TNAG-1073-FCO40-1323-Policy-of-the-Government-of-Hong-Kong-on-education-including-1981 — Page 94

Chapter 13

Summary of Conclusions and Proposals

The principal conclusions and proposals of this Green Paper are set out below. This summary is necessarily brief and the reader is recommended to refer to the paragraph indicated for a fuller explanation.

Para.

2.6

2.7

2.8-2.10

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No kindergarten should operate for more than 4 hours a day. If an institution operates for more than 4 hours a day or provides lunch facilities it then becomes a child care centre.

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A Standing Committee should be established to coordinate pre- primary activities of the Education Department and the Social Welfare Department.

Fostering is preferred to full time residential care, but the latter, when required, should provide a home-like atmosphere with children catered for in small groups.

2.13-2.14

(i)

2.22

2.26

4.7-4.8

(ii)

the age of entry to kindergarten should be 3 years 8 months or above;

the length of a kindergarten course should be not more than 2 years;

(iii) (i) and (ii) should be implemented over period commencing September 1981.

a 4 year

The length of the primary school course should remain at 6 years.

The age of entry to primary should remain compulsory at 6 on 1 September but voluntary down to 5 years 8 months. Parents should be encouraged to enter their children at the lower age.

A curriculum development team should be set up to plan a curriculum designed to cover the following five areas in the pre-primary course:

(i) social and emotional development;

(ii) concept formation;

(iii) linguistic development;

(iv)

creativity;

(v) motor activities.

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