Holy Cross Lutheran School
School Type
District: Tsuen Wan
Primary One School Net: 62
School Type: Subsidized
Student's gender: male and female
Medium of Instruction: Chinese, Mandarin and English
School religion: Christianity
One Dragon Secondary School:-
Directly affiliated secondary schools: -
Contact Secondary Schools:-
School History
Year of establishment: 1971
Organizer: Hong Kong Lutheran Church Limited
Objective: To provide a Christian, holistic education based on the teachings of the Bible, and to cultivate a balanced development of spirituality, morality, intellectuality, physicality, social skills, and aesthetics for the purpose of contributing to the community and serving the people.
School Motto: Jesus is the Lord, the Cross is an honor.
Management structure: The school is a member of the Hong Kong Lutheran Church. Under the leadership of the Incorporated Management Committee (IMC), the principal leads six major administrative groups: management and organization, learning and teaching, technology resources, school ethos and student support, external relations, and student performance. The school promotes self-evaluation through Planning, Implementation and Evaluation (PIE).
Existing Supervisor/Chairman of SMC: Luk Chin-wang
Existing Principal: Sara Wong
School fees:
No Tuition Fee Payment
Teacher Information
Total number of teachers: 61
Percentage of Teachers holding Diploma in Education: 100%
Percentage of Teachers Holding Bachelor's Degrees: 100%
Percentage of Teachers with Master's/Doctoral Degrees: 22%
Percentage of Teachers with Special Education Training: 47%
Percentage of teachers with 0 to 4 years of experience: 18%
Teachers with 5 to 9 years of experience Percentage: 31%
Percentage of teachers with 10 or more years of experience: 51%
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: 6
Total number of classes in the 2023-2024 school year: 26
Classroom teaching model:
Small Class Teaching (SCT) is implemented in Primary One to Six. Class-based Teacher Teaching (CBT) is implemented in Primary One.
Placement in classes:
Students are divided equally among classes, and some grades are divided according to grades.
Number of tests and examinations:
No. of Annual General Tests: 0
No. of examinations for the whole year: 3
Is the Lutheran School of the Holy Cross good?
School Wind:
1. Provide good character education through Christian education.
2. to implement class teacher's lesson, self-care lesson, spirituality lesson, inter-class order and cleanliness competitions, with emphasis on cultivating students' self-discipline.
3. to implement the Good Boy Award Scheme and the Star of the Cross Award Scheme to encourage and recognize students' good academic performance.
4. to implement student parent support activities, including the implementation of the Legacy Project, the Big Brothers Big Sisters Project and the Legacy Project, the Emotional Management Training Course, the Growing Sky, the Kid's Project and the Student Volunteer Service Scheme.
5. Participate in uniformed teams throughout the school: Boys' Christian Scouts for grades 1-3, Cub Scouts and Little Girls' Scouts for grades 4-6, to cultivate teamwork and perseverance among students.
Learning and Teaching Strategies :
1. to develop school-based curriculum, book teaching, picture book teaching and circular reading in Chinese Language.
2. The school employs an additional Native English Teacher (NET) to enrich the English language environment. The English Department has implemented the Primary Literacy Program (PLP-R/W) in P.1 and P.2, which is jointly taught by the Native English Teacher and two English teachers to cater for learning diversity. The V-Power Program is implemented to enhance vocabulary skills.
3. to strengthen value education and deepen the school-based Chinese history and culture curriculum.
4. Integration of "e-learning" elements in all subjects, promotion of creative activities across the school, and strengthening of research elements.
5. to optimize the "Primary One Bridging Curriculum" by implementing classroom-based teachers in Primary One, and not writing silently or taking examinations in the first semester.
Life-wide Learning:
Soft Hockey, Finnish Piano, Cambridge English, ICAS, World Maths Test, Maths Olympiad, GAPSK, Athletics, Basketball, Rhythmic Band, Choir, Musical Theatre Group, Ink Painting, Judo, Ballet, Little Master of Ceremonies, Elocution Training, Wine Wonderful, CEFA, 5-a-side Baseball, Soccer, Little Writers, Little DJs, Little KOLs.
Course Tailoring and Adaptation Measures:
We emphasize on catering to the learning diversity of individual students, adapting the curriculum and designing tiered assignments and worksheets.
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; and organizing inclusive campus activities.
Home school cooperation:
1. implement a home visit program. 2. organize parent volunteer teams. 2. organize parent volunteer teams. 3. 3. parent-teacher conferences for P.1, P.5 and P.6. 4. 4. Parents' Day. 5. 5. organize parent group activities and parent-child activities on a regular basis.
6. publish parent handbooks. 7. organize different parent education courses/seminars. 7. organize different parent education courses/seminars. 8. 8. parent life-wide learning groups. 9. the Tsuen Wan Parent-Teacher Association uses the school as its venue.
Environmental Policy:
We are practicing green campus and strengthening the culture of environmental protection by installing solar insulating window film, recycling waste, reusing tableware, organizing planting activities and small farmers' activities, Farm to Table, etc.
School facilities:
Number of Classrooms: 29
Number of halls: 2
Number of playgrounds: 2
Number of Libraries: 1
Special Rooms: Library, English Room, STEM Creative Space, Music Room, Science Experiment Classroom, Kinesthetic Intelligence Room, Sky Garden, Happy Kitchen, Finlandia.
School Bus: None
Nanny van: Yes
School contact information:
Tel: 24157878
Fax: 24900049
Email: [email protected]
Web site:http://www.hcls.edu.hk
Address: 31 Tak Wai, Tsuen Wan Road, Tsuen Wan, N.T.
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Webpage update: January 4, 2024
