Creative Secondary School
Kai Si Secondary School is a DSS school located in Sai Kung District. The school accepts both male and female students and is a Band 1 school. The medium of instruction is mainly English. Founded in 2006, the school is organized by Kai Si (Education Foundation).
Application for S1 admission:
Not to participate in the Central Allocation of Secondary School Places (CASPA) System.
Admission requirements, criteria and weighting:
- English and Mandarin communication skills;
- Performance in all disciplines;
- in all areas of creativity and the arts, sports and athletics, leadership and service;
- Fuck the line;
- Interview performance.
School Type
- District: Sai Kung
- School Type: DSS
- Student Sex: Co-educational
- School Banding: Band 1
- Medium of Instruction: English as the main language
- School Religion: Not Applicable
School History
- Year of establishment: 2006
- School Sponsor: Kai Si (Education Foundation) Limited
- Our mission: We believe that all students have unique talents. Within our caring and supportive school community, students develop positive relationships and value opportunities to realize their full potential. Learning at Kai Si Secondary School emphasizes student-centered learning, with a focus on inquiry-based learning, so that students can enjoy themselves. Through a wide range of experiences both inside and outside the school, students grow to become confident, optimistic, caring and internationally minded young people who are ready to take their place in the world.
- School Motto: Here we grow strong, serve the community and gain a foothold in the world.
- Management Structure: The school's administrative team consists of the Principal, Assistant Principal, Middle School Vice-Principal, and High School Vice-Principal.
- Existing Supervisor/Chairman of SMC: Mr. Fong Wui
- Current Principal: Dr. Anthony Adames
Teacher Information
- Total number of teachers in the school: 79
- Percentage of Teachers holding Diploma in Education: 91%
- Percentage of Teachers Holding Bachelor's Degrees: 100%
- Percentage of Teachers with Master's/Doctoral Degrees: 52%
- Percentage of Teachers with Special Education Training: 10%
Teacher seniority:
- Percentage of teachers with 0 to 4 years of experience: 34%
- Percentage of teachers with 5 to 9 years of experience: 19%
- Percentage of teachers with 10 or more years of experience: 47%
Teaching and Learning
Language of Instruction:
The medium of instruction is mainly English.
The subject of Chinese Language Teaching and Learning from S1 to S3 in the 2023-2024 school year:
Chinese Language (Putonghua)
Chinese History (Cantonese/English)
English Language Teaching (ELT) subjects from S1 to S3 in the 2023-2024 school year:
English Language, Mathematics, Science (Integrated Science), Technology (Design and Technology, Digital Technology Design, Information Technology, Food Technology), Humanities (Personal and Social, Chinese History (non-Chinese)), Arts (Drama, Music, Visual Arts), and Physical Education
Secondary 4 to Secondary 6 Literature and Literature subjects in the 2023-2024 school year:
Chinese Language (Cantonese/Putonghua)
Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) subjects from S4 to S6 in the 2023-2024 school year:
English, English Literature (S5-S6), Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Business, Accounting and Financial Studies (Business Management), Design and Applied Technology (Design Technology), History, Geography, Economics, Environmental Management Systems and Society, Visual Arts, Music, Information and Communication Technology, Sports and Health Sciences, Technology and Life, Stage Management, English Language and Literature.
School-wide language policy:
The school implements a "Whole Language" policy, emphasizing both English and Putonghua. Through reading and other language enrichment activities, the school seeks to improve the language proficiency of its students and implement a policy of "top-up" and "bottom-up". The school employs about 42% expatriate English teachers as well as teachers who have returned from overseas. All subject teachers come from six continents, creating a multilingual and culturally diverse environment that enhances students' language proficiency and helps the school to build a rich and conducive language environment.
