Kau Kam Chau Secondary School (Tuen Mun)

Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Tuen Mun)

Kau Kam Chau Secondary School (Tuen Mun)

School Type

  • District: Tuen Mun
  • School Type: Subsidized
  • Student Sex: Co-educational
  • School Banding: Band 3
  • Medium of Instruction: Mainly Chinese
  • School Religion: Not Applicable

School History

  • Year of establishment: 1977
  • Sponsor: Kau Kam Chiu College Limited
  • Objective: To uphold the spirit of the school motto, "To strive for continuous self-improvement", to provide whole-person education, to teach students according to their aptitude, to emphasize the balanced development of the five education systems, and to cultivate lifelong learning, the search for the truth, and the development of individual potentials, in order to nurture talents for the motherland and the society of Hong Kong.
  • School motto: Self-improvement
  • Management Structure: There is a Curriculum and Academic Administration Committee (CAAC) to co-ordinate learning and teaching, and a Student Development Committee (SDC) to co-ordinate student development issues. The External Liaison Committee is responsible for organizing a wide range of service-learning activities for students and contributing to the community. The school will review the administrative structure from time to time and make appropriate changes to realize the spirit of self-improvement.
  • Existing Supervisor/Chairman of SMC: YAU Tat-man
  • Current Principal: Chan Yuet Ping

Teacher Information

  • Total number of teachers in the school: 41
  • Percentage of teachers holding Diploma in Education : 85%
  • Percentage of Teachers Holding Bachelor's Degrees: 100%
  • Percentage of Teachers with Master's/Doctoral Degrees: 50%
  • Percentage of teachers with special education training: 23%

Teacher seniority:

  • Percentage of teachers with 0 to 4 years of experience: 35%
  • Percentage of teachers with 5 to 9 years of experience: 10%
  • Percentage of teachers with 10 or more years of experience: 55%

Teaching and Learning

Language of Instruction:

The medium of instruction is mainly Chinese.

The subject of Chinese Language Teaching and Learning from S1 to S3 in the 2023-2024 school year:

Chinese Language, Mathematics, Science*, History*, Chinese History, Geography*, Life and Society, Technology and Life, Visual Arts*, Music*, Physical Education, Putonghua, Third Language (Japanese)

English Language Teaching (ELT) subjects from S1 to S3 in the 2023-2024 school year:

English, Third Language (Spanish)

Secondary 4 to Secondary 6 Literature and Literature subjects in the 2023-2024 school year:

Core Curriculum: Chinese Language, Mathematics, Civics and Social Development
Elective Group I: Chinese History, Geography, Biology, Physics (choose one out of four)
Elective Group II: Economics, Tourism and Hospitality, Chemistry, History (choose one)
Elective Group III: Health Management and Social Care
Other Electives: Extended Math II; Applied Learning Courses: Mode 1 & 2

Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) subjects from S4 to S6 in the 2023-2024 school year:

English

School-wide language policy:

English: The school actively creates an English environment. In addition to the English room, the school develops cross-curricular learning programs for English and other subjects, and other activities, such as the English Debate Team and Community English Learning Programs, allow students to have more exposure to English and to strengthen their communication skills in English through their personal interests. The school has also partnered with the Harrow International School Hong Kong (HISHK) to offer an English Drama Program, which allows students to attend classes at HISHK for free, thus broadening their horizons.

Chinese: The Chinese curriculum is based on the principle of reading and writing, with worksheets for extended reading. There is also a reading report incentive program to encourage students to expand the quality of their reading.
In addition to Chinese Language Week (author talks, cultural activities) and Putonghua Week, the Chinese Language Section also organizes World Book Day, an internal essay competition (the winning entries will be published in the school's anthology), and an internal essay competition election. In the Inter-school Speech Festival, we have won many awards in Cantonese Solo Speaking, Duet Speaking and Putonghua Solo Speaking.

Tests and study adaptation measures:

The school uses Continuous Assessment and Staged Assessment to assess students' academic performance. Examinations are organized three times a year. Adaptation arrangements, such as extended response time, exemption of some papers, etc., will be provided for students with special learning needs.

