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Kowloon Junior School is an IB World School offering the Primary Years Programme. It is part of the English Schools Foundation, providing English-medium education within a network of ESF schools. The school offers a broad range of co-curricular experiences including a Student Council, sports, residential camps, and the arts. The school emphasises student well-being and comprehensive student support to help learners thrive academically, emotionally and socially. The ESF network provides resources and opportunities not found outside ESF Schools.
The sports program includes football, basketball, netball, and swimming, among other activities. The program offers diverse sports opportunities to engage students and develop physical skills. The school emphasises student agency and teamwork through athletics. This approach supports the development of fitness, cooperation and resilience.
Primary Years Programme: Kowloon Junior School is an IB World School offering the IB Primary Years Programme. The IB curriculum emphasises transdisciplinary learning, research, communication, and critical thinking to foster respect, responsibility, and meaningful action. The school focuses on developing the whole child through inquiry-based learning across subjects. Students are supported to develop open-mindedness, collaboration, and communication skills as part of daily classroom practice.
KJS Experience includes the Student Council, which provides leadership opportunities for pupils. The sports program covers football, basketball, netball, swimming and other activities. Residential Camps involve activities such as kayaking, coasteering, gorge trekking, hiking and raft building. Arts expose students to expressive and visual arts. These co-curricular experiences support holistic development alongside the IB curriculum.
Kowloon Junior School (KJS) is an ESF primary school in Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, serving approximately 900 students from Year 1 to Year 6. KJS delivers the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB PYP), with English as the medium of instruction and a structured Chinese (Mandarin) programme that increases in frequency through the year groups, becoming daily from Years 3–6. Specialist provision includes Music (choir, orchestra and instrumental ensembles), Drama, and a broad Physical Education and sports offer that spans basketball, football, netball, athletics, cross-country, cricket and more. Student leadership is a distinctive feature: pupils in Years 4–6 take on roles that include opening assemblies, supporting wellbeing initiatives and facilitating student-led clubs. Families can access a published private school bus network serving many neighbourhoods across Hong Kong. School hours run from 8:30 to 14:45, Monday to Friday.
