Yes

English Support Teacher

Mandarin

30

Yes

Learning technologies - laptops, hand held devices, calculators, cameras, video
recorders, interactive whiteboards to name but a few - are widely used across the
curriculum to enhance your child’s learning experience in school.
The school's technology team, comprising of teachers from all year groups, work together to keep abreast of new developments, monitor the impact of our use of technology and to promote best practice across the school.

No

Yes

Depends on the subject and grade level.

Individual Needs Department

At KJS, provision for students with individual needs falls into three categories:

1. Students who have a significant difficulty in learning than the majority of students of the same age or who have a disability, which either prevents or hinders them from making use of educational facilities of a kind provided in ESF schools for students of the same age – Learning Support Classes.

2. Students who need extra support to access the curriculum within the mainstream provision. These students’ needs require less extensive adaptations to teaching and learning and are catered for within mainstream classes. These students may have difficulties in maintaining attention, delays in language, delays or difficulties in the development of academic skills or in self-regulation, social or emotional wellbeing.

3. Students who need additional language support to be able to successfully access the curriculum in English.

Students who are performing significantly higher than the majority of students of the same age in a particular area and need a modified programme of instruction have access to the Individual Needs Department.

Interview

The English standard of applicants will be assessed at interview and parents are invited to discuss their child's experiences, needs and abilities with a member of the leadership team. It should be emphasised that the admission interview is not a formal examination but a relaxed meeting with your child.

Yes

No

Yes

Football, music, rugby, aquathon, netball, cricket, basketball

Netball, football, cricket, rugby, athletics, fitness, games, adventure challenge.

Yes

Athletics track

Kowloon Junior School is one of 21 schools run by the English Schools Foundation (ESF). The ESF was founded by Ordinance in 1967 to provide a ‘modern liberal education’ through the medium of English.

KJS is committed to developing life long learners, international mindedness, positive attitudes and shared values across its community in the pursuit of its vision, ‘Success for Every Child’.

Working within the International Baccalaureate’s Primary Years Programme (PYP), learning at KJS is inquiry based, concept led and focused on the development of key skills across the curriculum. KJS has high expectations of its students and take the time to know their strengths as the school helps them understand and develop their responsibility as learners.

KJS works in close partnership with its broad and culturally diverse community. Many parents attended KJS themselves, a real testament to the school’s long standing history of excellence in primary education.

As an authorized IB school KJS is always mindful of the International Baccalaureate Mission Statement:
The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. To this end the organisation works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment. These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.