e-Bulletin for Parents - 21 June 2024

Parent Seminar on Admission Arrangements for Nursery (K1) Classes in Kindergartens for the 2025/26 School Year

The Education Bureau (EDB) will continue to implement the admission arrangements for nursery (K1) classes in kindergartens (KGs), including KG-cum-child care centres, for the 2025/26 school year (2025/26 K1 Admission Arrangements). Parents who wish to apply for admission to a K1 class in a KG joining the KG Education Scheme (Scheme-KG) for their children in the 2025/26 school year should follow the procedure set out below. The procedure is applicable to all non-profit-making Scheme-KGs. For details, please visit https://www.edb.gov.hk/k1-admission_e.

The EDB will issue a registration document to each child who can receive education in Hong Kong and all Scheme-KGs should only admit children holding a valid registration document.

Parents are required to apply to the EDB for a registration document for admission to KGs from September to November 2024. Details on application will be uploaded to the EDB’s website in early September.

Parents should understand from KGs about their school-based admission mechanism, including the procedure, criteria, interview arrangements, application fee, etc. They should obtain application forms and submit applications for admission in accordance with the requirements as specified by individual KGs.

KGs will inform parents of their application results before 13 December 2024.

Upon receipt of notification(s) of admission, parents should, after careful consideration, choose one KG for registration. They are required to submit the valid registration document and pay the registration fee at the KG to complete the registration procedure during the Centralised Registration Dates (i.e. 2 to 4 January 2025).

The EDB will release K1-K3 vacancy information from early February 2025 onwards.

The EDB will conduct 5 parent seminars in July this year to explain the details of the “2025/26 K1 Admission Arrangements”. Parent seminar coded “2323” will be conducted in English, with simultaneous interpretation services available in Urdu, Hindi and Nepali. There will also be a session where a non-Chinese speaker shares his personal experience in learning Chinese, and parents of non-Chinese speaking (NCS) children are welcome to join. Other seminars will be conducted in Cantonese. For details, please visit https://www.edb.gov.hk/parentstalks_e.

There will be parent talks commissioned by the EDB and organized by the Education University of Hong Kong after the parent seminars coded “2324” and “2325”. The parent seminar coded “2324” will cover the topic of home-school cooperation. Through a lively presentation with interactive activities, experience sharing, case analysis, and videos of real-life examples, this talk aims at enhancing parents’ understanding of the significance of home-school cooperation, helping parents understand their role in home-school cooperation, facilitating parents to appreciate the nature and value of a learning portfolio, and empowering parents to read and make use of learning portfolios to facilitate their children’s learning. The parent seminar coded “2325” will cover the topic of learning through play. During this talk, the speaker will explain, demonstrate and discuss various types of play, and help parents understand how to make good use of daily-life materials and appropriate interactive strategies to play with their children at home, so as to facilitate children’s development in different types of creative problem-solving and thinking skills.

For enquiries, please call the EDB (Enquiry hotline: 3540 6808 / 3540 6811, hotline for parents of NCS children: 2892 6676 or the 24-hour automatic telephone enquiry system: 2891 0088). Parents may also call the Regional Education Offices or the Joint Office for Kindergartens and Child Care Centres.

Admission Arrangements for Nursery (K1) Classes in Kindergartens

Parents’ Talks