s) : 1
• Number of Library(ies) : 1
• Special Rooms : Special Rooms, Roof Garden, Cookery Room, Steam Maker Room, 4,000 sq. ft. Integrated Arts Center, 6,000 sq. ft. Learning Centre (including Visual Arts facilities, 30,000 books & IT facilities).
• Facility(ies) for Supporting Students with Special Educational Needs : Accessible lift and multiple sizes small group learning spaces,Student Counselling Room..
• Others : Air-conditioning & WiFi installed all around school building. Well-equipped rooms with notebooks and iPads. Our kitchen prepares our daily meal.

2023/2024 Annual School Charges #

• School Fee : “$65000 to be confirmed”
• Tong Fai : –
• Parent Teacher Association (PTA) Fee : –
• Approved Charges for non-standard items : –
• Other Charges : –

Teaching Staff Information (Including School Head) in the 2022/2023 school year #

• Number of teaching posts in the approved establishment : –
• Total number of teachers in the school : 41

Qualifications and professional training (%) #

• Teacher Certificate / Diploma in Education : 95%
• Bachelor Degree : 100%
• Master/ Doctorate Degree or above : 37%
• Special Education Training : 0%

Years of Experience (%) #

• 0 – 4 years : 41%
• 5 – 9 years : 27%
• 10 years or above : 32%

Class Structure #

Note: 2023/2024 school year statistics are based on the number of classes approved by EDB in 2023

Mode of teaching at different levels #

We run small classes that are led by double class teachers. Lessons are mostly delivered through cooperative learning with teacher’s talk in moderation, students are engaged in investigation, discussion and receiving feedback from peers and teachers. Pull-out groups, ability grouping and collaborative classrooms are in place to meet the various requirements of different subjects.

Remarks #

Resource teachers are assigned to Chinese/English/Mathematics classes to support small group learning and cater for learner diversity. The pastoral care committee provides support for special developmental and learning needs. We provide modular curriculum and steam education for P.1-6.

Streaming arrangement #

School Life #

Attendance #

• Number of school days per week : 5.0
• Number of periods per day : 5
• Duration of each normal period : 60
• School starts at : 7:55 AM
• School ends at : 3:00  PM

Lunch Time #

• Lunch break : 12:40 – 1:30
• Lunch arrangement : Daily meals are prepared in school kitchen or brought to school from home.

Healthy school life #

To promote healthy living, the school provides healthy meals daily. Various sports programmes, extracurricular activities and school team training are available. Furthermore, we care for our students’ psychological, social and spiritual health. At the same time, we endeavor to cultivate a loving and respectful school.

Remarks #

Hot, fresh, and nutritious meals are prepared daily at our very own kitchen. No Tuck Shop at school. Parents are strongly encouraged to prepare health snacks for their children.

Life-wide Learning #

The modular curriculum enriches learner’s experience by offering mandatory lessons in cultural learning (Culinary Arts, Sewing and Chinese painting), sports, STEAM, service learning, life experience learning and global citizenship education. There are over 100 optional after school activities offered in areas of sports, music and performing arts, visual arts, STEAM, chess etc. for student’s choice. An enrichment week is organized yearly to encourage learning outside the confines of classrooms and to engage in meaningful and fun investigations.

Performance Assessment #

Number of test(s) per year : 0
Number of exam(s) per year : 2

Diversified Assessment for Learning #

We utilize various kinds of formative assessments such as class participation, homework, projects, pre and pro learning test, presentations, display of learning outcomes etc. to provide feedback for learning and teaching and to complement the short-comings of summative assessments and to alleviate unnecessary stress due to high stake test and exams.

School Characteristics #

School Management #

School Management Organisation #

The Sponsoring Body of our school appoints professionals as members of our School Management Committee.

Incorporated Management Committee / School Management Committee/ Management Committee #

The Sponsoring Body appoints professionals, parents and alumni representatives to be School Board Managers.

School Green Policy #

The School organizes various activities to promote conservation of resources and reduction of carbon emissions. Students bring their own cutleries, snack boxes and water bottles. Paper conserving & recycling, uniform recycling, electricity conservation and minimal elevator usage are strongly encouraged.

School’s Major Concerns #

We instill the beliefs in Learn to Love and Love to Learn to our students while disciplining them to be respectful and responsible by implementing Christian Education, Positive Education, STEAM education and Differentiated school-based curriculum and instructions.