Class Establishment:

Number of S1 classes in this school year: 2
Number of S2 classes in this school year: 3
No. of S.3 classes in this school year: 3
Number of S4 classes in this school year: 3
Number of S5 classes in this school year: 2
Number of S6 classes in this school year: 2

School fees:

School fees for Secondary 1 (S1) in the 2022-2023 school year:-
School fees for S2(S2) in the 2022-2023 school year:-
School fees for Secondary 3 (S3) in the 2022-2023 school year:-
School fees for S4 (S4) in the 2022-2023 school year:-
Tuition fees for S5 in the 2022-2023 school year:-
School fees for Secondary 6 (S6) in the 2022-2023 school year:-

Application for S1 admission:

The school accepts applications for S1 Discretionary Places and participates in the Central Allocation of Secondary School Places System. Academic Achievement: 30%; Conduct: 30%; Activity Expertise: 20%; Interview Performance: 20%.

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The school group Band is a few:

Ranking Estimate Band 3B

School Wind:

The school has a simple school ethos, where students are well educated, courteous, proactive and eager to learn. With the spirit of self-improvement, the school emphasizes on nurturing students' character and building up positive values. The school actively promotes a "Caring Campus" to build mutual appreciation. "The Student Development Committee (SDC) promotes peer-to-peer relationships to create a caring and inclusive campus culture.

Learning and Teaching Strategies :

The school makes effective use of group teaching to cater for learning diversity, provides clear and directional guidelines to assist subjects in formulating assessment policies and procedures, and the Curriculum and Academic Administration Committee (CAAC) provides subject-specific reports on the analysis of test and examination data to feed into curriculum renewal.
The school has developed different types of e-learning and set up a variety of e-learning equipment to enhance the effectiveness of learning and teaching and strengthen students' self-learning ability. In addition, the school has developed a diversified STEAM program, and has also set up an advanced class in Olympiad.

Teacher professional training and development:

The school has a Teacher Professional Development Unit which arranges regular teacher workshops to promote the school as a learning organization. The school also participates in the School-based Support Program of the Education Bureau to enhance and improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning. In addition, the school also encourages its staff to participate in different types of off-site training programs and workshops.

Whole School Participation Model Integrated Education:

In order to fully cooperate with the Education Bureau in promoting the "Culture of Inclusion" in the school, the school has set up a "Student Support Team" led by the Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator to implement a whole-school approach to support students with special learning needs. Through the utilization of the School Development Grant, Learning Support Grant and community resources, timely, appropriate and diversified support services are provided to students, so as to enhance their learning effectiveness and help them integrate into school life, and to enable every student to develop their potentials, as well as to promote mutual respect among teachers and students for individual differences, thereby creating an inclusive campus.

Educational support for non-Chinese speaking students:

The School provides additional support to the admitted NCS students to help them learn Chinese: providing after-school Chinese learning support; employing additional teachers/teaching assistants to support NCS students' Chinese language learning; arranging intensive Chinese language teaching modes (e.g. pull-out learning on a need basis, group learning, etc.); and organizing cultural integration activities.

School facilities:

The campus is one of the largest in the district. In addition to a 1,000-seat auditorium and a 100-seat small auditorium, the school also has a 300-seat large lecture room, Kam Lan Hall, two basketball courts, a volleyball court, two rainy day playgrounds, four laboratories, three multi-media computer labs, geography room, English room, visual arts room, music room, music and digital multi-media lab, two home economics rooms, a design and technology room, a student life activity room, four conference rooms, a career planning counseling room, a social work room, a library, an NHS student study room, and a distance learning classroom. There are two Home Economics rooms, a Design and Technology room, a Student Activities room, four conference rooms, a Career Counseling room, a Social Worker's room, a Library, an NSS Study Room and a Telecommuting classroom. Each classroom is air-conditioned and equipped with electronic blackboards, computers, multimedia projectors and physical projectors. Classrooms are equipped with one locker for each student. There are 200 desktop computers and 100 mobile computers in the school, and the local area network and wireless network cover the whole school. The school has an art gallery, an organic garden, an indoor/outdoor climbing wall, an archery range, and a school history center.

School contact information:

  • Webpage update: January 4, 2024
The Secondary School Places Allocation (SSPA) System consists of two phases: Discretionary Places Allocation (DP) and Central Allocation (CA).
Discretionary places refer to S1 places reserved by schools for self-admission of students. Government, aided and caput secondary schools are allowed to reserve S1 places not exceeding 30%, while DSS secondary schools are allowed to reserve S1 places exceeding 30%.
The application period for the 2024 Discretionary Places is from January 2 to January 16, 2024. All secondary schools participating in the Secondary School Places Allocation (SSPA) System (participating secondary schools) will accept applications during the same period. Parents of current Primary 6 students participating in the Secondary School Places Allocation (SSPA) will receive two copies of the Application Form for Secondary 1 Discretionary Places in early December 2023 through their children's elementary school.
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