Islamic Kasim Tuet Memorial College
School Type
- Region: Hong Kong East
- School Type: Subsidized
- Student Sex: Co-educational
- School Banding: Band 2
- Medium of Instruction: Chinese and English
- School Religion: Islam
School History
- Year of Establishment: 1997
- School Sponsor: Chinese Muslim Fraternity Society
- Objective: Through strict discipline and deep personal care, to cultivate students to have a positive attitude towards life, to be enterprising towards themselves, to have self-respect, self-love, self-confidence, and to respect others. Students are given the opportunity to realize their individual potential.
- School Motto: Learning and Caring
- Management Structure: A number of committees are set up to coordinate the day-to-day management of the two major areas of learning and teaching and student growth. In addition, the School Administration Committee, comprising teachers in charge of various departments, meets regularly to exchange views on the day-to-day management of the school and the direction of its development.
- Existing Supervisor/Chairman of SMC: Siu Wai Lok
- Existing Principal: Mr. Ho Sau Yin
Teacher Information
- Total number of teachers in the school: 53
- Percentage of teachers holding Diploma in Education : 74%
- Percentage of Teachers Holding Bachelor's Degrees: 100%
- Percentage of Teachers with Master's/Doctoral Degrees: 42%
- Percentage of Teachers with Special Education Training: 36%
Teacher seniority:
- Percentage of teachers with 0 to 4 years of experience: 32%
- Percentage of teachers with 5 to 9 years of experience: 8%
- Percentage of teachers with 10 or more years of experience: 60%
Teaching and Learning
Language of Instruction:
The medium of instruction is both English and Chinese.
The subject of Chinese Language Teaching and Learning from S1 to S3 in the 2023-2024 school year:
Chinese as the medium of instruction (including Chinese Language, Chinese History and Putonghua)
Applicable to CS students only:
(Life and Society*, Mathematics*, Computers*, Integrated Science*, Technology and Life*, Religion*, Physical Education*)
English Language Teaching (ELT) subjects from S1 to S3 in the 2023-2024 school year:
English Language, Music, Visual Arts
Applicable to NCS students only:
Life and Society, Math, Computers, Integrated Science, Technology and Life, Religion, Sports
Secondary 4 to Secondary 6 Literature and Literature subjects in the 2023-2024 school year:
Chinese Language
Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) subjects from S4 to S6 in the 2023-2024 school year:
English
School-wide language policy:
S.1 to S.6 students are arranged to have Chinese and non-Chinese speaking students in separate groups according to their abilities and needs. In order to enhance students' language proficiency, only Cantonese and English are allowed to be used as communication languages in school.
School-based programs:
1. Elective Subjects: 3X. In addition to the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) subjects, the School also offers Applied Learning subjects for students to choose from, e.g. Vocational English.
2. Curriculum focus: Curriculum adaptation, heterogeneous teaching, multi-sensory learning, multi-intelligence strategies, cooperative learning, layered assignments and peer counseling to cater for the diversity of students' needs, interests and abilities, information technology education, development of generic skills, promotion of positive values and attitudes, applied learning and other learning experiences.
Tests and study adaptation measures:
Basically, it follows the guidelines for academic assessment published by the Education Bureau and the HKEAA.
Class Establishment:
- Number of S1 classes in this school year: 3
- 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: 3
- Number of S6 classes in this school year: 3
School fees:
No Tuition Fee Payment
Application for S1 admission:
The school accepts applications for S1 Discretionary Places and participation in the Central Allocation of Secondary School Places System.
S1 Self-assigned Places Admission Criteria and Weighting:
1. 201 TP3T for past participation in extracurricular activities and services. 2. 501 TP3T for academic performance. 3. 101 TP3T for conduct. 4. 201 TP3T for interview performance. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 6. 6. 7. 7. 8. 8. 9. 9. 10.
Orientation and Healthy Living:
We have a summer school for new S1 students, an orientation day, and a parent-teacher conference for new S1 students to help them adapt to secondary school life.
How is the Islamic Providence Memorial College?
The school group Band is a few:
Ranking Estimate Band 2C
School Wind:
1. The school attaches great importance to student care and has an incubation unit to implement the policy of integrating training and support to take full care of student growth.
2. Each class from S1 to S6 has a double homeroom teacher to provide extra care for the students. The class teacher's office is located on the same floor as their students, so that teachers can have closer contact with their students, thus facilitating their care. There is also a Grade Team to deal with student discipline issues through formal and informal meetings, and to organize grade team activities and competitions to enrich students' school life and cultivate good habits and behaviors.
3. The school emphasizes the development of students' potential and has a student union and over 40 extra-curricular activity groups. The school also cooperates with a number of social service organizations in the district to implement different activities, so that students can share community resources and participate in community life after school.
Learning and Teaching Strategies :
1. The school emphasizes the development of students' Chinese and English languages, arranges reading programs (including online and physical reading materials), actively cultivates students' good reading habits, and the school library has a collection of over 30,000 books.
2. In order to enhance the competitiveness of the students, the school offers other languages as elective courses such as Putonghua, Urdu, Nepali, Arabic, etc.
3. to prepare students to become active lifelong learners.
4. to cultivate positive values and a positive outlook on life among students.
5. In order to enhance the effectiveness of learning and teaching and to make learning more interesting, the school has successfully applied for funding from the Quality Education Fund (QEF) to replace the whiteboards and blackboards in classrooms and special rooms of the school with electronic whiteboards in the current school year.
6. In order to enhance students' academic performance, the school arranges after-school tutorials and remedial classes for students in need, free of charge.
