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As adults we need to retain information, multi-task, make decisions, revise our plans and cooperate with others in our daily lives whether at work, at the supermarket or at home with family. These lifelong skills or Executive Function skills are a vital part of our brain development. For your child, during their years in Kindergarten, you should see a huge development in these skills.
Here is a short video on Executive Function by Harvard University’s Centre for the Developing Child:
Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning
Children need a lot of support to develop their Executive Functions skills. Here is a handout that can give you some ideas on how to help your child. Often a child’s play is developing their skills, however as adults we can increase how much a child learns and develops through that play. These are not play activities that learn facts such as Math, ABCs or phonics, but activities that help your child build skills. This could be their imagination by holding complex ideas in their minds and creating stories or imaginative role play. Children also learn to resist impulses while their wait for their turn or develop their flexibility when situations do not go their way. Completing tasks, solving problems, organizing and planning during play helps your child develop skills that will help them to learn to be more focused in school and therefore they will also be able to learn more too.
Please take a look at the suggestions (provided by Harvard University) and enjoy playing with your child!
Blessings,
Gillian WU
Kindergarten Assistant Principal
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If you would like your child to participate in Kindergarten After School Activities, please click the links to enroll.
Please note:
Activities will take place from 3:10pm to 4:10pm.
Children from either R1 or R2, and from either the AM or PM session may participate.
Children from the PM session will go directly to classes, children from the AM session will need to return to school in time for the class.
There will be no bus service home after classes, all children will need to be collected from school.
All fees should be paid directly to the After School Activity provider.
Activities will be cancelled if schools are closed by the Education Bureau.
There will be no make-up classes if your child is absent.
Children who are absent from school, should not attend After School Activities.
Deadline for enrollment: Sep 29, 2025
If a different adult is coming to pick up your child from school, please notify the Kindergarten Office giving us their full name, Hong Kong Identity card number and their telephone number.
All people coming to pick up your child must:
Be on the authorized list on PowerSchool i.e. a parent has given us permission to release their child to that person.
Bring the purple pick-up card (original card, photographs will not be accepted).
In absence of the pick-up card, for persons we do not recognize we will either - check their Hong Kong Identity Card or call the phone number you have given us.
If we are unsure of the identity of the person picking up your child, we will check their identity.
If the person is not listed on PowerSchool, and you have not informed us, we will call parents to confirm.
If your child usually takes the bus home and changes to being picked up from school, please notify us. Please ensure that the person coming to school is on our authorized list. If in doubt, please give us their name
If you change or employ a new Domestic Helper, please remove your previous helper or add a new helper to the pick-up contacts on PowerSchool.
If your child is sick, please keep your child at home to rest and recover and notify the school by completing the relevant e-collect form on PowerSchool of:
Your child’s absence / number of days your child is likely to be off school
Your child’s body temperature (please state actual temperature, not just “has a fever”)
Once recovering from a fever (38C or above), please let us know the day and time your child’s fever subsided without medication. If you do not specify a time, we will use the time from your email. We can then specify how soon your child may return to school (48 hours after fever subsided).
Your child’s symptoms (not just “unwell”).
If your child has Chickenpox, Hand Foot and Mouth or other notifiable disease - please send in a doctor’s note confirming diagnosis. We also require a doctor’s note stating that your child is fit to return to school.
Red Eyes—conjunctivitis can be very infectious. If your child has red eyes, please give us a doctor’s note stating that your child is not infectious before they can come to school.
Department of Health requirements state that if a child has a fever (38C or above), or repeated diarrhea they need to stay home for at least 48 hours after the symptoms have subsided (without medication).
Even though your child’s fever may have gone, a child may still have a runny nose or bad cough and are not fit to return to school. Please keep them at home to rest.
Please do not send your child to school if they are still taking medication following an illness. The medicine may make your child sleepy and they still need time to recover and rest at home.
If your child has recovered but still has a mild cough (not chesty or coughing up phlegm), they may return to school but should wear a face mask.
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International Christian School – Kindergarten
852-3156-1234 | kindergarten@ics.edu.hk | G/F, Kam Ho House (Block H), Kam Fung Court, Ma On Shan, N.T., Hong Kong