Playtimes HK Magazine The School Book 2019-2020 | Page 66

Swindon Kindergarten and Child Care Centre Tivoli International Playschool Shop 108, 1/F, Bo Shek Mansion, 328 Sha Tsui Road, Tsuen Wan, N.T. District: Tsuen Wan Tel: [phone] Email: [email protected] www.swindon.edu.hk Tivoli Anglo-Chinese Kindergarten G/F, Block 4, Tivoli Garden, 75 Tsing King Road, N.T. District: Kwai Tsing Tel: [phone] Description: Swindon Kindergarten and Child Care Centre has been established with an aim to provide quality pre-school education. Adopting the approach of lively and exploratory learning, with fun-based curriculum, students are inspired to broadly develop their multi-dimensional potential and also nurtured with good virtues and attitudes. All our initiatives are meant to bring life-long benefits to the kids. Swindon attaches great importance to the collaboration among school, families and the community, with unfailing endeavours of offering the toddlers a natural, self-dependent yet interactive and caring environment to learn and grow joyfully. Hours: Morning Class Afternoon Class 9am-12pm 1:30pm-4:30pm Curriculum: Our curriculum is developed based on the Guide to the Pre- primary Education Curriculum of Hong Kong, attuning to the developmental needs of kids, with due respect to their rights, and under the principle of being open-minded. Other Languages Available: Cantonese Features: Swindon offers bilingual classes in Cantonese and English. Each class is co-taught by a Cantonese teacher and an English teacher, supplemented with Mandarin teaching. Fees: Half Day Class HKD$4,840 per month Admission: Online application available. Parents: A “Parent-Child Reading Plan” is implemented to encourage parents to read books together with their kids and helps develop the children’s reading habit. It will effectively improve the learning results of reading, enhance parent-child relationship, and strengthen the children’s verbal communication skills as well as the usage of vocabularies. Tivoli Nursery and Tivoli Kindergarten No.21-25,1/F, Tsing Yi Square, Tsing Yi Garden, Tsing Yi, N.T. District: Kwai Tsing Tel: [phone] Tivoli International Play School No. 14 I-J, 1/F, Tsing Yi Square, Tsing Yi Garden, Tsing Yi, N.T. District: Kwai Tsing Tel: [phone] Email: [email protected] www.tivoli.edu.hk Principal: Ms. Carmen Chan Description: We believe that every child is born with an innate interest to learn and explore. Early Childhood Education should not be single-mindedly designed to overload children with factual knowledge in order to help them ‘win’ at the starting line. Instead, young learners should seek to improve their moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic skills equally in a safe, happy and healthy environment. In an ever-changing society, we hope that by cultivating children’s holistic development, they will be better equipped in tackling unforeseeable challenges of the future. Number of Teachers: 47 Curriculum: We use the integrated approach in conjunction with efficient and rich learning centres in each classroom. The teachers’ main responsibility is to ask open-ended questions and provide a stimulating environment to stimulate children’s thinking skills. Project learning provides an additional way to a wider range of learning opportunities in the classroom instead of limiting knowledge to the textbooks. Children learn to ask questions, collect information, organise data and report their findings verbally or in other forms, which enhances children’s interaction with each other. Number of Mandarin Teachers: 1 Other Languages Available: Cantonese Features: The classrooms are carefully designed with different learning centres according to themes, including language centre, math centres, leisure corner, reading corner, heart-to-heart (intimate) talk corner, science centre, etc. The activities in each corner/centres have clear objectives providing diversified learning materials with various levels of difficulty to allow children to choose freely according to their own ability and interest. Admission: Information on how to apply is detailed on the school website. Parents: When parents collect information with their child, they are also involved in implementing the school activities while at the same time enhancing parents-child relationship. 64 www.playtimes.com.hk