Tai Po Old Market Public School
School Type
District: Tai Po
Primary One School Net: 84
School Type: Subsidized
Student's gender: male and female
Medium of Instruction: Chinese, Mandarin and English
School Religion: N/A
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Directly affiliated secondary schools: -
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School History
Year of foundation: 1964
School Sponsor: Tai Po Old Market Public School
corporation
Objective: The school is committed to providing quality whole-person education and fostering the balanced development of students in the seven areas of ethics, intellect, physique, social skills, aesthetics, emotion and spirituality. The school encourages students to explore the world on their own initiative, to have an international outlook, and to develop their potential.
School motto: Modesty, Prudence, Sincerity, Sensitivity.
Management structure: Strong leadership, high administrative effectiveness, clear administrative structure, high transparency, and parental support and trust. The school actively invokes all kinds of resources to develop school affairs, has the spirit of self-improvement, and enhances the professional competence of teachers. The school has set up e-circulars to improve home-school communication and parent education.
Existing Supervisor/Chairman of SMC: Lee Kwok Fai
Existing Principal: Cheung Lai Chu
School fees:
No Tuition Fee Payment
Teacher Information
Total number of teachers: 58
Percentage of Teachers holding Diploma in Education: 100%
Percentage of Teachers Holding Bachelor's Degrees: 98%
Percentage of Teachers with Master's/Doctoral Degrees: 52%
Percentage of Teachers with Special Education Training: 52%
Percentage of teachers with 0 to 4 years of experience: 23%
Percentage of teachers with 5 to 9 years of experience: 15%
Percentage of teachers with 10 or more years of experience: 62%
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:
The school implements "activity-based teaching" and "cooperative learning" in classrooms. The design of classrooms incorporates elements of gifted education, e-learning interactions, integrated problem-solving skills, and catering to the diversity of learning, with an emphasis on developing students' higher-order thinking skills.
Placement in classes:
Classes for grades 4-6 are based on academic achievement.
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:
The school has established a School Ethos and Student Growth Support Team and a Values Education Team to coordinate and harmonize the activities of Discipline, Counseling, Civic Education, Life is Full of Hope (Crisis Team), Environmental Education, Health Education, Positive Education and Inspired Potential Education. The school has fully implemented the Inspired Potential Education and Positive Education, integrating respect, trust, optimism, caring, and deliberate arrangement with the curriculum, and has been awarded the International Inspired Potential Education Outstanding School Award twice.
Learning and Teaching Strategies :
Emphasis is placed on cultivating students' biliteracy and trilingualism; developing students' reading habits and skills and creating a reading atmosphere; applying e-learning to all subjects in a timely manner; enabling students to master mathematical concepts and apply them to their daily lives; adding the Life and Technology subject to systematically carry out scientific and technological investigations, programmed learning, mathematical thinking, and thematic studies to develop students' self-learning ability and solve life problems; and promoting the seven education areas of morality, intellectuality, physicality, social studies, aesthetics, emotion, and spirituality simultaneously; Experiential learning days are held every semester; the design of theme-based multi-disciplinary inquiry learning; catering to student diversity; implementing gifted education and remedial teaching; systematic mindset training; and comprehensively implementing potential-inspired education and positive education.
Life-wide Learning:
More than 65 teacher-led programs, such as Seeds for Young Writers, Science Exploration, Robotics, LEGO, and Scouting, with more than 3,500 participants. Over 2,000 participants in 50 PTA interest classes, including orchestra, Chinese orchestra, and Chinese dance. Overseas exchanges included the United States, Japan, Seoul, Singapore, Taiwan, Beijing, etc., with over 3,000 outdoor visits.
Course Tailoring and Adaptation Measures:
To promote school-based gifted programs for whole-person development, both academically and emotionally. Being the first eight core schools of the Gifted Education Network in Hong Kong, the school has collaborated with the Gifted Education Section of the Education Bureau in organizing a variety of programmes for the gifted. Integrating the elements of gifted education into the classroom - high-level thinking skills, creativity and personal socialization.
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, group/group learning, etc.); organizing inclusive school activities; and providing additional support (e.g. pull-out learning, pinyin teaching materials, etc.) on a need basis for the implementation of Putonghua teaching in the school across the board for all grades (i.e., for all classes/groups). Additional support (e.g. pull-out/group learning, phonics teaching materials, etc.) will be provided.
Home school cooperation:
The PTA has been established for 30 years and is well organized. Parents are kept informed of the school's development by joining the school-based management, parent networks in each classroom, parent seminars, parent talks, face-to-face interviews, electronic announcements, and sunshine phone calls. Parents trust and support the school teachers, and each year the number of parent visits to the school reaches 300 and exceeds 5,000.
Environmental Policy:
The school has set up the "IEco Ecological Garden" to enable students to learn about the campus ecology, hydroponics, solar energy application, etc., and to cultivate students' values and attitudes of cherishing resources and caring for the environment. The Environmental Protection Section also conducts a variety of environmental protection activities, such as green fields, field trips, seminars and overseas exchange activities.
School facilities:
Number of Classrooms: 24
Number of halls: 1
Number of playgrounds: 2
Number of Libraries: 1
Special rooms: creative world, pottery room, English room, music room, multimedia computer room, TV station, counseling room, artificial intelligence learning center and sports science and technology room will be built.
School Bus: None
Nanny Car: No
School contact information:
Tel: 26654610
Fax: 26620590
Email: [email protected]
Web site:http://tpomps.icampus.hk
Address: 10 On Cheung Road, Tai Po, N.T.
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Webpage update: January 4, 2024
