“Music Video ‘Building Our Dream’” was performed and recorded by students from various kindergartens, primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The upbeat melody and inspirational lyrics reveal the determination and aspirations of young people to pursue their dreams. The touching scenes in the video exhibit the spirit of unity and other relevant proper values and attitudes.

One week into school, children should slowly adapt to the life and rhythm of school. Taking advantage of the weekend holiday, parents can make the “Light Family Mental Health Tips” booklet with their children while learning about the four elements to promote mental health covered by the “4Rs Mental Health Charter”, including Rest, Relaxation, Relationship, Resilience. Let’s practice the 10 mental health tips in the Light family together, enjoy parent-child time, and promote physical and mental health and parent-child relationship.

To raise awareness of the Campaign among students, parents and the public, and to complement the promotion of the 4Rs Mental Health Charter (4Rs Charter) launched in the 2024/25 school year, the Education Bureau (EDB) organises the Healthy Living, Happy Family Series, with activities designed to encourage parents and children to develop a healthy lifestyle together, including adequate sleep, daily exercises and participation in leisure activities, so that both parents and children can relax appropriately and maintain their physical and psychological well-being to facilitate happy and healthy development of children. Through participating in the “Picturise Your Messages Design Competition”, students and parents can showcase their creativity by designing and drawing a set of four stickers on different themes depicting parent-child teamwork in developing good life habits.

As children grow and enter the preschool stage, their emotions become more abundant. Parents can refer to the five steps of “Emotional Navigation” in the video to actively respond to their emotions and guide them to learn to cooperate to solve problems and regulate emotions, thereby Promote the development of healthy physical and mental health.

In line with the “Smart Government” strategy, the EDB has fully implemented digitalisation of Primary One Admission. This video demonstrates the procedures for Discretionary Place Allocation in the POA e-Platform.

The National Security Exhibition Gallery is the first thematic gallery in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) dedicated to systematic promotion of national security education. It is also the first national security education base in the HKSAR.

The National Security Exhibition Gallery, with an area of over 1,100 square metres, aims at enhancing visitors’ appreciation of the significance of national security, impressing upon all citizens their duties and responsibilities in safeguarding national security, as well as deepening the community’s general knowledge and understanding of national security related concepts and issues. Developed around the core of a holistic approach to national security, the Gallery serves to promote patriotism and affection for our country. Messages are conveyed to encourage all citizens to take part in safeguarding national security, and to elevate their sense of responsibility and ownership. The overarching need for long-term security and stability in Hong Kong, and Hong Kong’s unique advantages of being backed by the Motherland and connected to the world are emphasised.

The Education Bureau organized three “Healthy Living, Happy Family Series – Thrive Party for Kids and Families” from May to June 2024. A series of parent-child activities, such as parent-child relay races and parent-child yoga, will be held for parents and their children to experience Different forms of stress relief are good ways to establish healthy living habits together, learn to relax appropriately, maintain physical and mental health, and promote happy and healthy growth of children.

The application of Profile of Kindergartens and Kindergarten-cum-Child Care Centres 2024 (KG Profile) provides information of all kindergartens and kindergarten-cum-child care centres registered with the Education Bureau (EDB) and operating in the 2024/25 school year to assist parents in making an informed choice for their children. The Profile contains information of schools kept by EDB, including school name, address, telephone and fax numbers, student category, number of permitted accommodation, non-profit-making / private independent status, approved fees (school fees, application fee and registration fee), number of students, number of teachers and their qualification, teacher to pupil ratio and whether operating child care services for children aged below 3. It also contains information provided by schools including names of supervisor and principal, school founding year, school website, school facilities, curriculum details, school characteristics, price of major school items, admission and application information, monthly salary range and working experience of principal and teaching staff and school expenditure information. Schools not joining the kindergarten education scheme (the Scheme) could provide such information optionally.

The Education Bureau recently organized the “Healthy Families Start-Up Series – Happy Children’s Party”, during which experts were invited to share tips on healthy living for parents and children. Dr. Chen Yinyan, Assistant Professor of the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, taught everyone the secrets of “good sleep” at the event, allowing parents and children to understand common sleep problems and factors that affect sleep, and shared how to improve sleep. Starting with the environment and establishing good sleeping habits, parents can help their children sleep well and get enough sleep.

The Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui has been running schools for more than 170 years. During this period, it has opened a total of 32 secondary schools, 59 primary schools, and 49 kindergartens and nurserys. In addition to Hong Kong, the S.K.H. also has 2 schools in Macau. S.K.H. schools have their own characteristics, but they are also consistent, so they can provide appropriate educational services to different communities.

The S.K.H. will hold an Education Expo at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on December 14 and 15. The Education Service Department of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui hopes to introduce the S.K.H.’s education system to parents, church members and the public through this Expo, so that More people can realize the uniqueness and integration of S.K.H. schools, and understand that different schools under the S.K.H. Church can meet the needs of students from different backgrounds. Under the same school running philosophy, through 15 years of kindergarten, primary and secondary education and cultivation, so that students can grow up healthily and welcome a rich life.

This is the first education fair held by the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. A total of 143 schools participated, including 49 kindergartens, 59 primary schools, 34 secondary schools and 1 special school. In addition to various S.K.H. affiliated schools, the Education Expo also invited the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Provincial Office, Archives, “Echo”, various social service units, Ming Hua Theological College, eligious Education Resource Centre and St. John’s College of the University of Hong Kong exhibits.

