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Shatin Public School

Shatin Public School

School for Children with Mild Intellectual Disability

School for Children with
Mild Intellectual Disability

Features

(The following information is provided by the school.)

Background

Emphasise on whole person education and well-equip students for future challenge

With the broad and well-rounded curriculum, the school places emphasis on whole person education.  It provides appropriate and diverse learning opportunities to widen students’ horizons and enrich their learning experiences.  This helps them to acquire independent living skills and nurtures good characters, as well as positive values and attitudes.

According to students’ developmental needs in different learning stages, from junior primary to senior secondary levels, the school incorporates Life Planning Education into the school-based curriculum.  This helps to cultivate students’ knowledge, skills and attitudes gradually.  It also facilitates them a smooth transition to adult life, improves their quality of life and prepares them for future challenges..

With multi-disciplinary professional team and home-school cooperation, the school caters for learning diversity

The school’s staff are caring and full of enthusiasm.  Its professional team, comprising of class teachers, resource teachers, social workers, nurses, speech therapists, an occupational therapist and an educational psychologist, adopts whole school approach and sets up tailor-made counselling plans according to students’ individual needs collaboratively.  With diversified counselling modes, systematic assessments and home-school cooperation, the school enhances students’ social skills, communication skills and emotional management skills.  Through thoughtful classroom management, the school caters to students’ needs for overcoming diverse challenges.  The school’s training program for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is especially remarkable.  Not only does it assists students with ASD in social integration, but also enables them to serve the community.  As a result, the school has built up a good reputation and is widely recognised by the education sector and parents.

 

Highlights

Explore students’ potential and create infinite possibilities

The school encourages students to participate in diversified activities, training and competitions in order to develop students’ interests and explore their talents. The life-wide learning activities cover different aspects of learning including academic, physical education, art, uniformed groups and more. The school offers professional training opportunities for potential students to endeavour to the best of their abilities. The students have been meriting a lot of outstanding achievements in different local and international competitions and becoming athletic or artistic elites for years. Through diversified learning activities and competitions, students build up their self-confidence and self-worth, as well as developing perseverance and courage.  All these traits are useful to them throughout their lives.

 

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