Little Dalton Hong Kong

Little Dalton is a progressive, bilingual kindergarten guided by The Dalton Plan. The Dalton Plan is one of the most successful child-centered educational models in the world, focusing on nurturing children through giving them appropriate freedom, responsibility, and opportunities for cooperation.Little Dalton is a progressive, bilingual kindergarten guided by The Dalton Plan. The Dalton Plan is one of the most successful child-centered educational models in the world, focusing on nurturing children through giving them appropriate freedom, responsibility, and opportunities for cooperation.

The program

Our graduates are expected to have a balanced bilingual fluency in Putonghua and English. Our curriculum is specially designed and delivered by experts to combine rigor and creativity. We are especially indebted to advisors from The Dalton School in New York (the original Dalton school) and Ascham School in Sydney for their guidance and support. Little Dalton offers playgroup, pre-K and K1 to K3. We emphasis bilingual language development, creativity, physical and sensory stimulation especially as related to brain development, and social, personal, and learning skills. Elements of the Dalton Plan will gradually be introduced, although the spirit of Dalton is evident throughout the school.

Mission: I am not led, I lead

The mission of Little Dalton is to provide a progressive, creative, nurturing bilingual learning and teaching environment of excellence that:

– responds to each student’s interests, abilities and needs while building a solid foundation of skills to fulfil their academic and non-academic potential; and
– develops students into compassionate contributors who respect, appreciate and promote the diversity and moral values in our communities.
– Students are taught to take the lead in their own life-long learning process. Our motto is: “Non ducor, duco” – I am not led, I lead”The Dalton Plan is the keystone to our philosophy. We aim at providing an environment in children’s early years that nurtures their natural inquisitiveness, develops self-confidence in their own capacity to problem solve and succeed, exploits their natural ability to acquire languages, and educates them to be responsible and independent learners and thinkers. Little Dalton challenges each student to develop intellectual independence, creativity, and a sense of responsibility and respect towards others both within the school and in the wider community.Little Dalton is committed to providing our graduates with a world class, all-round education. Dalton graduates are inquisitive, self-confident, responsible, social, and independent little learners and thinkers. They are well-equipped for a transition to the primary years either at Dalton School Hong Kong or any leading schools around the world. The plan is for a Dalton primary school to open in Hong Kong in 2017 and a secondary school in due course.

Beeld: www.littledalton.com