1977

The nursery school was founded as Hing Wah Day Nursery in 1977 to provide care and educational services to young children. It was renamed Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Chiap Hua Cheng's Day Nursery on 27 August 1981 after a donation from the Chiap Hua Cheng's Foundation.

2001

It was relocated from Hing Wah Estate II to the present site in September 2001 upon development of child care services in the community.

2002

The nursery school collaborated with art educators in 2002 in the implementation of the 'creative dance' programme, in which children's experiences, emotions and creation are expressed through dance, thus improving their coordination and strength. They are also able to discover joy through dance and elevate their confidence, willpower, courage and teamwork.

2005

With the implementation of Harmonization of Pre-primary Services, the nursery school was registered under Education Bureau as Kindergarten-cum-Child Care Centre, namely Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Chiap Hua Nursery School, with effect from 1 September 2005.

The nursery school has collaborated with artists from the Hong Kong Institute of Aesthetic Education (HKIAE) to conduct aesthetic education with the children. With the strategy of integrated arts, the programme developed school-based courses alongside our teachers, in which students are able to connect with the society and culture around them through live appreciation of artworks and experiential creative arts activities, in hopes of improving their development in areas of art, physical fitness, cognition, language, socialization, and emotion.

2008

Sponsored by the The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation with consultation from the Cloud Gate Dance School, the nursery school participated as campus partner to implement for the 'Leap' programme. Children aged 4 and 5 years old, based on contextual clues and metaphors, and combines dance, music, art, drama, language and various sensory stimulation. These were all done to help children think and express creatively, establish their body awareness, confidence and values in a happy environment.

2011

The nursery school is committed to developing Montessori approach for life skills training and meeting the learning needs of children. Through receiving Montessori training programme, the tutors understood the design principles and use of life skills training resources to create ‘life training’ lesson plans and build resource database, allowing children to conduct self-learning in a natural environment as well as helping them think independently, take initiative, and focus their attention.

2012

The organization is committed to development of the whole children, with focus on emotional education and expectation of children being able to grow, feel loved and respected in an emotionally healthy environment, so as to establish a positive self-image. The nursery school has engaged school-stationed social workers to provide training, emotion programme support, and emotion learning workshops for its teachers to help them grasp the senses of security, uniqueness, affiliation, competence, mission, as well as emotional regulation techniques. This also helps teachers better understand the emotional development of children, enhance children’s emotional intelligence, self-awarence, choice of positive expression and regulate emotions, and utilization of metacognition to resolve issues through positive thinking.

2014

Tung Wah Group of Hospitals officially began managing the ‘Leap!’body education programme and launched the first ‘Leap!’centre in Hong Kong, committed to providing a high-quality activity space for kindergarten students and body education for teaching tutors.

The nursery school received funding from Quality Education Fund to launch a “ Reading for Fun programme, a school-based kindergarten English curriculum”  to foster the reading abilities of children.

The nursery school received funding from Quality Education Fund to launch the ‘Children love to move’ physical fitness programme. With the aim of promoting children’s health and developing gross-motor skills, the nursery school invited professional therapists to provide consultation and aid teachers in planning and implementing systematic, targeted and diverse fitness programmes, such as group activities, circuit activities, tool handling games etc. that aim at helping students develop physically.

In the same year, the nursery school took part in the ‘Leisure in the park’ programme, through which children were able to enjoy physical activities, stretch and strengthen their bodies, and enhance their gross-motor skills in outdoor. This annual parent-child event had encouraged parents to recognize the importance of staying active.

2015

The nursery school continues to collaborate with therapists, develop and revise systematic physical curriculum, to add elements of perceptual motor training as foundation, in order to build children’s capacities over their gross-motor skills. Meanwhile, ‘Sensory diets’ were designed for children so as to improve their attention and regulation of physical.

Musical activities can help enhance the language abilities of children, including comprehension, expression, oral motor skills, as well as their creativity, emotional expression, concentration and coordination. Seeing as such, the nursery school took initiative in implementing music programmes and through different musical elements within it, such as rhythm, auditory activities, manipulation of instruments etc., help improve children’s concentration and social development. Teachers of the nursery school have also acquired ukulele as an instrument in the classroom, which increases interaction and participation among children.

In order to facilitate the development of fine motor skills in children, the nursery school added the S.M.A.R.T. writing formula (developed by experienced  occupational therapist) to the school-based curriculum, which utilizes interesting visual-spatial and hand-craft activities that help improve the concentration, strength and coordinated pen control of children, allowing them to establish a solid foundation for handling tools and for writing.

2016

In order to help children of upper kindergarten adapt to the primary 1 curriculum, the nursery school invited experienced occupational therapist to tailor programme activities and relevant teaching materials for upper kindergarten children, and lead first-hand pre-primary school activities. Through these activities, children are able to consolidate their life skills, pre-writing practice, spatial awareness, diet and self-care abilities.

2017

In 2017, the nursery school took part in the Free Quality Kindergarten Education plan which uses the ‘child-oriented’ approach as the core of the curriculum, cater to the learning and developmental tendencies of children, cultivate their learning interest and sustain their learning motivation. The nursery school provides children with down-to-earth, sensory-focused learning experiences, and utilizes games to promote self-learning in them.