School Information
Introduction of TWGHs
Tung Wah Group of Hospitals (TWGHs) is the largest and oldest charitable organization in Hong Kong with a history of 147 years. The organization provides medical, hygienic, educational and social welfare services via over 309 service units across Hong Kong island, Kowloon and New Territories. TWGHS began its nursery services in 1968, and now has 15 registered non-profit Kindergarten-cum-child care centres under its name, providing young children the age of 2 to 6 daycare and educational services, including services for handicapped children. The curriculum takes into account age development and diverse learning needs, and aims at helping young children develop their leanring attitudes and healthy habits in a pleasant environment.
Our Mission and Vision
- Helping families resolve issues concerning education and caretaking, allowing parents a peace of mind, whilst seeking for progress in parenting.
- Allowing children to learn and grow healthily and actively under the guidance and caretaking of a qualified teaching staff.
- Allowing children to develop in a holistic manner: socially, intellectually, physically, emotionally, artistically and creatively.
- Cultivating healthy habits, learning interest and ability to take care of oneself.
School History
A member of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, our school began service in the September of 1990 after the Fong Shu Fook Tong Foundation had donated HK$150,000 to the cause and subsequently named it the TWGHs Fong Shu Chuen Nursery School. The school provides daycare and educational services for children in the Eastern district of Hong Kong.
1990
Our school commenced the Integrated Programme in Kindergarten-cum-Child Care Centre, whilst accepting referrals from the Social Welfare Department and providing assessment, training and caretaking for children with special needs. Individualized plans were also tailored for children, with regular visits of therapists sent by the Social Welfare department to check on and facilitate the children's development and in turn, prepare them for mainstream education and society.
2002
The TWGHs Community Services division worked in collaboration with OMEP-Hong Kong to carry out the "Growing with Self-Esteem - A Parent Education Project". The course, approved for research by the Hong Kong Baptist University's Center for Child Development, consists of five modules and twenty lessons and provides parents with foundational knowledge on early childhood development and parental discipline. The activities within the course allow parents to practice relevant techniques and promote parent-child relationships, which bring about a positive start to the journey of parenting ahead.
2009
The school partook in the "Leap!" Body Education Programme co-organized by The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation and Cloud Gate Dance School, which aimed at creating an artistic educational platform on which children can thrive. The activities make use of real-life scenarios and incorporate musical and theatrical elements so as to achieve the educational objective of body-mind unison. The "Leap!" programme has been run by TWGSs since 2014.
2015
Young children's fine motor skills are directly correlated to their abilities to write. With finer motor skills comes better and more stable writing. That being the case, the school was funded by the Quality Education Fund in the 2015-2016 academic year to carry out a programme "Develop Childrens' Fine Motor on their young ages" that promoted the development of fine motor skills of young children.
2016
In response to the call for Pre-school Rehabilitation Services for children with special needs mentioned in the 2015 Policy Address, our nursery school partook in the "On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services - Sunshine Kids" Programme, providing on-site pre-school rehabilitation services for the children of our partnership schools. The services include assessment of the children's development, individual and group training activities, as well as support for chidlren's overall development through cross-professional collaborations.
2017
The school added social workers that are stationed in-campus to conduct workshops and talks on topics of parenting techniques, counseling, child care and family relationships, whilst providing children and families in need with counseling, home visits, referrals etc. The social workers also communicate cross-professionally with teachers, so as to improve overall effectiveness of teaching and learning.
School Features
Cultivating a culture of care and harmony
- Teaching children to cherish time spent with family, teachers and peers.
- Developing and appreciating children's own ability to contribute to family and school.
- Learning how to get along with family, peers and helper; forgiveness and tolerance.
- Encouraging children to communicate, appreciate, respect, and care for family and teachers.
- Helping students accept and face adversity in a constructive manner.
Building rapport between teachers and parents
Reinforcing communication and collaboration between parents and the school; conducting different events every year
- Holding "Parents' Meeting for Newcomers" and allowing new parents to understand the school's policies
- Holding "Parents' Meeting for New School Year" and "Parents' Day" and allowing parents to stay connected with the curriculum and the learning progress of their children.
- Regularly holding talks and workshops for parents so as to improve efficacy of parental education.
Assistance from multi-disciplinary team
Educational psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, speech therapists, teachers and the principal working collaboratively to render the course outline more systematic and comprehensive and the teaching more strategic, whilst providing children with timely guidance in accordance to their learning progress.
Facilities
The nursery school is about 340 square feet in area and equipped with 3 activity rooms in which areas and corners are regularly rotated, for instance, game zone, arts and crafts, study area, everyday life practice area, book corner, math corner, puzzle corner, nature corner, dramatic play corner etc. to suit the needs of children of different ages. The school is also equipped with an indoor playground, a music room, children's washroom, kitchen, supervisor room and staff room.
Child Care Theme Song
用愛將心牽
愉快學習成長樂園
時常閱讀從不倦
合作不分彼此相關注 心中溫暖
活潑天真愛蹦蹦跳
無窮活力從不倦
愉快相親相愛兩手牽 齊共勉
*兩手牽 心意堅 每顆真心齊互獻
讓東華上下同懷一心 將愛獻
樂韻歌聲傳遍校園
悅耳歌聲常不斷
愉快高聲歌唱兩手牽 齊共勉
Repeat *
Our Team
Organization is set up with an educational psychologist and a course director, who provide the school and its curriculum with professional consultation and training. The school also has registered social workers, speech therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, who provide children and parents of the school with cross-professional services. The entire school staff – including the principal and all teachers – is caring, professionally qualified, and very experienced in pre-school education.
Staff Development
1516 – Musical activities with Chi-On
Teachers pay close attention to the musical activities introduced by Chi-On.
Teachers play the role of students and experiencing first-hand how Chi-On runs the activities.
1617 – School-based graphical notation activity
Teachers attempt to learn the techniques of rhythm through following the tune.
In groups, teachers learn how to run a game through the use of songs.
1718 – Experiencing nature
Teachers learn to make delicious bread with natural ingredients and enjoy the fruits of their labor!
Teachers listen intently to the instructor on how to make stone-milled soy milk.