Tests and study adaptation measures:
The school adopts standards-referenced assessment, inquiry-based learning and cross-curricular learning as part of the curriculum framework of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) Secondary Project. (Please refer to www.ibo.org/myp for details)
Class Establishment:
- Number of S1 classes in this school year: 5
- Number of S2 classes in this school year: 5
- No. of S.3 classes in this school year: 5
- Number of S4 classes in this school year: 5
- Number of Form 5 classes in this school year: 5
- Number of S6 classes in this school year: 5
School fees:
- S1 (S1) Tuition Fee for School Year 2022-2023: $87160
- S2(S2) Tuition Fee for School Year 2022-2023: $87160
- S3 (S3) Tuition Fee for the 2022-2023 school year: $92470
- S4 (S4) Tuition Fee for the 2022-2023 school year: $92470
- S5 (S5) Tuition Fee for School Year 2022-2023: $97160
- S6 (S6) Tuition Fee for the 2022-2023 school year: $97200
Tuition Fee Remission: The school offers free tuition or 3/4, 1/2 and 1/4 remission of tuition fees. Needy students (including students from families on Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) and students receiving financial assistance from the Student Financial Assistance Agency (SFAA) of the Working Families and Student Financial Assistance Agency (WFSFA)) may apply for fee remission.
How is Kai Si Middle School?
The school group Band is a few:
Ranking Estimate Band 1C
School Wind:
Social counselors provide one-to-one and small group support to students. The school also employs a full-time counselor. Through appreciating their own culture and values, and broadening their international perspectives, students build up a strong will, respect for others, honesty, love, good learning, good thinking, and other good qualities and noble character.
Learning and Teaching Strategies :
Small Class Teaching: Each class has 26 students or less, and the class size in S5 and S6 is not more than 20 students. The teacher-student ratio is approximately 1 teacher for every 10 students. This ensures that students' individual differences and talents are adequately catered for.
Teaching and Learning: Students are taught through the IB MYP teaching methodology, coupled with inquiry-based learning. Students are taught through the IB MYP methodology with the Exploratory Learning approach, which integrates global contexts, utilizes questioning as the basis for teaching and guides active learning, and develops students' communication, thinking and interdisciplinary learning skills. Benchmarking assessment. Students are assessed at their own level to examine and understand their learning outcomes and effectiveness, and to support their individual differences. Students are encouraged to develop reading habits in both English and Chinese through a variety of methods, including:
- Both the Chinese Language and English Language programs emphasize literacy;
- The library has an extensive collection of books that can be borrowed from the school library or from online resources, making it easy for students to use and borrow;
- Newspaper, e-publication and journal subscription programs;
- Regular reading time;
- Other co-curricular activities held throughout the year include reading groups, Battle of the Books, and World Book Day.
Teacher professional training and development:
Teachers are encouraged to pursue continuing education. Teachers share their teaching experience through the school-based collaborative curriculum program. Teachers regularly attend professional development courses organized by the Education Bureau, IE and IB.
Whole School Participation Model Integrated Education:
The school has a clear approach to IE. The school has a Student Support Team (SST) comprising of the SENCo, SEN Support Teacher, Educational Psychologist and Speech and Language Therapist. The Pupil Support Team adopts a range of strategies to support the SEN of students and facilitate their integration into school life, including but not limited to support groups, individual academic counseling, co-teaching with subject teachers, school-based speech and language therapy and educational psychology services. The Student Support Team often collaborates with other functional teams to ensure that the student receives comprehensive attention to his/her personal growth and academic development.
Educational support for non-Chinese speaking students:
Provide additional support for admitted NCS students to learn Chinese: employ additional teachers/teaching assistants to support NCS students' learning of Chinese; arrange intensive Chinese teaching mode (e.g. pull-out learning, small group learning, etc.); develop school-based Chinese Language curriculum and/or adapt teaching materials; organize cultural integration activities; and provide additional support (e.g. pull-out learning, small group learning, pinyin teaching materials, etc.) as necessary in the implementation of Putonghua teaching in all grades (i.e. in all classes/groups) of the school. Additional support (e.g. pull-out/group learning, Pinyin teaching materials, etc.) will be provided as necessary. Flexible curriculum and support.
School facilities:
Opened in January 2007, the school building is equipped with modern facilities that go beyond the standards of government schools. The school has 30 classrooms, including a drama room, four visual rooms, five study rooms, seven science laboratories, a state-of-the-art and professionally equipped design and technology center, and a spacious library.
School contact information:
- Tel: 23360233
- Fax: 27013277
- Email: [email protected]
- Web site:http://www.css.edu.hk
- Address: 3 Pong Lai Road, Tseung Kwan O, Sai Kung District
Related information:
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- Kai Si Secondary School Wikipedia
- Webpage update: January 4, 2024