7. The school emphasizes the whole-person development of students and offers various extra-curricular activities for students to participate in, as well as encouraging students to actively participate in community activities and volunteer services.
8. In order to strengthen students' problem-solving and new technology skills, the school has reorganized the computer science and technology and life curricula, added many STEM elements, and redecorated the computer room as an information technology classroom (IT Lab).
Teacher professional training and development:
Teachers are always encouraged to attend different teacher trainings to enhance their learning and teaching effectiveness as well as the areas of student support.
Life-wide Learning:
There are over 40 clubs and activity groups. These include academic, arts, hobbies, sports, and service programs. Special emphasis is placed on the development of service activities and leadership training programs.
The development of the four key projects:
1. Moral and civic education: focuses on (i) values education and (ii) national and safety education.
2. Learning through reading: The school operates an extensive reading program in both English and Chinese, and a reading incentive program is coordinated by the librarian. The librarian coordinates the reading incentive program. In addition, the school also arranges for students to give reading presentations and share their experiences in the morning assembly.
3. Project Work: To guide students to become independent learners and to enhance their communication and teamwork skills, teachers of the school conduct project work in the Life and Society, Civic and Social Development, Health Management and Social Care, Islamic Studies, and Science and Technology and Life courses.
4. Interactive learning with IT: The school has installed smart whiteboards in all classrooms to enhance e-learning and interactive learning in the school. The school has also purchased e-learning materials and an e-learning platform for students' use.
Career Planning Education :
Our Career Planning Unit arranges different career talks and workshops for Secondary 1 to 6 students, as we believe that students need time to prepare and develop their interests and talents, and to understand their future aspirations. We also invite accomplished graduates to share with their younger siblings about their personal growth, how they achieved their aspirations and how they learned from their studies. In addition, we also organize subject auditions for Form 4 students before they choose their subjects so that they can make the right choices.
Whole school participation in caring for student diversity:
By establishing a good school ethos, a friendly interpersonal network, mutual respect and care, and recognizing the existence of multiple intelligences, every student will have the opportunity to excel in the school.
Whole School Participation Model Integrated Education:
The school emphasizes the whole-school approach to integrated education. To meet the requirements of the Education Bureau and the community, the school has set up a Student Support Team comprising the Deputy Principal, the Co-ordinating Teacher, subject teachers, social workers and teaching assistants.
Our team flexibly utilizes Learning Support Grant outsourced services, speech therapy services, socialization training, literacy training, and concentration training, and employs teaching assistants to provide appropriate support to students.
The school also organized different kinds of inclusive activities to promote an inclusive culture in the school campus and formed a volunteer team. The school also works closely with the Education Bureau and the School-based Educational Psychologist to conduct regular individual meetings and student assessments. In terms of home-school cooperation, the school has set up a regular mechanism to contact parents in a timely manner to report the progress and learning effectiveness of students.
In addition, special arrangements for students with special learning needs are provided for internal examination adaptation and application to the HKEAA for the relevant public examinations, which are used to help students achieve greater fairness in the public examinations.
The school also arranges for teachers to receive various special education training courses and attend seminars to enhance their professional capacity in catering for students with SEN. In addition, the school regularly disseminates information on IE to all teachers, shares relevant concepts and teaching suggestions, and organizes thematic seminars to enhance teachers' understanding of IE and the implementation of care for students with various types of SEN.
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 teaching modes (e.g., pull-out learning on a need basis, small group learning, etc.); developing school-based Chinese Language curriculum and/or adapting teaching materials; organizing cultural integration activities; and employing additional staff and/or purchasing additional translation/interpretation services to facilitate communication with parents. To facilitate communication with parents, the school will also be required to provide additional staff and/or purchase additional translation/interpretation services.
Facilities to support students with special educational needs (SEN):
Accessible lifts and accessible toilets.
Home school cooperation:
The Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) of the school has been established for 25 years. Over the years, the PTA has organized various activities, including field trips, educational workshops, and parent chat rooms. In addition, district parent-teacher conferences are organized for students from different districts.
Environmental Policy:
1. Do not use air-conditioning until it is 25 degrees Celsius or above;
2. the use of energy-saving fluorescent tubes in schools;
3. The windows of classrooms and staff rooms have been affixed with heat-insulating plastic film to effectively block ultraviolet light and lower the room temperature;
4. appliances with Grade 1 energy labels;
5. Placement of recycling bins on campus;
6. The school participated in the Grid-connected Tariff Scheme and installed solar panels on the rooftop of the Main Block.
Other:
The school promotes ethnic integration and welcomes both local and non-local born students. Chinese and non-Chinese students learn each other's languages through interaction in daily life. For example, Chinese students use English to talk to non-Chinese students, and learn a lot of English in daily life.
School facilities:
The seven-storey school building has 26 standard classrooms, an assembly hall, two basketball courts, two cricket grounds and two covered playgrounds. The school also has a number of special rooms, including a multi-media learning room, two computer rooms, a campus TV station, a music room, a home economics room, a knitting room, an IT laboratory, five science laboratories, an activity room, adventure facilities and a fitness room. All classrooms and assembly halls are air-conditioned, and classrooms are equipped with teaching computers and projection devices to promote the use of IT in teaching.
School contact information:
- Tel: 25709066
- Fax: 28873164
- Email: [email protected]
- Web site:http://www.iktmc.edu.hk
- Address: 22 Tsui Wan Street, Chai Wan, Hong Kong
- Islamic Providence Memorial High School Wikipedia
- Webpage update: January 4, 2024
