St. Francis of Assisi's Caritas School
School Type
District: Sham Shui Po
Primary One School Net: 40
School Type: Subsidized
Student's gender: male and female
Medium of Instruction: Chinese, Mandarin and English
School religion: Catholic
One Dragon Secondary School:-
Directly affiliated secondary schools: -
Contact Secondary School: Cheung Sha Wan Catholic English Secondary School
School History
Year of establishment: 1962
Sponsor: Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong
Objective: To take Christ as the foundation of the whole educational career, so that students can have a comprehensive and personalized development in the six areas of spirituality, morality, intellectuality, physicality, social skills, and aesthetics; to cultivate students to live in the holy life of the Franciscan Franciscans, and to love the Lord, love people, and love the nature.
School Motto: Love the Lord, Love People, Serve the Community
Management Structure: Managed by the Incorporated Management Committee (IMC), which upholds the spirit of the Catholic Diocese in running schools and leads the administrative teams to realize the development goals and policies that have been formulated.
Existing Supervisor/Chairman of SMC: Raymond Tam
Existing Principal: Chak-Shun Wong
School fees:
No Tuition Fee Payment
Teacher Information
Total number of teachers: 52
Percentage of Teachers holding Diploma in Education: 100%
Percentage of Teachers Holding Bachelor's Degrees: 98%
Percentage of Teachers with Master's/Doctoral Degrees: 47%
Percentage of Teachers with Special Education Training: 42%
Percentage of teachers with 0 to 4 years of experience: 16%
Percentage of teachers with 5 to 9 years of experience: 12%
Percentage of teachers with 10 or more years of experience: 72%
Class Establishment:
Number of Primary One classes in this school year: 4
Number of Primary Two classes in this school year: 4
Number of Primary Three classes in this school year: 4
Number of Primary 4 classes in this school year: 4
Number of Primary 5 classes in this school year: 4
Number of Primary Six classes in this school year: 4
Total number of classes in the 2023-2024 school year: 24
Classroom teaching model:
Native English teachers implement the school-based New Literacy Programme for Grade 1, PLP-R/W for Grades 2-3, and Reading across the Curriculum Programme for Grades 4-6.
Placement in classes:
1. Classes are organized on the basis of average ability for grades one through four.
2. students in grades 5-6 with similar academic performance are placed in the same class to facilitate comprehensive care.
Number of tests and examinations:
No. of General Practice Tests in a year: 2
No. of examinations of the whole subject in a year: 2
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School Wind:
1. to encourage students to practise the Amity Quality in their lives through the School-based Award Scheme.
2. to establish a culture of appreciation on campus so that students can experience success in life.
3. "Positive Kid" recognizes students for using positive language.
4. Through the activity "To be a Warrior like a like", students were encouraged to appreciate the efforts of others and to face up to adversity.
Learning and Teaching Strategies :
1. to apply the cooperative learning model with a student-centered approach to promote student interaction and learning effectiveness.
2. To design a school-based curriculum that meets the needs of students and the curriculum reform, and to use life-oriented contextualized teaching to encourage the construction and application of knowledge, thinking and innovation, and to cultivate students' higher-order thinking skills.
3. to promote e-learning, and to enhance teaching interactions and develop students' self-learning skills through e-learning platforms and applications.
4. enrich the context of learning English and Putonghua to provide students with authentic learning experiences.
5. To establish a school-based STEM and programming education curriculum for grades 1 to 6 to develop students' computational thinking skills.
6. to enrich students' learning experiences and promote whole-person development through life-wide learning activities.
Life-wide Learning:
Implementing all-round "Amity Star Path" program, gifted training, aeronautical science training, film production, roller hockey, artistic gymnastics, fencing, rope skipping, baseball, boys' and girls' soccer, English musicals, children's Cantonese opera, instrumental classes, choir, sand painting, Cambridge English classes, International Olympics Mathematics, public service youth groups, the Red Cross, Little Pioneers of Christ, Cub Scouts, and outbound learning exchanges.
Course Tailoring and Adaptation Measures:
1. to design school-based curricula to meet the levels and needs of students.
2. to provide homework and test accommodations to assist students with special learning needs.
3. to provide pre-school counseling classes to accommodate individual differences.
4. provide enrichment programs for gifted students.
5. to provide bridging courses for students to adapt to the learning life.
Educational support for non-Chinese speaking students:
The school provides additional support to the admitted NCS students to help them learn Chinese: after-school Chinese learning support; inclusive school activities; and additional support (e.g. pull-out/group learning, Pinyin teaching materials, etc.) as needed in the implementation of universal education for some of the grades (i.e., all classes/groups) in the school.
Home school cooperation:
Schools often organize home-school exchange meetings; parents support and assist school activities and give valuable advice, publish newsletters, organize various seminars and workshops, and go on parent-child trips on a regular basis.
Environmental Policy:
The school has participated in the "Green Campus 2.0" and has been awarded the certification of the "Green Excellence School Scheme", which continues to advocate environmental protection, encourage students to save energy and practise low-carbon living. Diversified school-based activities, such as "One person, one flower" and "Little gardeners", are organized to enhance students' awareness of environmental protection. All teachers and students are committed to practicing green living and implementing the 4Rs "Reduce", "Reuse", "Replace" and "Recycle" in their daily lives.
School facilities:
Number of Classrooms: 24
Number of halls: 1
Number of playgrounds: 1
Number of Libraries: 1
Special Rooms: Computational Thinking Room, Creative Space, Campus TV, Prayer Room, English Corner, Music Room, Visual Arts Room, Computer Room, Small Group Teaching Room, etc.
School Bus: None
Nanny van: Yes
School contact information:
Tel: 27772752
Fax: 27761814
Email: [email protected]
Web site:http://www.sfacs.edu.hk
Address: 7 Wai Chi Street, Shek Kip Mei, Sham Shui Po, Kowloon
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Webpage update: January 4, 2024