In line with the “Smart Government” strategy, EDB has fully implemented digitalisation of Primary One Admission. This video demonstrates the account activation and login procedures of paper form applicants of Primary One Admission e-Platform.

The Education Bureau recently organized the “Healthy Families Start Series – Happy Children’s Party”, during which experts were invited to share tips on healthy living for parents and children. Ms. Wu Yafen, a senior nutritionist, shared the important concepts of healthy eating with parents and children at the event. She also provided tips on eating out and choosing healthy snacks for children, so that parents and children can eat healthily together.

In this video, actor Tsui Wing is invited to share his ways to get along with his children. Through watching this video, parents can understand how to communicate with their children, help their children develop their interests, and support their children in life planning, etc.

The Education Bureau recently organized the “Healthy Families Start Series – Happy Children’s Party”, during which experts were invited to share tips on healthy living for parents and children. Mr. Ke Jiali, founder of the parent-child reading group Green Feet, demonstrated how to use picture books to read together with young children. The speaker will also discuss the myths about parent-child reading one by one, such as whether storytelling should be told in spoken or written language and how to choose suitable picture books.

In this video, two Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) parents and their children are invited to share how they face the challenges encountered in learning and make progress gradually. The two parents shared their own experiences on how to learn Chinese in different ways with other NCS parents, and encourage them to actively integrate into the society.

Responding appropriately to children’s sharing is very important for children’s growth. Responding in an “active construction” way can better establish a good parent-child relationship. Parents can refer to the following videos and try different response methods in the app when their children share good news with their parents. In the future, their children will be more motivated to “happily share” with you!

The Education Bureau has fully digitalised Primary One Admission (POA). This video lets parents better understand the simple operation and user-friendly functions of the Primary One Admission e-Platform (ePOA).

Parents are the first line of defense for their children. Do you want to prevent your children from encountering sexual harassment in daily life? Parents should instill correct sexual knowledge into them as early as possible. Parents can refer to the following videos to learn how to let their children understand the differences between male and female bodies, the concept of private parts, and the methods of sexual assault during daily parent-child interactions, so as to teach children to protect themselves. and improve self-safety awareness..

It is commonly misconceived that children only need toys for play and that play is solely reserved for free time. The reality, however, is that play possesses significant educational value.

The Education Bureau (EDB) has commissioned the Education University of Hong Kong to conduct a parent seminar that aims to debunk various myths surrounding play and emphasize its crucial role in children’s lives. During the talk, parents will explore the unique aspects of free play, focusing on child initiative, involvement, and autonomy. They will gain a profound understanding of how free play nurtures children’s growth across multiple dimensions. Moreover, parents will explore practical strategies for incorporating play-based learning activities into the home environment to effectively foster children’s development. Through demonstrations, they will acquire valuable skills in fostering meaningful parent-child interactions and playtime at home. By the end of the talk, parents will be equipped with the knowledge to embrace play as a powerful tool for their children’s holistic development.

The Education Bureau commissioned the Education University of Hong Kong to hold a lecture covering the theme of home-school cooperation. Through lively explanations, interactive sessions, experience sharing, case analysis and video examples, the lecture aims to enhance parents’ understanding of the importance of home-school cooperation and enable parents to understand their own role in home-school cooperation. The role of teachers in school cooperation and the nature and value of learning process files, and how to interpret and use learning process files to promote children’s learning.

The Education Bureau commissioned the Education University of Hong Kong to hold a seminar covering the topic of children learning through games. The seminar explained, demonstrated and discussed various game methods with parents to help them understand how to make good use of daily life materials and apply appropriate interactive strategies at home. Play games with young children to promote their development of different creative problem-solving thinking abilities.

Young children can develop an interest in learning through sensory stimulation, and they can also learn knowledge and exercise skills through games, but what is the actual operation like?

To this end, the Education Bureau has commissioned the Education University of Hong Kong to organize parent-child sensory play workshops. Parents and children who participated in the workshop made five different sensory bottles, including a sound bottle, a meditation bottle, a water and oil bottle, a magnetic bottle and a smell bottle. During the production process, the speaker explained to parents how to help young children explore sounds, colors, textures and smells, and allowed parents and children to practice in real time. The speaker also introduced how parents can use sensory bottles to carry out different game activities with their children to cultivate their children’s language skills, executive function and creative abilities at home.

The Education Bureau has fully digitalised Primary One Admission (POA). This video lets parents better understand the proecdures for account activation (Only applicable to parents who have submitted the paper “Application Form for Admission to Primary One”), making school choices for Central Allocation (CA) and checking allocation resuts via the Primary One Admission e-Platform (ePOA).

In line with the “Smart Government” strategy, the EDB has fully implemented digitalisation of Primary One Admission. This video demonstrates the central allocation choice making procedures.

In the latest video entitled “How does Artificial Intelligence (AI) Help Students in Learning?”, Professor Gary Wong of the Faculty’s Academic Unit of Mathematics, Science, and Technology, discusses the applications and limitations of AI in education. He also provides insights on how teachers and parents can assist in enhancing teenagers’ learning effectiveness by utilising AI.