School Information
Introduction of TWGHs
Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Early Childhood Services
Tung Wah Group of Hospitals (T.W.G.Hs.) is the largest charitable organization with the longest history in Hong Kong. T.W.G.Hs. provides a wide range of services including medical, education and social welfare. Today, T.W.G.Hs. operates over 309 service centres in Hong Kong.
T.W.G.Hs. started to develop day nursery services in 1968, and there have been 15 nursery schools which are registered as Non-Profit-Making Kindergarten-cum-Child Care Centres. Services such as long whole-day care and education services for children under the age of six, Integrated Programme and On-site Preschool Rehabilitation Services are offered for the children with special educational needs. All nursery schools are dedicated to children education according to different developmental stages. This would be beneficial to the build-up on good habits, healthy growth and positive learning attitudes as well as basic abilities of children.
Mission and Objectives
 | Allowing children to learn and grow healthily and actively under the guidance and caretaking of a qualified teaching staff. |
| To foster good daily habits of young children and self-care ability |
| To foster development of children's social, intellectual, emotional, language, arts and creative and physical abilities |
| To advise parents/ carers on child care and educational matters |
| To equip children for primary studies. |
History
1979.7
The school was established in July 1979 under the name of 'TWGHs Kwai Shing Day Nursery' to provide child care and educational services in the western districts of the New Territories.
2019.2
In February 2019, the school began providing school-based social work service, helping to increase the teaching and learning effectiveness, and to provide appropriate support, counselling, family visits and referral service to those needy children and parents. The social worker would organize different seminars and workshops on topics like family relations, parenting skills, emotional counselling, children's growth etc. to help parents understand the needs of their children, so as to establish positive and healthy parent-child relationship.
1985.9
In September 1985, the school started to operate the integrated programme for mildly disabled children, to provide evaluation, training and caring services for those mildly disabled children referred by the Social Welfare Department. The professional team of the Social Welfare Department would visit the school on a regular basis to follow up on the children's progress, and advise the teachers and parents to enhance the overall development of the children, facilitating them for a smooth transition to mainstream education and society in the future.
1995.11
In November 1995, the school was renamed to TWGHs Lions Club of the Peak Hong Kong Nursery School in recognition and appreciation of the donation of HK$250,000 contributed by the Lions Club of the Peak.
1996.3
In March 1996, the school started the 'Occasional Child Care Service' to help parents solve their temporary child care needs.
2000.9
In September 2000, the school increased the 'Extended Hours Service' to meet working parents’ needs of longer hours of service.
2005.9
For better facilitation of pre-primary services, the school was registered as a Kindergarten-cum-Child Care Centre under the Education Bureau in September 2005.
2009
In 2009, the school launched the 'Leap' Body Education Programme co-established by The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation and the Cloud Gate Dance School in Taiwan. Classes are available to K2 and K3 students. Children were able use their bodies to create different motions and movements with the stimulation of different music and drama elements, and learn beauty and arts through games. The operation of the 'Leap' Body Education Programme has been transferred to TWGHs since 2014.
2015.9
To answer the needs of the community, the school set up a second team of Integrated Programme for Mildly Disabled Children in September 2015.
2015
In response to the 2015 <Policy Address>, we cooperated with TWGHs <On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services – Sunshine Kids> to provide early intervention service for children who were studying and waiting for pre-school rehabilitation services in our school.
School Features
To build up a good reading habit
The school adopts a story-based teaching approach, using different environments to provide stimulus to foster the reading interest and habit of the children, enabling them to acquire listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities.
To foster a caring and harmonious culture
The school pays attention on children's learning needs, and is well- supported by professional bodies. Training and counselling are provided for teachers so that they can support children’s different learning needs and create a harmonious culture.
Learning through exploration
To provide a diverse range of activities, such as food tasting, games, visits, in order to enrich children's life experiences, encourage them to explore and think.
Free Play
TA behavioral activity evoked by intrinsic motivation of children. It places emphasis on children's autonomy and free participation and children are not limited by th rules or preset goals established by adults. During free play, children can choose their own tools, ways to play, playmates and activity area.
Emotion education
To help children understand different types of emotions through emotional activities, encourage them to speak out their emotions, and teach them how to deal with negative emotions, thus enabling an all-rounded development of the children.
Emphasis on Parent and School Cooperation
We hold seminars and workshops for parents regularly, and through the communications between teachers and parents to provide appropriate support on parenting and parent-child relations.
Our Song
用愛將心牽
愉快學習成長樂園
時常閱讀從不倦
合作不分彼此相關注 心中溫暖
活潑天真愛蹦蹦跳
無窮活力從不倦
愉快相親相愛兩手牽 齊共勉
*兩手牽 心意堅 每顆真心齊互獻
讓東華上下同懷一心 將愛獻
樂韻歌聲傳遍校園
悅耳歌聲常不斷
愉快高聲歌唱兩手牽 齊共勉
Repeat *
School Calendar
Education Team
School Facilities
The school has six activity rooms plus well-equipped gross-motor facilities, musical instruments etc. There are children washroom and multiple corners, including language corner, arts and crafts corner, book corner, exploration corner, imagination corner, teaching materials corner, toy corner, ground toy corner etc. in the activity rooms. These facilities help to stimulate children's learning interest and potential. The school also has a kitchen to prepare daily healthy diet for all children.