Learning and Teaching Plan #

Learning & Teaching Strategies #

Our curriculum aims to promote the learning interest of students and the skill sets required for autonomous and inquiry learning. The key modes of learning includes investigations, cooperative learning, experiments, field trips etc. which are supported steadfastly by our IT infrastructure. Knowledge is constructed through comparing, analyzing, integrating and creating. The language curricula are tailored to cater for learner diversity and for individual needs, and with the deployment of teaching assistants and co-teachers for pull-outs and differentiation, learning and teaching can be effectively enhanced. In addition, the extended learning activities and modular curriculum, which includes items listed in the ‘Life-wide Learning Activities’, complements the existing KLA to promote a more holistic childhood development. The Responsive Classroom® Approach and the Essential Bible curriculum are adopted to promote social and learning skills and as part of our moral and religious education.

Development of Major Renewed Emphases of the Primary Education Curriculum #

Development of Generic Skills #

The school-based curriculum and the school environment is organized in ways to elevate students’ abilities in self-management, social networking, exploration, communication, problem-solving and creativity and to inspire students’ minds at the same time.

Cultivation of Proper Values, Attitudes and Behaviours #

We foster our students
To endure adversity in Faith: Daring, responsible, persistent in living virtuous, positive values ​​and attitudes in daily life.
To encounter frustration in Hope: Optimistic, unfettered, creative in solving problems and envisioning possibilities for the future.
To embrace the world with Love: Love the Earth, treasure natural resources and conserve the environment, love people and cherish life, respect and treat others in kindness regardless of race, wealth and age.

Student Support #

Whole School Approach to Catering for Learner Diversity #

The school adopts a school-based curriculum to provide academic choices for students in order to encourage their participation. Teaching Assistants and parents are recruited to develop students’ effectiveness in learning. Besides, an Ed. Psychologist and 2 Social Workers at school are available to provide necessary support and assistance to those students in-need.

Whole School Approach to Integrated Education #

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Education Support for Non-Chinese Speaking(NCS) Students #

Curriculum Tailoring and Adaptation #

The school-based curriculum and the learning activities thereof are designed to meet the interests, ability and learning styles of our students. They are not only targeted on knowledge, skills, attitudes development, but are also up-to-date. Students are provided with open-ended types of assignments aiming to stretch their abilities, encourage critical thinking and utilize learnt knowledge. The pull out group learning, special examination arrangement for special need students are measures to raise teaching and learning effectiveness.

Home-school Co-operation and School Ethos #

Home-School Co-operation #

Kau Yan School organizes school-parent activities to foster close communication between the school and the parents. To keep our parents up-to-date, we organize Parent/ Teacher Conferences, Home-school Morning prayer meeting, we post updates on the school website and issue monthly letters from the principal. Besides, parents are also encouraged to participate in school activities, or even to assist struggling students to learn.
In order to provide better parent education, the school and Kau Yan Church jointly organized weekly classes for the parents so that they can share ideas on parenting and to encourage them to be more engaged in their child’s learning process and school development.

School Ethos #

Our school seeks to create a student-oriented and encouraging environment for students. We aim to nurture our students to love others and themselves with a pure heart. Through various training and reflection programs, our students learn to be a responsible, caring and committed persons. Upper grade students are matched to lower grade to establish cross-grade relationship and a sense of belonging. The school plays an active role in promoting harmony between school and parents through different means of collaboration. Our students and their family can fit well into our school culture subsequent to their participation in our school events.

Future Development #

School Development Plan #

We focus on dealing with students’ learning diversity, promote leadership through a three-tier model, promote global citizenship, promote positive education to encourage students to lead an active and healthy life. We aim to build a healthy school, enhance Arts Education, Strengthen Life Education through participating in poverty-alleviation and Charity events in order to establish a loving and caring culture, promote IT literacy and application in learning in order to elevate students’ cooperative and investigative ability for knowledge construction. Provide cross-border study tours and exchanges

Teacher Professional Training & Development #

The school places high priority on professional development, therefore, workshops are regularly held to cater teachers’ teaching needs. Topics include Cooperative Learning, Autonomous Learning, Inquiry Learning and Catering for individual differences, Gifted Education, Positive Education, etc. To enhance teaching and learning effectiveness, teachers’ co-planning sessions, lesson observations by heads of subject department and by the school principal are organized. Teacher exchanges, local and overseas, are arranged to further enhance their professionalism.

Others #

The school has opted out from taking the TSA (Territory-wide System Assessment). For P.1 and P.2, an assorted formative assessments are used to replace examinations. For P.3, there is one examination throughout the year, whereas P.4 and beyond, there are two examinations.