- We provide school application form, school admission criteria and procedures in both Chinese and English for those non-Chinese speaking parents. We can arrange staff to communicate in English and provide assistance if needed, and also welcome parents to be accompanied by Chinese-speaking friends and relatives to school for enquiries or interview.
- Cultural Inclusion:We respect different cultures from different places and encourage non-Chinese speaking parents to join school various activities in order to share with each other and enhance mutual understanding.
- Learning Aspects:We adopt different strategies to induce children’s interests and motives in learning Chinese, such as environmental decoration, story-telling activities and games, so as to enhance their learning abilities in using simple wordings and vocabularies in daily life.
- We arrange teachers to join professional trainings, related talks and activities regularly so as to enhance their knowledge in helping non-Chinese speaking students and learn to build up Chinese learning strategies for them at school.
- Our integrated programme, on-site pre-school rehabilitation service and school social work service are welcome to serve non-Chinese speaking students and their parents.
In order to facilitate non-Chinese speaking parents making use of community resources, we provide related centres information with contacts and emails as below.
Home Affairs Department of the Government is funding non-profit-making organizations (NPOs) to operate six support service centres and two sub-centres for ethnic minorities, which facilitate the integration of ethnic minorities into the community and enhance their access to public services. Contacts
and emails can be found at
https://www.had.gov.hk/rru/english/programmes/programmes_comm_sscem.html
Social Welfare Department of the Government is also funding non-governmental organizations to operate three centres, which cover Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Territories regions, to approach and assist the needy ethnic minorities to address their welfare needs. Contacts and emails can be found at
https://www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_family/sub_listofserv/id_otem/
Online Resource - "Start from the Beginning - Chinese Supporting Scheme for Non-Chinese Speaking Students in Kindergarten"
https://kgcsl.edu.hku.hk/